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Below are reference books we would highly recommend for any NT or Exchange system administrator to keep on the bookshelf. We have read them, and we continue to refer back to these books on a regular basis.

Exchange 2003

Secure Messaging with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
 by Paul Robichaux

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Learn how to help protect your messaging infrastructure from attack with this focused guide to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 security features and tactics.

Exchange 2000

Secure Messaging with Microsoft Exchange Server 2000
 by Paul Robichaux

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Provides vital inside information from the Exchange 2000 development team to help small, medium, and large organizations defeat email viruses and spam.



Exchange 2000 Server 24seven
 by Jim McBee

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Jim McBee's Exchange 2000 book should be on the standard bookshelf of the Exchange system manager. Very good depth.

Microsoft Exchange Server for Windows 2000: Planning, Design and Implementation
 by Tony Redmond

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Like his Exchange 5.5 book, this is not a step-by-step installation guide, again highlights many of the overall planning concerns and pitfalls. Anyone planning an Enterprise scale deployment of Exchange 2000 would benefit greatly from Tony's insights.

Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Resource Kit
 by Microsoft Corporation

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Good overview and planning resource. Includes some helpful troubleshooting methodologies. Some very worthwhile information on the included CD as well.

Windows 2000 DNS (Landmark)
 by Jeffrey Graham, Andrew Daniels, Roger Abell, Herman L. Knief

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A book on Windows 2000 DNS under the Exchange 2000 heading? You bet. Exchange 2000 relies heavily on a properly configured and well maintained DNS infrastructure. Making sure your DNS is configured properly will make your Exchange 2000 implementation go that much smoother.

Exchange 2000 Server: The Complete Reference (Osborne Complete Reference Series)
 by Scott Schnoll, Nick Cavalancia, Bill English

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Mission-Critical Microsoft Exchange 2000, Building Highly-Available Messaging and Knowledge Management Systems
 by Jerry Cochran

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Monitoring and Managing Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server
 by Mike Daugherty

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Exchange 5.5

Managing Microsoft Exchange Server
 by Paul Robichaux
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Several of the experts from the Exchange Mailing List contributed material and technical review to this book. We especially like the chapter on the IMS.

Microsoft Exchange Server V5.5:
Planning, Design, and Implementation
 by Tony Redmond, Elaine K. Sharp

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While not a step-by-step installation guide, Tony's book is one of the best concepts / big-picture / planning Exchange books available.

Deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5
(Notes from the Field)
 by Microsoft Corporation

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Some of our friends in MCS teamed up with some other experts to put out this book. Good stuff.

Managing and Maintaining Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5
 by Microsoft Corporation

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Another excellent book by the folks in the trenches with Exchange. Not for the MCSE study crowd, but for the real administrator.

Networking Books

DNS and Bind
 by Paul Albitz, Cricket Liu, Mike Loukides (Editor)

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DNS is one of the fundamental technologies of the Internet. Understanding DNS is crucial to successful administration of both Windows NT and Unix based networks. This is the standard text on the subject and should be on everyone's bookshelf.

DNS on Windows NT
 by Paul Albitz, Matt Larson, Cricket Liu

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This is a rework of the classic text on DNS from the Windows NT perspective. If you are administrating a pure NT network, or just starting with DNS in an NT environment, this is your book.

Sendmail (Nutshell Handbook)
 by Bryan Costales, Eric Allman, Gigi Estabrook (Editor)

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This is the granddaddy of SMTP mail texts. If you do not want to go all the way to the RFC's, but need to understand SMTP mail, read this (at least the first half). Since most of the Internet mail hosts still run sendmail, it is a good bit of practical study as well.

TCP/IP Network Administration
 by Craig Hunt, Gigi Estabrook (Editor)

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"A complete guide to setting up and running a TCP/IP network for practicing system administrators, this new second edition covers setting up a network, configuring important network services, and issues in troubleshooting and security."

Windows NT TCP/IP Network Administration
 by Craig Hunt, Robert Bruce Thompson

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If you understand nothing else about your NT system, understand the fundamentals of TCP/IP networking. This book should live at arm's reach along with one of the DNS texts.

Mastering Network Security
 by Chris Brenton

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A solid introduction to network security issues and concerns. "This book is geared toward the individual who does not have ten years of experience in the security field-but is still expected to run a tight ship."

Microsoft BackOffice Resource Kit: Part 2
 by Microsoft Corporation

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This contains essential utilities and a great set of more in-depth information on the BackOffice products.  Many of the Exchange utilities have been updated from the original and new ones have been added.


Microsoft Internet Information Server Resource Kit
 by Microsoft Corporation

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Invaluable information and tools for IIS developers and administrators. Much of this information is not available anywhere else.

Scripting

Learning Perl (3rd Edition)
 by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix

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An excellent introduction into Perl. For those interested in scripting in perl, but without a real strong programming background, Learning Perl is an excellent introduction into the subject. It provides a strong foundation on which to build your programming knowledge.

Windows NT/2000 ADSI Scripting for System Administration
 by Thomas Eck

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A must have book for system administrators. This book provides code samples and ideas on ways to automate and streamline system administration in any organization.

Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory Programming
 by Charles Oppermann

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Professional ADSI Programming- Active Directory Services Interface
 by Simon Robinson

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Win32 Perl Programming: The Standard Extensions
 by Dave Roth

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Win32 Perl Scripting: The Administrator's Handbook
 by Dave Roth

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Other Recommendations

Professional CDO Programming
 by Siegfried Weber, et al

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Collaborative Data Objects is used in application development to build collaborative applications on top of Microsoft Exchange. This book provides practical examples and information for those looking to leverage Exchange as a development platform.

Microsoft Outlook 2000 E-mail and Fax Guide
 by Sue Mosher

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An excellent resource on Microsoft Outlook written by someone who is as much an Outlook guru as an author.

Windows 2000 Essential Reference
 by Steven Tate

No book on Windows 2000 covers everything one might need to know but this one certainly packs a lot of useful information into its pages. If you need a crash course in Windows 2000 and Active Directory this is a great place to start.