Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Pocket Consultant

Book Preface

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Pocket Consultant: Configuration & Clients is designed to be a concise and compulsively usable resource for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 administrators. This is the readable resource guide that you’ll want on your desk at all times. The book covers everything you need to perform the core administrative tasks for configuring Exchange Server 2013 and setting up Exchange clients, whether your servers are running on Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2008 R2. Because the focus of this book is on giving you maximum value in a pocket-size guide, you don’t have to wade through hundreds of pages of extraneous information to find what you’re looking for. Instead, you’ll find exactly what you need to get the job done.

In short, this book is designed to be the one resource you turn to whenever you have questions about configuring Exchange Server 2013 and setting up Exchange clients. To this end, the book zeroes in on daily administrative procedures, frequently performed tasks, documented examples, and options that are representative although not necessarily exhaustive. One of the goals is to keep the content so concise that the book remains compact and easy to navigate while at the same time ensuring that it is packed with as much information as possible. Thus, instead of a hefty 1,000-page tome or a lightweight 100-page quick reference, you get a valuable resource guide that can help you quickly and easily perform common tasks and solve problems.

Although you might not install Exchange Server 2013 on touch-enabled computers, you can use these devices to manage your installation. If you do manage the software this way, understanding the touch UI as well as the revised interface options will be crucial to your success. For this reason, I reference both the touch UI and the traditional mouse and keyboard techniques throughout this book.