By David Chernicoff
With the TechNet Webcast: Disaster Recovery in Exchange Server 2007 new Administrators of Exchange 2007 deployments, or those considering deploying Exchange 2007, get a good overview and demonstration of the product features that can be used to provide data protection and improved availability of their mail servers.
The webcast takes a really practical approach; it focuses on the various roles in which Exchange Server can be deployed and uses the role requirements as the basis for explaining the details of how to protect the data for that role. Don’t have a server in the role being discussed? Skip forward to the appropriate role coverage.
TIP: I suggest you go through the topology introduction that is provided to get the most from the webcast.
Local Continuous Replication and Continuous Cluster Replication are two of the more interesting and compelling features of Exchange Server 2007. Getting a good, clear description of the two technologies is worth the price of admission.
There is a tendency when doing a presentation like this to focus only on the software side of the issue. I was happy to see that the presenter took a much broader view of the topic and touched on other issues that the Exchange Administrator should be aware of.
After such a detailed, text-based presentation, the webcast wraps it all together with the presenter doing a demo of replication configuration, making it clear that it’s not as complex as it sounds to get working correctly.
For Exchange Administrators that haven’t made the move to Exchange 2007, the webcast gives them an excellent explanation and demonstration of a few reasons why they should consider the migration. The presenter also makes himself available for direct questions and answers via his blog here.
TechNet Webcast: Disaster Recovery in Exchange Server 2007