Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003 Unleashed

Best Practices

• Most administrators of the Exchange environment should be set as Exchange Administrators, leaving the Exchange Full Administrator role only to one individual, who will have the authority to grant the Exchange Administrator right to others.

• Exchange View Only Administrators should be used for operations staff, network infrastructure staff, or other administrators who need to view the status of Exchange functions but who should not need to directly modify or make changes to the functions.

• Auditing should be enabled to track all administrative changes in Exchange. This ensures a trail for viewing modifications or changes to key Exchange settings.

• Message and storage limits give administrators the capability to control the size of messages ...