Monitoring Exchange Server 2007 with System Center Operations Manager

Introduction

This book is the first in what will ideally be a long series of Exchange Server and Operations Manager books. I hope you will learn much that is new to you that will assist you in using Operations Manager and your Exchange servers.

Operating an Exchange server requires much more than installing the software and then walking away. An Exchange Server—an Exchange infrastructure actually, because no Exchange server stands alone!—demands care and feeding. Once an Exchange server is installed in an environment, you need to be able to do the following:

• Manage recipients

• Manage domains

• Manage backups

• Manage server growth

• Manage server configurations

• Manage server infrastructure

I invite you to note carefully my use of the word manage. Day-to-day ...