Datasheet

If it isn’t already clear from the title, the primary goal of this
book is to prepare you to pass the 70-236 exam. This being
the case, we’ll spend most of our time together ensuring that
you acquire the required knowledge and skills to help you achieve that goal. As someone
who has a great deal of passion for messaging, I also hope not only to help you to be suc-
cessful on the exam, but also to be successful as a messaging professional.
In this chapter, we will start with some of the basics of Exchange and Active Directory.
Later on in this chapter, we will look at what’s new in Exchange Server 2007. This should
help those who have used previous versions of Exchange Server ramp up on key new features.
As part of that discussion, we will also cover what is no longer included in or supported by
Exchange Server 2007. In later chapters in the book, you’ll dig deeper into key concepts and
core skills that will prove to be important in your day-to-day administration of Exchange
Server 2007 and, of course, important to you on exam day.
This chapter provides you with a good conceptual background of the topics covered in
the remainder of the book. Specifically, we will address the following:
Overview of Exchange Server
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What is new and what has been removed in Exchange Server 2007
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Active Directory and its integration with Exchange Server 2007
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What Is Exchange Server 2007?
The fact that you are reading this book means that you probably have a basic understand-
ing of what Exchange Server is about and what it is used for. To set the stage for the
remainder of the book, let’s review a little bit of the history of Exchange Server.
Exchange was introduced as a Microsoft product in 1996, as the eventual full replace-
ment of Microsoft Mail. Exchange 4.0, as it was called, was an X.400-based messaging
system that introduced us to features such as public folders and calendaring functions. It
didn’t fully embrace the Internet until 1997, however, when Exchange 5.5 was released and
we were able to use Outlook Web Access and send and receive SMTP email.
The next version, Exchange 2000, maintained most of the features from the previ-
ous releases except for the built-in directory service, which contained configuration and