Microsoft BackOffice Systems Management (Paperback)

This is the first practical, end-to-end guide to planning, implementing and optimizing an enterprise-wide technical architecture using Microsoft BackOffice. Discover the basics of technical architecture planning for a network manager's perspective, and see how business goals and processes can be reflected in architecture planning. Walk through the entire BackOffice product family, and the BackOffice/NT Server planning process. Learn how to plan for NT domains, Exchange Server E-mail site hierarchies; and SQL Server replication, fragmentation and partitioning. Learn how to use the SNA Server gateway to access legacy data, and implement Systems Management Server to streamline management. Walk through Web site design and implementation with Microsoft's Internet Information Server. Finally, get hard-to-find practical insights into staffing issues, design and capacity planning, and network management with NT Server and BackOffice.