Best Practice #7: Learning from others' mistakes and successes |
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By Richard Luckett
27 Oct 2005 | SearchExchange.com |
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The terrorist attacks of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina remind us that both manmade and natural disasters are very real threats. They raise awareness in many areas of our lives.
This may even translate into an increased IT budget to help you prepare your e-mail systems for disaster. Before you spend that new budget though, you might want to consider what worked and didn't work for IT shops that lived through 9/11 and Katrina:
Best Practices Checklist: Exchange Server disaster recovery planning
 Home: Introduction
Best Practice #1: Understanding Exchange databases
Best Practice #2: Building your plan around the technology at hand
Best Practice #3: Keeping e-mail in perspective
Best Practice #4: Configuring server hardware for disaster recovery
Best Practice #5: Configuring Exchange for disaster recovery
Best Practice #6: Simulating a disaster
Best Practice #7: Learning from others' mistakes and successes
Best Practice #8: Considering offsite storage and remote recovery
Best Practice #9: Familiarizing yourself with the right resources
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Richard Luckett, Vice President and Senior Consultant, Ajettix Security
Richard Luckett is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer on the Windows NT 4.0, 2000 and 2003 platforms and has been certified on Exchange since version 4.0. He is the co-author of Administering Exchange 2000 Server, published by McGraw Hill, and has written four Exchange courses, Introduction to Exchange 2000, and Hands-on Exchange 2003, Ultimate Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2003 Administrator Boot Camp for Global Knowledge Inc. Richard is currently Vice President and Senior Consultant for Ajettix Security, where he is the head of the Microsoft security practice.
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