Best Practice #9: Familiarizing yourself with the right resources |
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By Richard Luckett
27 Oct 2005 | SearchExchange.com |
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A disaster recovery plan is a work in progress. What might be an acceptable practice today may not be reasonable in light of future events. Always work on new and better ways to improve your plan. Simulate disaster and test your procedures on a regular basis. Try to keep the big picture -- e-mail is just one of many business critical systems. And develop a recovery plan that validates all dependencies prior to the restoration of Exchange.
For more in-depth information on Exchange Server disaster recovery, you should read and bookmark:
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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