Operations

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 will reach end of support on April 11, 2017. To stay supported, you will need to upgrade. For more information, see Resources to help you upgrade your Office 2007 servers and clients.

Applies to: Exchange Server 2007, Exchange Server 2007 SP1, Exchange Server 2007 SP2

Operations in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is the phase that comes after you deploy Exchange 2007. Operations includes tasks for day-to-day management and administration of an Exchange organization, as well as tasks for configuring features that you deploy separately and do not have to manage regularly.

Operations documentation includes the following topics.

• Management Interfaces
  This section includes information about how to use the Exchange Management Console and the Exchange Management Shell to manage your Exchange organization.

• Configuring Permissions
  This section contains information about configuring permissions in Exchange 2007.

• Educating Information Workers
  This section includes information that will help you educate information workers about how to take advantage of new features in Exchange 2007.

• Managing Mailbox Features
  This section includes information about managing the various features that are included with the Mailbox server role.

• Managing Client Access
  This section includes information about managing the various features that are included with the Client Access server role.

• Managing Recipients
  This section includes information about managing all types of recipients in Exchange 2007.

• Managing Unified Messaging
  This section includes information about managing the various features that are included with the Unified Messaging server role.

• Managing Transport Servers
  This section includes information about managing the various features that are included with the Hub Transport and Edge Transport server roles.

• Managing the AD RMS Prelicensing Agent
  This section includes information about how to manage the Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) agent, which you can use to protect information through persistent usage policies.

• Managing Anti-Spam and Antivirus Features
  This section includes information about managing and configuring anti-spam and antivirus features.

• Managing Messaging Policy and Compliance Features
  This section includes information about managing the messaging policy and compliance features in Exchange 2007.

• Disaster Recovery
  This section includes information about disaster recovery strategies, procedures, tools, and wizards, including how to back up and restore your Exchange 2007 data.

• High Availability
  This section includes information about high-availability strategies and features, such as local continuous replication (LCR), cluster continuous replication (CCR), standby continuous replication (SCR) and single copy clusters (SCC).

• Monitoring and Operations Management
  This section includes information about how to monitor the daily operations of your Exchange 2007 organization. To monitor your Exchange 2007 organization, we recommend that you use Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) and the Exchange Management Pack.