As Newman from Seinfeld says, When you control the mail, you control information! -- Well, as an Exchange admin, you get to control information. In this first nugget you get to know your instructor, J. Peter Bruzzese. He loves Seinfeld, he likes to write, and he likes to control information. He's the perfect person to teach you about Exchange. Plus in this nugget you'll learn what you'll cover through the rest of the series.

This nugget discusses the preparation needed within your AD infrastructure, including information about your Schema preparation (preparation switches) and permissions that need to be given to the correct individuals. For the official installation we discuss the hardware and software requirements to install Exchange 2007 on a particular server. And we walk through a stand-alone installation of Exchange 2007.

In this nugget you'll learn to use Public Folders in an Exchange 2007 environment. It covers the steps to adding new folders through Outlook or the Exchange Management Shell, and explains how replicas are established for increased availability to your users of the public folder structure as well as a greater level of fault tolerance.