Recommended Exchange Reference Material

 

We all have books, whitepapers and documentation that we often end up referring to from time to time, whether it's a refresher on a topic you're a little rusty on or just to double check a few facts. For my benefit, and hopefully yours, here's my handy list of Exchange reference material…

Books

Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out – Tony Redmond
Exchange Server 2010 Best Practices – Siegfried Jagott & Joel Stidley
Exchange 2010 Powershell Cookbook – Mike Pfeiffer

Whitepapers

Best Practices for Virtualizing Exchange Server 2010 with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V
Exchange 2010 on VMware – Best Practices Guide
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Performance on vSphere 5
Best Practices for Exchange Server Public Folders
Publishing Exchange Server 2010 with Forefront UAG 2010 and TMG 2010
Exchange 2010 Large Mailbox Vision Whitepaper

Documentation and Reference

Exchange 2010 SP2 Full Help CHM Dec 2011
Exchange 2010 SP1 Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide
Exchange 2010 EPDS Deployment and Planning Services (EPDS)
JetStress Field Guide
Exchange Server 2010 Architecture Poster
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Transport Server Role Architecture Diagrams
RFC 2821 – SMTP
RFC 2822 – Internet Message Format
RFC 3501 – IMAP 4 Rev 1
RFC 1939 – POP3
RFC 2595 – Using TLS with IMAP, POP3 and ACAP
RFC 3261 – Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)