Exchange Books
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Not really a help, but i felt my soul shrivel slightly when i walked into my directors office last week. I wondered where he had been coming up with some of the questions to do with a couple of projects (LAN?WAN Refresh and Datacentres) that are on the horizon, to find a couple of '..... for Dummies' books on the desk (that were way out of date!). I wondered why he had been asking whether we had a bus, star or mesh network.........
Labs was the best way - you can get a free trial of Exchange 2010 and then just make a Virtual Machine (using something like VMWare or Virtualbox, etc).
Other than that I have found Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unleashed by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Andrew Abbate, and Chris Amaris very good.
Depends on what version you want to use but if you're doing it to learn Exchange then a later version might be better than learning the old ones. Pre 2007 it's very, very different in 2007 you add Power Shell (which you might want to read up on) and such like to do a lot of tasks.
M.
Other than that I have found Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unleashed by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Andrew Abbate, and Chris Amaris very good.
Depends on what version you want to use but if you're doing it to learn Exchange then a later version might be better than learning the old ones. Pre 2007 it's very, very different in 2007 you add Power Shell (which you might want to read up on) and such like to do a lot of tasks.
M.
This, plus reading articles on msexchange.org, petri.co.il, and msexchangeteam.com.
Nothing better than just jumping straight in.
Thats all I did, I was a bit scared of starting as I thought it was going to be some big complex beast but it's actually relatively easy.
The only thing that trips me up is using the command shell input.
Exchange server 2010 admin pocket consultant..William R Stanek, straight to the point book, 600 pages, there is also the Exchange server 2010 unleashed by Sams but this is 1300 pages 
are two books i am using for the exchange 2003 >2010 upgrade exam but i have kinda ditched the 1300 pager.
Agree with the rest of the comments reagrding the study sites and lab setup. I would say labs are a must if you want to really learn exchange properly, break and fix is the way to go, should put you in good stead when you have to support a 100 of them
MS exchange website is also good too.
are two books i am using for the exchange 2003 >2010 upgrade exam but i have kinda ditched the 1300 pager.Agree with the rest of the comments reagrding the study sites and lab setup. I would say labs are a must if you want to really learn exchange properly, break and fix is the way to go, should put you in good stead when you have to support a 100 of them
MS exchange website is also good too.
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And if you do something which turns out to be structurally significant, it's a total PITA to undo it...Whilst there's nothing hugely difficult about it, have a read before playing, imo. Once you start bad habits or 'wrong' ways of doing things, they're a ***t to shrug off
I haven't read up on 2010 much, really ought to! The improved OWA sounds like a boon.
I started by messing around with it, 3 years ago I installed SBS2003 with exchange2007, last year I started managing an exchange2007 server, only really adding new users, 6 months ago I installed exchange2007 for myself..
Stuff I didn't know or couldn't work out I just googled and read about online..
I heard it fully supports FF and third party browsers.. YAY!
Nooo! Darn swear someone told me otherwise, Chinese whispers I suspect!
Should be setting up a test system soon
It really irks me that Microsoft have done that!
I should point out that Exchange came out before Firefox and surely it's up to Firefox to work with MS to provide this. Besides you should be using the most up to date browser so this shouldn't affect you.
Anyway my book recommendation earlier still stands.
M.
And I should point out that if Microsoft adhered to web standards compliance then none of this would be an issue. Infact forcing your user agent string to "Internet Explorer" in Opera enables you to untick the "crippled" experience box (not that it then works, just that this highlights Microsoft's underhanded way of forcing you to use IE).
Secondly, I use the most up to date browser (Opera 10.50 build 3296), a 100% standards compliant browser, that doesn't work fully with OWA.
Not that this is a huge problem as I enforce the use of IE as the only browser on any company asset (bar developers and infrastructure workstations/users).