Book review: MCITP 70-663 Exam Ref: Designing and Deploying Messaging Solutions with Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 by Orin Thomas; O’Reilly Media.

The author Orin Thomas is experienced writing about Microsoft Exchange

The book covers not only planning and deploying of Exchange Server 2010 itself but designing and deploying solutions like security, availability and recovery, messaging compliance, system monitoring and reporting as well.

Well organized and good enough coverage of the material. Links to Microsoft TechNet website present for those who need more detailed information on the subject. Most useful powershell cmdlets are given and some exam tips as well.

Every chapter has test questions and thought experiments - very nice feature to sharpen the mind :) Answers and explanations are presented at the end of the chapters.

I found it to be very useful as a reference for my daily work. And I would recommend it for everyone who deals with Exchange Server 2010. Check it out yourself by free sampler or go directly to the book's page