Maintaining Your Organization

Maintaining Microsoft Exchange Server consists of periodically verifying that:

• Messages are being transferred correctly and in a reasonable amount of time by the message transfer agent (MTA), connectors, and gateways.
• The information store is working correctly and providing adequate resources and performance to users.
• The directory is working correctly, and directory replication and synchronization are sharing the correct information.
• You have a recent backup for each server's directory and information store.

The maintenance tasks outlined in this chapter provide basic procedures for keeping message and information transfer running smoothly. You may need to perform additional tasks depending on the design of your organization.