Remote Administration of Exchange 2000

[furtech]

Hello,

I was wondering if people to tell how they are Managing their Exchange 2000 servers? E.g. are you running a MMC locally on your machine or are you logging into your server using something like Terminal Services?

From what I can tell I need something like MOM from Microsoft to get a MMC working. Does anyone else know another way as MMC costs money.

Thanks,

Matthew

 

[paulha]

Use terminal services to log on to the server then run the ESM ?

Cheers

Paul

 

[Davetoo]

I installed the Admin tools and the SM on my W2K desktop. I also use TS as well, just depends on what kind of mood I'm in at the moment.

I'm Certifiable, not certified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.

 

[talphius]

I'm with Lander215 on that one - I have adminpak and exchange tools installed on my desktop machines as well as TS on the server. Usually for day-to-day tasks I will use the local version and will use the server-side TS when doing larger time-consuming tasks like moving large mailboxes, etc. (that way I don't have to worry if my machine decides to go belly-up mid-transfer).

You can use the MMC console on your local computer to setup one place for all of your domain related tasks. Just open MMC (Start:Run:MMC), and Add/Remove snap-in's for the tools you use every day. Then save this console to a place on your desktop, etc. Opening this up gives you access to all the tools you need in a jiffy...