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MS Exchange Server Support Training
Windows 95 Customer Advisory-"Boza" Virus
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Microsoft Exchange is coming. It's a great product, integrating electronic mail, scheduling, electronic forms, document sharing, and custom applications, and thereby cutting to the core of some truly mission-critical applications. In any such situation, to the well-prepared go the benefits and the kudos...and nothing else. TechNet will help you be among the well-prepared. This month we take a big step in providing the information you need to evaluate, implement, and support this critical product. We are presenting the beta MS Exchange Server Support Instructor Guide in its entirety to assist you in evaluating Exchange in your enterprise. This is the first content we've published that was developed by the Corporate Support Worldwide Training Team in our Product Support Services division. And we're looking forward to publishing more of such training guides.
The MS Exchange Server Support Instructor Guide is very comprehensive. It will help you understand the concepts, and terminology involved in installing, configuring, administering, supporting, and troubleshooting MS Exchange Server. Its detailed discussions cover an overview of the product as well as its functions, features, architecture, underlying technology, and application to real world organizations. Discrete sections focus on design of an overall messaging system, installing Microsoft Exchange Server, the workings of the Exchange Server Database Storage Engine, the Directory Service, security and encryption, maintenance and co-existence with other mail systems. In addition, the guide describes Exchange's application design environment and other means of extending the product's functionality.
The Corporate Support Worldwide Training Team currently employs 19 full-time trainers, all of whom develop extensive training materials that help Microsoft Corporate Support Engineers solve customer issues. We'd like to acknowledge the following course developers who contributed extraordinary effort to design and create the MS Exchange Server Support Instructor Guide:
Project Lead Mark Adcock. Mark will also be teaching the Microsoft Exchange Server class to Product Support Services Engineers around the world. Prior to working on Exchange, Mark was the PSS AppleTalk Mail product lead. He has been working in the computer industry for 10 years with the last six focusing on messaging technology.
Course Developer Joe Davies. Joe started at Microsoft as a support engineer for Windows 3.0 and has been developing and delivering Windows, networking and workgroup application courses for over three years, He specializes in networking technology and Novell NetWare (Master CNE).
Trainer Jordan Montgomery. Jordan has been supporting Microsoft's Premier customers for the past four years, focusing on messaging products--MS Mail for PC Networks, MS Mail for AppleTalk Networks, and now MS Exchange Server.
Trainer Douglas Mazina. Of his five years at Microsoft, Douglas has spent three of them creating, technically reviewing and training Microsoft Support Engineers on the following products: MS-DOS, Windows for Workgroups, VINES, NetWare, Windows 95, Microsoft Mail for PC Networks, Windows NT, Internetworking Windows NT with TCP/IP, and Microsoft Exchange Server. He is also a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.
Course Developer Andrew Mason. Andrew Mason started at Microsoft almost five years ago, supporting MS-DOS and Windows 3.0 and 3.1, and has been with the training group ever since he helped write the training for Windows NT 3.1. In addition to his recent work on the Exchange course, he has written various Windows NT, TCP/IP and other networking related courses.
Trainer Win Stanton. Win has been a member of the Worldwide Training team for three years. He has delivered PC Mail and Async/X.25 training all over the world. His focus now is teaching the PSS Support Engineers the Exchange Support Course included on this CD. Prior to becoming a trainer, Win was a support engineer on the Workgroup Applications team.
Document ContentsMicrosoft has learned that Windows 95 is the target of a new computer virus, called the "Boza" virus. The virus is not contained within the Windows 95 product. Although the virus is not widespread, Windows 95 customers should be aware that they can encounter it if they download and run an infected program from the Internet, electronic bulletin board, or online service, or run an infected program from a floppy disk.
To mitigate the spread of the virus, Microsoft is working closely with anti-virus software vendors such as Symantec and McAfee Associates to provide protection as soon as possible. At this writing, McAfee (www.mcafee.com) has posted an antivirus update to address the Boza virus, and Symantec (www.symantec.com/avcenter/valert.html) will do so shortly, most likely by the time you read this.
Running an infected program can infect up to three Win32 programs in the current directory. Occasionally, when an infected program is executed, it displays a dialog box with a message from the authors of the virus. Apparently the virus copies itself to other programs only for purposes of displaying its message.
Microsoft recommends that customers take the following steps:
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Document ContentsPC Magazine editors cited Microsoft TechNet as one of the Best Products of 1995 in their January 9th issue. Those folks see and review literally thousands of hardware and software products every year, and they found TechNet to be among the top 45. In fact, we were twice honored in that issue: They also highlighted TechNet in a sidebar to a story about networked CD-ROM servers called "CD-ROMs Worth Sharing." Let me say, on behalf of the staff who work hard to make TechNet useful and relevant to its audience, that we very much appreciate the recognition.
Harry Miller
Editor-in-Chief, Microsoft TechNet
March 1996
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