This section is the last part of my Understanding Information Store Essentials series and this part about Full Text Indexing feature of Exchange 2000/2003. In this article I will cover the concepts of Indexing and how Exchange implements it using MSSearch, and also this article contains best practices for deploying full-text indexing with Exchange 2000/2003 Server.

As an Exchange Administrator, In-depth knowledge in Information Store is always help us in many aspects such as Capacity Planning, Backup & Disaster Recovery, Database defrag, Mail Transport and other Troubleshooting scenarios. So its a must read, again and again until the Information Store concepts & terms gets registered in your mind.

For a Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 Administrator, knowing and being able to manage Information store is one of the most important challenging tasks. Because the Information store manage and deal with most valuable resources on an Exchange server which is User Data. I will be covering about Exchange 2000 Information Stores and its features, Stores and Storage Groups, The internal structure of the Store, details of the Extensible Storage Engine which is used to store our information, and finally details of using Full Text Indexing for your stores. There are a lot of good information available in the Internet, I will try to condense them all and bring the highlights in three-part article.

In this Article, I will show you the steps to use an SMTP transport event sink to add a disclaimer to outgoing SMTP e-mail messages. Many organizations choose the option to add a disclaimer at the end of every message that leaves the internal Mail server to the internet and sometimes goes to every internal message. These disclaimers come in different format, but focusing on legal standpoint, emphasizing that the individual or group who sends the message holds no accountability for maltreating the contents of the message. It also warns the potential recipients to wipe out the messages if they receive or view it by accidentally.