Publisher's Synopsis
BackOffice range of products provides a set of enterprise applications (components) including: Exchange Server: the core messaging and groupware application for both Microsoft and non-Microsoft e-mail clients; SQL Server: a scaleable and relational database; Internet Information Server: Microsoft's Web server; SNA Server: a gateway to mainframe data; Systems Management Server: a distributed management console to manage these applications; Windows NT Server: and the platform upon which the above applications reside.;This book is designed to give administrators the tools required to manipulate MS BackOffice. The book begins with a brief introduction to each component and follows up with an in-depth discussion of the ways administrators can get these components to work together. For example, the book shows readers how to use SQL Server+s database to deliver data to the Web through Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS).