Chapter 1. Designing and Planning Messaging Services

Designing and Planning Messaging Services

The main subjects of this chapter are as follows:

  • Defining Active Directory prerequisites

  • Designing an administrative model

  • Planning Exchange Server 2007 placement

  • Understanding Exchange Server 2007 roles

  • Reviewing the current and planned network topology and providing technical recommendations

  • Understanding new Exchange features

  • Understanding internal and external message routing

Evaluating and Recommending Active Directory Configuration

As an Exchange Server 2007 message professional, your responsibilities normally will not include a single domain with a single Exchange Server installation. The Active Directories and Exchange organizations you plan, manage, or support will be highly complex as well as dispersed around the world. To cover this exam requirement, this section will teach you some specific commands and considerations that are special to medium-to-large organizations. Here you will learn about all the requirements of Active Directory for Exchange Server 2007.

Defining Active Directory Prerequisites

The following section will teach you about Exchange Server 2007 and how it uses Active Directory to store configuration data. It starts with the high-level basics of Active Directory and Exchange data and continues with explanations of software version requirements as well as Active Directory preparation for Exchange.

Exchange Uses Active ...

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