Chapter 11

Designing and Deploying Mailbox Services

The following topics are discussed in this chapter:

  • Designing the Mailbox server role
  • Deploying the Mailbox server role

The Mailbox server role is a core component of the Exchange infrastructure, and it requires a great deal of planning to ensure that the configuration meets the needs of the users and will continue into the near future. Exchange 2010 introduces some welcome improvements that help reduce the cost and complexity of designing and deploying Mailbox servers.

Designing Mailbox Services

Although properly designing other server roles is an important aspect of a properly sized Exchange environment, the Mailbox server design tends to be the most difficult and expensive. In both Exchange ...

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