Chapter 5. Planning for Deployment

In Chapter 4, you learned how to assess the needs of your users and how to take stock of your current network situation. In this chapter, you learn how to put that information to use.

The task of planning a Microsoft Exchange organization is divided into two distinct subtasks: designing the overall Exchange organization and placing individual Exchange servers in sites to optimize the messaging system. This approach provides you with a logical placement of resources developed with users’ needs in mind.

Beginning at the organizational level, you establish organization-wide naming conventions, determine the number of routing groups you need and the boundaries of those ...

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