Summary

In this chapter, we covered some of the more compelling features of the Exchange Server 2010 product. Although there are a whole host of other features, we do not have enough room to cover all of them in any detail.

We covered briefly the Exchange Server 2010 server roles, their responsibilities, and their support in a virtualization environment. You learned that Unified Messaging is not supported virtualized.

We also talked about considerations for virtualizing the CAS, Hub, Edge Transport, and Mailbox server roles using vSphere. We went through a brief explanation of a true highly available solution and what it consists of. After the discussion of high availability, we discussed the parameters and business requirements for the Source ...

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