Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Distilled

Exchange Deployment Tools

One way to help Exchange administrators of all skill levels make sure that Active Directory, DNS, and other dependencies are configured properly, working well, and available to Exchange Setup is to guide them through a process that verifies these dependencies. This is precisely what the Exchange Deployment Tools do.

ExDeploy is a set of tools used to perform analysis and diagnostics on your servers and network prior to introducing any Exchange 2003 tools into your environment. The largest focus of ExDeploy is on migrations from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003. ExDeploy is both a stand-alone command-line application (EXDEPLOY.EXE) that automatically launches and uses a variety of the deployment tools and an HTML application ...