Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003 Administrator's Companion

Chapter 4. Understanding Windows Server 2003 Integration

• Brief Overview of Active Directory

• Other Active Directory Components

• Exchange Server 2003 and Active Directory

• Integration with Internet Information Services 6.0

• DNS Configuration

• Summary

In the last two chapters, you learned about the storage and routing architectures in Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. This chapter builds on that knowledge by describing how Exchange Server 2003 integrates with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and how it uses the services in Windows Server 2003 to its advantage. We’ll begin with a brief overview of the Windows Server 2003 Active Directory directory service and then finish the chapter by describing how Exchange Server 2003 uses Active Directory and discussing some ...