Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant

Chapter 2. Deploying Exchange Server 2010

• Exchange Server Messaging Roles 26

• Integrating Exchange Server Roles with Active Directory 39

• Integrating Exchange Server 2010 into Existing Exchange Organizations 42

• Running and Modifying Exchange Server 2010 Setup 50

Before you deploy Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, you should carefully plan the messaging architecture. Every Exchange implementation has three layers in its architecture:

• Network layer The network layer provides the foundation for computer-to-computer communications and essential name resolution features. The network layer has both physical and logical components. The physical components include the IP addresses, the IP subnets, local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN) links used ...