Federation Scenarios

Let's see how the basic principles of federation and federated delegation and the various components and fundamentals of federated delegation in Exchange Server 2010 all fit together. We'll do this by covering the various federation scenarios in an Exchange Server 2010 environment, and the advantages and drawbacks to each of them.

The common component in all of these scenarios is the creation of a federation trust, as discussed in the Federation Trust section of this chapter; for the purposes of this discussion, we will assume that the trust is in place and configured for all accepted domains in the organization.

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