Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Deployment and Migration SP1 and SP2

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Optimizing Deployments and Configurations

11.1 Introduction

In this chapter, I describe a number of approaches, techniques, and tools that can be used when planning your Exchange 2003 (up to SP2) deployment. This includes considerations for optimized mail routing from the Internet, analyzing an Exchange 2003 environment, and using tools to improve the overall configuration of your environment.

11.2 Optimized Internet E-mail Routing

Multinational companies, which by definition have operations in more than two countries, often have multiple points of connection to the Internet from their internal networks. Such companies typically also utilize these points of connection as ingress and egress points for mail flow to and from their internal ...