Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003 Unleashed

Best Practices

This chapter focuses on the planning, prototype testing, migration, and deployment overview for a Microsoft Exchange 2003 implementation. The following are best practices from this chapter:

• An upgrade to Exchange 2003 should follow a process that keeps the project on schedule. Set up such a process with a four-phase approach, including initiation, planning, testing, and implementation.

• Documentation is important to keep track of plans, procedures, and schedules. Create some of the documentation that could be expected for an upgrade project, including a statement of work document, a design document, a project schedule, and a migration document.

• Key to the initiation phase is the definition of the scope of work. Create such a definition, ...