Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 Administrator's Companion

Chapter 2. Active Directory for Exchange Administrators

• Brief Overview of Active Directory

• Other Active Directory Components

• Exchange Server 2007 and Active Directory

• DNS Configuration

• Summary

In the Chapter 1, you learned about some of the basic components of an Exchange organization. This chapter builds on that knowledge by describing how Exchange Server 2007 integrates with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and how it uses the services in Windows Server 2003 to its advantage. It begins with a brief overview of the Windows Server 2003 Active Directory service and finishes by describing how Exchange Server 2007 uses Active Directory and discussing some of the more important Internet information protocols.

Brief Overview of Active Directory

A full explanation ...