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Microsoft Exchange and Windows Server
3.1 Microsoft Exchange 2003 Requirements
In this chapter, we refer to Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 as Win-
dows Server. When topics are specific to either of the versions of the Windows
operation system, we will call out the correct version of Windows.
Microsoft Exchange 2003 is integrated with Windows Server and its
associated services, and it cannot be deployed correctly without a sound
Windows infrastructure and related services. Certainly, the most impor-
tant component is the Windows Active Directory service, which is used for
storing almost all aspects of the Microsoft Exchange configuration, as well ...