Chapter 6. The Active Directory Management Pack

As you have already learned, Exchange Server does not stand alone. An installation of Exchange is heavily dependent upon the health and performance of the Windows Server computer on which it is installed. In Chapter 5, you learned about evaluating the health and performance of Windows Server. Also important to the health of Exchange is the health and performance of your Active Directory. In this chapter, you will learn about the following topics:

  • How Exchange uses Active Directory

  • Active Directory client versus AD server health

  • The Active Directory Management Pack

  • What makes for a healthy Active Directory

Note

Beginning with Windows Server 2008, Microsoft has taken the simple name of Active Directory (AD) ...

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