Chapter Summary

Exchange 2000 is enormously flexible and offers numerous mutually exclusive deployment options. You have to decide between a centralized or decentralized system management. You need to install Exchange 2000 Server in an Active Directory environment on Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, or Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, and you need to be a member of the Domain Admins or Enterprise Admins and Schema Admins groups. For subsequent installations, Schema Admins group membership is not required.

Administrative groups can be used to subdivide the management of resources. It's often applicable to define your administrative topology according to departments or divisions independent of physical resource arrangements. The physical network topology is better reflected through routing groups. Routing groups define message paths across the network. When operating an Exchange 2000 Server environment in mixed mode for backward compatibility with previous Exchange Server versions, a 1:1 relationship between administrative and routing groups and Exchange Server sites is recommended. To gain full system flexibility, you have to switch your organization into native mode.

If your messaging management is separated from Windows 2000 administration, you need to ask the Active Directory administrators to prepare the forest for you by launching ForestPrep prior to installing Exchange 2000 Server. To simplify the deployment of Exchange 2000 Server further, you can run Setup with the option /DomainPrep in each of your domains to add further Exchange-specific configuration information to Active Directory.

You can deploy Exchange 2000 Server in an FE/BE configuration to support large numbers of Internet-based clients. The purpose of an FE/BE configuration is to concentrate incoming client connections through numerous front end servers, thus reducing the processing overhead on the back end systems. You can also install Exchange 2000 Server in a clustered environment to provide reliability through complex hardware redundancy. The purpose of a cluster is to provide multiple servers to the network as one virtual server.



MCSE Training Kit Exam 70-224(c) Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Implementation and Administration
MCSE Training Kit Exam 70-224(c) Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Implementation and Administration
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Year: 2001
Pages: 186

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