Exam Highlights

Before taking the exam, review the key points and terms that are presented in this chapter. Return to the lessons for additional practice.

Key Points

• Delegate administrative control at the administrative group level for a decentralized administrative model, and delegate control at the organization level for a centralized administrative model. Create additional administrative groups as necessary.

• Knowing the Exchange Server 2003 service dependencies can be key in correctly diagnosing a problem.

• Use the Exchange View Only Administrator role to allow authorized personnel to monitor from Exchange System Manager without being able to make changes.

• Administrative groups and routing groups are mapped to Exchange Server 5.5 sites in mixed mode but can be managed independent of each other in native mode.

• Front-end servers should be upgraded prior to upgrading back-end servers.

Key Terms

site An Exchange Server 5.5 concept that defines both the administration and message routing topologies of an Exchange organization. Exchange Server 2003 splits the site concept into administrative groups and routing groups that can be managed independent of each other (in native mode). In Active Directory, a site defines a collection of Active Directory resources that are connected by LAN speeds (10 MB or greater).

service dependency Services often rely on other services running in order to be able to run. If a service that has a number of dependencies is stopped, intentionally or not, all dependent services will also stop.

administrative role Exchange Server 2003 supports three administrative roles that can be delegated using the Exchange System Manager: Exchange Full Administrator, which can manage anything in the organization including permissions; Exchange Administrator, which can manage everything in the organization except permissions; and Exchange View Only Administrator, which has read-only administrative access to Exchange organization.