Saturday, April 25, 2009

Part 4: Exchange Server 2007 post-deployment configuration tasks


In Part 3, we walked through the Exchange Server 2007 installation process. But before Exchange 2007 is ready to use, we must complete some post-deployment configuration tasks. As I walk you through these configuration tasks, keep in mind that you may have to perform a different set of tasks than the ones that I am writing about -- it all depends on the roles that you selected for your Exchange 2007 server.

Having to do some configuration tasks after the initial installation is nothing new for Microsoft products. What is new is that the Exchange Management Console (formerly known as the Exchange System Manager) actually walks you through the configuration process. If you select the console's Microsoft Exchange node, you'll see a screen similar to the one that's shown in Figure