Microsoft Exchange Design

Microsoft Exchange is a hugely successful Microsoft product that profoundly influences the way businesses operate. The design of the Microsoft Exchange system is fundamental to the performance, efficiency, cost-effectiveness and reliability of the service. A complete Exchange design corresponds closely to the Active Directory design as Exchange is dependent on AD for its directory and services.

Important aspects of the Exchange design include:

• The overall Organization design, and its relationship to other Exchange or messaging and collaboration systems.
• Security design and Administration Model
• Database and Storage Group design, policies and performance tuning
• Backup and Recovery design
• Routing (topology) design
• Migration and Interoperability design (with earlier versions and other email systems)
• Collaboration and Unified Messaging design

Microsoft Exchange 2007 offers many new features that are of special interest to business operating large and complex messaging environments. Since Exchange 2003 a number of new features provide capability for the consolidation of Exchange services with potentially huge benefits in cost and reliability indices.