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The following checklist outlines the physical and logical factors you should take into consideration when assessing your current environment before deploying Exchange.
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Data center floor space |
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Rack space |
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Network sizing |
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WAN (may need to provision higher bandwidth connections) |
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Degree of separation between physical sites (latency introduced) |
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LAN upgrades |
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Backbone |
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Modem pools or alternate dial-up |
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Hardware needs |
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Servers |
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Memory |
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Processor |
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Storage |
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High bandwidth network interface cards (NICs) |
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Routers |
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Memory |
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Processor |
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Switches |
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Firewalls |
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Power |
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Power grid Service Level Agreement (SLA) |
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Projected power draw |
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Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) or other power-insulating device (generators, etc.) |
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Designated "hot" site |
| Staffing | |
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Training on newly introduced technologies and procedures |
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Augmentation |
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Administrators |
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Support staff |
| Geography | |
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Time zone issues |
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Languages |
| WAN | |
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Encapsulation upgrade (asynchronous transfer mode [ATM], etc.) |
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Optimization (permanent virtual circuit [PVC] for frame relay) |
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Overall quality of connections |
| LAN | |
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Encapsulation change (token ring to Ethernet) |
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Layer 2 device removal or upgrade |
| Network | |
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TCP/IP end-to-end |
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IP Hop count between endpoints |
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Subnetting considerations (Microsoft® Active Directory® directory service site considerations) |
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Device configuration |
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Routers and open ports |
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Switches |
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Firewalls and open ports |
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Ports and layer 4 protocols enabled on filtering or blocking devices |
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All encryption and decryption operations |
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All format-change operations (for example, other mail gateways and X.400 connectors) |
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remote procedure call (RPC) connectivity |
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network basic input/output system (NetBIOS) |
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Public key infrastructure (PKI) |
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Virtual private network (VPN) |
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Shared dependencies between Internet Information Services (IIS), Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), and Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) |
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DNS |
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Windows® Internet Name Service (WINS) |
| Network operating system | |
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Shared dependencies between DHCP, NTLM, NTLMv2, and LM |
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Windows NT® Server version 4.0 domain structure: Trusts, primary domain controllers, backup domain controllers |
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Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server™ 2003 Active Directory |
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Forest structure |
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Domain structure |
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Migration |
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Site structure |
| Security | |
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Kerberos |
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Migration |
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Security principles |
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Security identifier (SID) history |
| Directories | |
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Migration |
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Active Directory Connector |
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Meta directories |
| Administration | |
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Migration |
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Permissions delegation |
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Management |
For more information see Understanding Your Current Network Environment.