Prerequisites for Exchange Server 2010 Installation

Before you begin to setup Microsoft Exchange 2010 environment, your organization must have the following prerequisites.

• Active Directory Domain Service (ADDS)

   An Active Directory (AD) infrastructure running on Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2012 must be in place before an organization can deploy Exchange Server 2010. Exchange Server depends on the services provided by AD to successfully function and the design and implementation of the AD environment can have an enormous impact on the success of the Exchange Server deployment. Mistakes made in the planning or implementation of AD can be costly and difficult to correct later.

If AD is already deployed, it is important that the team designing the Exchange Server infrastructure have a solid understanding of the existing AD environment. Organizations with an AD infrastructure already in place need to evaluate how Exchange Server can fit into their environment. If AD has not been deployed, the organization or team designing Exchange Server needs to plan their implementation with a thought as to what their messaging infrastructure will look like.
This section is designed to give a basic understanding of the AD infrastructure required to support an Exchange Server 2010 implementation. Many facets are involved when planning a production AD infrastructure -- forest model, domain model, group policies and delegation of administration to name a few, and the information needed to design an AD infrastructure from end to end is beyond the scope of this article.

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