Finalizing Deployment

With the Exchange 2007 Server installation in place let’s launch the Exchange Management Console (EMC). Note that the first time the EMC is launched it will show you the Finalize Deployment tab under the Microsoft Exchange node as shown in Figure 2.5. You should examine each of the deployment tasks listed here, and perform the ones that are relevant for your environment.

Figure 2.5: Finalize Deployment Tab in the Exchange Management Console

Since each deployment task is explained in a step by step fashion, I won’t go into details about each of them here.

End-to-End Scenario Tasks

In addition to the Deployment Tasks we just covered, there’s also an End-to-End Scenario tab (Figure 2.6), which provides a list of tasks that are optional for configuring features, but you should at least skim through each of them and see whether any of these tasks are relevant to your Exchange environment.

Figure 2.6: End-to-End Scenario Tab in the Exchange Management Console

Again, since each task under this tab is pretty much self-explanatory, covering each of them is outside the scope of this articles series.

Global Settings

Global Settings that have been configured on an Exchange 2000 or 2003 Server will be transferred to the Exchange 2007 Server automatically, as these settings are stored and read from Active Directory. This means that recipient policies, Internet Message Formats, SMTP connectors and Exchange delegation permissions are applied to user mailboxes stored on Exchange 2007 as well. Figure 2.7 below shows you the Default Policy which was originally created on our Exchange 2003 Server.

Figure 2.7: Default Policy in the Exchange 2007 Management Console

Also note that when the Exchange 2007 Server has been deployed in the legacy Exchange organization, any of the organization-level settings should be managed using Exchange 2007 Management tools (EMC or EMS) during the co-existence period.