From the course: Exchange Server 2010: Designing and Implementing

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Prepare Active Directory

Prepare Active Directory

- There are basically two things that need to be done before you install Exchange 2010 into your environment. You need to prepare active directory to first extend the schema and add classes and attributes to your active directory environment and then some security groups need to be added as well. Let's take a look first at the schema partition. I'm going to go into the Administrative Tools, into ADSI Edit, and in here I'm going to right click and connect to the schema partition. So this is a partition that's replicated through every domain controller in the forest. And this is the one that needs to be updated for Exchange 2010. So notice there's all kinds of attributes out here. If I scroll way down I'll notice that I've got a bunch of Exchange attributes. This is because I'm already running Exchange 2003 in this environment. So new attributes for Exchange that have been added to improve the functionality or increase the functionality or do new things in 2010 will be added to this…

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