This volume, Deployment, builds on that information and includes the step-by-step procedures required to implement this design. The companion volume, Planning, describes the tasks and decisions that must be completed to develop a framework suitable for hosting a large number of customers and users in a shared forest environment.

While this guide is primarily focused on the Application Service Provider hosting their customers' messaging infrastructures, the issues and concepts discussed here can be used by any organization to provide access to the full range of Exchange 2000 Server facilities across a public network.

This book covers the following topics:

• Configuring routers and switches
• Implementing Active Directory for hosting
• Installing the back-end servers
• Deploying ISA server
• Installing the front-end servers
• Implementing Domain Name Service for hosting
• Adding organizations and users