Making Changes in the Exchange Environment
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An assessment, such as the sample contained in Examples of Assessment Results, reveals which areas in the environment need improvement. However, before making changes to the Exchange environment, you will need to understand and improve the change management process itself, using proven Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) concepts. The topics in this section discuss how to do so.
Specifically, the topics in this section accomplish the following objectives:
| • | Show how release management and configuration management are both inherently linked to change management. (See Change Management and Its Link to Release Management and Change Management and Its Link to Configuration Management.) |
| • | Supply information about a tool for Exchange configuration management. (See Tool for Exchange Configuration Management.) |
| • | Provide guidelines pertaining to change management, configuration management, release management, and implementation of a test lab. (See Change Management Guidelines, Configuration Management Guidelines, Release Management Guidelines, and Guidelines for Implementing a Test Lab.) |
| • | Apply Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) concepts to making changes in the Exchange environment. (See Using MSF to Make Changes in the Exchange Environment.) |
