Hi all I have a client who is providing hosted services on a clustered HA platform with VMWare. They are using MPS to provision for client requests. The environment was designed by IBM in conjunction with Microsoft. The client has asked me to provide some leadership and mentoring to their staff, and I would like to understand their platform more fully. In this effort I am creating a virtualized environment in my lab based on the MPS lab within "Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration version 4.5". The environment as per the lab document calls for Windows 2003 server for MPS. I was wondering if this could now be deployed on Windows 2008 R2? If not, what is the "replacement path" for MPS? Thanks Richard

Hello, i suggest to ask in the following forum http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchange2010hosters/threads if this is still current. Best regards Meinolf Weber MVP, MCP, MCTS Microsoft MVP - Directory Services My Blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/mweber/ Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights.