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Normally, you would have an Exchange test platform, which is completely isolated from your production environment. Especially as a lot of exchange settings are Organizational settings and would affect all of your Exchange servers.<br />
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If you are looking for a testing environment, a simple setup with a few VMs on a test machine will usually suffice.
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Normally, you would have an Exchange test platform, which is completely isolated from your production environment. Especially as a lot of exchange settings are Organizational settings and would affect all of your Exchange servers.

If you are looking for a testing environment, a simple setup with a few VMs on a test machine will usually suffice.

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Why do you need a test environemnt though? What risks does not having a test environment introduce?
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Why do you need a test environemnt though? What risks does not having a test environment introduce?

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Do you have any test environment for your exchange server infrastructure? Is it common to have a test exchange sertver - if so what is it used for, and are there any risks in not having a test server that replicates the production server?
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Do you have any test environment for your exchange server infrastructure? Is it common to have a test exchange sertver - if so what is it used for, and are there any risks in not having a test server that replicates the production server?

exchange test environment

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.

Exchange

Within Internet message handling services (MHS), a message transfer agent or mail transfer agent (MTA) or mail relay is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another using a client–server application architecture. A MTA implements both the client (sending) and server (receiving) portions of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). The terms mail server, mail exchanger, and MX host may also refer to a computer performing the MTA function. The Domain Name System (DNS) associates a mail server to a domain with mail exchanger (MX) resource records containing the domain name of a host providing MTA services.