The motivation to upgrade
The first point in a deployment project is to understand why you want to deploy Exchange 2010. Different circumstances dictate the ability and willingness of companies to move forward with the deployment of a new version of Exchange, including these common scenarios:
They currently run a very old version of Exchange, including Exchange 5.5 (released in 1997).
They might have declined to upgrade from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 because their current infrastructure meets their needs. They might have wanted to avoid the need to buy new hardware to deploy Exchange 2007 or did not want to grapple with the need to understand the new architecture, perhaps because of other priorities within their overall IT infrastructure. Like ...
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