First, you upgrade all Internet-facing Active Directory sites by doing
the following:
- Upgrade existing Exchange 2003 servers to Exchange 2003 SP2.
- Deploy Exchange 2010 servers in this order:
- Client Access
- Hub Transport
- Unified Messaging
- Mailbox
- Client Access
- Configure the Exchange 2003 front-end server and the Exchange 2010 Client Access server
- Configure the Exchange 2010 Hub Transport servers (s)
- Configure the Unified Messaging server(s)
- Move mailboxes from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010
Then, you upgrade all internal Active Directory sites in the same manner.