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Seem to have forgot to blog these and considering many people are searching for them, here is a link to the Exchange 2010 architecture diagrams:

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Transport Server Role Architecture Diagrams
(on the Hub Transport Server and Hub Transport extensibility)

Unfortunately, the Exchange 2007 Component Architecture and Edge Transport diagrams haven’t been updated for Exchange 2010. For archival purposes, here are the links to the Exchange 2007 diagrams:

Exchange Server 2007 Component Architecture
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Transport Server Role Architecture Diagrams
(on Hub Transport, both RTM and SP1, and Edge Transport)

Today Microsoft released version 8.03.0056 of the Microsoft Exchange Server Profile Analyzer (EPA). You can use EPA to collect (statistical) information from Exchange mailbox stores or an Exchange organization. For instance, you can collection information on user activity and profile statistics for sets of subsets of the mailbox population, which can be used as input when dimensioning (upgraded) Exchange infrastructure using the Exchange Mailbox Role Calculator (being more specific than the default Light, Average, Heavy and Very Heavy user profiles). The analysis of mailbox servers or organization can also provide input for processes like capacity planning.