OSX Server for Directory Services and an Exchange Server

I am about to purchase an Xserve. I only want to use this for authentication purposes (OpenLDAP, Kerberos, whatever).
We are getting rid of Windows Small Business server, but want to keep using Exchange for our email (we will build a new server with Exchange, I am not going to try to keep Small Business).
My network is half OSX clients, half Windows XP clients.
My question is this:
Is it possible to have all of my users in my Xserve and have Exchange get username/password information from an OSX server (our Xserver will be our primary controller)?
Thanks,
aaron
Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Have you gotten anymore information regarding "MS Exchange Server"... A good portion of my office are on Macs, but they all use entourage, and I refuse.. and using webmail is a pain in the butt,
have you found anyway to send mail externally from the network?

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