CONFIGURE THE DOMAIN and SERVER TO HOST AND INSTALL EXCHANGE 2010 Microsoft Exchange Server is a product which provides the mail solution for end users. In this article we will learn how to install and configure an exchange server 2010 on server 2008. Active Director must be suitably prepared before it’s possible to introduce Exchange Server 2010. If Active Directory Domain Services is not prepared properly it’s will not be possible to install Exchange Server in your organization. The first step preparing to deploy exchange server 2010 is ensuring that domain and forest are set to appropriate functional level. To introduce Exchange Server 2010 in your environment, the active directory forest functional level must be configured at Windows Server 2003 functional level or higher. Once you have ensured that forest functional level is configured correctly, you need to perform three steps to introduce the first Exchange Server 2010 in your environment. Prepare the Active Directory Schema Prepare Active Directory Prepare domains that will host Exchange Server 2010 So first we will look into “Prepare Schema”. If your environment doesn’t have an existing Exchange Server 2003, the first step you need to take to prepare Active Directory is to run the command “setup/prepareSchema” Preparing Active Directory, Once the changes introduced by running setup/prepareSchema is complete; you need to run the Setup/PrepareAD command. You will need to specify the name of the Exchange Organization that you are creating if no present organization exists. Running this command will create following: Creates the Microsoft Exchange Container if it is not already present. Creates the containers and objects under the CN=<Organization Name>,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration, DC=<root domain> Creates the default Accepted Domains entry based on the forest root namespace Sets permission in the configuration partition. Creates the Microsoft Exchange Security Groups OU in the root domain. The final step in preparing Active Directory for introduction of Exchange 2010 is to run the Setup/PrepareDomain or Setup/PrepareAllDomains. The setup/PrepareAllDomains command will execute the same function as Setup/PrepareDomain except that it prepares all domains in forest. (Please note that if your environment has existing Exchange Server 2003,you must run the setup/PrepareLegacyExchangePermissions command prior to running the Setup/PrepareSchema. Also if the existing Exchange Server 2003 contains more than one routing group and you are intending to
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CONFIGURE THE DOMAIN and SERVER TO HOST AND INSTALL
EXCHANGE 2010
Microsoft Exchange Server is a product which provides the mail solution for end users. In this article we
will learn how to install and configure an exchange server 2010 on server 2008.
Active Director must be suitably prepared before it’s possible to introduce Exchange Server 2010. If
Active Directory Domain Services is not prepared properly it’s will not be possible to install Exchange
Server in your organization. The first step preparing to deploy exchange server 2010 is ensuring that
domain and forest are set to appropriate functional level. To introduce Exchange Server 2010 in your
environment, the active directory forest functional level must be configured at Windows Server 2003
functional level or higher. Once you have ensured that forest functional level is configured correctly, you
need to perform three steps to introduce the first Exchange Server 2010 in your environment.
Prepare the Active Directory Schema
Prepare Active Directory
Prepare domains that will host Exchange Server 2010
So first we will look into “Prepare Schema”. If your environment doesn’t have an existing Exchange
Server 2003, the first step you need to take to prepare Active Directory is to run the command
“setup/prepareSchema”
Preparing Active Directory, Once the changes introduced by running setup/prepareSchema is complete;
you need to run the Setup/PrepareAD command. You will need to specify the name of the Exchange
Organization that you are creating if no present organization exists. Running this command will create
following:
Creates the Microsoft Exchange Container if it is not already present.
Creates the containers and objects under the CN=<Organization Name>,CN=Microsoft