Friday, July 24, 2009

Great Time Saving Tip for Installing Exchange 2007 SP1 on Windows 2008

Ehlo All,

Want to safely speed up install times and make less mistakes (e.g. forgetting to install a prerequisite, role, or feature) on your installs of Exchange 2007 SP1 on Windows 2008. The smart creators of Exchange (aka Microsoft Exchange Server Team) via their blog announced and released a GREAT tool. Normally, you have to separately install numerous prerequisites, roles, and features which can take a while. So, they released an all-in-one way to do this via XML files for each role option. Here are the 6 options with 2 clarified. Or you can manually install the needed software via this Microsoft TechNet article.

Exchange-Base = installs Server Manager, PowerShell, and RSAT-ADDS
Exchange-CAS
Exchange-ClusMBX = clustered mailbox
Exchange-Edge
Exchange-MBX
Exchange-UM

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