Archive for October, 2008
Exchange Server 2007 Setup – 4
Okay it’s time to look behind the curtains now. As said in previous couple of posts Exchange Server integrates with several components of Active Directory as well as the local machine where it is installed. This post will cover up some of these changes happening at the locations, AD and local machine. When Active Directory [...]
October 22, 2008
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Exchange Server 2007 Setup – 3
If you want to install the Exchange Server 2007 on different and dedicated hardware for each Server role the Custom Exchange Server Installation option will help you to choose the role you want to deploy on that particular box. The role selection screen allows you to install the desired Server role, take a look at [...]
October 17, 2008
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Exchange Server 2007 Setup – 2
Till last post it was all preparation to install Exchange Server 2007 organization in the AD forest. What are next are the actual setup phases that Exchange Server 2007 installer runs through. Again, there are several changes made in the setup architecture compared to Exchange Server 2003 setup. Once you are through running the Exchange [...]
October 8, 2008
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Exchange Server 2007 Setup – 1
A simplest exchange organization having all the roles deployed on separate physical servers will look like above. Above diagram describes the placement of ET role specifically. To be very precise this role does not require any kind of interaction with Active Directory for operations. It communicates directly to the HT Server role in your Exchange [...]
October 4, 2008
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Exchange Server 2007 Setup
Contd… In the recent post on my blog I had tried explaining very basic troubleshooting guidelines for exchange Server 2003 setup troubleshooting. Well, Exchange Server 2007 still works with AD integration and off course WMI as well but it is no more tightly integrated with WMI as Exchange 2003 was. To understand the troubleshooting and [...]
October 3, 2008
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Exchange Server Setup
I have intentionally chosen a generic name for this post. In stead of writing different posts for the similar topics in different versions of Exchange Server it would be a good idea to cover up then in parallel so that the differences between two versions can be compared easily though the so called legacy exchange [...]
October 1, 2008
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