How to Install Exchange Server 2010 – Part3 – Step by Step

Welcome back everyone, time for the Part3 of our Exchange Server Install.
In the last part, we finished off with the /prepareschema and /preparead command to prepare our AD to be ready for the exchange server 2010 install.

Today, lets start with the Exchange Server 2010 install, well lets hold on for a second there.
There are some pre-req softwares / features which needs to be installed before we install exchange, well below is the list .

1. .net Framewwork 3.5 sp1, you can use server manager and add this feature
     NOTE: if you try to download from internet and install this, it wont work, it will throw an error, since this is a built in feature, just use the server manager to install it.

2. There are many other features which needs to be installed, like IIS, Remote Admin System Tools for AD. etc., well there are quite a few, to simply this, use the below powershell commands to get all of them install in one go.
         1.Open a Powershell prompt and then type 'import-module servermanger'.
          2. type this long command without the quotes and then hit enter "

Add-WindowsFeature NET-Framework,RSAT-ADDS,Web-Server,Web-Basic-Auth,

Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Metabase,Web-Net-Ext,Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console,

WAS-Process-Model,RSAT-Web-Server -Restart"

Once the above command completes susccessfully, continue with the next step 

Download the 2007 Office System Converter: Microsoft Filter Pack" from this link and install it, 

this is required for the indexing office related files and is used by the indexing service.

Ok, so now you are good to start the installation of Exchange Server 2010.

Copy the setup files over to the server ( i prefer it this way).

Then navigate to the folder and double click 'setup.exe'

 You see already 2 options are greyed out meaning, that they are there already,

first is the .net framework which we installed before, and the powershell v2, windows 2008 r2

comes by default with v2 version, so we are covered.

Next option is to select language options, there you can click load all language options on the DVD.

Which will installed all the language details from the SETUP folder.

now click "Install Microsoft Exchange", this will bring up....

           Click next, will bring up..

Accept the EULA and then click next...

Click accordingly as you wish, i said no here..

Well, you have seen my lab environment, we are using mbx1.evolve.com for this install which will only install mailbox role on this, so we should choose the custom option and click next, becos the typical will install mailbox,hub,client access , so we dont want typical, we need custom...

Check only Mailbox role and then take the defaults of the path and then hit NEXT.

Click on "Yes" if you have old users using outlook 2003, am going to use that , may be later we may have to test some functionality so.

Click next, now u will have a option to participate in MS Customer some program, i choose "NO" and then clicked next.

Setup will check the server and see if all looks good, note that we have two warnings, which is that it says we dont have a Client Access server and Hub transport and we wont be able to send/recieve emails until we setup one, so we know that we are going to have seperate servers for them , so you can ignore them for now and click Install and wait for the setup to complete.

Review the completeion or click on View Setup Log and then click finish.

Congratulations, you now have Exchange Server 2010 installed with a Mailbox Role.

After clicking finish , this should now bring up the Exchange Management Console (EMC) not the EMC company :) .. gone are the days of ESM (Exchange System Manager) .. welcome to the world of Exchange Management Console/Shell (EMC/EMS) :)

thanks all for reading, if you like the article, please leave a comment :).

thanks again.

Thiyagu.