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How to Install Exchange Server 2010 Beta

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Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 

Now that Exchange Server 2010 is available to download and try in Beta format, I wanted to provide a quick blog on how to install the Exchange Server 2010 Beta.

Installing Exchange Server 2010 begins with installing and preparing the operating system. Exchange Server 2010 can be installed only on Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition or Enterprise Edition. If you plan on trying out database availability groups and mailbox database copies, you will need to use the Enterprise Edition of Windows Server 2008. For more information about the requirements for Exchange Server 2010, see Exchange 2010 System Requirements.

Once the operating system has been installed, several pre-requisites must be installed. These include:

  • Operating system components, including RSAT-ADDS (needed on server that will perform schema updates), Web-Server, Web-Metabase, Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console, Web-ISAPI-Ext, NET-HTTP-Activation, Web-Basic-Auth, Web-Digest-Auth, Web-Windows-Auth, Web-Dyn-Compression, RPC-over-HTTP-proxy, Web-Net-Ext and Net-Framework. You can install all of these components at one time (e.g., for the Mailbox, Client Access and/or Hub Transport Server roles) by running the following command:

    ServerManagerCmd -i RSAT-ADDS Web-Server Web-Metabase Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console Web-ISAPI-Ext NET-HTTP-Activation Web-Basic-Auth Web-Digest-Auth Web-Windows-Auth Web-Dyn-Compression RPC-over-HTTP-proxy Web-Net-Ext -Restart

    For more information about the prerequisites for Exchange 2010, including those for the Edge Transport server role, see Exchange 2010 Prerequisites.

    You might have noticed that Failover-Clustering is not listed as a pre-requisite. There is a feature in Exchange Server 2010 called a database availability group that does use Windows failover clustering technologies. However, thanks to another Exchange Server 2010 feature called incremental deployment, you no longer install failover clustering before installing Exchange. If you decide to use a database availability group, you simply create one, and then add Mailbox servers to it. When you add a Mailbox server to a DAG, we install the Windows failover clustering feature and automatically create a cluster for you. So while you do need to have Exchange installed on an operating system that supports Windows failover clustering, you do not install the failover clustering feature manually, or ahead of time, and you don't manually create a cluster. It makes deploying highly available mailbox databases quick and easy.

    Exchange Server 2010 also supports installing the above pre-requisites by using an Answer File with ServerManagerCmd, and answer files are included in the Scripts folder. To use them, you run ServerManagerCmd -ip <Name of File>. For example:

    ServerManagerCmd -ip Exchange-CAS.XML

    I recommend that you don't use the XML Answer Files for Exchange-Typical or Exchange-MBX as is, because in the Beta build it mistakenly includs the Failover-Clustering feature, which does not need to be installed before Exchange is installed. This is a remnant from the Answer Files we had in Exchange 2007 that we've since removed.
     

  • Next, are the software pre-requisites, which include:

See Exchange 2010 Prerequisites for information about and links to other pre-requisites that might apply to your environment (e.g., for Edge Transport and Unified Messaging server roles, and for environments that use System Center Operations Manager). 

Once the above pre-requisites have been installed, check Microsoft Update for any additional updates that might be needed. Make sure the system has been rebooted after installing any updates which require a reboot.

Now you're ready to install Exchange 2010. You can perform the installation using the GUI or command-line version of Setup. In this example, I'll use the GUI.

I'll start by launching Setup.exe from the AMD64 folder. This launches the Exchange 2010 splash screen:

Exchange 2010 Setup Splash Screen

As you can see, the Exchange 2010 splash screen is very similar to the one we had in Exchange 2007. Any needed pre-requisites which are detected, are greyed out, indicating they have been installed, and that you can proceed to the next step. In this case, I can proceed directly to Step 4: Install Microsoft Exchange.

I click that link and it launches the GUI version of Exchange Setup, beginning with a file copy process, and the initialization of Setup.

Exchange Server 2010 - Setup Copy File Phase

Once Setup is initialized and the file copy process has completed, the Introduction page appears:

Exchange 2010 Setup Introduction

I click Next, and the Language Files Location page appears:

Exchange 2010 Setup Language Files Location

I don't have any additional language files, so I'll leave the default setting of Continue setup without language files and click Next. The Language Pack Confirmation page appears:

Exchange 2010 Setup Language Pack Confirmation

I click Next, and the License Agreement page appears:

Exchange 2010 Setup License Agreement

After reading the license agreement, I select I accept the terms in the license agreement and click Next. The Error Reporting page appears:

Exchange 2010 Setup Error Reporting

Error reporting is very helpful to us, which in turn is helpful to our customers, as it enables us to gather a minimal amount of diagnostic data to troubleshoot and resolve errors and crashes more quickly. So I am going to choose Yes (Recommended) and click Next. The Installation Type page appears:

Exchange 2010 Setup Installation Type

Immediately, you might notice some differences from Exchange Server 2007. First, the Custom Exchange Server Installation option no longer lists any clustered mailbox server roles. That's because clustered mailbox servers don't exist in Exchange Server 2010. Exchange 2010 includes a new feature called Incremental Deployment. This feature enables to you configure high availability and site resilience for your mailbox database after Exchange has been installed.

Second, the default path for the Exchange Server installation is new and different. If I choose Custom Exchange Server Installation, the Server Role Selection page appears:

Exchange 2010 Setup Server Role Selection

If I choose Typical Exchange Server Installation instead of Custom Exchange Server Installation and click Next, or once I've completed the Custom Exchange Server Installation choices and clicked Next, the Exchange Organization page appears:

Exchange Server 2010 - Setup Exchange Organization

I specify a name for my Exchange Organization, and then I click Next. The Client Settings page appears:

Exchange Server 2010 - Setup Client Settings

If the Exchange organization uses Outlook 2003 or earlier, or Microsoft Entourage, then a public folder database is needed so that those clients can access system data, such as Free/Busy information. In that case, you would select Yes on this page. Since my organization does not use Outlook 2003 or earlier, or Entourage, I can leave the default setting of No and click Next.

The Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) page appears:

Exchange Server 2010 Setup Customer Experience Improvement Program

This program helps us improve our software by collecting data about how Exchange Server is used. I'll click Join the Exchange Customer Experience Improvement Program and specify an industry of Computer-Related Products/Services. 

I click Next. The Readiness Checks page appears, and Setup automatically performs readiness checks for any installed language packs, as well as the selected server roles to be installed.

Exchange Server 2010 - Setup Readiness Checks

As you can see, the readiness checks don't take much time at all. Once all readiness checks have successfully passed, the Readiness Check page will look similar to this:

Exchange Server 2010 - Setup Readiness Checks Completed

At this point, the system and server are ready for the installation to begin. I click Install to start the installation of Exchange 2010 Mailbox, Client Access and Hub Transport server roles, as well as the Exchange Management tools (Exchange Management Console and Exchange Management Shell).

While Setup is progressing, a Progress page will be appeared:

Exchange Server 2010 - Setup Progress

Once Setup has completed successfully, the Completion page will appear:

Exchange Server 2010 - Setup Completion

As you can see, installing Exchange 2010 is quick and easy. On my system, Setup took just under 10 minutes to complete.

I prefer to reboot the system before finalizing the installation. Uncheck the Finalize installation using the Exchange Management Console checkbox, and click Finish to complete the Setup process. This returns Setup to the splash screen. Click Close to close the splash screen, and when the Confirm Exit dialog appears:

Exchange 2010 Setup Confirm Exit

Click Yes.

Then, reboot the server. OK, technically, you don't need to reboot the server, but I do anyway.

The installation of Exchange Server 2010 is now complete. Check out the Exchange 2010 TechCenter for documentation and other resources for Exchange 2010.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Bei mir, in den Foren und auch in der Exchange-Newsgroup sind schon ein paar interessante Fragen zu Exchange

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    It's been killing me not to talk about this, but now I can! On April 15, Microsoft will officially release a public beta of Exchange 2010 (formerly code-named "Exchange 14"). There are so many improvements in the product that I...

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    PingBack from http://www.exchange-faq.dk/weblog.php?id=P1742

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Scott Schnoll, a member of the Exchange product team, posted a nice article (screenshots and all) on