How to Install Exchange Server 2007 – Short Note

In this article we are going to discuss about the perquisites plan to install Exchange Server 2007, Important topics on this page are

1. Prerequisites to install Exchange Server 2007
2. Exchange server 2007 Installation Types

Prerequisites to Install Exchange Server 2007

Before Installing Exchange Server 2007, we have to go through the Prerequisites to install Exchange Server 2007. First we will look into the preparation before installation

Preparation includes the following operations

1. Hardware Preparation
2. Permissions
3. Active Directory Preparation
4. Prepare Switches
5. Software Preparation and
6. Some Important Considerations

1. Hardware Preparation

• 64 bit Processor – should have 64 Bit Processor
• Memory – 1 GB recommended. Depends upon the Mailbox included in your Exchange Organization
• Hard disk Space – 1.2 GB for exchange and 200 Mega byte for system drives
• Formatted – NTFS

2. Permissions

User who is going to prepare AD should have permissions of

1. Schema Admin
2. Enterprise Admin

Active Directory Preparation

• Schema Master should be in windows 2003 with SP1
• 1 Global catalog server for each site
• ForestDomain functional level – Windows 2003

3. Prepare Switches

/prepare legacy exchange permissions – when we are having exchange 2000 or 2003 in our existing environment

/prepare schema – this will add various objects and attributes related to that object

/prepare AD – prepare the current domain and prepare a universal security group for the new exchange 2007 installation

/prepare domain “domain name”– only in the domain on the remote sites, or in the different domain

4. Software Preparations

1. OS – 64 bit of windows 2003, windows 2008
2. Microsoft Management Console 3.0 – By default included in windows 2003 server SP1
3. .Net Framework 2.0 with the hot fix. This should be installed before installing IIS
4. Power shell 1.0

5. Important Consideration

1. Raise your functional domain to Native mode
2. No exchange 5.5
3. Mailbox role – IIS, If you are installing Exchange Mailbox server IIS installation will be the prerequisites
4. Client Access – asp.net , and for Client Access Server Role asp.net should be enabled

Exchange server 2007 Installation Types

There are two types of installations in Exchange Server 2007,

• Typical Installation
• Custom Installation

1. Typical Installation

When we are performing the Typical Installation, the following server Roles will be automatically Selected, This typical installation is suitable for small Organization.

• Hub transport
• Client access
• Mail box server roles
• Exchange management console will be installed together

2. Custom Installation

If we plan to install the Exchange Server Roles in separate server to go for high availability solution we can go for this option

Following roles are the option for us to choose when we select the Custom Installation

• Hub Transport Server
• Client Access Server
• Mailbox Server
• Unified Messaging Server

The above four Server Roles can be installed together in single Server or in separate server

• Edge Transport Server – Should be install in the perimeter network
  • Exchange management Console – If we want to manage the server from windows XP , we can go for this option

We can also choose for active/passive clustered mailbox server