Installing Exchange Server 2003

• Setup no longer needs full organization permissions
• Domain users denied local login rights
• New ChooseDC switch for setup
• Default permissions are assigned only once at the organization level
• A warning message appears if Exchange groups are moved, deleted, or renamed
• Mailboxes access permissions
• Message size limits and item size for the public folder are set by default (10mb)

Requirements

• Needs an NTFS volume
• .NET Framework
• ASP.NET
• IIS 6.0
• World Wide Web Publishing Service
• SMTP
• NNTP

Create service account: svc_exchange

The user cannot change their password, and the password never expires

Add to groups: scheme admin, enterprise admin, domain admins

DCDiag > NetDiag > ForestPrep > DomainPrep > Exchange Setup

setup switches

• /ChooseDC - FQDN of domain controller
• /DisasterRecovery - recover after restoring from backup
• /DomainPrep - run at before setup to save time or not installing on a DC
• /ForestPrep - run as different user if no permissions, run once in root domain.
• /? - List of all switches
• /Password - current user password to autologin after reboot
• /ShowUI - unattended mode
• /NoEventLog - disables writing to event viewer
• /NoErrorLogging
• /All - enables all components

1. Run D:\setup\i386\setup.exe /forestprep

2. Run D:\setup\i386\setup.exe /domainprep
3. Run D:\setup\i386\setup.exe