Installing the first Exchange 2007 Server in an Exchange 2003 ORG – Part 2

We prepared Active Directory in Part 1 of this article. Exchange 2003 is installed on Exch1 and Exch2 and Exchange 2007 will be installed on Exch3. The exchange 2007 installation is going to be “typical” which means only the following three roles will be installed, Mailbox server, Client Access server and Hub Transport server.Before we begin with the installation of Exchange 2007 on Exch3.training.local we need to confirm the following components exist on the server.

• Enable network COM+ access
• Internet Information Services
• World Wide Web Service
• ASP.NET v2.0

From within the Exchange 2007 folder in the command prompt, type setup.com.

Select typical installation and browse to where you want exchange installed, in my case on the G Drive.

I selected Exch2 (Exchange 2003 server) to be used as a server to which Exchange 2007 will connect in order to allow interoperability of mail flow with exchange 2003.

See below how the Organization Prerequisites were completed but the pre requisites for the other roles failed. Exchange 2007 needs an update applied to the .net framework that can be found here.

64-bit download – http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=74465

32-bit download – http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=74469

Once the update was applied, the prereq’s completed successfully and now onto the installation of the first Exchange 2007 server in the organization.

And that’s it!! Exchange 2007 is installed into the org.

Bye Bye BlackBerry

I recently configured my Exchange 2003 SP2 for Active Sync and Direct Push email and I must say I am greatly impressed by its capabilities. For a quick and easy video on how to configure this visit the Exchange Team blog video here: http://msexchangeteam.com/videos/9/train/entry426996.aspx  I have the HP 6945 PDA phone that works great with the Exchange 2003 SP2, I have owned a black berry before and I must say this, e-mail’s sent directly from the Exchange servers are prettier and more reliable than those sent from the blackberry.  Listed are some of the improvements that I got from the tech-ed interview with Max Ciccotosto to the Exchange 2007 version of Exchange Active Sync. Most of these were desperately needed and I with these improvements now that empower the administrator, I must say, I wouldn’t invest in any RIM stock at this point! 

Mobility features on Exchange 2007 

·        Flagging Items like you are used to in Outlook 2003/2007. 

·        HTML Email , bringing richness of HTML email onto the PDA 

·        Easily download the entire message. In Exchange 2007 you will be able to download the message inline and real time rather than wait and click for the message to download today. 

·        Email message with a link can be clicked and fetched from your corporate intranet without requiring any VPN.  

·        Search on the device, you have limited number of emails on the device. In Exchange 2007, you can search your mailbox through your device. 

·        Improvements in appointments and calendar with Exchange 2007. 

·        Introduction out of office support in Exchange 2007 which currently doesn’t exist on the device today. 

·        Will you need another client to run Exchange 2007? Windows Mobile 5.0 with MSFP will be able to experience most of the improvements. At the same time to benefit from every new feature, you will most likely need a new version of the client. 

·        Benefits on the administration side include : 

o       Policy control is more granular. You can create
Mobile mailbox policies for example you can create a separate policy for your execs, consulting and sales people. 

o       Password manager for the device, specify history, complexity among other things for the password. o       Improvements with management of attachments in an email. 

o       You know what devices users are using, what they are doing etc. You get a lot of information on users and their devices. 

 o       Can a user be locked to a device? Yes, you can do it now, you can restrict a user to a specific device by using the device ID of a device.

 o       Reporting capabilities? Increased reporting capabilities. You can go to the server level as well, data coming in and coming out? Is the server overloaded? 

The Purpose

I am currently working on Microsoft collaboration technologies , namely SharePoint , Exchange and Live Communication Server. The purpose of this blog is to be able to organize my thoughts and findings that I uncover on a daily basis related to these technologies from browsing other blogs , tech articles , web-casts or simply playing with these technologies in my lab. A lot of times I see that when I find something cool I make a mental note of it and over time it gets lost. I want to aggregate those thoughts on this blog.

Most of the material in this blog is not orignal , in that its either information that I have found on other sites or blogs , I will try to be as precise as I can with the citation.This blog is primarily for my consumption and for those users who are interested in similar technologies.

Hopefully this will help me and someone else at some point.

Happy Browsing

-Zulfi