MS Exchange 2007 Installation and Configuration (Part 1 of 3)
March 17, 2009 · Posted in Administration, Exchange Server 2007
This is my first blog post, although normally I will be posting on development software engineering stuff 
I thought of making my first blog post different, anyways I was trying to install and configure Microsoft Exchange 2007. I Thought of sharing the steps I made for installing and configuring the exchange server 2007 starting from after the windows 2003 installation.
- Install IIS (But Don’t Include SMTP and NNTP)
Exhange Server adds its own SMTP so installing the SMTP in the IIS would result in a conflict and your exchange server won’t be functioning.
- Install The update and fixes from the windows live update on the Internet (Note this is a recursive process I mean here check for updates until there is no others)
- Install .Net Framework 2.0 (This step and the next one may have been done from the updates if you selected the .net frameworks nevertheless if you have them on your machine and don’t want to download them then install them separately)
- Install .Net Framework 3.0
- Install Power shell 1.0
- Install and configure the Domain DNS (Administration Panel -> Configure Your Server Wizard)
- Install and configure the Active Directory Domain Controller(Administration Panel -> Configure Your Server Wizard)
- Switch the Active Directory Domain Controller to Windows 2000 Native Mode
- Open Active Directory users and computers
- Right Click the domain then select Raise Domain Functional Level
- Switch the domain controller to Windows 2000 Native Mode
- Edit the DNS Configuration Administrative Tools -> DNS (Make sure the DNS have an (A) Record and an (MX) Record for the exchange server domain)
- Go inside the directory that has the installation files then execute the below commands one after the other.
- setup.com /ps (makes exchange server setup prepares the schema)
- setup.com /preparead /organizationname:ramymostafa (of course change the ramymostafa
first this command will make the exchange server setup prepare the active directory)
- Start the setup.exe installation file
- Select the typical exchange server installation
- Make sure you have 4GB (512 in case of Exchange Server 2007 with Service Pack1) of free space on your hard disk
- otherwise disable the exchange check using these steps
- Open the EdgeTransport.exe.config file from \Exchange Server\bin directory using notepad
- Add the following key+value pair:
<add key=”EnableResourceMonitoring” value=”false” />
- Save file
- Restart Microsoft Exchange Transport Service (MSExchangeTransport)
- Configure the Sender Connector From Exchange Management Organization Hub Transport Role
Now your exchange server should work to send and receive emails internally perfectly. Next part I will discuss how you could receive emails from external mail servers
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