Prepare for 2007 Exchange Server install
I thought I would blog about this, because we had so many issues, and I found Microsoft’s documentation to be rather poor on this occasion.
However it does explain the steps that need to be done in order to prepare (just not how to execute them easily)
So best to start with a quick read of the article
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125224.aspx
If you’re not patient and want to skip (little like me) then the steps are in short.
- setup /PrepareLegacyExchangePermissions: <domain name here>
or
setup /pl <domain name here> - Setup /PrepareSchema
or
setup /ps - Setup /PrepareAD [/OrganizationName: <organization name> ]
or
setup /p [/on:<organization name>] - Setup /PrepareDomain
or
setup /pd
In order to run these commands you must run them from the command prompt on a server that is apart of the domain you are preparing, ensure you have the exchange 07 cd in the dvd drive and <DVD drive letter> then dir ensure you see the ’setup.exe’ and ’setup.com’ files in the DVD drive these should be in the root directory of the DVD
Now run the commands.
If you are unlucky like me you will get a few errors like:
"Exchange 2007 cannot be used with the version of Windows operating system running on this computer."
there are 2 possible reasons that this could happen for
you are trying to run the setup file which is a x64 bit file on a x86 system, you can not do this.
the other reason is that you are running the setup commands on a 2008 server, and you may be running exchange 2007 install not the exchange 2007 SP1. (2008 server requires SP1)
So if you are like us in the postion where you have many x64 bit 2008 servers but no x64 2003 servers then you’re going to have to download the 32 bit Exchange 2007 Management tools
get it from here:
the download is an EXE so I suggest installing winRAR and extracting it rather than installing it (unless you will use it), once extracted you will have the setup files, you can now run all of your prep on a x86 system.
Another good resource is this: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555854
