Installing Exchange 2003

Posted by support | Exchange, Microsoft | Thursday 2 April 2009 2:44 pm

Services required to install Exchange 2003

  • ASP.net (only on Server 2003)
  • .net framework
  • www
  • smtp services
  • nntp servies

To create a service account for the exchange services

add to groups

  • Schema admins
  • Enterprise admins
  • Domain admins

Before install items

  • Forest prep (CDDrive:\setup\i386\setup.exe /forestprep)
  • Domain prep (CDDrive:\setup\i386\setup.exe /domainprep

 How to create an unattend setup file: (do not run this on the first intall of exchange; since it will be the first server in the forest it will not work.  Only run on the 3rd server in the same forest.