DAY 5 – REPLICATING SYSTEM AND PUBLIC FOLDERS
Throughout the first four days, we planned our new Exchange 2007 organisation, put the necessary jobs in order, prepared Active Directory, installed our first Exchange 2007 server (CAS server) and got an SSL certificate from a third party authority for our CAS server. We also installed our Hub Transport and Mailbox servers.
In Day 5, i will transfer the necessary System and Public Folders from Exchange 2003 servers to the new Exchange 2007 servers. For this purpose, i will add my new servers as replication partners in addition to the old servers first. After all the replication finishes, i will remove the old servers from the replication team and only Exchange 2007 servers will be left as public and system folder holders.
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DAY 4 – INSTALLING HUB AND MAILBOX SERVERS
During the first three days, we planned our new Exchange 2007 organisation, ordered the necessary jobs, prepared Active Directory, installed our first Exchange 2007 server (CAS server) and got an SSL certificate from a third party authority for our CAS server. In Day 4, i wil install Hub Transport and Mailbox servers. First of all, i add the HUB server to Active Directory and enter the name of the HUB server (as i did for CAS server) to the “Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\User Rights Assignment\ Manage Auditing and Security log” setting in Domain Controllers Policy.
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REQUESTING SSL CERTIFICATE FOR CAS SERVER AND IMPLEMENTING IT
In Day 1 and 2, we planned the Exchange 2007 organisation, put the related jobs in an order, prepare Active Directory and installed the first Exchange 2007 server, CAS server, for our organisation. In Day 3, i will request SSL certificate for CAS server and implement it through IIS administrative console. Also I will configure few other services that Exchange 2007 server offers to use this newly implemented SSL certificate.
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ACTIVE DIRECTORY PREPARATION AND INSTALLATION OF CAS SERVER
At Day 1, we planned our new Exchange 2007 organisation and we decided the order of jobs we have to do. After this introduction part, we can get into the real job; installation of Exchange 2007 servers. But first is first, i have to control the level of forest and domain infrastructures (whether they are 2003 native or not). In addition, i have to control the DC’s Operating Systems and Service Pack levels (whether they are at least Windows 2003 SP1 or not). After these controls, i logon one of the DC’s and install Powershell 1.0. After that, i put the Exchange 2007 DVD on the DVD-ROM drive and enter the commands (shown below) in command line prompt. At this point, i want to give an advice to you that you should back up your Active Directory before these commands. Because we are changing / adding lots of attributes directly to the Active Directory schema with these commands (anything can happen). I prefer to wait enough time after each command, to be sure that everything is working well. Here are the commands:
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EXCHANGE INFRASTRUCTURE AND PLANNING
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In this article series, I will try to explain how we can move into an Exchange 2007 organisation from an Exchange 2003 organisation. I prefer to explain all the details and problems that I faced, instead of a regular presentation of installation. I faced lots of problems during the transition and I want to share all these problems and their solutions in this article series. First of all, I will explain the existing Exchange 2003 infrastructure and then talk about the target Exchange 2007 infrastucture. I prefer not to use the redundancy technologies coming with Exchange 2007 to keep the transition simple. The old and the new organisations will be as simple as possible. During the planning and installation phases, Exchange Best Practise Analyzer (ExBPA) will be the biggest helping tool for us. We can see the problems in our existing Exchange infrastructure and also the problems of Active Directory with this little and handy tool. After solving the problems (if any), we will continue to build our new Exchange 2007 organisation step by step. more
