Installation of Microsoft Exchange Server

Kaveendra Dhilhan
Jan 08, 2024

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Exchange Server Pre-Requirements

Root Server: Need a Domain Controller (Active Directory Domain Service with DNS Server rule)

Member Server (Exchange Server): Part of AD domain (log in with credentials of domain administrator & need to be in the same IP range of Active Directory server)

Requirements for Exchange Server

Intel or AMD-based 64-bit processor
Minimum 128GB RAM for mailbox server for production environment and for edge transport 64GB
For testing purposes, 8GB is the minimum required
At least 30GB of free space to install Exchange 2019

System / OS requirement

Windows Server 2019 / Windows Server 2019 Core Edition

Active Directory requirements

All Domain Controllers in the forest must be running Windows Server 2012 R2or higher version of server OS
Exchange server 2019 requires Active Directory forest functional level of 2012 R2 or higher

Software requirements

.NET Framework 4.8 on Windows Server 2019
Visual C++ Redistributable Package for Visual Studio 2013
Install Unified Communications Managed API 4.0

Download and install IIS

IIS URL Rewrite 2.1 enables Web administrators to create powerful rules to implement URLs that are easier for users to remember and easier for search engines to find.

URL Rewrite: The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Step 1. Download and install all the required softwares.

Step 2. Run the following PowerShell commands to install Windows components before Exchange installation

Manually install required Windows components using powershell (Windows PowerShell Admin)

Windows server media foundation feature & RSAT ADDS (Remote Server Administration Tools)

Install-WindowsFeature Server-Media-Foundation, NET-Framework-45-Features, RPC-over-HTTP-proxy, RSAT-Clustering, RSAT-Clustering-CmdInterface, RSAT-Clustering-Mgmt, RSAT-Clustering-PowerShell, WAS-Process-Model, Web-Asp-Net45, Web-Basic-Auth, Web-Client-Auth, Web-Digest-Auth, Web-Dir-Browsing, Web-Dyn-Compression, Web-Http-Errors, Web-Http-Logging, Web-Http-Redirect, Web-Http-Tracing, Web-ISAPI-Ext, Web-ISAPI-Filter, Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console, Web-Metabase, Web-Mgmt-Console, Web-Mgmt-Service, Web-Net-Ext45, Web-Request-Monitor, Web-Server, Web-Stat-Compression, Web-Static-Content, Web-Windows-Auth, Web-WMI, Windows-Identity-Foundation, RSAT-ADDS

Step 3. Download Exchange Server 2019 ISO file

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=105180

Step 4. Mount the action server 2019 installation media (mount iso image)

Step 5. Manually prepare AD forest to support Action Server 2019 installation

Go to Windows PowerShell Admin and change the directory to the relevant drive (mounted path)

Extend the AD schema to support Exchange 2019 (Your account needs to be a member of schema admins and enterprise admins security groups)

Powershell Commands to prepare schema

.\Setup.EXE /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms_DiagnosticDataON /PrepareSchema

Add Name for Exchange Organization
```
.\Setup.EXE /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms_DiagnosticDataOFF /PrepareAD /OrganizationName:"xxxxxxx"
```
(If you have multiple Domains in the forest with multiple domain controllers between multiple sites, then you need to wait while Active Directory replicates the changes from this step to all domain controllers before proceeding. Use the wrap admin command line tool to check the progress of the replication)
Prepare All Domains in the AD forest.
```
.\Setup.EXE /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms /PrepareAllDomains
```
( Check Your account is a member Organization Management group which is in the Microsoft Exchange Security security group).

After successfully completing all the steps, install Exchange Server graphically.

Step 6. Right-click mounted exchange installation media and open

Step 7. Goto setup and Right click on setup, and Run as administrator

Step 8. Follow the below steps.

Introduction