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General Installation Questions - 3.Nov.2009 12:26:25 PM

mrbean

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Can Exchange 2007 SP2 be installed on windows server 2008 R2?

When installing Exchange 2007 SP2 what permissions does the installation user need? I want to install it using an Exchange only service account rather then the administration account. Are there any implications with this?

We have 3 hard drives raided as raid 5. How would you setup the harddrive configuration for exchange would we still partition these drives or is it best to just use the same disk partition for all exchange roles? We have 600gb of space how can we share this?

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RE: General Installation Questions - 3.Nov.2009 4:09:24 PM

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Hi,

Yes you can install it but it will not be supported by Microsoft:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesoftwareupdate/thread/1f0be2c7-0de0-492a-9cfd-18cdc5891bc8

About your question about permissions it depends if you are using this account also to prepare the forest etc. If so then you must be a member of the forest admins, schema admins and local admins.

For just instaling Exchange domain admins and be a part of the local admin group should be enough.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125224.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123694.aspx

3rd question yeah it's an option to split them in partitions. Better is to add some drives and create separate raids for OS, db en log files.

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RE: General Installation Questions - 4.Nov.2009 8:40:49 AM

mrbean

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Hi.

I thought as much, that R2 would not be supported by microsoft.

With regards to the exchange user. I will not be preparing the AD forest before the Exchange Installation. I will let the setup take care of this, therefore if I create a exchangeadmin user in AD and give it Administrators, Domain admin, enterprise admin, schema admin and local admin right to the server, will this be ok? I read some where that Exchange organisation Admin rights gets added to the user when they install exchange 2007. Or does this need to happen before the installation?

I know it would be better if we had the OS, DB, and Logs on separate drives. I only have a server of the following spec.

PowerEdge R410 Rack Chassis
Intel Xeon E5506 Processor (2.13GHz, 4M Cache, 4.86 GT/s QPI), 800MHz Max Memory (4-cores)
1U Rack Bezel
8GB Memory for 1CPU (4x2GB Dual Rank RDIMMs) 1066MHz
No Additional Processor (Heat Sink for 1 Processor Only)
3 * 300GB SAS 15k 3.5" HD Hot Plug (raid 5)
16X DVD-ROM Drive SATA with SATA Cable
Redundant Power Supply (2 PSU) 500W
2x Rack Power Distribution Unit Power Cord
iDRAC6 Express
C10 Hot-Swap ASS R5 with PERC 6/i, Min. 3 Max. 4 SAS/SATA/SSD Hot Plug Drives

I will be running the hub transport, mailbox, client access and unified messaging roles on the server. Will this server run fine with those roles? Should we add another 4 core processor? I was thinking of splitting the system dirve to 100 GB and the rest for the exchange server. Please advice.

Thanks.
Bilal.

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RE: General Installation Questions - 4.Nov.2009 9:03:01 AM

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Windows Server 2008 R2 is not a supported platform for an version of Exchange 2007.

I wouldn't have throught you will have any luck installing it either, it will most likely fail at the pre-install checks and definitely on install and if you make it that far, whilst in use.

You can however, install Exchange 2007 SP2 in a R2 level domain (that is R2 DC's) as long as Exchange is installed on a Windows 2008 non-R2 box, preferably non-DC.

As far as hardware concerns, it depends how many users you have and what they will be using to access Exchange. RAID5 is not the best RAID to install and you should ideally try to seperate the OS / DB and log files. However, it may be ok if you have only a small number of users.

The permissions you have listed will be sufficient to install Exchange from scratch. the security groups will be created during installation yes.

Shaun

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RE: General Installation Questions - 4.Nov.2009 9:13:27 AM

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Hi.

Thanks for your reply.

I won't be installing exchange 2007 on 2008 r2. I was just making sure that it is not supported by microsoft. We will probably have around 60-70 users. They will be using outlook 2007, outlook webmail, iphones, entourage 2008 mac mail clients, HTC etc.

Bilal.

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RE: General Installation Questions - 4.Nov.2009 9:18:11 AM

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You don't have many users, so you may be ok with that configuration. Will this be a dedicated server for Exchange, or will it provide other network services such as file&print etc?

It would be beneficial if you could at least use two RAID1's. 1 for OS and one for Exchange DB, but it will work with RAID5, just could become your bottleneck

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RE: General Installation Questions - 4.Nov.2009 10:59:33 AM

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This server will be dedicated for exchange 2007, but I have heard that my org wants to also install communication server so that we can use the telephone system functionality in exchange.

I am kind off stuck with the 3 drives which are 300 gb each at the moment. Ok let me get this right what I am doing is not a very good idea and that I should probably buy 2 smaller HD for the OS and do a raid 1 and use 2 out of the 3 300 gb HD for exchange. If I use raid 1 than I will only have 150 gb for exchange. I'm worried that we might just run out of space or is that where clustering comes in to play so that mail boxes are spread out?

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RE: General Installation Questions - 4.Nov.2009 11:08:09 AM

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If you use RAID1, you will not have as much space no, so you may want to consider larger disks if you have a lot of data in Exchange.

You won't be able to use clustering without adding a further 2 servers minimum, as clustering requires dedicated servers.

Clustering will not provide additional space, it is used for High Availability. If you used Single Copy Cluster you could dedicate a SAN for holding the data, but clustering alone does not provide additional storage.

It's up to you. If you have enough bays you could try with RAID5 and then add 2 disks for RAID 1 and move db & logs if you find there is a performance hit.

It's 60-70 users, so you should be ok as long as the server isn't hit with too many other responsibilites.

Shaun

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RE: General Installation Questions - 4.Nov.2009 11:18:05 AM

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I only have 4 bays and the server was only brought with 3 drives. I will have to make sure the exchange is the only thing that is Installed on this server.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Bilal.

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RE: General Installation Questions - 7.Nov.2009 5:37:09 PM

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i think this exchange 2010 is quiet good for my budget,
hope this will satisfy my needs

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