How to exchange 2010
Installation And Configuration of MS Exchange Server 2010
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hello everyone and welcome to another
one of my IT tutorials today I'm going
to show you how to configure and install
Exchange Server 2010 so let's get
started
so first thing first is you want to
start with a fresh machine and you wanna
install absolutely all updates that
there are before doing anything else
now the next step in the process is
configuring the server name so exchange
server always has to be part of the
domain so you need to setup your domain
first before setting an exchange and you
need to pick proper computer name or
server name for it so for example if
your internet facing host name is mail
that IT support me calm for example you
might want to call your exchange server
mail and then join the domain IT support
me comm other reason for that being if
you have your actual computer name
different than the host name that allows
users to reach your exchange server from
outside you have to purchase a SSL
certificate with help names instead of
just a single name certificate which can
be more pricey so in our case let's just
call the computer exchange and that's
going to be our internet facing the host
name from the internet will point to
this computer will also be exchange and
our domain is in this case sandbox IT
support me calm and now let's join a
domain
all right and now let's do a quick
restart because that's what needs to be
done after you join server to a domain
and I'll be right back and we're back in
all that web part of the domain let's
look at into all the main
now right now before the final step
before installing exchange is setting up
a prerequisites roles and installing
some required software from the internet
so we'll start with roles so let's open
the server management console and here
you right click on features let it load
a little bit that is guys this is a
virtual machine so it might be a little
slow your server should be faster in
general alright so what we want is net
framework not everything we want just
not framework and then we want our PC or
HTTP proxy and that requires is so we
just hit the add required features and
for that framework we actually also need
HTTP activation and that else requires
is that we need remote server
administrative tools so here is pictures
that you'll have to make if your
exchange server is going to be installed
on the same computer as your active
directory which is really not a
recommended set up you should always
have your active directory separate from
exchange server but if it is then you
don't have to pick this if it's not then
it's in separate server then you have to
install Active Directory remote
management or administration tools and
that is located in here and you want
just this one the snap ins and command
line tools I remember not this not ad
LDS a DDS the
is for a low low level domain services
or something like that and then we hit
next then they're going to go to the
role services that we're installing and
here we leave everything by a lot of
things by default and we want asp.net
and just add required features and
then we need basic authentication and
new certification and digest
authentication ah then you might want
all kind of content compression or both
them and the most important one is
installing all of the is-6 management
compatibility for some reason Exchange
Server or at least earlier versions of
Exchange Server
I mean prior to any service packs had
problems when is six management stuff
for not installed so just to be on the
safe side install them right then hit
install and while that's doing we need
to actually activate one of the services
manually so we go to Administrative
Tools services and here you want to find
net dot TCP port sharing and it's
disabled by default so you want to go to
properties and set it to automatic and
hit OK here alright also note that after
installing a net framework 3.5 point one
there'll be more updates available from
Microsoft for it but those are naturally
important for our exchange server
installation you can install them at a
later time whenever you feel comfortable
of course you should always install our
updates that's out of the question but
the others that are required are
everything for Windows without any roles
and features so you want to install
those before starting
this all right now another thing that we
need is called office system converter
filter pack and what that helps us do or
what that helps exchange do is index the
content of attachments like Word
documents and Excel files so that when a
user searches for some kind of mail our
exchange is able to search within those
files otherwise without the filter pack
that would be impossible and Adobe
actually has its own filter pack that it
it developed for exchange so if you work
extensively with PDF files containing
text that might need to be searched
through email you might be interested in
downloading and installing that as well
but the office filter pack is required
by exchange so we're just going to do
that and I'll put the link in the
description for you to click who but
here I'm just going to type it in
download e-n details
aspx ID equals 1 so 0 6 2 alright and of
course you always need to download just
the one which corresponds to your system
type in my case I'm installing exchange
64-bit and I have a 64-bit system so
that's the one I need to download and of
course I'm going to protect it ie mode
so I can't download it alright case I'll
get back to this as soon as I'm done
installing the features and rocks
alright just hold on for a second out
back when this is done alright guys is
that installing and actually does noon
requires to restart with all these
features installed so just hit close and
one more thing I want to point out to
you guys if you're setting this up using
an account that is not and it
straighter I mean administrator exactly
administrator not a domain administrator
or some other account then you have to
grant your accounts or certain
permissions or it has to be added to one
of the predefined groups in a domain and
the group that I'm talking about is the
enterprise add news and schema admins so
if I was if I was for example not an
administrator user ORS and out hours any
other user I would have to be a member
of both of those groups in order to be
able to install exchange just a heads up
in my case um like I mentioned before it
an administrator so I have absolute all
rights all right so I was just disabled
ie security mode safety off
now I should be able to download all the
stuff that we want okay let's run ie
again and copy the link before so let's
paste it and maximize let's download
again you're right and run close that
and you can actually close the server
management console as well so we just
hit next here and next here and
shouldn't take too long so while it
installing let's just open up computer I
have CD well I have an ISO mounted to my
virtual disk so let's open that up and
start to set up what should have been
mounted hold on add that complete it and
now the ISO is mounted so start the
setup
as you can see they already installed
that we installed ads we just pick a
language and install all the languages
that are already on the CD and then you
start to set up alright guys here we go
the setup has started so hit next and of
course as always there's License
Agreement and this is up to you I like
to enlist in all the error reporting and
stuff and you can just pick a typical
installation has all the required stuff
that we need so organization name might
be insignificant and doesn't really
appear anywhere but the important part
about it is it is stored in the mail
database so what happens is if your
domain in your exchange absolutely
crashes and the only thing you have is
your file which contains all the mail
the only way you can actually recover it
is if you set up a new exchange server
and you have to give it the same exact
organization name as the one that was
stored in the mail database file
otherwise you won't be able to mount
that file to the new exchange server
yeah I had to find it out the hard way
so anyhow we're just gonna call it
sandbox cuz it doesn't really matter and
hopefully have enough backups not to
have your exchange and domain completely
crash and recoverable because if that
happens you have much bigger problems
than just recovering some emails alright
now this if you have 2003 outlooks
running in your organization or you want
to provide the service to people on the
internet and with they might be running
any outlook either big yes or no
Oh big no internet-facing ah this is of
course for
purposes of having people from outside
of your organization aka the internet
being able to access your exchange
server so since as you as you remember
we'd give our exchange server name
exchange so we're just going to make our
internet facing hostname the same so
it's going to be exchange and our domain
was sandbox type ID support me calm and
this way we only need one certificate to
out any old names so now it's ready to
run pre checks and everything should
pass if you follow all the steps so far
and sometimes it takes a while so I'm
just gonna be back when it's all done
all right here we are and it is just a
warning since we didn't have any
exchange servers in our domain before it
says it's going to prepare our Active
Directory to an exchange server and
everything else passed
so here install and once again we wait
and wait and wait and it takes forever
and once again I'll be back when it's
done and then we'll go into
configurations and we're back as you may
have noticed too quite a bit of time and
once again that's because it's a virtual
machine but nevertheless now hit finish
and one thing I did forget to mention is
some weird thing that was happening with
memory configuration in one of my
exchange servers I installed it on a
four gigabit machine for round four
gigabyte of RAM and what happened later
is after I increased the ram exchange
stopped working completely services just
wouldn't start and I have no idea why so
since I change the memory back to four
it worked just fine so maybe didn't do
any additional research baby Microsoft
fix that in the service packs or maybe
it was related to the fact that
it was a virtual machine but anyhow just
something to keep in mind if you're
experiencing a problem that exchange
doesn't start at all then check the
children change the memory after their
installation so as you notice here I
click this link I get credit objects for
Microsoft Exchange and that just opens
Internet Explorer on this page is check
this box and hit next and just use
recommend settings I guess or you can
change it later if you want let's just
update something in the Windows Update
to for you to receive exchange updates
so I'll add thing it's thing let's get
starting started with setting up
exchange so basically what you do is you
just go one thing at a time and you can
figure settings that you need for
organization I'm just going to go
through some of the important settings
to get you started now also you'll need
to activate your exchange you have 120
days free trial and then you need to
provide activation key and in case you
don't know where to provide it because
it was a bit tricky you click on the
server configuration and then you click
on the server node and then you can
enter priority key right here but let's
start with the organization
configuration
all right so expand that and click
mailbox are basically this is all things
need to need to know and do with your
mailbox database you can put it in a
different location if you want to I'll
configure attention palettes you
configure custom folders address books
and stuff like that client access just
some defaults for people to access
exchange from the internet but most
important thing is the hub transport
because that's what does all the
receiving and storing so remote domains
this defines which domains your exchange
will send emails to of course if it is
if this if your exchange server is going
to be used for
your organization to communicate with
the entire world you would just leave it
as a star domain if you want to limit
your organization to just emailing
within your organization or to the
related companies another change servers
of other organization then you would
specify those related organizations
domains here and then the exchange will
only send emails to those domains except
the domains this step specifies for
which domains this exchanges are
responsible for so if somebody sends an
email to this exchange server and it
matches one of the accepted domains it
will be received by this exchange server
so in our case if anyone sends an email
to for example administrator at sandbox
that IT support com this exchange server
will accept that email ah if it's for
any other domain it the email will be
rejected you can also configure this as
an intermediary exchange server through
the new accepted domain or new remote
domain setup wizard but that's beyond
the purpose of this tutorial so we're
not going to look at it right next thing
is the email address policy basically
when you add an account to exchange the
email address that default email address
that gets created for that account is
specified by this policy and you can
configure different policies for
different organizational units within
your domain thus having a more logical
email structure so this is up to you to
explore transport rules this is same
thing as an Outlook rules only it works
on the server side so you can create
rules that copy messages delete messages
based on various parameters global
settings allows you to set size limits
and delivery B lists all right the
important thing that we need to set is a
send connector this is what's actually
going to be doing
all the sending of messages that it
receives from the client so we go to the
send connector and new sent connector
and just can give it you can call it
anything you want in our case we're
going to be configuring this exchange
server to be able to email to anyone in
the world so we just call it internet
and for intention was going to be
internet and hit next
and address space we want to be able to
send to everyone so it's going to be a
star address hit OK it next and we want
to use DNS MX record because that is the
standard for determining which mail
server is responsible for each domain
hit next and then it's going to ask you
to pick a server since this exchange
service the only server in our domain
that's the one we have and then we hit
new and we're done get finished general
rules allow you to like keep track of
messages in statistics Unified Messaging
we're not going to go into it right next
thing is server configuration mailbox
once again just deal to the mailbox
database and stuff client access here
you can configure outlook web app by
default it is disabled so nobody will be
able to access their email over the web
browser only if they have actual Outlook
setup on their PC now you can enable it
by simply hitting this option and
usually there is nothing wrong with
enabling that and once again you the
external host name is shouldn't be the
same as it is that between which we
entered during installation
so it was exchange that sandbox that ID
support we promise and we'll just leave
basic authentication and hit enable and
read finish now exchange control panel
that's also accessed once you have
Outlook anywhere enabled and it's just
I never really went into configuration
of this because well there's really
nothing to configure nothing useful that
I saw at least alright so Exchange
ActiveSync
that's for cell phones offline address
book once again this is all 4x4 clients
accessing your their mailbox is through
a web browser pop3 and IMAP this allows
you to enable pop3 or IMAP features of
your exchange but notice if you
configured here it doesn't actually
enable the service and if you're using
exchange most probably you don't want to
use pop3 because that contradicts the
whole exchange system unless if your
organization has people who can't use
change need to use pop3 or IMAP so
anyhow if you do need to enable these
you need to go to services and you have
to find the corresponding service for
each of these features and you have to
set it to automatic so if we scroll down
in service list after it loads just
expand that and just click on a source
and hit am I and here we go you can see
pop3 and IMAP and by default they're set
to manual so you'd have to set them to
automatic or I would suggest even
automatic delayed start because well
should always let them other primary
exchange services to start first before
pop an IMAP goes online because they
won't work if the other services didn't
start yet anyway so that's that then hub
transport this is where you configure
receiving and by default I mean all mail
goes through port 25 so if somebody from
the internet or another exchange server
tries to send you an email or your
server an email it will go through here
and in order to accept email from any
other server that is not part of your
domain which is most travel that you
want to do if your organization is
communicating with anyone in the world
you need to enable this option anonymous
users and you hit apply otherwise any
other mail server when sending you a
message will get a rejection of
authentication required the only reason
when you would not have this box checked
is if you have several organizations in
your forest maybe or you have an
organizational trust and then you can
configure your and other organizations
servers to authenticate in one way or
another and here you sleeve ports as
default
now the other client exchange this I
think is would mostly be used if a
person is accessing your service via non
exchange system like pop or IMAP and if
they need to send mail what's probably
their ISP is going to block port 25 from
being an outgoing port so in this case
you can provide those users with this
port which is 587 in this case you can
set it to any other port which is not
blocked by ISP alright so and this
should not have the anonymous user
authentication because these are
actually going to be your users so
there's no point of doing anonymous
authentication here so that you can
leave as default as well that's all the
configurations that are here once again
unified messaging we are not going to
look at and the last stop is the
recipient configuration this is where
you actually configure all the mail
email accounts and by default the user
who installed exchange has the account
already here which is administrator me
and if we double-click we can see pretty
much all account information and if we
click on email addresses that's the
default email address that was created
for me so it's administrator at sandbox
that ID support me calm and that was
based on that default email policy that
we saw before so when you if you have
many users in your domain already what
you do is you hit new mailbox so you
have to create mailboxes for for them
and you hit next
and then you click existing users hit
add and then you can just select all the
users that are listed here if you need
to add all hit ok and thus create
mailboxes for all of those users if you
need to add a new user there's two ways
that you can do it either through this
interface or you can add them to your
domain first set them up and then use
the existing user once again to link it
to exchange now we're going to cancel
that that's it for setting up the
exchange management console but now we
need to look at some of the other things
like port forwarding so your exchange
needs to receive traffic from outside on
ports 25 or 80 and port 443 those are
the three ports that it works on so if
your exchange is not internet facing and
you have a gateway in between you would
have to configure your gateway to
forward port 25 80 and 443 to exchange
server notice that also prevents you
from running your website behind the
same IP address because websites also
use port port 80 and port 443 so that
means you need static IP address
dedicated just to your exchange server
that's first now second we can configure
some of the aspects of IAS and that's
actually how you can request a
certificate
for your exchange server as well so
let's open is management console and we
expand this and if you take a look under
certificates exchange creates a default
certificates for itself so here you can
use create a certificate request and
request your oath on certificate for the
server now next its default website and
what you might want to do is enable HTTP
redirect from the root folder because if
we do this for example we will try to
access the default directory off
localhost of course we get a certificate
error but if we overwrite that we see
this which is not what we want we want
users whenever they type in our external
hostname for exchange to be redirected
to their exchange login so what you do
here is select default website and you
go to HTTP redirect and you hit redirect
here and then you do this forward slash
and OWA
and then redirect all requests redirect
on the requests to the current directory
so if somebody is already going to all
the way we don't want them to redirect
to be redirected again because that will
create an infinite loop of redirection
and here
well it's permanent I don't know if it's
just a little matter and then you hit
apply and now if somebody visits your
exchange server
they'll be automatically redirected to
the OWA and there we go our exchange
login screen now for to type our
username and password
this brings us to our inbox and from the
inbox you'll probably be able to send
mail because while outgoing 4:25 on the
server usually works but you'll be able
to receive mail until you configure the
MX records and MX records well they're
quite simple simple google search will
reveal that but I'm sure I'll make a
tutorial about DNS at some point and
there I will talk about configuring the
MX records of course but it's not too
complicated I'm sure you can figure it
out and there you go have an Outlook
pretty much identical to an Outlook
interface directly via a web browser
another thing though if the user tries
to access this without HTTPS they just
get redirected as a forbidden thing you
can override this behavior and in a way
well in a bit of different ways so we'll
just close this so instead of doing this
I would put your full external URL here
and you'll prepend it with HTTPS and
then you'd put exchange that sandboxed
on IT support me calm in my case but
since that host is not actually
configured but actually it is right so
you can just do that and once again
redirect all requests to this directory
and hit apply and another thing you want
is if you go to SSL settings and you see
this check box require as a cell you can
uncheck that hit apply and now
when the users try to visit the website
without putting HTTP in the front they
will still be properly redirected to the
HTTPS site and present it with a login
screen and there we go guys we direct it
to a proper location all right I think
that about covers it I mean this is the
very basic set up there's a lot of
things that you'll learn about exchange
as you work with it and explore
additional options feel free to ask
questions I'm sure there's going to be a
lot of them or at least there should be
a lot of them because it's a very
impressive piece of software the whole
mailing servers and the way it's
configured so feel free to post your
comments I'll try to answer them in a
timely fashion I apologize in advance if
I don't but once again thanks for
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