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Step by Step Guide for Installing Exchange Server 2013 Preview

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The following section describes a step-by-step guide for the installation of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Preview. The
installation considers a single server deployment of Exchange Server 2013 with the Mailbox and Client Access Server
roles collocated. Additional details of the topology and architecture of the lab environment which was used in the
installation is described here;

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1 Operating System Support for Exchange

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For a successful Exchange server 2013 preview installation, the following list of supported operating systems should be
considered;
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Operating System
Windows Server 2012
Mailbox and/or Client Access Server Role Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard or Enterprise with Service Pack 1
Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter RTM or later
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard/Enterprise with SP1
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The first task in the installation of any version of Exchange is to prepare the Active Directory environment where the
Exchange Server will be placed.
However, prior to the preparation, it should be checked against the following Network and Directory Server requirements;
Component

Operating System
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard/Enterprise
Windows Server 2008 Standard/Enterprise (32-bit or
64-bit)
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition with Service
Pack 2 (SP2) or later (32-bit or 64-bit)
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition with SP2 or
later (32-bit or 64-bit)
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard or Enterprise
Windows Server 2008 Standard or Enterprise (32-bit
or 64-bit)
Each Active Directory site should have at least one global
catalog server running any of the following:
Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter RTM or leter
Windows Server 2008 Standard/Enterprise (32-bit or
64-bit)
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter RTM or later
Windows Server 2003 forest functionality mode or
Active Directory forest
higher
Once the above requirements are verified for consistency, proceed with the following preparation tasks on the
server/computer which will be used to prepare the Active Directory using the Exchange Server 2013 Preview Active
Directory Prepare module.
The schema master must be running any of the following:

Please note that .Net Framework 4.5 and Windows Management Framework 3.0 are already included and is not required
for download or installed with Windows Server 2012 therefore sk ipping steps 1 and 2.
1. Download and Install Microsoft .Net Framework 4.5
2. Download and Install Windows Management Framework 3.0
3. Open a Windows PowerShell session by navigating to Start > All Programs > Accessories > Windows PowerShell
and enter the following command;
Install-WindowsFeature RSAT-ADDS

3 Exchange Server 2013 preview Server role

prerequisite installation.
The prerequisites for Exchange 2013 preview varies on the facts of the Exchange host server operating system as well as
the server role which will be associated with it. The section describes the installation of Exchange 2013 on a server
containing Windows Server 2012 Operating System.

3.1 Windows Server 2012 prerequisites for Mailbox Server Role

The following section instructs the prerequisite installation that should be performed in a server running a standalone
Exchange 2013 server with the Mailbox Server Role.
1. Open a Windows PowerShell session by navigating to Start > All Programs > Accessories > Windows
PowerShell.
2. Run the following command to install the required Windows components.
Install-WindowsFeature AS-HTTP-Activation, Desktop-Experience, NET-Framework-45-Features, RPC-over-HTTP-proxy, RSAT-Clustering, Web-Mgmt-Console, 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
1. After installing the required server roles and features, Download and Install the Microsoft Unified Communications
Managed API 4.0, Core Runtime 64-bit software.
2. For Exchange Server 2013 preview, Microsoft Visual C++ 11 beta redistributable (x64) component should be
removed from the system. To do that navigate to Control Panel > Program and Features.
3. Select Visual C++ 11 Beta Redistributable (x64) 11.0.50531 component from the program list and click
Uninstall.
4. In the Microsoft Visual C++ 11 Beta setup, click Uninstall.
5. Click close once the uninstallation wizard completes.
6. Download and Install the Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Pack 64 bit software.
7. Download and Install the Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Pack SP1 64 bit.

3.2 Windows Server 2012 prerequisites for Client Access Server role
The following section instructs the prerequisite installation that should be performed in a server running a standalone
Exchange 2013 server with the Client Access Server Role.
1. Open a Windows PowerShell session by navigating to Start > All Programs > Accessories > Windows
PowerShell.
2. Run the following command to install the required Windows components.
Install-WindowsFeature AS-HTTP-Activation, Desktop-Experience, NET-Framework-45-Features, RPC-overHTTP-proxy, RSAT-Clustering, Web-Mgmt-Console, 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-HttpLogging, 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
1. After installing the required server roles and features, Download and Install the Microsoft Unified Communications
Managed API 4.0, Core Runtime 64-bit software.

3.3 Windows Server 2012 prerequisites for standalone Mailbox Server

Role or Mailbox and Client Access Server role
The following section instructs the prerequisite installation that should be performed in a server running a standalone
Exchange 2013 server with either a standalone installation of the Mailbox Server Role or a server that will host both the
Mailbox and Client Access Server Role collocated.
1. Open a Windows PowerShell session by navigating to Start > All Programs > Accessories > Windows
PowerShell.
2. Run the following command to install the required Windows components.
Install-WindowsFeature AS-HTTP-Activation, Desktop-Experience, NET-Framework-45-Features, RPC-over-HTTP-proxy,
RSAT-Clustering, Web-Mgmt-Console, 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

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1. After installing the required server roles and features, Download and Install the Microsoft Unified Communications
Managed API 4.0, Core Runtime 64-bit software.

2. For Exchange Server 2013 preview, Microsoft Visual C++ 11 beta redistributable (x64) component should be
removed from the system. To do that navigate to Control Panel > Program and Features.

3. Select Visual C++ 11 Beta Redistributable (x64) 11.0.50531 component from the program list and click
Uninstall.
4. In the Microsoft Visual C++ 11 Beta setup, click Uninstall.
5. Click close once the uninstallation wizard completes.
6. Download and Install the Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Pack 64 bit software.
7. Download and Install the Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Pack SP1 64 bit.

4 Prepare Active Directory and domains

To prepare the active Directory and the Domains for Exchange 2013, follow the following steps. To execute the
commands, the commands should be run using the Schema Admins group and the Enterprise Admins group
membership.
1. Mount/Navigate to the Exchange Server 2013 Preview Installation Media
2. Open up a Command Prompt session and type the following command followed by an ENTER.
setup /PrepareSchema /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms

1. Once the execution completes, run the below command followed by an ENTER.
setup /PrepareAD /OrganizationName:
/IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms

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5 Install Exchange Server 2013

If youre installing the first Exchange 2013 Preview server in the organization, and the Active Directory preparation steps
have not been performed, the account you use must have membership in the Enterprise Administrators group. If you
havent previously prepared the Active Directory Schema, the account must also be a member of the Schema Admins
group.
1. Mount/Navigate to the Exchange Server 2013 Preview Installation Media.
2. Start Exchange 2013 Preview Setup by double-clicking Setup.exe
3. On the Check for Updates page, select whether you want Setup to connect to the Internet and download product
and security updates for Exchange 2013 Preview and click Next.

4. Once the setup is finished copying files on the Copying File page, click Next.

5. The Introduction page gives additional guidance for the installation procedure. Review the content and Click next to
continue.

6. On the License Agreement page, review the terms. If you agree to the terms, select I accept the terms in the
license agreement, and then click next.

7. On the Error Reporting page, select whether you want to enable or disable the Exchange Error Reporting feature,
and then click next.

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8. On the Checking Required Software page, wait for the Setup to verify for prerequisite software checking to finish. If
any applications are listed, install them and then run Setup again. If all required software is found, click next to
continue.

9. On the Server Role Selection page, choose whether to install the Mailbox role, the Client Access role or both roles
on the server. For this guide both server roles were installed.

10. On the Installation Space and Location page, either accept the default installation location or click Browse to
choose a new location with adequate storage space.

11. One of the new features of Exchange 2013 preview is the Malware Protection. If installing the Mailbox role a
Malware Protection Settings page will appear. Choose whether to enable or disable malware scanning and click
Next.

12. If installing the Client Access server role, on the Configure Client Access Server external domain page, choose an
option to suite your deployment. If selecting This Client Access server will be Internet-facing if the Client Access
server youre installing will be accessible from the Internet. Enter a domain name to use to configure your Client
Access servers. If not, keep the space blank and click Next to proceed.

13. On the Customer Experience Improvement Program page, choose an appropriate option, and then click Next to
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14. On the Readiness Checks page, view the status to determine if the organization and server role prerequisite
checks completed successfully.If unsuccessful, perform the required tasks and click Back, and Next to run the
Readiness check again.If successful, click Next to proceed.

15. The installation will be performed.

16. Once the setup completes the installation, on the Completion page, click Complete.

17. Restart the computer after Exchange 2013 Preview has completed.

6 Review Exchange Installation

Once all the above tasks are performed, proceed with the below steps to verify the installation using the Exchange 2013
Administrative Center and PowerShell.
One of the cool and new feature of of Exchange 2013 is the all new Exchange Admin Center. The Exchange
Administration Center (EAC) is the web-based management console in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Preview that
allows for ease of use and is optimized for on-premises, online, or hybrid Exchange deployments. The EAC replaces the
Exchange Management Console (EMC) and the Exchange Control Panel (ECP), which were the two interfaces that were
used to manage Exchange Server 2010.
To navigate to the Exchange Admin Center;
1. Open the web browser.
2. Navigate to the bellow URL.
https:///ECP

3. Enter your username and password in Domain\user name and Password and then click sign in.
4. Review the tabs and sections in the new Admin Center.

Time to play! Hope this guide helped you. Dont forget to keep on checking for some exiting new posts on how to play
around with the all new Admin Center as well as a step by step guide for installing Lync Server 2013 preview in the next
couple of days.
Really appreciate all your comments, specially if i have missed anything or made a mistak e regarding the
installation.
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Thanks very useful and i can not access my ecp http reporting the error the page
cannot be displayed owa all the links showing the erro

Suthakar
July 30, 2012 at 3:36 pm

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Hi Suthakar2,
Could you check if the IIS service is started?

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yes My IIS started
Anonymous
August 2, 2012 at 10:26 am

Hi thanks for ur response yes IIS started and im gettuing error HTTP 500 after entered
my user name and password
Suthakar
August 2, 2012 at 10:28 am

Thx a lot its very useful for us

Vairamuthu
January 23, 2014 at 5:26 am

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Really useful and precise content. Thanks a lot!!!!

Anonymous
March 31, 2014 at 3:39 pm

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Yep.. I get the same error?

Dan Creed
August 9, 2012 at 6:46 am

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Hey!

Bengt Olsson

i try install Unified Communications Managed API 4.0 Runtime and not goes good
what is wrong
that link you have not working longer, have an new to you:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=34992#

November 10, 2012 at 10:59

am

hope answer soon

Reply

Hi Suthakar2
retry the whole process and restart your exchange service from service pannel

Anonymous
November 21, 2012 at 7:47
am

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Hi.,

Rajesh
November 29, 2012 at 4:36

Very kind of you for posting the above Exchange installation requirements..
Its really good..

am

Thaks
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Hi,

I am not getting client array access option..While installing exch2013 on windows

server 2012..Please help me out

January 6, 2013 at 5:18 pm

Regards,
Prasahnt
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HI,

Anonymous

I am not getting Configure Client Access Server external domain page..while installing

January 7, 2013 at 9:57 am

exchage 2013 on windows server 2012.

Regards,
Prashant
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Hi

Krishnamurthy.V

It was really a very useful document,

Thanks a lot for posting it

February 20, 2013 at 3:45 pm

Reply

This Is good post

Tamil Selvan

Tamil Selvan S

February 22, 2013 at 11:46

am

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Hi all,

cuocdoi

My lab has 2 PCs

PC1: Active directory

March 5, 2013 at 3:53 am

PC2: intend to install Exchange 2013

So, In PC1, we will install features which we do with PC2 ? right?
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please visit the link .. im facing an issue in creating new user .. although through

Janu

cmdlet i can create user .. but through web admin console its a fail ..
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-

May 6, 2013 at 11:43 am

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Thank you very much for such a nice and informatics guidance, but if I prepare active

Tauqeer ul Haq

directory domain 1st and then run windows power shell session and then install
Ex2K13. will it works???

July 25, 2013 at 7:24 pm

your guidance will be appreciated

Thanks
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Hi I am installing 1st time exchange i am able to install ,i need help to configure ,we
having 100 user so i have configure step by step them,how,i need below help,1)how to
register to ISP,how many public ip address need ,3)how to configure domain etc.

Jeevan
September 11, 2013 at 7:30
am

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Hi Jeevan,

judeperera

1/2) You can use one public IP Address for your mail routing. You can point the Static
IP given by your public ISP to your firewall and configure it to relay the traffic from ports

September 11, 2013 at 8:23

am

80 and 25 to internal Exchange Servers.

Also, you need to point out your external DNS to that public IP. You can go to your DNS
Registrar (GoDaddy etc.) where your domain is registered at. You need to create A
records for (mail.contoso.com and autodiscover.contoso.com etc.) and a MX record as
well that points out to that public IP.
Heres an example:

3) If your public domain is lets say contoso.com, and you have the internal domain
named contoso.com as well, then since both domains are the same you need to
make sure that the internal DNS points to internal servers. If you have different domain
names (contoso.com for external and contoso.local for internal), then have pin-point
records for exchange for contoso.com in the internal DNS
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Hi,

Anonymous
November 22, 2013 at 9:39

Thanks for Doc its very useful for me

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Regards,
Sridhar.K
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hi i have installed exchange server successfully.. i want to know wat is the next step
and how to configure and how to give access to the users and clints .. plz help
me.

hanumanth
December 4, 2013 at 11:47
am

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go to this link u ll get the post installation steps

Anonymous

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May 23, 2014 at 5:48 am

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January 15, 2014 at 11:13 am

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its v.goodproceed plz..

Anonymous
January 22, 2014 at 11:17 am

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thnks it is very helpfulproceed the training plz

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January 22, 2014 at 11:19 am

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hI!

Gingar

plz hlep me.I cant access the exchange admin center . the error (http 500 internal
server error) appeared when i access exchange admin center.(https://

February 1, 2014 at 8:32 am

myservername/ecp).
Reply
Hi Gingar,

judeperera

Can you check if your IIS services are up and at the same time please check if all your
Microsoft Exchange Services are up(which are set to Automatic mode). You can try

February 1, 2014 at 8:46 am

restarting the IIS service by using the iisreset /noforce command or simply by
restarting the server.
Let us know how it goes.
Cheers!
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THANK YOU!

Nick
March 1, 2014 at 8:16 pm

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NuAkang
March 14, 2014 at 7:29 pm

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Perfect Post ! Thanks

Anonymous
March 28, 2014 at 5:10 pm

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Hello, We have exchange 2013 under domain domain.com. The public and external

Anonymous

domains are the same. We can send mail to the internet but we cannot receive mail
from internet and from internal. any idea please ?

March 31, 2014 at 1:28 pm

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Hello, We have exchange 2013 under domain domain.com. The public and external

Alaa BEN RHOUMA

domains are the same. We can send mail to the internet but we cannot receive mail
from internet and from internal. any idea please ?

March 31, 2014 at 1:29 pm

Reply
Hi Ben,

judeperera

If I understood your case, you hace contoso.com domain, you can send email from

March 31, 2014 at 5:16 pm

domain.com to any.com BUT you are not receiving any email either from domain.com
nor any.com?
A. Hope you have not modified any receive connectors. If you are in the same domain
as in internal and external, lets say you have contoso.com:
1) I would suggest to use mail.contoso.com for all your internal and external mail
handling and autodiscover.contoso.com for discovery. For this, what you need to do is,
make all your virtual directory internal as well as external URLs to have
mail.contoso.com/ and configure the AutodiscoverInternalServiceURI to be
https://mail.contoso.com/ . This will ensure you easier setup, less URLs to work with
and less entries in the Certificate as well.
2) Once you configure the URLs properly for all relevant Virtual Directories, go to the
External DNS, configure the below records,
FQDNTypeValue-MX Pref
mail.contoso.comA123.123.123.123
contoso.comMXmail.contoso.com10
autodoscover.contoso.com-CNAMEmail.contoso.com
This will relay all inbound emails from the outside to the pointed IP. to receive emails
having an MX is a must.
3) And for internal, you need to point the mail.contoso.com and
autodiscover.contoso.com values like above pointing to the internal Server(s) IPs.
4) Make sure that you create a SEND CONNECTOR. (Which I believe you already
have)
5) Any specific error ID that you are getting?
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wonderfull information>>>>>>>>

happy deployed a exchange server in my

production environment.

Anonymous
April 15, 2014 at 11:17 am

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audiomarkoni
April 30, 2014 at 10:52 pm

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Dear

Mohammed shahed

The way you explained each and everything is superb and i attempted to deploy
exchange for the first time in my life and with the help of your document. exchange is

May 8, 2014 at 5:50 am

running perfectlyl.
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Hello Jude,

Raju Dey

Thanks for the wonderful guide. Its very detailed and simple.

May 12, 2014 at 8:41 am

I am trying to install Exchange 2013 in my lab consisting of a DC running on server

2008 R2 and a Server 2012 for Exchange. I was following the steps but encountered
an error at Step4.
setup /PrepareSchema /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms
Setup encountered a problem while validating the state of Active Directory:
Could not find information about the local site. This can be caused by incorrect
configuration of subnets or sites or by replication latency.
Could you please advise what could be causing this issue and how to resolve this?
Thank you.
Raju Dey
Reply
Check your NIC settings and AD configuration

Tom
June 13, 2014 at 10:16 pm

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Raju, same problem ever get a solution?

Dave
July 24, 2014 at 2:52 pm

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Thanks

Anonymous
July 10, 2014 at 5:26 am

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Really helpful my friend.keep it up.

Amith Prasanna

Waiting for your posts about lync. Best of Luck !!!

July 11, 2014 at 8:42 am

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Hi,

Ageng Setiawan

Thanks very much!! This Doc very helpful for me.

July 20, 2014 at 11:20 am

Regards
Ageng Setiawan
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Hi,

Anonymous

Great steps can install them in 2 servers CAS and MBX?

July 23, 2014 at 9:41 am

Thanks,
George
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Hi George,

judeperera

Thank you.. Yes. You have the option to install CAS and MBX roles either in a single
server, or each of them in separate boxes. But there are some restrictions in

July 23, 2014 at 2:29 pm

combining both server roles in a High Available scenario. Ex: If you have 2 Servers with
(CAS+MBX) installed, you cant get High Availability enabled for both Server Roles..
Reason is When DAG is enabled(MBX High Availability), you cant have WNLB
enabled(CAS High Availability) so you need to have a Hardware Load Balancer.
Cheers!!
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Hello,

Rammohana Rao

I am new to exchange server i have getezee.com domain registered now i need to

configure exchange server for my domain.I have getezee.com domain in windows

August 2, 2014 at 5:41 am

2012 r2 system.What i need to do for getting public ip from isp.As well as ,And why
should i add autodiscover.getezee.com.is it compulsory.will i get same ip for
mail.getezee.com and autodiscover.getezee.com ,or different.
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Hi Rammohana,

judeperera

Once youve done setting up Exchange, you need to configure your connections done
properly.

August 2, 2014 at 11:29 am

1. Get Public IP You need to get a public static IP from your ISP, please contact the
ISP and they will assist you in getting one. Once you have it, it will be through an
internet line. The internet line will be hitting your organizations router or firewall. Then
the router or the firewall will NAT that to the internal network. Please seek help from a
network engineer in setting this up for you properly.
2. Internally and Externally, you need to create a pointer to your mail server services
like OWA, ECP etc. virtual directories. For that you can use mail.getezee.com FQDN.
Which can be an A record, created at your internal DNS server and the public DNS
registrar. So in simple, you need a .getezee.com FQDN to point to your Exchange.
The autodiscover.getezee.com is not compulsory. It is required for Outlook clients to
get all the information for Exchange based services. If you have
Autodiscover.getezee.com set up, when you enter your email and password for the
first time in setting up Outlook, it will look for autodiscover.getezee.com and try to
retrieve all the configurations. So you as a user does not need to provide the URLs,
Server Addresses, IPs n so on. If you do not have Autodiscover, you need to do things
manually.
You should create an A record for the mail.getezee.com pointing to your organizations
public IP(which should be NATed and routed to communicate to your Exchange
Server.
Also, best recomendation is to create a CNAME for the autodiscover.getezee.com and
point that to mail.getezee.com.
3. You only need to add an MX record in the public DNS. The local domain doesnt
require an MX record internally since the Exchange server will be autharatative for your
domain. Exchange will get all SMTP mails, then route accordingly. But for External
world, they do not know where to send the emails bound to your domain, thats why we
set up a MX record our there.
Should there be anything else, please let know
Cheers,
Jude.
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what is internal dns pointing to internal server

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If i add my .mx and .a records in public dns then how local domain knows .mx and .a

Rammohana Rao

records are added in public dnsplease explain me

August 2, 2014 at 9:09 am

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Hai judeperera,

rammohan

I have one more doubt .while i am adding my .a and .mx records in my dns control

August 7, 2014 at 6:01 am

panel.what i need to add .a record..i mean for me i am going to configure my mail

server in private network (192.168.2.201)whether i need to add this record or
any other public.please explain me.as well as .mx record should be same as a .mx
record added in my local machine after did this all how can i redirect tcp 25 port
in my organization router.
Waiting for your reply.
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Public DNS:

judeperera

A Record mail.contoso.com
MX mail.contoso.com

August 7, 2014 at 9:19 am

CNAME autodiscover.contoso.com mail.contoso.com

Private DNS:
A Record mail.contoso.com
CNAME autodiscover.contoso.com mail.contoso.com
Firewall:
-> Firewall/Router (Configure NAT/Port forwarding to port 25/443) ->
Exchange Server
Also, I suggest you to look at the following comment for an example
https://judeperera.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/step-by-step-guide-for-installingexchange-server-2013-preview/#comment-105
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Useful ressources for deploying

Exchange Server (2013) | Infoblog
October 7, 2014 at 9:29 am

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Useful step by step guide.

I tried to install an exchange 2013 but at the prerequisites analysis I get a message.

Anonymous
October 20, 2014 at 4:57 pm

It says that I have to install SP3 on exchange 2010 on my organisation but I dont have
any exchange 2010 servers already installed.
Does anybody have an idea ?
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hi
i had install exchange 2013 server first time. I have stuck on the first step that my
internal email is not working(internal client is not reveiving the emails. Also i install
this on win 2012 server and is member of active directory
Can any one help

Prashant
November 16, 2014 at 2:21
am

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Thanks, very helpful

Theophilus Blaudfaust
January 23, 2015 at 8:58 pm

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When i amtrying to install Exchange 2013 on my server 2008 R2 i am getting below

Nadeer

error, how i can solve this issue. actually this 2008 server is Hyper v on My DC
The DNS domain name is invalid. It contains characters other than A-Z, a-z, 0-9,
. and -.

February 11, 2015 at 12:57

pm

For more information, visit:

http://technet.microsoft.com/library(EXCHG.150)/ms.exch.setupreadiness.ServerNameNotValid.aspx
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Hi Nadeer,
What is the domain name of your environment? If the Domain name contains any
special characters as mentioned you are unable to proceed and therefore might need

judeperera
February 12, 2015 at 2:27 am

to consider a rename.
Also, if you are running in a production environment and if the Exchange VM is inside a
Domain Controller host machine, I would not recommend that setup.
Please let know of the status. Cheers!
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Dear Jude
My domain Name is (utc.local) . This exchange VM is inside a domain controller host
machine, also these is practice i am doing for testing purpose.
Nadeer
February 12, 2015 at 4:32 am

Hello I have a situation like ,

Leaner

the internal AD name is with xxx.net and will it be a problem if I use exchange server. I
do have a mail system , which is no exchange. I need to incorporate the company.net

February 15, 2015 at 6:55 am

with the company.com mail system . I am conduced as my collgs are giving mixed
response .Please Help !!
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Reblogged this on Jude's Blog.

judeperera
April 20, 2015 at 7:54 am

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My Exchange Test Server in now up and running. Thanks to you Jude.

randolph adano
April 22, 2015 at 1:51 pm

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Excellent work !

Anonymous
June 12, 2015 at 10:59 am

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Hi Jude,

Hasan

We are going to deploy Exchnge 2013, and this is the best REALISITIC article as there
are screenshots.
Very few ppl tke effort to gv such kind of info online. While performing installation if i
faces any difficulties or any changes , I will send them to you for addition.

June 25, 2015 at 5:11 pm

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Obrigado pela dica esta , correu com sucesso.

Antonio Costa
July 8, 2015 at 1:05 pm

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Please I need your help, I want to find ms exchange server 2013 for 32 bits, can you
send me a link which can allow me directly to download it.

victoire curtis
July 10, 2015 at 6:54 am

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Hi Curtis,
Theres no 32bit version of Exchange 2013. 64bit is available here
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-exchange-server-2013
Cheers,
Jude
judeperera
July 10, 2015 at 8:32 am

Best Article for Exchange 2013.

Anonymous

Thank you so much, you are a life saver.

July 14, 2015 at 5:40 pm

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Thanks for the feedback. Glad it helped. Thank you

judeperera
July 15, 2015 at 3:17 am

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