Microsoft UC (Unified Communcation)

I was reading some article which is really a nice thing for Exchange Lovers so I thought I should share with you guys.

Here it is.

Exchange 2010 on vSphere 4, Best Practices Part 1

Exchange 2010 on vSphere 4, Best Practices Part 2

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As I got this query and solved the problem so I M sharing it with all that how you can grant permissions to your Helpdesk.

I did it in Exchange 2007 but I think it will apply on Exchange 2010 as well.

You can run below command which gives “Administer Information Store” (ms-Exch-Store-Admin) rights to your helpdesk staffs that allow them to give full access rights to all users of your Exchange organization.

Add-ADPermission -Identity “CN=CompanyOrg ,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=company ,DC=com” -User “company\HelpDeskStaffs ” -ExtendedRights ms-Exch-Store-Admin -InheritanceType All

Reference:
Recipient Permission Delegation in Exchange Server 2007
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/11/03/430350.aspx

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Installing Exchange Server 2010 Step by Step

First of all have a look as prerequisites and confirm that you have install all the prerequisites before starting installation.

Prerequisites

Before installing Exchange Server 2010, here are the prerequisites to be installed on Exchange Server’s System.

1. Net Framework 3.5
2. Powershell 2.0 CTP 3
3. Windows Remote Management

The components mentioned above must be installed regardless of which role you wish to install.

Step by Step

1. Prepare your forest and organization in Active Directory

First you need to do the Schema preparation. Since this is a fresh new setup in the lab, I will perform the preparation on domain controller

Run Setup from the directory where your Exchange 2010 installation files are located. Here is the cmdlets

Setup /PrepareSchema or Setup /ps

*If you are running the prep process on the computer which is member of the forest or domain, and the OS is Windows Server 2008, you need to install the following component before executing the prep.

ServerManagerCmd -i RSAT-ADDS

Now we have done the initial preparation. The forest and domain are ready to have the first Exchange 2010 server installed. But if you will not run this command setup will prepare schema itself don’t worry.

2. Install first Exchange 2010 server

We will do that on server which will have Client Access Role, Transport Role and Mailbox Role. There are additional components needed before Exchange installation.,

As my first Exchange server is a combination all the 3 roles mentioned above, I used the following command

ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Server Web-Metabase Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console Web-Basic-Auth Web-Windows-Auth Web-Net-Ext Web-Digest-Auth Web-Dyn-Compression NET-HTTP-Activation Web-ISAPI-Ext RPC-over-HTTP-proxy RSAT-ADDS

Here is the break down of what you will need to install in role level.

For Client Access Role

ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Server Web-Metabase Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console Web-Basic-Auth Web-Windows-Auth Web-Net-Ext Web-Digest-Auth Web-Dyn-Compression NET-HTTP-Activation Web-ISAPI-Ext RPC-over-HTTP-proxy RSAT-ADDS

For Transport Role

ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Server Web-Metabase Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console Web-Basic-Auth Web-Windows-Auth Web-Net-Ext RSAT-ADDS

For Mailbox Role

ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Server Web-Metabase Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console Web-Basic-Auth Web-Windows-Auth Web-Net-Ext RSAT-ADDS

*For Mailbox Role, you have to install another component call “MSFilter Pack“

After the installation, you are required to perform restart server.

There are some updates & fixes need to be applied in specific Server roles.

For Client Access Role

KB951725, KB950888, KB952664, KB953290

For Transport Role

KB951725, KB950888, KB952664

For Mailbox Role

KB951725, KB950888, KB952664

Now we are truly ready for the installation.

Enter CD on your CDROM Drive and double click on sertup.exe file and this will kickoff setup.

And you will get the screen like below.

Choose step 4 and click on Install Microsoft Exchange.

Click next.

Accept the License agreement and click next.

Click yes for online support and click next.

Now it depends on your environment that which role you are installing if you will go with typical install than you will get the Client Access Role, Hub Transport Role and Mailbox Role installed on your system but I will choose the custom install for further details now click next.

Select the Roles which you wish to install and click next.

Specify the Organization name and make sure that it’s correct because this is not changeable so be prepare first and then use the name of your Organization and click next.

If you are using Outlook 2003 in your organization and also using public folder structure so click yes and next. In my case there is no Outlook 2003 so I am going with No.

If you are planning to use Client Access Role for External use so put the External URL and click next as it’s my LAB so I am not giving External URL here. Click next.

Setup will check your configurations and will tell you that you are ready for installation or not.

In this screen just click Install and sit back after completion you will get the screen as below.

You have now completed the installation and enjoy

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Special Thanks to Lynda.com for Sharing this Video.

How to configure MailTips in Outlook 2010 !

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Are you getting the error with event id 12014 if yes than follow these steps.

1. Open “Exchange Management Shell “.

2. Write “get-ExchangeCertificate ” and press on “Enter ” button.

3. Write down the Thumbprint of the certificate that reflect the required FQDN name of the server.

4. Review the current certificate that use by the Exchange server and

each certificate function.

5. Write “Enable-ExchangeCertificate -Thumbprint 2afd26617915932ad096c48eb3b847fc7457662 -Services “SMTP”

and press on ‘Enter ” button.

• The value of -Thumbprint obtained in stage 3.

6. Restart the Exchange server.

If the issue persists, I recommend you remove all existing certificates:

Step 1:

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1. Open EMS, run Get-ExchangeCertificate |FL to get the Thumbprint of the certificate.

2. Run Remove-ExchangeCertificate -Thumbprint <> to remove the certificate.

Step 2:

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Then request a new certificate from your local CA for exchange. Please refer the following thread:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrsecuremessaging/thread/37cf60b4-c31f-49aa-9068-ae5934af8950

If you do not want to use local CA, you can create a exchange self-signed certificate by the following command:

New-ExchangeCertificate

More information, please see the following article:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998327(EXCHG.80).aspx

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