Exchange 2003 class Notes and Thoughts

Highlights from firt morning:

Installing Exchange 2003 -

Forest Prep First (Best if run on the FISMO)
Domain Prep Second (Best if run on DC of domain)
Make sure you have permission to run the CD on the machine
Install runs from the CD, pretty simple.
You need to decide on the Exchange Organization name before you do the install, because once you establish this you have to burn the thing down to change it.

- Misc - Check out Microsoft Automated Deployment Services - More Later...

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Notes from Exchange Class
The JDP Technical Reference Guide is a great tool.
Exchange Clustering...
Active/Active vs Active/Passive
Things to think about
The Quorum
Use Move Group NOT failover this will keep it from failing back to the node that you are servicing.
NODES should be on separate UPSs
Page 31 - Permissions required to install and configure exchange virtual server
Cluster Administrator is the name of the tool that you use to mangage Cluster resources.
Exchange System Manager
Look at queues
Track Messages
Not for creating and managing users
2400 tools lots of good stuff.
exchange all tools
for example to clean up the "bad email" folder.
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