Exchange Server 2010 can be installed on either Windows Server 2008 64-bit with Service Pack 2, or Windows Server 2008 64-bit R2, and either Standard or Enterprise editions.
In this post I’ll walk through installing the pre-requisites for Exchange Server 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2.
Servers that will host the Hub Transport or Mailbox server roles require the Microsoft Filter Pack which can be downloaded here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=137042
After installing the Filter Pack run the following command from an elevated Windows PowerShell console.
Import-Module ServerManager
To install a “Typical” Exchange server running the Client Access, Hub Transport, and Mailbox server roles, run the following command from an elevated Windows PowerShell console.
Add-WindowsFeature NET-Framework,RSAT-ADDS,Web-Server,Web-Basic-Auth,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Metabase,Web-Net-Ext,Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console,WAS-Process-Model,RSAT-Web-Server,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-Digest-Auth,Web-Dyn-Compression,NET-HTTP-Activation,RPC-Over-HTTP-Proxy -Restart
Note that other combinations of server roles require different groups of pre-requisites. You can see a complete list of these options here.
You can also check out Pat Richard’s script for automating the installation of pre-requisites for different servers roles.
The server will require a restart, which will occur automatically by using the –Restart switch on the command above.
After the restart launch another elevated Windows PowerShell console and run the following command.
Set-Service NetTcpPortSharing -StartupType Automatic
After installing the pre-requisites run Microsoft Update to verify the latest updates and patches are applied to the server before proceeding with the Exchange Server 2010 install.
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The “hyphen” before “Restart” in the command “……… –Restart” doesn’t seem correct. Its ASCII value is 0×96 while a normal hyphen’s ASCII value is 0x2D.
Thanks, sometimes those characters get messed up by the WordPress editor :-/
It do works …
The thing is those services requires a restart…
Anyhow the -Restart key is working…
The “-restart” key is working *now* because the author has corrected the hyphen characters.
Oh, I’ve just checked it. The hyphen character isn’t corrected.
Hopefully fixed now :-/
Hi I am having a lot of trouble installing Exchange Server 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2.. The article is here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchange2010/thread/3302d370-86ca-4ae8-8c5a-0d60d9af9eeb?prof=required
The commands are not running successfully, trying to install Client Access, Hub Transport, and Mailbox server roles
SP1 introduced a new setup feature where it will install the pre-requisites for you. You can just run the setup wizard and look for the tick box to automatically install them. Makes life a bit easier.
Hello paul,
Now a soft is available for which helps to check the pre-requisites of Exchange server.
What do you think about that..
But i was thining of the unattended setup of Exchange server 2010
Having trouble in last four services to get installed..
Have a look at the types of the setup here..
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff805039.aspx
I have fullfilled all the requirements for the installation of exchange but still unable to install some of the services..
So can you help me please…
Quick one guys, I’m installing the prereqs for MBX Role, this box is only going to host MBX Role. I have run the generic command, see below:
Add-WindowsFeature NET-Framework,RSAT-ADDS,Web-Server,Web-Basic-Auth,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Metabase,Web-Net-Ext,Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console,WAS-Process-Model,RSAT-Web-Server,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-Digest-Auth,Web-Dyn-Compression,NET-HTTP-Activation,RPC-Over-HTTP-Proxy -Restart
I did try to look for the XML file in the scripts folder called Exchange-MBX.xml but I could not find it.
Do you reckon I should Remove all Features and let Exchange 2010 SP1 install the prereqs when running the installer? or should be ok leaving all the features that got installed with the command issued?
Thanks!!!
Decided to remove the features that were not needed by the MBX role, i found the list for MBX
Add-WindowsFeature NET-Framework,RSAT-ADDS,Web-Server,Web-Basic-Auth,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Metabase,Web-Net-Ext,Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console,WAS-Process-Model,RSAT-Web-Server -Restart