problem: Upgrading an Exchange 2003 Single Server to Exchange 2007
environment:
Physical Machines
- Server Name: "mail", Athlon 1 GHz, 1GB RAM, Windows Server 2003 x86, AD, Exchange 2003 SP2 or so, HTTP-RPC Support, OWA
- Server Name: "bubbles", Intel Q9450 2.67 GHz, 8gb DDR2 RAM. Windows Server 2008 x64
- Server Name: "pinky", ", Intel Q9450 2.67 GHz, 6gb DDR2 RAM (ABit IP35 won't go past "Post Boot Screen" with 8GB = 4x 2GB DDR2. Windows Server 2008 x64
Virtual Machines using Hyper-V RC1 and RC2
- Server Name: "mail2k7", Windows Server 2008 x64, AD, Exchange 2007 SP1
introduction / background:
Exchange 2007 is only supported on x64 (yes I know about the x86 version), but there is no in-place upgrade available. Therefore one needs to setup a second machine and so on.
solution:
- Setup "mail2k7" with Windows Server 2008 on bubbles (hyper-v rc1)
- Installed AD Role on mail2k7
- Connected to existing AD on "mail"
- The old AD was still in Windows 2000 support mode. Therefore upgraded to Windows 2003 mode (Active Directory Sites and Service).
- Setup DNS Role on mail2k7 added AD-supported Domain Entry (or maybe secondary)
- Installed Exchange 2007 on mail2k7 (Got prompted for multiple pre-requisite roles, don't forget RPC support, needed for Outlook Anyware
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For Outlook Anywhere I needed the following (from here) Get-OutlookProvider Name Server SSL ---- ------ --- EXCH EXPR WEB Which showed NULL values under server. To assign a server to EXCH and WEB, I ran: set-outlookprovider WEB -server FQDN set-outlookprovider EXCH -server FQDN
- Basic Authentication and use the Domain Name at logon
HELO MAIL FROM:root@eisber.net RCPT TO:eisber@eisber.net DATA Subject: Foo Body 1 . QUIT