Case Scenario Exercise

Contoso, Inc., is a company that has a sales office in Dallas, Texas, which is also the company's national headquarters. The company also has six manufacturing plants at various locations in the United States. Contoso is an old, traditional company that has been run by an executive team firmly entrenched in the 1960s way of doing business. As a result, technology has been viewed as little more than a necessary evil, and only the corporate office in Dallas has e-mail services—an archaic DOS-based peer-to-peer program that runs on NetBIOS Extended User Interface (NetBEUI) and is non-Internet aware.

Recently, the CEO retired and was replaced by an energetic visionary who wants to bring Contoso into the 21st century. He has the full support of board members and shareholders, who recognize that if Contoso is to survive in the new economy, it needs to update its technology infrastructure and be able to utilize the Internet to work with partners.

You have been contracted to perform the deployment of Exchange Server 2003 at the corporate office, which will be the first part of the deployment. Given the challenges of trying to migrate Contoso's proprietary e-mail system, as well as the company's desire to start fresh, executive management has given you the directive to simply deploy Exchange Server 2003 and Outlook 2003 with a clean install. Users will be able to access the proprietary system for history and reference purposes, but message transfer functionality will be disabled once Exchange Server is deployed and functional.

• Requirement 1 Initially, the manufacturing plants will connect to Exchange remotely using Internet Message Access Protocol 4 (IMAP4) and Outlook Web Access (OWA) over a virtual private network (VPN) connection between the plants and the corporate office. At a later date, the plants will have their own local Exchange Server 2003 servers installed into the Contoso organization. Contoso consists of a single forest with each branch location having its own child domain to the main contoso.com domain. To support the Contoso organization, which consists of roughly 15,000 employees, you have been asked to install 10 Exchange Server 2003 servers at the corporate office. Corporate users who have been using e-mail have been informed by management that their existing e-mail will be set to read-only for reference but not migrated over to Exchange Server 2003. Management wants a clean start on the new e-mail organization.

• Requirement 2 The server group has already purchased the servers for deployment of Exchange Server 2003 and placed them at each location. The servers have state-of-the-art hardware and are installed with Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition and configured as member servers in the appropriate domains. Windows Server 2003 has been installed on the servers with its default configuration. You need to add any Windows Server 2003 services or components that will be necessary to support the Exchange Server 2003 installations.

• Requirement 3 Since the Enterprise Admins group in Dallas manages the Active Directory infrastructure and controls access to the schema, you will need to coordinate with the group to run ForestPrep and DomainPrep. To accomplish this, you will have a service account created that has the necessary permissions, and you will use this service account to run ForestPrep and DomainPrep and to perform the Exchange Server 2003 installations.

Requirement 1

The first requirement involves installing Exchange Server 2003 on 10 servers at the corporate office.

1. Describe how you would deploy the 10 servers in a way that is consistent and efficient.

2. Which of the following tasks must you perform on each server prior to installing Exchange Server 2003 on Windows Server 2003 servers in the contoso.com domain? (Choose all that apply.)

   1. Run the /ForestPrep Setup switch.

   2. Run the /DomainPrep Setup switch.

   3. Install the Microsoft ASP.NET Windows component.

   4. Install the SMTP component.

   5. Log on with an account that has at least Exchange Administrator rights.

   6. Log on with an account that has at least Exchange Full Administrator rights.

   7. Install the WWW service.

3. If you want to create an Unattend.ini file to be used later, but you want to ensure that no one is able to view sensitive Exchange organization information by opening the file in Notepad, what should you do?

   1. Put the Unattend.ini file on a floppy and lock it up.

   2. Run Setup with the /encryptedmode switch.

   3. Store the file in an Encrypting File System (EFS) protected folder.

   4. Wait to create the Unattend.ini file until you are ready to use it.

Requirement 2

The second requirement involves configuring the servers running Windows Server 2003 with the necessary components to support Exchange Server 2003.

1. Which of the following components must you install manually after a default Windows Server 2003 installation in order to be able to install Exchange Server 2003? (Choose all that apply.)

   1. Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP)

   2. Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP)

   3. Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)

   4. TCP/IP

   5. ASP.NET

   6. Domain Name Service (DNS)

   7. World Wide Web service

   8. E-mail services

2. Describe the process that you would use to install the required Windows Server 2003 components that you identified as necessary in the previous question.

Requirement 3

The third requirement involves coordinating the running of ForestPrep and DomainPrep.

1. The Enterprise Admins group in Dallas has approved your request for an Exchange service account and asks you what specific groups you want this svc_xch account placed in. What group membership is necessary to run ForestPrep? (Choose all that apply.)

   1. Domain Admins

   2. Enterprise Admins

   3. Schema Admins

   4. Domain Users

   5. Exchange Full Administrator

   6. Exchange Enterprise Servers

2. What group membership is required to run DomainPrep?

   1. Domain Admins

   2. Enterprise Admins

   3. Schema Admins

   4. Domain Users

   5. Exchange Full Administrator

   6. Exchange Enterprise Servers

3. Where in the Active Directory forest should you run ForestPrep and DomainPrep?