Chapter Summary

• Exchange Server 2003 can be installed manually or it can be scripted to install in unattended mode. To create an unattended configuration file, Setup is run with the /createunattend switch and goes through the Microsoft Exchange Installation Wizard. The configuration is written to an .ini file.

• Exchange Server 2003 has minimum hardware requirements of a Pentium 133 with 256 MB of RAM, NTFS partitions, and 200 MB of free disk space on the system drive and 500 MB of free disk space on the drive that will hold the Exchange binaries. However, this configuration is inadequate for anything other than basic testing and practicing with the software.

• Exchange Server 2003 can be installed on Windows 2000 Server SP3 or later or on Windows Server 2003. Not all functionality is available when Exchange Server 2003 is installed on Windows 2000 Server.

• Exchange Server 2003 is the only version that can run on Windows Server 2003.

• Prior to deploying the Exchange Server 2003 application, you must first prepare Active Directory by running ForestPrep and DomainPrep.

• An Exchange Server 2003 server can be removed from an organization by running the Microsoft Exchange Installation Wizard, but this requires that the server has no user mailboxes or connectors in use prior to removal.

• An Exchange Server 2003 server can be forcibly removed, if necessary, through a manual process that involves editing the registry, deleting the \Exchsrvr folders, uninstalling Windows Server components that support Exchange, stopping and disabling services, and removing the server data from Active Directory.