Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Deployment Guide- P66 pptx

For information about Exchange Server 2003 SP2, see the following resources:  Service Pack 2 for Exchange Server 2003  Microsoft Knowledge Base article 906669, Issues that are fixed

To help determine what security patches are available for your system, you should use a tool like the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer

(MBSA) to scan your system Information about MBSA can be found in the article, Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer

Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is a cumulative service pack for Exchange Server 2003 Exchange Server 2003 SP2 provides better protection, reliability, and easier administration as well as improved mobile messaging to your Exchange Server 2003 messaging

environment when used with compatible devices For information about Exchange Server 2003 SP2, see the following resources:

 Service Pack 2 for Exchange Server 2003

 Microsoft Knowledge Base article 906669, Issues that are fixed in Exchange Server 2003 SP2

For information about how to install Exchange Server 2003 SP1 or

Exchange Server 2003 SP2 in a clustered Exchange environment, see the following article on the Microsoft Exchange Blog Web site:

 Upgrading to E2k3 SP2 cluster

Note:

The content of each blog and its URL are subject to change without

notice

Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool

The Microsoft Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool

automatically examines an Exchange Server deployment and determines

if the configuration is set according to Microsoft best practices After

installing or upgrading Exchange, or after making configuration changes,

it is recommended that you run the Exchange Server Best Practices

Analyzer Tool

For more information, see the Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool Web site

Configuring DNS

Some e-mail systems, such as Microsoft Hotmail®, will not accept e-mail from organizations that do not have reverse DNS records If you want your users to be able to send e-mail to these systems, be sure to create a

reverse DNS record If your ISP manages your DNS records, your ISP must create this record for you For more information about configuring DNS, see the Exchange Server 2003 Transport and Routing Guide

How to View Exchange Setup Events in the Application Event Log

After you complete your Microsoft® Exchange 2003 deployment, you can verify that your installation was successful by using the Exchange 2003 setup log and the Windows Event Viewer

Procedure

To view Exchange Setup events in the Application Event Log

1 On the Start menu, click Run and then type Eventvwr

2 Select Application Log

3 Filter or look for entries with an Event Source of

MSExchangeSetup

How to Uninstall Exchange Server 2003

After ensuring that your organization meets certain prerequisites, you can run Exchange Setup to uninstall Exchange Server 2003 To uninstall

Exchange Server 2003, you must have the Exchange Server 2003 CD or access to the Exchange Server 2003 setup files

Before You Begin

To remove Exchange Server 2003, you must first ensure that your

organization meets certain prerequisites Of these prerequisites, the

following are enforced by Exchange Server 2003 Setup:

 If you have Exchange Full Administrator permissions at the

administrative group level, you can uninstall Exchange Server 2003,

provided that you have permissions for the administrative group to which the server belongs For more information about Exchange Server 2003 permissions, see the Exchange Server 2003 Administration Guide

 If there are any mailboxes assigned to a storage group on a server, you cannot uninstall Exchange Server 2003 from that server In this case, you must either move or delete the mailboxes before you can uninstall Exchange For more information on how to move mailboxes, see How to Use Exchange Task Wizard to Move Mailboxes

 You cannot uninstall Exchange Server 2003 from a server if it is the only server in your organization running the Recipient Update Service Instead, you must first use Exchange System Manager to enable the Recipient Update Service on another server For more information on

how to create a new Recipient Update Service, see How to Create a

New Recipient Update Service

 You cannot uninstall Exchange Server 2003 from a server if it is the only server in a mixed administrative group that is running Site

Replication Service (SRS) Instead, you must first enable SRS on another Exchange server

 You cannot uninstall Exchange Server 2003 from a server if it is a

bridgehead server for a connector and there are other Exchange servers

in your organization Instead, you must first designate a new bridgehead server

 You cannot uninstall Exchange Server 2003 from a server if it is the routing master and there are other Exchange servers in your

organization Instead, you must first designate a new routing master

The following prerequisites are not enforced by Exchange Setup and must be manually checked:

 If your server is in one administrative group, but is also in a routing group that exists in a different administrative group, you must have

permissions for both administrative groups (or to the Exchange

organization), otherwise the uninstall process will fail For more

information about Exchange Server 2003 permissions, see the Exchange Server 2003 Administration Guide

 You cannot use Setup in unattended mode to uninstall

Exchange Server 2003

To uninstall the last Exchange Server 2003 server in the forest and

remove your Exchange organization, you must use an account that has Exchange Full Administrator permissions at the organization level and is

a local administrator on the computer Specifically, you can use the

account you designated while running ForestPrep or an account from the group that you designated For more information about Exchange Server

2003 permissions, see the Exchange Server 2003 Administration Guide

Procedure

To uninstall Exchange Server 2003

1 Log on to the server from which you want to uninstall Exchange

2 Click Start, point to Control Panel, and then click Add or Remove

Programs

3 In Add or Remove Programs, select Microsoft Exchange, and then click Change/Remove

4 On the Welcome to the Microsoft Exchange Installation Wizard page, click Next

5 On the Component Selection page, in the Action column, use the drop-down arrows to select Remove, and then click Next

The Component Selection page

6 On the Installation Summary page, verify that the Action column

is set to Remove, and then click Next

7 On the Completing the Microsoft Exchange Installation Wizard page, click Finish

Batch File and Command Line Migrations for Exchange Server 2003

Because Migration Wizard is a single-threaded application, to increase performance and speed of your migration, you can run your migration using a batch file process to migrate your data This option is available only if you run Migration Wizard from the command line You can use the command line reference and the batch files (with examples provided later

in this topic) to increase the performance of your migration

Command Line Reference

Use the following switches available in Migration Wizard to run your

migration from the command line

Syntax

Mailmig [/C:File [/A:Account] [/D: Domain name]

[/P:Password] [/S] [/M] [/?/h/help]

Switches

Table 1 lists the command line switches

Table 1 Command line switches

/C:File The location of the control file The

control file is a text file containing parameters and their values, which are separated by commas

/A:Account The name of an account that has

administrative privileges for the mailboxes that you are migrating

Note:

You can only use this switch if the source mailboxes are on an Exchange server