Prepping forest / domain and installing CAS this weekend.   

I know that the installation of the first Exchange server in your environment 
will envoke all the schema modifications if  you have not done so already 
manually and are a member of all the required AD groups, but I was wondering 
if anyone has had any issues with either method.. I have a single forest and 
single domain, so just to clarify, if I want to do it manually, the only 
command I need to run is 
"setup.exe /prepareAD", correct? /preparelegacyexchange will be run 
automatically. 

Has anyone let the installation of the first exchange server run the schema 
modifications for them? If so, any issues?

Thanks, 

Chris

date: Fri, 2 May 2008 10:26:01 -0700   author:   Chris Meehan

Re: Prepping forest / domain and installing CAS this weekend.   

On Fri, 2 May 2008 10:26:01 -0700, Chris Meehan
 wrote:

>I know that the installation of the first Exchange server in your environment 
>will envoke all the schema modifications if  you have not done so already 
>manually and are a member of all the required AD groups, but I was wondering 
>if anyone has had any issues with either method.. I have a single forest and 
>single domain, so just to clarify, if I want to do it manually, the only 
>command I need to run is 
>"setup.exe /prepareAD", correct? /preparelegacyexchange will be run 
>automatically. 
>
>Has anyone let the installation of the first exchange server run the schema 
>modifications for them? If so, any issues?
>
>Thanks, 
>
>Chris


In a single domain forest, it works just fine simply running setup and
letting it do it all for you. If it fails for some reason, if would
have failed regardless.

date: Fri, 02 May 2008 13:31:56 -0400   author:   Andy David {MVP}

Re: Prepping forest / domain and installing CAS this weekend.   

So as long as I am schema, enterprise, domain admin and in single 
domain/forest just run setup on CAS.. sounds so easy, kinda scary! thanks for 
the quick response. 

Chris

"Andy David {MVP}" wrote:

> On Fri, 2 May 2008 10:26:01 -0700, Chris Meehan
>  wrote:
> 
> >I know that the installation of the first Exchange server in your environment 
> >will envoke all the schema modifications if  you have not done so already 
> >manually and are a member of all the required AD groups, but I was wondering 
> >if anyone has had any issues with either method.. I have a single forest and 
> >single domain, so just to clarify, if I want to do it manually, the only 
> >command I need to run is 
> >"setup.exe /prepareAD", correct? /preparelegacyexchange will be run 
> >automatically. 
> >
> >Has anyone let the installation of the first exchange server run the schema 
> >modifications for them? If so, any issues?
> >
> >Thanks, 
> >
> >Chris
> 
> 
> In a single domain forest, it works just fine simply running setup and
> letting it do it all for you. If it fails for some reason, if would
> have failed regardless.
> 
>

date: Fri, 2 May 2008 10:40:02 -0700   author:   Chris Meehan