In this article we are going cover Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP3 server installation and Creating mail boxes.
Before installing Exchange 2010 please check the prerequisites for Exchange server 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2.
Please open the windows power shell with administrator privilege and run the below commands
Add-Windows Feature NET-Framework,RSAT-ADDS,Web-Server,Web-Basic-Auth,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Metabase,Web-Net-Ext,Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console,WAS-Process-Model,RSAT-Web-Server,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-Digest-Auth,Web-Dyn-Compression,NET-HTTP-Activation,RPC-Over-HTTP-Proxy -Restart
Please see the below screen shot for reference
please click enter once you type the commands and start the installation
After restarted server then start the exchange 2010 installation now you can see the installation of exchange server 2010
Please click next in setup page
Please select no and click next in error reporting window
Please select the type of exchange server installation then click next
Please specify the name of the exchange organization and click next
Please select the client settings and then click next
Then configure your client access server for external domain access. Please enter the domain name and click next
please select the customer experience improvement option then click next
Now you can see your server verifying for exchange prerequisites
please click install once your server ready for exchange installation. If you get any error while checking kindly download and install the request updates from Microsoft websites then clear the errors.
Now you can see your Exchange installation progress. It might take time more than 40 minutes for completing the installation.
please click finish in the installation wizard once your exchange server roles has been installed successfully
Please restart the server for making the changes Effectively.
After successful installation of Exchange 2010 now open the exchange console panel for creating your mailbox data base. please click on new mailbox data base for creating data base
Please mention the mail box data base name in the wizard
please select the data base paths where you want to locate your data base then click next
now you can see your mail box data base will be created.
click finish once your wizard installation wizard completed successfully.
Now you can see in exchange panel your mail box data base has been created successfully.
now you can see how we are creating user mailbox
click new mail box on the wizard
choose mail box type
Then select the user type
now enter the user name and account information for mail box
click next once you fill up the account information
Enter the alias for the mail box user and select the location settings
Select the mailbox database then click Ok
click next once you selected database
select the archive settings
click next for creating new mailbox
click finish once the wizard completed successfully.
Now you can see your user mailbox has been created successfully in exchange panel.
select the mail box which you want to move to other database.
Right click on the user mailbox then click new local move request
select the mailbox then click next for move database
select the mailbox database where you want to move the selected user mailbox then click ok
now you can see the selected database in target window
select the skip mailbox then click next
click new to move the mailbox to target database
click finish once wizard completed successfully.
click move request option to check the move request status.
check the properties of the user mailbox for database location then click ok
Go to the DNS manager and right click on the domain name for creating the new resource record
now you can access your mailbox through outlook web access
Put your user credentials in the login page.
Select the language and time zone
Now you can see you have received mail in your mailbox.
select new exchange option for assigning the certificate services for the existing server
Right click on the exchange server and slick on assign the certificate services
Then select the server and click next to assign the certificate services
select the services for certifying your exchange server then click next
click assign to continue in the wizard screen
click yes to assign SMTP Certificate for your exchange server
click finish once your wizard completed successfully.
