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Exchange Server Cookbook
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Exchange Server Cookbook

by Paul Robichaux, Missy Koslosky, Devin L. Ganger
June 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
464 pages
13h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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2.5. Preparing an Active Directory Domain for Exchange

Problem

You want to prepare an Active Directory domain for the installation of an Exchange server.

Solution

Using a graphical user interface

  1. Log in with a domain account that is a member of the Domain Admins and Administrators (if running from a member server) groups.

  2. Start Exchange Setup from the product CD.

  3. Select Exchange Deployment Tools.

  4. Select DomainPrep and click Next.

  5. Accept the license agreement and, if prompted, enter your product key.

  6. On the Component Selection page, be sure that the Action is set to DomainPrep. If it is not, select DomainPrep from the drop-down list, then click Next.

  7. Allow the process to finish.

Discussion

Like forestprep, domainprep is normally a one-time operation performed before Exchange is installed. It performs several necessary actions:

  1. It creates the Exchange Domain Servers global security group in the Users container. This security-sensitive group will eventually contain all of the Exchange servers in the domain and is required for the Recipient Update Service (RUS) to work because the RUS runs as a child of the System Attendant, which runs in the LocalSystem context. For the RUS to touch directory objects, this group must exist and the local machine account must be in it. However, adding an ordinary account to this group gives that account full access to Exchange 2000 mailbox data. For that reason, Exchange Server 2003 adds an explicit deny ACE on the Servers container for this group. To accomplish ...

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