Approaching the installation
If you have done the work to prepare the environment by installing the various prerequisites on the servers that will host Exchange (see Chapter 1), the Exchange installation process is straightforward and painless. The steps that you’ll take include the following:
If you are deploying Exchange for the first time, you have to select a name for the organization. An organization name can be up to 64 characters and obviously cannot be blank. You can include spaces in the name; if this is the case and you install Exchange from the command line, enclose the name in quotes. You don’t need to enclose the name in quotes if you install with the graphical user interface (GUI). Users don’t see the organization name. Usually, the ...
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