Maintenant après vérification des composants entiers de préinstallation, si nous commençons l'installation nous recevra certains messages d'erreur tels que celui-ci :

L'installation a rencontré un problème tout en validant l'état d'annuaire actif : La version de logiciel d'exploitation de contrôleur de domaine est 5.0 (2195) paquets 4 de service. La version minimum exigée est 5.2 (3790) paquets 1 de service.

C'une question commune réellement, la raison derrière ceci est que l'installation vérifie tout DCs qu'ils doivent être 2003 sp1 aussi bien que le GCs, en raison de celui que nous devons diriger l'installation au C.C 2003 spécifique. Cette question sera fixée dans l'échange 2007 sp1. Ainsi, je vais commencer l'installation en mode sans surveillance commençant près à préparer la forêt en courant les commutateurs mentionnés précédemment mais avec indiquer /dc : paramètre au point au C.C 2003 de fenêtres. La première chose que nous devons faire dans l'échange se déployant 2007 dans une organisation d'échange de legs est de courir

Setup.com /PrepareLegacyExchangePermissions

le ¢After€ d'â que nous devons préparer le schéma, ceci peut être fait en courant la commande suivante

Setup.com /PrepareSchema /dc :NameofWindows2003DC

Préparez l'ANNONCE, en dactylographiant la commande :

Setup.com /PrepareAD /dc :NameofWindows2003DC

Note : vous pouvez courir la commande de Setup.com /PrepareAD avant de courir /PrepareLegacyExchangePermissions et /PrepareSchema, ceci courra /PrepareLegacyExchangePermissions et /PrepareSchema commande automatiquement.

Maintenant nous pouvons commencer l'installation, mais nous devons commencer l'installation en mode sans surveillance en tant que nous avons dit, en combinant un couple des commutateurs avec la commande d'installation, selon vos besoins :

installation /m : Installez /roles : M, HT, C, LA TA /dc :

Avant que nous obtenions commencés par l'installation de l'échange 2007 on lui recommande de courir la dernière version des meilleurs outils d'analyseur de pratique en matière d'échange maintenant, et choisit le contrôle 2007 de promptitude d'échange, dans mon cas, l'outil m'a présenté le rapport suivant :

Ainsi, mon organisation d'échange est en mode mélangé, il doit être changée en mode indigène. Généralement il y a trois choses nécessaires qui doivent vérifié avant d'installer l'échange 2007, ils sont :

• Forêt active d'annuaire :
  • le niveau de fonctionnalité de domaine doit être le serveur 2003 de Windows 2000 ou de Windows
  • the domain controller that is the schema master is running Windows Server 2003 SP1 or higher
  • the Global Catalog server is running Windows Server 2003 SP1 or higher

There are some switches that you can run them to prepare the environment by preparing the permission required for exchange 2007, preparing the schema, preparing active directory, and preparing domain. Those switches are:

Setup.com /PrepareLegacyExchangePermissions
Setup.com /PrepareSchema
Setup.com /PrepareAD
Setup.com /PrepareDomain or Setup.com /PrepareAllDomains

Note: you can run the 32-bit version of Exchange 2007 from the trial CD to prepare you environment.

• Exchange organization
  • it is a must to run the exchange organization in native mode
  • because of this all Exchange servers running Exchange 5.5 or earlier must be removed

In my case I have to change the organization mode simply by opening the exchange system manager, right click exchange organization, choose properties then choose the change mode button you will get a warning message, click yes, as simple as that.

Server requirements:

• .Net framework 2.0
• Update KB926776

Here is another great guest post from: Jason Boche, MCSE NT4/2000/2003, MCSA 2000/2003, MCP, VCPx2, CCA, A+

If you have used Compaq/HP brand server hardware, you are most likely familiar with RILOE boards (Remote Insight Lights Out Edition) and ILO boards (Integrated Lights Out). These are hardware devices that provide remote access to Compaq/HP server hardware. A key benefit is their "out of band" management attribute, meaning they operate independent of the server's native host operating system, network, and CPU. They've got their own CPU, memory, and a built in web server which listens on ports 80 and 443 and serves as the configuration and management tool. Another benefit is the encrypted traffic that passes along the wire between RILOE/ILO and the client web browser which is accessing it. By default, this traffic is passed on TCP port 443. If you've used the RILOE/ILO before, you are probably used to seeing the following all too familiar screen:

The underlying reason for this is that your client knows nothing about the certificate authority from which the certificate for the RILOE/ILO was generated, other than it is not trusted. This is no cause for alarm as long as you trust the Hewlett Packard company from Houston, TX, however, failure to address this will cost you an extra mouse click each and every time you access this or any other RILOE/ILO on your network. Considerably more harmful is the numbing effect this screen will cause for each administrator who is

This great article come from Michael Khanin (MCP, MCP+I, CNA, CNE, MCSE) who also blogs on his blog site http://TheSystemAdministrator.com

Recently there was a necessity to install a Virtual CD/DVD on many computers on the same network. And it was necessary, that the virtual CD/DVD would be set to a special letter in the system. Right now there are a lot of programs which emulate CD/DVD and can mount any CDs/DVD images, as I wished to make all installation and configuration run remotely (well laziness by me, not wanting to run from computer to computer) It was necessary for the program to install in silent mode. After a quick search I chose ÐœagicDisc.

I've selected this program for several reasons:

1. The program is free-of-charge (but not all options work in the free-of-charge version, but what is necessary for me, works)

2. There is opportunity to run setup in silent mode.

3. It is possible to operate all necessary functions from a command line.

For a more satisfiying management experience from the command line one more file, Miso.exe is required.

The given file can be found on the ÐœagicDisc site.

For the installation I have written a script, INSTALL-V-CD.bat.

INSTALL-V-CD.bat is very simple and contains just one line:

setup_magicdisc.exe /S

To start the script on a remote system I used psexec.exe which can be downloaded here.

After the installation of ÐœagicDisc, it was necessary to copy miso.exe to the remote computer. It is important to note that miso.exe should be located in a directory which is registered in the system PATH.

Now the most interesting part. We create virtual a CD

Providing a Default Domain for Microsoft FTP User Authentication

Jason Boche, MCSE NT4/2000/2003, MCSA 2000/2003, MCP, VCPx2, CCA, A+

As usual, I have a story behind most of my experiences. If you’re not interested in reading about it, skip to the section “How to do it�.

I’ve been using FTP servers since I learned how to write and publish web pages in HTML – about the early to mid 1990’s. I found using an FTP client to connect to an FTP server was pretty straight forward. The three required elements to provide are a host name, a user name, and a password. Sure, there are additional parameters that can be provided such as configuring a connection through a firewall, changing ports, or providing local and remote working directories, but let’s keep it simple, because that’s what this article is about – keeping it simple for end users who are not as technical, and would like to keep it that way.

Fast forward a few years. Now I’ve got fast ADSL broadband internet connectivity, as many static IP addresses as I want through my local ISP (static IPs still weren’t a hot commodity to be cherished back then), and servers in my spare bedroom running Microsoft IIS and FTP, as well as domain controllers. I decided that I’ve got more than enough bandwidth to host some websites for friends and small businesses in the area. These customers are not technically savvy. They’ve put together a website using some do-it-yourself WYSIWYG tool