EBS Installation Finalizes Exchange Server Deployment
When installing Exchange Server 2007 as a regular old standalone product, opening the Exchange Management console for the first time presents you with this gem of a task list…
There’s quite a bit of stuff on that Finalize Deployment list, some of which is required to actually get your deployment to a point where it can be considered complete AKA functional. Obviously, some of that depends upon the features you want to use. Here’s a TechNet article that talks about these critical post-installation tasks.
You see the same list in Essential Business Server when you open Exchange Management Console. But nearly every item on that list is already handled for you, thanks to the magical world created by Essential Business Server’s Integrated Installation wizards.
In particular, you don’t have to fret about that first item. So don’t waste any of your valuable time looking for an Exchange Server license key to enter. Just like the Prego spaghetti sauce ads say…it’s in there!
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You also get this on SBS 2008. Especially if you screw up the Answer File in a Migration install (guess who learned this in a failed migration in a virtual test environment?).
And the wizards in SBS and EBS are really, really nice. Especially if you haven’t Powershelled yourself up to the eyeballs to automate configuration and deployment of non-xBS Exchange 2007 installs.
comment by Chris Knight — December 1, 2008 @ 8:39 am