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Few points I wanted to share on Exchange 2007 setup:

01. Exchange 2007 Server Role requirements:

Mailbox server:

— Internet Information Services (IIS)
— COM+ access (IIS 6.0 component)
— World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC)
— Hotfix that is described in Knowledge Base article 904639 & 918980

Client Access server:

— World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC)
— Remote procedure call (RPC) over Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Proxy Windows networking component
— ASP.NET version 2.0
— Distributed Transaction Coordinator service

Edge Transport server:

— Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM)
— Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS)
— Configure DNS suffix

02. Exchange 2007 setup options:

— setup /PrepareLegacyExchangePermissions or setup /pl. You must be a member of the Enterprise Admins group to run this step. This will grant specific Exchange permissions in each domain in which you have run Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2000 DomainPrep.
— setup /PrepareSchema or setup /ps. This command connects to the schema master and imports LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) files to update the schema with Exchange 2007 specific attributes.
— Run setup /PrepareDomain or setup /pd to prepare the local domain.
— Run setup /PrepareDomain: to prepare a specific domain.
— Run setup /PrepareAllDomains or setup /pad to prepare all domains in your organization.
— To install Exchange 2007 SP1 in unattended mode:

Setup.com [/mode:] [/roles:]

Modes: Install; Uninstall; RecoverServer

For example: Setup.com /mode:install /role:Mailbox,HubTransport /TargetDir:”C:\Exchange 2007″
— Setup.com /mode:Upgrade
This command upgrades an Exchange 2007 server to Exchange 2007 SP1.

03. Exchange 2007 Setup by default creates the setup progress file in C:\ExchangeSetupLogs. The log file is ExchangeSetup.log. This log file can be used for troubleshooting if setup fails and can also be referred for setup process followed.

04. The following are the Microsoft Exchange security groups that get created with Exchaneg 2007 installation:

1. Exchange Organization Administrators
2. Exchange Recipient Administrators
3. Exchange Servers
4. Exchange View-Only Administrators
5. ExchangeLegacyInterop
6. Exchange Public Folder Administrators (with E2k7 SP1 installation only)

05. You can remove a particular Exchange 2007 server role from the server either using Add/Remove Programs or using Powershell. Using Control Panel- Add/Remove Programs, when you select to remove a particular server role, the “Exchange Maintenance Mode” wizard starts.
Using Powershell, follow the below syntax:
Setup.com /mode:uninstall /role:

Eg: Setup.com /mode:uninstall /role:ht,ca

You cannot add the Edge Transport server role to a computer that has any of the other server roles installed.