On the install, the Exchange installer didn't ask me to run ForestPrep
or ADPrep -- it just tweaked AD during the process with my credentials.
There are also a couple of neat tool shortcuts inside Exchange System
Manager. At the bottom of the tree part of the MMC are links to
Exchange Best Practices Analyzer (installed automatically), which
auto-updates as soon as it is launched. The first time I ran it, I got
a squawk about having no WINS server. I run a brand-new Windows Server
2003 Domain at the W2K3 functional level (on a separate box), have DNS
working great (even replicating to BIND 9.3.1), but Exchange 12 still
wants to see WINS. This makes me think that WINS may not be going away
in my lifetime.
The next shortcut in the toolbox is to PerfMon, (as long as I can run
it with “perfmon” I won’t call it “System Monitor” with a nice default
set of SMTP send and receive stats, Mapi.net and IS RPC hits, total
memory pages, and total processor time.
The final toolbox shortcut is Exchange queues, which saves time from
drilling down to find the SMTP/IMAP/whatever server you’re looking for
and hitting F5 a bunch of times. You get there faster, but you still
need to hit F5 for faster updates.
Also: Exchange 12 and SharePoint Services don’t seem to get along.
Exchange 12 and SQL 2005 share the same box fine so far, and SharePoint
installs and extends sites fine, but when it comes time to create a
site, it chokes, using the web-based administrator and stsadmin.exe.
Thus I may be installing IIS and SharePoint services on my Domain
Controller.
Even in my home lab, I hate compromises.
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