{"id":78,"date":"2010-03-16T15:21:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T23:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:46:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:46:24","slug":"how-to-install-exchange-2010-on-windows-server-2008-r2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Exchange 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 is the seventh major version of the product. Like its predecessor \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Exchange Server 2007 it is running on x64 OS platform and offers integration with your phone system. Even though this version is not revolutionary \u00e2\u20ac\u201c some specialists consider it as a major Service Pack to Exchange Server 2007, it brings some important changes and a lot of small improvements.<\/p>\n<p>In the following <strong><a title=\"How to Install Exchange 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/video\/tutorials\/how-to-install-exchange-2010-on-windows-2008-R2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Step-by-Step video tutorial<\/a><\/strong>, we will start with the simplest scenario \u00e2\u20ac\u201c greenfield installation of Exchange Server 2010 on a Windows Server 2008 R2.<br \/>\nA couple of words about our network configuration \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we have three domain controllers, running Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Exchange Server 2010 will be installed on a dedicated Windows 2008 R2 member server.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to run Active Directory Health Check, before you proceed with Exchange Server 2010 installation. You will see how to test and confirm DNS server configuration and health, AD replication and how to generate the necessary reports.<br \/>\nWe will go through the process of checking and installing Exchange Server 2010 prerequisites, the actual Exchange installation, and the obligatory post installation Exchange Server validation. The validation includes checking Exchange Setup log, the event viewer messages about MSExchangeSetup, Server roles installation and Exchange Services health status.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"How to Install Exchange 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/video\/tutorials\/how-to-install-exchange-2010-on-windows-2008-R2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"How to Install Exchange 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2\" alt=\"How to Install Exchange 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog-pics\/exchange-2010-2008-R2.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">How to Install Exchange 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Stay tuned on <strong><a title=\"NetoMeter - Screencasts and Step-by-Step Video Tutorials\" href=\"..\/..\/blog\/?feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NetoMeter<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; subscribe to<a title=\"NetoMeter - Screencasts and Step-by-Step Video Tutorials\" href=\"..\/..\/blog\/?feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <strong>NetoMeter RSS<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dean<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the following Step-by-Step video tutorial, we will start with the simplest scenario \u00e2\u20ac\u201c greenfield installation of Exchange Server 2010 on a Windows Server 2008 R2.<br \/>\nA couple of words about our network configuration \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we have three domain controllers, running Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Exchange Server 2010 will be installed on a dedicated Windows 2008 R2 member server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netometer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}