Autodiscover feature in Exchange 2007/2010 by Jaap Wesselius
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Creating online Archive is a one of the best future in MS Exchange. In the Exchange Server 2010 is very easy. In this tutorial I am going to show how easily you (Administrator) can setup a online Archive for particular user from Exchange Management Console.

Note: I assume that You have Administrator right to access Exchange Management Console and you have some users already created to test this future.
OK lets start.

Step 1:
Open Exchange 2010 Management Console. Which looks like the Image 1 bellow
Now click on Microsoft Exchange On-Premises and Recipient Configuration and Mailbox . Now you will see the screen like image I have bellow:

Step 2:
You can create a new user if you need or you can directly test with the users already created.
Now right-click on the user and the popup menu will appear.


Now goto the top of the Popup menu, which is Enable Archive click on that.
Once you click on Enable Archive , the management console will ask your permission to proceed with a confirmation request like the image bellow:

This step is also can be done from the Action menu from the right-hand side of the screen and clicking on Enable Archive.

Step 3:
Once you click on Yes, the console will start processing the Archive, that you can see. and also Once its done the confirmation will be displayed on right hand side of the task bar like: Enable Archive: Completed. Now the users of MS Outlook 2010 and OWA are able to see their online archive.

Step 4:
Now you have done with enabling Online Archive for the user, you need to check the functionality of Online Archive and verify its done or not.
Right-Click on the User you have eabled archive and clik on Properties.

Step 5:
One you have the Properties of particular user, go to the Mailbox Futures tab. In the Futures list you will see the Archive status will be enabled.

Step 6:
In this step you will learn how to rename the Enabled Online Archive. To do this Click on the Properties and you will have a Popup menu there you can rename it as per users requirement.

Step 7:
To Change Archive Quota: In this step you will change the required quota of Archived folder as per requirement.
To do this, Click on the Mailbox Settings tab from the User Properties and click on Archive Quota. You will be prompted with a menu there you can setup the required Quota for users.

Step 8:
Click OK and save your settings. Now if you need to check the settings you made from Windows PS, you need to run bellow command:

get-mailbox user-name : f1 displayname.*archive*

You will get the bellow results.

Thats it and you are done.

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Now you can download and try the new MS exchange server 2010 from MS website.

In this article I tried to show how to install the beta version of MS exchange 2010 in your testing environment.

First of all you must understand that, Exchange 2010 can only be installed in Windows Server 2008 SP2 x64 or Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 (Enterprise or Standard Edition) Note: It won’t support Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 x32 version

Exchange 2010 System Requirements

Please refer here. After installing the OS or if you have the required OS ready, you must have some prerequisites. Those are listed here. Also I managed to list some prerequisites here:
Operating system components, including RSAT-ADDS (needed on server that will perform schema updates), Web-Server, Web-Metabase, Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console, Web-ISAPI-Ext, NET-HTTP-Activation, Web-Basic-Auth, Web-Digest-Auth, Web-Windows-Auth, Web-Dyn-Compression, RPC-over-HTTP-proxy, Web-Net-Ext and [dot].Net-Framework.

You can install all of these components at one time (e.g., for the Mailbox, Client Access and/or Hub Transport Server roles) by running the following command:

ServerManagerCmd -i RSAT-ADDS Web-Server Web-Metabase Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console Web-ISAPI-Ext NET-HTTP-Activation Web-Basic-Auth Web-Digest-Auth Web-Windows-Auth Web-Dyn-Compression RPC-over-HTTP-proxy Web-Net-Ext -Restart

For more information about the prerequisites for Exchange 2010, including those for the Edge Transport server role, see Exchange 2010 Prerequisites.

Exchange Server 2010 also supports installing the above pre-requisites by using an Answer File with ServerManagerCmd, and answer files are included in the \AMD64\Scripts folder. To use them, you run ServerManagerCmd -ip . For example:
ServerManagerCmd -ip Exchange-CAS.XML

Next, are the software pre-requisites, which include:

• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
• Windows Remote Management (WinRM) 2.0 CTP 3
• Windows PowerShell 2.0 CTP 3
• Update from KB 951725
• Update from KB 950888
• Update from KB 951116
• Update from KB 952664
• Update from KB 953290
• Update from KB 958178

See Exchange 2010 Prerequisites for information about and links to other pre-requisites that might apply to your environment (e.g., for Edge Transport and Unified Messaging server roles, and for environments that use System Center Operations Manager).

Once the above pre-requisites have been installed, check Microsoft Update for any additional updates that might be needed. Make sure the system has been rebooted after installing any updates which require a reboot.

Now you’re ready to install Exchange 2010. You can perform the installation using the GUI or command-line version of Setup. In this example, I’ll use the GUI.

I’ll start by launching Setup.exe from the AMD64 folder. It will show you a splash screen similar to the bellow one:
This Splash screen is much similor to the Exchange 2007 screen. In this screen you can see some pre-requisites will be grayed if they are already installed, if not you will be promted to install them first. Once all the pre-requisites ready, the Exchange Installer will take you directly Step 4.

Step 4: Install Microsoft Exchange. Clcik on that and the GUI will appear and shows you that, exchange setup is coping required files into your server. (Image 2 is GUI you will see)

Once all the files copied you will see the MS Exchange 2010 introduction page, which is below:

Click on Next and Language files location page appears.

If you have language files other than English (Its default language of my Server), you can browse and select it, or you can just by clicking Continue setups without language files radio button (The setup will take your system default language as Exchange’s language). Click Next to proceed.

This screen confirms your selected Language.

Click on Next, now you will see License Agreement page:

After reading the license agreement, select I accept the terms in the license agreement and click Next. The Error Reporting page appears:

You must select Yes (Recommended), if you want to send error report, its really useful tool, Or you can select NO to not to send error report.And click on Next. he Installation Type page appears:

Immediately, you might notice some differences from Exchange Server 2007. First, the Custom Exchange Server Installation option no longer lists any clustered mailbox server roles. That’s because clustered mailbox servers don’t exist in Exchange Server 2010. Exchange 2010 includes a new feature called Incremental Deployment. This feature enables to you configure high availability and site resilience for your mailbox database after Exchange has been installed. Second, the default path for the Exchange Server installation is new and different. If I choose Custom Exchange Server Installation, the Server Role Selection page appears:

Choose Typical Exchange Server Installation instead of Custom Exchange Server Installation and click Next, or after completed the Custom Exchange Server Installation choices and click Next, the Exchange Organization page appears:

Specify a name for Exchange Organization, and then click Next. The Client Settings page appears:

If your Exchange organization uses Outlook 2003 or earlier, or Microsoft Entourage, then a public folder database is needed so that those clients can access system data, such as Free/Busy information. In that case, you would select Yes on this page. Since im not using Outlook 2003 or earlier, or Entourage, I can leave the default setting of No and click Next.

The Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) page appears:

I’ll click Join the Exchange Customer Experience Improvement Program and specify an industry of Computer-Related Products/Services.

I click Next. The Readiness Checks page appears, and Setup automatically performs readiness checks for any installed language packs, as well as the selected server roles to be installed.

The readiness checks don’t take much time at all. Once all readiness checks have successfully passed, the Readiness Check page will look like this:

Now, the system and server are ready for the installation to begin. Click on Install to start the installation of Exchange 2010 Mailbox, Client Access and Hub Transport server roles, as well as the Exchange Management tools (Exchange Management Console and Exchange Management Shell).
While Setup is progressing, a Progress page will be appeared:

Once all the componets installed you will see green checkmark, like bellow image:

Installing Exchange 2010 is quick and easy. In some systems it might take less then 30mins. Uncheck the Finalize installation using the Exchange Management Console checkbox, and click Finish to complete the Setup process. This returns Setup to the splash screen. Click Close to close the splash screen, and when the Confirm Exit dialog appears:

Click Yes.

Then, reboot the server. (There is no need of restarting, but I recommend you to do so.

The installation of Exchange Server 2010 is now complete.

Source: www.technohub.in

If you want more detailed installation of Exchange server 2010 (not beta), check here: http://muc-ug.org.in/index.php/articles/exchange-2010/109-installing-exchange-server-2010.html