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<p><strong>Step by Step Installing Exchange server 2013 from scratch (Part 1)</strong></p>
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<p>In this part, I will be demonstrate how to Install exchange 2013 and prepare new Databases along with preparing the servers for high availability (DAG).</p>



<p><strong>Prerequisites:</strong></p>



<p>&#8211; Two Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 servers with 16 GB ram and 200GB disk divided unto two partitions.</p>



<p>&#8211; Two NIC, one for MAPI and one for replication.</p>



<p>&#8211; Exchange 2013 CU8 setup to directly go to the latest available update.</p>



<p><strong>Installing Prerequisites on all exchange servers</strong></p>



<p>Launch Powershell as administrator and copy then paste the following.</p>



<p>Install-WindowsFeature RSAT-ADDS</p>



<p>From <;<a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Ftechnet.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Flibrary%2Fbb691354%28v%3Dexchg.150%29.aspx&;sa=D&;sntz=1&;usg=AFQjCNH7USc2N1rWNXDJOv4UXyNbvzByrA" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb691354(v=exchg.150).aspx</a>>;</p>



<p>When finished continue with the following Cmdlet on each Exchange server.</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list"><li>Install only the Mailbox server role on a computer.</li><li>Install only the Client Access server role on a computer.</li><li>Install both the Mailbox and Client Access server roles on the same computer.</li></ul>



<p>Install-WindowsFeature AS-HTTP-Activation, Desktop-Experience, NET-Framework-45-Features, RPC-over-HTTP-proxy, RSAT-Clustering, RSAT-Clustering-CmdInterface, RSAT-Clustering-Mgmt, RSAT-Clustering-PowerShell, Web-Mgmt-Console, WAS-Process-Model, Web-Asp-Net45, Web-Basic-Auth, Web-Client-Auth, Web-Digest-Auth, Web-Dir-Browsing, Web-Dyn-Compression, Web-Http-Errors, Web-Http-Logging, Web-Http-Redirect, Web-Http-Tracing, Web-ISAPI-Ext, Web-ISAPI-Filter, Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console, Web-Metabase, Web-Mgmt-Console, Web-Mgmt-Service, Web-Net-Ext45, Web-Request-Monitor, Web-Server, Web-Stat-Compression, Web-Static-Content, Web-Windows-Auth, Web-WMI, Windows-Identity-Foundation</p>



<p>From <;<a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Ftechnet.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Flibrary%2Fbb691354%28v%3Dexchg.150%29.aspx&;sa=D&;sntz=1&;usg=AFQjCNH7USc2N1rWNXDJOv4UXyNbvzByrA" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb691354(v=exchg.150).aspx</a>>;</p>



<p>First thing we extract the setup file and then from command line as administrator we run Setup as below</p>



<p>Setup /PrepareSchema /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms</p>



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<p>setup /PrepareAd /IacceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms /OrganizationName: Organization Name</p>



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<p>Setup /Preparedomain /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms</p>



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<p>Setup /PrepareAllDomains /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms</p>



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<p>You should download and install the following software prerequisites as per Microsoft’s TechNet article regarding the installation. the software is available the link I posted earlier above or through this link <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fonedrive.live.com%2Fredir%3Fresid%3D82488EABA4ACDB15!27587%26authkey%3D!AAiwKKH0x5i89Cw%26ithint%3Dfolder%252cexe&;sa=D&;sntz=1&;usg=AFQjCNFfd7XG4tMLjlOB6XT3s44IJJVCGQ" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Exchange_Prerequesties</a></p>



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<p>After running all the prerequisites , we can start installation of Exchange 2013</p>



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<p>Here I am going to change Exchange’s default installation path and place it on a different partition to avoid any data loss in case of Windows server crash or booting issues.</p>



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<p>Now we install the second Exchange server, that will hold the same roles on it as the first one (Mailbox and CAS).</p>



<p>The steps are going to be exactly the same except that you won&#8217;t have to prepare the schema or AD since it&#8217;s already prepared.</p>



<p>Installation has finished for both servers</p>



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<p>Creating DATABASES:</p>



<p>NOTE:</p>



<p>It&#8217;s better to mount the database upon creation and not restart the IS instantly after that.</p>



<p>Now it&#8217;s time to create new Databases and replace them with the default ones that come with the Installation</p>



<p>First we&#8217;ll have to start off by creating our targeted databases which we want to use them. Note that for the standard version of Exchange 2013 you can only create up to 5 databases per mailbox server.</p>



<p>In order to demonstrate all benefits of Exchange 2013 and its features including DAG. I will create 2 databases. One database on each server.</p>



<p>The first database will be called DB1SRV1</p>



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<p>As soon as we have created the Database, we faced the following error with event ID 106</p>
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<p>Then another warnıng from MSExchangeFastSearch wıth event id 1006</p>



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<p>This indicates that a database should not be mounted upon creation, you should untick the mount DB option when you create one.</p>



<p>After waiting a bit the following logs should appear and show a healthy indexing start.</p>



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<p>Once the DB has been created, Exchange AC will require that you restart the IS (Information store Service) in order for replication to happen without an issue.</p>



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<p>Database is showing healthy and no issues so far.</p>



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<p>Now we&#8217;ll create a new DB on the second server without ticking the mount DB option.</p>



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<p>Microsoft Exchange Server Locator Service failed to find active server for database &#8216;de5f3051-c202-4976-b8e4-65bbbe0c2395&#8217;. Error: The database with ID de5f3051-c202-4976-b8e4-65bbbe0c2395 couldn&#8217;t be found.</p>



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<p>The same exact errors came after creating the Database without mounting it.</p>



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<p>Now let&#8217;s restart the IS service and mount our database then see what happens..</p>



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<p>Upon restarting the service, we get the following error which is related to the MS Exchange replication service . It noticed that the database that we have created has never been mounted in order to start the indexing.</p>



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<p>Let&#8217;s mount the database and see the changes</p>



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<p>Mounting the database have got the AM to report successfully and after couple of seconds the MSExchangeFastSearch will check out if the database have any indexing files.</p>



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<p>No indexing state have been found and so the FastSearch service will give you a 1013 warning report. This is a good warning because it reports that the service is working properly and that it will create the indexing folder after couple of minutes as we&#8217;ll see later.</p>



<p>It takes approximately 3-5 minutes for the database to start the indexing.</p>



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<p>Now on the EAC, the DB should report healthy. Let&#8217;s see</p>



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<p>Removing Default databases</p>



<p>First step before deleting the default databases is to move any system mailboxes or arbitrary mailboxes in them to the newly created databases…</p>



<p>Paul Cunningham wrote a great article on how to do this using Powershell … in the following <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fexchangeserverpro.com%2Fexchange-2013-database-removal-error-this-mailbox-database-contains-one-or-more-mailboxes&;sa=D&;sntz=1&;usg=AFQjCNHPPaaij6nFjvbX0fckujFO2cfxpQ" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">link</a></p>



<p>Get-Mailbox -Database &#8220;Mailbox Database 2&#8221; | New-MoveRequest -TargetDatabase &#8220;Mailbox Database 1&#8221;</p>



<p>First we&#8217;ll have to copy the default databases&#8217; names in notepad to run the command properly.</p>



<p>Get-Mailbox -Database &#8220;Mailbox Database 0043173996&#8221; | New-MoveRequest -TargetDatabase &#8220;DB1SRV1&#8221;</p>



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<p>Time to remove arbitrary mailboxes from the default DB to the new DBs</p>



<p>The command is going to look like this</p>



<p>Get-Mailbox -Database &#8220;Mailbox Database 0043173996&#8221; -Arbitration | New-MoveRequest -TargetDatabase &#8220;DB1SRV1&#8221;</p>



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<p>All mailboxes have already been moved to the new DB, now let&#8217;s check if there&#8217;s anything left in the Old DB.</p>



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<p>To remove the DB, you will have to type the following command in EMC:</p>



<p>Remove-MailboxDatabase -Identity &#8220;Mailbox Database 0043173996&#8221;</p>



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<p>The warning above is apparently due to Exchange permission on AD. It has been described in detail on how to solve this warning by <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msexchange.org%2Fauthors%2Fnuno-mota%2F&;sa=D&;sntz=1&;usg=AFQjCNFeqw92qeJz86aWWfmtxsUAeYWs4A" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Nuno Mota</a> in the following Link.</p>



<p>From<a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msexchange.org%2Fkbase%2FExchangeServerTips%2FExchangeServer2013%2FManagementAdministration%2Fexchange-2013-error-deleting-database.html&;sa=D&;sntz=1&;usg=AFQjCNE6qTpOckTkv9Hv9_dMtXEwdDXlMQ" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><;http://www.msexchange.org/kbase/ExchangeServerTips/ExchangeServer2013/ManagementAdministration/exchange-2013-error-deleting-database.html>;</a></p>



<p>For the second server, You will have to repeat the same steps as on the first deleted MB Database.</p>
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