Small Business Susan

Right about now in this stage of the process I am questioning my sanity.  I honestly have never installed Exchange before.  So while I want to go through the methodical step by step gui process to understand what is going on, to make this feasible from a business deployment standpoint we either need to script it or PowerShell this deployment in the future to make it repeatable.  While the TechNet Essentials instructions have a script for Exchange 2010 (see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj200172.aspx) , they do not have one for 2013.

What you can do when it’s your first is to obviously test.  Or hire the folks at www.thirdtier.net to do it for you and then you hang over their shoulder (virtually that is) and pepper them with questions.  And review the current script info posted on Exchange 2013 – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997281%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx

At this point remember to back up your SBS box because we are making changes to Active Directory…. and here we go….

Now copying files

We’re getting mailboxes installed…

Client access role

Next step 10

Next step

Right about now you see we need more automation and a script if we’re going to be doing this over and over again for clients

We’re onto step 13

Step 14

And we’re done

1. On the Completion page, click Finish.

1. Restart the computer after Exchange 2013 has completed.