Learn it, love it, powershell is your new friend for reporting on so many levels.
With the RBAC and server 2008 built in auditing, and you can enhance it to email you and scour the logs using powershell which is built into any MS product now built after 2003. Currently we are running Exchange 2010 and Im attempting to install an archiving program which needs Exchange Management Console installed on a Windows 2003 R2 32-bit server. If anyone could point me in the right direction that would be great. I know there is expensive software out there that can do it but I'm looking for something on the cheap. Now the next thing I would like to do is to enable some active directory/exchange auditing logging so that we know who does what and from what machine. Thanks Andy for your advise but doing exchange administration from our admins own pc is better for us instead of 5 admins remote connecting to the exchange server walking over another admins work. Is there somewhere online I can download this from I cant seem to find it.
If you use an admin account only and you have email, Active-sync won't work for that account. This was installed on a server in a different office and I dont have it here, but I need to install the management console on my local machine. A prompt comes up and I put in my admin account credentials. When I need to run an admin tool, I shift-right click the program icon and choose Run as different user. Based on the comments Ive received on this blog, Ive verified that there is an issue with the Exchange Management Console (GUI).
Verify your account to enable IT peers to see that you are a professional. In this post I’ll walk through installing the pre-requisites for Exchange Server 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2. Yeah, but we really shouldn't be logging on to our workstations as domain admins and doing email and web browsing. I needed to install the exchange 2010 management tools on a windows 2012 R2 server to support some o365 migration software. Install Management Tools for Exchange 2003 in Windows 7 - Spiceworks. Exchange Server 2010 can be installed on either Windows Server 2008 64-bit with Service Pack 2, or Windows Server 2008 64-bit R2, and either Standard or Enterprise editions.