Preparing Active Directory for Exchange

Out of the box, Active Directory knows nothing about Exchange, so you have to prepare Active Directory to support the deployment of your Exchange organization. Running any setup operation that updates Active Directory can only be executed on a server that has the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) feature installed. To install this feature on a server running Windows Server 2012, start Windows PowerShell and type the command:

Install-WindowsFeature RSAT-ADDS

The basic framework for preparation of Active Directory for a new Exchange organization is as follows:

  1. Make sure that the forest runs in Windows Server 2003 functional mode or higher. The computers used for domain controllers and global catalog servers ...

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