SAS 013 – In the Lab – Installing Exchange 2016

SysAdmin Show

In today’s show I add email to the lab with Exchange 2016.

• Follow Up
  • From last show
    • Grounding bar
    • Conduits and ladder rack
    • Airflow
    • Data Closet Specs
• Today’s Show
  • Exchange 2016 Cu11 install files
    • https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=57388
    • The 2016 trial will not install on server 2016, but the CU is a full installer and will go into trial mode
    • VCC 2013: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40784
    • UCMA Runtime 4.0: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34992
    • .Net 4.7.1 Web Installer: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=56115
  • Office 365 ProPlus Evaluation
    • https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-office-365-proplus
  • VMware Snapshots
  • Email Server VM
  • Client workstation VMs
  • Create User1 & User2 accounts on the domain
    • Add Email accounts for them
  • Exchange Admin Center
    • Web based
    • https://lab-email01/eac
    • Ignore self-signed certificate
  • Setup Outlook on both workstations
  • Send test email from user1 on workstation01 to user2 on workstation02

• Final Thoughts
  • Exchange is a fairly advanced topic, so it is great to have access to it in the lab. I could easily dedicate this podcast to only Exchange and never run out of things to talk about. I expect to go future episodes it.
  • Building a DAG would be the next logical step
  • Where should we go from here in the Lab