Installing Exchange Server 2019

Hello!

I am thinking to start a sequence of Exchange Server posts about some configs to do after the installation.
So, this post will cover the basic process of installation.

An interesting site to check the Exchange Server builds to always check is:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/new-features/build-numbers-and-release-dates?view=exchserver-2019

Also, check the supportability matrix and prerequisites to make a good instalation and avoid problems:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/plan-and-deploy/supportability-matrix?view=exchserver-2019
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/plan-and-deploy/prerequisites?view=exchserver-2019

Exchange Server does not support less than Windows Server 2019. Microsoft recommend install the Exchange Server on Windows Server 2019 Server Core, because it provides the most secure platform.
Now, you can use until 48 processor cores and up to 256 GB of RAM.

The first think you need to do is update the Windows Server Server. After it, download the follow items:

.Net Framework 4.7.2 or later
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=863265

Visual C++ 2012 and 2013
https://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=30679
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2002913

Unified Communications Managed API 4.0 Runtime
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=260990

And after, instal in the same order...

.Net Framework....

Microosf tVisual C++ 2012



Microsoft Visual C++ 2013


Install Exchange Server 2019 Microsoft Unified Communications Managed API 4.0, Runtime Setup


Now, it's time to execute the following commands in elevated powershell:

Desktop Experience:
Install-WindowsFeature Server-Media-Foundation, NET-Framework-45-Features, RPC-over-HTTP-proxy, RSAT-Clustering, RSAT-Clustering-CmdInterface, RSAT-Clustering-Mgmt, RSAT-Clustering-PowerShell, 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, RSAT-ADDS

Core Experience:
Install-WindowsFeature Server-Media-Foundation, NET-Framework-45-Features, RPC-over-HTTP-proxy, RSAT-Clustering, RSAT-Clustering-CmdInterface, RSAT-Clustering-PowerShell, 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-Metabase, Web-Mgmt-Service, Web-Net-Ext45, Web-Request-Monitor, Web-Server, Web-Stat-Compression, Web-Static-Content, Web-Windows-Auth, Web-WMI, RSAT-ADDS

For this lab, we have used the features for Desktop Experience

Sucess. Now let's prepare the Organization

Setup.exe /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms /PrepareAD /OrganizationName:"UCSteps" 



Now is the time to install the Exchange Server 2019.
Setup.exe /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms /Mode:Install /Roles:Mailbox /on:"UCSteps"


Good. Try to access https://localhost/ecp
And then the magic happens






I hope you enjoy it.
The next post is about configuring our Exchange Server