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Chapter 1
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Designing and Planning Messaging Services
FIGURE 1.2 Server provisioning
You cannot delegate the first Exchange Server 2007 server installation; this
server must be installed by an account that is a member of the Exchange
Organization Administrators group.
You can remove a server that has been provisioned or where the provision failed using the
following command:
Exsetup /RemoveProvisionedServer:<FQDN of server name>
The Practical Case for Server Provisioning
For smaller Exchange installations, server provisioning might seem like something you’ll never
need. This is true if you’re talking about single-site Exchange installations that are run by a single
Exchange administrator. But once you have a multisite Exchange installation where every site
wants to manage their Exchange servers on their own, you might have trouble.
In a combined Exchange organization, there must be a single instance that controls the global
topics such as connectors or settings. If everybody manages these settings, and if your fellow
admin configures something wrong, then your users may not be able to send/receive emails
for some time. So, what can you (as the “global” Exchange administrator) do to solve this?
You can install Exchange Server for your fellow administrators or give them Exchange Organi-
zation Administrators permission so they can do it on their own. The best solution is to use
server provisioning—you can pre-assign the administrators with the correct permissions so
they can install their own Exchange server and do not interfere with any global settings as they
just have Exchange Server Administrators permission on their server.
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