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[leco]

I am about to embark on a journey of discovery and have fallen at the first stile

 

The story so far ....

Transitioning from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 - following some articles from Technet amongst others
Exchange 2003 is on a physical W2k3 server
Exchange 2010 is to go on a virtual W2k10 R2 server
I have the ISO for Exchange 2010 and need to set some command switches on the setup.exe file (I think that's what it says)
I am doing all this remotely

 

Now my questions

- I assume that I need to burn the ISO to disc before I can set the switches?

- if I do then how can I burn the ISO to an ordinary folder, rather than a physical disc in the DVD/RW drive?

 

Is there an obvious way to do this that I'm not seeing?

[RabbieBurns]

you can mount an iso using daemon tools lite or such. I use VirtualCloneDrive I think by Elaborate Bytes which is free

[leco]

you can mount an iso using daemon tools lite or such. I use VirtualCloneDrive I think by Elaborate Bytes which is free

 

Thanks, do you have links to those by any chance?

[RabbieBurns]

http://www.disk-tools.com/request?p=d05ee7d10210763237f27b576ea2b83a/DTLite4356-0091.exe

[leco]

Link brings me back to this thread - is that right?

[RabbieBurns]

maybe it didnt like direct linking

 

try this:

 

 

Disk-Tools.com - Published Software Download

[leco]

Thanks that's worked

[RabbieBurns]

No worries. Its pretty easy to use. Just right click on the CD icon in the taskbar, select mount Image, browse to the .iso and it will mount it as a CD-Drive in My Computer

[leco]

OK but will it be a writable disc or will I need to transfer all the files to the hard drive?

[RabbieBurns]

No it will be just like a DVD-ROM or CD-ROM

 

Why would you need to write to it?

 

If you need to run setup.exe with switches, just click start->Run-> type "e:\setup.exe /flag1 /flag2"

[leco]

Oh I thought that the switches would be added to the setup.exe file - hence the write to disc question. (can you tell I haven't done this before?)

[RabbieBurns]

switches are just runtime parameters added to the command, you dont need to physically change the file.

 

Its liike doing DIR /P

 

The command is DIR to show the directorly listing. The /P just splits it up into page at a time view

[DrCheese]

If you ever just want to extract an iso, you can do so with 7zip. It extracts it to a folder like Winzip.

[leco]

switches are just runtime parameters added to the command, you dont need to physically change the file.

 

Its liike doing DIR /P

 

The command is DIR to show the directorly listing. The /P just splits it up into page at a time view

 

So they have to be typed in just before the actual setup.exe is run or are they somehow saved for execution when called for?

[RabbieBurns]

instead of just double ckicking on the setup.exe

 

you would open up a run box ( Start -> Run)

 

then put setup.exe /switch1 /switch2 /switch3 etc

 

What is the switches that its saying you need to run?

[leco]

There's a few that are done one after the other:

"Setup.com /PrepareLegacyExchangePermissions"

"Setup.com /PrepareSchema"

 

to name the first two

 

I'm now thinking that these are to be run on the existing Exchange installation - would that make sense?

Edited April 3, 2010 by leco

[RabbieBurns]

It would probably be the new one. I dont know. When I installed exchange 2010 I just did a fresh install not an upgrade.

[EduTech]

If you ever just want to extract an iso, you can do so with 7zip. It extracts it to a folder like Winzip.

 

I Extract ISO Images alot to be honest, saves keep having to keep burning them to DVD/CD i never had to mount them but i say this works also as said above.

 

James.

[leco]

I've decided that since I haven't a clue what I'm doing I'd best not do it at all, well not until I can get my head round it anyways. Currently having difficulty with the virtual server not being able to connect to the internet which is somewhat hampering my progress. Intermittently it can see the rest of the network (local domain) and there again it might decide that it can't. Plus it's getting slower and slower when I log in.

 

Think I need a tea break Thanks for the help I'll no doubt be back.

[john]

I mounted the ISO for 2010 as discussed above and it worked fine for my Exchange 2010 install

[leco]

I mounted the ISO for 2010 as discussed above and it worked fine for my Exchange 2010 install

 

Did you do a fresh install then move all the mailboxes across at some point? I was thinking that the two would run side by side as it were until I decommission the 2003 server.

[john]

Did you do a fresh install then move all the mailboxes across at some point? I was thinking that the two would run side by side as it were until I decommission the 2003 server.

It was a brand new install with no migration I'm afraid, but I was trying to illustrate the point that the ISO mounting daemon tools work fine, just mount the ISO and then it runs as if its a real DVD in the Server, it doesn't realise its not a real DVD in the Server that way.

[leco]

It was a brand new install with no migration I'm afraid, but I was trying to illustrate the point that the ISO mounting daemon tools work fine, just mount the ISO and then it runs as if its a real DVD in the Server, it doesn't realise its not a real DVD in the Server that way.

 

Ah I see, I understand about virtual disk drives and can actually attach an ISO to the virtual drive in my virtual server. It was the command switches that I didn't understand. Thanks anyway

[john]

Can you not get away without using them and just use Powershell? I just used Powershell commmands from the Technet article to do a lot of it and then the exchange setup GUI for other bits

[leco]

Currently wading through umpteen TechNet articles so may well end up using Powershell. Though I've never used that before either it's taking some concentration to fully understand what it all means.

 

What a way to spend a lovely sunny Easter Saturday huh?