On 14 February 2011 20:26, Carlos Perez <[email protected]> wrote: > Exchange depends on AD, in fact you have to extend the forest schema and the > domain shcema before installing Exchange, once installed it will create > mailboxes for the leaf objects (User Accounts) in AD and as you know AD > depends heavily on DNS. Exchange is a whole beast all by it > self http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996058(EXCHG.80).aspx
Didn't realise it would be that tricky to install, was just going to build a 2008 server then install Exchange 2010 and hope for the best, looks like I might have some reading to do before hand. Robin > On Feb 14, 2011, at 3:47 PM, Robin Wood wrote: > > On 14 February 2011 17:55, Carlos Perez <[email protected]> > wrote: > > for AD wich will populate also Exchange you can do from cmd > > for /F %i in (1,1,1000) do dsadd user > > cn=User%i,ou=bulk,dc=acmeinclab,dc=com-pwd User%i > > Nice, thought there might be something like that. As I'm installing > Exchange on a separate machine is it obvious how the two will link > together? > > Robin > > On Feb 14, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Robin Wood wrote: > > I asked this on Twitter earlier but thought I'd try a wider audience.... > > My windows test lab is looking a bit sparse on data, I've got plenty > > of web and sql data but nothing much in my AD and I'm about to setup > > an Exchange server which won't get much beyond a couple of accounts to > > test the setup worked. I've also got Sharepoint to install (blessed is > > Technet!) which will start out empty. > > Does anyone have any canned data for AD, Sharepoint or Exchange so I > > can beef it all up a bit? > > Even better, is there an easy way to script creating data so that I > > can generate a load to my own specs? > > Robin > > _______________________________________________ > > Pauldotcom mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pauldotcom mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
