How to deploy Exchange 2010 Sp1 Hosting Service
How to become exchange 2010 provider ? . well for starters try to become a reseller for Ms exchange hosting or office 365 . what if both are not available or way too expansive for your customers ? . you can easily start joining the hosting provider community .
exchange 2010 is unique in every way .including its Hosting capabilities.I will be explaining in this post how to become exchange provider .
First a bit about It
What’s Available in Exchange 2010 SP1 Mulit-Tenant Deployments
The following features and functionality are unique to multi-tenant deployments:
- Hosting Installation When you install Exchange 2010 SP1 for multi-tenant deployments, you will run the installation from the command line and include the /hosting switch. Once installed, your servers will be running in Hosting Mode.
- Tenant Organization Configuration Because you will be creating and managing multiple organizations in the multi-tenant deployment, you can use cmdlets and parameters that aren’t available to Enterprise deployments.
- Service Plans A service plan allows you to enable or disable certain features when deploying tenant organizations. They simplify tenant administration by automatically setting up feature configuration and automatic feature provisioning of mailboxes. In addition, service plans allow you to grant the correct set of RBAC permissions to tenant based on available features.
- Mailbox Plans A mailbox plan is a template that automatically populates multiple user properties and assigns default permissions to new or existing user accounts. You use mailbox plans to provision accounts for a particular user population with a common default configuration.
What’s not available in Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting Mode
Exchange 2010 SP1 doesn’t support the following features in Hosting mode:
- Exchange Management Console
- Public Folders
- Unified Messaging Server role
- Edge Transport Server role
- GalSync 2007
- Active Directory Federated Services
- Business-to-Business features such as cross-premises message tracking and calendar sharing
- IRM
- Outlook 2003 support (EnableLegacyOutlook)
- Same forest upgrade from Exchange 2007
- Resource forest
- Parent-child domains
- Discontiguous namespace
- Disjoint namespace
- about licensing it still the same as before (Service Provider Licensing Agreement (SPLA) ) which based on how many users you got .the pricing and discount is based on the users volume
now to install exchange 2010 in hosting mode you will have to do it from CMD
I will not get into the extra details as there is soooo many blogs out there explaining every part and aspect of exchange
so now we have machine with all the needed prerequisites ( I am using one but you can use more its all the same )
now we start the setup by opining a CMD window navigate to the exchange sp1 DVD and run the following command
Setup.com /M:install /Roles:m,h,c /InstallWindowsComponents /Hosting /OrganizationName:MailHosting
don’t forget to change the orgname
now setup is starting
note the notice for press to cancel not to continue
and we done
as you see there is no management console to mange this you will have to use power shell so is there any easier way to do this ?
yes there is you can deploy a control panel ( its an open source product that will help you and save a lot of scripting
the website is very organized and well documented so I will only show you how to install it and some screen shots
WebsitePanel Highlights
- Open source project under BSD license
- Built exclusively for Windows platform
- True multi-server architecture
- Huge list of 3rd party software
- Tight integration with Microsoft Web App Gallery
- Easy to install with Microsoft Web PI
- Great community support
- Supported by Microsoft
so to deploy it go to http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx
you will need to install
- Common HTTP Features
- Static Content
- Default Document
- HTTP Errors
- HTTP Redirection
- URL Rewrite 1.1
- Application Development
- ASP.NET
- CGI
- Deployment and Publishing
- FTP Publishing Service 7.5
- Management
- IIS Management Console
- Security
- Basic Authentication
- Windows Authentication
- SQL Express +management studio express +management objects
- web deployment
- php5.X
- php manger for IIS
next we select install
next step to install website panel from the same tool
now its installed
the first time you lunch the panel it will ask you to enter new password
now we have the panel up and running
now there is a tone of features in website panel and the website is very nicely documented and well organized so I will skip to how the end results will look like
how the portal looks like
demo User (the customer interface )
and finally the admin interface
if you are thinking of hosting website panel will make your life much easier
additional information can be found at
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