Thanks to Josh posting about the release of Powershell 1.0 for Windows Vista RTM release, I thought "I bet I can get the Exchange 2007 management tools to install on Vista!" Well, it wasn't an easy task, nor is it a particularly easy task to repeat, but it's well worth it if you manage and Exchange 2007 server and you've upgraded your workstation to Windows Vista.
First, you need to download and install Powershell 1.0 for Vista. Please refer to Josh's posting here.
Now, open your system hard drive and navigate to Windows\Temp folder. You may receive a UAC prompt here. Click continue. Now minimize this folder for the next step.
Go ahead and run Exchange 2007 setup. You will notice that the 'Powershell' requirement is now grayed out. Go ahead and click on 'install Microsoft Exchange' link. It will immediately begin a file copy. Bring back up the 'temp' folder that you opened before. You will now see a folder called 'ExchangeSetup.' Open that folder, and quickly find a file called 'ExSetupUI.exe.' Right click on it, and select properties. Click the compatibility tab, and check compatibility mode for Windows XP SP2, and also check the 'run as administrator' box. Just to be paranoid, click the 'settings for all users' button, click continue to the UAC prompt, and check the same boxes here. Hit ok. If you accomplish all this before the install Exchange app launches you will get a UAC prompt, and then the install will proceed without any further problems. If you didn't make it in time, don't worry. Simply cancel, and then re-launch. Even though the file copy over-writes the files, it retains the settings that you made for that particular executable.
Now, I haven't had a lot of time to test this out, but I've been able to successfully create users, mailboxes, delete them, etc. If everyone could please post feedback of what things do or don't work, that would be greatly appreciated for the rest of us.
Posted
Feb 07 2007, 10:37 AM
by
Matt Freestone
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