You may find that you need to install some additional updates when the installation does the readiness checks.
If you want to continue using it after the 120 days, you will need to purchase a Exchange 2010 license. This guide outlines the installation for Exchange 2010 with SP1, but SP2 should be very similar, if not the same.īoth can be installed as trial copies, which last 120 days. You need to ensure the following prerequisites are met before beginning the installation of Exchange 2010: The steps should remain the same for a standard Windows Server 2008 (64-bit required) machine, as long as it is up to date with all the latest updates.
This how to article will outline the steps required to install Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine. Its main features consists of email, calendaring, contacts, and tasks. Exchange Server 2010 is currently (at the time of writing) the latest version of Microsoft’s email server software.