Requirements for Exchange Server 2007

Exchange Server 2007 provides a supported provisioning API using the Exchange Management Shell only. The shell provides a command line interface to manage and provision users and servers. It is built on top of Microsoft Windows PowerShell.

The gateway must be run on a Microsoft Windows 32-bit operating system. In addition, the following items must be installed on the gateway machine:

• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 “Management Tools,” 32-Bit

• Microsoft Windows PowerShell 1.0

• Microsoft .NET 2.0

These requirements are discussed in more detail in the following sections.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 “Management Tools,” 32-Bit

The Exchange management shell is a part of the management tools for Exchange. Microsoft does not support running Exchange Server 2007 on a 32-bit version of Windows in a production environment. An exception is made for the Management Tools, as documented in the “Exchange Server 2007 System Requirements.”

Install only the 32-bit version of the Management Tools on the gateway machine. Installing the 32-bit version of the tools on a 64-bit version of the operating system, or installing both versions of the tools can lead to unpredictable behavior.

The 32-bit version of the management tools can be downloaded from the Microsoft website:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=82335

The version of the tools you download and install should correspond to the Exchange Server 2007 version installed in the rest of the Exchange environment.

Before starting the installation of the management tools make sure that Microsoft Windows PowerShell 1.0 and Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework

The two required packages have been installed:

• Microsoft Windows PowerShell 1.0

• Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework

Microsoft Windows PowerShell 1.0

The Exchange management tools are implemented as an extension, or snapin, of Microsoft PowerShell. Currently only PowerShell version 1.0 is supported and needs to be installed on the server:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=75790&clcid=0x09

The PowerShell environment logs messages to the event viewer. There are two event logs created for PowerShell in a standard installation: the “PowerShell” and “Windows PowerShell” event logs. The “PowerShell” event log is used when the gateway creates a PowerShell runtime environment. When a write operation fails to write to the event log, the PowerShell environment will not start up, and all PowerShell-related actions of the gateway will fail. To prevent this failure, you should monitor and clean up the event log regularly or configure it to overwrite messages.

Microsoft .NET 2.0

To use PowerShell, you must install the Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework. This Framework is not installed by default and can be downloaded from the Microsoft Download Center at:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856EACB-4362-
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