Hi there, I understood the following commands to install exchange2007.. 1 ) setup.com /preparelegacyexchangepermissions 2) setup.com /prepareschema 3) setup.com /preparead /ON:XYZ But I am confused with setup.com /preparealldomains or setup.com /preparedomain:domainFQDN. The command setup.com /preparead /ON:XYZ prepare ad and perform certain tasks such as creation of Exchange organization, setting up permissions on it, Creating OUs Microsoft Exchange Security Groups and Microsoft Exchange System Objects, which contains the respective security groups etc. My only query is in which scenario we will run setup.com/preparedomain:domainFQDN or setup.com /preparealldomains. And is it necessary to run setup.com /preparedomain:XYZ.COM or setup.com /preparealldomains after running setup.com /preparead. Even in the Microsoft's guide for 70-236 these commands are not mentioned. If you need more clarification, please let me know. Regards, Ankit Arora

/PrepareAD will prepare the local domain that this switch was run against, so you wouldn't need to prepare that domain., but you would still need to prepare other domains (such as child domains, etc) You can run /PrepareAllDomains to prepare all your domains at once if you have multiple domains (but this would require Enterprise Admin rights). Or you could prepare each domain individually (which would only require Domain Admin rights in each domain). If you only have a single domain, then this doesn't matter. :)Neil Hobson, Exchange MVP

is it possible to run "setup /preparealldomains" after we had installed the Exchange2007 on one of child domain?

Hi Winton From this link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125224.aspx You can read: From a Command Prompt window, run one of the following commands: Run setup /PrepareDomain or setup /pd to prepare the local domain. You don't need to run this in the domain where you ran Step 3. Running setup /PrepareAD prepares the local domain. Run setup /PrepareDomain: <FQDN of domain you want to prepare> to prepare a specific domain. Run setup /PrepareAllDomains or setup /pad to prepare all domains in your organization. Jonas Andersson MCTS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007/2010 | MCITP: EMA 2007/2010 | MCSE/MCSA Blog: http://www.testlabs.se/blog

Hi there, I understood the following commands to install exchange2007.. 1 ) setup.com /preparelegacyexchangepermissions 2) setup.com /prepareschema 3) setup.com /preparead /ON:XYZ But I am confused with setup.com /preparealldomains or setup.com /preparedomain:domainFQDN. The command setup.com /preparead /ON:XYZ prepare ad and perform certain tasks such as creation of Exchange organization, setting up permissions on it, Creating OUs Microsoft Exchange Security Groups and Microsoft Exchange System Objects, which contains the respective security groups etc. My only query is in which scenario we will run setup.com/preparedomain:domainFQDN or setup.com /preparealldomains. And is it necessary to run setup.com /preparedomain:XYZ.COM or setup.com /preparealldomains after running setup.com /preparead. Even in the Microsoft's guide for 70-236 these commands are not mentioned. If you need more clarification, please let me know. Regards, Ankit Arora Hello Ankit These commands perform the following tasks: setup /PrepareDomain this is used to prepare the local domain. You don't need to run this in the domain if you have run Setup /preparead Setup /PrepareAllDomains are used when you have multiple Domains in same forest for example child domains in your organization. For more information you can fellow this article. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125224.aspx Thanks Mhussain