Workstation Setup - Exchange/AD Administration
I am looking for real world advice and suggestions on how to setup the ideal workstation to administer Exchange and Active Directory. We lost our psuedo exchange/ad admin and we are slim on resources.
Some simple questions that readily come to mind are:
Domain Logon account - should I logon as a domain admin (setup a separate domain admin)
what permissions should this account have?
is there a second account needed to manage mailboxes on same workstation
currently: have Domain Admin [adm] with Exchange Admin permissions
currently: have Domain User [mbx] with mailbox permissions
Applications to have installed
System Manager
Server 2003 SP1 Administration Tools
Server 2003 Support Tools
ExMerge
Outlook??
Ultimately, we want to be able to use this administration workstation as the administration hub for managing exchange and active directory. Any and all suggestions and feedback would be extremely appreciated.
October 2nd, 2007 7:14pm
That's about it.
You may want to install Windows 2003 Resource kit tools and Exchange 2003 Resourcekit tools
Deli
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October 3rd, 2007 11:04pm