Articles in the "Install Exchange 2010 Prerequisites" series
- Script to install all Exchange 2010 prerequisites
- Exchange 2010 prerequisite installation script updated
- Exchange 2010 prerequisite installation script updated [This article]
- Updated script to install Exchange 2010 prerequisites
The installation script, originally referenced here, has been updated to version 1.5. It adds support for installing just the management tools, including on Windows 7. I was in the process of making it work on Vista as well, but it got messy because dism doesn’t come with Vista and I didn’t want to have separate installation routines for Windows 7 and Vista. So I am making the assumption that anyone who wants to install the management tools on a workstation has long given up on Vista.
To detect the OS (which is actually difficult and not uniform by any means) and make sure it is 64-bit, this sections is added:
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# Detect correct OS here and exit if no match $wmiOS = Get-WMIObject win32_OperatingSystem $OScap = $wmiOS.Caption $OSver = $wmiOS.Version [array]$wmiProc = Get-WmiObject win32_Processor if ($wmiProc[0].Architecture -eq '9') { if ($OScap -match 'Windows 7') {$os = 'Win7'} elseif (($OSver -eq '6.1.7600') -and ($OScap -match '2008')) {$os = 'R2'} elseif ($OSver -eq '6.0.6002') {$os = 'R1'} else ... |
Getting the processor as an array makes it work with both single and multi-processors. As a reader kindly pointed out, when run on an R2 server, it kept thinking WinRM wasn’t installed. This is because WinRM is preinstalled on R2 so the check for the hotfix KB installation will always fail. It now skips the WinRM check for an R2 server.
I also updated the menu so you can select the management tools, and made it so you only are given the option of selecting the management tools when run on Windows 7. (Only the menu reflects this restriction. If you select a different option the script will still try and run that command.) The download link is below.
Prepare-Exchange2010Install.zip (4.7 KiB)
Hi Scott, when i try to download the file i get HTTP Error 500.50 – URL Rewrite Module Error.
The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred.
Sorry about that. I modified the existing zip file with the updated script, and Windows changes permission on the file when I do that. It will work now.
Scott, for what it’s worth, I built a new 2008 R2 server and went straight for KB982526, which I believes supersedes KB958484, which your script checks for. I had to disable the check for that hotfix to get the script to run.