Installing E2K7 and E2K10 Management tools on the same machine
When the time comes where you need to transition from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010, depending on the size of your organization, it can take weeks, months or in some cases even years to complete the transition. During the co-existence period, you would need to manage both Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 users, groups, servers and so on. Since some Exchange 2007 objects must be managed using the Exchange 2007 Management Console or Shell and most Exchange 2010 objects must be managed using the Exchange 2010 Management console or Shell, it would be nice if you could just install both management tool version on the same machine right? Guess what? Yes this is in fact possible.
Just install the prerequisites for the Exchange 2010 Management tools. Then install the Exchange 2010 Management tools followed by the Exchange 2007 Management tools.
You can now open the management tools for both versions from the start menu as shown below.
You can even have the management tools for each version run side by side.
And since both Exchange 2007 and 2010 management tools are based on MMC 3.0, you could as well add the respective snap-in for each version to the same MMC console.
You can of course also run each version of the Exchange Management Shell by side.
Pretty cool huh?
- Henrik Walther
Peter John Hutchison Says:
December 21st, 2009 at 8:01 am
Can the Exchange 2010 tools be installed on Windows 7? Does this include the x86 and x64 versions or just the x64 version? It is not clear on the web sites when it just lists ‘Windows 7′ (it doesn even mention whether its pro, home or ultimate edition either).
Henrik Walther Says:
December 23rd, 2009 at 2:36 am
Exchange 2010 only exist in a 64-bit version, so you need a Winodws 7 64-bit client in order to install the Exchange 2010 Management tools.
Kuldip Says:
September 4th, 2010 at 11:34 am
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-OwaVirtualDirectory -verbose
VERBOSE: [14:20:12.376 GMT] Get-OwaVirtualDirectory : Initializing Active Directory server settings for the remote
Windows PowerShell session.
VERBOSE: [14:20:23.062 GMT] Get-OwaVirtualDirectory : Active Directory session settings for ‘Get-OwaVirtualDirectory’
are: View Entire Forest: ‘False’, Default Scope: ’sebiz.net’, Configuration Domain Controller: ’sun08.sebiz.net’,
Preferred Global Catalog: ‘Ex2007.sebiz.net’, Preferred Domain Controllers: ‘{ Ex2007.sebiz.net }’
VERBOSE: [14:20:23.078 GMT] Get-OwaVirtualDirectory : Runspace context: Executing user: sebiz.net/Users/Administrator,
Executing user organization: , Current organization: , RBAC-enabled: Enabled.
VERBOSE: [14:20:23.078 GMT] Get-OwaVirtualDirectory : Beginning processing.
VERBOSE: [14:20:23.265 GMT] Get-OwaVirtualDirectory : Current ScopeSet is: {Domain Read Scope: {, }, Domain Write
Scope(s): {, }, Configuration Scope: {, }, Server Configuration Scope(s): {, }, , Exclusive Scope: {, }}
VERBOSE: [14:20:23.280 GMT] Get-OwaVirtualDirectory : Resolved current organization: .
VERBOSE: [14:20:23.280 GMT] Get-OwaVirtualDirectory : Searching objects of type “ADOwaVirtualDirectory” with filter
“$null”, scope “SubTree” under the root “$null”.
VERBOSE: [14:20:23.421 GMT] Get-OwaVirtualDirectory : Previous operation run on domain controller ’sun08.sebiz.net’.
VERBOSE: [14:20:23.421 GMT] Get-OwaVirtualDirectory : Preparing to output objects. The maximum size of the result set
is “unlimited”.
An IIS directory entry couldn’t be created. The error message is Access is denied.
. HResult = -2147024891
+ CategoryInfo : NotInstalled: (EX2007\Exchange (Default Web Site):ADObjectId) [Get-OwaVirtualDirectory],
IISGeneralCOMException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : 4B4C8EA6,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.SystemConfigurationTasks.GetOwaVirtualDirectory
VERBOSE: [14:20:23.686 GMT] Get-OwaVirtualDirectory : Ending processing.
I am getting this error when i open emc and click on cas role..Google search and forums pointed me to add “Exchange Trusted Subsystem” to Local Administrator Group on all the exchange servers (including 2007 and 2003 ) , still no luck .. Any help or pointers will be greatly appreciated .
Thanks,
Kuldip