http://blogs.technet.com/b/uc/archive/2011/03/01/new-exchange-server-2010-solution-from-hp-and-microsoft-delivers-large-low-cost-mailboxes-with-ease.aspxA year ago, Microsoft and HP undertook a challenge to provide our customers with solutions to deliver faster business results. Our approach would be to create new appliances for key IT workloads, including virtualization and management, business intelligenceen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.technet.com/b/uc/archive/2011/03/01/new-exchange-server-2010-solution-from-hp-and-microsoft-delivers-large-low-cost-mailboxes-with-ease.aspx#3417291Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:28:49 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3417291Jeff Mealiffe [MSFT]<p>The E5000 Messaging System is installed into a customer’s existing Active Directory (AD) using the deployment tools that are run when the E5000 system is installed. </p> <p>The setup process goes through two phases. The first phase confirms that the hardware is functioning, properly configured and performs the final Windows 2008 R2 setup configuration steps which include joining the server nodes to the AD domain. The second phase of the setup confirms that the proper AD requirements have been met and then installs Exchange 2010 SP1 onto the nodes, configures the Exchange Database Availability Group (DAG), creates the databases and copies and sets the activation preference between the servers. All of this is fully automated based on a simple set of inputs provided by the system administrator. In a simple Exchange 2010 deployment, this may be sufficient to bring the system online. In a more complex deployment, the configuration of the E5000 can be further tuned as you would adjust any Exchange 2010 server - all of the flexibility that comes with Exchange is optionally available to you.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3417291" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/uc/archive/2011/03/01/new-exchange-server-2010-solution-from-hp-and-microsoft-delivers-large-low-cost-mailboxes-with-ease.aspx#3391883Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:52:20 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3391883EX<p>So Oleg....are you saying that it comes preconfigured with an Active Directory domain/forest for resources as well? That would be a little odd in my opinion...and not a best practice. AD and Exchange shouldn&#39;t be installed on the same server.</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3391883" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/uc/archive/2011/03/01/new-exchange-server-2010-solution-from-hp-and-microsoft-delivers-large-low-cost-mailboxes-with-ease.aspx#3391270Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:44:40 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3391270Oleg<p>Exchange resource</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2007/planning-architecture/deploying-exchange-resource-forest-part1.html">www.msexchange.org/.../deploying-exchange-resource-forest-part1.html</a></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3391270" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/uc/archive/2011/03/01/new-exchange-server-2010-solution-from-hp-and-microsoft-delivers-large-low-cost-mailboxes-with-ease.aspx#3391236Wed, 02 Mar 2011 09:27:07 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3391236Garry<p>How does it come pre-loaded and pre-configured with exchange when exchange requires AD to work? </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3391236" width="1" height="1">