Microsoft released Exchange Server 2019 Public Preview a few days ago, in this article we will go through the full Install with all prerequisites. This installation was done in a new domain without any previous versions of Exchange Installed.

This is a step-by-step install guide to install the preview build of Exchange 2019 Public Preview, No DAG setup done in this example, that will come in follow-up articles.

Here are the steps to do the installation:

  1. Ensure that your machines are domain joined.
  2. Download the Exchange 2019 ISO (Here)
  3. Install the prerequisites, this includes UCMA 4.0 and Visual C++ 2013.
  4. Install .NET 4.7.1
  5. Install RSAT-ADDS Windows Feature on the Exchange Server. (Used to PrepareAD)
  6. Install Exchange 2019 Public Preview.
  7. Post login and check.

Step 1 is obvious but just putting it out there 🙂

Step 2, the download is around 5.9GB, in my Azure machine it downloaded in 2 min but on a slower link it might take a bit longer.

Step 3 – Prerequisites installation:

Install-WindowsFeature Web-WebServer,Web-Common-Http,Web-Default-Doc,Web-Dir-Browsing,Web-Http-Errors,Web-Static-Content,Web-Http-Redirect,Web-Health,Web-Http-Logging,Web-Log-Libraries,Web-Request-Monitor,Web-Http-Tracing,Web-Performance,Web-Stat-Compression,Web-Dyn-Compression,Web-Security,Web-Filtering,Web-Basic-Auth,Web-Client-Auth,Web-Digest-Auth,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-App-Dev,Web-Net-Ext45,Web-Asp-Net45,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-ISAPI-Filter,Web-Mgmt-Tools,Web-Mgmt-Compat,Web-Metabase,Web-WMI,Web-Mgmt-Service,NET-Framework-45-ASPNET,NET-WCF-HTTP-Activation45,NET-WCF-MSMQ-Activation45,NET-WCF-Pipe-Activation45,NET-WCF-TCP-Activation45,Server-Media-Foundation,MSMQ-Services,MSMQ-Server,RSAT-Feature-Tools,RSAT-Clustering,RSAT-Clustering-PowerShell,RSAT-Clustering-CmdInterface,RPC-over-HTTP-Proxy,WAS-Process-Model,WAS-Config-APIs

Run the above from an Elevated command prompt and wait for it to finish:

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Installation in progress as shown above.

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Installation Complete in PowerShell as shown above.

Once that is done, we launched Visual C++ 2013 Setup:

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And finally after that, UCMA 4.0 Installation:

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After the last install, perform a reboot of the server.

Step 4 – Now install .NET 4.7.1, either through windows updates or using the offline installer, in this example the offline installer was used:

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Extracting the files…..

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Need to accept the license terms and click install…

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Wait for the installation to complete….Click finish and then reboot the server.

Step 5 – Install RSAT-ADDS Windows feature:

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Step 6 – Now its time to extra the ISO file and then run the setup.

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Exchange 2019 Setup Starting….

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Installation Checking for updates….None found, click the next button to continue.

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Setup is copying the files for the installation…wait for it to finish.

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Setup is initializing…wait for it to finish.

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Click next to continue..

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Accept the license terms and then click Next…

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In this install we chose the recommended settings. Click next to continue…

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Select your role, we chose mailbox and then click next…

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Leave the defaults and click next…

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Leave the defaults and then click next….

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Setup is configuring Prerequisites, wait for it to complete..

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Setup is going through the Prerequisite Analysis…let it continue…If no errors appear, then click on the Install button.

Now setup will go through 14-15 steps to install Exchange Server 2019:

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Install is preparing AD now…

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Install is stopping services…

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Copying Exchange Files…

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Language files installation…

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Restoring Services..

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Languages….

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Management Tools…

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Mailbox Role: Transport Service….

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Mailbox role: Client Access service…

So my setup crashed at 90% on this role with a NETSH error and was resumed so the screenshots from Step 10 on wards wont be shown.

You have successfully Installed Exchange Server 2019.

Hope it helps!!

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