Before You Begin
- Ensure that you have completed all practices in Lessons 1 and 2 of Chapter 1, “Preparing for Exchange Installation.”
No additional configuration is required for this chapter.
Real World
Orin Thomas
Although unattended installations can be daunting, I have found that once you’ve got it working properly, you will find comfort in the fact that the process proceeds along a set path. I find that when I am repeatedly installing important software using wizards, I have a nagging feeling at the back of my mind that I’ve forgotten something. If you are tired and it is late on a Friday afternoon and you’ve been clicking through the same wizard multiple times for the last few hours, you tend to miss things. It might be a check box here or a setting there. You might miss something because you are interrupted in the middle of the process. You come back to the wizard after you’ve dealt with the interruption only to realize later that you’ve missed an important step after Exchange Server has been put into a production environment. Running an unattended installation bypasses this problem. Everything runs according to a script, and once it has started, you do not have to worry about zoning out and entering the wrong setting because you’ve already run through the Installation Wizard for the twenty-fifth successive time and you have 10 more to go before you clock off for the evening.
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