Hosting mode setup: unsupported switches and roles

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Topic Last Modified: 2010-06-15

When you install Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) for hosting deployments, you must run the installation from the command line, and you must include the /hosting switch on every server in the environment.

After Exchange Server is installed, your servers will be running in Hosting mode.

The following switches are not supported during the installation of Exchange Server 2010:

  • /EnableLegacyOutlook

  • /LegacyRoutingServer

  • /AdamLdapPort

  • /AdamSslPort

  • /PrepareLegacyExchangePermissions, /pl

  • /PrepareLegacyExchangePermissions:<domain FQDN>, /pl:<domain FQDN>

  • /ActiveDirectorySplitPermissions

  • /AddUmLanguagePack:<UM language pack name>

  • /RemoveUmLanguagePack:<UM language pack name>

Also, the following roles are not supported by Exchange server 2010 SP1 in Hosting mode:

  • Unified Messaging server role

  • Edge Transport server role

If these switches or roles are present when you try to install Exchange Server 2010 SP1 for hosting deployments, the installation will fail.