Microsoft have continued the trend of going x64 all the way and 2008 R2 is 64bit only.
The first thing we need to do is install the pre-requisites via a privileged PowerShell;
Import-Module ServerManager
Add-WindowsFeature NET-Framework,RSAT-ADDS,ADLDS -Restart
Once the machine has restarted you will need to ensure you set the machine name and a DNS suffix.
Assuming the checks all work you can click install and off you go;
Once all is installed the next step is to prepare a config bundle / auth package (I can’t quite remember what Microsoft call it) by issuing the following command in the EMS on the Edge server;
New-EdgeSubscription -FileName "C:\EdgeSubscriptionInfo.xml"
With that done you can either attempt to import the file via the EMS on a Hub Transport server or utilise the EMC. I chose the EMC as I kept on running into syntax errors and I was being impatient;
Unfortunately I hit an issue which was probably due to a very poor choice of mine in transfering the file. A quick rethink of moving the file and the Edge Synchronisation was complete;
The dialog shows a warning claiming the port 50636 needs to be available and the host be contactable, I checked with telnet and all was OK. So maybe the warning icon was just to draw my attention to it.
Once that is done simply issue the command;
Start-EdgeSynchronization
Unfortunately within minutes of me adding this server as a secondary MX I received a spam message which wasn’t very fun;
Return-Path: XXXXXXXXXX@yahoo.com
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-PRD: yahoo.com
Received-SPF: None (XXX-XXXX-XX.networksaremadeofstring.co.uk: XXXXXXXXXX@yahoo.com does not designate permitted sender hosts)
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-PCL: 2
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-Antispam-Report: DV:3.3.5705.600;SID:SenderIDStatus None;OrigIP:195.XXX.XXX.122
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-SCL: 5
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-SenderIdResult: NONE
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthSource: XXX-XXXX-XX.networksaremadeofstring.co.uk
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthAs: Anonymous
