{"id":4705,"date":"2025-11-20T13:07:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=4705"},"modified":"2025-11-20T13:19:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:19:45","slug":"microsoft-exchange-on-premise-management-tools-microsoft-windows-10-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=4705","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Exchange On-Premise Management Tools &#8211; Microsoft Windows 10 Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Late to the game, but here&#8217;s how you do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To manage the on-premise Exchange Servers from your workstation, you can use the following procedure to setup these tools for use on your workstation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. You will need to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Redistributable (x64):&nbsp;<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/download\/details.aspx?id=30679\">https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/download\/details.aspx?id=30679<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Then install these Windows Optional Features:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName IIS-ManagementScriptingTools,IIS-ManagementScriptingTools,IIS-IIS6ManagementCompatibility,IIS-LegacySnapIn,IIS-ManagementConsole,IIS-Metabase,IIS-WebServerManagementTools,IIS-WebServerRole<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-7-1024x96.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-7-1024x96.png 1024w, https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-7-300x28.png 300w, https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-7-768x72.png 768w, https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-7.png 1302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reboot machine, a number of times potentially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. After mounting the exchange ISO, you need to open the command prompt (CMD) also with administrative privileges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. Then you change to the mounted ISO file. (In my case it is the E:\\ drive).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>cd e:<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5. Then run the Exchange installer, specifying just the management tools:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>E:\\>setup \/mode:install \/role:managementtools \/IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms_DiagnosticDataON<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All being well its all installed as expected, now you can now use the Exchange Management Shell from your workstation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can find it&#8217;s PowerShell console under the <strong>Start Menu \u2192 Microsoft Exchange 2016 \u2192 Exchange Management Shell<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Using the Exchange Management Shell<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can find it&#8217;s PowerShell console under the&nbsp;<strong>Start Menu \u2192 Microsoft Exchange 2016 \u2192 Exchange Management Shell<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Depending on the configuration, you may need to run Exchange Management Shell as a different user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my case I needed to do the following to get a new credential (i.e. my administrator account), then make the connection to one of the Exchange Servers via that, note you can&#8217;t use a Load Balancer endpoint for this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>$Credential = Get-Credential\n\n$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri http:\/\/exchangeserver\/PowerShell\/ -Authentication Kerberos -Credential $Credential\n\nImport-PSSession $Session<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check you can &#8220;see&#8221; the Exchange environment with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>get-mailbox<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You should be able to see all the mailboxes, and then continue with your commands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late to the game, but here&#8217;s how you do it. To manage the on-premise Exchange Servers from your workstation, you can use the following procedure to setup these tools for use on your workstation. 1. You will need to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Redistributable (x64):&nbsp;https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/download\/details.aspx?id=30679 2. Then install these Windows Optional Features: Reboot machine, &#8230; <a title=\"Microsoft Exchange On-Premise Management Tools &#8211; Microsoft Windows 10 Installation\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=4705\" aria-label=\"Read more about Microsoft Exchange On-Premise Management Tools &#8211; Microsoft Windows 10 Installation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-exchange","category-microsoft-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4708,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705\/revisions\/4708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}