Exchange 2013 Prerequisites

The prerequisites that are needed to install Exchange 2013 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 computer depends on which Exchange roles you want to install. Read the section below that matches the roles you want to install.

Mailbox server role or combined Mailbox and Client Access server roles

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Follow the instructions in this section to install the prerequisites on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 computers where you want to do one of the following:

• Install only the Mailbox server role on a computer.
• Install both the Mailbox and Client Access server roles on the same computer.

Do the following to install the required Windows roles and features:

1. Open Windows PowerShell.
2. Run the following command to load the Server Manager module.
   
   Import-Module ServerManager
   

3. Run the following command to install the required Windows components.
   
   Add-WindowsFeature Desktop-Experience, NET-Framework, NET-HTTP-Activation, RPC-over-HTTP-proxy, RSAT-Clustering, RSAT-Web-Server, WAS-Process-Model, Web-Asp-Net, Web-Basic-Auth, Web-Client-Auth, Web-Digest-Auth, Web-Dir-Browsing, Web-Dyn-Compression, Web-Http-Errors, Web-Http-Logging, Web-Http-Redirect, Web-Http-Tracing, Web-ISAPI-Ext, Web-ISAPI-Filter, Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console, Web-Metabase, Web-Mgmt-Console, Web-Mgmt-Service, Web-Net-Ext, Web-Request-Monitor, Web-Server, Web-Stat-Compression, Web-Static-Content, Web-Windows-Auth, Web-WMI
   

After you've installed the operating system roles and features, install the following software in the order shown:

1. Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5
2. Windows Management Framework 3.0
3. Microsoft Unified Communications Managed API 4.0, Core Runtime 64-bit
4. Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Pack 64 bit
5. Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Pack SP1 64 bit
6. Microsoft Knowledge Base article KB974405 (Windows Identity Foundation)
7. Knowledge Base article KB2619234 (Enable the Association Cookie/GUID that is used by RPC over HTTP to also be used at the RPC layer in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2)
8. Knowledge Base article KB2533623 (Insecure library loading could allow remote code execution) 
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10.  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb691354.aspx 
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