One of the prices you pay for being an early adopter of a new operating system and/or major server application is that the vendor doesn't always have it polished. After failing to install Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2008 I discovered that you must have Exchange 2007 with the pre-bundled Service Pack 1 (SP1). By the way, from the MVLS site the Exchange 2007 SP1 package is over 5 GB. Upon inspecting the package it seems that nearly 4 GB of that is additional language support but I'm not aware of a way to download without the additional languages if you don't need them so be ready for a long download.
So, after doing all the command line pre-requisite component installations the Exchange installation went without a hitch. Next I'll be setting up my external DNS and running some mail through the beast. It has a lot of new features that I'm excited to explore.
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