Installing the Enterprise Vault OWA and RPC Extensions on Exchange Server 2003

Ensure that you have completed the required steps before installing the Enterprise Vault Extensions.

See Configuring Exchange Server 2003 RPC over HTTP client access to Enterprise Vault.

Before you run the Enterprise Vault Extensions installation program on the Exchange Server, you create an EVServers.txt file on an Enterprise Vault server, as described in this section. and then copy the file to the same folder as the MSI installation file. The Exchange Server administrator who installs the Enterprise Vault Extensions must have access to both files.

You run the Enterprise Vault Extensions installation program on the RPC proxy servers first, and then on the RPC target servers.

The instructions that are given in this section describe a typical, interactive installation, which you initiate by double-clicking the .msi file. Alternatively, you can deploy the Enterprise Vault Extensions silently using an MSI command line, or an Active Directory group policy object (GPO). You can use this method to install to a particular organizational unit (OU).

See “To perform a silent installation using the MSI command line”.

See “To perform an installation using an Active Directory group policy object (GPO)”.

To create EVServers.txt

  1. Log on to any Enterprise Vault server, using an account that has any Enterprise Vault administrator permissions.

  2. Start Windows Explorer and navigate to the OWA 2003 Extensions subfolder of the Enterprise Vault installation folder (normally C:\Program Files\Enterprise Vault\OWA).

  3. Double-click MakeEVServersTxt.wsf.

  4. If you install the Enterprise Vault Extensions remotely, then the EVServers.txt file needs to be copied to the same location as the MSI installation file. If you install the Enterprise Vault Extensions interactively on each server, then EVServers.txt and the MSI installation file need to be available to each RPC target server (back-end Exchange Server 2003).

To install the Enterprise Vault Extensions on an RPC proxy server

  1. Log on to your Exchange Server computer.

  2. Obtain the installation file, Symantec Enterprise Vault OWA 2003 Extensions.msi. You can copy the file to the Exchange Server computer or run it from a shared folder, as required.

  3. Double-click the .msi file.

  4. Follow the instructions on your screen.

  5. At the end of the installation, you can select the option to view the Enterprise Vault installation log files.

To install the Enterprise Vault Extensions on an RPC target server

  1. Log on to your Exchange Server computer.

  2. Obtain the installation file, Symantec Enterprise Vault OWA 2003 Extensions.msi, together with the EVServers.txt file. You can copy the files to the Exchange Server computer or run them from a shared folder, as required.

  3. Ensure that the Exchange Server is running and that the Website that is associated with the Exchange Server has an ExAdmin virtual directory created.

  4. To install and configure both RPC and OWA, double-click the .msi file.

    To install and configure RPC only (without OWA), type and enter the command line:

    msiexec.exe /i <path to .msi file> RPCEXTENSIONS=1

  5. Follow the instructions on your screen.

  6. At the end of the installation, you can select the option to view the Enterprise Vault installation log files.

To perform a silent installation using the MSI command line

  1. Enter the following MSI command line:

    msiexec.exe /i <path to .msi file> RPCEXTENSIONS=1 /qn

    This command installs and configures RPC only, with no graphical interface or notification messages to the user who is running the command.

    Specifying the parameter, /qb, displays a progress bar with a cancel option.

  2. Any installation messages appear in the log files.

    For more information on Windows Installer, see

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372866.aspx

To perform an installation using an Active Directory group policy object (GPO)

  1. Create a new group policy object (GPO) for the OU:

    • Open the OU properties dialog.

    • Select the Group Policy tab, and click New.

  2. Click Edit, and add software packages:

    • Select either User or Computer Configuration.

    • Select Software Settings>Software Installations.

    • To add an .msi package, right-click and select New>Package.