How to delegate an Exchange Server 2007 installation

Exchange Server 2007 allows us to delegate a server installation to an account only for installation purposes without give exchange administrative permissions to an account just for one installation. The installation delegate can be used after the first exchange server 2007 has been installed. The permission required to delegate an Exchange Server installation is Exchange Organization Administrator role, and the user responsible for the remote installation will receive Exchange Server Administrator rights on that server.

Delegating an Exchange server Installation

To delegate an Exchange installation we will use the setup utillity using the following syntax:

setup /nprs: /sa:

Note: nprs (new provisioned server) and sa (Server Admin)



After that we will be able to see the new server in our list of Exchange Server and for now his "role" will be Provisioned. There



Removing a provisionend server installation

In order to remove a provisioned server, we can run setup /nprs:, as shown in the following figure:



Source:msmvps.com/blogs/andersonpatricio/archive/2008/03/20/how-to-delegate-an-exchange-server-2007-installation.aspx

How to install Windows 2000 after XP?

This procedure was performed on FAT32 drives but it should also work for NTFS.

Install Windows 2000

• Use a Win98/Me Startup disk (with CD support) to boot your computer. If you don't have one, you can download the files to make a boot disk at bootdisk.com
• Insert your Windows 2000 CD into the CD Rom drive.
• At the A: prompt type X:\I386\WINNT.EXE where X: is your CD-ROM drive.
• Proceed with the install. Install Windows 2000 to a different partition than XP is installed in.
• Complete the Windows install. Allow the computer to boot into Windows 2000.

Note: You may also want to read this thorough guide on how to Install Windows 2000 Server.

Repairing the Windows XP Boot Loader

Note: Some users have reported that Step 1 is not necessary, but in testing I found that it was. Since the C: drive is FAT32, you can use a 98/Me boot disk and skip Step 1, if you wish, but you may find that you need to do it anyway.

Boot your computer with the Windows XP CD. When prompted to Setup or Repair, choose Repair. In the Recovery Console, enter the following commands.

• FIXBOOT, answer Yes
• CD\
  
• ATTRIB -H NTLDR
• ATTRIB -S NTLDR
• ATTRIB -R NTLDR
• ATTRIB -H NTDETECT.COM
• ATTRIB -S NTDETECT.COM
• ATTRIB -R NTDETECT.COM
• COPY X:\I386\NTLDR C:\
• COPY X:\I386\NTDETECT.COM C:\

In Steps 9 and 10, X is the letter of your CD-Rom drive.

Source:petri.co.il/install_windows_2000_after_windows_xp.htm