Installing exchange 2010 with samba DCs

Matthieu Patou mat at samba.org
Sat May 19 10:37:52 MDT 2012


Matthias,

Can you have a link on this fix 002ea80 in my repository listed below ?

Thanks.

Matthieu.

On 05/18/2012 10:16 AM, Matthieu Patou wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Last 3/4 weeks I made a lot of changes in samba so that the 
> installation of Exchange 2010 could be possible with samba 4 DCs.
> The final result is really positive as I'm able to install exchange in 
> less than 30 minutes when running samba on my laptop and a windows 
> 2008R2 server with exchange installation in virtualbox.
> The patch set to do so is here:
> http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=mat/samba.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/schema
>
> I still have to review it but I think it gives an idea of the change I 
> had to do. The bad news is that it seems that exchange didn't run very 
> smoothly when installed with samba (for the moment).
> I don't have plans to work on this and maybe not in the next months or 
> so, still I'm wondering if there is people who could be interested to 
> run this kind of setup (samba 4 DCs + exchange on windows server).
>
> The positive side effect of the work on the schema is a huge speedup 
> when schema are modified and also much more reliability in the schema 
> updates.
>
> Matthieu.
>


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