If you are performing mass deployment of Exchange servers in a large environment, automating the installation process can minimize administrator errors and speed up the overall process. The setup.exe utility can be used to perform an unattended installation of Exchange, and, when combined with PowerShell and just a little bit of scripting logic, create a fairly sophisticated installation script. This recipe will provide a couple of examples that can be used to script the installation of an Exchange server.
Scripting an Exchange server installation
Getting ready
You can use a standard PowerShell console from the server to run the scripts in this recipe.