Testing with Exchange Server – Tips and Tricks – Part 1 – Setting up Active Directory
Posted by Reka Burmeister in Exchange, Exchange 2007, Exchange Archiving, Exchange Testing, Software Testing, Tutorials, Uncategorized on 08-02-2010
Tags: Exchange, Exchange 2007, Exchange software testing, Exchange Testing, messages, Software Testing
Testing in an Exchange environment has been a challenge for Red Gate Software for some time now as we developed and tested Exchange Server Archiver. Now we are working on a PST Importer tool, we had to once again ‘fire up’ our virtual servers. The problem was a bit more complex this time, because if we want to create a realistic test environment we should have about a hundred virtual machines that we could hook on to our domain. As before, we’ll need mailboxes for these users but this time we would like some of the PST files to be opened in some of the users’ Outlook (I’ll explain this later). So here’s how we managed to do this all without actually creating all the machines for it.
