Mimosa Nearpoint installation notes

DO-MIMOSA and Infrastructure:
- Installed Exchange 2003 Tools
- Created npadmin account in Service Accounts/Mimosa/npadmin with an Exchange mailbox in the admin store.
- Created delegation on the domain for that account to all common tasks.
p.s: Account doesn't need any special privileges on the domain other than the delegation privileges.
- Installed msxml.msi
- Installed the XML4.0 SP2 patch
- Installed donetfx.exe
- Added npadmin as local admin on the Mimosa server
- Added npadmin as local admin on the Mimosa SQL server
- Setup Exchange Delegation for npadmin to be full administrator on Exchange
- Add npadmin as a local administrator on Postal
- Properties of Public folders in System Manager: Permissions: add npadmin with owner permissions. (nearpoint admin can be hidden from the GAL)
- Regedit HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Exchange/EXAdmin
New DWORD Value: ShowSecurityPage --> 1
- Checked the permissions under properties of Chino Valley USD --> Security , and removed the Deny: Send As.. and Receive As..
- From the Nearpoint installation extractions:
- Run msidelobjacls "CN=Nearpoint Admin,OU=Mimosa,OU=Service Accounts,DC=Chino,DC=k12,DC=ca,DC=us"
- Install MS Outlook 2007
- IIS: Make sure it's installed

Mimosa SQL Server:
- Setup IIS with ASP Support
- Install SQL 2005
- Default instance Name
- Nearpoint username: npsql - <password> (The AD SQL Account name for Nearpoint)
- Nearpoint sa password: <password> (the user that Nearpoint connects to the SQL database with)
- Change the appearance for minimal effects
- Change the optimization to programs instead of System Cache
- Turn on DEP for all programs and services except those I select (Data Execution Prevention)
- SQL Server Configuration Manager:
- SQL NAtive Client Configuration (32 bit) --> Client Protocols--: set to No (No Shared memory) , No Named Pipes
- SQL Server 2005 Network Configuration --> Protocols for MSSQLSERVER --> Client Protocols --> Set to No Shared Memory and No Named Pipes
- SQL Native Client Configuration --> Protocols --> No Shared memory, and no named pipes

Open SQL Management:
- Properties of SQL Server: Maximum Degree of Parallelism: 1
Memory : 101024 Mb
- Move TempDB to D:\ --> Properties / Files / Change Path to D:\TempDB

USE master
GO
ALTER DATABASE tempdb
 MODIFY FILE (NAME = tempdev, FILENAME = 'D:\TempDB\Data\tempdb.mdf')
GO
ALTER DATABASE tempdb
 MODIFY FILE (NAME = templog, FILENAME = 'D:\TempDB\Log\tempdb.ldf')
GO

Change Initial size to 1024Mb (under Database Properties)

- Install SQL SP2

Mimosa Installation:

On the Mimosa Server, before running the installer:

- Make sure you are logged in with npadmin
- Create an outlook profile
- Run fixmapi
- run MsiEchoID
- Send lock codes generated to fulfillment@mimosasystems.com to generate a license key
- Properties on D:\Shadow - Do now allow Indexing Service to index the disk for fast file searching Apply to All folders and subfolders.
- Change the same settings on : IOR Data, IOR Index, and Scratch
- Create a CNAME to do-mimosa.chino.k12.ca.us (i called it mailarchive.chino.k12.ca.us) that will be the interface to Mimosa

- Run the Mimosa Installer
- Skip License for now
- Nearpoint Server: Master Server
- Exchange 2000 or 2003
- point to the Mimosa OU
- Change Location to C:\Program files\Mimosa and Log: C:\Program files\Mimosa\Log
- Enter the CName created: mailarchive
- (When clicking next on this screen, it'll take a little while)
- Choose mailbox numbers and default on the next
- Servername: do-mimosa-sql
- SQL User: sa
- E:\MimosaDB\Data and F:\MimosaDB\Log
- (Make sure that SQL SP2 is installed otherwise the check will not be successful.
- Had to extend the required SQL Log partition from 15Gb to 30Gb, because the installer complained that it's not enough space.

- Specify the UNC paths for the volumes: (Sharing permissions should be given Full Control to npadmin user)
\\do-mimosa\IOR
\\do-mimosa\index
\\do-mimosa\scratch
\\do-mimosa\shadow

(Need to write script that verifies share mappings on server reboot)

- Setup the notification distribution group: MimosaNotifications@chino.k12.ca.us (includes, Richard, Georges, Erin)
- From npadmin@chino.k12.ca.us
- Setup the npadmin username, as well as the SMTP server address.
- (The next screen asks for storage groups, but nothing showed up there (Duca skipped the screen by clicking create, and ok on the Error ) )???)
- After installation (npservicestop)
- Stop Mimosa Discovery Manager server
- Mimosa Frameworkwk
- Restore Service
- Task Dispatcher Service
- Persist Server
- Executor Service

- Install the Mimosa Patches: (The flags exist in the read me file (check those first before running))

- Apply the license file:
- Place the license file in C:\program files\Mimosa\NearPoint\ (License file)
- Start the services: npservicestart (from c:\program files\mimosa\nearpoint)

Problems and notes:

- Exchange storage groups have had inheritance blocked on them, so creating a simple delegation on the root of the server did not propagate to the lower storage groups. We had to setup the group security on a per-storage-group basis.

- For some reason, the storage groups are not showing up in the Nearpoint Administrator as of today. We have made some changes in the database to re-force a scan of the Active Directory infrastructure. We will be checking this tomorrow (03/12/2009)

• The work was performed between 11:00am and 4:00pm on 03/11/2009. will resume tomorrow morning.
• Target: do-mimosa, do-mimosa-sql, postal