Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Deployment Guide- P35:Your Exchange Server 2003 deployment plan should reflect your understanding of how Exchange and Microsoft Windows Server™ operating systems interoperate. It should encompass the relationships between Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows® 2000 Server sites and domains, domain controllers, global catalog servers, and Exchange 2003 administrative and routing groups. | 341 Table 3 Requirements for running Exchange Setup on a cluster server Area Requirements 342 Area Requirements Permissions Account must be a member of a group that has the Exchange Full Administrator role applied at the organization level. Note An account that has the Exchange Full Administrator role applied at the administrative group level can run Exchange Setup on a cluster node if the cluster node is a member of the Exchange Domain Servers group on the domain to which the cluster node belongs. When you install Exchange Server 2003 into an existing Exchange Server organization additional permissions are required. For information about the specific permissions that are required to install Exchange Server 2003 into an existing Exchange Server 343 Area Requirements File system Installation drive cannot be the cluster shared drive. Installation drive must be the same across all nodes. Cluster resources The MSDTC must be running on one of the nodes in the cluster. The clustered MSDTC resource should exist in the default cluster .
