Install Exchange Server 2010 Management Tools on Windows 8

*Please note that this is not supported and will “hopefully” be resolved in SP3.

On your Windows 8 PC /  Add Remove Windows Features and enable the following.

Now we need to fool the Exchange 2010 Installer into installing on Windows 8; so modify the following setting to 6.1; once the tools have installed “change back to 6.2”

Download Exchange 2010 SP2 here and extract into a “temp” folder and run the setup program.

Once the tools have installed “change the registry setting back to 6.2”

Create a batch (.bat) file with the following;

set __COMPAT_LAYER=RUNASINVOKER
set COMPLUS_Version=v2.0.50727
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Bin\Exchange Management Console.msc"
exit

Run the .bat file with appropriate permissions to access the Exchange environment.

*Please note that this is not supported.*