Re: Exchange 2003 in an Windows 2000 AD environment

From: Steven Halsey [MSFT] (Stevhal_at_Online.Microsoft.com)
Date: 04/19/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:18:50 -0700

John,

Can you look at the setup log file and find any errors in it that might be
more specific to the problem you are experiencing?
Log File is located on your system drive, Exchange Server Setup
Progress.log. Look for lines that contain the word error. 

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"John" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:1E174E3F-3E44-4AA2-959F-9146A96EA76E@microsoft.com...
> Hi All,
>
> Can anybody help me out on this error that I'm getting
> when I run forestprep on a windows 2003 server in a Windows 2000 AD 
> environment.
>
> Error:
> A problem has been encountered in the Microsoft exchange
> forestpreparation setup components.
>
> I've checked permissions on the user and the Administrator has all the 
> correct permissions to update the schema..
> All Operational masters are on the DC server (windows 2000).  When running 
> the
> same procedures on a vmware environment all works well the only difference 
> is the AD on the live environment?
>
> Environment Overview:
> 1 x Windows 2000 GC server running w2k SP4
> 1 x Windows 2000 DC server running w2k SP3 (schema master)
> 1 x Windows 2003 Server (Trying to install exchange 2003 server) The 
> windows 2003 server is a member server of a windows 2000 forest.
> 1 x Windows 2003 Server (VMWare test server)  Works all ok....
>
> Thanks
>
> John

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