Forest Prep

From: Daniel (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/10/04


Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:00:30 -0700

I figured it out... I had a DC that was offline and had
been offline for a while. When i ran dcdiag i didn't
notice that replication with that server was failing. I
removed all instances of that DC and forest prep was able
to run.

Hope this helps if anyone else had the same problem.

Daniel

>-----Original Message-----
>I'm trying to run the forest prep and I am getting the
>following error:
>
>Microsoft Exchange Forest Preparation cannot be assigned
>the action "forestPrep" because: -Either you do not have
>permission to update the Active Directory schema or
Active
>Directory service is currently too busy.
>
>I have checked and double checked my permissions (schema
>admin, domain admin, local machine admin, etc...). I have
>tried running it on the PDC and on the new exchange
server
>with the same results.
>
>If anyone has any ideas it would be much appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>DD
>.
>



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