Re: Exchange 5.5 -> 2003 upgrade problem

In Exchange 5.5, ensure that the account you're using has Admin permissions
at the Organization, Site and Configuration objects. I suspect you're
missing rights on the Configuration object.
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Ed Crowley
MVP - Exchange
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"Steve Manatt" <SteveManatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have two servers:
Old NT 4.0 running Exchange 5.5 SP4
New Server 2003 R2

I'm using the deployment tools that came on the CD of Exchange 2003. I
have
completed phase 1 & 2 and am at the point of installing Exchange. I start
the wizard, select "Joining and existing Exchange Domain", put in the name
of
the old server (agena) and it comes back with the following error message:

"To upgrad your Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 or to add a new server to an
existing Microsoft Exchange Site, the account you are logged on as must
have
Admin permissions on the Site and Configuration objects."

The ADC worked and all public folders and users have come over to the new
server, so I know that the trust is working, but I don't understand the
error
message.

At first, I created a user on both machines called "console" and gave them
all the appropriate rights respectively and identical passwords. The ADC
was
setup with this user as was the rest of the process (forest prep, domain
prep, etc.) without problem.

I have since rerun Forest prep with the account "Administrator", reset the
ADC to use Administrator (it works too) - again with identical passwords -
but the same error comes up.

Anyone know what this is about?


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