Re: Exchange install failed

Hi,

Not knowing anything about your DNS topology, it is hard to say if you need to do that or not. Generally, as long as you have healthy DNS and healthy AD, you should be fine.

Your setup tried to do the active node, but could not create a CMS. It was only able to add the Mailbox role, so now it is a passive node. To turn it into an active node, you run Setup and add a CMS. The command line is the easiest way to do that, and you always use Setup.com. ExSetup was deprecated before Exchange RTM'd, and it should never be called directly.

So the command you'd use would be:

Setup.com /m:install /newcms /cmsname:<Name> /cmsipaddress:<IPAddress> /cmssharedstorage /cmsdatapath:<SharedStoragePathForDatabase>

See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123969(EXCHG.80).aspx for more information.

Hope this helps.
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"Kurt" <Kurt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:36E108DD-80CB-4E2F-AD48-D9E828A44F43@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Scott,


Thanks. Could it be I have the server's DNS entries as our secondary DNS
nodes, that just accept dumps from the prmaries (it is a secondary to the AD
integrated zone). I will change the DNS entries on the server to point to
the primaries.

How do I run the setup again when all the options it gives me are greyed out
for server roles? It also has passive node checked in the greyed out
checkbox, when I installed it as an active node. Do I need to run exsetup
instead?

Thanks,


Kurt



"Scott Schnoll [MSFT]" wrote:

Sorry, meant to point you to
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125149(EXCHG.80).aspx. This
the SCC planning content.

To recover, just configure the appropriate permissions and re-start Setup.
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"Kurt" <Kurt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:FD2CE07D-6643-4E39-B34A-FE381076ED60@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi Scott,
>
>
> We are doing a SCC, and not CCR. I don't see where in SCC > documentation
> it
> says that the cluster account needs to be given domain permissions,
> although
> it may be somewhere. In fact the cluster itself passed all readiness
> checks
> in the failover cluster administrator.
>
> Also, now that this is done, how do we recover? I try to reinstall
> Exchange, but all the roles are greyed out. I then tried to uninstall > it,
> but all the roles are also greyed out, and the server thinks it is a
> passive
> node.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Kurt
>
> "Scott Schnoll [MSFT]" wrote:
>
>> This is documented at
>> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123996(EXCHG.80).aspx. >> Hope
>> this helps.
>> -- >> Regards,
>>
>> Scott Schnoll
>> Microsoft Corporation
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>> rights. Please do not send email directly to this alias. This alias is
>> for
>> newsgroup purposes only.
>>
>>
>> "Kurt" <Kurt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:C1E29C77-0266-4F51-907E-881AD5E3037B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Installing the first node of the Active-Passive Exchange cluster >> > failed
>> > with
>> > an error that the computer account for the Exchange virtual server
>> > could
>> > not
>> > be created in the domain. Looking at the event log I see an error >> > that
>> > the
>> > Cluster resource did not have permissions in the domain to create >> > the
>> > virtual
>> > server computer in the Computers OU. The Virtual server was created >> > in
>> > failover cluster manager (this is 2008), but I could not bring it
>> > online.
>> > I
>> > then created an account and as the event log suggested I gave the
>> > cluster
>> > resource full control over the virtual server computer account in >> > AD.
>> > This
>> > allowed me to bring it online. But I have no database, and who >> > knows
>> > what
>> > else was not installed.
>> >
>> > Where is it listed that it is a requirement for the cluster resource
>> > computer object to have these permissions? Did I miss something. I
>> > have
>> > read so much documentation. Now I am left with a system in who >> > knows
>> > what
>> > state. Is there any way out of this, other than starting from >> > scratch?
>> >
>> > Thanks for any input?
>> >
>> >
>> > Kurt
>>
>>



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