Re: Cannot move to Native Mode

From: Patrick Genova [MSFT] (pgenova_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/18/04 

Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 06:45:19 -0500

Hi Robert,

I would suggest installing ADSIEdit and using this utility to go into the AD
and search for any left over remnants of 5.5 and delete them from here. 

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"Robert" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:a88b01c40c6b$9f1f2930$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to move to Exchange 2000 native mode.  But the
> native mode button is grayed out.  I have looked on the
> Web and read several KB articles such as 260781 and 272314
> but still can't do it.  I see two issues that are
> preventing me from moving to native mode:
>
> 1) I cannot manually delete site replication service(SRS)
> connector from inside Exch 2k System Mngr.  The error
> message says The system cannot find the file specified.
> Facility: Win32 ID no: c0070002 Exchange System Manager.
>
> 2) I installed the Exch 5.5 System Administrator on my
> Exch2k server to delete the connector but cannot use it to
> connect to the Exchange 2k server.  After starting it, I
> click the browse button but the error message says, "List
> of MS Exch Server computers is not available because no MS
> Exch Server computer could be located."  ID no: c10312c8.
> If I type in the server name, it says, Microsoft Exchange
> Directory, ID no:  DS_E_COMMUNICATIONS_PROBLEMS.
>
> The Exchanger server has SP3 and runs on a Windows 2000
> SP4 server.  We don't have any Exch 5.5 computers.  We are
> running in a Windows 2000 native domain.
>
> Any help or advice you have would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Robert
>