Re: Cannot move to Native Mode

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 03/18/04 

Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 14:58:45 -0800

Here is the solution to my problem:

From: Marc Nivens [MSFT] (marcn@online.microsoft.com)
Subject: Re: Native Mode Upgrade
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Date: 2003-07-25 02:13:02 PST

If all of the servers are 2000 now you can just remove the
SRS manually:

1. Stop all SRS services
2. Launch ADSIEdit
3. Go to Configuration, Services, Microsoft Exchange, Org
Name,
Administrative Groups, AG Name, Servername
    (Where Servername is the name of the SRS server)
4. On the right, delete the "CN=Microsoft DSA" object
5. Repeat this for all remaining SRS servers

Once replication has taken place you should then be able to
switch to native
mode. 

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>-----Original Message-----
>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
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>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
>>
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