Re: New Exchange 2000 server won't join existing Ex 5.5 Organization
From: Chris Hawkins (chawkins99_at_nospam.bellsouth.net)
Date: 04/02/04
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Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 19:38:51 -0600
Thanks Steve,
I finally located the problem. We were specifying the root domain Admin
account as the exchange administrator.
When we specified the local domain admin account, we got the prompt.
Rgds
Chris Hawkins
"Steve Schiemann[MSFT]" <sschiem@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> It sounds like there are still remnant of a previous install in the AD-
> setup /removeorg should work but I'd double-check by manually
> verifying/removing all references to previous installs:
>
> 260378 XADM: How to Manually Remove an Exchange 2000 Installation
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=260378
>
> Remove E2k completely, then run setup again, you should get the prompt.
>
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> "Chris Hawkins" <chawkins99@nospam.bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> news:106lrprd62sdoa8@news.supernews.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > Some background info first:
> >
> > We have a 2 domain forest with an Exchange 5.5 server running on NT 4 in
> the
> > root domain. All of our users (and most servers) are located in the
other
> > domain.
> >
> > We are trying to upgrade to Exchange 2000 but due to the inadequacies of
> the
> > current 5.5 server we can't upgrade that machine.
> >
> > We decided to install a new Exchange 2000 server into the current 5.5
> > organization.
> >
> > The intention is to install Exchange 2000 Enterprise onto the existing
> > 2-node cluster but as the cluster version doesn't support SRS, we are
> having
> > to initially install an Exchange server on a regular member server to
> > perform the migration/replication. When the first server is installed we
> can
> > install the clustered version and migrate our mailboxes to that server.
> Once
> > the migration is complete, we can remove the 5.5 server and the initial
> 2000
> > server to leave the clustered version in operation.
> >
> >
> > Now down to the problem:
> >
> > We have installed the Exchange ADC and created a 2-way agreement (as
> > recommended)
> >
> > Forestprep and Domainprep have been run specifying that we are joining
the
> > existing Exchange 5.5 organization.
> >
> > The Exchange site object appears in AD as expected with the correct
> > organization name (extracted from the existing Exchange server).
> >
> > Everything's going as expected.....
> >
> > Now we install Exchange on the first server. However, at the point where
> it
> > should prompt for a server in the existing organization, it skips this
> > dialog and goes straight to the component confirmation page. We missed
> this
> > detail the first time and it went on and installed without any
(apparent)
> > problem, but we were unable to link the 2 versions.
> >
> > We now had an Exchange 5.5 organization and an Exchange 2000
organization
> > both with the same organization name but neither will acknowledge the
> other.
> >
> > We have tried backing everything out and starting again (including
running
> > the /removeorg option) but get the same result every time.
> >
> > Does anybody have any suggestions??????
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Chris Hawkins
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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