Re: Running dcpromo on a Windows 2003 server in a Windows 2000 dom

From: dlg1967 (dlg1967_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/20/04 

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:57:01 -0700

I went through the adprep log files and there are no errors reported. Every
step show "Successfully Completed". The adprep that I used was with CD which
is pretty original. Would there be updates to adprep that I do not have?

"Glenn L" wrote:

> What are the errors in ADPREP.log.
> Please include the relavent section of adprep.log in this thread.
>
>
> --
> Glenn L
> CCNA, MCSE 2000, MCSE 2003 + Security
>
>
> "dlg1967" <dlg1967@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8459997F-2B09-496A-94A2-909BEADBB2E4@microsoft.com...
> > I am hitting my head against a wall on this one. I have a Windows 2003
> server
> > that I am trying to make an AD server. The environment that I started with
> is
> > two Windows 2000 AD servers and 1 Exchange 2000 server. The two AD servers
> > have the latest service packs along with the Exchange server.
> >
> > I ran the ADPREP command on the schema master domain controller. I tried
> to
> > run dcpromo on the Windows 2003 server and ran into many issues with
> schema
> > mismatches that were pointing to the scond domain controller. So, after a
> > coule of attempts and going through the Articles on technet about Exchange
> > 2000, I finally just figured there was something wrong with AD on the
> second
> > server so I demoted it.
> >
> > Needless to say, I now have one AD server and when I run dcpromo on the
> > Windows 2003 server I still have issues. I tried to see if the schema had
> the
> > mangled descriptors as described in the knowledgebase articles, but all
> are
> > fine. I am getting the following error repeated about 5 times with
> different
> > classes:
> >
> > Internal event: The following schema class has a superclass that is not
> > valid.
> >
> > Class identifier:
> > 1776484391
> > Class name:
> > msExchOmaConnector
> > Superclass identifier:
> > 1619603172
> >
> > How do I debug this one. I can not find anything on the knowledge base
> that
> > tells me what this means. I am not too sure if I can go through ADSI to
> > resolve this, or even how to find this in ADSI. And all of the related
> errors
> > all have to deal with Exchange
> > (msExchPublicMDB,msExchProtocolCfgPOPContainer, etc)
> >
> > Any ideas out there? This is very strange and is really starting to tick
> me
> > off. I can provide any info you may need if it will help.
> >
> > Thanks much
> >
> > Dave
> >
>
>
>

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