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

From: Glenn L (the.only_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/20/04 

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:41:59 -0700

attach your dcpromo.log and your dcpromoui.log files to this thread.

%systemroot%\debug 

-- 
Glenn L
CCNA, MCSE 2000, MCSE 2003 + Security
"dlg1967" <dlg1967@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:549EB989-BB65-409D-A0C5-33CEF7DFA2C4@microsoft.com...
> 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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