RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 2003 Forestprep

['Jacqui Hurst']

This is just for those who are interested in the outcome of this query.   Following further investigations it was found to be a schema issue (as thought).� A VBscript had been run to update some entries in the schema for the Radia product.� This had overwritten auxiliary class settings for the container, group and organization-unit objects.� This occurred because the schema update for Radia was run after the Exchange 2003 schema update.� If run in a different order this would not have occurred.   Following a call to Microsoft the issue was corrected with a fix agreeable to MS.   Hopefully this information will help to prevent others from experiencing such issues.   Jacqui       From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jacqui Hurst Sent: 17 February 2005 04:55 To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 2003 Forestprep   Pre-requisites all in place and all DC's are GC's so I guess it can't be that.   I feel a PSS call coming :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assuming that the necessary components (SMTP, NNTP, ASP, etc) are already in place on the Exchange server, the only thing I have seen that causes that error is where there is no GC at the site where the Exchange server is located. I have no explanation for why it is so, but I ran into this twice already. In both situations, there were already E2K in place and functional and installing a new E2K at the site does not present the same problem. The problem only manifested itself when installing E2K3. Putting up a GC at the site and allowing time for replication was the only way I was able to get E2K3 installed. YMMV Sincerely, D�j� Ak�m�l�f�, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCP+I Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jacqui Hurst Sent: Wed 2/16/2005 6:17 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: Exchange 2003 Forestprep This is a shot in the dark but has anyone experienced (and solved) this before. Forestprep was run quite sometime ago on a clean Windows 2003 AD environment. In addition to this a couple of other schema extensions have been applied ( ILO and Novadigm extensions). I am now in the process of installing Exchange 2003 after completing the setup and sync with ADC. When I run the setup I receive the following error Setup failed while installing sub component Microsoft Exchange Organization-Level Container chilren with error code 0xc1037ae6. I have looked at the LDIF.err file and found it to be failing when trying to modify an object in the CN=Address-Templates container (within Exchange part of configuration container) I have looked in here and found that there are no template objects. I uninstalled Exchange (fully) and rerun forestprep but this still hasn't created them. The account being used to install Exchange has Schema, Enterprise, Exchange delegation, local machine admin rights but I didn't think it really need all this once the forestprep had been run. I have looked at article 870829 but unless I doing something wrong this doesn't appear to help (I did change the paths while the setup was halfway through (at the error) and tried a retry instead of cancel and rerunning the setup process as it takes an age to complete the installtion and then remove it to start again) Hope all this makes sense after all it is 2am Cheers Jacqui List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/