OK, well, I'm finally done dragging my feet and migrating to Exchange 2003, SP2. My current architecture is 4 Exchange 5.5 SP4 servers, three running on W2K SP4, and one running on NT 4 SP6. The mailboxes are on two of the W2K 5.5 servers, OWA's on the other W2K 5.5 server, and the IMS is by itself on the old NT server.
I did the migration to Active Directory last summer, doing an in-place upgrade of all my NT domains to W2K3 AD. The domain controllers are all W2K3 SP1. (There are still quite a number of domains, as I'm the sole admin for 130+ servers, and haven't had time to consolidate.) There are two-way trusts between all the domains right now. So I have this brand spanking new server. I've loaded W2K3 SP1 on it, and am loading E2K3 SP2. I've run forestprep on the root, and domainprep on all the domains (all the domains have user accounts, although all the Exchange servers are in a single domain - not the root). I've brought it up as part of the existing Exchange organization/site, with coexistence with 5.5. I followed the Deployment Wizard, and it passes all the dcdiag, netdiag, etc., tests. Here's the problem. It no blinky-blinky. The IS won't start, and the SA generates errors up the kazoo. Most of the errors seem to be topology discovery. The sequence looks like this: event id 8213 (MSExchangeFBpublish) event id 1042 (MSExchangeMU) event id 2102 (MSExchangeDSAccess) event id 2114 (MSExchangeDSAccess) event id 9153 (MSExchangeSA) ad infinitum. The 2102 error lists pretty much every domain controller in the enterprise as "not responding." All of them have the appropriate Exchange Enterprise Servers Manage Auditing setting in Domain Controllers security policy. All are readily accessible via the network. What the HELL am I doing wrong?! Thanks for any advice. I'm about to cancel the upgrade I was scheduling for the holiday and actually take the time off like a normal human being, and we wouldn't want THAT. --Geni Hawkins Network Systems Manager Highline School District _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
