Al
Sat Oct 02 09:06:56 CDT 2004
No, you can do it from there. The forestprep information has to replicate.
More specifically, since you're trying to install on a DC/GC, it needs to
replicate completely to that GC.
So to recap:
You need to have at least one GC in the domain in which you are installing
Exchange.
You need to have run:
Diagnostics (netdiag, dcdiag, etc) and they need to pass which ensures a lot
of supporting structure will be there such as DNS etc.
Forestprep correctly (one time) and it needs to replicate.
You need to run domain prep one time for each of the domains where you have
user-objects that will be mailbox-enabled and it needs to replicate in that
domain.
Once all of that is in place, you should be ready to install the first
server into the org. No ADC, no forestprep, no more domain prep, etc. Just
install the components you want and be done with it.
Al
"R. Christian Call" <ccall@no.spam.madentech.com> wrote in message
news:0b3401c4a7e1$bdec59c0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Melissa,
>
> The article in question gives several ways of trying to
> figure out whether forestprep succeeded, but none of them
> seem to apply to me, because I'm not using Exchange 5.5,
> nor am I using Windows 2000. I'm installing Exchange
> Server 2003 on Windows 2003 Server.
>
> I did the best I could by using the MMC "ADSI Edit"
> snap-in, and was able to get to
> Configuration->cn=services->cn=Microsoft Exchange->cn={long
> string of hex digits} and look at the objectVersion
> attribute, which was indeed set to 6903. So (if I read the
> document correctly) forestprep did succeed.
>
> Is there something else I can look at?
>
> Also, does it matter what ID I run Exchange Setup from?
> I've been running it from the Enterprise Administrator's
> ID--is that a bad thing?
>
> -- Chris
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Looks like /forestprep did not run successfully. Are you
> able to run
>>/forestprep and /domainprep again?
>>
>>274737 How to Verify That ForestPrep and DomainPrep
> Completed Successfully
>>in
>>
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=274737
>>
>>--
>>Hope this helps
>>
>>--
>>Melissa Travers, MCSE
>>Microsoft Exchange Support
>>
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>><anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>news:23dc01c4a7d0$89b58f70$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>>> Waldo,
>>>
>>> The subfolders in DNS all exist, so I guess that's not the
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> Melissa,
>>>
>>> I added a GC in the domain in which I'm trying to install
>>> Exchange.
>>>
>>> I then ran Exchange Setup, and (as one of about five
>>> installation steps) it tried to run a "forest preparation"
>>> step, and complained that it couldn't do it.
>>>
>>> I don't understand why Setup wants to do forestprep, when I
>>> already *did* forestprep back in the root domain of the
> forest.
>>>
>>> I'm totally confused now about where I'm supposed to run
>>> domainprep and forestprep, and how to tell whether they
>>> completed successfully.
>>>
>>> Can you help?
>>>
>>> -- Chris
>>>
>>
>>
>>.
>>