I am trying to install exchange 2003 enterprise on a 2003
enterprise server in a 2000 domain. I cannot get forest
prep or domain prep to finish without errors. I thought it
was a DNS issue but netdiag shows nothing wrong. I am
using the domain admin login and password. I get through a
large part of the Forest prep and then it stops with a
generic error message as follows:
A problem has been encountered in the Microsoft Exchange
Forest Preperation setup component. Cancelling setup.
Under the error the task bar stops at finalizing
organizational container creation.
The exchange server setup progress log notes that the
version of forest prep and domain prep are 6903 and 6936
I can submit the exchange server setup log but it is
fairly lengthy. There are no errors in the apps or system
log. Can I "unprep" the forest and try again. Is there
something else that I may be missing. It was a five minute
install at class.