You need to clean out all remnants of the E2K install and start from
scratch.  There are KB articles on what part of the AD you need to clean up
(Microsoft Exchange substructure of the Configuration container).  I'd make
sure to read up first though - your AD is nothing to experiment on. :)

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Simpler-Webb, Inc.   Austin, TX            512-322-0071
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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Van Eck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 10:55 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: unable to upgrade to exch 2000


Several months back, it appears that a developer (GRRR) installed Exchange
2000 on a machine in the domain. Now that I am trying to upgrade our
Exchange 5.5 site, I am having several problems. When I try to create an
intra-organizational ADC I receive this error

"Unable to create an intra-organizational Connection Agreement using the
specified Exchange 5.5 Server. The Exchange 5.5 organization is different
from the Exchange 2000 organization. Connection Agreements to different
Exchange 5.5 organizations must be created as inter-organizational
Connection Agreements. Select the inter-organizational Connection Agreement
checkbox on the advanced page before continuing. ID no:c103aa39 Microsoft
Active Directory Connector Management"

I am able to create an inter-organizational ADC. Looking at the
documentation, this may have been a mistake, as there is no way to undo
this. But at this time, I can view the exchange attributes in "Active
Directory Users and Computers".

If I try to upgrade the 5.5 site, I receive this message.
"The component "Microsoft Exchange Messaging and Collaboration Services"
cannot be assigned the action "Upgrade" because: -You must use the same
edition of Microsoft Exchange Setup (Enterprise or
Server) as the existing Location.
-Setup has detected that the Exchange 5.5 Site that your server belongs to
has not replicated to the Active Directory yet. You can either wait for
replication to complete and try the upgrade again or upgrade a server from a
site that has already been replicated to the AD." Probably because of the
first Install of Exchange 2000 with the different name.

What are my options at this point?
1.      Rebuild Active Directory? I have a Windows NT 4.0 machine running as
a
BDC. I could take my Win2000 machines offline, promote the BDC and upgrade
to 2000. Building a new schema.
2.      Install a child domain and install Exchange to that and migrate
users?
3.      Build a new forest completely and migrate users.
4.      Edit AD by a export and Import?
5.      Install Exchange 2000 into the site created by the Developer (GRRR)
and
reattach users to the mailboxes?


Please feel free to shootdown any of these halfbaked ideas, or suggest a
better course of action. I have to get IM up for the enterprise as soon as
possible! (Says the COO) Thanks, Steve




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