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) _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
