Hi there

Excuse me sir, I have a problem and so a question about upgrading exchange
5.5 to exchange 2000.
All of setting in my Domain is as follows:

A Windows 2000 Domain in mixed mode with 2 DC and 1 GCS.
An Exchange 5.5 that had installed on a BDC when my Domain was a Windows NT
4 domain so it runs on a DC now .
Its Directory dosen't synchronize with Windows 2000 AD.
It has just itself Directory.

I'm going to upgrade this Exchange server to Exchange server 2000 so I need
to run following programs:

Setup/ForestPrep
Setup/DomainPrep

ADC\Setup.exe

But when I run 2 first programs this error appeared:

{
The component "Microsoft Exchange Forest Prepration" cannot be assigned the
action "Forestprep" because:
- Setup unable to access the Windows 2000 Active Directory
-Failed to contact the Schema Master Server for this Active Directory Forest
}

and at running third program this error appeared:

{
The network address is invalid.
Facility : win32
Id no : c00706ab
Microsoft Active Directory Connector Setup
}


Then I attempted to run :

dcdiag /s:MYSERVER /v /test:knowsofroleholders

and I saw this error in it's output :

.......................... MYSERVER failed test KnowsOfRoleHolders


What's wrong?

Thanks in advance
Regards
Doroodgar

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Install W2k Support tools on the W2k CD, use netdiag to check network and
use dcdiag utility to check FSMO Roles.


"doroodgar" <rdoroodgar@noornet.net> wrote in message
news:#JiXj$tCCHA.2656@tkmsftngp05...
> Hi there
>
> Excuse me sir, I have a problem and so a question about upgrading exchange
> 5.5 to exchange 2000.
> All of setting in my Domain is as follows:
>
> A Windows 2000 Domain in mixed mode with 2 DC and 1 GCS.
> An Exchange 5.5 that had installed on a BDC when my Domain was a Windows
NT
> 4 domain so it runs on a DC now .
> Its Directory dosen't synchronize with Windows 2000 AD.
> It has just itself Directory.
>
> I'm going to upgrade this Exchange server to Exchange server 2000 so I
need
> to run following programs:
>
> Setup/ForestPrep
> Setup/DomainPrep
>
> ADC\Setup.exe
>
> But when I run 2 first programs this error appeared:
>
> {
> The component "Microsoft Exchange Forest Prepration" cannot be assigned
the
> action "Forestprep" because:
> - Setup unable to access the Windows 2000 Active Directory
> -Failed to contact the Schema Master Server for this Active Directory
Forest
> }
>
> and at running third program this error appeared:
>
> {
> The network address is invalid.
> Facility : win32
> Id no : c00706ab
> Microsoft Active Directory Connector Setup
> }
>
>
> Then I attempted to run :
>
> dcdiag /s:MYSERVER /v /test:knowsofroleholders
>
> and I saw this error in it's output :
>
> ......................... MYSERVER failed test KnowsOfRoleHolders
>
>
> What's wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Regards
> Doroodgar
>
>
>
>
>

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This is a mickey mouse fix from Microsoft but it works for this exact issue.

There is/was nothing wrong with my DNS architecture, I think it's just Exchange 2000's setup process that doesn't bother to check the forest root domain for the Schema Master location when you're using a disjointed DNS architecture.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/284244

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