When you are preparing an Active Directory Forest for Exchange Server 2007 installation you may encounter an ldifde.exe error importing the schema file.
Exchange 2010 FAQ: Is Direct Exchange Migration from 2003 to 2010 Possible Without Upgrading to 2007?
February 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This article explains which upgrade paths are supported from Exchange 2003 to Exchange Server 2010, and under what scenarios you would want to use Exchange 2007 as an interim upgrade path.
Exchange Best Practices Analyzer Reports Unrecognized Exchange Signature
July 23, 2010 By 2 Comments
An Exchange Best Practices Analyzer bug gives a misleading error report in scans of Exchange Server 2010 organizations.
Security descriptor error during Exchange Server 2007 schema extension
February 25, 2010 By 17 Comments
Windows Server 2003 32-bit R2 media needed to prep a non-R2 domain before first 64-bit R2 DC can be promoted
February 19, 2009 By 4 Comments
In one of life’s “chicken and egg” situations I recently encountered the issue of promoting a Windows Server 2003 64-bit R2 server to be a Domain Controller in an environment with only Windows Server 2003 32-bit (non-R2) servers as existing Domain Controllers. DCPromo will tell you that the Forest has not been prepared for the [...]
Installing Exchange Server 2007 pre-requisites on Windows Server 2008
March 27, 2008 By 4 Comments
The Windows Server 2008 ServerManagerCmd.exe tool makes installing the Exchange Server 2007 pre-requisites a snap. In this example I am installing the pre-requisites for a typical Exchange Server 2007 installation (Mailbox Server, Client Access Server, Hub Transport Server). The components are installed using ServerManagerCmd.exe. The following commands can be executed in a command shell to [...]
