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Cannot Setup PrepareAD? - 20.Aug.2008 11:43:34 AM

imran_mcse

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I am running windows 2003 DC in my domain. I installed another box with windows 2008 64bit and then Exchange 2007 SP1. It was successful. But due to some complexities in windows 2008 we decided to install Exchange 2007 on windows 2003 server. I reinstalled the OS to windows 2003 from windows 2008 and trying to run the Exchange 2007 setup but getting this error message when running Setup /PrepareAD:
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Welcome to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unattended Setup

Preparing Exchange Setup

No server roles will be installed

Performing Microsoft Exchange Server Prerequisite Check

Organization Checks ... COMPLETED

Configuring Microsoft Exchange Server

The well-known object entry B:32:A7D2016C83F003458132789EEB127B84:CN=Exchange Se
rvers\0ADEL:f98a222e-ac9c-4635-9042-40f94c7005da,CN=Deleted Objects,DC=orionhold
ing,DC=com of the otherWellKnownObjects attribute on container object CN=Configu
ration,DC=orionholding,DC=com points to an invalid DN or a deleted object. Plea
se remove the entry and rerun the task.

Organization Preparation ... FAILED

The Exchange Server Setup operation did not complete. For more information, visit http://support.microsoft.com and enter the Error ID.

Exchange Server setup encountered an error.

Please help me to solve this issue.

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RE: Cannot Setup PrepareAD? - 20.Aug.2008 1:39:09 PM

Junior6621

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You have to manually remove that DN before proceeding. Download the 2003 Support Tools from www.microsoft.com/downloads and then run adsi.msc then browse to that DN and remove it.

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RE: Cannot Setup PrepareAD? - 20.Aug.2008 9:32:32 PM

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delete pls

< Message edited by Elan Shudnow -- 20.Aug.2008 9:35:13 PM >

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RE: Cannot Setup PrepareAD? - 27.Aug.2008 1:52:10 PM

Statikd

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Launch adsiedit.msc (part of the support tools) and go into the Configuration partion. Bring up the properties for Configuration,DC=domain,DC=com
and edit the "otherWellKnownObjects" attribute to be "not set" (which it should be) by leaving it blank and clicking "add" (adding nothing) than applying the changes and re-running setup. Might have to give it a little time to replicate throughout AD though.....

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