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Exchange Server Cookbook
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Exchange Server Cookbook

by Paul Robichaux, Missy Koslosky, Devin L. Ganger
June 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
464 pages
13h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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2.6. Verifying That Forest and Domain Preparation Completed

Problem

You need to ensure that fore stprep and domainprep have completed successfully so you can install an Exchange server.

Solution

The solution depends on your version of Exchange. For Exchange 2000, there are two methods to validate the forest and one for the domain, while Exchange Server 2003 provides a handy tool that does both. The easiest method to validate the forest preparation on Exchange 2000 is to ensure that event ID 1575 appears in the directory event log on every domain controller that has successfully received the schema and object updates applied during forest preparation. The event message looks like this:

Event Type:    Information
Event Source:    NTDS Replication
Event Category:    Replication
Event ID:    1575
Date:        2/16/2005
Time:        3:18:42 PM
User:        Everyone
Computer:    BATMAN
Description:
One or more new attributes has been added to the partial attribute set for 
partition DC=test,DC=robichaux, 
DC=net. A full synchronization will be performed from source dbb5631d-3dfc-
41bd-b933-382f5d704aa6._msdcs.
test.robichaux.net on the next periodic synchronization.

This event actually means that the PAS (e.g., the set of attributes that are replicated to global catalog servers in the forest) has been changed; Exchange makes extensive changes to the PAS during forest preparation.

The alternative method requires the ADSI Edit MMC snap-in, which is installed as part of the Windows 2000 Support Tools:

  1. From the Start menu, select ...

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