Installing new server in a site with Ed Crowley

[jhill]

I wanted to use the Ed Crowley Method. Unfortunately, installing<br>Exchange is a problem:<br><br>I have a current Exchange 5.5sp3 server. The new one, with a new name<br>&quot;exchange&quot; is to be placed on a NT4sp6a box. I installed IIS and then<br>SP6a again. Exchange refuses to install on this&nbsp;&nbsp;new box.<br><br>After asking Setup to join our site, it installs files and begins<br>directory replication and then crashes with error c1030b0d: Internal<br>error directory replication. Stop and restart the service.<br><br>This is very odd. There is no previous installation on the system. The<br>old exchange server is 1 hop away and very much accessible. I logged in<br>as the Service Manager and have full rights to everything.<br><br>I speculate that our firewall, which both servers are behind, may be<br>trying to block full communications because of the odd way in which we<br>are setup...but the actual exchange server is on the internal network.<br><br>I scoured the MS support articles. I did find my error twice, but<br>neither article was helpful since that wasn't the exact issue. I did try<br>out the solutions fully, but neither helped. see Q185176 and Q185616.<br><br>Any ideas?

 

[Guest_imported]

Me too did you fix it?

 

[SRG]

Two things I might try, first check your firwall, if it is routing traffic between your various subnets amke sure it is not filtering anything between these two points. Also you might want to try using the rpcping util to test the connectivity between the two. Depending on the bandwidth between the two you might want to try installing it in another site and using a site connector to communicate between them.

 

[lardum]

Try this out:
At the destination server:
1. Open the HOSTS file and enter the name and IP-address of the source server.

At the source server:
1. Open the HOSTS file and enter the name and IP-address of the destination server.

Then try to install Exchange.

Regards

Lars