MS exchange 5.5 fails to join existing site

[xzzz]

Hi all,

I'm having problems with replication upon installation of a new Exchange server.

The situation is that we have an existing system (running exchange 5.5.sp4) on Windows NT 4.0 that needs to be re-built. We also have a brand new system, running Windows NT 4.0 sp 6, ready to install exchange onto.

Both of these machines are in the same domain, with the existing machine being PDC, and the new machine being BDC, currently on their own private ethernet segment (testbench).

The plan is that we install exchange on the new system, join the old site, replicate the data, and remove the original machine from the site.

What happens, is that whilst installing Exchange on the new system, replication fails, with a message to try re-starting the replication service. This does not help.

An error code is displayed: c1030b0d, but I haven't managed to find anything regarding this yet.

Any ideas on where to go from here? Seems to be un-neccessarily awkward for what should be a simple procedure...

Thanks in advance

 

[csobotta]

.. did you find a solution to this problem ?
i´m having the same problem right now

thanx in advance
chris

 

[swp13]

Try running optimizer but don't change any locations or anything. I don't know what it is but it has fixed a couple of my wierd problems in the pst.

 

[swp13]

Sorry for my poor typing. I meant . . . in the past, not pst.

 

[OhhPancho]

Are you sure your BDC is actually working as a BDC in the domain? It doesn't sound like your problem is Exchange related.

 

[Jackcipk]

When you join a new server to the site, make sure you login from the new machine as service account before installing an Exchange server. Our existing machine is NT4.0 sp6, Exchange5.5 Sp3 (also PDC). I installed a new Exchange server 5.5 at one of my stand along servers (W2k) on the same domain yesterday. The replication worked fine.

Jack

 

[csobotta]

.. I fixed my problem. after installing Sp4 for exchange on the first server in the site everything worked fine.

chris