So this was kinda enlightening … the AD boys have setup for forest for me and schema / domain prepped too.
But when I went to Install Exchange I kept getting:
setup /mode:install /role:mt,mb,ca,ht
Welcome to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unattended Setup
Preparing Exchange Setup
The following server roles will be installed
Management Tools
Hub Transport Role
Client Access Role
Mailbox Role
Performing Microsoft Exchange Server Prerequisite Check
Organization Checks ……………………. FAILED
The Active Directory Schema must be modified and this user account has insufficient permissions. It must be a member of both the ‘Schema Admins’ and ‘Enterprise Admins’ groups.
Global updates need to be made to Active Directory, and this user account is not a member of the ‘Enterprise Admins’ group.
The local domain needs to be updated. You must be a member of the ‘Domain Admins’ and ‘Exchange Organization Administrators’ group, or ‘Enterprise Admins’ group to continue.
Hub Transport Role Checks ……………………. COMPLETED
Setup cannot detect an SMTP or Send connector with an address space of ‘*’. Mail flow to the Internet may not work properly.
Client Access Role Checks ……………………. COMPLETED
Mailbox Role Checks ……………………. COMPLETED
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.
WTF, i checked permissions and tried a milion and one different things before the penny dropped. yeah you got it, the AD boys had use Exchange 2007 RTM and not SP1 ! … Doh!
The tell tail sign was the objectVersion on the Organization container in the Active Directory Configuration partition, it was set to 10666.
After an SP1 forest prep I was still getting this:
setup /mode:install /role:mt,ca,ht,mb
Welcome to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unattended Setup
Preparing Exchange Setup
The following server roles will be installed
Management Tools
Hub Transport Role
Client Access Role
Mailbox Role
Performing Microsoft Exchange Server Prerequisite Check
Organization Checks ……………………. FAILED
Global updates need to be made to Active Directory, and this user account is not a member of the ‘Enterprise Admins’ group.
The local domain needs to be updated. You must be a member of the ‘Domain Admins’ and ‘Exchange Organization Administrators’ group, or ‘Enterprise Admins’group to continue.
Hub Transport Role Checks ……………………. COMPLETED
Setup cannot detect an SMTP or Send connector with an address space of ‘*’. Mail flow to the Internet may not work properly.
Client Access Role Checks ……………………. COMPLETED
Mailbox Role Checks ……………………. COMPLETED
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.
Intersting, the objectVersion didn’t change to 11221 until the domain prep was run?!
Check this out for info on the objectVersion
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