Hi everyone -
I'm having BIG issues with my Exchange setup. First off, I walked into a nightmare of a situation here and it seems everything is completely jacked up in terms of network and servers... I'm actually contemplating starting over 100% with everything, but when I bring that up to upper management, they say it's not feasible.
We currently have Exchange 2007 SP3 with RU11. I found out that when SP3 was installed, whoever did it never updated AD or the schema. Now I can't do that because i'm on RU11 and it's giving me a version mismatch error. So I've decided to move on to just upgrade to Exchange 2013.
I am on the beginning steps of doing this and I just ran: setup /PrepareAD /IAcceptExchangeServerLicenseTerms. When doing this I get the following nasty little error:
Welcome to Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Unattended Setup
Copying Files...
File copy complete. Setup will now collect additional information needed for installation.
Performing Microsoft Exchange Server Prerequisite Check
Prerequisite Analysis
FAILED
Setup will prepare the organization for Exchange 2013 by using 'Setup /PrepareAD'. No Exchange 2010 server roles have b
een detected in this topology. After this operation, you will not be able to install any Exchange 2010 servers.
Cannot find the Recipient Update Service responsible for domain 'DC=kuder,DC=local'. New and existing users may not be
properly Exchange-enabled.
One or more servers in the existing organization are running Exchange 2000 Server or Exchange Server 2003. Installa
tion can't proceed until all Exchange 2000 or Exchange 2003 servers are removed.
The Exchange Server setup operation didn't complete. More details can be found in ExchangeSetup.log located in the
<SystemDrive>:\ExchangeSetupLogs folder.
A couple of notes about this error:
1. I swear I've gotten some errors about the Recipient Update Service with Exchange 2007. I'm think that might have lead me to the schema upgrade issue I talked about earlier.
2. We DO NOT have Exchange 2000 or 2003 in our environment!!! Not sure where to even begin to remove the remnants of this!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jeff