Current Environment
Exchange 2007 SP1 deployment
Single Consolidated Server
Windows 2003 Domain
Problem
Attempts to install SP2 or SP3 for 2007 fail when you run setup /PrepareAD
Runnning setup /PrepareSchema completes OK
Error Message
Exchange Setup logs the following message in the setup log
[ERROR] Active Directory operation failed on DC1.<domain>.ca. The object 'CN=Offline Address Lists,CN=Address Lists Container,CN=<domain>,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=<domain>,DC=ca' already exists.
[9/10/2010 2:05:02 PM] [2] [ERROR] The object exists.
[9/10/2010 2:05:02 PM] [2] Ending processing.
[9/10/2010 2:05:02 PM] [1] The following 1 error(s) occurred during task execution:
[9/10/2010 2:05:02 PM] [1] 0. ErrorRecord: Active Directory operation failed on DC1.<domain>.ca. The object 'CN=Offline Address Lists,CN=Address Lists Container,CN=<domain>,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=<domain>,DC=ca'
already exists.
Steps Done To Resove
I've found previous posts which have identifed issues with the values in the purportSearch attribute for All Contacts, Default Global Address List, etc. however there doesn't appear to an equivalent attribute in for the Offline Address list or it's parent container
Running setup /PrepareAD on either the Exchange server or the DC/GC results in the same error message.
Any thoughts or pointers to track down this problem would be greatly appreciated
Thanks!
Kelly