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by charleskin 3 views

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This is the basic senario: Exchange 2000 install.
Empty Root: 2 DC's;
Child Domain: 3 DC's, several member servers;
Ran Forest Prep on the Empty Root, then 1 hour later ran Domain Prep in the Child Domain. Everything ran fine. Then we installed the first Exchange 2000 server on a member server and applied Exchange SP2. Just after the installation of the service pack, a child domain controller crashed. This machine was rebuilt and re-introduced into the child domain. However the Exchange installation was not visible to the domain.
We went in a verified that the A.D. and network were still fine with netdiag and dcdiag. We then ran Forest Prep and Domain Prep again and tried to reinstall Exchange, after running almost completely through the installation, an error message appears stating there was an error in creating the administrative group container, ADSI invalid pathname, 0x80005000. We started looking at the Forest prep value with LDAP and discovered the value is still set at0 instead of 2 (2 indicates a sucessful Forest Prep).
We are hesitant to do a manual removal of Exchange using the KB articles 260378 and 273478 from MS, just because this is a production environment.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! I willrespond to any input and clarify andy ambiguities that you have.

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by joseph moore

This won't fix your problem, but it should be a place to start. Technet article Q287172 might help.

Good luck.

by charleskin

Thanks for the reply, I appreciate the time you took to answer. I don't need the ADC since I am not running in a mixed Exchange environment, which is what this article seems to indicate. Thanks again.

by charleskin

Also, we do not use any other version of Exchange on our organization. This is to replace an old and failing (other than Windows) mail server.

by maxwell edison

These types of error codes can be returned by any of the ADSI system providers to represent ADSI-specific error messages. They have the facility code 5 with severity bit set either TRUE or FALSE. When the severity bit is set to TRUE, this results in error values of the form 0x80005xxx and error messages of the form E_ADS_*. When the severity bit is set to FALSE, this results in error values of the form 0x00005xxx and the error messages are of the S_ADS_* form.

An invalid ADSI pathname was passed. (error code 0x80005000L)

Verify that the object exists on the directory server and check for typos in the path.

Source:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/netdir/adsi/generic_adsi_error_codes.asp

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You might also find it helpful to look at this Exchange 2000 Trainers article on the flow of group permissions, including the Administrative Group.

http://www.2000trainers.com/exchange/coursesandarticles/70-224/70-224-5.html

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by charleskin

Thanks for the dialog, and thank you for your time. We have brought in an outside vendor to repair this issue. Thanks again

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