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by shanghai sam

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Good PM peers.The following scenarios has occured once in my home test and the repeat has occured & I cannot find a resolution.Here is how it went.I have a existing fully functional win2000 AD Domain all built from a clean install.Loaded Exchange2000 on a second DC server(also houses my dns).Things went well & This is on amd-k62 500 MHz system I built.POP,IMAP,OWA,Outlook2000 client,Instant messaging was all fuctioning.(I TURN OFF MY PC'S IN THE PM)2 weeks ago the is store failed to start and SA.I tried manually & could never start it up again,Reboot either.reinstall over to rebuild but could not start.in frustration tried to uninstall,could not move the mailboxes-non functioning Ds,Is.Last thing to come to mind was completely remove server & rebuild another server.Used the utility ntdsutil to permanently remove the second DC(Exchange2000 DC)WRONG MOVE!!!!!.Now I cannot install another Exchange server @ all.The schema has been altered and I did not Backup(System State) prior to exchange installation so I could load previous schema.I CAN LOAD PREVIOUS SCHEMA CAN I NOT?ANOTHER WRONG MOVE TO NOT backup schema prior to app installation.I have no knowlegde of any programming,just basic shell script & very basic vbs.My question is "IS THERE ANY WAY I CAN BUILD ANOTHER MESSAGING SERVER OR HOW CAN I REBUILD THE SCHEMA TO REMOVE ALL REFERANCES TO MY PREVIOUS SERVER.HAS ANY OF TECH-REPUBLIC MEMBERS EXPERIENCED THIS ISSUE & WOULD LIKE TO SHARE ANY THOUGHTS.THANX SO MUCH

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by chrissaw

Hi there,
When you tried to re-install your second DC, did you gave it the same machine name as before? If yes, you will not able to install exchange because this machine is in the schema. Rename it and re-install exchange. It will work.
The otherway, is to open Active Directory Sites and Services. Under View, click Show Services Node. A new folder will appear. Open it and you will be able to delete any reference to exchange.

Hope it help.

by expertpc

I agree with Chris in that you should use a different server name. I have run into this before in a test environment but caused by a different set of circumstances. Chris is corrent in the steps neccessary to fix it.

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