Okay, so I thought I’d try to get all smartulent and set up a new Windows 2003 server, with Exchange 2003 on it. There’s a few things I have to watch out for while doing this, because I’ve got Liz & Emma on here in the Exchnage server, as well as it being my primary email address.<\/p>\n
SO…<\/p>\n
I get the server installed, and I’m like “Okay I’ll just drop Exchange in there, and away we go.”<\/p>\n
Hold on, sparky, it’s not that simple.<\/p>\n
In order to install Exchange 2003, you’ve gotta have a Domain Controller to install on. Fair enough. So I start the Win2k3 wizard to upgrade to the AD. I’ve already joined the GeckoTemple domain, so far so good. I need a DNS server running on the box in order to get the…. thing… with the-<\/p>\n
Hang on, I remember seeing some weirdness in my Event logs on my WinXPPro box, something about not being able to determine the name of the server\/workstation, ’cause the RPC isn’t available or something. I can always log in, and open Outlook without logging in again, and I can browse the DFS tree I’ve created and everything seems cool. Funny about the, uh errors though. Oh well, I’ll just pound on through and…<\/p>\n
I run the wizard to add Active Directory to the new server, and that’s cool. I get past the first two steps where they warn you that WinNT pre SP3, Win95 and two cans tied together will no longer be able to authenticate on the server. Fair enough, I think. It asks for authentication to make sure I’m allowed<\/i> to pull this paritcular stunt, and then it asks for the name of the domain I’m going to become a secondary on. Geckotemple.com, I’m thinking, and then I get this error that I can’t do that because the new server can’t find a DNS record for the Active Directory. Hmm…<\/p>\n
Start fiddling around with the DNS on the old server, and reading lots of archaic writings on the dos and don’ts of DNS, and how not to configure things, and talking about DCDiag. Okay, I drop the DCDiag tool into the old server, and run that, but right off the bat, it complains that it can’t find the GUID {super long Object name here} but it can ping the name of the server, and pings are being ponged. It’s “half-working” this tells me, but some stuff is wrong. I’m thinking Man in the Middle attacks and all kindsa weirdness, but then I run across a thread that talks about someone having the very same problem, and some of the folks replying are talking about making sure that the _MSDC links and a couple of other things are in the DNS entries, and if not I should run NetDiag \/fix<\/p>\n
But I also find at the end of that thread the original guy saying that uninstalling DNS completely, and then reinstalling it did the trick (after running the NetDiag \/fix line).<\/p>\n
I rip it out, put it back in, run the netdiag line. BOOM. Buncha stuff saying that it’s fixed\/added\/corrected a BUNCH of things.<\/p>\n
DCDiag is coming up all happy now, too.<\/p>\n
Just rebooted, we’ll see what happens(ed).<\/p>\n
Can’t wait to move from my current box to the new one.<\/p>\n
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