In the Exchange server properties in ESM, you can hard-wire specific domain
controllers to talk to instead of talking to itself. One of the problems with
co-located Exchange and AD is that Exchange never wants to talk to another
domain controller.

I don't remember if you can override that behavior manually, but it's worth a
try; lock in the values for the new domain controller and see how it works. If
it doesn't, then move the FSMO back and give the uninstall another try.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Exchange2000@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:Exchange2000@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of bluetek_az
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 3:45 AM
> To: Exchange2000@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Exchange2000] Exchange 2000 Uninstall
>
> I am transitioning to Exchange 2007 from Exchange 2000. We have
> the
> new server up and running, all mailboxes and public folders have
> been
> moved. I was following an article on this site to decomission the
> E2K server and got to the point where I would unisntall E2K. When
> I
> run the setup and choose remove I get the following message:
>
> [quote]
> The component "Microsoft Exchange Messaging and Collaboration
> Services" cannot be assigned the action "Remove" because:
> -Setup is unable to access the Windows 2000 Active Directoy
> -Failed to contact the Schema Master Server for the Active
> Directory
> forest.
> [/quote]
>
> This box is still a DC, but all of the FSMO roles have been
> transfered off to new W2K3 servers during this transistion. I read
> somewhere that if Exchange was installed on a DC you needed to
> remove
> it before demoting the box. Could it be that I needed to wait to
> migrate the FSMO roles until after removing E2k, too?
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
>
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