DC Upgrade,a few oddites since

[Guest]

Had a ye ole regular Windows 2000 Server that we set up as a member server.
It stayed in that role for a few weeks. It was never running anything
really. No DNS/WINS/DHCP. Using DCPROMO last week, upgraded it to a domain
controller. We have 3 other Domain Controllers on our network and a Exchange
2000 Server. Still, it is NOT running DNS or WINS or DHCP.

One of the odd things I noticed, is when I go into ‘Active Directory Users
and Computers.’ I enable ‘Advanced View’ and right click on a
user>properties. I SHOULD be seeing 4 Exchange related tabs in the users
account (Exchange General, Exchange Advanced, Exchange Features, E-mail
Address).

But When I right click on a users account, these tabs never show up. They
are present on other Domain Controllers when I go into AD Users and Computers.

I looked in the event viewer on this new Domain Controller and I don’t see
any alerts/error messages in either ‘System’ or Directory.

Anyone have an idea of what went wrong?

 

[Guest]

Hi corntney

Looks like you need to install the exchange tools.

Regards

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the tip......

Now where do I find these tools? Do I add them from the W2K Server CD,
Exchange 200 CD? or is it something I add by typing it in at the command
prompt?

Thanks

 

[Guest]

run exchange setup on the dc. install the management tools

regards

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Courtney,

As The AD Designer stated, you will need to install the Exchange Tools on
the Domain Controllers in order to see the Exchange related tabs. I would
also suggest that if you are running Exchange 2000 SP3 then after you do the
custom install ( in order to install the tools ) that you also drop in the
Exchange 2000 Service Pack 3 CD and install that. It is important to have
the tools all at the same 'specs'.

I would also suggest that you might consider doing all of your AD work from
a workstation that has the Adminpak installed instead of sitting at a Domain
Controller ( either directly in front of it or via RDP or via some version
of VNC or whatnot ).

--
Cary W. Shultz
Roanoke, VA 24012
Microsoft Active Directory MVP

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