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Installation of Exchange 2010 with Subdomain

Dear all,

My company has given me a subdomain ex: abc.xyz.net for the testing of exchange before deploying in the organization.

we dont have any existing exchangeorganization as of now.

All the exchange installation would be on exchange 2010

the lab consists of 2 domain controllers, 2 client acces servers, 2 mail box servers, 2 hub transport servers.

i have installed all the pre requisites on all the member server for exchange installations.

As i have to update the AD schema and prepare the domain.

as my doamin name is abc.xyz.net, i tried using the following commands on DC

1) setup /PrepareAd /OrganizationalName: abc.xyz.net ( i got error saying its not valied organization name)

2)setup /PrepareAd /OrganizationalName: abc.xyz ( i got error saying its not valied organization name)

Please help me, what would be my organizational name to the update the AD schema and prepare the domain

Pls Note:
Also want to tell you that i have run setup /PrepareAd /OrganizationalName: abc command and executed fine.

Now i think i have made a mistake insted of using xyz as domain name i used abc.

i tried to run the setup /PrepareAd /OrganizationalName: xyz but it gives me the error saying there exists exchange organization abc.

if i want to remove the previously updated abc and use xyz, what should i do?

waiting for your valuable feed back and help.

thanks in advance

Busbar

you cannot use FQDN as an org name, so using xyz will be fine

chlavarara

ASKER

Hi Busbar,

ok thanks for the advice, but i have previously run the setup /PrepareAd /OrganizationalName: abc command and it got executed

when i try to run setup /PrepareAd /OrganizationalName: xyz it says the there exists an organiation abc already.

how can i remove previously set up abc.

please advice

Busbar

not supported my dear, there should be only one exchange organization in AD, you can remove it using adsiedit but this is not supported.

chlavarara

ASKER

Hi Busbar,

Thanks you once again.

Pease tell me what can i do to remove the previous set up abd and use xyz again.

is it ok if i use abc, as my domain is abc.xyz.net.

what are the other methods i can use.

your advice is much appreciated.

thanks

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chlavarara

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Hi Busbar,

thank you very much for your advice.

it works