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Hope you arent doing by Command ?<br />
What is the current roles installed and which role are you trying to add to it ?<br />
What error do you get ... if you could share a screenshot of it :)<br />
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- Rancy
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Hope you arent doing by Command ?
What is the current roles installed and which role are you trying to add to it ?
What error do you get ... if you could share a screenshot of it :)

- Rancy

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Thanks I eventually got this to work by running setup.exe from within sp2.
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Thanks I eventually got this to work by running setup.exe from within sp2.

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Originally I installed exchange 2010 with no service packs. Over time I have applied sp1 and later sp2. I now want to add a role to the server but the wizard fails when trying to copy the Exchange files. I've tried using the orginal DVD, the Latest DVD that has sp1 included, neither worked. After doing some research I saw that you need to put any updates installed into the Updates folder of the original DVD. In order to do this I copied the DVD to the hard disk and copied sp1 and sp2 to the updates folder of the copied disk, still no joy though. Can anyone advise what I need to do to make this work?
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Originally I installed exchange 2010 with no service packs. Over time I have applied sp1 and later sp2. I now want to add a role to the server but the wizard fails when trying to copy the Exchange files. I've tried using the orginal DVD, the Latest DVD that has sp1 included, neither worked. After doing some research I saw that you need to put any updates installed into the Updates folder of the original DVD. In order to do this I copied the DVD to the hard disk and copied sp1 and sp2 to the updates folder of the copied disk, still no joy though. Can anyone advise what I need to do to make this work?

Can't add new roles to Exchange 2010 sp2 installation.

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