Microsoft KB Archive/259215

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XADM: Unable to Determine Valid Ordering When Upgrading from Exchange 2000 Server Release Candidate 1

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This article discusses a Beta release of a Microsoft product. The information in this article is provided as-is and is subject to change without notice.

No formal product support is available from Microsoft for this Beta product. For information about obtaining support for a Beta release, please see the documentation included with the Beta product files, or check the Web location from which you downloaded the release.

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server

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SYMPTOMS
When you upgrade Exchange 2000 Server Release Candidate 1 to later builds, you may receive the following error message:

Setup is unable to determine a valid ordering for the installation. See the error log for further details.

WORKAROUND
To work around this issue, run Setup with the /forestprep and /domainprep options again.

MORE INFORMATION
The valid ordering error message is displayed because of the large number of changes that the upgrade makes between the two installed builds. Because of these changes, you must run the /forestprep and /domainprep options during setup again.

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