Microsoft KB Archive/812288

= XADM: Unattended-Mode Installations of Exchange 2000 Server in Mixed-Mode Environments Are Not Supported =

PSS ID Number: 812288

Article Last Modified on 6/13/2003

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server
 * Microsoft Exchange 2000 Enterprise Server

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SUMMARY
Unattended-mode installations of Exchange 2000 Server in mixed-mode environments are not supported. This article discusses this and provides additional information about unattended installations of Exchange 2000 Server.



MORE INFORMATION
An unattended installation of Exchange 2000 Server is an installation that proceeds and completes without any interaction from the user. The unattended installation uses an unattend file to provide answers to configuration questions that appear during Setup.

You can only use unattended mode to install Exchange 2000 Server to computers that are in an Exchange 2000 native environment, in which all Exchange servers in the organization are running Exchange 2000 Server. The use of unattended mode to install Exchange 2000 Server to computers in a mixed-mode environment is not supported.

By default, Exchange 2000 Server installs in mixed mode. You must switch to native mode before you can perform an unattended installation. For additional information about mixed-mode and native-mode Exchange environments, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

270143 XADM: Mixed Mode vs. Native Mode

For more information about how and when to use unattended mode to install Exchange 2000 Server and Exchange 2000 Server service packs, see the Unattended Installations of Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server technical paper. To do so, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/techinfo/administration/2000/unattended.asp

For additional information about unattended installations of Exchange 2000 Server, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

262356 XADM: Options Not Supported During an Unattended Installation

312363 HOW TO: Install Exchange 2000 Server in Unattended Mode in Exchange 2000 Server

Keywords: kbnofix kbBug KB812288

Technology: kbExchange2000EntServ kbExchange2000Search kbExchange2000Serv kbExchange2000ServSearch kbExchangeSearch

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