Article ID: 280098
Article Last Modified on 2/21/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q280098
SYMPTOMS
When you run Exchange 2000 Server Setup, the Messaging and Collaboration portion of Setup may not succeed. When Setup has completed, the following error message may be reported in the Exchange Server Setup Progress.log file:
CAUSE
This issue can occur if the Installable File System (IFS) was not completely removed if you previously installed Exchange 2000, and then removed it.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this issue, remove Exchange 2000 manually.
For additional information about manually removing Exchange 2000, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
260378 XADM: How to Manually Remove an Exchange 2000 Installation
After you successfully remove Exchange 2000, restart the computer. Setup should now run successfully.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server.
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