Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2k3 Connection Agreement problems

[troye]

I'm in the process of doing a migration from exchange 5.5 to exchange 2k3. I've been using the Deloyment tools from E2k3 SP1 and am having problems while at Step 4: Connection Agreement Wizard with ADC Tools.

The problem i am having during the Wizard is that the LDAP port that I specify (port 390) for my 5.5 server is not the port that the final summary shows that the Wizard will be using. On the summary page of the Connection Agreement wizard it shows the wizard using port 379 rather then port 390 which I had specified. I have set the LDAP port on the exchange 5.5 to port 390.

Here is the error that is reported to the ADCTools.log file:

Using 0 as a default for msExchServer1DeletionOption
Using 0 as a default for msExchServer2DeletionOption
Using 2052 as a default for msExchAdcOptions
Using 2 as a default for activationStyle
Warning: The staging area domain is not in native mode. Group membership and security cannot be properly managed unless the staging area is in a native mode domain
Warning: The staging area domain is not in native mode. Group membership and security cannot be properly managed unless the staging area is in a native mode domain
Error: Connection Agreement Wizard could not contact the ADC server EXCHANGE_NT to set the connection agreements credentials for aspen\exchange_admin. Please ensure that Active Directory Connector is running and can be contacted from this computer. Then rerun the Connection Agreement Wizard. iADCI.Bind returned 0x1CE The remote server machine does not exist or is unavailable
Error: Connection Agreement Wizard could not contact the ADC server EXCHANGE_NT to set the connection agreements credentials for aspen\exchange_admin. Please ensure that Active Directory Connector is running and can be contacted from this computer. Then rerun the Connection Agreement Wizard. iADCI.Bind returned 0x1CE The remote server machine does not exist or is unavailable
ADC Tools encountered errors updating some connection agreements. Please check that your logged on account has full permissions on the ADC connection agreement container.

Exit HrPublishCAChanges=0xFFFFFFFF The remote server machine does not exist or is unavailable

Any ideas?

 

[snootalope]

Just one idea.. On the Exchange 5.5 machine, after you changed the ldap port to 390 (which you did manually change on the 5.5 machine right?), I remember I had to restart a certain Service on that machine.. I can't recall which it was exactly, but I want to say it was an Exchange service.

That was the exact same error I saw for a while, but after changing the ldap port and RESTARTING THE SERVICE it worked like a champ..

-snoots