Exchange 2010 Install - EMC Initialization Failed

[stlcardinals]

You can try anything you want. I'm just saying from a professional's viewpoint, I would not run what you currently have in a production environment after the problems you have had. I would start over.

It seems like you do not have much experience with Exchange. You should probably have done a test run in a lab enviornment to at least go through the installation process.

 

[pollardhimself]

You can try anything you want. I'm just saying from a professional's viewpoint, I would not run what you currently have in a production environment after the problems you have had. I would start over.

It seems like you do not have much experience with Exchange. You should probably have done a test run in a lab enviornment to at least go through the installation process.

Yeah i know now thats its done! im going to try a manual uninstall

 

[pollardhimself]

Plus, I think you really need to run the schema changes and domain prep if you haven't.

Do you have todo the setup /PrepareSchema? here he doesnt do that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g-QlQpNdUA?

I just read somewhere it does it automattically you dont have to so my problem was not this

 

[stlcardinals]

Do you have any other Exchange servers?

 

[pollardhimself]

Do you have any other Exchange servers?

Yes I have one on our sbs2003. Im probably going to just reformat and start from scratch.

Is this the correct steps

1. powershell
Import-Module ServerManager

Add-WindowsFeature NET-Framework,RSAT-ADDS,Web-Server,
Web-Basic-Auth,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Metabase,Web-Net-Ext,
Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console,WAS-Process-Model,RSAT-Web-Server,
Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-Digest-Auth,Web-Dyn-Compression,NET-
HTTP-Activation,RPC-Over-HTTP-Proxy -Restart

2. cmd prompt

setup /prepareSchema

3. Install Exchange?

I got 2 videos showing 2 different things

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7svA539Ey0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g-QlQpNdUA







or should i just use this

How to install Exchange 2010 prerequisites automatically
http://www.exchangemaster.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=98&Itemid=57

 

[stlcardinals]

Those steps look fine. The schema prep has to be done since you do not have a current Exchange 2007 server. Exchange 2007 and 2010 use the same schema additions.

 

[pollardhimself]

alright Im going to read a bunch this time, hopefully it works !

 

[rasczak]

remember, it usually takes a couple of reloads for you to get things just right. Just remember to document your steps as well and what worked and what failed for future reference.

 

[pollardhimself]

You dont have to run those commands Something else is wrong

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Just curious, what made you think you needed to reinstall in the first place? Setup will run all those prereq commands for you (look in the setup logs).