The errors seem to point to a communications or permission problem. Have you had a chance to try the tests in the other technet article ? Some other information that will be useful is : Are the two exchange servers installed on domain controllers or member servers ? Are the servers in the same domain ? What other patches have been applied to the new server other than the service pack? Do you get any event log errors in the existing exchange server at the time the setup fails ? Which network protocols do you run ? Are the server on the same IP Subnet ? How does name resolution work or your network (lmhosts, hosts, wins, dns, broadcast)? Has there ever been an exchange server on the network with this same name ? What antivirus software do you use and have you tried disabling it while performing the install? Things to try: Ping the ip address of FRODO from mail. Ping frodo by name from mail Ping mail from FRODO by ip address Ping mail by name from frodo. Then map a drive e.g. C$ on frodo from mail and vice versa. Install exchnage administrator on the new server and connect to the old server while logged on as the exchange service account Check to make sure the exchange service account has full control ntfs permissions to all drives on both servers where exchange files are located. In Exchange administrator check that the service account has service account rights to all levels of the exchange organisation. james -----Original Message----- From: Heather Hathaway [mailto:hathaway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 08 August 2002 15:53 To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Adding a 5.5 Server to an existing Organiz ation and Site http://www.MSExchange.org/ Sending event info again...not as attachment. Event ID: 1005 Source: MSExchangeSA Type: Error Catagory: Monitoring Unexpected error <<0xc0040000 - Network problems are preventing connection to the Microsoft Exchange Server computer. Contact your system administrator if this condition persists. MAPI was unable to load the information service emsabp.dll. Be sure the service is correctly installed and configured. Microsoft Exchange Address Book ID no: 00040380-0000-00000000>> occurred. Event ID: 2013 Source: MSExchangeSetup Type: Warning Catagory: Replication Configuration An error occurred adding replica of naming context '/o=Mitchell Technical Institute/ou=MTI/cn=Microsoft DMD' to server 'MAIL' from server 'FRODO'. <<0xc1030b0d - An internal error has occurred during directory replication. Stop and then restart the directory service. Then try directory replication again.>> Event ID: 1171 Source: MSExchangeDS Type: Error Catagory: Internal Processing Exception e0010002 has occurred with parameters 9 and 0 (internal ID 30c0886). Contact Microsoft Technical Support for assistance. Heather M. Hathaway Network Specialist Mitchell Technical Institute Mitchell School District 605-995-3065 hathaway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: James Barr [mailto:JamesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 5:48 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Adding a 5.5 Server to an existing Organization and Site http://www.MSExchange.org/ Have a look at ( even though the error is different the tests on communication and name resolution are valid) http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q159485 especially try the last test with exchange administrator from the new server. Also make sure that you are logged onto the new server as the exchange service account while your carrying out the installation. Do you get any error messages in the application log when setup fails, if so what are they ? James -----Original Message----- From: heather [mailto:hathaway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 07 August 2002 14:09 To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Adding a 5.5 Server to an existing Organization and Site http://www.MSExchange.org/ Please send any and all suggestions. We are attempting to add an additional Exchange 5.5 to an existing Exchange 5.5 Organization and Site. During install we are able to join the existing site and the information appears to be correct. However during final phase of the install on the new server we always receive an error that directory replication was not successfull. Stop and restart Directory Services and try the install again. Both servers have NT 4.0 SP6a, the existing Exchange 5.5 server has sp4. Please help.........extremely ignorant and frustrated!! 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