To do this, you should have exchange service account rights and you should be member of enterprise admin. you don't need to add exchange account on each ou/site. rajnish -----Original Message----- From: Sinton, Gary [mailto:gary@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 12:22 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] 5.5 Upgrade to exch2k3 http://www.MSExchange.org/ I'm trying to get started in a test network of three servers (Exchange 5.5, a PDC/GC, and a Windows 2003 server that'll run exchange 2003) that duplicates our working environment. But the deployment tools DSCONFIGSUM, EXDEPLOY, and GCVERCHECK give me this message: "Warning: Either you do not have permission to view hidden objects in the Exchange 5.5 directory, or the directory is not Exchangew 5.5 SP1 or later." I have rerun the SP3 update on the Exchange 5.5 server; spent a day whittling everything unusual out of Public Folders. Later, I gradually added the Exchange account id to every permission group in AD, and explicitly added the Exchange account to every ORG | Site| Configuration parameter on the 5.5 server trying to get past the error. Exchange 2003 hasn't been out long enough for a discussion of the message to appear throughout the Internet. Does anyone recognise this problem? ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ ########################################### This message has been scanned by F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange. For more information, connect to http://www.F-Secure.com/