I'm preparing the AD for my upgrade from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007.And i encountered an error during the processsetup.com /preparelegacyexchangepermissions is successfulsetup.com /prepareschema - FAILEDIT Says Organization Preparation .............................................................................. FailedAn Unexpected error has occured and debug information is being generated: The system cannot find the file specifiedThe system cannot find the fiile specifiedExchange Server Setup encountered an errorBelow is from the exchangesetuplogs[1/14/2010 3:17:47 PM] [1] Processing component 'Active Directory Schema' (Updating the Active Directory schema).[1/14/2010 3:17:47 PM] [1] Executing 'install-ExchangeSchema -LdapFileName ($roleInstallPath + "Setup\Data\"+$RoleSchemaPrefix + "schema0.ldf")', handleError = False[1/14/2010 3:17:47 PM] [2] Launching sub-task '$error.Clear(); install-ExchangeSchema -LdapFileName ($roleInstallPath + "Setup\Data\"+$RoleSchemaPrefix + "schema0.ldf")'.[1/14/2010 3:17:47 PM] [2] Beginning processing.[1/14/2010 3:17:47 PM] [2] Running <C:\Windows\system32\ldifde.exe> with arguments <-i -s "tm-ad-2003.tru-marine.local" -f "D:\Setup\ServerRoles\Common\Setup\Data\PostExchange2003_schema0.ldf" -j "C:\Users\administrator.TRU-MARINE\AppData\Local\Temp\1" -c "<SchemaContainerDN>" "CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=tru-marine,DC=local">.[1/14/2010 3:17:47 PM] [2] [WARNING] An unexpected error has occurred and debug information is being generated: The system cannot find the file specified[1/14/2010 3:17:47 PM] [2] [ERROR] The system cannot find the file specified[1/14/2010 3:17:48 PM] [1] Exception : System.Management.Automation.CmdletInvocationException: The system cannot find the file specified ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified at System.Diagnostics.Process.StartWithCreateProcess(ProcessStartInfo startInfo) at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(ProcessStartInfo startInfo) at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Deployment.InstallExchangeSchema.RunProcess(String fileName, String arguments, WriteVerboseHandler writeVerbose) at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Deployment.InstallExchangeSchema.ImportSchemaFile(String schemaMasterServer, String schemaFilePath, String macroName, String macroValue, WriteVerboseHandler writeVerbose) at Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Deployment.InstallExchangeSchema.InternalProcessRecord() at Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.Task.ProcessRecord() at System.Management.Automation.CommandProcessor.ProcessRecord() --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.Management.Automation.Internal.PipelineProcessor.SynchronousExecuteEnumerate(Object input, Hashtable errorResults, Boolean enumerate) at System.Management.Automation.PipelineNode.Execute(Array input, Pipe outputPipe, ArrayList& resultList, ExecutionContext context) at System.Management.Automation.StatementListNode.ExecuteStatement(ParseTreeNode statement, Array input, Pipe outputPipe, ArrayList& resultList, ExecutionContext context)[1/14/2010 3:17:48 PM] [1] [WARNING] An unexpected error has occurred and debug information is being generated: The system cannot find the file specified[1/14/2010 3:17:48 PM] [1] [ERROR] The system cannot find the file specified[1/14/2010 3:17:48 PM] [1] [ERROR] The system cannot find the file specified[1/14/2010 3:17:48 PM] [1] [ERROR] The system cannot find the file specified[1/14/2010 3:17:48 PM] [1] [ERROR] The system cannot find the file specifiedAnyone encountered this error before?Hope someone can help.Thanks

I'm thinking right now to transfer Primary DC to my secondary DC server , will the Schema data be the same?on primary and secondary DC ?I don't know if this is an option.

I figured out now what is the problem.solution is install this feature ServerManagerCmd -i RSAT-ADDS

Hi,Thanks for share.Frank Wang

Thanks for share. But i have a quation, i dont get why wee need to run ServerManagerCmd -i RSAT-ADDS I have installed AD to another server, and planned to install Exchange to different server. I installed new server and joined to Domain, but hade a problem to install Exchange, after i run ServerManagerCmd -i RSAT-ADDS I cound go and install Exchange. PLease help need same explanation to anderstand. Many thanks