What AD objects contain the Exchange 2007 attribute of LegacyExchangeDN?

Question

Last night I went to upgrade our Exchange 2007 SP1 CU10 server to Service Pack 2, but almost immediatly I was presented with the below error:

Organization Preparation Failed

Error: "/o=RUSSOUND/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/ou=POWERHOG" is not valid for LegacyExchangeDN. Valid values are: Strings of the form "/o=<word>" optionally followed by "/ou=<word>" optionally followed by one or more instances of "/cn=<word>". Each "<word>" is at least one of uppercase and lowercase letters, digits, a space, and anything from the following group of characters: @!"%&'()*+,-.:<>?[]_{}|.

Elapsed Time: 00:04:41

I believe the error is telling me that in my case "ou=POWERHOG" should really be "cn=POWERHOG", since POWERHOG is the name of my exchange server. The problem I am having is that the error isn't clear about WHERE the LegacyExchangeDN that is causing the error is located at in AD.

Can someone help point me in the right direction for resolving this error so I can move forward with the SP2 upgrade?

Answer 1

You should check (using ADSIEdit or another LDAP editor) the value of the LegacyExchangeDN attribute for the object with the following LDAP path (assuming your Exchange Organization Name is "RUSSOUND") in the Configuration partition:

CN=POWERHOG,CN=Servers,CN=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT),CN=Administrative Groups,CN=RUSSOUND,CN=Services,CN=Configuration

A.K.A.

Configuration\Services\RUSSOUND\Administrative Groups\Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)\Servers\POWERHOG

This is the LDAP object which represents your Exchange server, and its LegacyExchangeDN is what you need to look at.