You are the Exchange administrator for Woodgrove Bank. The network consists of a single Active Directory domain named woodgrovebank.com.
The domain contains two domain controllers named DC1 and DC2, which are also configured as DNS servers.
The Exchange organization contains two servers that run Exchange Server 2003.
Your company acquires a subsidiary named Humongous Insurance and opens a new office for the subsidiary. You deploy a new domain controller named DC1 in a new domain tree at the new office.
You configure DC1 as a DNS server. The relevant portion of the resulting network configuration is shown in the Network exhibit.
You install Windows Server 2003 on a new computer in the new office. You name the new server Exch3 and join it to the humongousinsurance.com domain.
You begin to install Exchange Server 2003 on Exch3.humongousinsurance.com.
However, the installation fails, and you receive the message shown in the Error Message exhibit.
You need to ensure that you can successfully complete the installation of Exch3.humongousinsurance.com.
What should you do?
A.
Configure DC1.humongousinsurance.com as a global catalog server.
B.
Configure Exch3.humongousinsurance.com to use one of the DNS servers at Woodgrove Bank for DNS services.
C.
Configure a secondary zone for woodgrovebank.com on the DNS server at Humongous Insurance.
D.
Configure a conditional forwarder for the humongousinsurance.com zone on the DNS servers at Woodgrove Bank so that all
Explanation:
This error occurs when Setup cannot locate a qualifying Global Catalog server to connect to.Exchange needs at least one domain that contains a Global Catalog server that belongs to the local or an adjacent Windows site.
References
“Multiple Components Cannot Be Assigned the Requested Action” Error Message During Exchange 2003 Installation KB 822439
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;822439
“Setup Encountered an Error While Trying to Contact the Windows Active Directory” Error Message When You Try to Install Exchange Server 2003 to an Existing Windows 2000 Domain KB 822452
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;822452
Cannot Install Exchange Server 2003 in a Child Domain after You Run SETUP /DOMAINPREP KB 817378
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817378