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  • Thursday, October 29, 2009 1:31 PMDavid531 Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Hi Everyone,

    I've got an 2008 R2 host in a workgroup lab and have Hyper-V installed with 2 VM's running 2008 R2 on the host, one is the active directory server, and the other I'll call mailserver and I'm trying to load the Exchange 2010 eval on it.  I can login as the domain admin, and run the setup, but it fails complaining that i'm not logged in to the domain.
     
    Error message is:   Active Directory does not exist or cannot be contacted

    I can ping the active directory server successfully from the mailserver.

    I've tried reconfiguring the virtual network using private, internal and external etc.

    Thanks for any suggestions,  David
     

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  • Tuesday, November 03, 2009 8:47 AMVincent HuMSFT, ModeratorUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    Hi,

     

    According to the description, the issue seems to be related to Exchange. As we mainly focus on the Hyper-V question about Windows Server system and here is not the best support resource for Exchange, it is recommend you to get further support in the corresponding community so that you can get the most qualified pool of respondents. Thanks for your understanding.

     

    For your convenience, I have list the related link as followed.

     

    Exchange Server 2010

    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchange2010/threads

     

     

    Best Regards,

    Vincent Hu

     

     

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  • Thursday, October 29, 2009 4:43 PMDavidLachari Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Hi David,


    Is your mail server is a domain controller ? Is it a domain member ?

    Did you check your Active Directory log in the Server Manager ?

    Can you ping the FQDN of the active directory server from the mail server ?




    David
     
  • Tuesday, November 03, 2009 8:47 AMVincent HuMSFT, ModeratorUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    Hi,

     

    According to the description, the issue seems to be related to Exchange. As we mainly focus on the Hyper-V question about Windows Server system and here is not the best support resource for Exchange, it is recommend you to get further support in the corresponding community so that you can get the most qualified pool of respondents. Thanks for your understanding.

     

    For your convenience, I have list the related link as followed.

     

    Exchange Server 2010

    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchange2010/threads

     

     

    Best Regards,

    Vincent Hu

     

     
  • Tuesday, November 03, 2009 2:48 PMKillerbe Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    ar both virtual servers in the same virtual network?
    The idea in Hyper-V and any virtualizing technology is that you use an a virtual switch to connect your virtual machines to the network.
    In Hyper-V you would configure an external network and assign it to a physical NIC. connect both virtual machines to that external switch.