I'm trying to get an Exchange 2007 environment setup, during the organization prep portion it fails and states "The system cannot find the file specified" and then the installation stops. Previous to this message i was getting an error that a 2003 GC could not be located so i setup a 2003 GC. The environment consists of Primary DC Server 2008 32b VM, Secondary DC Server 2003R2 32b VM, Exchange Server 2008R2 x64 Physical. Trying to install Exchange 2007 x64 w/ no service packs. I've attached the error log output below. [1/10/2011 8:54:21 AM] [1] Processing component 'Active Directory Schema' (Updating the Active Directory schema). [1/10/2011 8:54:21 AM] [1] Executing 'install-ExchangeSchema -LdapFileName ($roleInstallPath + "Setup\Data\"+$RoleSchemaPrefix + "schema0.ldf")', handleError = False [1/10/2011 8:54:21 AM] [2] Launching sub-task '$error.Clear(); install-ExchangeSchema -LdapFileName ($roleInstallPath + "Setup\Data\"+$RoleSchemaPrefix + "schema0.ldf")'. [1/10/2011 8:54:21 AM] [2] Beginning processing. [1/10/2011 8:54:21 AM] [2] Running <C:\Windows\system32\ldifde.exe> with arguments <-i -s "DC01.test.local" -f "C:\Install\Exchange 2K7 No SP\Setup\ServerRoles\Common\Setup\Data\PostWindows2003_schema0.ldf" -j "C:\Users\Administrator.TEST.000\AppData\Local\Temp\2" -c "<SchemaContainerDN>" "CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=test,DC=local">. [1/10/2011 8:54:21 AM] [2] [WARNING] An unexpected error has occurred and a Watson dump is being generated: The system cannot find the file specified [1/10/2011 8:54:21 AM] [2] [ERROR] The system cannot find the file specified [1/10/2011 8:54:21 AM] [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) [1/10/2011 8:54:21 AM] [1] [WARNING] An unexpected error has occurred and a Watson dump is being generated: The system cannot find the file specified [1/10/2011 8:54:21 AM] [1] [ERROR] The system cannot find the file specified [1/10/2011 8:54:21 AM] [1] [ERROR] The system cannot find the file specified Merlin Boissonneault Sr. Technical Analyst Messaging/OCS Northern Health

Hi, AFAIK you cannot install Exchange 2007 or Windows 2008 R2 accept SP3 so try to install Exchange 2007 with SP3 built-in addition, than if there is any error let us know please. Regards. Shafaquat Ali.M.C.I.T.P Exchange 2007/2010, M.C.I.T.P Windows Server 2008, M.C.T.S OCS Server 2007 R2, URL: http://blog.WhatDoUC.net Phone: +923008210320

I agree with Shafaquat You need the SP3 media, then it will workJonas Andersson MCTS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007/2010 | MCITP: EMA 2007/2010 | Blog: http://www.testlabs.se/blog | Follow me on twitter: jonand82

Thanks for this tip. Finally got it all working, had to use the eval install to do what I needed. Cheers,Merlin Boissonneault Sr. Technical Analyst Messaging/OCS Northern Health

I have the same problem, I am trying to install Exchange 2007 Management tool for extracting emails (Exporting emails). We have sbs 2008. i am installing Exchange management tool on Windows XP SP3. thanks Walid