Hello We experienced an issue with the upgrade of the CMS for exchange 2007 sp1 We installed Exchange 2007 SP1 on node B of the cluster, took the CMS offline, moved it to node B and ran the setup /upgradecms on nodeB It fails at 12% with the error "Access is denied occured while performing exsetdata operation; the original error code was 0xc0070005" the following error in the exchangesetuplog folder [19/01/2008 15:36:08] [2] Exchange data path on server 'Exchange' is 'E:\ExchangeDB'[19/01/2008 15:36:08] [2] Exchange install path on server 'Exchange' is 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server'[19/01/2008 15:36:08] [2] Leaving ScGetExchangeServicesInstallAndDataPathFromAD[19/01/2008 15:36:08] [2] Entering ScEnumerateExchangeServersInCluster2[19/01/2008 15:36:08] [2] Failed to bind to cluster using cluster 'NODEB'[19/01/2008 15:36:08] [2] ScEnumerateExchangeServersInCluster2 (f:\08.01.0240\sources\dev\admin\src\libs\exsetup\exmisc.cxx:3193) Error code 0XC0070005 (5): Access is denied.[19/01/2008 15:36:08] [2] Leaving ScEnumerateExchangeServersInCluster2[19/01/2008 15:36:08] [2] ScSetupExchangeVirtualServer (f:\08.01.0240\sources\dev\admin\src\udog\exsetdata\exsetds.cxx:2013) Error code 0XC0070005 (5): Access is denied.[19/01/2008 15:36:08] [2] Leaving ScSetupExchangeVirtualServer[19/01/2008 15:36:08] [2] [ERROR] Unexpected Error[19/01/2008 15:36:08] [2] [ERROR] Error Access is denied occured while performing exsetdata operation; the original error code was 0xc0070005.[19/01/2008 15:36:08] [2] Ending processing.[19/01/2008 15:36:08] [1] The following 1 error(s) occurred during task execution:[19/01/2008 15:36:08] [1] 0. ErrorRecord: Error Access is denied occured while performing exsetdata operation; the original error code was 0xc0070005.[19/01/2008 15:36:08] [1] 0. ErrorRecord: Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Tasks.ExsetdataKnownException: Error Access is denied occured while performing exsetdata operation; the original error code was 0xc0070005.[19/01/2008 15:36:08] [1] [ERROR] Error Access is denied occured while performing exsetdata operation; the original error code was 0xc0070005.[19/01/2008 15:36:08] [1] Setup is halting task execution because of one or more errors in a critical task.[19/01/2008 15:36:08] [1] Finished executing component tasks.[19/01/2008 15:36:08] [1] Ending processing.[19/01/2008 15:36:08] [0] The Exchange Server Setup operation did not complete. For more information, visit http://support.microsoft.com and enter the Error ID.[19/01/2008 15:36:08] [0] End of Setup[19/01/2008 15:36:08] [0] ********************************************** The first of the errors appears to be [19/01/2008 15:36:08] [2] Failed to bind to cluster using cluster 'NODEB' Can anyone offer any assistance with this issue? Thanks Tim

Does anyone have any ideas about this?

Ran into the same problem. Solution was to log intoNode as the account used to create your cluster and rerun thesetup /upgradecms command.Command completed successful.