makeGalLinked.exe Fails when ran AFTER Exchange is already deployed
During the Hosted Exchange (or HMC) installation process, you have to run the makeGalLinked.exe utility. Now this should be done before you actually install Exchange, at least per the docs. Now I made the mistake of installing Exchange first and then going through the rest of the solution documentation. My fault, but how do you get around this? Make sure you run this on the Active Directory server (which by the way should be a Windows 2003 Server). Below is the error (It will have a Red background when ran from the Command Line):
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