XADM: Migration Wizard Reports Invalid Home-Server Definition

Last reviewed: April 3, 1997
Article ID: Q152321

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Exchange Server, version 4.0

SUMMARY

When you perform a 2 step migration of a user from MS Mail to Microsoft Exchange, if the user account already exists in the Microsoft Exchange Directory, the following error will be reported in the Windows NT Event Log.

   Event ID: 162 (or Event ID: 178)
   Source: MSExchangeMig
   Type: Error
   Description:

   Invalid Home-Server definition in user list file for the user
   'Home-Server'.

This error might cause you to think that the migration has not been completed successfully but it has.

Additional query words:
Keywords : kbother kbusage XADM
Version : 4.0 5.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb

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Last reviewed: April 3, 1997
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