WooYek's questions

I am trying to configure a Management Agent (MA) for Global Address List (GAL) sync in FIM 2010. I cannot move to the next step from "Configure GAL" because of an error message saying "It appears this forest is not exchange enabled". Nothing I change on "Configure GAL" step is changing this behavior.

I'am configuring a standalone test lab. I have a Windows 2008 R2 x64 Server, promoted to a DC and SQL 2008 SP1 installed, DNS is also running locally. I have tried to install Exchange 2010 and 2007, but there is no difference.

AD MA works fine.

Any ideas what did I screw up?

UPDATE:

@Sam pointed out that i might actually did not install exchange, so I did it again now carefully reading messages. I have went through all the prerequisites and have an all green installation no even warnings. Oh man, it is not a straight forward setup.

It did not help, still the same effect, but I have noticed new message box "The LDAP service is unavailable" when entering the "Configure GAL" step. I can configure AD MA without errors and run sync on that, so LDAP should run ok.

UPDATE:

I have used AD MA with Exchange enabled on "Extensions" setup step. Works ok, provisions contact and they are seen in GAL... while GAL MA has the same problems. Any thoughts?

How to create a differencing disk (a chained one) from a disk that is already a differencing image? I would like to have:

 W2008 (base immutable) 
  -> W2008+SQL2008 
     (differencing, with SQL installed) --- This I can do.
    -> W2008+SQL2008+SharePoint 
       (chained differencing with Sharepoint installed on top of SQL2008)

There's some info about it the manual: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch05.html#diffimages

Differencing images can be chained. If another differencing image is created for a virtual disk that already has a differencing image, then it becomes a "grandchild" of the original parent. The first differencing image then becomes read-only as well, and write operations only go to the second-level differencing image. When reading from the virtual disk, VirtualBox needs to look into the second differencing image first, then into the first if the sector was not found, and then into the original image.*

I don't get it...