We have recenltly added a Windows 2003 Server R2 domain controller to our network. We just restarted out exchange 2003 server and the Exchange Service will not start.
The error messages seem to point to some flaw in the active directory. We have more than one domain controller so it would appear unlikely that the active directory is corrupt.
Do we need to run adprep on all the domain controllers? Is there anything we can do to diagnose the problem.
suggestions please!!
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Did you run adprep /forestprep from Windows 2003 R2 CD2 to extend the schema?
I recommend you do that in your Schema Master node.
Here is how you do that:
http://technet2.microsoft.
Make sure that the user who is being used to extend the Schema is a member of the Schema Admins group.
Trying connecting remotely to the computer management of your exchange server and see if any of services are in starting up state.then some how set the services to manually(try safe).Then restart the server and manually restart the server.This normally happens if you have exchange installed on a DC.
Thanks for your help.
This problem was very complex and was only solved by MS Business Critical Support, over the course of a 4 hr support call, where they used remote access to solve the problem, with input from members of both the Exchange team and the Active Directory Team.
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by: anupnellipPosted on 2007-09-01 at 03:48:35ID: 19813478
check the DNS server setting on the exchange . chane the dns to point to the new DC .
when you said it wont start what exactly is happening is the server starting ? IS the problem only with the exchnage service ? Please explain in detail
Usually it is dns issues