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Exchange 2000 M drive disappears and mailbox and public stores can not mount
Last night we applied Exchange SP3 to our Exchange 2000 Enterprise Edition in order to solve public folders not appearing in OWA problem. Doing tis instantly fixed this problem and the server appeared to be working normally - sending and receiving emails until 10am this morning. Then all of a sudden - no email access for any users!
M drive has disappeared entirely from Exchange machine and can not mount mailbox or public stores in Exchange Server Manager. The error that comes up tells us to restart either or both of IIS and Exchange services and try again. We did this and still the same problem.
A point to note is that last night before applying SP3 (for exchange) we played aroud a little with the HTTP virtual server anonymous login under exchange manager as well as the public folder virtual folder on IIS. We also added ISUSER_exchange user account to both of these. I am not sure if this has anyting to do with it or not..
This is an emergency and we would appreciate any help you can give.
M drive has disappeared entirely from Exchange machine and can not mount mailbox or public stores in Exchange Server Manager. The error that comes up tells us to restart either or both of IIS and Exchange services and try again. We did this and still the same problem.
A point to note is that last night before applying SP3 (for exchange) we played aroud a little with the HTTP virtual server anonymous login under exchange manager as well as the public folder virtual folder on IIS. We also added ISUSER_exchange user account to both of these. I am not sure if this has anyting to do with it or not..
This is an emergency and we would appreciate any help you can give.
ASKER
Thanks for the quick response - I will try that and get back to you.
Cheers
Cheers
ASKER
Back again - it didn't seem to work. Still exactly the same problem.
I am currently rebooting the server after installing the post-fixjust in case (it didn't tell me to).
Any ideas?
Thanks
I am currently rebooting the server after installing the post-fixjust in case (it didn't tell me to).
Any ideas?
Thanks
ASKER
finished the reboot and no change in status...
what could it be?
cheers
what could it be?
cheers
Stop antivirus service, and restart the services again.
Again, what message are you getting when you try to mount the mailbox store ?
Again, what message are you getting when you try to mount the mailbox store ?
ASKER
This is the error message
--------An internal processing error has occurred.
Try restarting Exchange System Manager or the MS Exchange Information server, or both.
ID no: c1041724
Exchange System manager------
I will try the antivirus stop and then restart the services option. Will let you know how it goes.
Thanks for staying with me!
cheers
--------An internal processing error has occurred.
Try restarting Exchange System Manager or the MS Exchange Information server, or both.
ID no: c1041724
Exchange System manager------
I will try the antivirus stop and then restart the services option. Will let you know how it goes.
Thanks for staying with me!
cheers
ASKER
tried that but still the same....
try the links below in the order given
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=294318
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=819553
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=827283
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=294318
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=819553
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=827283
ASKER
thanks for that...
I have tried these but none of them worked. However, from the information in them I was able to ascertain that E00.log is not present. I re-checked the app log and found that the system attempted to move the E00.log file and that is when this problem started. I looked inside mdbdata folder and the E00.log file is not there - there is however an E00 file that is of the type "recovered file fragments".
Is there aything I can do to restore the E00.log file and if I do this will it fix the problem do you think?
Thanks
I have tried these but none of them worked. However, from the information in them I was able to ascertain that E00.log is not present. I re-checked the app log and found that the system attempted to move the E00.log file and that is when this problem started. I looked inside mdbdata folder and the E00.log file is not there - there is however an E00 file that is of the type "recovered file fragments".
Is there aything I can do to restore the E00.log file and if I do this will it fix the problem do you think?
Thanks
no oif e00.log is not there
then u mover all other log files that is e000001,e000002 etc to different folder and then try to mount.
also see if the information store service is started.
Shahnaz
then u mover all other log files that is e000001,e000002 etc to different folder and then try to mount.
also see if the information store service is started.
Shahnaz
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few more links for you.
http://www.mcse.ms/archive78-2004-4-572954.html
http://www.mcse.ms/archive78-2004-4-541914.html
http://www.mcse.ms/archive78-2004-4-572954.html
http://www.mcse.ms/archive78-2004-4-541914.html
M: drive will be back after all the exchange services starts.
So, make sure that the Exchange Information store service is started. (Admin tools-Services) if not, start the service manually.
This usually happens after applying SP3 because the store.exe will increase memory usage and it will not release the memory for other applications.
These was fixed in Post-SP3 Patches Apr 2004 (as i remember) was the latest. Download the post-fix and run it on your exchange server.
cheers!!