SBS 2003 - Exchange Services Will Not Start
I restarted this SBS 2003 Server this morning. It took forever to get to the login screen. To make a long story short the Exchange services do not start. They time out and at the point the whole server is "asleep". No error messages. Nothing in the event log. Nothing. I booted in to Safe Mode and set all the Exchange services to manual. It now boots fine and is very responsive but ...
When evey I try and start ANY of the exchange services it times out starting the service and puts the server to sleep. Everything is at a crawl. Once again, no errors, nothing in the event log, nothing. They just won't start.
HELP!
When evey I try and start ANY of the exchange services it times out starting the service and puts the server to sleep. Everything is at a crawl. Once again, no errors, nothing in the event log, nothing. They just won't start.
HELP!
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Did you check the computer account membership as suggested in the message? What is the event ID of that error message - we or you can look it up on EventID.net and that might give you some possible solution or at least some ideas for troubleshooting.
Did you try the following -
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910413
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910413
Can I ask what sorted out the problem?
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To be perfectly honest the priv1.edb file was just flat out missing. Pub1 was there but that was it. Once I restored the priv1 files it took right off ...
LOL, interesting one! Lucky you had a backup...
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If you really want to laugh get this. I just came on the scene. Their backup hasn't worked in months. It is only 3 workstations all running Outlook 2003. The saving grace was that they were running in cached mode. I went around and exported their mailboxes to a PST, created a new priv1 and then made pass two at the workstations and imported the PSTs. Some people just don't get the importance of a backup :)
That was lucky! Cached mode seems to have saved a lot of Exchange servers out there, I wonder did MS realise they were making a distributed backup system when they came up with it :-)
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One of the few things Microsoft did right LOL
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Microsoft Exchange System Attendant does not have sufficient rights to read Exchange configuration objects in Active Directory. Wait for replication to complete and then check to make sure the computer account is a member of the "Exchange Domain Servers" security group.
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