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Event ID 1005 MSEXchangeSA after initial setup Exchange server 2007

Hi,

I tried to setup Exchange 2007 on a new system, but with allready an Exchange 2003 server in the same domain. The setup of the Mailbox role failed because of the MSExchangeSA service that doesn't start.

Got the following errors:
Unexpected error The server is not operational. Facility: Win32 ID no: 8007203a Microsoft Exchange System Attendant occurred.

A transient failure has occurred. The problem may resolve itself in a while. The service will retry in 56 seconds. Diagnostic information:

Cannot open mailbox /o=XXX/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Configuration/cn=Servers/cn=YYY/cn=Microsoft System Attendant.
Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Storage.ConnectionFailedTransientException: Cannot open mailbox /o=XXX/ou=Exchange Administrative Group

I checked allready DNS settings (but what to check here?).
I checked the service is running under the Local System Account
I checked the TCP/IP helper servie and am sure that File and Print services are enabled.

Any suggestions?

cedarghost

Event 1005 seems to be a general event code used to indicate that something the System Attendant needs is missing or corrupt. Exchange records a 1005 error in various conditions. See the links below.
http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=1005&eventno=342&source=MSExchangeSA&phase=1

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Checked EventID, error 8007203a (The server is not operational.) isn't listed there.

cedarghost

Lovely. Is this server a Global Catalog also? If so the following fix from Microsoft may work:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940845

hostfabriek

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The server was no DC (or Global Catalog server).
I tried to uninstall Exchange server, but it hangs on the Mailbox Role. Setup.com /M:Uninstall or even Setup.com /M:RecoverServer doesn't work anymore.
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C:\Documents and Settings\administrator.xxxxx>Setup.com /M:RecoverServer
Welcome to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unattended Setup
Preparing Exchange Setup
The following server roles will be recovered
Mailbox Role
Management Tools
File exchangeserver.msi does not exist in specified directory C:\Program Files\
Microsoft\Exchange Server.

Specified directory C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\Updates does not
exist.

Setup previously failed while performing the action "Uninstall". You cannot re
sume setup by performing the action "DisasterRecovery".

Exchange Server setup encountered an error.
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C:\Documents and Settings\administrator.xxxxx>Setup.com /M:Uninstall
Welcome to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unattended Setup
Preparing Exchange Setup
The following server roles will be removed
Mailbox Role
Management Tools
Performing Microsoft Exchange Server Prerequisite Check
Configuring Microsoft Exchange Server
Mailbox Server Role ......................... FAILED
Process execution failed with exit code 5.
The Exchange Server setup operation did not complete. Visit http://support.micro
soft.com and enter the Error ID to find more information.
Exchange Server setup encountered an error.
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We dedided to setup the exchange server in a separate domain after several unsuccesfull reinstalls in the existing domain.