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Exchange system attendant starts and then stops

We did a DR whereby we reinstalled exchange , copied the databases to the original location and tried to start the service in the event viewer in comes up with the following error

Unexpected error The system cannot find the path specified. Facility: Win32 ID no: c0070003 Microsoft Exchange System Attendant occurred.

For more information, click http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp.

Process MAD.EXE (PID=3268). DS Access is shutting down.
when trying to start the Exchange system attendant

murli30

Install Windows 2003 support tools

Follow article mentioned below it will resolve System attendant service issue

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325674

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Yaseer_Thomas

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Still getting the same error
what they said in the article was already done
any other plans

Nagarajb

Run Policy test and check proper permissions are there or not. If not assign the permisison.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281537
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896703

Yaseer_Thomas

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ran all the tests a;; test 100%
still same error

murli30

Check the msExchDataPath attribute of the server object see if it's pointing to the correct location.

Open ADSIEdit.
Expand Configuration, Services, Microsoft Exchange, <Your ORG>, Administrative
Groups, <Your Administrative Group>, Servers, <Your Server>
Right-click <Your Server> and pull up properties.
Select the attritue msExchDataPath. Change the location so that it points to the correct location for \exchsrvr (i.e. C:\Program Files\exchsrvr)

Yaseer_Thomas

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THANK YOU