Re: Email Address not Creating for New or Existing users

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From: Clearwater (Clearwater_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/01/04 

Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 08:18:02 -0800

I changed one, and now realize there is a second which has been changed. I'll
continue to wait to see if it helps. It should be ok to leave the old server
disabled? Cause if i create a new user in the Exchange AD app. it does not
replicate to the domain controllers in any way.

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 07:40:07 -0800, "Clearwater"
> <Clearwater@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Ok, kind of a long story. The previous employee here did not demote an old DC
> >correctly, I cannot remove this server as a "DC" all i can do is stop all
> >services that make it a server and take it out of the DC OU in AD (alphabet
> >soup !) So anyway, I took it out, an possibly a coincidence, the next day
> >everytime i create a new exchange account on our Exchange server i get
> >nothing in the Exchange address Tab. I have to manually add everything to
> >that, and then it takes about a day for the Global address list to populate.
> >
> >I noticed that all the DC's had the old DC as one of the servers its
> >supposed to replicate with. Now I removed that server from those lists in the
> >hopes that it would not try to replicate with the old one anymore. I am
> >running exchange 2000 on win2k on the exchange box and win2k3 on the DC's. I
> >am not getting any serious errors in my event log... just one that says this
> >"The redirector was unable to initialize security context or query context
> >attributes" . I also did have an exchange 2003 server running on a seperate
> >test domain which is offline since this new uprising (although nothing
> >indicates that that was the problem, except i do have a MX record redirecting
> >all mail with the appropriate domain name to that domain).
> >
> >And yes I was creating new users on the exchange box and still no email
> >addy's or appropriate settings were being created automatically.
>
> In Exchange system manager you will see he Recipient Update Services.
> There will be at least two entries there which have a DC listed. Is
> that the DC that's dissapeared? If you retarget to a valid DC and wait
> a while you should be ok.
>

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