Re: Exchange 2000 System Attendant not starting

Is your domain at 2000 or 2003 level? You say you promoted Windows 2003 Domain Controllers but you did not mention whether your AD is 2003? If you run ADPREP while Exchange 2000 is present you could have issues,

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/314649

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John Oliver, Jr
MCSE, MCT, CCNA
Exchange MVP 2007
Microsoft Certified Partner


"Brian Hammer" <BrianHammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:66F52BF9-A57B-4EDF-9FEE-9207A2D79120@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Any thoughts?

"Brian Hammer" wrote:

Not until after.

"John Oliver, Jr. [MVP]" wrote:

> Did you demote the GC to GC before you started having issues or after?
>
> -- > John Oliver, Jr
> MCSE, MCT, CCNA
> Exchange MVP 2007
> Microsoft Certified Partner
>
>
> "Brian Hammer" <Brian Hammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in > message
> news:9702D52E-6306-4668-956B-C69EE5067D02@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > We have a solo Exchange 2000 server that is also a Windows 2000 > > domain
> > controller. This active directory has been brought online & we have
> > promoted
> > a couple of Windows 2003 domain controllers as well. In total there > > are 6
> > domain controllers. The server that is running exchange has also > > always
> > been
> > the global catalog server.
> >
> > There haven't been any changes to the active directory for months, > > with
> > everything working flawlessly, until this afternoon Outlook Clients > > were
> > getting errors that they could not connect to the exchange server. > > Upon a
> > server reboot I found that the System Attendant wouldn't start. > > Every
> > time I
> > try to start the service I get the following errors in the > > Application
> > Log:
> >
> > Source: MSExchangeMU
> > Category: General
> > Event ID: 1002
> > Description:Metabase Update agent failed to start. Error code is > > 80040a01.
> >
> > For more information, click > > http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp.
> >
> > Source: MSExchangeSA
> > Category: General
> > Event ID: 9004
> > Description: The Metabase Update service failed to start, error
> > '80040a01'.
> >
> > For more information, click > > http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp.
> >
> > Source: MSExchangeSA
> > Category: General
> > Event ID: 1005
> > Description:Unexpected error An unknown error has occurred. ID no:
> > 80040a01
> > Microsoft Exchange System Attendant occurred.
> >
> > For more information, click > > http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp.
> >
> > I found a KB article stating that this could be an issue with the > > Kerberos
> > Key Distribution service, but that service is running fine on the > > Exchange
> > server. I also found some mentions that this could be the result of > > not
> > being able to contact the Global Catalog (which had always been the
> > Exchange
> > server itself). I took away the GC ability of the exchange server > > and
> > moved
> > it to a different server, rebooted both machines, still same > > messages. I
> > then gave made the Exchange server a GC again (now giving me two) and > > it
> > still is giving me those same 3 errors.
> >
> > I have run a netdiag /v that I can upload if that would help, but it
> > really
> > looks pretty clean to me. Any thoughts on what could be causing > > this?
> > Like
> > I said, it's very strange because the server was working fine until > > this
> > afternoon and there were no changes made to AD or DNS in that > > timeframe.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brian
>
>

.

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