RE: RPC - HTTP ERRORS

I tried the article in KB 555316 and found out that it only works sometimes.
I could not ever get RPC over HTTP to work with Windows Server SP1, until I
realized one very important thing:

It seems that if you install Windows Server SP1 -BEFORE- you install
Exchange Server with RPC over HTTP, then everything works fine. However, if
you install SP1 first and then you try to install and configure Exchange
Server with RPC over HTTP, then it doesn't work.

So, try installing Exchange Server and configuring RPC over HTTP before you
install Windows Server SP1.

It worked for me and I'm currently running Exchange 2003 Enterprise Edition
with SP1 and Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition with SP1.

"ny65stang" wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> There are several other threads that have the same issue. Apparently when
> you install Windows SP1 then Exchange it does not let you test the RPC
> connection. So the impression is that the wole process is failing.
>
> I have searched the knowledge base and it seems that this is a known issue.
> Ideally this should be ammended in the install docs or a link added for those
> of us who are trying to do new installs.
>
> Anyway ....
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555316
>
> So even though it fails it supposedly still works. I am going to try it out
> and see if this is the case. If it holds true then I will so post this link
> for the other threads i see for the many people including myself have
> probably wasted countless hours debugging this known problem.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bill
>
>
>
>
> "ny65stang" wrote:
>
> > What is gong on with RPC over HTTP with a new Exchange 2003 SP1 installation.
> > I see multiple listings in here for the same exact problems which leads me
> > to believe that this is a pretty wide spread. Not authentication and and ACL
> > error.
> >
> > Yet I see no MSFT folks with anwsers......... Very troubling. So we know
> > there is a common problem out there so we ignore it and act like it does not
> > exist.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
.

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