Re: cannot connect to mailbox after new install

John,
under general tab of RUS, the new exch server was selected already.

As for removing old exch svr, i don't have the old svr anymore; it was wiped
clean. So the only thing left for me to do was to clean AD. And I did
that...........I think.

Frank

"John Oliver, Jr. [MVP]" <jcoliverjr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Verify you have rehomed the RUS, in ESM go to Recipient Update Service,
under General Tab verify the new Exchange Server is selected.

Can you verify the manual removal of your old Exchange Server?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/833396/



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John Oliver, Jr
MCSE, MCT, CCNA
Exchange MVP 2006
Microsoft Certified Partner

"Frank Chen" <fchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi John,
1. I did a find for users with exch mailbox and was able to find 41
mailboxes, some pointing to old server, others pointing to new server.

2. yes, on the old user, i can remove the exch attr and then I am able to
recreate the mailbox on the new server. Still won't show up under ESM
mailbox store though.

3. I did that, however that was my very problem. I could not get the
mailbox to show up under the mailbox store (except for the 3 default
ones). So naturally, there was no mailbox that it could put a x mark on.
I keep suspecting that somehow even though aduc says mailbox created
successful, but ESM just refuse to create it in the mailbox store
(perhaps RUS?)

How about if I remove the mailbox store and create a new one?

As for removing previous exch svr, i used ldp and removed previous entry
for the old install. But since my old exch svr is already gone, I could
not run setup.exe /removeorg to undo it completely. (previous admin just
reformatted the os and did not bother moving it from AD) What else do
can i do to clean out all the references to the old server?

Frank

"John Oliver, Jr. [MVP]" <jcoliverjr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Frank,

I must be missing some information here but it sounds like the existing
user account mailboxes are still associated with the previously removed
Exchange Server.

1. In ADUC can you do a Find for Exchange Mailboxes on your old and
existing users? What do you find?

2. Can you go ahead and remove the exchange attributes for one of your
users and then go ahead and create a mailbox?

3. Can you please go into Exchange System Manager and drill down to
your Mailbox Store and right click and select "Run Cleanup Agent".
Afterwards do you have all your mailboxes marked with Red X?

It really looks as though the previous Exchange Server was not removed
correctly. You should verify that the previous Exchange Server was
removed correctly.

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John Oliver, Jr
MCSE, MCT, CCNA
Exchange MVP 2006
Microsoft Certified Partner
"Frank Chen" <fchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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One more thing,
Like I said, there was a previous installation of exch 2003. So now
when I right click on the users and select exchange task, old users who
existed during the previous install now only showed "remove exchange
attribute" in the options window. If I look at their acct properties
under 'exchange general', I see his mailbox is associated with the old
(non-existent) server. i have no idea how to clean that up.

Users who were created after that test install can have all of the
exchange tasks avialable. But then again, I am stuck at the problem
where it won't create a mailbox (at least I can't see it and can't
connect to it via outlook)

If all else fails, I am planning to create a new AD domain/forest and
recreate all users in this new environemnt as well as recreating all
computer accts. I have about 75 users so may not be that bad. is
there any caveat doing it this way other than user profile issues?

Frank

"Frank Chen" <fchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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yes, when i click on the user and do exch tasks, it did it
successfully. I was able to delete mailbox and create mailbox on the
same or multiple users with no problem. The report said so too.

I don't know how to manually start RUS so I restarted the exchange sys
attend service. AFter that, event viewer looks find except it is
saying that

Could not open LDAP session to directory 'backupserver.CENCOM.COM'
using local service credentials. Cannot access Address List
configuration information. Make sure the server
'backupserver.CENCOM.COM' is running.



I checked the service account that runs all the exchange servers is
using local system account. Could that be a problem??



Frank

"John Oliver, Jr. [MVP]" <jcoliverjr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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So when you go to ADUC and click on a user and select Exchange Task,
the wizard completes successfully? Have you tried Manually updating
the RUS? After you manually update then check the Event App Log for
any errors.

--
John Oliver, Jr
MCSE, MCT, CCNA
Exchange MVP 2006
Microsoft Certified Partner

"Frank Chen" <fchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes, it is correct. It showed my domain controller name.
In the event app log, mostly nothing except for one warning:

Event ID 4356
The COM+ Event System failed to create an instance of the subscriber
{6295DF2D-35EE-11D1-8707-00C04FD93327}. StandardCreateInstance
returned HRESULT 8000401A.



Frank

"John Oliver, Jr. [MVP]" <jcoliverjr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In ESM under Recipient Update Service what server is showing as the
RUS Domain Controller? Is it correct? Any errors in the event
application log?

--
John Oliver, Jr
MCSE, MCT, CCNA
Exchange MVP 2006
Microsoft Certified Partner
"Frank Chen" <fchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I desparately need some help fast!

I have 2003 AD native environment. Previous IT admin did a test
install of exchange and removed the exch server afterwards. Now I
was able to clean out the AD, rerun forest prep and was able to
install exch 2003 with sp2 with no problem.
but after the install, it seems like I could not create a mailbox
and have it show up. I tried to create an outlook profile and it
says "the name could not be resolved, the bookmark is invalid"
Looking under "First administrative
group/servers/exchange_server/first storage group/mailbox
store/mailboxes", I can only see 3 default mailboxes.

Shouldn't I all of the user mailboxes I created here? This is a
exch std version so i can't create another mailbox store to test.

Please help! Thanks in advance.

Frank



















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