Exchange Server

Gary Cooper · Guest

I have an ageing SBS 4.5 machine (Exchange 5.5), which isn't connected to the
outside world and has happily been serving mail from several Unix boxes for a
few years now. It is in the process of being replaced by a SBS 2003 machine.

On Friday I installed an HP LaserJet 4650dtn on it and rebooted. Following
this, Exchange will handle mail sent from Exchange mailboxes to Exchange
mailboxes, however, the mail from the Unix machines just seems to be
disappearing.

The other thing that happened when the printer was installed was that it
gobbled up most of my (meagre) remaining disk space which was reduced to
about 80Mb free. I've since freed up more and it's currenly got around 300Mb
free.

When the machine started up, several services were reported in the event log
as having not started, some of these (namely the exchange services) were
actually running, but RPC Locator and Task Scheduler weren't. I rebooted
again with the same result. I then started RPC Locator and Task Scheduler
manually, but still no joy.

Any help or suggestions would be most welcome.

Thanks,

Gary

Gary Cooper · Guest

Here's the event log messages:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7000
Date: 14/01/2005
Time: 17:05:10
User: N/A
Computer: NTSERVER
Description:
The Task Scheduler service failed to start due to the following error:
The specified service does not exist as an installed service.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7001
Date: 14/01/2005
Time: 17:05:21
User: N/A
Computer: NTSERVER
Description:
The Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service depends on the Remote
Procedure Call (RPC) Locator service which failed to start because of the
following error:
The process terminated unexpectedly.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7001
Date: 14/01/2005
Time: 17:05:26
User: N/A
Computer: NTSERVER
Description:
The Microsoft Exchange Directory service depends on the Microsoft Exchange
System Attendant service which failed to start because of the following
error:
The dependency service or group failed to start.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7001
Date: 14/01/2005
Time: 17:05:26
User: N/A
Computer: NTSERVER
Description:
The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service depends on the Microsoft
Exchange Directory service which failed to start because of the following
error:
The dependency service or group failed to start.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager

Thanks,

Gary

Gary Cooper · Guest

Well, I've at least got the mail working again - the Internet Mail Service
was stopped. I started it manually and the backlog of mail came through.

It doesn't explain why all of the services report errors on start up (even
after freeing up some disk space).

I can live with the situation as it is at the moment, since the machine will
be replaced shortly, but if anybody wants to chip in their two-penneth, then
please feel free.

Regards,

Gary

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