have two domains. the first is our production domain. the second is our
Restore domain where we have 2 Exchange 2000 servers. One contains all FSMO
roles and is DC for domain. the second is a mimic of production Exchange
Server all the way down to storage groups, etc. We use this to conduct
mailbox/database recoveries.

we installed a new Dell PowerEdge 2850 server into the Restore Domain,
installed Dell OpenManage and windows 2000 adv server and GroupShield( just
like what we have in production as member server. I installed Exchange 2000
on this server to create a second restore server. Unfortunately, afterward
the System Attendant and Information Store service will not start. This
server has SMTP, NNTP and Web Services for IIS active.

I can not start the Information Store Service or System Attendant. The
message I am getting is:

Could not start the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service on local
computer. The service did not return an error. this cold be an internal
Windows error or an internal services error.

Not sure how to attack this. Can anyone help?

Re: installing new Exchange 2000 server into Restore Domain by Ed

Ed
Wed Nov 01 18:34:58 CST 2006

Please post the full event log entries.
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Ed Crowley
MVP - Exchange
"Protecting the world from PSTs and brick backups!"

"Pearl" <Pearl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> have two domains. the first is our production domain. the second is our
> Restore domain where we have 2 Exchange 2000 servers. One contains all
> FSMO
> roles and is DC for domain. the second is a mimic of production Exchange
> Server all the way down to storage groups, etc. We use this to conduct
> mailbox/database recoveries.
>
> we installed a new Dell PowerEdge 2850 server into the Restore Domain,
> installed Dell OpenManage and windows 2000 adv server and GroupShield(
> just
> like what we have in production as member server. I installed Exchange
> 2000
> on this server to create a second restore server. Unfortunately,
> afterward
> the System Attendant and Information Store service will not start. This
> server has SMTP, NNTP and Web Services for IIS active.
>
> I can not start the Information Store Service or System Attendant. The
> message I am getting is:
>
> Could not start the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service on local
> computer. The service did not return an error. this cold be an internal
> Windows error or an internal services error.
>
> Not sure how to attack this. Can anyone help?