Since I know everyone is waiting with bated breath for the solution, here it is.
Turns out it's a known issue and it happens whenever an Exchange cluster is built using the name of a previously-existing Exchange cluster. The solution was really simple--all I had to do was delete the SA resource from Cluster Admin, wait until the deletion had replicated across all servers, and add it back. The AD tree that I needed to look at was: Configuration Container | Configuration | Services | Microsoft Exchange | <orgname> | Administrative Groups | <sitename> | Servers | <servername>. When I deleted the SA cluster resource, the <servername> branch in the tree was purged. When I added SA back again, Exchange recreated the <servername> branch from scratch. When I deleted the cluster nodes from AD the first four or five times, the <servername> branch was *not* deleted. Anyway, I'm back and I'm happy. -----Original Message----- From: Jon Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 6:13 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Many stopped Virtual Servers Exch2K SP2, Win2K AS SP2, 2-node MSCS Cluster. I am in the process of setting up a new Exchange server and I notice that each of the Protocols folders (HTTP, IMAP4, POP3, SMTP) has 5 stopped virtual servers and one functional virtual server. I don't see any way to remove the old servers and I have no idea where they came from. I also notice four instances of every public folder name in First Storage Group | xxx Public Folders | Public Folders. The only thing that occurs to me is that we have dropped and rebuilt the two cluster nodes several times, including at least three complete cluster rebuilds during which we wiped the data directories, deleted the two servers from AD, and reinstalled Win2K etc from scratch. In every case that I know about, we just killed the servers without uninstalling Exchange. I guess I have three questions: 1. Were we complete imbeciles for killing the servers the way we did? I realize *now* I should have removed Exch beforehand. Nuts. 2. Was the abrupt removal of the previous clusters the cause of our grief? 3. Is there anything I can do to remove the dead virtual servers? _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
