Ok I called. Here's the fix You need service pack 2 for exchange on the machine. In AD go to exchange tasks choose Remove Exchange attributes. Then recreate the mailbox. Thats it Zeek
-----Original Message----- From: zeek Turmoil Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 6:17 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: OMG Im in big trouble. Exchange admins help. It's that bad huh. All righty I will give them a call. Thanks all Z -----Original Message----- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 5:55 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: OMG Im in big trouble. Exchange admins help. Call PSS. In the US: 1-800-936-4900 Best $245 you'll spend. -----Original Message----- From: zeek Turmoil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 5:36 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: OMG Im in big trouble. Exchange admins help. Here's the story, I was moving mailboxes from one machine to another because backup exec was toast on the mail sever. It would backup and say it was ok but you could never restore. I moved over a couple of mailboxes and the ADMINISTRATOR account. Next thing I know I see a scsi controller error on the machine and it reboots. I received an error stating boot.ini was bad then it went to could not load ntsokrnl.exe. please restore the file. I swapped the scsi raid card for the exact same model. Started the server up and received the same message. I edited the boot.ini to point to the correct drive. The machine booted and I received a ton of errors. It somehow lost most of the registry settings. Services dont start up including exchange. I tried to do a setup /disasterrecovery but it doesn't recognize that exchange is installed on the machine. If I try to run exchange setup it states that IIS needs to be installed and that I must first delete the crapped out server from exchange system manager. My questions. 1)What do I do next? 2)Should I remove the server from exchange system manager then reinstall dump the log files back in and do a eseutil repair? 3)The accounts I moved were not important except for the ADMINISTRATOR account. I cant seem to delete the mailbox because it can not connect to the dead server. Is there a way to recreate the all powerful administrator mailbox? 4)How screwed am I (Be nice it's been a bad day) Im running exchange 2000 all around on compaq servers Thanks fer any help Zeek List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
