Hi, I thought that I would post this question to see if anybody here has had anything similar happen to them. One of my Win2k Server SP1 machines running Exchange 5.5 crapped out on me after changing the driver for the autoloader unit. It would blue screen on boot and I had no current recovery disks for it. I had to re-install the OS and re-apply the service packs. When I did this I went straight to SP2 instead of SP1 which was loaded previously. Exchange would not accept any client connections, but it would work from the server itself. To make an extremely long story short, it is a problem with tcp/ip not binding to RPC for the information stores. I switched over to named pipes and made a login script to change all of the clients registry entry for RPC binding order so it would work on the LAN subnet. The disadvantages to this is that named pipes is slower than tcp/ip and it is non-routable. I have completely uninstalled Exchange and hunted down all remaining registry entries for it, removed manually, and re-installed and patched back to SP4 with the same problem. I logged a call with Microsoft support and after spending over 50 hours on the phone with countless technicians and having conference calls with the heads of their support departments, had no resolution. Their support is the best that I have ever seen, might I add. They sincerely want to help, and worked with me after their shifts even. Back to the problem, the only thing left to try is removing tcp/ip and re-installing it. Since this is a domain controller, I hesitate to do this since I would have to remove DHCP, DNS, WINS, etc as well and then set them back up. There is of course the risk that goes along with this since it's sort of a hack not supported by Microsoft. I'm not looking for anybody to spend much time thinking about this problem, just wondering if it has happened to anybody else since Microsoft had no prior log of anything like it.
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