ID 36871 : Q261655 , Q305088 , Q308601 ID 5781 : Q259277 , Q257462 , http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/win2000/win2ksrv/reskit/tcpch06.asp, Q193888 , Q263091 , Q244669 , Q311354 ID 418 : Q232068 ID 7001 : Q151427 , Q218458 , Q157363 , Q317140 , Q166184 , Q189649 , Q249023 , Q180140 , Q274447 , Q168683 , Q274814 , Q231604 , Q234636 , Q136934 , Q149706 , Q175529 , Q266208 , Q260698 , Q110582 , Q158520 , Q164130 , Q264317 ID 2104 : Q322837 , Q312859 ID 8250 : Stopping and restarting the SMTP service manually will allow SMTP to start without this error. ID 1005 : Q300517 , Q171050 , Q184205 , Q280432 , Q175100 , Q252137 , Q163139 ID 61 : Q259796 , Q266416 -----Original Message----- From: Mark Budman [mailto:mbudman@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 11:01 To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Serious Exchanges problems - Extremely frustrating - Help requested Event ID:36871 A fatal error occurred while creating an SSL server credential. Event ID: 101 Warning (4 times) The server was unable to add the virtual root '/public' for the directory Event ID 5781 Dynamic registration or deregistration of one or more DNS records failed because no DNS servers are available. Event ID 418 (2 entries) Virtual Server 2: SMTP server cannot read metabase key MailQueueDir. Event ID 7001: (2 entries) The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service depends on the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service which failed to start because of the following error: %%0 Event ID 36871: (2 entries) A fatal error occurred while creating an SSL server credential. A fatal error occurred while creating an SSL server credential. The Application log has the following Entries: Event ID 2104 Process STORE.EXE (PID=1184). All the DS Servers in domain are not responding. Event ID 8250 The Win32 API call 'DsGetDCNameW' returned error code [0x862] The specified component could not be found in the configuration information. The service could not be initialized. Make sure that the operating system was installed properly. Event ID 1002 Metabase Update agent failed to start. Error code is 80040a01. Event ID 9004 The Metabase Update service failed to start, error '80040a01'. Event ID 1005 Unexpected error An unknown error has occurred. ID no: 80040a01 Microsoft Exchange System Attendant occurred. Event ID 1036 (Warning) An error occurred while starting the Microsoft Exchange POP3 Service: server instance number 1 failed to start with error 0x80040a01. Event ID 61 (Warning) WMI ADAP was unable to process the PerfDisk performance library due to a time violation in the open function ==================================================================