Sorry about that. I'm afraid I even have to admit I don't know how that happened. I wrote the mail in OWA, and copy pasted some Error messages into the file. Well the question was; Hi everyone. I had a DC fail over the weekend. I didn't give it much priority because although it was the first W2K DC I set up, I have moved all the DC activedirectory tasks that only one DC can do, to a second DC. Also our E2K server is also a DC server. So I didn't think that there could be any reason for a problem. However there was. The Exchange server stopped working after a while and after a restart it had a problem with the System Attendant, and because of this couldn't start the Mailstorage, and and and... What is causing this, and is there realy no way of having a W2K system that will still work when one DC fails?? Following are my Error Messages. Unexpected error An unknown error has occurred. ID no: 80040a01 Microsoft Exchange System Attendant occurred. The Metabase Update service failed to start, error '80040a01'. For more information, click http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp. Process MAD.EXE (PID=1592). DSAccess is shutting down. For more information, click http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp. An error occurred while starting the Microsoft Exchange POP3 Service: server instance number 1 failed to start with error 0x80040a01 Can anyone help? -----Original Message----- From: MAD [mailto:matt_dunlop@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Dienstag, 5. MÃrz 2002 22:44 To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Re: Exchange cannot find DC http://www.MSExchange.org/ anyone know what this is? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian Kurmann" <ckurmann@xxxxxxxx> To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 4:30 PM Subject: [exchangelist] Exchange cannot find DC > i 0 Ä Z H]Ò\[ÛKHYHÈZ[Ý\HYZ [ HY ]H]]XÚ[Ü]HX]\ H[Y ]\ H\ H]\ H]ÙH[ÝY[HX ]Y\X H\ ] HÛH [ HX ÛË[ \ÝL \\\[ H \Ù\BB HY[Ý]\ÈH [H[HX\ ÜHØ[K ]\\H\ H^[ÚH \\ Y [ÚYÈ\H[H[ÚY\H\\Ý]YHØ[H]H \[H][Ý[ [X]\ HÙ\ [Ý \HXZ[ YK[Ù[[ BBBB]\ ]\ [\ [\\ÈHX[H ^HÙ][H \[H] [[ Ü [ÛHÈZ[ BÃB [Ú\ÈH^H\ÜY\ Y\ BB[^XY\ÝÜ[[Û \Ü\ \Y QÎ L HZXÜ Ù^[ÚH \[H][Ý[ \ÝY BBHY]X\H\]H \XHÙZ[Y \ \Ü L I BÜ[ÜH[ÜX][ÛX È ËZXÜ Ù K Û[Y\X Ý\Ü ËZXÜ Ù K Û[Y\X Ý\Ü BB \ PQ VH > QLMNLKX \ \ ][Ú ÛBÜ[ÜH[ÜX][ÛX È ËZXÜ Ù K > Û[Y\X Ý\Ü ËZXÜ Ù K Û[Y\X Ý\Ü BB[\Ü \ÝY[H \[HZX Ù^[ÚH \XNÙ\Ù\[[ÝHÙ[X\ HZ[Y \]\ÚÜ L CBBBB[Ø[[ÛH[BÃBBBy +.n+Ça!jxÃ.ÇÈ&j]Ûyhrç(:.Ë m zfä%yÚ{!jxÞ+-_: `0yl ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: ckurmann@xxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-exchangelist-442105K@xxxxxxxxxxxxx