Hi Mike The recipient update effectively stopping or being slow was a problem I used to have when running the trial version of 2003. Upgrading to the release version fixed it fortunately. The only way I ever managed to fix this issue prior to upgrading was to restart the System Attendant!!! Sometimes simply syncing the domain may resolve the issue if it just a latency issue. You can also try rebuilding the rebuilding or updating the RUS manually too. See TechNet article 328972. Whilst this article is for 2000 it describes exactly the scenario I had. I thus suspect that this is a bug that has reared its ugly head again in early versions of 2003. There was no 2003 fix at that time. I don't know about now I'm afraid. I have found that even on a single server the service can take almost 5 minutes to update a newly created user on occasions, even with a domain sync. So on a larger domain you may well just have to wait I guess. Hope that helps. Let me know how you get on if you get a chance. Regards, Paul Lemonidis. ----- Original Message ----- From: "A. Michael Salim" <msalim@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 2:52 PM Subject: [exchangelist] Re: X.400 question > http://www.MSExchange.org/ > > Hi, > > > Your recipient update service is not running correctly -or- you are not > > waiting long enough for it to run. If you have multiple domain > > controllers you may have to wait for the new account info to be > > replicated to the server that is being used by the recipient update > > service. > > thanks! that is a possibility that I am not waiting long enough. How > long should I wait? Are there any parameters that I can set or examine > that determine the duration I should wait for AD and/or recipient updates? > > best regards > Mike > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist > Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp > Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ > ------------------------------------------------------ > Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: > Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com > No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org > Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ > Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ > Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com > ------------------------------------------------------ >