Hi All fellow techie's out there. Was wondering if any of you would kindly take a look at this message I am getting in the Event log say, every 5mins or so. I have hunted high and low, and cannot find anything about this message.
Chars Cropsy, but been there, done that, except for re-patching Exchange. lets just say, this server is acting like somebody I don't like very much ( bi-atch you might say ) and to re-install the patch would bring it down altogether, i suspect.
I am currently building a second server, so I can just switch it over, so then work on the other server, then when all done, have mirrored server's so if one fails again, then its just a case of switch it over
But going back to my question, just wanted to see if there any another alternate fix, as I seem to be finding alot of alternative fixes for exchange 2003 rather than just re-applying SP2
Just in case you didn´t: Try to search for the Eventlog Message at http://www.eventid.net. It´s a very useful resource and in most cases you can find the Error + multiple solutions.
Exchange should recover from these "errors" (another poorly labelled warning imho) by itself, but if you're getting a significant number of them (say, more than 5 an hour), then it's worth worrying about.
Is the state of the domain all ok? FSMO roles, etc. all ok?
Does exchange system attendant service barf a load more errors out when you restart it?
Edit: I'm sure we've had a similar problem in the past but for the life of me, I cannot find the records about it. I'm also 95% sure that someone here has sp2'ed exchange twice; but it wasnt me.
Arr TAA, was waiting for you No, Exchange nor windows is barfing up anymore errors, hence why I am so confuzzed. Everything else is tikady Boo. It is all pointing to re-applying the SP, and well maybe I have to bite the bullet and do so.
Always good fun to test the backup tapes and the general restore procedure every now and then I'm fairly sure that SP2 will go back on over the top without any major hissy fits - I'll give it a go on one of our virtual servers if you'd like, to save your live system Just gimme a shout if you do, it'll take me about 45 minutes or so between everything else, so its not exactly a huge distraction to do Hell, I'll do it tonight if you want - I've got access to everything I need to from home
I was gonna have a chat with the guys I work with, and see if they remember what we did - I've got the feeling its something really really stupid; it may have just been that running Microsoft Update (not windows update) picked up an exchange patch that we'd not applied....
lol, quality. I'll have to try that at some point.... we will be moving a half height rack to another building at some point so maybe I'll have to give it a go ....after I've taken my new toy out... (2x dual core xeon 2.8GHz, 3x 73GB 10k SAS disks (with space for plenty more) )
) and to re-install the patch would bring it down altogether, i suspect. 
I'm fairly sure that SP2 will go back on over the top without any major hissy fits - I'll give it a go on one of our virtual servers if you'd like, to save your live system