Please see the following KB article for more information about this issue: Services for Exchange Server 2007 or Exchange Server 2010 cannot start automatically after you install Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2010 on a global catalog server. |
When you install Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 or install Microsoft Exchange server 2010 on a global catalog server, Exchange Server services cannot start. However, you can start other services manually. Servers in this configuration may take a long time to shut down. Additionally, the following events are logged:
Event ID : 1005
Source : MSExchangeSA
Category : General
Type : Error
Description : Unexpected error The Local Security Authority cannot be contacted ID no: 80090304 Microsoft Exchange System Attendant occurred.
Event ID: 2601
Source: MSExchange ADAccess
Category: General
Type: Warning
Description: Process MSEXCHANGEADTOPOLOGY (PID=1624). When initializing a remote procedure call (RPC) to the Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology service, Exchange could not retrieve the SID for account <WKGUID=DC1301662F547445B9C490A52961F8FC,CN=Microsoft
Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,...> - Error code=80040934. The Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology service will continue starting with limited permissions.
Event ID: 1121
Source: MSExchangeIS
Category: General
Type: Error
Description: Error 0x96e connecting to the Microsoft Active Directory.
Event ID: 5000
Source: MSExchangeIS
Category: General
Type: Error
Description: Unable to initialize the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service. - Error 0x96e.
Cause :
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This problem occurs because the domain controller and other Exchange-Server-dependent services do not start completely when Exchange Server 2007 or Exchange Server 2010 try to start.
Solution :
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--The solution which was worked for me was :
Set all the Exchange failing services to "Automatic (Delayed Start)" and reboot the server .
Make sure after setting the services to "Automatic (Delayed Start)"
the services are not starting automatically after reboot.
Automatic (Delayed Start) delays the startup of a service approximately 2 min. after the system has completed starting the operating system.
More about "Automatic (delayed start)":
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2008/02/02/ws2008-startup-processes-and-delayed-automatic-start.aspx