Hi all,
I am new here, drawn to the site following an exchange server 2003 disaster which appeared by description identical to fooby's post. I did have a pm conversation with fooby to clarify some of the particulars - @ fooby many thanks for your time ..
So - I have fixed my problem and would like to record for the next unsuspecting victim of this problem just how to resolve the issue and the clarify the initial cause..
If you uninstall IIS or more specifically the smtp service the exchange smtp verbs are removed and smtp and exchange stop talking to each other.
You can confirm you have this situation by :
telnet localhost 25
ehlo
will return if all is ok
The following list:
250-ServerName.example.com Hello [iP address]
250-TURN
250-ATRN
250-SIZE
250-ETRN
250-PIPELINING
250-DSN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8bitmime
250-BINARYMIME
250-CHUNKING
250-VRFY
250-X-EXPS GSSAPI NTLM LOGIN
250-X-EXPS=LOGIN
250-AUTH GSSAPI NTLM LOGIN
250-AUTH=LOGIN
250-X-LINK2STATE
250-XEXCH50
250 OK
However, if the following command verbs for the Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2000 SMTP service are not present, the association of the Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2000 computer to the SMTP service is damaged:
250-X-EXPS GSSAPI NTLM LOGIN
250-X-EXPS=LOGIN
250-AUTH GSSAPI NTLM LOGIN
250-AUTH=LOGIN
250-X-LINK2STATE
250-XEXCH50
You resolve this issue by doing a reinstall of exchange as posted above but NOTE WELL !! If you have service pack 1 + installed the reinstall will quietly fail on the messaging and collaboration install. You need to stop the exchange system attendant service prior to the reinstall.
look at Microsoft KB822939 for chapter and verse.
Regards Purple
