Microsoft Information Store Service Could Not Start   

I have within the network, two servers; one is a SBS 2003 and the other a 
Linux StanOS. I recently moved DNS and exchange mail from the SBS 2003 to 
Linux StanOS server. The Linux box is now set up as a Proxy, DNS and mail 
server in one with an address of 192.168.16.201 and gateway of 
192.168.16.200. The mail was set for all users to pop their mails from the 
Linux server, however there was a problem few emails were received and few 
were send out. 
I then reconfigured and moved mail exchange server on SBS 2003 again. The 
Linux mail box service was stopped leaving only the DNS and Proxy service 
running.
The SBS 2003 server is on IP address 192.168.16.2 and gateway 
192.168.16.200. The DNS on this server is pointing to the Linux box, 
192.168.16.201. After reconfiguring the exchange 2003 on the SBS 2003 server, 
the Microsoft Information Store Service can not start, automatically or 
manually. I restart the server couple of times but still the same. The error 
message appears as “Could not start Microsoft Information Service on local 
computer, Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control 
request in a timely fashion”. The Exchange System Attendant service has 
already started. The event logs can not point so much straight to the problem 
and by goggling it was not much of help.
I have used "eseutil /mh, /g" to check the consistency, integrity and it is 
clean. I tried to do the restore from the good backup but was not able to as 
exchange server name was not found. I tried a system state restore but still 
exchange was down.
Finally I did a reinstall of exchange 2003 on the server but the still the 
same.
I have not yet done the un-install and re-installing of the exchange server.
Please are there any options, utilities or fixes that I still have not yet 
done, please help.

date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:05:00 -0700   author:   ksill

Re: Microsoft Information Store Service Could Not Start   

The DNS Server on the SBS 2003 must point to itself and it must run DNS 
Service for Exchange and SBS run properly.

-- 
John Oliver, Jr
MCSE, MCT, CCNA
Exchange MVP 2008
Microsoft Certified Partner


"ksill"  wrote in message 
news:A0EDCA88-51D3-44F6-A925-11C43B42F264@microsoft.com...
>I have within the network, two servers; one is a SBS 2003 and the other a
> Linux StanOS. I recently moved DNS and exchange mail from the SBS 2003 to
> Linux StanOS server. The Linux box is now set up as a Proxy, DNS and mail
> server in one with an address of 192.168.16.201 and gateway of
> 192.168.16.200. The mail was set for all users to pop their mails from the
> Linux server, however there was a problem few emails were received and few
> were send out.
> I then reconfigured and moved mail exchange server on SBS 2003 again. The
> Linux mail box service was stopped leaving only the DNS and Proxy service
> running.
> The SBS 2003 server is on IP address 192.168.16.2 and gateway
> 192.168.16.200. The DNS on this server is pointing to the Linux box,
> 192.168.16.201. After reconfiguring the exchange 2003 on the SBS 2003 
> server,
> the Microsoft Information Store Service can not start, automatically or
> manually. I restart the server couple of times but still the same. The 
> error
> message appears as "Could not start Microsoft Information Service on local
> computer, Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control
> request in a timely fashion". The Exchange System Attendant service has
> already started. The event logs can not point so much straight to the 
> problem
> and by goggling it was not much of help.
> I have used "eseutil /mh, /g" to check the consistency, integrity and it 
> is
> clean. I tried to do the restore from the good backup but was not able to 
> as
> exchange server name was not found. I tried a system state restore but 
> still
> exchange was down.
> Finally I did a reinstall of exchange 2003 on the server but the still the
> same.
> I have not yet done the un-install and re-installing of the exchange 
> server.
> Please are there any options, utilities or fixes that I still have not yet
> done, please help.
>

date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:43:42 -0400   author:   John Oliver, Jr. [MVP]