Comments on: Problem Starting the Exchange 2003 System Attendant http://www.beakersoft.co.uk/2007/06/18/problem-starting-the-exchange-2003-system-attendant/ My (mis)adventures in the IT industry Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:18:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ben http://www.beakersoft.co.uk/2007/06/18/problem-starting-the-exchange-2003-system-attendant/comment-page-1/#comment-75616 Ben Fri, 22 Jul 2011 02:03:46 +0000 http://www.beakersoft.co.uk/2007/06/18/problem-starting-the-exchange-2003-system-attendant/#comment-75616 Thankyou very much for posting this tip. After spending a couple of hours trying to troubleshoot an issue with Exchange services on an SBS 2003 server, this gave us the pointer we needed. We ran mad.exe manually and discovered a corrupt .dll that was causing it to fail, though it was a different .dll than yours. And the problem had existed for some time (over a month) judging by the modified dates on the dll - the issue didn't rear it's ugly head until the server was rebooted. Cheers for giving us the hint that saved our bacon :) Thankyou very much for posting this tip. After spending a couple of hours trying to troubleshoot an issue with Exchange services on an SBS 2003 server, this gave us the pointer we needed.

We ran mad.exe manually and discovered a corrupt .dll that was causing it to fail, though it was a different .dll than yours. And the problem had existed for some time (over a month) judging by the modified dates on the dll – the issue didn’t rear it’s ugly head until the server was rebooted.

Cheers for giving us the hint that saved our bacon :)

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