Question : Exchange 2003 not creating Store

I just installed exchange 2003 onto a fresh windows 2003 server. I can mount the public folder store, but if I try mounting the Mailbox store, it says: An Internal Processing Error has occurred. Try Restarting the Exchange System Manager or the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service, or both.

ID no: c1041724
Exchange System Manager


Event logs are:
The MAPI call 'OpenMsgStore' failed with the following error:
The attempt to log on to the Microsoft Exchange Server computer has failed.
The MAPI provider failed.
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Failed to create the Event Registration Mailbox for Database First Storage Group\Mailbox Store (EXCHANGE). Error - 0xbf69.
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Error 0x80004005 starting database "First Storage Group\Mailbox Store (EXCHANGE)" on the Microsoft Exchange Information Store.
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Whats odd is its not creating the priv1.edb and priv1.stm files in "E:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\mdbdata", even though I have pointed it to that location many times. Permissions check out, services are running correctly. The only other thing that I can think is related is, when I create a user FROM the exchange box (which is not a domain controller), it says it cannot verify that the user name is unique because of the following error occurred while contacting the global catalog:
The server is not operational.

I can ping the server by name, and I am joined to the domain. I have run out of ideas, and I am considering rebuilding the domain from scratch(this isnt in production yet). This is a 2003 native domain.

Answer : Exchange 2003 not creating Store

1. Verify that the existing domain controller is pointing to a Windows 2000 DNS server. Do not point it to any external ISP DNS servers.

2. Open the DNS MMC, double click forwarders so that you can see the zone for your domain.

3. Right click on this zone and select properties. Verify that your zone is set to allow dynamic updates, if not change it so that it does.

4. Double click your zone to expand it. You should have 4 subfolders (_MSDCS, _SITES, _TCP, _UDP) and a few records.

5. If the zones do not exist you should open a command prompt.

6. Type IPconfig /registerdns and enter

7. Type net stop netlogon

8. Type net start netlogon (restarting netlogon will force the service to register its SRV records with the DNS zone thus create the missing subfolders. The records that will be registered are in winnt\system32\config\netlogon.dns).

9. After restarting netlogon go back into your DNS zone and verify that you have the subfolders that were mentioned in 4. above.

10. If the folders are not there you may want to try running netdiag.exe /fix from the support tools. Or try restarting netlogon again.

11. Go to a command prompt and type nslookup 1stdcname.domainname.com to verify that you can get a reply.

12. type nslookup and hit enter

13. type set type=srv and enter

14. type _ldap._tcp.domainname.com and hit enter

15. you should see something like this if it works.

_ldap._tcp.domain.com SRV service location:

    priority            = 0

    weight             = 100

    port                 = 389

    svr hostname    = computername.domainname.com

computername.domainname.com internet address = 192.168.0.1 computername.domainname.com internet address = 25.65.3.81