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We have restored our active directory from a backup and now exchange won't start for some reason. The service that won't start is the Microsoft Exchange Information Store. It comes up with this message: Error 1068: The dependency service or group failed to start..

I am guessing this has something to do with permissions but am not really sure where to start looking. I have perused various articles on the internet but am not sure the best place to start.

This is the error in the event log: Process INETINFO.EXE (PID=1636). Topology Discovery failed, error 0x80040931. I have looked up the ID but I don't really understand what the problem is.

EDIT: When trying to start the windows service attendant service this error is in the event viewer: Unexpected error Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. Facility: Win32 ID no: 8007052e Microsoft Exchange System Attendant occurred. If I could reset this password (or at least see which user it is) I would be in a good starting place.

Any idea?

Thanks.

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There should be more event log entries than that. Did anything change about the domain controller, and is it functioning correctly? – Shane Madden Sep 14 '11 at 14:48
What service(s) failed to start? You should be able to sort the list of services by Startup Type and see which ones aren't started. – Chris S♦ Sep 14 '11 at 15:12
Microsoft Exchange Information Store. I went through all the dependencies and found that Exchange System Attendant wasn't started. When I try to start it, it says it started and stopped for some reason. All the dependencies of System Attendant are started. Only other one is EXFIS which I can't seem to find anything for. – webnoob Sep 14 '11 at 15:57
So what account is the system attendant running as? Look in service manager to see what account it is running as – uSlackr Sep 14 '11 at 20:50
It says local account. I am not sure where to look to see what username / password could be incorrect ... – webnoob Sep 15 '11 at 6:12
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Try running the Exchange BPA to figure out what broke and where. It's available here:

https://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=22485

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Have run all checks and thay have come back with green ticks. – webnoob Sep 14 '11 at 14:19
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The dependency error is telling you that the information store failed to start because a service that it depends on isn't running. The first thing I would do is look to see what services it depends on and which hasn't started. Then debug that service.

I don't see the need to re-run forest & Domain prep unless you restored from an AD backup taken before Exchange was installed.

It might be helpful to understand why you needed to restore AD.

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The server died so I remounted a backup HD and restored the AD. – webnoob Sep 14 '11 at 15:08
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Have you gone through this Microsoft KB article? It describes your problem pretty well so I imagine it'll describe the solution well too:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919089

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Will be my next step. Thanks. – webnoob Sep 14 '11 at 16:59
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You may want to run the active directory ForestPrep and DomainPrep tools again in order to restore your active directory settings.

On your Exchange 2003 CD run

 E:\setup\i386\setup /ForestPrep,

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124110(EXCHG.65).aspx

then run

E:\setup\i386\setup /DomainPrep,

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997526(EXCHG.65).aspx

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Right Ok. That was the next thing I was going to try. Do you know if exchange is on a seperate disk when installing windows 2003 SBS? I have 4 disks but none say Exchange .. – webnoob Sep 14 '11 at 14:38
Nevermind, running the forest prep now. Will update when I know more. – webnoob Sep 14 '11 at 14:51
how did that go? – SLY Sep 14 '11 at 18:54
Didn't seem to help :( – webnoob Sep 15 '11 at 6:12
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