Exchange 2003 System Attendent does not start.

Hello Friends,

Here if have got a new topic to post, may be some of you guys n gals face this problem while setting up exchange 2003 on member server of DC using /DisasterRecovery switch.

We setup exchange 2003 using disasterrecovery switch when information related to our exchange server is already present in AD.
Setup goes smoothly and you get a message which says to restore database from backup, we click ok and then setup wizard resume its job, here it tries to start Exchange System Attendent service and keeps trying to do it for long time, things doesn't goes ahead. but if we see our Event viewer (our friend) you will get error 9022, 9149, and 1005. This is because the exchange server container in AD does not proper permissions.

Ok, now we will solve this issue.
Go to the DC, make sure you have support tools installed. If not then install it from your windows 2003 server CD-ROM, you can find it in support/Tools directory of your CD-ROM.

After finishing installation of support tools,
1. Goto Start > Run.. type adsiedit.msc then press Enter
2. we need to drill down
Configuration > Services > Microsoft Exchange > Administrative Group > First Administrative Group > Servers
3. Here we will see our server name. Right Click on server goto properties, goto Security tab and see the last group "Exchange Domain Servers" click on it and you will get the list of permissions given to this group. You will find "Full Control" is not enabled, and this is what we have to do. Enable it and click Apply.. Ok..
4. Now go to your exchange server and try to restart System Attendent service, also MTA Stack and Information Store will be stopped, start them also..

And its done :-)

NOTE: this article is written with help of my friend Mohd Ismael so i will like to give all the credits for solving your problem related to this system attendent issue.