Hi -Please can you help My exchange server 2003 services refuse to start. The MTA stacks, Information store, and system attendant attempt to start but I get the following error 'error 1053 the service did no respond in a timely fashion' Please could you make suggestions -a reboot did not help

Did you check the event log? -- Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." . "exchinfo" wrote in message news:d2c7a9ee-f88a-47b1-9c18-e690282a2f32... Hi -Please can you help My exchange server 2003 services refuse to start. The MTA stacks, Information store, and system attendant attempt to start but I get the following error 'error 1053 the service did no respond in a timely fashion' Please could you make suggestions -a reboot did not help Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

Hi - after further investigation the server appeared to have the global catalogue role removed in AD sites and services, reinstated and now working - thanks