Hi guys, following a fresh install of Exchange 2010 SP2 on a server 2008R2 SP1 machine that hadn't been activated, the following error message was generated: Now, as any good troubleshooter would do, as no users had been created in AD, and this is the only server, a format was done and the installation was done with Exchange 2010 SP1, and to my surprise the same error message was generated. What on earth is going on here? I disabled software RAID the second time around, but still no luck. The specifications are as follows: CPU: Core2 Quad 3.2GHz RAM: 4GB HDD: 1TB x 2 (Windows RAID level 1) OS: Server 2008R2 Enterprise

Try starting the service manually and then rerunning setup.Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."