Any Exchange Server gurus?

[DrJohnZoidberg]

I'm busy setting up a Windows Sever 2008 test bed on a VM and trying to get Exchange Server 2007 installed with no luck.

I can get to the point of the installation where it needs to start the Exchange Transport service and the service just will not load. I am thinking that I may have a conflicting port somewhere but don't know enough to figure out what is causing it.

The VM is connecting directly to my network and I have set up DNS and AD on the server which are working fine. When trying to start the service manually I get "Windows could not start the Microsoft Exchange Transport Service on the local computer. Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion."

I've googled myself silly now, but nothing has helped so far. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Not an Exchange guru at all, but maybe check that IIS hasn't been configured for SMTP service. It could be a port 25 clash. Otherwise do a netstat -tan to see what ports are listening on your server and compare them against the known Exchange ports.

 

[toxicehc]

interesting

Not an Exchange guru at all, but maybe check that IIS hasn't been configured for SMTP service. It could be a port 25 clash. Otherwise do a netstat -tan to see what ports are listening on your server and compare them against the known Exchange ports.

Yeah, that may be one way to identify it.

I have personally never really seen this, however I have seen my fair share.

Please make sure, you do a blank os installation, join the domain, launch the install script which installs the prerequisites from the scripts folder on the media, followed by a reboot and the install only, I have seen a lot of 'senior' exchange engineers try and install iis smtp on 2007 and 2010, which was fine in 2003, but I no longer needed.

Let me know if you need further assistance.

Regards.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Thanks guys! Came right in the end after a google-athlon.

Was either a permissions thing (added Exchange Server to domain admins group) or it was the IPv6 which I had disabled.

EDIT: And all email working