Hi, this problem may be of sufficient complexity to require a multipartite diagnosis, so apologies in advance if I don't give enough info right off the bat.
Another person was messing around with the Windows 2000 Small Business Server, and he tells me he messed primarily with the DHCP Services and the Active Directory. When he was done messing with it, client machines returned the message that they were unable to connect to the Exchange server.
(Incidentally, this server simultaneously runs the Domain services, the Print Services, two instances of SQL Server 2000, the Tape Backup services, and Exchange 2000 Server.)
After email stopped working throughout the office, I noticed that "Exchange System Manager|Tools|Monitoring and Status|Status" was indicating that the mail server was unreachable. The Properties revealed that the Default Microsoft Exchange Service was unable to start. This service now does not show up under "Start|Administrative Tools|Services" either.
I also noticed that the M drive is now missing. (The M drive used to contain all the Exchange data, or so it seems to me. There was a folder, for instance, that was the name of every Exchange user, and each of these folders contained data files.)
After doing a little snooping, I discovered a folder called "Exchsrvr" on the D drive. The only semblance of large blocks of data I could find here was in a subfolder called "MDBDATA". Here, I found a large sequence of files called .log.
The main thing I am trying to do is get everybody's saved emails and contact lists back. Manually recreating every account and reinstalling Exchange would be a small price to pay in trade for that hard-earned data. Any suggestions on where to start figuring this out?
Thanks for your time, and thanks for helping a humble database programmer understand Exchange Server!
ryan supak
Another person was messing around with the Windows 2000 Small Business Server, and he tells me he messed primarily with the DHCP Services and the Active Directory. When he was done messing with it, client machines returned the message that they were unable to connect to the Exchange server.
(Incidentally, this server simultaneously runs the Domain services, the Print Services, two instances of SQL Server 2000, the Tape Backup services, and Exchange 2000 Server.)
After email stopped working throughout the office, I noticed that "Exchange System Manager|Tools|Monitoring and Status|Status" was indicating that the mail server was unreachable. The Properties revealed that the Default Microsoft Exchange Service was unable to start. This service now does not show up under "Start|Administrative Tools|Services" either.
I also noticed that the M drive is now missing. (The M drive used to contain all the Exchange data, or so it seems to me. There was a folder, for instance, that was the name of every Exchange user, and each of these folders contained data files.)
After doing a little snooping, I discovered a folder called "Exchsrvr" on the D drive. The only semblance of large blocks of data I could find here was in a subfolder called "MDBDATA". Here, I found a large sequence of files called .log.
The main thing I am trying to do is get everybody's saved emails and contact lists back. Manually recreating every account and reinstalling Exchange would be a small price to pay in trade for that hard-earned data. Any suggestions on where to start figuring this out?
Thanks for your time, and thanks for helping a humble database programmer understand Exchange Server!
ryan supak
