Hi, This is shankar I have couple of queries. 1)I have evaluation version of Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise version and I am trying to install Exchange 2003 Enterprise on that after doin the Forest prep and Domain Prep. I am installing Exchange 2003 and it is going successfully till the end of the installation but after the restart it shows an error message with Microsoft Information store checked with the services. And came to know that the information store services is not started . Tried restarting the service but it doesn't start. The same I have tried several times on different servers. * I am installing the windows servers on VMWARE 4.52. Please help me in resolving this issue. ANd my configuration is as follows: Intel Core2 Duo 2.13 2GB RAM Intel 965RY Mother Board. WIndows XP Professional SP2 1GBps LAN Card. AMD Athlon XP 2800 2GB RAM ASUS Mother Board Windows XP Professional SP2 VM Ware installed on both the machines and tried Installing Exchange couple of times on both the machines but it never works. Servers Windows 2003 Enterprise Windows 2003 Standard Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise. Exchange 2003 Standard Exchange 2003 Enterprise. All the above combinations I have tried like Enterprise on R2 and 2003 with SP1 but it didn't worked.

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