Exchange 2003 servers won't replicate system or public folders
We are having a replication problem between an older Exchange 2003 server and a new Exchange 2003 server. A new server was brought up a couple months ago but replication of the system and public folders has never worked.
After increasing the diagnostic reporting, I saw the following 7004 and 7010 Event errors reported in the Application logs on the respective server EXBE-01 and EXBE-02
Event Type: Error
Event Source: MSExchangeTransport
Event Category: SMTP Protocol
Event ID: 7004
Date: 4/5/2011
Time: 8:22:01 AM
User: N/A
Computer: EXBE-01
Description:
This is an SMTP protocol error log for virtual server ID 1, connection #2. The remote host "10.192.x.2", responded to the SMTP command "xexch50" with "504 Need to authenticate first
". The full command sent was "XEXCH50 1084 2 ".
This will probably cause the connection to fail.
And on the EXBE-02 server we see:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: MSExchangeTransport
Event Category: SMTP Protocol
Event ID: 7010
Date: 4/5/2011
Time: 8:22:01 AM
User: N/A
Computer: EXBE-02
Description:
This is an SMTP protocol log for virtual server ID 1, connection #1. The client at "10.192.x.1" sent a "xexch50" command, and the SMTP server responded with "504 Need to authenticate first
". The full command sent was "xexch50 1084 2".
This will probably cause the connection to fail.
If I look at the message tracking, I can see the replication message being sent from the first server, and the second server recieves the message, processes it, but then the last line is "SMTP:Message
queued for local delivery". It never seems to finish being processed to the correct queue.
Any thoughts on how to resolve this? I am not an Exchange Admin, but I was asked to look at it to see if I can discover the source of the problem. If you can help, please explain in detail as I am new
to Exchange Administration.
I appreciate any help you fine folks can provide!
April 9th, 2011 1:13pm
This is generic event id when you increase the diagnostics logging.
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April 10th, 2011 10:10am