Hi I have poste before but no one was able to help me so here i go again. I have two Exchange 2007 Servers Mail1 and Mail2. Mail2 is the targer for SCR, when i open EMC on Mail2 i get the following error -------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft Exchange Error -------------------------------------------------------- The following error(s) were reported while loading topology information: Get-ActiveSyncVirtualDirectory Failed Error: Unable to create Internet Information Services (IIS) directory entry. Error message is: Access is denied. . HResult = -2147024891. Access is denied. . Directory Path: IIS://Mail1.linkmicrotek.com/W3SVC/1/ROOT/Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync Detail: server name: Mail1.linkmicrotek.com local machine name: MAIL2 local machine fqdn: Mail2.linkmicrotek.com Access is denied. Get-OabVirtualDirectory Failed Error: Unable to create Internet Information Services (IIS) directory entry. Error message is: Access is denied. . HResult = -2147024891. Access is denied. . Directory Path: IIS://Mail1.linkmicrotek.com/W3SVC/1/ROOT/OAB Detail: server name: Mail1.linkmicrotek.com local machine name: MAIL2 local machine fqdn: Mail2.linkmicrotek.com Access is denied. Get-OWAVirtualDirectory Failed Error: Unable to create Internet Information Services (IIS) directory entry. Error message is: Access is denied. . HResult = -2147024891. Access is denied. . Directory Path: IIS://Mail1.linkmicrotek.com/W3SVC/1/ROOT/Exchange Detail: server name: Mail1.linkmicrotek.com local machine name: MAIL2 local machine fqdn: Mail2.linkmicrotek.com Access is denied. get-MailboxDatabase Completed Warning: ERROR: Could not connect to the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service on server Mail1.linkmicrotek.com. One of the following problems may be occurring: 1- The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service is not running. 2- There is no network connectivity to server Mail1.linkmicrotek.com. 3- You do not have sufficient permissions to perform this command. The following permissions are required to perform this command: Exchange View-Only Administrator and local administrators group for the target server. 4- Credentials have been cached for an unpriviledged user. Try removing the entry for this server from Stored User Names and Passwords. Warning: ERROR: Could not connect to the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service on server Mail1.linkmicrotek.com. One of the following problems may be occurring: 1- The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service is not running. 2- There is no network connectivity to server Mail1.linkmicrotek.com. 3- You do not have sufficient permissions to perform this command. The following permissions are required to perform this command: Exchange View-Only Administrator and local administrators group for the target server. 4- Credentials have been cached for an unpriviledged user. Try removing the entry for this server from Stored User Names and Passwords. Warning: ERROR: Could not connect to the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service on server Mail1.linkmicrotek.com. One of the following problems may be occurring: 1- The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service is not running. 2- There is no network connectivity to server Mail1.linkmicrotek.com. 3- You do not have sufficient permissions to perform this command. The following permissions are required to perform this command: Exchange View-Only Administrator and local administrators group for the target server. 4- Credentials have been cached for an unpriviledged user. Try removing the entry for this server from Stored User Names and Passwords. get-PublicFolderDatabase Completed Warning: ERROR: Could not connect to the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service on server Mail1.linkmicrotek.com. One of the following problems may be occurring: 1- The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service is not running. 2- There is no network connectivity to server Mail1.linkmicrotek.com. 3- You do not have sufficient permissions to perform this command. The following permissions are required to perform this command: Exchange View-Only Administrator and local administrators group for the target server. 4- Credentials have been cached for an unpriviledged user. Try removing the entry for this server from Stored User Names and Passwords. -------------------------------------------------------- OK -------------------------------------------------------- So on that server i have run the Best Practices Analyzer and i recieve an error stating that Exchange Server Mail11 is down or unreachable This could be the result of a network or permissions Problem. I can ping the server i also know that it is not down because all of our Company mailboxes are on it and they are working. Please can anybody help

are you in local administrator group on the server? are you running all tools using "Run as administrator" ?With kind regards Krystian Zieja http://www.projectnenvision.com Follow me on twitter My Blog

Yes i have tried opening the management console using run as administrator i still get the same error. Although i have never had to use the run as administrator before, Any more thoughts john

Hi John, "Although i have never had to use the run as administrator before" Do you mean the issue occured recently? Can you open EMS successfully? If yes, please try to run the cmdlet Get-OWAVirtualDirectory. Please open EMC as a member of "Exchange Organization Administrators" and test. Please run the Exbpa to do a Permission check. Frank Wang TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

if i run in the management shell Get-OWAVirtualDirectory then i get access denied. i am opening EMC as a member of the Exchange Organization administratores If i run EXBPA from Mail2 which is the target server it error saying Mail1 Could not be contacted. I have checked that the domain\administrator account that i have always used to logon to mail1 through mail2,s EMC is a member of local admin etc and Exchange admins. John