Dear Team,I'm working as a man-power some where, and yesterday the organization encountered a problem with DC and so with exchange server....etc. we restarted the servers and everything just come back to natural. but I have a service that doesn't start automatically, which is the intersite messaging service, this service is running only on domain controllers, but it's not running on exchange server. when i try to start this service, it says "Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion", now the question is: is this service important to be started on Exchange server? if so, how do i start it?Please Advise,,Thank You In Advance,Best Regards,

Hi,This service runs on domain controllers only - the service start-up typewas set to disabled on the exchange server right?Leif

Hi, thanks for your kind response, but actually the startup type is set to "Automatic".Kindly Advise,Thanks In Advance,,,

should i set the start type to disabled, or i just leave it?

Hi,I'd like to know which service did not start automatically.What is the version for your Exchange Server?Besides,please run "eventvwr" from a command prompt to check if any error event logged in the event viewer,please post the detail event information here.By the way,does Exchange installed on the Domain Controller?Regards,Xiu

Hi, I have Exchange Server 2007 on a separate server not on DC, and let me show you what did the Event Viewer log: Event Type:ErrorEvent Source:Service Control ManagerEvent Category:NoneEvent ID:7000Date:2/14/2009Time:12:05:41 PMUser:N/AComputer:GRP-MAILDescription:The Intersite Messaging service failed to start due to the following error: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion. then Event Type:ErrorEvent Source:Service Control ManagerEvent Category:NoneEvent ID:7009Date:2/14/2009Time:12:05:41 PMUser:N/AComputer:GRP-MAILDescription:Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for the Intersite Messaging service to connect.please note that the start up type is set to Automatic. and this service is running fine on DC's, but it can't be running on mail server.Please Advise,,,Thanks,,,

Hi, This service is only required by domain controllers to enable multiple transports to be used in inter-site messaging. It could not affect Exchange Server. Also, I recommend you to post the issue in Newsgroup for Windows Server to get it fix or manually start the service. Discussions in Active Directory http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory&cat=en_US_09e458e2-5a48-4d89-a40f-847f472bc08e&lang=en&cr=US More related information to share with you: 297812 How to use the 4GT RAM Tuning featurehttp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;297812 171793 Information on Application Use of 4GT RAM Tuninghttp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;171793 Regards, Xiu

>It could not affect Exchange Server.Fine, so if i set the Intersite messagin to "Disabled", it's gona be OK?please confirm,Thank you for sharing the information you have.Thanks again.Regards,,

Hi,It is not used by Exchange,but it is a AD related service.So disable this service will not affect Exchange Server.On the other side,we may need to keep DC in health status to avoid any unexpected issue. So I recommend you to ask for help in Newsgroup for AD.Regards,Xiu