Re: Failed to access metabase until inetinfo.exe killed and restart processes

Haven't seen any issues here with last months patches.

Maybe? Make sure your servers file-level anti-virus is not scanning
exchange and IIS folders. There a list of exclusions, google "sbs2003 anti
virus exclusions".

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Allan Williams




Penelope wrote:
> Hey all:
>
> I've got a bit of an interesting issue here. SBS 2003 SP2.
>
> We've got a server that is halting email flow. Upon investigation we
> see an issue with the MSExchangeMU service and it gives an error
> message of:
>
> Failed to access the metabase, error code is 80080005 (Server
> execution failed).
>
> The thing is...the metabase isn't corrupt. If we kill inetinfo.exe
> and restart IISAdmin, then we can restart all the Exchange services
> and it runs fine. Sometimes it even runs through a reboot. Can't
> seem to figure out the problem, but it started happening after some
> updates a few weeks back.
>
> It PROBABLY has something to do with the below, but I always hate
> ripping into .NET stuff without asking people first. It's just always
> a huge PITA.
>
> Failed while registering ASP.NET (version 2.0.50727.0) in IIS. Error
> code: 0x80080005
>
> If anyone else has run into this, suggestions would be greatly
> appreciated before major surgery commences.