Exchange server crashing!

[Andrew]

The last couple of days our exchange server has been
crashing. We just recently installed Exchange 2000 on a
brand new domain a couple weeks ago but this problem just
started happening early this week. Come to think of it,
it started happening after we got OWA working. Anyways,
our Exchange server is also our web server.

When the server crashed, I always notice these warnings
(or warnings similar to this) in the event log:

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: W3SVC
Event Category: None
Event ID: 101

The server was unable to add the virtual root '/public'
for the directory 'M:avidityHCS.comPublic Folders' due
to the following error: The system cannot find the path
specified. The data is the error code.

---------------------------------------------------------

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: W3SVC
Event Category: None
Event ID: 101

The server was unable to add the virtual root '/Exchange'
for the directory 'M:avidityHCS.comMBX' due to the
following error: The system cannot find the path
specified. The data is the error code.

----------------------------------------------------------

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: W3SVC
Event Category: None
Event ID: 101

The server was unable to add the virtual root '/Exadmin'
for the directory '\.BackOfficeStorage' due to the
following error: The system cannot find the path
specified. The data is the error code.

----------------------------------------------------------

These are the same warnging I see in the even viewer every
time it freezes. Does anyone have any idea why this could
be happening? I am not that familiar with E2K. Thanks
for any help.

[eric]

Exchange creates a virtual drive M: to facilitate OWA and other functions. Sometimes, the WWW service, ISAdmin service and others start before all of the Exchange services start which create this drive. This is when you see those errors you posted. All you should need to do it to go to Internet Services Manager and stop and restart the default web site. This will reinitialize the web sites while the Exchange components are up and running. I do not think this should necessarily make your server crash however... you may want to try this and see if it fixes it first. If it doesn't, then this issue is not the cause of your crashing...

-eric

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Andrew at 9/26/2002 11:33:56 AM

The last couple of days our exchange server has been
crashing. We just recently installed Exchange 2000 on a
brand new domain a couple weeks ago but this problem just
started happening early this week. Come to think of it,
it started happening after we got OWA working. Anyways,
our Exchange server is also our web server.

When the server crashed, I always notice these warnings
(or warnings similar to this) in the event log:

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: W3SVC
Event Category: None
Event ID: 101

The server was unable to add the virtual root '/public'
for the directory 'M:avidityHCS.comPublic Folders' due
to the following error: The system cannot find the path
specified. The data is the error code.

---------------------------------------------------------

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: W3SVC
Event Category: None
Event ID: 101

The server was unable to add the virtual root '/Exchange'
for the directory 'M:avidityHCS.comMBX' due to the
following error: The system cannot find the path
specified. The data is the error code.

----------------------------------------------------------

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: W3SVC
Event Category: None
Event ID: 101

The server was unable to add the virtual root '/Exadmin'
for the directory '\.BackOfficeStorage' due to the
following error: The system cannot find the path
specified. The data is the error code.

----------------------------------------------------------

These are the same warnging I see in the even viewer every
time it freezes. Does anyone have any idea why this could
be happening? I am not that familiar with E2K. Thanks
for any help.