XADM: Event 7042 During DS/IS Consistency Check
Article ID: 161499
Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q161499
SYMPTOMS
After running a DS/IS Consistency Adjustment, mailboxes may not be created
and you may receive the following event in the Event Viewer:
Event ID: 7042
Source: MS Exchange IS Private
Type: Error
Category: Private IS/DS
Error -2147221233 occurred while creating the Directory service object
for
mailbox /O=MICROSOFT/OU=SITE1/CN=TESTCONTAINER/CN=TEST32R.
CAUSE
This error will occur if the Recipients Container that the mailbox is being
created in does not exist.
WORKAROUND
To work around this problem:
- Create the correct recipients container and rerun the DS/IS Consistency
Adjustment.
MORE INFORMATION
After restoring an offline backup of the Private Information Store to a new
Directory, a DS/IS Consistency Adjustment must be performed to re-create
the mailbox entries in the Directory. The DS/IS Consistency Adjustment will
not create Recipients Containers. The Recipient Container for that mailbox
must exist before running DS/IS Consistency.
In the example above, the mailbox "TEST32R" is being created in the
container called "TESTCONTAINER." If TESTCONTAINER does not exist, you will
receive the error above.
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