Force a 2007 CA to use a particular GC

20 Jan 2009 5:56 PM

Transam388

Is there a way to force a client access server to use a certain DC / GC for
generating the OAB? I always get thos MSExchangeFDS errors saying that it
temporarily cannot connect. I can ping the DC's and have used dcdiag and
nothing comes jumping out. Another one of our client access servers is just
humming along without issue and is at the same site so not really sure why
this particular one is having trouble now.

So if I can somehow tell the Exchange client access to make it's requests
against a specific DC / GC I would like to try this.?

Thanks!

20 Jan 2009 6:35 PM

Andy David {MVP}

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:56:05 -0800, Transam388
<Transam***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Is there a way to force a client access server to use a certain DC / GC for
>generating the OAB? I always get thos MSExchangeFDS errors saying that it
>temporarily cannot connect. I can ping the DC's and have used dcdiag and
>nothing comes jumping out. Another one of our client access servers is just
>humming along without issue and is at the same site so not really sure why
>this particular one is having trouble now.
>
>So if I can somehow tell the Exchange client access to make it's requests
>against a specific DC / GC I would like to try this.?

Whats the exact error?

The CAS do not generate the OAB of course. They do however distribute
it and copy it from the generation server via FDS.

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>
>Thanks!

20 Jan 2009 6:46 PM

Transam388

These boxes are dual role CA / HT servers and this happens basically all the
time now. Here is the exact error.
Event Type:    Warning
Event Source:    MSExchangeFDS
Event Category:    General
Event ID:    1003
Date:        1/20/2009
Time:        11:44:58 AM
User:        N/A
Computer:    NAME
Description:
Process MSExchangeFDS.exe (PID=8228). Temporarily unable to connect to
Active Directory to read configuration data for object OAB (60). Will wait
for %5 seconds and retry.

Thanks.
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"Andy David {MVP}" wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:56:05 -0800, Transam388
> <Transam***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Is there a way to force a client access server to use a certain DC / GC for
> >generating the OAB? I always get thos MSExchangeFDS errors saying that it
> >temporarily cannot connect. I can ping the DC's and have used dcdiag and
> >nothing comes jumping out. Another one of our client access servers is just
> >humming along without issue and is at the same site so not really sure why
> >this particular one is having trouble now.
> >
> >So if I can somehow tell the Exchange client access to make it's requests
> >against a specific DC / GC I would like to try this.?
>
> Whats the exact error?
>
> The CAS do not generate the OAB of course. They do however distribute
> it and copy it from the generation server via FDS.
>
> >
> >Thanks!
>