This is a cross post from http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/a5e73d85-cbae-498d-a25e-169b1cfd1a1c
Environment
I've got a SBS2011 Standard SP1 server on ESXi on Dell Hardware. Exchange 2010 SP1 Rollup 8
Problem
Exchange and email in general seem to be working fine, but the Microsoft Exchange Protected Service Host does not start, despite being set to Automatic. When I start it from Services.msc, it times out and alerts "Windows could not start the Microsoft Exchange Protected Service Host service on Local Computer. Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion."
- The system log shows error 7009 from Service Control Manager:
"A timeout was reached (120000 milliseconds) while waiting for the Microsoft Exchange Protected Service Host service to connect." -
and error 7000 from Service Control Manager:
"The Microsoft Exchange Protected Service Host service failed to start due to the following error: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion." - I see nothing relevant in the Application log.
Attempted Solutions
- I've applied http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940845/en-us which makes exchange services dependant on NETLOGON and such.
- I verified that IPv6 is enabled on the interface
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I ran Get-Mailbox | Update-Recipient
Get-Mailbox -Arbitration | Update-Recipient - I booted the machine in a test VM and completely updated Exchange 2010 to the latest rollup for SP2. The service still wouldn't start
- I copied a working exe from another Exchange server to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\bin\Microsoft.Exchange.ProtectedServiceHost.exe"
- I did the same for "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\bin\Microsoft.Exchange.ProtectedServiceHost.exe.config"
- NLTEST /DSGETSITE returns "Default-First-Site-Name"
Thanks for taking a look at this.