When you
try to create a new mailbox or enable a mailbox in a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 environment on February 29, 2008, you receive
the following error message:
The Exchange server
address list service failed to respond. This could be because of an address
list or email address policy configuration error.
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To work around this problem, wait until midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) March 1,
2008. Then, restart the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant
service.
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Microsoft
has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed
in the "Applies to" section.
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If the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service is
started or restarted between midnight UTC February 29, 2008, and
midnight UTC March 1, 2008, certain configuration data will not be initialized. This
situation leads to the failure of any command that requires the Recipient Update Service, such as
the
new-mailbox command or the
enable-mailbox command. Additionally, this situation generates the error message that is mentioned in the "Symptoms" section.
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