Very Computer

For some reason I suddenly can't get the Exchange System Attendant service
to start. It fails during the startup of NT Server with the following error
message:

Access is denied.
Microsoft Windows NT
ID no: 0xc0020005

The Event Viewer shows an Event ID 7000 with the following text:

The Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service failed to start due to the
following error: Access id denied.

Since Exchange Server 5.0 didn't show any problems since recently, I tried
to reinstall it. During install however, the same errors come up.

The account the service uses isn't the problem. I tried several accounts,
all with administrative priviliges. Exchange granted all of them the
neccessary rights 'Log On As A Service', 'Restore Files and Directories' and
'Act as part of the operating system' without any problems.

The problems seem to occur since I installed the Exchange Server Client on
the Exchange Server machine.

Anyone on this ?
P. Leenders

I remember something along those lines..  You should be using the
Exchange "Service" account as the login..  Not another admin login..
Make sure that "log on locally" is one of the rights assigned to the
login..  I'd bet my bottom dollar that it's a rights issue..  If you
are using the service acct., make sure that the password on the
service login hasn't changed.. Perhaps temporarily removing the
password..