Microsoft KB Archive/931507

= Error message when you use Communicator Web Access to try to log on to Live Communications Server 2005 Service Pack 1: &quot;The server is unavailable&quot; =

Article ID: 931507

Article Last Modified on 1/29/2007

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APPLIES TO

 Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 Service Pack 1, when used with:  Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 Standard Edition

 Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 Enterprise Edition 

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SYMPTOMS
When you use Microsoft Office Communicator Web Access to log on to Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 Service Pack 1, you receive the following error message:

The server is unavailable. Please sign in again or contact your system administrator.

Additionally, the following events are logged in the System event log: Event Type: Error

Event Source: W3SVC

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1059

Description:

A failure was encountered while launching the process serving application pool 'W3SVC175074822 - '. The application pool has been disabled.

Event Type: Warning

Event Source: W3SVC

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1057

Description:

The identity of application pool 'W3SVC175074822 - ' is invalid, so the World Wide Web Publishing Service can not create a worker process to serve the application pool. Therefore, the application pool has been disabled.

Event Type: Warning

Event Source: W3SVC

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1021

Description:

The identity of application pool, 'W3SVC175074822 - ' is invalid. If it remains invalid when the first request for the application pool is processed, the application pool will be disabled.

Note The data field contains the error number 8007052e. This error number corresponds to the following description:

Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.



CAUSE
This issue occurs if the password of the Communicator Web Access service account has changed or has expired. Therefore, the Communicator Web Access service uses an incorrect password to try to start.



RESOLUTION
If the password of the Communicator Web Access service account has already expired, reset the password in the Active Directory Users and Computers Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in. Then, change the password in the Communicator Web Access application pool to reflect the reset password. To do this, follow these steps:
 * 1) Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
 * 2) In the console tree, expand  , expand Application Pools, right-click W3SVC175074822 -  , and then click Properties.

Note  represents the name of your computer. represents the pool name of Communicator Web Access.
 * 1) Click the Identity tab, and then make sure that the Configurable option is enabled.
 * 2) In the User name box, type the user account under which you want Communicator Web Access to run.
 * 3) In the Password box, type the password for the account that you specified in step 4.
 * 4) Re-type the password in the Confirm Password dialog box, and then click OK.
 * 5) Click OK to close the Properties dialog box.

Additional query words: LCS2005

Keywords: kberrmsg kbtshoot kbexpertiseinter kbprb KB931507

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