Microsoft KB Archive/156715

= XADM: Unable to Back Up Exchange on Remote Server from NT 4.0 =

Article ID: 156715

Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q156715



SYMPTOMS
When you run the Ntbackup utility on a Windows NT 4.0 computer and you try to back up a remote Microsoft Exchange server, the backup fails with abnormal termination while backing up the files. It always fails on the second file while backing up either the directory or the Information Store (IS).



CAUSE
The end point mapper for the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) connection to the remote server was not validated.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Exchange Server version 4.0. This problem was corrected in the latest Microsoft Exchange Service Pack. For information on obtaining the Service Pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

SERVPACK

NOTE: This fix is included in SP5 for Windows NT 4.0.



MORE INFORMATION
An error is generated in the Event Log Viewer under the Application log. the event ID is 8010 and the description is as follows:

The Microsoft Exchange services returned 102 from a call to BackupRead data.

Keywords: KB156715

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