Microsoft KB Archive/296151

= Event 8213 appears in the Application log after you install Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange 2000 Server =

Article ID: 296151

Article Last Modified on 11/5/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q296151



Important This article contains information about how to modify the registry. Make sure that you back up the registry before you modify it. Make sure that you know how to restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up, restore, and modify the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

256986 Description of the Microsoft Windows registry



SYMPTOMS
After you install Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, the following event may appear in the Application log: Event Type: Error

Event Source: MSExchangeFBPublish

Event Category: General

Event ID: 8213

Description: System Attendant Service failed to create session for virtual machine. The error number is 0x80044501.



RESOLUTION
To resolve the issue that the &quot;Symptoms&quot; section describes, edit the registry, and then set the permissions in Exchange 2003 or in Exchange 2000. To do this, follow these steps.

Warning Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly by using Registry Editor or by using another method. These problems might require that you reinstall the operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that these problems can be solved. Modify the registry at your own risk.

Warning If you have any programs that use the IAddressee::GetFreeBusy function from Collaboration Data Objects for Exchange 2000 on the affected server, the IAddressee::GetFreeBusy function stops working if you add the following registry key. In most scenarios in which this registry key is added, the function returns an error code of 0x8000FFFF.  Start Registry Editor. Locate the Server value under the following key in the registry:

 On the Edit menu, click Add Value. In the Value Name field, type FreeBusyQuerySessions, set the Data Type to REG_DWORD, and then click OK. In the Data field, type 00000000, and then click OK. Quit Registry Editor.</li> Restart the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant.</li> Start Exchange System Manager, and then locate the storage group.</li> Click the private store, and then right-click Properties.</li> Click the Security tab, and then click the Exchange service account.</li> Click View information store, click Administer information store, and then set the permissions.</li> Reset the Administrative Group's service account.</li></ol>

To reset the Administrative Group's service account, follow these steps:
 * 1) Back up the Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange 2000 Server information store and the Windows system state data of a domain controller.
 * 2) Start the ADSI Edit tool.
 * 3) Expand Configuration Container [ ], expand CN=Configuration,DC= , expand CN=Services, expand CN=MicrosoftExchange, expand CN= , and then expand CN=Administrative Groups
 * 4) Right-click CN= , and then click Properties.
 * 5) Click the Attribute Editor tab.
 * 6) Double-click the following properties, note the value if there is a value in the property, and then click the CLEAR button:
 * 7) * msExchEncryptedPassword
 * 8) * msExchLegacyAccount
 * 9) * msExchLegacyDomain
 * 10) Double-click msExchAdminGroupMode.
 * 11) Type 2 for the value.

Note Before you change the value to 2, note the original value.
 * 1) Click OK, click Apply, and then click OK.
 * 2) Quit the ADSI Edit tool.
 * 3) Restart the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service and all dependent services.

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