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XADM: How to Make Mailbox Cleanup Agent a Dependant Service

Article ID: 230042

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006



APPLIES TO

  • Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 Service Pack 1
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 Service Pack 2



This article was previously published under Q230042

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256986 Description of the Microsoft Windows Registry


SUMMARY

Mailbox Cleanup Agent (MBClean) installs as a manually starting service. If it is set as an automatically starting service, it may fail to start during reboot because the Microsoft Exchange information store service has not started. This is because MBClean has no dependencies set and attempts to start before the Microsoft Exchange information store service.

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To set the MBClean service as a dependant service on the information store service, add the following registry entry:
'

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeMCA


Value: DependOnService
DataType: REG_MULTI_SZ
Data: MSExchangeIS


This will make the MBClean service dependant on the Microsoft Exchange information store service, forcing the MBClean service to wait for the information store service to start before starting itself.


Additional query words: MCA

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