Issue with Avast/Exchange in which the solution was to uninstall Avast in order to get mail flowing.
Issue:
Mail was not being delivered in a timely fashion
“Message Pending Submission” queue was backing up on Exchange 2003 server
SMTP Service status was listed as “Starting”
The following event entries repeated over and over
Event Type: Information
Event Source: IISCTLS
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1
Date: 11/6/2006
Time: 1:26:54 PM
User: N/A
Computer: AMCMAIL
Description:
IIS start command received from user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. The logged data is the status code.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 1d 04 07 80 …�
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: W3SVC
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1069
Date: 11/6/2006
Time: 1:27:49 PM
User: N/A
Computer: AMCMAIL
Description:
The World Wide Web Publishing Service failed to record the proper state ‘2’ and win32error ‘0’ of application pool ‘DefaultAppPool’ in the metabase. To correct, start/stop the application pool or restart the World Wide Web Publishing Service. The data field contains the error number.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: ba 06 07 80 º…�
Event Type: Error
Event Source: W3SVC
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1063
Date: 11/6/2006
Time: 1:27:49 PM
User: N/A
Computer: AMCMAIL
Description:
The World Wide Web Publishing Service encountered a failure requesting metabase change notifications. The data field contains the error number.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: ba 06 07 80 º…�
Event Type: Error
Event Source: W3SVC
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1064
Date: 11/6/2006
Time: 1:27:49 PM
User: N/A
Computer: AMCMAIL
Description:
The World Wide Web Publishing Service encountered a failure requesting metabase change notifications during recovery from inetinfo terminating unexpectedly. While the World Wide Web Publishing Service will continue to run, it is highly probable that it is no longer using current metabase data. Please restart the World Wide Web Publishing Service to correct this condition. The data field contains the error number.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: ba 06 07 80 º…�
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7031
Date: 11/6/2006
Time: 1:27:49 PM
User: N/A
Computer: AMCMAIL
Description:
The IIS Admin Service service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 21 time(s). The following corrective action will be taken in 1 milliseconds: Run the configured recovery program.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7034
Date: 11/6/2006
Time: 1:27:49 PM
User: N/A
Computer: AMCMAIL
Description:
The Microsoft Exchange IMAP4 service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 21 time(s).
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7034
Date: 11/6/2006
Time: 1:27:49 PM
User: N/A
Computer: AMCMAIL
Description:
The Microsoft Exchange Routing Engine service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 21 time(s).
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7034
Date: 11/6/2006
Time: 1:27:49 PM
User: N/A
Computer: AMCMAIL
Description:
The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 21 time(s).
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Telephone call to Microsoft in which they had me uninstall Avast. Mail flowed after uninstall.
Thoughts?
Thanks in Advance