Cannot create any public folders

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Hello Peeps,

I am trying to setup an exchange server lab, but I am having few problems and would appreciate your help.

I am trying to create a couple of public folder trees, the process of creating them is fine, I can create the tree, the store and mount and everything, the problem is that i cant add any folders to the tree itself, the box for the folder creation is just not showing up the same story with the default folder tree that get created by default by exchange! I have also noticed that the defauld tree doesnt have the newsgroup folder under it and one more thing none of the trees do show in outlook.

I would really appreciate your help on this as I am truly stuck!!!!


My setup: a clean fresh win2k adv install, and exchange 2000 entreprise (a bit old I know but still does the trick) and 1 dc (dns ad....)

forgot so say it's all under Vmware

Thanks in advance.

 

Thanks wagnerk, no error messages they are just not being created.

 

first of all thanks for helping.

- Yes I have assigned myself all the permissions (it's only one domain, and I am the schema/entreprise/domain/local admin so I dont think its that.
-I have applied all the all the latest service packs.

to be honest, I am started to suspect a faulty install myself, the thing is I have reinstalled about 4 times now with no luck !

once again thanks wagnerk.

anyone else has any imput on this ?

 

I was hoping you were going to try and help sparky
I am going to turn on my exchange box and report back.

 

Silly me, didnt even think of looking at the event log.

yes a couple of errors :

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: NNTPSVC
Event Category: None
Event ID: 101
Date: 2/11/2007
Time: 12:23:17 PM
User: N/A
Computer: NETWORKDC1
Description:
The server was unable to add the virtual root '/' for the directory '/Internet Newsgroups' due to the following error: The parameter is incorrect. The data is the error code.

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Event Type: Warning
Event Source: W3SVC
Event Category: None
Event ID: 101
Date: 2/11/2007
Time: 12:22:59 PM
User: N/A
Computer: NETWORKDC1
Description:
The server was unable to add the virtual root '/Exadmin' for the directory '\\.\BackOfficeStorage' due to the following error: The system cannot find the path specified. The data is the error code.
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Event Type: Warning
Event Source: W3SVC
Event Category: None
Event ID: 101
Date: 2/11/2007
Time: 12:22:59 PM
User: N/A
Computer: NETWORKDC1
Description:
The server was unable to add the virtual root '/Exchange' for the directory 'M:\network.com\MBX' due to the following error: The system cannot find the path specified. The data is the error code.
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Yes sparky the drive M: is there, I have checked IIS and the exchange/public/Exadmin are all there but showing errors.

the service is installed and running.

 

these are the errors :
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: NNTPSVC
Event Category: None
Event ID: 101
Date: 2/11/2007
Time: 12:50:07 PM
User: N/A
Computer: NETWORKDC1
Description:
The server was unable to add the virtual root '/' for the directory '/Internet Newsgroups' due to the following error: The parameter is incorrect. The data is the error code.
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Event Type: Warning
Event Source: W3SVC
Event Category: None
Event ID: 101
Date: 2/11/2007
Time: 12:50:07 PM
User: N/A
Computer: NETWORKDC1
Description:
The server was unable to add the virtual root '/Exchange' for the directory 'M:\wladcasa.com\MBX' due to the following error: The system cannot find the path specified. The data is the error code.
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I can access webmail.

from the KB that you pointed out:

Despite the logged events and the virtual directories that show an error state in Internet Services Manager, this is not an issue, and the operations of the Exchange Virtual Server is not affected. You can successfully browse the virtual directories in the Internet Services Manager and connect to them by using the Web client.

 

sparky I have restarted the IIS service, now it works, still showing error in the IIS admin console but it works now !!!!! Thanks for the help mate !!!

But I still would like to know what happened.

 

cheers sparky & wagnerk for the help.