This is a good one. Both my Exchange 2003 and 2007 server are showing this event in the application event log
Exchange 2003 shows this:
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: MSExchangeSA
Event Category: General
Event ID: 9186
Description:
Microsoft Exchange System Attendant has detected that the local computer is not a member of group ‘cn=Exchange Domain Servers,cn=Users,dc=gbl,dc=MyDomain,dc=net’. System Attendant is going to add the local computer into the group.
The current members of the group are ‘CN=E2k3mbx,OU=Servers,OU=MAC,DC=gbl,DC=MyDomain,DC=net; ‘.
Exchange 2007 shows this:
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: MSExchangeSA
Event Category: General
Event ID: 9186
Description:
Microsoft Exchange System Attendant has detected that the local computer is not a member of group ‘/dc=net/dc=MyDomain/dc=gbl/ou=Microsoft Exchange Security Groups/cn=Exchange Servers’. System Attendant is going to add the local computer into the group.
The current members of the group are ‘CN=Exchange Install Domain Servers,CN=Microsoft Exchange System Objects,DC=gbl,DC=MyDomain,DC=net; CN=mbx01,OU=Servers,OU=MAC,DC=gbl,DC=MyDomain,DC=net; ‘.
The bloody AD guys moved the exchange servers in to a new OU (MAC)
Found http://support.microsoft.com/kb/271335 and restart of the MSExchangeSA fixed it all. Interesting that the SA caches the distinguished name of the local computer.
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