"Setup Cannot Locate a Qualifying Global Catalog Server" Error Message When You Try to Start the Information Store Service

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event ID: 7024
Computer: Server1
Description: The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service terminated with service-specific error 0.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: MSExchangeDSAccess
Event ID: 2069
Computer: Server1
Description: Process Store.exe (PID=3216). Dsaccess could not find any global catalog servers in the enterprise. Promote one or more of your domain controllers to a global catalog to allow dsaccess to function properly. For more information, click http://search.support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=1.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: MSExchangeIS
Event ID: 1121
Computer: Server1
Description: Error 0xfaf connecting to the Microsoft Active Directory. For more information, click http://search.support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=1.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: MSExchangeIS
Event ID: 5000
Computer: Server1
Description: Unable to initialize the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service. Error 0xfaf. For more information, click http://search.support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=1.

• There is no global catalog in the forest.
• There is a problem with the connection to the global catalog.

1. Start the Active Directory Sites and Services snap-in. To do so, click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Sites and Services.
2. In the console tree, expand Sites, expand Default First Site Name, expand Servers, and then expand the domain controller that you want to configure as the global catalog server.
3. Right-click NTDS Settings, and then click Properties.
4. Click to select the Global Catalog check box, and then click OK.
5. Restart the server.
   
   Note The first domain controller that is installed in a forest is the default global catalog server.