Trouble with your Exchange 2007 list service failing to respond today? Go home and try again tomorrow - it's a leap year.
Users around the world are reporting in the Microsoft Exchange Server Admin forum that they are unable to create new email and domain acceptance policies today, February 29. When they advance the clock on the Exchange server to March 1, 2008 the policies work as expected.
The issue is preventing admins from moving mailboxes within their Exchange 2007 servers, getting the error:.
"The Exchange server address list service failed to respond. This could be because of an address list or email address policy configuration error."
If you do decide to change your server time, be sure to stop and disable the Windows Time service on the Exchange server to prevent the time from resyncronizing with the Domain Controllers. Also be aware of other side effects, such as message tracking and log changes, etc.
Update: Nino Bilic from the Microsoft Exchange team has confirmed this problem on the Exchange Team Blog:
"After investigation of this problem we have learned that this problem would occur only if you have started or restarted the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service between 12:00AM UTC , Feb 29, 2008 and 12:00AM UTC, Mar 1, 2008.
"If you are impacted by this, all that you have to do is restart the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service after the midnight UTC, March 1, 2008. Restart of the System Attendant will not disrupt your Information Store service."
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