Log Message There are multiple accounts with name

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David Andrew

I get the following message on my domain controller.

"There are Multiple accounts with name SMTPSVC/Servername.company.com of
type DS_Service_Principal_Name"

I have searched AD using LDP as suggested and cannot find any duplicated
accounts. The server referred to in the
message is 1 of our Exchange Servers

Any help appreciated.

Regards.

David
 
1. Find and verify the multiple entries using LDP.exe. See Microsoft
articles Q224543 and Q260745.
2. Base DN should be set to dc=domainname,dc=com or what ever your domain
is.
3. Enter the string from the error message to the filter box, e.g.
"servicePrincipalName=MSSQLSvc/SERVERNAME.domain.local:1433".
4. Under Options, add "servicePrincipalName;" to the Attributes box.
You'll get a search result with probably more than 1 entry. Which looks like
this:....
5. Verify which one of these entries is used to run the SQL Server. The
other entries should be deleted.
6. Use ADSI Edit (adsiedit.msc) to connect to the Distinguished Names (enter
the whole line from your search results, e.g.
CN=Administrator,OU=Users,...). Open the properties page of this DN and
choose "serverPrincipalName" from the second listbox. Delete the unwanted
entries.
 
Dinesh

Many thanks found it and deleted the unwanted entries.

Cannot thank you enough.

Regards.

David
 
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