slow boot

[patrichek]

my exchange server takes about 20 minutes to reboot sometimes. Does anyone have a similiar problem?

 

[twism]

exchange fully is ready when all the services are ready, make sure all the services are set on automatic. Maybe you need more ram.

i had the opposite problem, my exchange server wolud take 10-20 minutes to shutdown, so now i just stop the services for when the server has to be shutdown and it shuts down in less than 5 minutes

 

[patrichek]

Twism,
it does take a long time to shutdown too, i was meaning the boot process as a whole takes a long time, including shutting down.
it has 512Mb ram and P4 2.8 processor for about 50 email accounts.
Everything on this server runs slow, any program I try to open takes a while? I was just curious if this is normal.

 

[AndyPeck]

Guys

This is a known issue

low shutdown of Windows 2003 Server after installing Exchange 2003 Server

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555025

Shutdown and restart operations are very slow in Windows Small Business Server 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;827610

 

[patrichek]

I'm running W2K server with exchange 2k3, I wonder if this applies in my case?
thanks for your input!

 

[SR7758]

I have had the same issue. It is especially the case when your Exchange server is also a DC. It has to do with a timeout setting being 10 minutes or more in the registry.
Simply stop all exchange services manually, or with a script and you should notice a major difference.
I stop the services in this order.
Microsoft Exchange Management (MSExchangeMGMT)
Microsoft Exchange Routing Engine (RESvc)
Microsoft Exchange POP3 (POP3Svc)
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTPSvc)
Microsoft Exchange Event (MSExchangeES)
Microsoft Exchange Information Store (MSExchangeIS)
Microsoft Exchange MTA Stacks (MSExchangeMTA)
Microsoft Exchange System Attendant (MSExchangeSA)

Here is a link to where i first learned of this issue.

http://www.petri.co.il/slow_shutdown_of_exchange_2003_server_installed_on_dc.htm

S.R.

 

[patrichek]

S.R.
thanks, i d/l the script to turn off services, i haven't tried it yet though.

 

[SR7758]

Glad I could help. But...I can't use someone elses script on a Production server (especially Exchange) unless I've tested it first. You may feel differently, which is absolutely fine, but I would manually stop each service in the MMC in the order they are stopped in the script. Also, some of these services they are stopping, already stop due to dependencies so you will most likely get unexpected errors while running the script.

If Google can't help, nothing can.
S.R.

 

[patrichek]

the script looks fine, why would you be afraid of using it? it is just made up of normal commands...