Re: Active Synch, OWA, RPC over HTTPS, quit working



I have the exact same thing happening in my environment. Four backend
Exchange 2003 SP2 servers (1500 users each) that have been running
flawlessly for the last 10 months since a 5.5 migration. Starting last
Wednesday, 3 of 4 boxes suddenly stopped responding to OWA, ActiveSync and
RPC over HTTPS calls. It happened on different days but all 3 acted exactly
the same. No error messages on either the frontend or backend servers. MAPI
clients were fine. Restarting web services brought back the first box for
about 12 hours, then it happened again and only a reboot would bring it
back. When it happened to the other two boxes, only a reboot cleared it up.
I have 3 front-end servers load-balanced through a Cisco Content Series
Switch and accessed through a PIX firewall. All three frontend servers have
been rebooted. It hasn't happened on the same server twice, but I'm not
getting a warm fuzzy from this. Any insights would be welcome.

"plysaker" <plysaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:D6DCE5DC-EAA8-41CC-B90D-DE8EFA17ED53@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ingle EX-2003 SP2, running on 2003, SP2, current on all updates, have
Veritas 10.d installed as well as the Veritas CPS agent.

I have an ISA 2004 Appliance with forms based auth, RPC rules, etc. All
works great 10+ smartphones synching, and 7+ Outlook clients connecting
via
RPC. Works great. Until it doesnt.

Twice now its stopped working. ISA side is fine, I can see the
Authentication form, it seems that all other IIS services fail, without
any
log errors, they just hang. I can not recycle via an IISRESET, or a simple
stop/start of the default web. Don't know what to bounce.

It seems that the IIS element might be okay, but whats broken, is what
FEEDS
the IIS information, from Exchange. Is that the MTA?? or what?

Internal Mapi Thick Client Outlook connections are fine.

I'm looking for the way you can fully stop start what ever it is thats
broken, without having to reboot. I can't find much on the web, as I am
unsure what is actually hanging on me in the first place.


.



Relevant Pages

  • Re: Server restarting every night at 3am.
    ... I stopped IIS and installed. ... All 3 servers are ok now. ... since disabled automatic reboot of these machines. ... Microsoft Update and Install them automatically? ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: Server restarting every night at 3am.
    ... I set all servers in WSUS to download and notify. ... I stopped IIS and installed. ... since disabled automatic reboot of these machines. ... Microsoft Update and Install them automatically? ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: Session lost in web Farm
    ... The only thing different in two servers is one key in the ... both iis and state server service. ... Do I need to reboot the machines? ...
    (microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet)
  • Re: JCIFS18_15_5D
    ... a Cisco wireless network where we searched for the PC names but did ... remember that the issued went away after we rebooted the servers. ... that this is a naming convention used by some OS or service. ... And ofcourse you should reboot the servers after installing ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.general)
  • Re: Weird ADO failure/crash behaviour
    ... which managed nearly 18 months uptime in a single stretch - ... that when I was using Windows NT SP6a, ... Thursday invariably it needed a reboot. ... Servers are all HP Netservers and Compaq ML ...
    (microsoft.public.data.ado)

Loading