SBS 2003 hangs on "applying computer settings" during boot

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From: Bob L. - SBS (SBS_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/10/05 

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:21:06 -0800

Hi (and thanks for any help you may provide):

Problem: My SBS 2005 hangs with "applying computer settings" for > 10 hours
before enabling a log in. During this time, Exchange is not available to
clients.

General notes:
1. This is SBS 2003 with SQL 2000. We use an SQL-based third-party app.
that uses MSMQ (Microsoft Message Queue) to interact with Exchange.
2. Server has single NIC, server is DNS server for all clients and clients
access Internet through gateway on network (not SBS).
3. Hardware is Dell server, RAID 1 (reporting no errors), dual XEON 2.8
CPUs... (hardware seems to be running OK)
4. Primary usage is third-party app, Exchange and file server - no
Internet-served apps.

Trouble-shooting progress:
1. Server starts in Safe mode without a problem.
2. If Exchange IS service is disabled, server allows login in normal
timeframe.
3. Event viewer - System shows:
     - Error - Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC) failed to start
(event id 7000) "The service did not respond to the start or control request
in a timely fashion"
     - Error - DTC timeout (event id 7000)
     - Error (multiple errors) - W3SVC (event 1039) - "A process serving
application pool 'DefaultAppPool' reported a failure. The process id was
'2820'... (Note SharePoint has been uninstalled on this server.)
     - Error - W3SVC (event 1002) - "Application pool 'DefaultAppPool' is
being automatically disable dure to series of failures in the processes
serving that application pool."
     - Error (eight entries every 15 minutes) DTC attempts to start, can not
and timeouts follow...

4. Event viewer - Application shows:
     - Error W3SVC-WP (event 2214) - "The HTTP Fileter DLL
c:\windows\system32\RpcProxy\RpcProxy.dll failed to load."
     - Error - W3SVC-WP - (event 2268) - "Could not load all ISAPI filters
for site/service. Therefore startup aborted."
     - Error - COM+ (event 4691) - "The run-time environment was unable to
initialize for transactions require to support transactional components.
Make sure that MS-DTC is running."

5. Event viewer - Security,
     - This error reoccurs 10 - 15 times per hour
          - Type = Failure Audit,
          - User = NT Authority\System,
          - User name and domain fields are blank
          - Event = 537, "Logon failure: Reason: An error occurred during
logon",
          - Logon Type = 3,
          - Logon Process: Kerberos,
          - Status code = 0xC000006D,
          - Substatus code = 0xC0000133

6. Event viewer - DNS, Directory Service and FRS logs are clean

Any thoughts on this strange set of events?

Thanks

Bob

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