Re: Server needing weekly reboots

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Nick,
When the server is failing with Exchange shutting down as you describe,
what do the system and application event logs indicate , is there any errors
appearing each time the issue occurs.
Secondly how much Ram do you have on the server if you have more than 1GB of
RAM you should take a look at this knowledge base article
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823440 and
http://hellomate.typepad.com/exchange/2003/11/the_userva_swit.html and this
blog.

Anyway Nick if you could post any error messages with their event ids and
source

Hope this helps
Kind regards Mark
http://sbslive.blogspot.com
Mark Mulvany MCT, MCSE, MCSE+I, CNA, INET



> SBS 2003 Premium, 45 users, Backup Exec v10
> Dual Xeon 3.2gHz, 2gb RAM, RAID5
>
> We're finding a server that's needing weekly reboots. It's a new build &
> running several SQL apps, Exchange, file sharing. The server after running
a
> week, seems to over a day or so, increasingly refuse logons until it won't
> let anyone log into the server. Also remote access via TS does not work.
The
> only thing to fix this appears to be a reboot.
>
> At first I thought it was SUS waiting to install updates on the server as
> when the Globe icon appeared in the system tray, the server responses
seemed
> to get slower. Then we found that the Backup tapes were not being changed
and this blo
> for several days at a time & thought the problem was there. This week,
there
> have been no approved updates & the backup tapes have (hopefully) been
> changed daily.
>
> When the server is failing, it shuts down Exchange, then SQL & Active
> Directory - which I assume is stopping logons.
>
> Can anyone suggest what the problem might be please?
>
> Regards
> Nick
>
>


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