Re: OWA Slow

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Thanks, Cris. I'll take care of it Monday morning and post a follow up.

"Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]" wrote:

> How big is the C: partition
>
> The public DNS reference should be removed all together from the nic
>
> You should re-run the connect to the internet wizard, which at some point will ask for your ISPs DNS Servers which it will add to the local DNS as forwarders
>
> If you have 1 GB of RAM in the server your page file must be set to at least 1.5 GB and preferably 2GB.
>
> I think you're slow response is due to
> 1: Low space on C
> 2: Page file improperly setup
> 3. Network Config
>
> We need to:
> 1. Free Up space on the C drive
> 2. Up the pagefile size (do not choose let Windows manage, set it for custom and specify two GB on the E. Drive)
> 3. Remove the public DNS from the nic and re-run the Connect to the Internet from the Server Management > To Do List
>
> --
> Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]
> -------------------------------------------------
> Please do not email me directly for assistance. Reply only in the Newsgroups for the benefit of everyone
> "Lawson Poling, MCSA" <LawsonPolingMCSA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:C17A7641-65B7-4FFB-8198-DD42AB221235@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Yes, drive C has 1.6GB available. When I got there this a.m. it only had
> about 850MB available. I removed the "bad mail" files on C to recover another
> 800MB. While going through this process and looking at task manager, I
> noticed in the performance tab that the page file was using about 824MB and I
> thought the writing was on the wall. Make more space and viola.
> There is another drive, E. It has about 26GB available. The database files
> for Exchange have already been moved to this drive to free up space on C
> several months ago.
> I did not check the location of the pagefile today, but I'm fairly confident
> that it, too, has been moved to E to make space on C. I'll have to
> double-check that one.
> There is one nic on the server but this server has been running "as
> advertised" for two years and this problem is a recent development.
> I can't produce for you the IPCONFIG/ALL at this moment, but I will tell you
> that when I was checking the DNS info, a public DNS server was listed as the
> preferred server and the 2003SBS machine was listed as secondary. I reversed
> those settings to make the server the preferred DNS server but it did not
> have any effect.
>
> Lawson...
>
> "Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]" wrote:
>
> > Are you really correct that C: only has 1.6 GB free??
> > Do you have another drive??
> >
> > How big is your pagefile and where is it located?
> >
> > How many nics in the server??
> > Can you post the IPCONFIG /all from the server??
> >
> > --
> > Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]
> > -------------------------------------------------
> > Please do not email me directly for assistance. Reply only in the Newsgroups for the benefit of everyone
> > "Lawson Poling, MCSA" <LawsonPolingMCSA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:35C6450B-CA0A-42A0-B446-CE609983AC78@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > I have a client who is running 2003SBS and using OWA. Recently OWA has become
> > very slow to bring up a login prompt. It takes almost exactly 1-1/2 minutes.
> > Once the user enters their credentials and presses ENTER, it takes another
> > 1-1/2 minutes to be presented with their mailbox interface.
> > There are no anomalous processes showing themselves in task manager during
> > this process. There is 1.6GB available on drive C and 1GB of RAM.
> > Another item I noticed while troubleshooting this issue is when I logon at
> > the server console, and after I enter my credentials, it looks as though the
> > desktop will never come up unless I press CTRL ALT DEL. Then it comes up
> > immediately.
> > I remember when I viewed my first training video for NT 4.0 that pressing
> > CTRL ALT DEL flushes TSR programs from memory as a safety feature. I'm hugely
> > suspicious at this point that something is hidden and running in the
> > background causing these issues.
> > Your comments are appreciated and recommendations for scanning programs for
> > SBS2003 w/Exchange would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Lawson.
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