Re: Server Stuck at "Applying Personal Settings" & Clients stuck at "Applying Computer Settings"

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Hi Gabriel,

I actually had the problem you speak of with APC shutdown software where the
Java Certificate had expired.

We are not running Norton (we are running NOD32 Antivirus) and had updated
APC to the most recient version back then.... but not to say this isnt the
problem.

I managed to get into the server, by the time I had driven to the site about
an hour and a half away it had logged in.

The explorer appeared to have crashed. I managed to get into task manager
and get a run command from there and run the Event Viewer.

There are no relevent event logs apart from Exchange Reporting that the
Active Directory was inaccessable and it reported that every few seconds for
since 7pm (its now 12:30 am).

I managed to open Services and shut down the Exchange Services, I then
proceeded to shutdown the SQL Server Services but they remained in the
stopping state.

The disk space was fine so no problems there, could this just be a crash?

I am currently rebooting, it has been "logging off" for almost 30 mins now.
Im starting to think it is not going to do it, but im being patient.

Should I resort to powering off? In case it makes any diffence its a Dell
PE 2600 Server with Hardware RAID 0 System Disks and Hardware RAID 5 Data
Disks with battery backup.

Any advice would be very appreciated.

Thanks

B


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