Reboot with Exchange2003 takes a long time

re: Reboot with Exchange2003 takes a long time

Andrew Robinson — Sat, 03 Apr 2004 10:35:00 GMT

Jürgen, I believe this has to do this the fact that you are running Exchange on a DC. When rebooting, the LDAP service get shut down before the Exchange service. Exchange then hangs and eventually times out waiting for the LDAP service. There are some KB articles about this, or I know that I have seen this talked about. Generally not a good idea to have Exchange running on a DC. But I do that as I can't justify another server.

-Andrew

re: Reboot with Exchange2003 takes a long time

Frans Bouma — Sat, 03 Apr 2004 17:39:00 GMT

Thanks for pointing to that wmic tool, I never knew such a commandline tool existed! :) It took some searching, but I found it on my XP desktop: in c:\Windows\system32\Wbem

re: Reboot with Exchange2003 takes a long time

Jürgen — Sat, 03 Apr 2004 17:39:00 GMT

Well, I assumed it has to do with running on the DC seeing that it was related to LDAP shutdown in the log files. I didn't dive into KB because writing the scripts was a matter of minutes and worked for me. I agree it would be nice to have a separate machine for any single server running, but for a home setup... you know:-)

Windows 2003 won’t shut down

The Computer Vet Weblog — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 05:44:00 GMT

I’ve been working with Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003 all weekend, so I guess I better toss out a tip about what I’ve learned. If you have Exchange 2003 running on a Windows 2003 computer, especially one that is a...