Brian Alaway Consulting – Overdelivering Technology For Your Business
Use the Microsoft Exchange Best Practices Analyzer to scan your Exchange server and make sure it complies with Microsoft best practices. Start with the proper foundation and build a solid Exchange network.
Use the Microsoft Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant to help determine the cause of performance, mail flow and database mounting issues on computers running Microsoft Exchange Server. The tool automates specialized troubleshooting steps for identified symptoms.
Anyone who’s ever rebooted a box running Exchange knows how agonizingly slow the wait can be. The slow shutdown is especially pronounced when Exchange is installed on a domain controller – i.e. SBS. Use this simple batch file to speed up the process by stopping Exchange services before Windows shutdown.
Exchange 2003:
net stop MSExchangeES /y
net stop MSExchangeIS /y
net stop MSExchangeMTA /y
net stop MSExchangeSA /y
net stop WinHttpAutoProxySvc /y
Exchange 2007:
net stop msexchangeadtopology /y
net stop msftesql-exchange /y
net stop msexchangeis /y
net stop msexchangesa /y
net stop iisadmin /y
On a typical SBS 2003 box, I prefer to automate this further by calling the batch file via the shutdown group policy:
Default Domain Controller Policy>Computer Configuration>Windows Settings>Scripts (Startup/Shutdown)>Shutdown.
