Lay the proper foundation for your new SBS 2003 server or review your existing SBS 2003 server by using the
Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices Analyzer.
The Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices Analyzer examines a server that is running Windows Small Business Server 2003 (Windows SBS) and presents a list of information and errors that administrators should review. After collecting information about server configuration, the Windows SBS Best Practices Analyzer verifies that the information is correct and then presents administrators with a list of issues sorted by severity. The list describes each issue and provides a recommendation or possible solution.
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.
One of my clients experienced this problem when logging on to their 2003 SBS network. Seems a prior tech company had rebuilt their SBS network and they were now experiencing this very annoying issue. A quick switch to force kerberos to use TCP instead of the default UDP and all was well. Wish all problems could be fixed this easily. Details for the fix here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244474
