Why no SP4?
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Gowen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 10:10 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Permissions Ponderings
Every four weeks or so my aged Exchange 5.5 SP3 server, also a PDC, starts a
slow cycle to lockup. Symptoms are that anything to do with Permissions
(e.g., open other users folder) slow down quite a bit but the mail keeps
flowing and everyone except me notices no difference. Today I restarted a
server which is a Member server, which couldn't find the DC, so I hurriedly
restarted the PDC/Exchange server since it was lunchtime anyway.
The thing is, as I said, this happens a lot, and although I've budgeted for
a new server I would like to know why this might be happening. When it gets
so bad that Exchange locks up (after giving me even more serious permissions
problems - such as failure to "Open these additional mailboxes..." in
Outlook Services with a system error) the server will generally not shut
down properly at all: The "Writing data to disc" stays there for up to 30
minutes and a hard reset is regrettably required. Today it all restarted
quite gracefully.
So, what might be wrong...? And is it worth the downtime to fix a
production server that's only got a few more months of Exchange duties left?
The site is 100 users and one server, and I'll be putting in the new server
with a different name and removing the old one from the site as per the FAQ.
Tim
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