Let me be clear from the start that I am not claiming credit for this; That goes to a chap called Gordon Carlisle who posted this solution to SBS 2008 slow shutdown in his own blog a while ago. I'm just repeating it because it is so useful and it has helped me.
Consultants like myself often bemoan the fact that some SBS 2008 installations take an age to reboot. In my experience, taking 10 minutes to shutdown is not unusual. I knew that it was Exchange causing the problem but had not realised the solution was so simple. All you need to do is add a script to shutdown in group policy that will shutdown Exchange first.
First create a file named Exchstop.cmd and save it to C:\Windows\Exchstop.cmd. In this file needs to be the following.
net stop msexchangeadtopology /y
net stop msftesql-exchange /y
net stop msexchangeis /y
net stop msexchangesa /y
net stop iisadmin /y
Now in the Default Domain Controller Policy go to
Computer Configuration > Policies > Windows Setting > Scripts > Shutdown
Click Add and browse to c:\windows\Exchstop.cmd
Click OK
Now see how fast your server shuts down.
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Sunday 12 August 2012
Internet Explorer opens then immediately closes
This one has been driving me mad for a few days. I have a customer's PC on the workbench and the one remaining problem is that when you open Internet Explorer, it flashes up for a fraction of a second then immediately closes again. Because of this, I can't even run Windows Update.
The PC is running XP SP3 and has IE8 installed. I tried resetting IE8, I tried reinstalling IE8 all to no avail. None of the suggested Microsoft fixes worked.
Whilst trawling the web for a solution, I came across a fix suggested by Kai Schätzl who has written a simple program that re-registers all the dll's that IE uses. And it worked a treat!! The fix apparently works on IE7, 8 and 9 and on XP, Vista and 7. It supports both 32 bit and 64 bit Windows and IE.
So if you have the same problem, go here and grab the fix. Thanks Kai.
The PC is running XP SP3 and has IE8 installed. I tried resetting IE8, I tried reinstalling IE8 all to no avail. None of the suggested Microsoft fixes worked.
Whilst trawling the web for a solution, I came across a fix suggested by Kai Schätzl who has written a simple program that re-registers all the dll's that IE uses. And it worked a treat!! The fix apparently works on IE7, 8 and 9 and on XP, Vista and 7. It supports both 32 bit and 64 bit Windows and IE.
So if you have the same problem, go here and grab the fix. Thanks Kai.
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