Hi Susan,
Thanks for the response. No UPS issues. Checked the services remotely
and didn't find anything unusual. The DC did finally reboot on its own shortly
after I sent out my first message - about 2 hours after the original patching
and message saying it wanted to reboot and I clicked OK. The event logs showed
nothing of any consequence, just a big (2 hour) gap in the system event log
entries (between the entry saying it initiated shutdown and the entry saying
the system was coming back up). The security log showed no gaps at all. Am I
the only one that sees this kind of behavior on W2K3/SP1 servers? I normally
don't use the "/console" switch when I TS in (eg, mstsc.exe /console). I
wonder if that could speed the process up.
Mike Thommes
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks
[MVP]
Sent: Sat 10/15/2005 3:53 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] rebooting a patched, but stubborn DC
APC UPS's and you don't have the latest ver on there?
HP with a UPS?
Can you get into services and see if something is 'stopping'?
Got any ILO ability there [or suitable other remote techniques]?
Thommes, Michael M. wrote:
>So I have remotely (TS connection) applied the latest Windows patches to
>one of my DCs. Patches went on fine. Said it needed to reboot. I
>clicked "Restart". And two hours later, it still has not rebooted, but
>it did terminate the TS session. I have tried to "kick it" via a
>"shutdown /f /r" command from another DC. Still no luck. Issue same
>command remotely with the big Kahuna account, and it says a shutdown is
>in progress. It appears to still be serving up clients, e.g., no
>discernable ill effects. I have seen this periodically in the past with
>other servers. Anyone have any comments/thoughts are this irritating,
>weekend <sigh> activity? TIA!
>
>Mike Thommes
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