Even on our SBS boxes with Exchange and AD fighting over shut down which
slows us wayyyyyyyy down.... it's not hours. I'd investigate.
Even at the office when I'm physically close enough to just drag my lazy
self out of my chair and walk to the DC, I run with the /console switch
so you can see if there's any stupid click through window that only
shows up in the console session.
Thommes, Michael M. wrote:
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: [email protected]
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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