Martin, You are preaching to the choir. A state auditor came through one day and told my boss that ALL systems have to be secured with a screen saver and password. Never mind that the system is in a locked secure building that requires ID and a security card to access. Our head admin at the time thought that it was a good idea as well.
At least I was able to talk them out of using the 3D pipes eventually. :) Ken Powell Systems Administrator Clark County Office of Budget and Information Services (OBIS) Vancouver, Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (360) 397-6121 x4658 Fax: (360) 759-6001 -----Original Message----- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 7:08 AM To: Exchange 5.5 List Subject: RE: OWA Hanging OK, first things first. You do not use screen savers on servers. They hog CPU time and are inherently buggy.... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 6:45 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: OWA Hanging I just finished fighting this very same thing. I wish that I had some words of wisdom to impart. I had the same thing running here with the exception that my Exchange was at sp4. We had it on a server that also hosted our web page as well. As you said everyday or so it would just hang. I would go to the server and the screen saver was just frozen. I even tried to login and wait for it to take effect thinking that it may just be slow. No dice. I would have to hit the power and bring it back up. It would run again for from 5 minutes to 13 days. Again, no rhyme or reason as far as I could tell. The box sat outside the firewall and communicated via Cisco's VPN client. I have since removed it from that server and brought it up on a new server and had no problems. I have no idea what caused the old one to lock up or why this one is working and the other one did not. The Internet is still being served from the old one and has not locked up as far as I know since I took OWA off of it. I see no change in the event logs from then to now. Ken Powell Systems Administrator Clark County Office of Budget and Information Services (OBIS) Vancouver, Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (360) 397-6121 x4658 Fax: (360) 759-6001 -----Original Message----- From: Pennell, Ronald B. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 6:03 AM To: Exchange 5.5 List Subject: OWA Hanging I'm currently running OWA (Ex.5.5 - SP3) on an NT4.0 SP6a system. PIII, 866 with 1 gb memory... On multiple occasions (mostly weekends) the system will hang and our clients are unable to connect to to the system to get their mail. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
