Do you perform offline backups, by any chance? If any job or script has attempted to stop exchange manually, it can get into a weird state if exchange doesn't obey (it won't always). The job may proceed (but probably fail) to back it up and restart the services. This might not work because the exchange services didn't actually shut down, but the service controller will not always report their correct state. A better way to check this out is to use the SC.EXE command from the NT4 resource kit. It gives much more information about a service's actual status.
Also check your process list for any weird cmd.exe or net.exe processes that may have hung when trying to start/stop exchange services (be careful about killing them, though) Cheers, Loftus. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 July 2002 08:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Exch 5.5 IS intermittently showing as stopped We have exch5.5 running with exch SP4 on WINNT4.0 Sp6a. I have had anumber of times when from outlook (email seems working fine), however, when you look at the services on the server, Information store service seems stopped. Task Manager shows that STORE.EXE is running. When you try to restart IS services it rightly says its already running. After sometime the clients will start seeing things like slow outlook response, hanging etc. There is nothing logged in the eventviewer. Does anyone know what may be causing this behaviour ? Thanks _________________________________________________________________ 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]
