There's a reg hack that will hide the M: and put that part of the issue to bed for good.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Dann Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 5:36 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: E2K machine services hanging on starting Acknowledged that the M drive is special, can't say it is non existent as it appears in the folder tree. The question is more about how to avoid the interactions that cause the hanging behaviour. Knowing the mechanism of the lockup would be useful. Setting the exclusion on an anti virus product should be easy, the backup agent shouldn't need configuration to exclude drives, that is something done when specifying a backup. This is why I suspect dependencies may be an issue (the basic backup agent wouldn't know about Exchange). If anyone has seen this behaviour it would be interesting to know what they found. If it hasn't been seen then maybe I should be looking for a cause not related to Exchange. regards, Richard Dann -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 June 2003 19:01 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: E2K machine services hanging on starting As I'm sure everyone will tell you shortly, there is no M: drive. It does not exist. Make sure nothing tries to touch the non-existent M: drive, especially AV products. David -----Original Message----- From: Richard Dann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 10:55 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: E2K machine services hanging on starting I've got an Exchange 2000 SP3 machine running on a security hardened W2K SP3 machine. If I attempt to run an anti virus product on the non Exchange files I've had problems with services hanging on starting (if the AV was allowed to scan the M drive all sorts of things started locking up). I've also tried installing a backup application (HP Omniback) to allow backup to a large tape silo. this caused similar problems (SRS service showed up as Starting, unable to start or stop other services) until I set it to manual start and let everything else start first. Has anyone seen similar problems? Do I need to set a dependency for the backup service or is there something more fundamental going on? regards, Richard Dann Telenor Business Solutions, a division of international telecoms organisation Telenor, is a leading European Communications Service Provider. For further information, visit http://www.telenorbusinesssolutions.co.uk. With the exclusion of purchase orders/requests with reference to repair quotations the views, information and opinion contained in this e-mail are that of the author. Where it is intended to place reliance upon any statement made, then a formal confirmation should be requested. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telenor Business Solutions, a division of international telecoms organisation Telenor, is a leading European Communications Service Provider. For further information, visit http://www.telenorbusinesssolutions.co.uk. With the exclusion of purchase orders/requests with reference to repair quotations the views, information and opinion contained in this e-mail are that of the author. Where it is intended to place reliance upon any statement made, then a formal confirmation should be requested. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
