System Attendant service took 10 minutes to start   

Every time I restart my exchange2000 SP3 server (running over Windows 2000 
Server STD SP4),  de System attendant services, appears as starting for about 
10 minutes, and therefore the Information Store and the MTA also dont start.

Is there any obvious reason why my server is behavin like this??? this 
server only manages about 20 mailboxes and the database is less than 100Mb. 
in size.

This server is also a domain controller for his domain, and it's able to 
comunicate with the GC which is the principal domain controller in the 
organization.

I'm using Groupshield 6.02, and Virusscan 8.0i, but i'v tried uninstalling 
both of them without solution to this problem.

Besides, the exchange services got errors randomly almost once a day, so I 
need to restart this server in a daily basis.

Can you give me some guidance to start troubleshoting this server please?

Thanks in advance!!

date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:53:41 -0800   author:   Emanuel Gonzalez Emanuel

Re: System Attendant service took 10 minutes to start   

Hi,

This is probably caused by the fact that Exchange is running on a domain 
controller and waiting for the dc to be ready. You could try to configure 
all exchange services to manuel, create a batch job to start the services 
and run this job when the system is booted. Also create a similar job to 
stop all exchange services before booting.

Leif

"Emanuel Gonzalez" <Emanuel Gonzalez@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in 
message news:23E8C9C5-2958-4030-AB01-ACCDFD75A64C@microsoft.com...
> Every time I restart my exchange2000 SP3 server (running over Windows 2000
> Server STD SP4),  de System attendant services, appears as starting for 
> about
> 10 minutes, and therefore the Information Store and the MTA also dont 
> start.
>
> Is there any obvious reason why my server is behavin like this??? this
> server only manages about 20 mailboxes and the database is less than 
> 100Mb.
> in size.
>
> This server is also a domain controller for his domain, and it's able to
> comunicate with the GC which is the principal domain controller in the
> organization.
>
> I'm using Groupshield 6.02, and Virusscan 8.0i, but i'v tried uninstalling
> both of them without solution to this problem.
>
> Besides, the exchange services got errors randomly almost once a day, so I
> need to restart this server in a daily basis.
>
> Can you give me some guidance to start troubleshoting this server please?
>
> Thanks in advance!!

date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 13:58:50 +0100   author:   Leif Pedersen [MVP]