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SBS 2003 hangs on "applying computer settings" during boot

Subject: SBS 2003 hangs on "applying computer settings" during boot

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:21:06 -0800

Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs

Hi (and thanks for any help you may provide):

Problem: My SBS 2005 hangs with "applying computer settings" for > 10 hours before enabling a log in.  During this time, Exchange is not available to clients.

General notes:

1. This is SBS 2003 with SQL 2000.  We use an SQL-based third-party app. that uses MSMQ (Microsoft Message Queue) to interact with Exchange.

2. Server has single NIC, server is DNS server for all clients and clients access Internet through gateway on network (not SBS).

3. Hardware is Dell server, RAID 1 (reporting no errors), dual XEON 2.8 CPUs... (hardware seems to be running OK) 4. Primary usage is third-party app, Exchange and file server - no Internet-served apps.

Trouble-shooting progress:

1. Server starts in Safe mode without a problem.

2. If Exchange IS service is disabled, server allows login in normal timeframe.

3. Event viewer - System shows:

     - Error - Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC) failed to start (event id 7000) "The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion"

     - Error - DTC timeout (event id 7000)

     - Error (multiple errors) - W3SVC (event 1039) - "A process serving application pool 'DefaultAppPool' reported a failure.  The process id was '2820'... (Note SharePoint has been uninstalled on this

server.)

     - Error - W3SVC (event 1002) - "Application pool 'DefaultAppPool'

is being automatically disable dure to series of failures in the processes serving that application pool."

     - Error (eight entries every 15 minutes) DTC attempts to start, can not and timeouts follow...

4. Event viewer - Application shows:

     - Error W3SVC-WP (event 2214) - "The HTTP Fileter DLL c:\windows\system32\RpcProxy\RpcProxy.dll failed to load."

     - Error - W3SVC-WP - (event 2268) - "Could not load all ISAPI filters for site/service.  Therefore startup aborted."

     - Error - COM+ (event 4691) - "The run-time environment was unable to initialize for transactions require to support transactional components.  Make sure that MS-DTC is running."

5. Event viewer - Security,

     - This error reoccurs 10 - 15 times per hour

          - Type = Failure Audit,

          - User = NT Authority\System,

          - User name and domain fields are blank

          - Event = 537, "Logon failure: Reason: An error occurred during logon",

          - Logon Type = 3,

          - Logon Process: Kerberos,

          - Status code = 0xC000006D,

          - Substatus code = 0xC0000133

6. Event viewer - DNS, Directory Service and FRS logs are clean

Any thoughts on this strange set of events?

Thanks

Bob

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From: "Matthew Gibbons"

Subject: Re: SBS 2003 hangs on "applying computer settings" during boot

Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:11:21 -0000

Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs

Bob,

Had a similar problem with a fresh install of SBS - i.e. installed

SBS2K3 and ran Windows Update to install all available critical updates. On reboot, symptoms as you report.

No solution I'm afraid, but if you have just updated your server from Windows Update, it may be that there is a problem with the updates - maybe you can roll back?

Cheers,

Matthew

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From: <chuckie126@discussions.microsoft.com>

Subject: RE: SBS 2003 hangs on "applying computer settings" during boot

Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:57:09 -0800

Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs

Check and see if you've set a group policy for managing audit and security logs.  If you have and have not given access to Exchange enterprise server group, this will happen.  i had this issue and had to use group policy manager from xp system and disable the gpo.  This also crashed exchange until it was disabled.

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From: <Howard@discussions.microsoft.com>

Subject: RE: SBS 2003 hangs on "applying computer settings" during boot

Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:55:07 -0800

Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs

I had the same problem and here's the fix (at least for me):  first go into safe mode and disable all of the exchange server services.  Then you should be able to boot normally. Add the Exchange Enterprise Servers security group to the "Manage auditing and security log" policy setting.  Then you should be able to restart the Exchange Services - if they start you should have no problem rebooting.

Howard

howard@unitedcommunity.net