[There's a reason that Yoda is the unofficial mascot of SBS. Size indeed matters not.] The "Me too" Disease - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA"
Friday, May 19, 2006 10:46 PM bradley

The "Me too" Disease

Today in Mssmallbiz's yahoogroups, someone posted in that they were having a issues with Store not automagically restarting after a reboot... and Vlad said he'd been working with the Exchange support (he reports all his issues and posts in newsgroups when appropriate).  It was affecting a small sample of his SBS machines.  So the next thing you know ...the "me toos" started occuring.... you know the folks that say "I've been seeing that too.. it's been affecting 6 out of 20 servers" or so....

There's a few rules of thumb...

  • Services that are set to start automagically "should" start automagically....
  • If they do not, while there are dependencies you can set to ensure that Exchange loads up later.. or you say "if fail, restart after a minute", it "should" restart without tweakage
  • Thus......
  • If a server has to have you manuall re-enable a service after a reboot... don't accept this as normal behavior....

Ask in the newsgroup.. "Are you seeing this".. because there is nothing worse when one person says "Hey this isn't working" and all of a sudden others start to say "Hey.. Me too!"

No, it is not normal for services not to automatically restart.  If they don't... ask... check and make sure you don't have the "Me Too!" Disease.  The next time something just doesn't quite feel right.. ask.. because while this doesn't seem like a big thing, sometimes it's nice to know you aren't alone.

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# re: The "Me too" Disease

Saturday, May 20, 2006 1:20 AM by Vlad Mazek

Just because it doesn't get posted in the newsgroups it doesn't mean it doesn't happen. I only mentioned it in passing on mssmallbiz because someone was having a similar problem and yes, they know about it.

While I agree that the public needs to know I don't have the time to inform everyone of every issue that pops up on 6/1800 SBS servers we have. Even most of our internal bugging never gets to Microsoft.

Selfish? Yes. But we have our own software bugs to worry about and they take priority over Microsoft's.

# re: The "Me too" Disease

Monday, May 22, 2006 2:20 AM by Russ Grover

Hey I was having that problem also..

(Just kidding Never have had that Issue)

I'd have to agree if a normal service is not starting normally without tweaking, I'd rais a flag and ask some questions.