[There's a reason that Yoda is the unofficial mascot of SBS. Size indeed matters not.] Dead body report for Servers - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA
Sun, Oct 14 2012 8:58 bradley

Dead body report for Servers

Watch your SBS 2008's in patching this week.

Michael Jenkin reports:

"Had 12 SBS 2008 servers lose Exchange services after autoupdates last
night.  Simple service restart fixed it."

Watch SBS 2008 servers this month.  Haven't found the trigger but they are
needing two reboots after patching this month.  I've had multiple
independent reports of this.
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# re: Dead body report for Servers

Monday, October 15, 2012 12:24 AM by Michael Jenkin

It pays to be a day ahead in Australia. We find the issues first and the rest of the world helps us solve the problems, ready for their first work day. It helps being a part of a global community !

# re: Dead body report for Servers

Monday, October 15, 2012 1:28 AM by Nick UK

Ditto!  Spent 10 minutes of comparing services started (or not) on another SBS and rebooting but still didn't fix.  I applied some leftover updates (but not an Exchange rollup, wasn't brave enough for that given current state of server) and the thing started up OK.

Was a bit of a touching cloth moment!

# re: Dead body report for Servers

Monday, October 15, 2012 6:35 AM by SeanPT

I ran into this with all of my SBS2008 boxes. Restarting the exchange services did the trick as well.

# re: Dead body report for Servers

Tuesday, October 16, 2012 9:09 AM by Joe Raby

Let me guess:  Exchange Mail Transport didn't start on reboot?

# re: Dead body report for Servers

Tuesday, October 16, 2012 2:37 PM by Harald Bilke

Applies to "my" SBS2011s, too (Exchange Services). I have always to restart IS (even if it shows up as running).

Cheers

HrY

# re: Dead body report for Servers

Wednesday, October 17, 2012 12:15 AM by AT Aus

Wow well done Michael Jenkin! Saved alot potential problems.