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re: Charlie Russel on shutdown..

Charlie Russel — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:28:21 GMT

To answer Terry Cole - it's faster, and it works. The straight shutdown /r has been known to hang. But shutting down Exchange first, and adding a /t command seems to solve the problem, even on stubborn systems.

Charlie.

re: Charlie Russel on shutdown..

Terry Cole — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:52:21 GMT

At the risk of looking somewhat naive, what is the value of this script versus "shutdown /r"?

re: Charlie Russel on shutdown..

Andy — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:34:17 GMT

nice script - a couple of changes. You may want to change the location for the stopexch.cmd file, or at least hard code it into the path. One of the batch files has it in the system32 directory, the other doesn't.

I'd also change references to srv1 to %hostname% so the log file has the correct server name in it.

Also you may want to add the /f to the end of the shutdown commands, otherwise you may get "The machine is locked and can not be shut down without the force option" if someone is logged onto the console of the machine.

re: Charlie Russel on shutdown..

Charlie Russel — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:03:26 GMT

Most SBS boxes don't use MTA stacks, so won't see that issue. But if your environment does, then simply add a line just before the system attendent line:

NET Stop "Microsoft Exchange MTA Stacks"

and you're in business. You can also include a "/y" at the end of a net stop line and it should act as a "yes" response to that query. But I prefer inserting the missing line and getting the order right in the first place.

HTH.

Charlie.

re: Charlie Russel on shutdown..

Harry Carter — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:28:13 GMT

In using the stop exchnage script, it hangs with a user prompt:

C:\scripts>net stop "Microsoft Exchange System Attendant"

The following services are dependent on the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service.

Stopping the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service will also stop these services.

Microsoft Exchange MTA Stacks

Do you want to continue this operation? (Y/N) :