WIN 2000 ADV. SERVER TOO SLOW

[Maricus]

I recently installed Windows 2000 advanced Server and domain controller, running exchange server 5.0.

The problem I have is that when shut down, it takes a very long time to start up. You may want to believe that it has hang up at "Preparing Network Connection...".

Why should it take that long at this point?

Maricus

 

[adejordan]

Welcome to the Wonderful world of Advanced Server. You will always find that this happens, I have yet to see an Advanced Server that starts up at a reasonable speed. My advice, do what the rest of us do and turn your back on it for 5 minutes whilst it is starting!!

Adrian Jordan
MCSE,CCNA,CCA

 

[brontosaurus]

Hi Maricus, this is typically a DNS issue. Are you getting any event log errors? How long is it taking to boot and what kind of hardware is it?