posted on February 23rd 2013, at 11:13
by lunarg
Windows SBS has a nasty habbit of taking forever to shutdown/restart. This is because there's a built-in waiting mechanism to allow enough time for the Exchange-services to shutdown. Unfortunately this delay is usually a whole lot longer than it normally would take if you were to stop the Exchange-services yourself. Because the delay does no longer occur when the Exchange-services are already stopped manually, I usually tend to stop Exchange first, then do the shutdown/restart.

Because Exchange consists of many services, at work, we wrote some helper scripts to stop all Exchange-services with only a mouse click, allowing for a quicker shutdown/restart of a server. I've decided to share thes  ...
last updated on February 23rd 2013, at 11:13 by lunarg

Script to quickly stop all Exchange-services on an SBS 2011.

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last updated on February 23rd 2013, at 11:12 by lunarg

Script to quickly stop all Exchange-services on an SBS 2008.

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stop_exch_sbs2008.cmd
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