I didn't talk restarting the IIS, I was talking about restarting the www service. If you open the IIS console after restarting the Server you see the 3 Exchange directories unavailable (red signed). Only after restarting the www services they appear to be available. -----Original Message----- From: Dimiter Pecev [mailto:dimiter.pecev@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 7:34 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Services do not start automatically http://www.MSExchange.org/ I have to agree with Bill, there is no need to restart IIS. The errors get logged they appear as unavailable under the IIS structure - server should function without issues. Dimiter -----Original Message----- I have never found it necessary to restart the services. It is simply annoying to have the IIS amin tool show them as unavailable. Bill -----Original Message----- Every time you restart the Exchange server you have to restart the www service. It takes time to the Information store service to begin, till this service is not up the M drive is not available so the path to these folders are not available. It will happened to you all the time. So make it a habit - restart the www service as soon as the server is up. Dolly -----Original Message----- I have a problem with IIS services not starting when the server starts. Specs: W2K server SP2, E2K SP3. When the server is restarted, I get a stop sign on the following folders under my default web site in IIS: Public, Exchange, and Exadmin. If I go to the properties of each of these, and browse to the location where the folder is, then it goes to running. (If I tell it where to find the folder, it starts or comes online, whatever you want to call it.) Is there a reason that my server can't remember where to find these locations, and I have to "remind" it every reboot? Thanks, Chris ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: dolly@xxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub')