Good afternoon all I'm a veritable exchange noob, and as such you will probably see me as a fickle knowledge whore, for which I apologise. However I have a predicament at present which I hope you will be willing to help me out in. We have a machine with win2k server on it, and MS exchange 2k Everything was running fine for a few months, but recently the exchange has stopped auto starting upon reboot of windows.. 1 of the guys opened up a window ( I think it was something to do with AD ) and manually started some of the MSExchange services , which eventually (after 20 mins or so) got exchange running fully. However I've been trying to replicate that recently and have been at a loss to do so..( said "guy" is also at a loss ) so if you could please inform me how to make sure exchange auto starts everytime windows reboots and if you know of any problems that would give these symptoms, I would v. grateful ta buzzin