Item 1 is a known issue. It's due to a dependency change. It wouldn't surprise me to see that fixed soon (where "soon" is the next rollup or two). I don't know anything about forefront, but I can tell you right now that I wouldn't install a production Exchange 2007 server with less than 4 GB of RAM and if it's hosting multiple roles, I would look at least at 8 GB. You say "small domain", which is fine, I actually run my home domain on a 2 GB RAM machine - but I've only got 8 mailboxes and I run a/v on my Edge server! I guess what I'm telling you is that 2 GB isn't enough. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:EM/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Stevens Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 4:49 PM To: exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ExchangeList] Various Exchange services won't start automatically Dear all, I've a small domain with 2 Windows 2003 servers. MS Exchange runs on Server 1 - 64 bit OS. Forefront is enabled to scan incoming e-mail. I have 2 problems: 1. Many of the exchange server services and the Forefront services won't start automatically and I have to start them manually when I re-boot the server. The symptoms are described very closely in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951402 but the cause can't be the same as this is a clean installation of Exchange Server 2007 on a 2003 server. Perhaps the key is that I can't start the FSEIMC service on which other Exchange services depend. However, my exchange e-mail works well internally and externally, in and out, once I have started all the services I can! 2. The memory usage is usually about 4GB (I only have 2GB RAM installed) and a big part of this is due to the 4 instances of FSCRealTimeScanner.exe and the 4 instances of FSCTransportScanner.exe that constantly run - each takes about 140MB. I rely on consultants to build and configure my servers and the question is do I need to call them in to fix these issues or am I overlooking something more obvious? All help and guidance gratefully received! Yours sincerely David Stevens