We still have around 90 MF 1.8 servers. We have rebooted them nightly for years. Every once in a while we'll have one or two that don't finish the shutdown.exe process we use and we have to manually boot it. Everything else about the server is fine, you can ping it, net view it, etc. You just can't access it with rdp or ica. No big deal, we've learned to live with it after all these years. Then this morning's sleep was interrupted with a priority 1 ticket about people not being able to access most of the published apps/desktops we have. We found 36 servers in this state this morning. All at the same time. Nothing, and I mean nothing, was changed the day before, so it wasn't caused by any changes we made. Thankfully we have a 24x7 Operations staff that we could call and give them a lit to reboot, but it was painful. 36 servers. Man I can't wait until 1.8 is behind us forever. Unfortunately, we'll have to keep it running over the next year until all of our Infrastructure gets migrated to the new XPe/Win2k3 farm, which is running very well. Just thought I'd share this mornings joy with everyone. Calling my boss to explain this to her was a lot of fun. Fortunately she knows I have been warning her that we need to get away from MF 1.8 and NT4 for a while now. > Michael Pardee > Director > Coventry Health Care, Inc. > Phone: (724) 778-3733 > Fax: (724) 778-6899 Mailto:mpardee@xxxxxxxx <Mailto:mpardee@xxxxxxxx> Email Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this transmission is confidential, proprietary or privileged and may be subject to protection under the law, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The message is intended for the sole use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, distribution or copying of the message is strictly prohibited and may subject you to criminal or civil penalties. If you received this transmission in error, please contact the sender immediately by replying to this email and delete the material from any computer. ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor triCerat: Have you had your fill of printing support calls, unauthorized apps running on unsecured Terminal Servers, profile headaches, and application performance problems? Join us and learn how you can have a less demanding on-demand enterprise! http://www.tricerat.com/?page=events#register ********************************************************** Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thin.net/links.cfm *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thin.net/citrixlist.cfm