Janet Erbach
jerbach at gmail.com
Tue Feb 9 12:35:03 CST 2010
Mark - Wow - 12- 16 hours for Win7 install! That's where you take up knitting so that you have something to do while you're tied to the chair! Janet P.S. Microsoft does tend to age one, doesn't it? On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Mark Breen <marklbreen at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Janet, > > I also was watching to see if you had a resolution. I am sorry to hear of > your woes. I am also sorry to say I have no suggestions. > > As a simple guy, I would be tempted to do a fresh install and then restore > as little as possible, but restoring Exchange sounds like a nightmare. > > I installed Win7 from Scratch on Sat night on a laptop and it still took me > 12 - 16 hours to get it back up and running. Who pays us for this? > Nobody. > > I am only 41, but I feel old these last few months. > > Mark > > > > On 9 February 2010 16:46, Janet Erbach <jerbach at gmail.com> wrote: > > > I started a thread about a month ago in relation to extremely high > > virtual/physical memory usage on our SBS 2008 server. It looks like the > > issue may be a two-fold one: > > > > 1) We customized our installation of SBS 2008 and did NOT turn on the > > Microsoft Exchange features. We didn't want them. And it's starting to > > look like... > > > > 2) Having Exchange turned off has adversely affected the SBS Monitoring > > Services. SBS Monitoring has not cleaned up after itself properly since > it > > was first installed, and I've found a couple of troubleshooting > references > > that mention making sure two specific Exchange services are running. So > > I'm > > wondering if Monitoring can't clean up after itself without Exchange > > running > > in the background...The Monitoring database has reached it's built-in 4 > gb > > limit, and it generates dozens of errors all day long because of that. > > > > I think that SBS Monitoring is thrashing constantly to try and do what > it's > > supposed to do - and can't, due to database overgrowth. Does anyone know > > how I can go about turning off SBS monitoring completely? Stopping the > > services isn't enough...that has had no effect on memory usage. I can't > > find any helpful info on the issue through my web searches. And, unlike > > SBS 2003, you can't just uninstall SBS Monitoring - it does not appear as > a > > seperate entity in the add/remove programs list. > > > > Or...am I better off starting over and re-installing SBS 2008 from > scratch > > using the default settings so that it SBS 2008 will behave itself? > > > > Janet Erbach > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-Tech mailing list > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >