paul williams
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Service Recovery Windows 2003 - what about when service fails to start after reboot?
If you set service to restart after failure I guess this applies to FAILURE only?
i.e. Not if service fails to start after server is booted?
Is there any way to do this? At the moment, our server reboots (planned) every night but sometimes services fail to start.
i.e. Not if service fails to start after server is booted?
Is there any way to do this? At the moment, our server reboots (planned) every night but sometimes services fail to start.
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If it are a few, specific services, set them to Delayed start. Often start failures on boot are caused by dependant services not running on time.
I believe the option to set services to 'Delayed Start' was added to Windows Server 2008. That said, if you can identify a dependent service, you can delay the start of your problematic service(s) by setting a dependency.
Sorry, that is correct. Didn't see "Windows 2003". So "Delayed Start" is not available.
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For now, we're using a batch file and scheduled job.
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I've requested that this question be closed as follows:
Accepted answer: 0 points for paul williams's comment #a40579608
for the following reason:
This is the only way under 2003.
Accepted answer: 0 points for paul williams's comment #a40579608
for the following reason:
This is the only way under 2003.
I believe this is exactly what was suggested under the first comment (#40578962).
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sorry you are correct.
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Sorry I missed this one. Excellent idea.