I have been having major issues on a SBS 2003 with a very light load and only 3 clients. The first problem I noticed was very slow performance. I checked the processes and Inetinfo and store were leaking. I shut those down and looked up on here and saw that this may have related to the SMTP server. Since I was planning on removing Exchange server anyways (it was unused except for OWA which is no longer needed) I waitied and advised the client to terminate the service if the system became sluggish. (FYI: 2.67 GHz, 1.5 GB RAM, P4)
From this point on, the $%#@ hit the fan. I restarted the server and it took several hours to get past the "applying computer settings" point. The network connections were not working. I waited about two days until I had some time to work on the machine. When I restarted, it again took 2 hours to get past the "applying computer settings" screen and was very sluggish. I could not even get into the control panel or right click for properties. I went through the processes and started terminating the non-critical ones. After I terminated the SQL server exe, everything snapped to.
Now here's the weird part. It looks like everything was reset to how I had it about 4 months ago. The domain is different, the active directory is blank, the server management console is gone. The IP addresses of the NICs were different and even the random things like the desktop settings were wrong.
The client computers still log into the old domain (but where are they getting validated from?) I cannot see the clients from the server or the server from the clients.
I am absolutely lost.
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