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Dear b4uparty,<br />
Check this link <a href="http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/14848/14848.html" rel="ugc">http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/14848/14848.html</a><br />
Refer : <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q102987/" rel="ugc nofollow">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q102987/</a><br />
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Hope it helps you.<br />
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Cheers!
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Dear b4uparty,
Check this link http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/14848/14848.html [http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/14848/14848.html]
Refer : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q102987/ [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q102987/]

Hope it helps you.

Cheers!

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Thanks. Useful pointer but not enough info. That only gives me information on the control groups. I have 2 services that absolutely have to startup before IIS and IIS should not do anything until those 2 services are instantiated. I have no idea whatsoever which group they belong to nor which group IIS belongs to. How do I find out this information and what do I do if they are all in the same group or something like that? I need more granular control than dealing with groups (unless I can reorder within the group or something like that).
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Thanks. Useful pointer but not enough info. That only gives me information on the control groups. I have 2 services that absolutely have to startup before IIS and IIS should not do anything until those 2 services are instantiated. I have no idea whatsoever which group they belong to nor which group IIS belongs to. How do I find out this information and what do I do if they are all in the same group or something like that? I need more granular control than dealing with groups (unless I can reorder within the group or something like that).

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Thanks for that. Unfortunately for me that KB article only deals with W32. The servers I'm dealing with are 64bit.<br />
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I'll continue hunting but if you have a shortcut reference for me I'd appreciate it.
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Thanks for that. Unfortunately for me that KB article only deals with W32. The servers I'm dealing with are 64bit.

I'll continue hunting but if you have a shortcut reference for me I'd appreciate it.

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It works exactly the same way on the x64 versions of W2k3. A service dependency is a service dependency.<br />

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It works exactly the same way on the x64 versions of W2k3. A service dependency is a service dependency.


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I need to ensure IIS starts after certain other services. What's the easiest way to do this?
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I need to ensure IIS starts after certain other services. What's the easiest way to do this?

Changing the order of service startup

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).