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Hello Experts,<br />
On a small domain which an SBS 2003 server is the only server, domain freeze up is occurring about once every 1-2 weeks. Hard resetting the server fixes the issue. When this occurrs, all computers crawl to a near halt. The computers behave like they no longer resolve DNS correctly. The still function but extremely slowly. I used to have a second server 2003 secondary domain controller on the network but removed it...thinking it might might be the cause of the issue but the freezing is still occurring. Could this be a master browser issue? The only clue I have is I have found this in the event log before the freeze up: <br />
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A process serving application pool 'DefaultAppPool' failed to respond to a ping. The process id was '3784'. SOURCE=W3SVC EVENTID=1010. I checked and this point to IIS not being able to communicate but I am thinking that could just be another symptom...not the cause.<br />
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The server I am running is a Lenovo Thinkserver TS100...although the issue does not seem to be hardware related. I observed this on another domain as well running server 2003 but have not found the cause there either.<br />
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Any Ideas Anyone? Thanks!
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Hello Experts,
On a small domain which an SBS 2003 server is the only server, domain freeze up is occurring about once every 1-2 weeks. Hard resetting the server fixes the issue. When this occurrs, all computers crawl to a near halt. The computers behave like they no longer resolve DNS correctly. The still function but extremely slowly. I used to have a second server 2003 secondary domain controller on the network but removed it...thinking it might might be the cause of the issue but the freezing is still occurring. Could this be a master browser issue? The only clue I have is I have found this in the event log before the freeze up: 

A process serving application pool 'DefaultAppPool' failed to respond to a ping. The process id was '3784'. SOURCE=W3SVC EVENTID=1010. I checked and this point to IIS not being able to communicate but I am thinking that could just be another symptom...not the cause.

The server I am running is a Lenovo Thinkserver TS100...although the issue does not seem to be hardware related. I observed this on another domain as well running server 2003 but have not found the cause there either.

Any Ideas Anyone? Thanks!

SBS 2003 Domain Randomly Freezes

Small Business Server (SBS) is a line of server operating systems targeted at small businesses by bundling the operating system with a number of other Microsoft products that would normally need to be purchased or licensed separately. The most notable inclusions are Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and ISA/TMG (Microsoft's firewall and proxy server).

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).