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Look at the event viewer for any issues it may be logging. Any recent hardware of software changes? What about a recent update?
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Look at the event viewer for any issues it may be logging. Any recent hardware of software changes? What about a recent update?

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There are no events in the logs there have anything to do with this issue.<br />
There are also no recent hardware or software changes, and there are no updates installed recently.<br />
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The cause of this problem is probably a power failure.
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There are no events in the logs there have anything to do with this issue.
There are also no recent hardware or software changes, and there are no updates installed recently.

The cause of this problem is probably a power failure.

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Have you tried running the best practice advisor on the server to see what it finds?
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Have you tried running the best practice advisor on the server to see what it finds?

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We have a SBS 2008 server that only boots in Safe Mode..<br />
If we hit F8 during bootup, and than chose Normal Mode, it still boots in Safe Mode.<br />
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Does anyone have any idea? <br />
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Thanks in advance.
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We have a SBS 2008 server that only boots in Safe Mode..
If we hit F8 during bootup, and than chose Normal Mode, it still boots in Safe Mode.

Does anyone have any idea? 

Thanks in advance.

SBS 2008 only boots in Safe Mode

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 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.