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How to pause or shut down Exchange

Is there a simple way to pause or shut down exchange? I am doing some testing and want to not allow any emails in or out of exchange for a few hours. I will be rebooting during this period and dont want it to restart during the boot. I have SBS 2003, latest updates.

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Shreedhar Ette

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Mike Broderick

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I'm sorry, my initial question is not what I want. I would like to have exchange up and running to make sure it interacts with the rest of SBS during the test. I just want it to not move mail to and from the internet. I can control its access on the local network. Can I stop a connector or something?

Suliman Abu Kharroub

remove the default gateway from NIC adapter.

IF you publish exchange server throw ISA server, you may need to disable publishing rules as well...

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Mike Broderick

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In the exchange manager under administrative groups, [my server], protocols, SMTP there is a virtual server. If I pause or stop it, will it stop email from going? It looks like the least invasive way.

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Mike Broderick

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Got it. Thank you all for your input.