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Ok, thank you for your post.<br />
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Under topology &gt;&nbsp;Status &gt;&nbsp;choose the DB server &gt;&nbsp;Actions &gt;&nbsp;Stop all services. &nbsp;I was planning on doing &nbsp;this. Any thoughts?
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Ok, thank you for your post.

Under topology > Status > choose the DB server > Actions > Stop all services.  I was planning on doing  this. Any thoughts?

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Probably not the cleanest way to do this.
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Probably not the cleanest way to do this.

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Hello, I am not much into Lync yet. Our DBA's needs to patch the Lync DB server with SP2 for SQL 2008 and perform a reboot. They will need 10 minutes to perform this. Whats the proper way to handle this in terms of bringing services offline and back online. 
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Hello, I am not much into Lync yet. Our DBA's needs to patch the Lync DB server with SP2 for SQL 2008 and perform a reboot. They will need 10 minutes to perform this. Whats the proper way to handle this in terms of bringing services offline and back online. 

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