SBS 2011 Shares Go Offline

Hello,

Check your running processes to see if anything irregular is hogging resources.  By default SQL and Exchange will take as much RAM as possible.

If you're able to log into the server when it happens then I would check your auto start services as well as the resources.

Have you checked all the event logs?  DNS etc

Is it best to reinstall WSUS from the original SBS 2011 installation disk or download the most recent version from Microsoft Download?

The DNS event log has no errors just a warning about waiting on AD about waiting on the snyc of the directory.

I do not see any services hogging resources except those mentioned which is normal.

Looking at Services in the System event log I see system service like winmgmt and wuauserv hanging before others start hanging including Windows Update Service which terminated.

Attached is an extract from the system events. The beginning is right after a restart from the shares disconnecting. The end of the log is from when the update tried to run at night and caused the SharePoint messages to explode until the next morning when we restarted the server. They don't use SharePoint.

Hi can you check the attachment please.

Missed pressing the upload button last time.
System-Events-Extract.txt

How do you disable SharePoint?

BPA only lists warnings including one that says a WSUS GP is missing and a couple on Default Web SSL binding. The rest are less important.

Presuming that you don't have any other web sites in the server other than the default ones?

If you don't, can you run the Fix My Network Wizard from the SBS console and report back on the warnings / errors.  This should correct the IIS bindings.

Also, are your backups working ok?

First the good news... since disabling the SharePoint services that error has not returned.

When I went to reinstall WSUS it acted like it had not been installed and wanted to remove WSUS. I recalled having an error during the uninstall and manually completing the task. When I went ahead and let it try to uninstall it again had an error. This time I corrected the error and let it uninstall successfully.

When it uninstalled suddenly a number of updates were performed. I let it stay this way to see what would happen. No updates were applying and I still got my errors. I then went and installed WSUS. Most of my errors have now stopped except on Wednesday nights when it tried to do Windows updates it hangs the Update Service and my problem reoccurs.

So things are better but not corrected.

The server is back running without errors. I had to manually recreate GPO for WSUS and then run the Windows Update Fixit wizard. With the Disabling of SharePoint those errors are gone.