Bad way to start the day

6:30 - stumble out of the shower, wake my wife, get dressed and head out to make coffee.

6:36 - Discover Outlook isn't connecting to Exchange. Troubleshoot stuff at home

6:40 - Realize everything is good at home and vpn in.

6:43 - Try to remote the Exchange server - Cant

6:45 - remote the exchange server host

6:47 - realize the exchange server is not running on the host - check out the host server

6:54 - Power on the Exchange server wait an eternity

7:21 Exchange server comes up to the login prompt. I start logging in

7:22 Restart my Outlook and get a connection to the exchange

7:29 Email the one user who has noticed the OWA service down and let her know it was back online

7:32 - Start searching event logs... find this:

7:46 trying to get my head around why the timestamp in the event log is for a 8:03 Check system time on Exchange server and VM host - remains a mystery

7:50 start the car for my Sons so they can ride to school in warmth

7:52 Find interesting Error in the log from yesterday.

8:00 - pulled out with boys and headed for school

8:11 - watched the boys go in the school

8:15 - pulled in the parking lot at GCC

8:23 - logged onto desktop

8:25 - log into host server for the Exchange box and start sorting through logs again.

8:30 - can't take my eyes off the perfomance monitor for that host... it's running between 75 and 85 %
- I see Explorer is running the highest in the list.

Then I snap this one:

8:47 - Send the above screen caps to Dustin who I IM'd during my panic attack while waiting for the Exchange server to come up... let him I'm nervous.

8:50 - Log off of the remote to the VM host that Exchange lives on... watch the needle on the processor drop

8:52 - try to start another remote desktop to it and watch it start to spike again.

8:53 - log back off the remote connection and watch it level off near the bottom... follow the blue line

I plan to restart the host after working hours tonight if all goes alright... for now it's running...

Comments

[John Dolan]

Wow, what a depressing morning. And all that before I was even out of bed (not quite true, but close!) I hope things worked out and the drive error wasn't a sign of worse things to come.

[deannie]

What happened?!? Have you figured this out?

OH! and a link for learning PowerShell:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/articles/exmgmtshell.mspx