Hi! I hope someone can help, this issue is really bugging me. I had an SP1 server running just fine on a Server 2003 R2 SP2 box with the AD on a Server 2003 R2 SP2 (x64, both are) box. Everything was working just fine. Installed SP2 and everything went well, but upon reboot I got a message saying some services failed to start. Looking at the event viewer it's three services: Microsoft Exchange Transport, " " Log Search, and Microsoft Exchange Mail Submission.
I read a KB article on the main MS site that says this will occur when the server is not connected to the Internet and cannot check with a MS site. I made the changes to the hosts file to have it not check for the site as the article said. The services still fail to start; they will start manually after a few tries.
Also, when I open the Exchange MC it pops up a warning saying "End Snap-In - Snap-In Not Responding", which I can dismiss and the MC opens with a caution sign on the server (in the tree on the left). This goes away after a minute and everything seems to be working.
Thanks for any help you guys can provide!