>>Ok, here it is,
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>>this weekend (Sunday to be exact, day of all days...) our web server went down for no apparent reason. The FTP and WWW service had stopped, but the IIS Admin service was still going. No events in the logs (security, application or system).
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>>Anyone know what could have caused it, or could it just be the new bug which M$ claims that nobody has been affected?
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>>Just trying to make sence of it all on a very lousy Monday morning (in the afternoon).
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>We've seen that at several occasions. Usually, it's only the Web service which is stopping. As for us, we haven't identify what causes this. This is something we had at a client site.
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>There are some few basic things you can do. Make sure you have the latest patches and keep watching the event log. Maybe you'll find a pattern which you can associate. There might also be an external service or another application which relates to all this. As for us, when we had this, as far as I can remember, no identifier has been found. I think they are still looking for find the reason. I remember, to proceed by elimination, we remove almost all the components and were running with minimum configuration. It was still occuring after.

We were already set up this way. The only things running on this system is IIS (Web and FTP service), DNS and the basic services required by NT to run. This was designed from the get-go to be exclussively a Web server, so we took out anything that wasn't required when it was set up. As for the event log, EVERYTHING is as it's supposed to be. No administrative logins that aren't accounted for, no multiple failed attempts for passwords (trace of brute force hacking) nothing. This is what confuses the daylight saving time outta me.

Thanks for the help anyways, if I find anything, I'll keep you posted.

Hugo

p.s.: What was the average time period between service shutdowns at your client's?