We have a problem on our Exchange 2003 server thats been getting worse and worse. We have a Dell PowerEdge 2850 server, and every time we try to shutdown or restart it, it take 10 to 20 minutes just to shut down and another 20 to startup. Sometimes we have to force shut it down because we don’t have the luxury of waiting for it. Also during startup we sometimes have to manually restart the server just to get to the desktop, otherwise it seems like it would hangup. I don’t know if its trying to go through the Exchange database or whats it doing. We looked through the Event logs and nothing seems out of the ordinary. The server has over 100gb free space, has 2gb ram. I monitored the performance logs and on occasion the processor and memory would do a sharp spike to 100% and come down right a way, other than that the performance log shows a steady 5-10% utilization. So my question is, is there anything we can look for or monitor? Is there a database check utility? Maybe its hanging up trying to load/mount the database (I don’t know even if it does that, so I’m kinda probing in the dark here).