Server 2003
Exchange with Active Directory takes forever to shutdown!!
Yep, i too have experienced this problem (grr microsoft)..
They do have a KB atricle for this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829361
Cause:
This issue may occur when the following conditions are true:
The Microsoft Active Directory directory service closes before Exchange 2003 services are fully stopped during the computer shut down process.
Exchange 2003 is installed on a domain controller computer that is also a global catalog server.
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