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by gizmogadgets

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How do I stop Proxy Service from stopping for no reason
NT SBS 4.5 ( I know it is and old OS but none the less the co will not upgrade yet)
SP 6a
Proxy 2, with SP1
Virtual Memory is well beefed up as well
No errors appear in Event Viewer
The services keep stopping at least once a day
Just staring them up again is sufficient, but an inconvenience

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by jayanth

Well quite a hard to diagnose problem, since there are no errors generated too. What I may suggest, may not be an exact solution, but can be a crude turnaround.

You can write a batch file with a single command 'net start wspsrv' and you can schedule it to run every 15 minutes or so. So if the proxy service is stopped, this will help to restart it.

by vinnyd

You may need the patch for the code red worm.

SBS 4.5 has IIS running. The Proxy server can stop because your system is being attacked thru the internet.

by iwh.ssl.au

Here are several things that you may want to start investigating.

1. Determine what times the proxy goes down. This can be easily derived from the msplogs. It may become more difficult if you dont have much traffic going through them.

2. If you are running virus scanning on the server, find out what times the signature updates are happening and disable this to see how things go

3. Apply the latest fixes since IIS and MSP go hand in hand.

4. Determine the load going through them as i've seen proxy fail due to a huge number of connections. Since you are running SBS this shouldnt be it.

5. Doublecheck the default site and see if there are any probs with its settings.

hope this helps..

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