Rebooting a NT server

This question really is asking for opinions and experiences so heres mine. Build and configure the machine as if you plan on never using planned reboots. Look for evidence of memory leaks. If there is no memory issues let the machine stay up. If themachine crashes under normal operating conditions, not when making configuration changes mind you, implement a bi-weekly reboot.

Weekly reboot is very important if using RAS on this machine. Otherwise, schedule a monthly reboot.

The answer to your question mainly depends on the function of the server. If it is running a critical application, then you should only reboot if absolutely necessary. If it a print server or file server, you should bench mark it and see if thereare any memory leaks and find out if the servers performance degrades and over what period of time. Really it all depends on the server performance.

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