I have a SharePoint 2007 farm that resides on three Windows 2003 servers. Last night, I needed to perform some maintenance. During the maintenance window, I redirected the home directory for the intranet to our down directory, which is a basic "We're performing maintenance, please check back later" page that is called Default.htm. I had our intranet site redirected for around two hours. Once the maintenance window was complete, I redirected the home directory in IIS to the proper directory under inetpub. However, the intranet is not behaving as I would expect. If someone browses to https://mycompany.net, they are still receiving the maintenance page. However, if someone browses to https://mycompany.net/pages.welcome.aspx, they are receiving the correct page. All subsites/lists, etc. work perfectly. I know that the maintenance page is cached somewhere because if I make changes to it on the web server or even delete it, I'm still being show the original version. Does anyone have any idea where I could start to resolve this issue? I redirect the intranet site to the down page every three weeks during patching and have never had an issue before. Thank you!

I'm not sure why you're having an issue now, but to resolve it, I would try: Recycle the app pools on all 3 servers. If that doesn't work, do an IISRESET on all 3 servers. As a last resort, I would reboot all 3 servers. This is IMPORTANT. Shut down all 3 servers AT THE SAME TIME and then start them up again. That way there's nowhere for any cache page to hide. ;-) I trust that answers your question... Thanks C http://www.cjvandyk.com/blog

Hello Michelle, Just to make sure, first of all please check if you set the redirect to default page on all the three servers. Also are there any load balancer you are using to serve the requests? Please check hitting individual server that which server is causing the problem. And then you are good to go with the solution proposed by Cornelius. Hope this helps..:-) Regards, Rohan