Exchange 2007 server hangs on "Applying Computer Settings". The following service fail to start; Microsoft Exchange Information Store, Microsoft Exchange Service Host, Microsoft Exchange Monitoring, Microsoft Exchange POP3, Microsoft Exchange IMAP4I have the following Microsoft .NET Framework versions installed;Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP2Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 SP2Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 with the following updates and Fixes: KB963707, KB958484, and KB953595 I'm running on Windows 2003 64-Bit and Exchange 2007 64-Bit.

You havent given us much to go on!Sounds like:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944752Exchange 2007 managed code services do not start after you install an update rollup for Exchange 2007 When did this start?Have you run ExBpa against the server?Anything in the event logs?

.NET Framework 3.5 is not supported for Exchange 2007. I ran into an issue similar to yours a couple years ago where an Exchange Server was sitting at Applying Computer Settings and the Exchange services would not start. I resoled it by using Method 2 in the following KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925825 .MVP | MCSE:M | MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator | MCTS: OCS + Voice Specialization | http://www.shudnow.net

Hi, Please also apply kb 959209 and then check the issue again.An update for the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 is availablehttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/959209/The Windows Trace Session Manager service does not start and Event ID 7000 occurshttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/959209/Besides,I'd like to know where did this issue occur? Opening computer?Please try to verify if we can manully start these services.Regards,Xiu

By any chance have you installed Exchange on GC? Exchange 2007 services cannot start automatically after you install Exchange 2007 on a global catalog server Vinod |CCNA|MCSE 2003 +Messaging|MCTS|ITIL V3|