Exchange 2007 Information Store showing status of ’stopping’ at boot or hanging during normal operation.

I came across an issue with the Exchange 2007 server in my project test environment where the Information Store service seemed to hang.
Even after a reboot the service did not resume correctly - the service sat in status of ’stopping’ and would not respond.
I found that the only way to get around this was to shutdown [...]

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Exchange 2007 install fails with MSExchange transport failed to reach status ‘running’

OK, so after trying to install MS Exchange 2007 on a brand new Windows Server 2008 Virtual Machine the install kept failing with the error “Error. Service ‘MSExchangeTransport’ failed to reach status ‘Running’ on this server.

In order to make this install work, you need to enable IPV6 - you can leave it set to assign automatically. Once [...]

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