SharePoint Cowboy

I have now experienced this issue at multiple customers so wanted to get this out there.

Problem:=========After Installing few Windows server 2003 updates, SharePoint Portal administration service was not starting on all Sharepoint servers. Environment:===========

Sharepoint Portal server 2007

Medium server farm  Root Cause (if known):==================NA Resolution:=========We changed following registry settings on the Sharepoint servers:  Added:HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetControl change DWORD value ServicesPipeTimeout and assign 60000 (i.e. 60 thousand which means 60 seconds) Modified:Increse value of in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControl string value WaitToKillServiceTimeout to 120000 (120 thousand which means 120 seconds) We rebooted the server.We found that Sharepoint portal Administration service is running fine on the server.

We did the same changes/additions on other two Sharepoint servers as well and the service started running o them as well a

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