On all my SBS 2008 servers, I install the following script (batch) file to stop Exchange and add it as a shortcut to my SBS console desktop .
Why?
Because when you need to reboot your SBS server, we have seen that stopping Exchange manually cause your server shutdown and restart process to run faster than if you do not first stop Exchange. Philip Elder’s blog post on the subject shows some timings that he did.
Here’s the script. Simply copy and paste it into Notepad and save it as a .bat file. One note: to run this batch file, you must right click on it and select ‘Run as Administrator’. even if you are logged on with admnistrator access.
net stop msexchangeadtopology /y
net stop msftesql-exchange /y
net stop msexchangeis /y
net stop msexchangesa /y
net stop iisadmin /y