Bruce, thank you for your reply!
I use local SMTP server and local SQL server...If I face with the same issue, I will restart IIS, test it, restart SQL, test it.
Actually, I saw "Please wait" message for ~1min after logon, but server was not busy (CPU ~20%, memory ~50% free)...I restarted SQL+IIS and issue was gone
I think it very hard to troubleshoot such issues. Probably we may ask gurus to publish they recommendations for typical SQL/IIS settings? Like "Simple mode", "Autoshrink", etc for SQL
Edited by ask023 - 23 March 2006 at 6:59pm