Is that a premier only article ? cant seem to find it on technet.

G.

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From: "Kelley, Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 6:34 PM
Subject: RE: Strange behaviour after running ISINTEG


Check out Q article Q818830

We applied the single instance store hotfix before it was part of the
Sept hotfix rollup.  When we ran isinteg we had many mailboxes jump in
size.

Jason

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glenn Corbett
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 9:54 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Strange behaviour after running ISINTEG


All,

Recently we have been having some strange behaviours with user
mailboxes, such as users being denied access to folders in their
mailboxes, rules disappearing etc.  After running ISINTEG on all stores
(approx 20), a number of errors were found and fixed...all good so far.
After remounting the stores everything looked fine....until the next
morning when people came back to work.

A number of mailboxes had suddenly a LOT more mail in their inboxes and
deleted items folders, some users over 200mb worth, which threw a lot of
the organisation over the store limits and stopped them sending and
receiving mail.  We temporarily increased the store limits to cope with
the problem, however we are still at a loss to explain what happened.

After speaking with PSS, they are also at a bit of a loss as well. I've
also checked Technet and other online resources, but no mention is made
of this sort of problem.

- Some users had no effect on their mailboxes
- Some users had lots of mail return to either their deleted items or
inbox (we are surmising that the way the message was originally deleted
has determined where it came back to - shift-delete - back to inbox,
deleted via deleted items - back to delete items).
- The restored messages don't seem to be from the previous days. In all
of the cases we have confirmed, messages deleted the couple of days
previous didn't come back, but messages deleted prior to that did come
back.

Has anyone seen this behaviour before and could possibly explain what
happened ? As with all of these things, the people most affected were
senior management, and they are screaming for a satisfactory response.

Config:
Windows 2000 SP2 with hotfixes
Exchange 2000 SP2 - 6 Servers, 2 badly affected, 1 with minor effects, 3
not affected at all Trend Scanmail installed on all servers 1 Storage
group on each server, between 2 and 4 databases per storage group

On the servers that were affected, only one or two of the 4 stores was
affected.

As far as we can determine, either Exchange wasn't properly cleaning out
deleted items from mailboxes (but was reducing the size of mailboxes as
users were under the mailbox limit cap until the messages were
restored), OR something happened and exchange replayed some of the
transaction logs restoring old messages (but in that case all of the
stores in the storage group should have been affected, but weren't)

Thoughts ?

TIA

Glenn Corbett


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