RE: Exchange server reboot simple q

[Kevin Miller]

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it is the same concept. of hurting your self, yet thinking you are doing good.     --Kevinm CHFR, M, WLKMMAS, UCC+WCA, And Beyond http://www.daughtry.ca/ For Graphics and WebDesign, GO here! -----Original Message----- From: Abercrombie, Sherry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 2:31 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange server reboot simple q I didn't know that eseutil was the topic of this thread......   -----Original Message----- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 4:13 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange server reboot simple q   Do you still run eseutil nightly?  Or was it weekly? -----Original Message----- From: Abercrombie, Sherry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 1:10 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange server reboot simple q Sometimes a reboot is just necessary.  I just had to do one a little while ago.  Seems that a person on medical leave had an OOA reply with a little rule that forwarded messages to an external address that was apparently a bad address.  Seems that we got into a mail looping with the NDR going back to her and the rule autoforwarding it again and over and over to the point of the offending message was over 25mb in size and kept crashing my internet mail service to the point of not being able to restart it.  I turned off the rule in her OOA and deleted almost 9500 NDR messages from her mailbox, but had to bounce the exchange server to get internet mail service started again.  Odd, but the other users here seemed to want to have internet mail working.  So sometimes it is necessary to reboot to fix things.... But for the record, all the servers in our entire network are rebooted monthly, for a good reason, we still are not a 24/7 shop, but getting close to it, but we still have mgmt convinced that we need to do monthly maintenance on the network. This is when we install SP's, new drives, nics etc.  It's a scheduled, known downtime that occurs monthly.  During this time we also do online and boot time defrags on all the servers using Diskkeeper to keep things running optimally. That's my .02 cents worth! Sherry -----Original Message----- From: Scot Parsons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 2:15 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange server reboot simple q And while it dies, find out why and fix it. Servers don't just run at their optimum level for x number of days and then die. -----Original Message----- From: Beasley, Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 3:04 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange server reboot simple q   wear the badge and let the server die! -----Original Message----- From: Milton R. Dogg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 2:39 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange server reboot simple q   This is a religious thing more then something that people will listen to logic on. Those of us that know what we are doing, and run big always on shops where 4 9's is not enough. DO NOT REBOOT on a schedule just because. Some of you who grew up in win 9x where reboots were a good thing, and have applied that logic to Servers for the sole reason that is a Microsoft product will not be swayed by logic, case studies, flows of memory management or another other system. Let us drop this now before I become annoyed with people trying to tell others that they reboot all the time. Adding more confusing to the people learning as they go from this list. The opinion of those that answer most of the Questions on this list is to NOT reboot unless you have applied a SP and need to. Having servers going for more then a year with out a reboot is a badge of honor to be worn with pride. Thank you Milton R Dogg Of The Dogg Foundation.. -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 11:27 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange server reboot simple q   I disagree. Stating that a monthly reboot shows signs of instability is not a sound statement. It depends on your needs and concerns. If he said on a weekly basis, I would agree... -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 1:24 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange server reboot simple q Do you have proof that is does anything? --Kevinm CHFR, M, WLKMMAS, UCC+WCA, And Beyond http://www.daughtry.ca/ For Graphics and WebDesign, GO here! List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm