RE: Information Store Maintenance

[Eldridge, Dave]

Title: Message

Same here we just shelled out 6 figures to MS to get current. We have a huge set of software that the pc people can install from . Not any more. Oh the whinnnn. Also to get a mailbox has to go thru my boss. Internet access goes thru me. These are the same people that think troubleshooting a pc is to reghost it. arhhhhh!!

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Abercrombie, Sherry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 8:16 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Information Store Maintenance

Yeah, when we took away Help Desk's admin rights they whined and complained, even resorted to calling us names.  I think "LAN Gestapo" was the favored name for us for a while.  And you should have heard them when we started cracking down on software licensing.....oh my, we took away their install disks and removed installs from the network & made them start coming through us to obtain keys, ohhhh it was bad, but we're now legal on our software licensing so they can keep whining all they want, we don't listen to whiners either.... :P

Sherry Abercrombie
Data Center Administration Team
Information Technology
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine."

-----Original Message-----
From: Ely, Don [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 8:48 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Information Store Maintenance

Yeah, we had a major security change around here which prompted much whining about rights and such.  I shrug my shoulders and say "Oh well".  Everyone whines when I take their rights away, everyone seems to think they deserve or need admin rights here.  I think a bit differently.

She whined a little bit, but she also knows me and knows that I don't listen to whiners...   :P

-----Original Message-----
From: Abercrombie, Sherry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 9:51 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Information Store Maintenance

No one on help desk, even the lead, can come close to my exchange server.  They can't even get into the server room without one of us domain admins escorting them.  Neither my mgr nor my CTO has rights on any of our servers.  The mgr can get into the server room, he has the code, but the CTO has to find one of us to get in there :)    So did she whine very much when you took away her admin rights?

Sherry Abercrombie
Data Center Administration Team
Information Technology
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine."

-----Original Message-----
From: Ely, Don [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 3:35 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Information Store Maintenance

Our Help Desk Manager did that on a Friday afternoon after I left for the day.  She won't be forgetting about that "mistake" for quite some time.  IIRC, I revoked her admin rights soon after that incident.  ;o)

-----Original Message-----
From: Abercrombie, Sherry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 4:32 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Information Store Maintenance

I sent my Exchange server on a round trip one day just before 5pm.  It was an honest accidental event.  I was remotely attached to it via SMS and instead of disconnecting properly, I rebooted it.  It was rather fun ;)

Sherry Abercrombie
Data Center Administration Team
Information Technology
"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine."

-----Original Message-----
From: Ely, Don [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 3:15 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Information Store Maintenance

I would!  I like to choose the most inconvenient time to do these types of things so my off-duty hours are not affected...  :P

-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Sojka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 4:13 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Information Store Maintenance

Yep.  (Obviously you don't wanna do this during normal usage hours ;)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 3:59 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Information Store Maintenance
>
>
> So........if I stop and restart the services I should see the "real"
> size at the time the services were restarted?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 3:55 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Information Store Maintenance
>
>
> As long as the file is opened, you don't see the change in Windows
> Explorer.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 12:53 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Information Store Maintenance
>
>
> I was concerned that I would not be able to monitor the size of the
> database.  I was checking it using explorer and it has steadily
> maintained 10-11GB.  I never worried about it.  Now that it is 15.5GB
> I became more
> concerned. 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Smallwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 3:45 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Information Store Maintenance
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Instead of "suspecting" that you have whitespace, why not check the
> event log? event ID 1221 if I remember correctly...
>
> not to mention what other have eluded to:
> -mute point if you have 5 gigs of free space and not over 16gb limit
> -lots of downtime-risk -what problem do you think will be solved?
>
> PLUS- at least this way, Exchange wont have to use cycles to resize
> the DB as it grows...
>
> Thank you,
> Patrick

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