RE: promoting E2K to a DC
I have seen Outlook XP doing this all the time for no reason. It seems that a smallest network hickup would cause this. But at the same time I have seen Outlook XP do this with Exchange server sitting next door. It is annoying. -Original Message- From: John Q Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 2:44 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: promoting E2K to a DC I have a E2K, SP2 box that continues to give Requesting data from Exchange server errors to users. All users are using OLK2002. I have tried everything I know. To no avail. I have also tried to reset the OLK clients, still an issues. It's odd it seams to rotate, one day a user will work fine and then not, then a nother user will expirence the same isse. I would think it's a load issue, but w/ only 25 users on this ssytem, there is no way. Even checked w Prof monitor. 1GB mem, dual 550 Procs, 36 GB of free space So I am thinking it's an issue with E2K DC communication. So my fix is to promote the E2K Server to a DC w/ a GC on it. Any reason I should not? Thank You, - John Q Jr. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: promoting E2K to a DC
I'd be looking for a network issue first. Have you checked to make sure the affected client machines, the Exchange server, and the switches are not configured for auto-sense? Any unusual network traffic happening at the point you see the issue? Tom. -Original Message- From: Andrey Fyodorov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 4:59 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC I have seen Outlook XP doing this all the time for no reason. It seems that a smallest network hickup would cause this. But at the same time I have seen Outlook XP do this with Exchange server sitting next door. It is annoying. -Original Message- From: John Q Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 2:44 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: promoting E2K to a DC I have a E2K, SP2 box that continues to give Requesting data from Exchange server errors to users. All users are using OLK2002. I have tried everything I know. To no avail. I have also tried to reset the OLK clients, still an issues. It's odd it seams to rotate, one day a user will work fine and then not, then a nother user will expirence the same isse. I would think it's a load issue, but w/ only 25 users on this ssytem, there is no way. Even checked w Prof monitor. 1GB mem, dual 550 Procs, 36 GB of free space So I am thinking it's an issue with E2K DC communication. So my fix is to promote the E2K Server to a DC w/ a GC on it. Any reason I should not? Thank You, - John Q Jr. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: promoting E2K to a DC
Shows how much I'm paying attention today; responding to this again, after we already beat it into the ground two weeks ago. *sigh* -Original Message- From: Thomas Di Nardo Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 5:03 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC I'd be looking for a network issue first. Have you checked to make sure the affected client machines, the Exchange server, and the switches are not configured for auto-sense? Any unusual network traffic happening at the point you see the issue? Tom. -Original Message- From: Andrey Fyodorov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 4:59 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC I have seen Outlook XP doing this all the time for no reason. It seems that a smallest network hickup would cause this. But at the same time I have seen Outlook XP do this with Exchange server sitting next door. It is annoying. -Original Message- From: John Q Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 2:44 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: promoting E2K to a DC I have a E2K, SP2 box that continues to give Requesting data from Exchange server errors to users. All users are using OLK2002. I have tried everything I know. To no avail. I have also tried to reset the OLK clients, still an issues. It's odd it seams to rotate, one day a user will work fine and then not, then a nother user will expirence the same isse. I would think it's a load issue, but w/ only 25 users on this ssytem, there is no way. Even checked w Prof monitor. 1GB mem, dual 550 Procs, 36 GB of free space So I am thinking it's an issue with E2K DC communication. So my fix is to promote the E2K Server to a DC w/ a GC on it. Any reason I should not? Thank You, - John Q Jr. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: promoting E2K to a DC
If it works sometimes and other times it doesn't work how can it be a DNS issue? Wouldn't it not work at all? John I am currently running the DC/GC on the Exchange Server and I get that same message through out the day. I have yet to figure out why it is doing this. If or when you find the fix can you please post what you did? Thanks Saul -Original Message- From: Arshad Rafat Khan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 1:09 AM Posted To: Exchange Newsgroups Conversation: promoting E2K to a DC Subject: Re: promoting E2K to a DC no, its not the issue of DC, cause I am using exch2k with DC on another machine, check that you have proper DNS configured, if you have 95 or 98 on clients then you need WINS, or hosts file. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: promoting E2K to a DC
Thomas, I was not doubting that your response was factually correct, it is. I'm just trying to save the guy some money! PBB -Original Message- From: Thomas Di Nardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 March 2002 00:49 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC Agreed, however, I never speculated about anything. I merely stated that this message box is generally caused by network congestion and that IF this was the culprit in John's case, to call PSS for the solution. That's why I prefaced it the way I did. Note that he said there are only 25 on this particular server, not on his whole network. He did not say how many users are on the network. I have no idea how much traffic is on the segment his E2K box resides on, or on his network as a whole. He hasn't provided that information. I mentioned what I did because this is known to be caused by network congestion and other connectivity based issues. As I said, IF this is caused by network congestion, the fix is a few registry settings that must be obtained from PSS (unless you are under an MS NDA, in which case you can get the info from MPO). I figured that since I was aware, I would mention it so that if John confirmed the cause was network congestion, he'd know there was a potential solution available for that particular scenario. Tom. -Original Message- From: Paul Bouzan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 7:28 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC John has 25 users and I would hate to speculate on what is causing the network congestion! I have 400 users over thirty sites and PSS is not even an option yet until I have checked the cable etc. See my previous post. PBB ~ndi -Original Message- From: Thomas Di Nardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 March 2002 00:09 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC This is usually caused by network congestion. You can run a netmon trace to confirm this is the cause in your case. If that's what's causing the problem in your case, you can call PSS and get some information for registry changes to tune the length of time that will pass before the message box is presented or disable it altogether. Tom. -Original Message- From: John Q Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 2:44 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: promoting E2K to a DC I have a E2K, SP2 box that continues to give Requesting data from Exchange server errors to users. All users are using OLK2002. I have tried everything I know. To no avail. I have also tried to reset the OLK clients, still an issues. It's odd it seams to rotate, one day a user will work fine and then not, then a nother user will expirence the same isse. I would think it's a load issue, but w/ only 25 users on this ssytem, there is no way. Even checked w Prof monitor. 1GB mem, dual 550 Procs, 36 GB of free space So I am thinking it's an issue with E2K DC communication. So my fix is to promote the E2K Server to a DC w/ a GC on it. Any reason I should not? Thank You, - John Q Jr. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: promoting E2K to a DC
I didn't want him to spend money unnecessarily either. I just wanted him to have all the information I had. Anyway, it'll probably be something silly like having auto-negotiation enabled on the switch. :) Tom. -Original Message- From: Paul Bouzan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 4:08 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC Thomas, I was not doubting that your response was factually correct, it is. I'm just trying to save the guy some money! PBB -Original Message- From: Thomas Di Nardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 March 2002 00:49 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC Agreed, however, I never speculated about anything. I merely stated that this message box is generally caused by network congestion and that IF this was the culprit in John's case, to call PSS for the solution. That's why I prefaced it the way I did. Note that he said there are only 25 on this particular server, not on his whole network. He did not say how many users are on the network. I have no idea how much traffic is on the segment his E2K box resides on, or on his network as a whole. He hasn't provided that information. I mentioned what I did because this is known to be caused by network congestion and other connectivity based issues. As I said, IF this is caused by network congestion, the fix is a few registry settings that must be obtained from PSS (unless you are under an MS NDA, in which case you can get the info from MPO). I figured that since I was aware, I would mention it so that if John confirmed the cause was network congestion, he'd know there was a potential solution available for that particular scenario. Tom. -Original Message- From: Paul Bouzan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 7:28 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC John has 25 users and I would hate to speculate on what is causing the network congestion! I have 400 users over thirty sites and PSS is not even an option yet until I have checked the cable etc. See my previous post. PBB ~ndi -Original Message- From: Thomas Di Nardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 March 2002 00:09 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC This is usually caused by network congestion. You can run a netmon trace to confirm this is the cause in your case. If that's what's causing the problem in your case, you can call PSS and get some information for registry changes to tune the length of time that will pass before the message box is presented or disable it altogether. Tom. -Original Message- From: John Q Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 2:44 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: promoting E2K to a DC I have a E2K, SP2 box that continues to give Requesting data from Exchange server errors to users. All users are using OLK2002. I have tried everything I know. To no avail. I have also tried to reset the OLK clients, still an issues. It's odd it seams to rotate, one day a user will work fine and then not, then a nother user will expirence the same isse. I would think it's a load issue, but w/ only 25 users on this ssytem, there is no way. Even checked w Prof monitor. 1GB mem, dual 550 Procs, 36 GB of free space So I am thinking it's an issue with E2K DC communication. So my fix is to promote the E2K Server to a DC w/ a GC on it. Any reason I should not? Thank You, - John Q Jr. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED
RE: promoting E2K to a DC
auto-neg - work of the devil!! PBB -Original Message- From: Thomas Di Nardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 March 2002 16:55 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC I didn't want him to spend money unnecessarily either. I just wanted him to have all the information I had. Anyway, it'll probably be something silly like having auto-negotiation enabled on the switch. :) Tom. -Original Message- From: Paul Bouzan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 4:08 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC Thomas, I was not doubting that your response was factually correct, it is. I'm just trying to save the guy some money! PBB -Original Message- From: Thomas Di Nardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 March 2002 00:49 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC Agreed, however, I never speculated about anything. I merely stated that this message box is generally caused by network congestion and that IF this was the culprit in John's case, to call PSS for the solution. That's why I prefaced it the way I did. Note that he said there are only 25 on this particular server, not on his whole network. He did not say how many users are on the network. I have no idea how much traffic is on the segment his E2K box resides on, or on his network as a whole. He hasn't provided that information. I mentioned what I did because this is known to be caused by network congestion and other connectivity based issues. As I said, IF this is caused by network congestion, the fix is a few registry settings that must be obtained from PSS (unless you are under an MS NDA, in which case you can get the info from MPO). I figured that since I was aware, I would mention it so that if John confirmed the cause was network congestion, he'd know there was a potential solution available for that particular scenario. Tom. -Original Message- From: Paul Bouzan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 7:28 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC John has 25 users and I would hate to speculate on what is causing the network congestion! I have 400 users over thirty sites and PSS is not even an option yet until I have checked the cable etc. See my previous post. PBB ~ndi -Original Message- From: Thomas Di Nardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 March 2002 00:09 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC This is usually caused by network congestion. You can run a netmon trace to confirm this is the cause in your case. If that's what's causing the problem in your case, you can call PSS and get some information for registry changes to tune the length of time that will pass before the message box is presented or disable it altogether. Tom. -Original Message- From: John Q Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 2:44 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: promoting E2K to a DC I have a E2K, SP2 box that continues to give Requesting data from Exchange server errors to users. All users are using OLK2002. I have tried everything I know. To no avail. I have also tried to reset the OLK clients, still an issues. It's odd it seams to rotate, one day a user will work fine and then not, then a nother user will expirence the same isse. I would think it's a load issue, but w/ only 25 users on this ssytem, there is no way. Even checked w Prof monitor. 1GB mem, dual 550 Procs, 36 GB of free space So I am thinking it's an issue with E2K DC communication. So my fix is to promote the E2K Server to a DC w/ a GC on it. Any reason I should not? Thank You, - John Q Jr. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource
Re: promoting E2K to a DC
I am on the phone with PSS right now. NOT MUCH HELP! They are recreating the steps I already took, but I understand that. Before I called PSS, I had extensively worked w/ the Network Engineer on the network layout/connections. Just to be safe we connected the E2K box both DC's and 1 client, to test with, all to a Foundry FastIron II switch. Set all NIC's to 100 FullDuplex and did the same on the switch interface. Also replaced all nics. Still the same issue. Should be fun. I really appreciate all the input. I'll let you know the fix but I'm sure it will be a site specific issue not much help in the future. - Original Message - From: Paul Bouzan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 10:42 AM Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC auto-neg - work of the devil!! PBB -Original Message- From: Thomas Di Nardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 March 2002 16:55 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC I didn't want him to spend money unnecessarily either. I just wanted him to have all the information I had. Anyway, it'll probably be something silly like having auto-negotiation enabled on the switch. :) Tom. -Original Message- From: Paul Bouzan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 4:08 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC Thomas, I was not doubting that your response was factually correct, it is. I'm just trying to save the guy some money! PBB -Original Message- From: Thomas Di Nardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 March 2002 00:49 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC Agreed, however, I never speculated about anything. I merely stated that this message box is generally caused by network congestion and that IF this was the culprit in John's case, to call PSS for the solution. That's why I prefaced it the way I did. Note that he said there are only 25 on this particular server, not on his whole network. He did not say how many users are on the network. I have no idea how much traffic is on the segment his E2K box resides on, or on his network as a whole. He hasn't provided that information. I mentioned what I did because this is known to be caused by network congestion and other connectivity based issues. As I said, IF this is caused by network congestion, the fix is a few registry settings that must be obtained from PSS (unless you are under an MS NDA, in which case you can get the info from MPO). I figured that since I was aware, I would mention it so that if John confirmed the cause was network congestion, he'd know there was a potential solution available for that particular scenario. Tom. -Original Message- From: Paul Bouzan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 7:28 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC John has 25 users and I would hate to speculate on what is causing the network congestion! I have 400 users over thirty sites and PSS is not even an option yet until I have checked the cable etc. See my previous post. PBB ~ndi -Original Message- From: Thomas Di Nardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 March 2002 00:09 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC This is usually caused by network congestion. You can run a netmon trace to confirm this is the cause in your case. If that's what's causing the problem in your case, you can call PSS and get some information for registry changes to tune the length of time that will pass before the message box is presented or disable it altogether. Tom. -Original Message- From: John Q Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 2:44 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: promoting E2K to a DC I have a E2K, SP2 box that continues to give Requesting data from Exchange server errors to users. All users are using OLK2002. I have tried everything I know. To no avail. I have also tried to reset the OLK clients, still an issues. It's odd it seams to rotate, one day a user will work fine and then not, then a nother user will expirence the same isse. I would think it's a load issue, but w/ only 25 users on this ssytem, there is no way. Even checked w Prof monitor. 1GB mem, dual 550 Procs, 36 GB of free space So I am thinking it's an issue with E2K DC communication. So my fix is to promote the E2K Server to a DC w/ a GC on it. Any reason I should not? Thank You, - John Q Jr. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource
RE: promoting E2K to a DC
Wishing you luck John. PBB -Original Message- From: John Q Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 March 2002 18:00 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: promoting E2K to a DC I am on the phone with PSS right now. NOT MUCH HELP! They are recreating the steps I already took, but I understand that. Before I called PSS, I had extensively worked w/ the Network Engineer on the network layout/connections. Just to be safe we connected the E2K box both DC's and 1 client, to test with, all to a Foundry FastIron II switch. Set all NIC's to 100 FullDuplex and did the same on the switch interface. Also replaced all nics. Still the same issue. Should be fun. I really appreciate all the input. I'll let you know the fix but I'm sure it will be a site specific issue not much help in the future. - Original Message - From: Paul Bouzan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 10:42 AM Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC auto-neg - work of the devil!! PBB -Original Message- From: Thomas Di Nardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 March 2002 16:55 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC I didn't want him to spend money unnecessarily either. I just wanted him to have all the information I had. Anyway, it'll probably be something silly like having auto-negotiation enabled on the switch. :) Tom. -Original Message- From: Paul Bouzan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 4:08 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC Thomas, I was not doubting that your response was factually correct, it is. I'm just trying to save the guy some money! PBB -Original Message- From: Thomas Di Nardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 March 2002 00:49 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC Agreed, however, I never speculated about anything. I merely stated that this message box is generally caused by network congestion and that IF this was the culprit in John's case, to call PSS for the solution. That's why I prefaced it the way I did. Note that he said there are only 25 on this particular server, not on his whole network. He did not say how many users are on the network. I have no idea how much traffic is on the segment his E2K box resides on, or on his network as a whole. He hasn't provided that information. I mentioned what I did because this is known to be caused by network congestion and other connectivity based issues. As I said, IF this is caused by network congestion, the fix is a few registry settings that must be obtained from PSS (unless you are under an MS NDA, in which case you can get the info from MPO). I figured that since I was aware, I would mention it so that if John confirmed the cause was network congestion, he'd know there was a potential solution available for that particular scenario. Tom. -Original Message- From: Paul Bouzan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 7:28 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC John has 25 users and I would hate to speculate on what is causing the network congestion! I have 400 users over thirty sites and PSS is not even an option yet until I have checked the cable etc. See my previous post. PBB ~ndi -Original Message- From: Thomas Di Nardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 March 2002 00:09 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC This is usually caused by network congestion. You can run a netmon trace to confirm this is the cause in your case. If that's what's causing the problem in your case, you can call PSS and get some information for registry changes to tune the length of time that will pass before the message box is presented or disable it altogether. Tom. -Original Message- From: John Q Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 2:44 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: promoting E2K to a DC I have a E2K, SP2 box that continues to give Requesting data from Exchange server errors to users. All users are using OLK2002. I have tried everything I know. To no avail. I have also tried to reset the OLK clients, still an issues. It's odd it seams to rotate, one day a user will work fine and then not, then a nother user will expirence the same isse. I would think it's a load issue, but w/ only 25 users on this ssytem, there is no way. Even checked w Prof monitor. 1GB mem, dual 550 Procs, 36 GB of free space So I am thinking it's an issue with E2K DC communication. So my fix is to promote the E2K Server to a DC w/ a GC on it. Any reason I should not? Thank You, - John Q Jr. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch
Re: promoting E2K to a DC
no, its not the issue of DC, cause I am using exch2k with DC on another machine, check that you have proper DNS configured, if you have 95 or 98 on clients then you need WINS, or hosts file. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: promoting E2K to a DC
I have a E2K, SP2 box that continues to give Requesting data from Exchange server errors to users. All users are using OLK2002. I have tried everything I know. To no avail. I have also tried to reset the OLK clients, still an issues. It's odd it seams to rotate, one day a user will work fine and then not, then a nother user will expirence the same isse. I would think it's a load issue, but w/ only 25 users on this ssytem, there is no way. Even checked w Prof monitor. 1GB mem, dual 550 Procs, 36 GB of free space So I am thinking it's an issue with E2K DC communication. So my fix is to promote the E2K Server to a DC w/ a GC on it. Any reason I should not? Thank You, - John Q Jr. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: promoting E2K to a DC
How is your network setup? Is your Exchange server behind a firewall or VPN? Do you have a GC close to the clients? Have you done a netmon trace to see at what point the problem is occurring? Joel -Original Message- From: John Q Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 1:44 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: promoting E2K to a DC I have a E2K, SP2 box that continues to give Requesting data from Exchange server errors to users. All users are using OLK2002. I have tried everything I know. To no avail. I have also tried to reset the OLK clients, still an issues. It's odd it seams to rotate, one day a user will work fine and then not, then a nother user will expirence the same isse. I would think it's a load issue, but w/ only 25 users on this ssytem, there is no way. Even checked w Prof monitor. 1GB mem, dual 550 Procs, 36 GB of free space So I am thinking it's an issue with E2K DC communication. So my fix is to promote the E2K Server to a DC w/ a GC on it. Any reason I should not? Thank You, - John Q Jr. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: promoting E2K to a DC
all that will do is /increase/ the load. before doing the promotion, why not call PSS? Could be a whole lot cheaper. Or look to the network layer of the stack - do some packet captures, look at net bottlenecks, test your switch/hub, verify hard set duplex settings, etc. === Andy Webb[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.swinc.com Simpler-Webb, Inc. Austin, TX512-322-0071 === -Original Message- From: John Q Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 1:44 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: promoting E2K to a DC I have a E2K, SP2 box that continues to give Requesting data from Exchange server errors to users. All users are using OLK2002. I have tried everything I know. To no avail. I have also tried to reset the OLK clients, still an issues. It's odd it seams to rotate, one day a user will work fine and then not, then a nother user will expirence the same isse. I would think it's a load issue, but w/ only 25 users on this ssytem, there is no way. Even checked w Prof monitor. 1GB mem, dual 550 Procs, 36 GB of free space So I am thinking it's an issue with E2K DC communication. So my fix is to promote the E2K Server to a DC w/ a GC on it. Any reason I should not? Thank You, - John Q Jr. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: promoting E2K to a DC
You know the location or what CD this is located on? - Original Message - From: Stidley, Joel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 12:48 PM Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC How is your network setup? Is your Exchange server behind a firewall or VPN? Do you have a GC close to the clients? Have you done a netmon trace to see at what point the problem is occurring? Joel -Original Message- From: John Q Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 1:44 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: promoting E2K to a DC I have a E2K, SP2 box that continues to give Requesting data from Exchange server errors to users. All users are using OLK2002. I have tried everything I know. To no avail. I have also tried to reset the OLK clients, still an issues. It's odd it seams to rotate, one day a user will work fine and then not, then a nother user will expirence the same isse. I would think it's a load issue, but w/ only 25 users on this ssytem, there is no way. Even checked w Prof monitor. 1GB mem, dual 550 Procs, 36 GB of free space So I am thinking it's an issue with E2K DC communication. So my fix is to promote the E2K Server to a DC w/ a GC on it. Any reason I should not? Thank You, - John Q Jr. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: promoting E2K to a DC
John, you don't give any indication that the clients fail to connect and/or timeout. I use Outlook XP at home to my 5.5 boxes at work via ISDN. Routing is from an 801 at home to a 3640 at work and I get requesting data (rd) all the time. Nothing serious but just latency - usually only for a few seconds. All pings and tracerts show fine, I can VNC to any box on my wires throughout the UK without problem but Outlook still gives me an rd box quite frequently. I use Outlook XP at work and very, very occasionally get an rd though this is exception rather than norm (hi Norm!). This is just a feature of Outlook XP and may be exaggerating the issue. I would say this is network traffic/DC loaded/client config/bad cat5 more than anything else - not a fault with E2K. It may be prudent to investigate local traffic or client configs to see if they have any bearing on your issue. Regards PBB ~ndi -Original Message- From: John Q Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 March 2002 20:41 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: promoting E2K to a DC You know the location or what CD this is located on? - Original Message - From: Stidley, Joel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 12:48 PM Subject: RE: promoting E2K to a DC How is your network setup? Is your Exchange server behind a firewall or VPN? Do you have a GC close to the clients? Have you done a netmon trace to see at what point the problem is occurring? Joel -Original Message- From: John Q Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 1:44 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: promoting E2K to a DC I have a E2K, SP2 box that continues to give Requesting data from Exchange server errors to users. All users are using OLK2002. I have tried everything I know. To no avail. I have also tried to reset the OLK clients, still an issues. It's odd it seams to rotate, one day a user will work fine and then not, then a nother user will expirence the same isse. I would think it's a load issue, but w/ only 25 users on this ssytem, there is no way. Even checked w Prof monitor. 1GB mem, dual 550 Procs, 36 GB of free space So I am thinking it's an issue with E2K DC communication. So my fix is to promote the E2K Server to a DC w/ a GC on it. Any reason I should not? Thank You, - John Q Jr. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: promoting E2K to a DC
This is usually caused by network congestion. You can run a netmon trace to confirm this is the cause in your case. If that's what's causing the problem in your case, you can call PSS and get some information for registry changes to tune the length of time that will pass before the message box is presented or disable it altogether. Tom. -Original Message- From: John Q Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 2:44 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: promoting E2K to a DC I have a E2K, SP2 box that continues to give Requesting data from Exchange server errors to users. All users are using OLK2002. I have tried everything I know. To no avail. I have also tried to reset the OLK clients, still an issues. It's odd it seams to rotate, one day a user will work fine and then not, then a nother user will expirence the same isse. I would think it's a load issue, but w/ only 25 users on this ssytem, there is no way. Even checked w Prof monitor. 1GB mem, dual 550 Procs, 36 GB of free space So I am thinking it's an issue with E2K DC communication. So my fix is to promote the E2K Server to a DC w/ a GC on it. Any reason I should not? Thank You, - John Q Jr. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
