PF Permissions.

[Paul Cookman]

I am looking for the Shell command to make a user a publishing editor of a 
folder and all of its sub folders, has anyone had to do this

[PS] C:\Windows\System32>Add-PublicFolderClientPermission -Identity "\FOLDER" 
-AccessRights PublishingEditor -User DEFAULT

I used this but it didn't force the permissions down so I take it there is 
another command..

Kind regards,

Paul.





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Store crashed during mailbox move

[Michael Tellson]

Help, 

Ex 2003 SP2

My Information store service crashed while I was in the process of
moving a couple mailboxes from one store to another.  Now both stores
show that they have a copy of the mailbox.  One store shows the mailbox
disconnected, the other shows it online.  If I try to purge or reconnect
the disconnected mailbox, I get an error "The operation cannot be
performed because this mailbox was already reconnected to an existing
user"  If I try to move the mailbox again, I get an error that the
target mailbox already exists.

Google is not coming up with anything useful in my searches.

Does anyone know what needs to be done to clean this up?

 

 

Michael Tellson, CCA

Network Engineer, Colonial Savings, F.A.

817-390-2016

micha...@colonialsavings.com  

 


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RE: PF Permissions.

[Michael B. Smith]

You would put a get-publicfolder in front of it, with the -recurse
parameter, that returns every child PF folder of interest. Pipe the output
of get-publicfolder to add-publicfolderclientpermission.

 

From: Paul Cookman [mailto:paul.cook...@selection.co.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 9:18 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: PF Permissions.

 

 


I am looking for the Shell command to make a user a publishing editor of a
folder and all of its sub folders, has anyone had to do this

 

[PS] C:\Windows\System32>Add-PublicFolderClientPermission -Identity
"\FOLDER" -AccessRights PublishingEditor -User DEFAULT

 

I used this but it didn't force the permissions down so I take it there is
another command..

 

Kind regards,

 

Paul.

 

 

 


Paul Cookman . Technical Account Manager
+44(0) 844 874 1000 . +44(0) 844 874 1001 

paul.cook...@selection.co.uk . www.selection.co.uk
  

 






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RE: Store crashed during mailbox move

[Michael B. Smith]

Delete the new mailbox. Run the cleanup agent. Re-attach the old mailbox to
the user. Re-run the move-mailbox.

 

And figure out why your information store crashed and fix it so it doesn't
happen again. J

 

From: Michael Tellson [mailto:micha...@colonialsavings.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 9:24 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Store crashed during mailbox move

 

Help, 

Ex 2003 SP2

My Information store service crashed while I was in the process of moving a
couple mailboxes from one store to another.  Now both stores show that they
have a copy of the mailbox.  One store shows the mailbox disconnected, the
other shows it online.  If I try to purge or reconnect the disconnected
mailbox, I get an error "The operation cannot be performed because this
mailbox was already reconnected to an existing user"  If I try to move the
mailbox again, I get an error that the target mailbox already exists.

Google is not coming up with anything useful in my searches.

Does anyone know what needs to be done to clean this up?

 

colonial logo

Michael Tellson, CCA

Network Engineer, Colonial Savings, F.A.

817-390-2016

micha...@colonialsavings.com

 

 

 


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RE: Store crashed during mailbox move

[Kim Longenbaugh]

so that's what these messages were all about:
From: w...@csmail [mailto:w...@csmail  ] 

Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 8:53 PM

To: Engineers

Subject: Error on CSMAIL

CSMAIL has reported a Error. Reported status is:

Queues - Unknown

Drives - Unknown

Services - Error

Memory - Unknown

CPU - Unknown




From: Michael Tellson [mailto:micha...@colonialsavings.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 8:24 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Store crashed during mailbox move



Help, 

Ex 2003 SP2

My Information store service crashed while I was in the process of
moving a couple mailboxes from one store to another.  Now both stores
show that they have a copy of the mailbox.  One store shows the mailbox
disconnected, the other shows it online.  If I try to purge or reconnect
the disconnected mailbox, I get an error "The operation cannot be
performed because this mailbox was already reconnected to an existing
user"  If I try to move the mailbox again, I get an error that the
target mailbox already exists.

Google is not coming up with anything useful in my searches.

Does anyone know what needs to be done to clean this up?

 

 

Michael Tellson, CCA

Network Engineer, Colonial Savings, F.A.

817-390-2016

micha...@colonialsavings.com  

 


 


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RE: PF Permissions.

[Paul Cookman]

Do you have a command line you have used?




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From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com]
Sent: 26 February 2009 14:26
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: PF Permissions.

You would put a get-publicfolder in front of it, with the -recurse parameter, 
that returns every child PF folder of interest. Pipe the output of 
get-publicfolder to add-publicfolderclientpermission.

From: Paul Cookman [mailto:paul.cook...@selection.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 9:18 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: PF Permissions.


I am looking for the Shell command to make a user a publishing editor of a 
folder and all of its sub folders, has anyone had to do this

[PS] C:\Windows\System32>Add-PublicFolderClientPermission -Identity "\FOLDER" 
-AccessRights PublishingEditor -User DEFAULT

I used this but it didn't force the permissions down so I take it there is 
another command..

Kind regards,

Paul.




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Re: Email screening

[Angie Urtel]

I can't see how to get Export-Mailbox to do this without moving/deleting the
source messages.

I want to use this for an audit only.  Not to actually clean the mailboxes.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Michael B. Smith <
mich...@theessentialexchange.com> wrote:

>  Export-mailbox does this, but its search strings are static, not
> expression based.
>
>
>
> *From:* Angie Urtel [mailto:200...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 25, 2009 2:11 PM
> *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Re: Email screening
>
>
>
> I'm looking for a way to audit mailboxes for the presence of PHI, without
> having to buy one of the tools listed previously.
>
> I know in past versions, I've used ExMerge to clean mailboxes of viruses,
> and I assume the same could be used to search for specific terms.  However,
> I am running Exch 2007 now...
>
> The content filter won't really do what I want since, at least initially,
> want it to be non-intrusive.  Ideally, a non-intrusive solution that would
> allow me to search static as well as moving data.  Any ideas?
>
> -Angie
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Sean Martin 
> wrote:
>
> +1
>
>
>
> We implemented ProofPoint a little over a year ago. We use their regulatory
> compliance module to block the transmission of personally identifiable
> financial information via e-mail. I know they have built in policies and
> dictionaries for HIPPA, etc. The web interface is a little clumsy but it
> does provide very granular control, policy enforcement, behavior
> (blocking/forwarding/encrypting*) and reporting. I also like the ability to
> cluster their appliances for load balancing/failover.
>
>
>
> *The encryption piece is an added feature developed by Voltage and provided
> by ProofPoint. However, it has been integrated very well into ProofPoint's
> management interface.
>
>
>
> - Sean
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Don Andrews 
> wrote:
>
>   Might check Proofpoint – they sound like they are rated pretty high on
> the various lexicons (HIPAA, PCI etc.)
>
>
>
> I'm not aware the Websense does email.
>
>
>   --
>
> *From:* Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:47 AM
>
>
> *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
>
> *Subject:* Email screening
>
>
>
> We have a product we're getting rid of called Vericept that reports on but
> does not block certain categories that we need flagged. Things like patient
> information,SS #'s, gambling,porn and racial etc...  This is only for email
> not web browsing. We are implementing Websense for that.
>
>
>
> I haven't checked but does Websense have this ability to look at emails for
> certain text strings?
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any ideas?
>
>
>
> dave
>
> This e-mail contains the thoughts and opinions of the sender and does not
> represent official Parkview Medical Center policy.
>
> This communication is intended only for the recipient(s) named above, may
> be confidential and/or legally privileged: and, must be treated as such in
> accordance with state and federal laws. If you are not the intended
> recipient, you are hereby notified that any use of this communication, or
> any of its contents, is prohibited. If you have received this communication
> in error, please return to sender and delete the message from your computer
> system.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Messages in "Root" Folder

[Rausch, Michael D]

Exchange 2003.

We have a user that is getting "You're over your size limit" messages.

But if you right click on "Mailbox - Lastname, Firstname" and do Folder Size, 
it says his mailbox is only consuming about 10% of what the mailbox size limit.

But if I look on the Exchange server itself using the console, his mailbox 
shows as being about 15% over the mailbox size limit.


If I move his mailbox, it displays "moving messages. Root (0/705)" and then 
proceeds to move all of those messages.  I am guessing this is where the 
discrepency lies.


Thing is, I can't find any "Root" folder anywhere.  Not in his mailbox.  If I 
check actually IN the "Mailbox - Lastname, Firstname" section, there is only 
one very small message in there.

So... Anybody have any idea what this Root folder might be and how I (or the 
user) might access it?  Anybody seen anything like this before?

Thanks

Mike
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RE: Messages in "Root" Folder

[Damien Solodow]

Look at his mailbox with pfdavadmin. It will show you things that
Outlook may hide from you.

-Original Message-
From: Rausch, Michael D [mailto:michael.rau...@nwa.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:08 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Messages in "Root" Folder

Exchange 2003.

We have a user that is getting "You're over your size limit" messages.

But if you right click on "Mailbox - Lastname, Firstname" and do Folder
Size, it says his mailbox is only consuming about 10% of what the
mailbox size limit.

But if I look on the Exchange server itself using the console, his
mailbox shows as being about 15% over the mailbox size limit.


If I move his mailbox, it displays "moving messages. Root (0/705)" and
then proceeds to move all of those messages.  I am guessing this is
where the discrepency lies.


Thing is, I can't find any "Root" folder anywhere.  Not in his mailbox.
If I check actually IN the "Mailbox - Lastname, Firstname" section,
there is only one very small message in there.

So... Anybody have any idea what this Root folder might be and how I (or
the user) might access it?  Anybody seen anything like this before?

Thanks

Mike
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RE: Email screening

[Michael B. Smith]

If you set the target to a PST, it does not delete the messages unless you
set the DeleteContent switch or the DeleteAssociatedContent switch.

 

From: Angie Urtel [mailto:200...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 2:12 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Email screening

 

I can't see how to get Export-Mailbox to do this without moving/deleting the
source messages.

I want to use this for an audit only.  Not to actually clean the mailboxes.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Michael B. Smith
 wrote:

Export-mailbox does this, but its search strings are static, not expression
based.

 

From: Angie Urtel [mailto:200...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 2:11 PM


To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues

Subject: Re: Email screening

 

I'm looking for a way to audit mailboxes for the presence of PHI, without
having to buy one of the tools listed previously. 

I know in past versions, I've used ExMerge to clean mailboxes of viruses,
and I assume the same could be used to search for specific terms.  However,
I am running Exch 2007 now... 

The content filter won't really do what I want since, at least initially,
want it to be non-intrusive.  Ideally, a non-intrusive solution that would
allow me to search static as well as moving data.  Any ideas?

-Angie

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Sean Martin  wrote:

+1

 

We implemented ProofPoint a little over a year ago. We use their regulatory
compliance module to block the transmission of personally identifiable
financial information via e-mail. I know they have built in policies and
dictionaries for HIPPA, etc. The web interface is a little clumsy but it
does provide very granular control, policy enforcement, behavior
(blocking/forwarding/encrypting*) and reporting. I also like the ability to
cluster their appliances for load balancing/failover.

 

*The encryption piece is an added feature developed by Voltage and provided
by ProofPoint. However, it has been integrated very well into ProofPoint's
management interface.

 

- Sean

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Don Andrews 
wrote:

Might check Proofpoint - they sound like they are rated pretty high on the
various lexicons (HIPAA, PCI etc.)

 

I'm not aware the Websense does email.

 

  _  

From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:d...@parkviewmc.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:47 AM 


To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues

Subject: Email screening 

 

We have a product we're getting rid of called Vericept that reports on but
does not block certain categories that we need flagged. Things like patient
information,SS #'s, gambling,porn and racial etc...  This is only for email
not web browsing. We are implementing Websense for that.

 

I haven't checked but does Websense have this ability to look at emails for
certain text strings?

 

Thanks in advance for any ideas?

 

dave

This e-mail contains the thoughts and opinions of the sender and does not
represent official Parkview Medical Center policy.

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Help in Moving over MX record from one provider to another

[Debashish Basak]

Hello All,

 

We are in the process of moving to a new location. The present internet
provider is being changed to a new provider. Can someone who has gone
through this advice as the best way to change the following:

 

DNS Addresses

MX record

 

Will there be a downtime when this change happens? Any advice will be
helpful.

 

Thanking you and with Best Wishes,

Debashish


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RE: Help in Moving over MX record from one provider to another

[Roger Wright]

I did this just a couple months ago.  We didn't see an impact on
outgoing messages - you may if you have an SPF record.  

 

Incoming began resolving within 15-20 minutes for a few sender domains
(Gmail, Hotmail), but you should allow 4-24 hours to be safe.  

 

I'd suggest doing this on a weekend or late night when your incoming
mail traffic is less likely to be affected.

 

   

 

Roger Wright

Network Administrator

Evatone, Inc.

727.572.7076  x388

_  

 

From: Debashish Basak [mailto:dba...@pycon.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:25 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Help in Moving over MX record from one provider to another

 

Hello All,

 

We are in the process of moving to a new location. The present internet
provider is being changed to a new provider. Can someone who has gone
through this advice as the best way to change the following:

 

DNS Addresses

MX record

 

Will there be a downtime when this change happens? Any advice will be
helpful.

 

Thanking you and with Best Wishes,

Debashish

 

 


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RE: Help in Moving over MX record from one provider to another

[Campbell, Rob]

You can minimize the delivery delays if you cut back on the ttl's on the 
existing DNS records a day or two in advance of the changeover.

Worst case scenario is that some DNS servers will have the old information 
cached, and and mail server that uses those records will not be able to contact 
your mail server on the first delivery attempt. Those emails should get queued, 
and by the time the next retry attempt rolls around the ttl's will have 
expired, they'll get the right information on the second attempt.


From: Debashish Basak [mailto:dba...@pycon.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 2:25 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Help in Moving over MX record from one provider to another

Hello All,

We are in the process of moving to a new location. The present internet 
provider is being changed to a new provider. Can someone who has gone through 
this advice as the best way to change the following:

DNS Addresses
MX record

Will there be a downtime when this change happens? Any advice will be helpful.

Thanking you and with Best Wishes,
Debashish



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RE: Help in Moving over MX record from one provider to another

[Donnelly, Sean]

They say up to 24 hrs for propagation to take place, but when I did it this
past summer it was completed in a few hours. No issues after that.

 

 

Sean Donnelly

IT Operations Manager

tel. (781) 935-6020 x395

fax (781) 998-2682

 

Service Point USA

Document, Print, and Information Management

www.servicepointusa.com  

 

 

 

From: Debashish Basak [mailto:dba...@pycon.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:25 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Help in Moving over MX record from one provider to another

 

Hello All,

 

We are in the process of moving to a new location. The present internet
provider is being changed to a new provider. Can someone who has gone
through this advice as the best way to change the following:

 

DNS Addresses

MX record

 

Will there be a downtime when this change happens? Any advice will be
helpful.

 

Thanking you and with Best Wishes,

Debashish

 

 


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RE: Help in Moving over MX record from one provider to another

[Debashish Basak]

First of all, thanks for the info to Roger Wright and Rob Campbell for
the suggestions. I will keep them in mind. 

 

As far as changing the DNS and MX records do I just cancel the zone file
with the present provider and request for creation of a new zone file
with the new provider?

 

From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net] 
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 12:39 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Help in Moving over MX record from one provider to another

 

You can minimize the delivery delays if you cut back on the ttl's on the
existing DNS records a day or two in advance of the changeover.  

 

Worst case scenario is that some DNS servers will have the old
information cached, and and mail server that uses those records will not
be able to contact your mail server on the first delivery attempt. Those
emails should get queued, and by the time the next retry attempt rolls
around the ttl's will have expired, they'll get the right information on
the second attempt.

 

  _  

From: Debashish Basak [mailto:dba...@pycon.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 2:25 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Help in Moving over MX record from one provider to another

 

Hello All,

 

We are in the process of moving to a new location. The present internet
provider is being changed to a new provider. Can someone who has gone
through this advice as the best way to change the following:

 

DNS Addresses

MX record

 

Will there be a downtime when this change happens? Any advice will be
helpful.

 

Thanking you and with Best Wishes,

Debashish

 

 


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RE: Help in Moving over MX record from one provider to another

[Campbell, Rob]

You should notify the exiting provider in advance that they will no longer be 
authoritative for that zone after the cutover.  If you don't do that, their DNS 
servers will continue to provide the wrong information to any of their clients 
using those servers.



From: Debashish Basak [mailto:dba...@pycon.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 2:44 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Help in Moving over MX record from one provider to another

First of all, thanks for the info to Roger Wright and Rob Campbell for the 
suggestions. I will keep them in mind.

As far as changing the DNS and MX records do I just cancel the zone file with 
the present provider and request for creation of a new zone file with the new 
provider?

From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 12:39 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Help in Moving over MX record from one provider to another

You can minimize the delivery delays if you cut back on the ttl's on the 
existing DNS records a day or two in advance of the changeover.

Worst case scenario is that some DNS servers will have the old information 
cached, and and mail server that uses those records will not be able to contact 
your mail server on the first delivery attempt. Those emails should get queued, 
and by the time the next retry attempt rolls around the ttl's will have 
expired, they'll get the right information on the second attempt.


From: Debashish Basak [mailto:dba...@pycon.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 2:25 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Help in Moving over MX record from one provider to another

Hello All,

We are in the process of moving to a new location. The present internet 
provider is being changed to a new provider. Can someone who has gone through 
this advice as the best way to change the following:

DNS Addresses
MX record

Will there be a downtime when this change happens? Any advice will be helpful.

Thanking you and with Best Wishes,
Debashish




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Resource Mailbox question

[Kretche, Peter]

For those of you who are more familiar with Resource Mailboxes in Exchange 
2007, please take a shot at this question.  Is it possible to have the body of 
the appointment show up on the Resource calendar?  All the other attendees get 
this information on the meeting request, the Resource calendar is missing the 
information.  Is this by design or did I fudge up the creation of the Resource 
Mailbox?

-
Thank you,
Pete Kretche
MCP, A+, HP APS
Senior Network/Systems Administrator
E-mail Administrator
UW - Green Bay
Voice: 920.465.5014
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RE: Help in Moving over MX record from one provider to another

[Exchange (Sunbelt)]

I normally double up on the DNS a week or so in advance...

Give the new MX record the value of 10, existing MX 20. That way your email 
move will be instant as soon as the new IP is up & running.

From: Debashish Basak [mailto:dba...@pycon.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 4:25 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Help in Moving over MX record from one provider to another

Hello All,

We are in the process of moving to a new location. The present internet 
provider is being changed to a new provider. Can someone who has gone through 
this advice as the best way to change the following:

DNS Addresses
MX record

Will there be a downtime when this change happens? Any advice will be helpful.

Thanking you and with Best Wishes,
Debashish




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RE: Help in Moving over MX record from one provider to another

[gsweers]

R U changing your DNS provider for the zone?   If that is the case, then
you can have 24 to 48 hours of downtime.  Move to your new DNS provider
before moving locations...


if you are just changing the records then it usually happens in 24 to 48
hours.  I always just go in 24 hours before and put the new IP as the MX
10 and leave the current as MX 20

 

When the cutover happens email should transparently flow without issues,
and then I just go remove the secondary(Old location)

 

Changing hostnames is usually the most problematic as there is no way
for those to rollover seamlessly and usually only take a few hours...the
TTL suggestion will help with this tremendously.


Greg

 

From: Debashish Basak [mailto:dba...@pycon.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:25 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Help in Moving over MX record from one provider to another

 

Hello All,

 

We are in the process of moving to a new location. The present internet
provider is being changed to a new provider. Can someone who has gone
through this advice as the best way to change the following:

 

DNS Addresses

MX record

 

Will there be a downtime when this change happens? Any advice will be
helpful.

 

Thanking you and with Best Wishes,

Debashish

 

 


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Re: Help in Moving over MX record from one provider to another

[Ben Scott]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Debashish Basak  wrote:
> We are in the process of moving to a new location. The present internet
> provider is being changed to a new provider.

  This is a straightforward procedure.  You can change the A records
associated with the domain names specified by your MX records, or you
can change your MX records.  I suggest changing the MX records.  Since
you're allowed to specify multiple MX records, add MX records for the
new site, while leaving the old ones intact.  That way you can
cut-over the servers, and the rest of the Internet will retry around
you.

> Will there be a downtime when this change happens?

  Are you moving servers as well, or are you bringing up new servers
in the new location, to replace old servers at the old location?  If
you're moving servers, of course there will be downtime when those
servers are down.  Most mail systems will retry for a day or two, so
you may be able to sustain an outage of a few hours without anyone
noticing.

  Ideally, you get connectivity at the new site, and bring up new
equipment there.  Have that equipment forward mail back to your old
site.  Then add the MX records for the new site, making them preferred
over the old site's MX records.  The rest of the world will start
sending mail through your new site, and the new site will forward it
to your old site.  Then, when ready, you just stop forwarding and
leave mail at your new site.

  Once you're confident everything is working at the new site, remove
the MX records for the old site.  Then, and only then, discontinue
connectivity services at your old site.

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Debashish Basak  wrote:
> As far as changing the DNS and MX records do I just cancel the zone file
> with the present provider and request for creation of a new zone file with
> the new provider?

  There's absolutely no technical reason your DNS hosting should be
tied to your connectivity provider.  Don't try to switch both
connectivity and DNS hosting at the same time; it makes things more
complicated, and opens you up to failure scenarios you can't easily
get out of.

  If your connectivity provider is also your DNS provider, and you
want to keep it that way, then I suggest first getting the services
activated at your new site, well in advance.  Copy your DNS zone from
the old provider to the new provider, but keep the records as they are
for your old site.  Run manual queries to confirm both providers are
giving the same set of DNS answers.

  Then submit the changes at the DNS registry to switch to the new DNS
provider.  The rest of the world will gradually switch over from the
old DNS provider to the new one, but since both providers are giving
the same answers, it doesn't matter who they ask.

  There is an unpredictable delay for the time it takes your registrar
to process your change request and submit it to the registry.  This
can range from minutes to hours.  Once your registrar has submitted
changes to the registry, things are predictable.  Last I knew, changes
at the GTLD nameservers are loaded twice a day, so allow up to 12
hours for that.  TTL on the GTLD zones is 48 hours.  So at a minimum,
allow for 60 hours for changes to registered nameservers.

  Once DNS is transitioned, then start making connectivity and/or
server changes.

-- Ben

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RE: Messages in "Root" Folder

[Steve Szabo]

It has been a long time since I've seen this behavior, 98 was THE Windows
then, and I cannot, for the life of me remember how to fix it. If you click
on Mailbox - [username], that is the "root" where the messages are. Ahhh, I
got it. Open the mailbox using OWA, then click on the [username] shown at
the top of the tree, and you should see the hidden messages. You need to use
IE to do this as FF will not show this root folder. Create a new folder, and
you can move all those messages there for the user to do with what they
will--hopefully not store them in the root folder again .

\\Steve// 

> -Original Message-
> From: Rausch, Michael D [mailto:michael.rau...@nwa.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:08 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: Messages in "Root" Folder
> 
> Exchange 2003.
> 
> We have a user that is getting "You're over your size limit" messages.
> 
> But if you right click on "Mailbox - Lastname, Firstname" and do Folder
Size, it says his
> mailbox is only consuming about 10% of what the mailbox size limit.
> 
> But if I look on the Exchange server itself using the console, his mailbox
shows as being about
> 15% over the mailbox size limit.
> 
> 
> If I move his mailbox, it displays "moving messages. Root (0/705)" and
then proceeds to move
> all of those messages.  I am guessing this is where the discrepency lies.
> 
> 
> Thing is, I can't find any "Root" folder anywhere.  Not in his mailbox.
If I check actually IN
> the "Mailbox - Lastname, Firstname" section, there is only one very small
message in there.
> 
> So... Anybody have any idea what this Root folder might be and how I (or
the user) might
> access it?  Anybody seen anything like this before?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mike




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