RE: PST files, be gone.

[Sam Cayze]

There is a tool called upstart that will combine PST files into one nice
UNICODE PST.  (Forgoing the 2GB limit).

http://www.maclean.com/upstart.php

 

 

 

From: Roger Scudder [mailto:r...@scudderconsulting.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 10:41 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: PST files, be gone.

 

Her Exchange mailbox is up to 2.5GB and she has two PSTs at 2GB each, two at
1GB each and a couple more that are under 500Mb each.

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:27 AM, David Mazzaccaro
 wrote:

How large is her current mailbox?

How large are the PST files?

 

 

From: Roger Scudder [mailto:r...@scudderconsulting.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 11:19 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: PST files, be gone.

 

I have one user who has a very large mailbox, and in addition she has many
pst files with archived mail from previous years.  I want to be rid of the
pst files, but moving the folders to her mailbox is out of the question
because it would be way to large.  I'm thinking that I could create an
exchange store for the archived mail, but I'm not sure if that is really a
good idea.  Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.  Exchange 2003 on
Windows Server 2003.

 

Roger Scudder

 

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RE: Exchange Issue w/ DC failure

[phil levine]

yes they were. one of the first things i checked. thanks.

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From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net 
Subject: RE: Exchange Issue w/ DC failure
To: "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" 
Date: Friday, February 4, 2011, 11:10 AM








Does your Exchange server have multiple DNS servers listed to those DC’s?  Are 
they all responding?
 
Greg Sweers
CEO
ACTS360.com
P.O. Box 1193
Brandon, FL  33509
813-657-0849 Office
813-758-6850 Cell
813-341-1270 Fax
 

From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 10:32 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange Issue w/ DC failure
 
Oh, that helps...LOL.  Yes I've got three in each current, none in static. 

 

Another odd thing...I've got my activesync running according to 
testyourexchangeconnectivity.com and the ipad can connect, but the android 
phones can't.  Anyone see this?

(Sorry to hijack this thread - well maybe not that sorry)

Steve

 

 

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Michael B. Smith  wrote:


I probably should have pointed out the
 
  Get-ExchangeServer –status | fl
 
As not everyone does as much PS as I do. Part of the output should be something 
like this:
 
StaticDomainControllers   : {}
StaticGlobalCatalogs      : {}
StaticConfigDomainController  :
StaticExcludedDomainControllers   : {}
CurrentDomainControllers  : {server1.easyemail.local}
CurrentGlobalCatalogs : {server1.easyemail.local}
CurrentConfigDomainController : server1.easyemail.local
 
But you want the list of Current* items to contain more than one server.
 
And the Static* to be empty.

 
Regards,
 
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
 
From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 10:23 AM


To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange Issue w/ DC failure


 
Just ran that command on my 2010 box...doesn't mention that it is connected to 
any GCs or DCs.  Where is it supposed to list that?

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Michael B. Smith  wrote:


Well, the one further question – are you sure that Exchange is configured to 
use multiple GCs/DCs?
 
(Get-ExchangeServer –status).

 
Regards,
 
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
 
From: phil levine [mailto:plevin...@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 9:48 AM


To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues


Subject: RE: Exchange Issue w/ DC failure


 




we're on exchange 2010 and our outlook clients are 2007 or later. it affected a 
lot of people. luckily it happened after normal hours. is there any setting on 
clients where we can force it to change DC or something? we have autodiscover 
working. just seemed strange.

--- On Fri, 2/4/11, Michael B. Smith  wrote:

From: Michael B. Smith 
Subject: RE: Exchange Issue w/ DC failure
To: "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" 
Date: Friday, February 4, 2011, 9:30 AM


Newer versions of outlook are better at this than older versions of outlook.
 
Autodiscover is better than any manual configuration.
 
Cached mode is better than online mode.
 
Outlook 2003 sux.
 
J
 
Regards,
 
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
 
From: phil levine [mailto:plevin...@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 9:27 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange Issue w/ DC failure
 







had a weird issue the other day where I had a DC fail and outlook started 
prompting for credentials. is there a reason why outlook wouldnt just look to 
the next DC in line?

 

thanks

 

phil

 
 

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RE: Exchange Issue w/ DC failure

[phil levine]

i see 5 DC's in the Current GC area and nothing in static.

--- On Fri, 2/4/11, Michael B. Smith  wrote:


From: Michael B. Smith 
Subject: RE: Exchange Issue w/ DC failure
To: "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" 
Date: Friday, February 4, 2011, 10:28 AM






I probably should have pointed out the
 
  Get-ExchangeServer –status | fl
 
As not everyone does as much PS as I do. Part of the output should be something 
like this:
 
StaticDomainControllers   : {}
StaticGlobalCatalogs      : {}
StaticConfigDomainController  :
StaticExcludedDomainControllers   : {}
CurrentDomainControllers  : {server1.easyemail.local}
CurrentGlobalCatalogs : {server1.easyemail.local}
CurrentConfigDomainController : server1.easyemail.local
 
But you want the list of Current* items to contain more than one server.
 
And the Static* to be empty.
 
Regards,
 
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
 
From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 10:23 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange Issue w/ DC failure
 
Just ran that command on my 2010 box...doesn't mention that it is connected to 
any GCs or DCs.  Where is it supposed to list that?

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Michael B. Smith  wrote:


Well, the one further question – are you sure that Exchange is configured to 
use multiple GCs/DCs?
 
(Get-ExchangeServer –status).

 
Regards,
 
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
 
From: phil levine [mailto:plevin...@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 9:48 AM


To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues


Subject: RE: Exchange Issue w/ DC failure


 




we're on exchange 2010 and our outlook clients are 2007 or later. it affected a 
lot of people. luckily it happened after normal hours. is there any setting on 
clients where we can force it to change DC or something? we have autodiscover 
working. just seemed strange.

--- On Fri, 2/4/11, Michael B. Smith  wrote:

From: Michael B. Smith 
Subject: RE: Exchange Issue w/ DC failure
To: "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" 
Date: Friday, February 4, 2011, 9:30 AM


Newer versions of outlook are better at this than older versions of outlook.
 
Autodiscover is better than any manual configuration.
 
Cached mode is better than online mode.
 
Outlook 2003 sux.
 
J
 
Regards,
 
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
 
From: phil levine [mailto:plevin...@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 9:27 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange Issue w/ DC failure
 







had a weird issue the other day where I had a DC fail and outlook started 
prompting for credentials. is there a reason why outlook wouldnt just look to 
the next DC in line?

 

thanks

 

phil

 
 

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RE: Exchange Issue w/ DC failure

[greg.sweers]

Does your Exchange server have multiple DNS servers listed to those DC's?  Are 
they all responding?

Greg Sweers
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From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 10:32 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange Issue w/ DC failure

Oh, that helps...LOL.  Yes I've got three in each current, none in static.

Another odd thing...I've got my activesync running according to 
testyourexchangeconnectivity.com and 
the ipad can connect, but the android phones can't.  Anyone see this?
(Sorry to hijack this thread - well maybe not that sorry)
Steve


On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Michael B. Smith 
mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote:
I probably should have pointed out the

  Get-ExchangeServer -status | fl

As not everyone does as much PS as I do. Part of the output should be something 
like this:

StaticDomainControllers   : {}
StaticGlobalCatalogs  : {}
StaticConfigDomainController  :
StaticExcludedDomainControllers   : {}
CurrentDomainControllers  : {server1.easyemail.local}
CurrentGlobalCatalogs : {server1.easyemail.local}
CurrentConfigDomainController : server1.easyemail.local

But you want the list of Current* items to contain more than one server.

And the Static* to be empty.

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 10:23 AM

To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange Issue w/ DC failure

Just ran that command on my 2010 box...doesn't mention that it is connected to 
any GCs or DCs.  Where is it supposed to list that?
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Michael B. Smith 
mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote:
Well, the one further question - are you sure that Exchange is configured to 
use multiple GCs/DCs?

(Get-ExchangeServer -status).

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: phil levine [mailto:plevin...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 9:48 AM

To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange Issue w/ DC failure

we're on exchange 2010 and our outlook clients are 2007 or later. it affected a 
lot of people. luckily it happened after normal hours. is there any setting on 
clients where we can force it to change DC or something? we have autodiscover 
working. just seemed strange.

--- On Fri, 2/4/11, Michael B. Smith 
mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote:

From: Michael B. Smith mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>>
Subject: RE: Exchange Issue w/ DC failure
To: "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" 
mailto:exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>>
Date: Friday, February 4, 2011, 9:30 AM

Newer versions of outlook are better at this than older versions of outlook.



Autodiscover is better than any manual configuration.



Cached mode is better than online mode.



Outlook 2003 sux.



:)



Regards,



Michael B. Smith

Consultant and Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com



From: phil levine [mailto:plevin...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 9:27 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange Issue w/ DC failure


had a weird issue the other day where I had a DC fail and outlook started 
prompting for credentials. is there a reason why outlook wouldnt just look to 
the next DC in line?



thanks



phil





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RE: Exchange Issue w/ DC failure

[Michael B. Smith]

I probably should have pointed out the

  Get-ExchangeServer -status | fl

As not everyone does as much PS as I do. Part of the output should be something 
like this:

StaticDomainControllers   : {}
StaticGlobalCatalogs  : {}
StaticConfigDomainController  :
StaticExcludedDomainControllers   : {}
CurrentDomainControllers  : {server1.easyemail.local}
CurrentGlobalCatalogs : {server1.easyemail.local}
CurrentConfigDomainController : server1.easyemail.local

But you want the list of Current* items to contain more than one server.

And the Static* to be empty.

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 10:23 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange Issue w/ DC failure

Just ran that command on my 2010 box...doesn't mention that it is connected to 
any GCs or DCs.  Where is it supposed to list that?
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Michael B. Smith 
mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote:
Well, the one further question - are you sure that Exchange is configured to 
use multiple GCs/DCs?

(Get-ExchangeServer -status).

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: phil levine [mailto:plevin...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 9:48 AM

To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange Issue w/ DC failure

we're on exchange 2010 and our outlook clients are 2007 or later. it affected a 
lot of people. luckily it happened after normal hours. is there any setting on 
clients where we can force it to change DC or something? we have autodiscover 
working. just seemed strange.

--- On Fri, 2/4/11, Michael B. Smith 
mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote:

From: Michael B. Smith mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>>
Subject: RE: Exchange Issue w/ DC failure
To: "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" 
mailto:exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>>
Date: Friday, February 4, 2011, 9:30 AM

Newer versions of outlook are better at this than older versions of outlook.



Autodiscover is better than any manual configuration.



Cached mode is better than online mode.



Outlook 2003 sux.



:)



Regards,



Michael B. Smith

Consultant and Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com



From: phil levine [mailto:plevin...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 9:27 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange Issue w/ DC failure


had a weird issue the other day where I had a DC fail and outlook started 
prompting for credentials. is there a reason why outlook wouldnt just look to 
the next DC in line?



thanks



phil





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RE: Exchange Issue w/ DC failure

[Michael B. Smith]

Newer versions of outlook are better at this than older versions of outlook.

Autodiscover is better than any manual configuration.

Cached mode is better than online mode.

Outlook 2003 sux.

:)

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: phil levine [mailto:plevin...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 9:27 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange Issue w/ DC failure

had a weird issue the other day where I had a DC fail and outlook started 
prompting for credentials. is there a reason why outlook wouldnt just look to 
the next DC in line?

thanks

phil




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Exchange Issue w/ DC failure

[phil levine]

had a weird issue the other day where I had a DC fail and outlook started 
prompting for credentials. is there a reason why outlook wouldnt just look to 
the next DC in line?
 
thanks
 
phil
 


  
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RE: exchange not seeing it's local dc

[Michael B. Smith]

That's not just Exchange.

All applications prefer IPv6 that run on Server 2008 or Server 2008 R2 over 
IPv4. It's built into the IP stack that way.

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Nicholas Turner [mailto:ntur...@caci.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 7:55 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: exchange not seeing it's local dc

After a bit of research I'm currently thinking it's IPv6 as it was disabled on 
the server and apparently can cause this very error.  I'm assuming for some 
reason that exchange 2007 defaults to v6 when on a 2008 DC for it's intra 
server communication.

nltest /dsgetsite retured the expected result as did dcdiag so I'm going to 
turn on v6 tonight and see if that does the trick.

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: 04 February 2011 12:48
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: exchange not seeing it's local dc

The most common reason for this is that the DCs aren't set up properly in AD 
Sites & Services.

That being said, I've seen cases where DCs think they are in the wrong site and 
it has to be "forced". You can check that with "nltest /dsgetsite".

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Nicholas Turner [mailto:ntur...@caci.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 5:26 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: exchange not seeing it's local dc


This appears to be a week of infuriating problems I've inherited.



I've got a server in a remote site which has exchange 2007 installed on a 2008 
DC (not my choice I hasten to add) and a second DC in the site.  However when 
the second DC was rebooted Exchange decided to die a death.



Looking through the logs

The Topology event 2080 throws up the following



Local DC  CDG 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0

External DC   CDG 1 7 7 1 0 1 1 7 1



I can't for the life of me figure out why it can't see its own DC.



Any thoughts.  I tried adding rights in adsiedit to add an allow on the Read 
nTSecurityDescriptor, but that hasn't had an effect, unless I have to wait for 
caching or replication.



Nick Turner


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RE: exchange not seeing it's local dc

[Nicholas Turner]

After a bit of research I'm currently thinking it's IPv6 as it was disabled on 
the server and apparently can cause this very error.  I'm assuming for some 
reason that exchange 2007 defaults to v6 when on a 2008 DC for it's intra 
server communication.

nltest /dsgetsite retured the expected result as did dcdiag so I'm going to 
turn on v6 tonight and see if that does the trick.

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: 04 February 2011 12:48
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: exchange not seeing it's local dc

The most common reason for this is that the DCs aren't set up properly in AD 
Sites & Services.

That being said, I've seen cases where DCs think they are in the wrong site and 
it has to be "forced". You can check that with "nltest /dsgetsite".

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Nicholas Turner [mailto:ntur...@caci.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 5:26 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: exchange not seeing it's local dc


This appears to be a week of infuriating problems I've inherited.



I've got a server in a remote site which has exchange 2007 installed on a 2008 
DC (not my choice I hasten to add) and a second DC in the site.  However when 
the second DC was rebooted Exchange decided to die a death.



Looking through the logs

The Topology event 2080 throws up the following



Local DC  CDG 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0

External DC   CDG 1 7 7 1 0 1 1 7 1



I can't for the life of me figure out why it can't see its own DC.



Any thoughts.  I tried adding rights in adsiedit to add an allow on the Read 
nTSecurityDescriptor, but that hasn't had an effect, unless I have to wait for 
caching or replication.



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RE: exchange not seeing it's local dc

[Michael B. Smith]

The most common reason for this is that the DCs aren't set up properly in AD 
Sites & Services.

That being said, I've seen cases where DCs think they are in the wrong site and 
it has to be "forced". You can check that with "nltest /dsgetsite".

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Nicholas Turner [mailto:ntur...@caci.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 5:26 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: exchange not seeing it's local dc


This appears to be a week of infuriating problems I've inherited.



I've got a server in a remote site which has exchange 2007 installed on a 2008 
DC (not my choice I hasten to add) and a second DC in the site.  However when 
the second DC was rebooted Exchange decided to die a death.



Looking through the logs

The Topology event 2080 throws up the following



Local DC  CDG 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0

External DC   CDG 1 7 7 1 0 1 1 7 1



I can't for the life of me figure out why it can't see its own DC.



Any thoughts.  I tried adding rights in adsiedit to add an allow on the Read 
nTSecurityDescriptor, but that hasn't had an effect, unless I have to wait for 
caching or replication.



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exchange not seeing it's local dc

[Nicholas Turner]

This appears to be a week of infuriating problems I've inherited.



I've got a server in a remote site which has exchange 2007 installed on a 2008 
DC (not my choice I hasten to add) and a second DC in the site.  However when 
the second DC was rebooted Exchange decided to die a death.



Looking through the logs

The Topology event 2080 throws up the following



Local DC  CDG 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0

External DC   CDG 1 7 7 1 0 1 1 7 1



I can't for the life of me figure out why it can't see its own DC.



Any thoughts.  I tried adding rights in adsiedit to add an allow on the Read 
nTSecurityDescriptor, but that hasn't had an effect, unless I have to wait for 
caching or replication.



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Re: Cluster memory leak services.exe

[Al Rose]

Handles on services are around 1600

Handle v3.45
Copyright (C) 1997-2011 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

   18: File  (RW-)   C:\WINDOWS\system32
  238: Section   \RPC Control\DSEC270
  318: File  (R--)   C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\AppEvent.Evt
  328: File  (R--)   C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SecEvent.Evt
  338: File  (R--)   C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SysEvent.Evt
  510: File  (RW-)   C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\HARDWARE.sav
  514: File  (RW-)   C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\HARDWARE
  B90: File  (RW-)
C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls_659
5b64144ccf1df_6.0.3790.4770_x-ww_05FDF087
  B9C: File  (RW-)
C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls_659
5b64144ccf1df_6.0.3790.4770_x-ww_05FDF087
 1314: File  (---)   \Dfs
 150C: File  (RWD)   C:\ExchLogs
 15AC: File  (RWD)   D:\ExchLogs
 16CC: File  (RWD)   E:1\ExchLogs
 1798: File  (RWD)   E:0\ExchLogs

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Al Rose  wrote:

> Jason thats what is happening indeed.
>
> Handle nujmbers is a bit beyond normal but nothing really meaningful...
>
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Jason Gurtz wrote:
>
>> Does the WS grow steadily over time with no bound with the result of the
>> machine eventually running out of virtual memory?
>>
>> How about number of handles?
>>
>> ~JasonG
>>
>>
>> > -Original Message-
>> > From: Al Rose [mailto:arose...@gmail.com]
>> > Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 04:38
>> > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
>> > Subject: Re: Cluster memory leak services.exe
>> >
>> > Yes,
>> >
>> > Private Bytes = 1 694 348 K
>> > Working set = 1 721 932 K
>> > Working Set Private = 1 695 352 K
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Richard Stovall 
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >   I've never seen the services.exe process itself consume memory on
>> > that scale.  Is that WS Private?
>> >
>> >
>> >   On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Al Rose 
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >   Process Explorer shows that services.exe utilizes around
>> 2GB
>> > of RAM however the dependend processes are the same as the ones on the
>> > passive node that doesnt have a memory leak.
>> >   I cannot see any process using unusual amount of RAM.
>> >
>> >   boot.ini is as follows:
>> >   [boot loader]
>> >   timeout=30
>> >   default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
>> >   [operating systems]
>> >   multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows
>> Server
>> > 2003, Enterprise" /noexecute=optout /fastdetect /BASEVIDEO /3GB
>> > /USERVA=3030
>> >
>> >
>> >   On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Richard Stovall
>> >  wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >   Process Explorer didn't show you which service(s)
>> > was(were) consuming all that memory?  You should be able to add columns
>> for
>> > Working Set, WS Private, and WS Shareable.
>> >
>> >
>> >   Out of curiosity, what are the contents of your
>> > boot.ini file on that server?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >   On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Al Rose
>> >  wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >   Hi all,
>> >
>> >   I am working on a cluster that shows some
>> memory
>> > leaks.
>> >
>> >   Servers participating in the cluster have
>> both
>> > 4GB of Ram and are running windows server 2003 R2.
>> >   I started noticing that the services.exe
>> process
>> > was using 2GB of RAM on the active node, i tried to find out what was
>> > happening using procxp from live sysinternals but could not find
>> anything
>> > relevant. After some googling i found out that some people were
>> > experiencing the same issue and referred to logs size. There was a
>> standard
>> > policy on our domain for server that allowed log files to grow to 120MB,
>> i
>> > changed that policy for the cluster to 40Mb and cleaned out the log but
>> > still the services.exe is eating up almost 2GB. The server was the
>> active
>> > node in the cluster so we did a failover to see if it would change the
>> > memory consumption but now that the node is passive services.exe is
>> still
>> > using the same amount of memory.
>> >
>> >   Nothing differs from the 2 nodes.
>> >   I did a netdiag on the node in question
>> and
>> > received a browsing error:
>> >   DC list test . . . . . . . . . . . :
>> Failed
>> >   Failed to enumerate DCs by using
>> the
>> > browser. [ERROR_NO_BROWSER_SERVERS_FOUND]
>> >
>> >   I can say that netbios is not enabled on
>> the
>> > cluster and no wins servers are configured.
>> >
>> >   I stumbled upon this article from
>> Microsoft
>> > stating that netbios is still needed for exchange 2003 to function
>> properly
>> > especially for

Re: Cluster memory leak services.exe

[Al Rose]

Jason thats what is happening indeed.

Handle nujmbers is a bit beyond normal but nothing really meaningful...

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Jason Gurtz  wrote:

> Does the WS grow steadily over time with no bound with the result of the
> machine eventually running out of virtual memory?
>
> How about number of handles?
>
> ~JasonG
>
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Al Rose [mailto:arose...@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 04:38
> > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> > Subject: Re: Cluster memory leak services.exe
> >
> > Yes,
> >
> > Private Bytes = 1 694 348 K
> > Working set = 1 721 932 K
> > Working Set Private = 1 695 352 K
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Richard Stovall 
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >   I've never seen the services.exe process itself consume memory on
> > that scale.  Is that WS Private?
> >
> >
> >   On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Al Rose 
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >   Process Explorer shows that services.exe utilizes around
> 2GB
> > of RAM however the dependend processes are the same as the ones on the
> > passive node that doesnt have a memory leak.
> >   I cannot see any process using unusual amount of RAM.
> >
> >   boot.ini is as follows:
> >   [boot loader]
> >   timeout=30
> >   default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
> >   [operating systems]
> >   multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows
> Server
> > 2003, Enterprise" /noexecute=optout /fastdetect /BASEVIDEO /3GB
> > /USERVA=3030
> >
> >
> >   On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Richard Stovall
> >  wrote:
> >
> >
> >   Process Explorer didn't show you which service(s)
> > was(were) consuming all that memory?  You should be able to add columns
> for
> > Working Set, WS Private, and WS Shareable.
> >
> >
> >   Out of curiosity, what are the contents of your
> > boot.ini file on that server?
> >
> >
> >
> >   On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Al Rose
> >  wrote:
> >
> >
> >   Hi all,
> >
> >   I am working on a cluster that shows some
> memory
> > leaks.
> >
> >   Servers participating in the cluster have
> both
> > 4GB of Ram and are running windows server 2003 R2.
> >   I started noticing that the services.exe
> process
> > was using 2GB of RAM on the active node, i tried to find out what was
> > happening using procxp from live sysinternals but could not find
> anything
> > relevant. After some googling i found out that some people were
> > experiencing the same issue and referred to logs size. There was a
> standard
> > policy on our domain for server that allowed log files to grow to 120MB,
> i
> > changed that policy for the cluster to 40Mb and cleaned out the log but
> > still the services.exe is eating up almost 2GB. The server was the
> active
> > node in the cluster so we did a failover to see if it would change the
> > memory consumption but now that the node is passive services.exe is
> still
> > using the same amount of memory.
> >
> >   Nothing differs from the 2 nodes.
> >   I did a netdiag on the node in question
> and
> > received a browsing error:
> >   DC list test . . . . . . . . . . . :
> Failed
> >   Failed to enumerate DCs by using
> the
> > browser. [ERROR_NO_BROWSER_SERVERS_FOUND]
> >
> >   I can say that netbios is not enabled on
> the
> > cluster and no wins servers are configured.
> >
> >   I stumbled upon this article from
> Microsoft
> > stating that netbios is still needed for exchange 2003 to function
> properly
> > especially for Clusters http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837391/en-us
> >
> >   Any ideas, does it looks to you that it
> cpould
> > be a netbios related issue?
> >
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