Expansion server for distribution lists
We are eliminating one of our exchange servers (5.5, SP4) from our site. Unfortunately, a lot of our distribution lists point to this server as the expansion server. Is there a way to change this on all of our distribution lists at once instead of going into each group to make the change? Thanks, Tim List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Expansion server for distribution lists
Ok then, can you enlighten me? -Original Message- From: Snook, Kevin S (ITD) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 5:16 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Expansion server for distribution lists Yes. -Original Message- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 November 2001 16:07 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Expansion server for distribution lists We are eliminating one of our exchange servers (5.5, SP4) from our site. Unfortunately, a lot of our distribution lists point to this server as the expansion server. Is there a way to change this on all of our distribution lists at once instead of going into each group to make the change? Thanks, Tim List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Expansion server for distribution lists
My bad. I had tried exporting the data and all I saw was a "Home Server" field. But it looks like that is the same as Expansion Server. I've never done an import before. I'm hesitant to do this on our production server. Any gotchas to look out for? -Original Message- From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 12:59 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Expansion server for distribution lists Neil's explanation wasn't good enough for you? I thought it was perfect... -----Original Message- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 9:47 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Expansion server for distribution lists Ok then, can you enlighten me? -Original Message- From: Snook, Kevin S (ITD) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 5:16 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Expansion server for distribution lists Yes. -----Original Message- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 November 2001 16:07 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Expansion server for distribution lists We are eliminating one of our exchange servers (5.5, SP4) from our site. Unfortunately, a lot of our distribution lists point to this server as the expansion server. Is there a way to change this on all of our distribution lists at once instead of going into each group to make the change? Thanks, Tim List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
Removing server from site
We currently have 2 servers in our site, both running NT 4, SP6 and Exchange 5.5, SP4. We are about to upgrade one of the servers (Server1) to Windows 2000, Exchange 5.5 and would like to eliminate the other (Server 2) altogether. I followed the procedures in Q189286 XADM: How to Delete a Server from a Site. Specifically, I have gone through all public folders and made sure that they have Server 1 as the home server. I have removed the replication from Server2. I have also moved all mailboxes off Server2 onto Server1. Tonight I am going to go through and make sure that all distribution lists show Server1 as the expansion server. Are there any other steps I should take before removing Server 2 from the site? Besides backup of course? List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Removing server from site
Thanks everyone for your suggestions. Unfortunately I need to use the server for something else right away, but I think I have enough info now to avert a disaster. This list is great! I don't know what I'd do without it. -Original Message- From: Ellery July [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 6:59 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Removing server from site looks good two suggestions I would suggest that you keep the server in place or near by for about a month before formatting it. Also make sure that you can restore old files to the new server. -Original Message----- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 3:06 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Removing server from site We currently have 2 servers in our site, both running NT 4, SP6 and Exchange 5.5, SP4. We are about to upgrade one of the servers (Server1) to Windows 2000, Exchange 5.5 and would like to eliminate the other (Server 2) altogether. I followed the procedures in Q189286 XADM: How to Delete a Server from a Site. Specifically, I have gone through all public folders and made sure that they have Server 1 as the home server. I have removed the replication from Server2. I have also moved all mailboxes off Server2 onto Server1. Tonight I am going to go through and make sure that all distribution lists show Server1 as the expansion server. Are there any other steps I should take before removing Server 2 from the site? Besides backup of course? List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
Print distribution list members
Is there an easy way to print off a list of all members of a distribution list. I did an export, but the export format is not very printer friendly. Exchange Resource Kit maybe? List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Problem with Exchange 5.5 calendaring
I saw this problem about a year ago and the only thing I found to fix it is export the mailbox to pst, delete and recreate the mailbox, and reimport. -Original Message- From: Lathrum Matt-P55173 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 12:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Problem with Exchange 5.5 calendaring Greetings everyone, A user of mine is having problems seeing some meetings in her calendar. She uses Outlook 2000 pointing to an Exchange server 5.5 SP4. In the upper right month preview, days with meetings show up as bold, but when she clicks on one of those days, her calendar shows empty. She says her machine was reimaged but I can't see how that would change anything, since this doesn't appear to be a profile issue. I tried using Technet but their search function isn't working right now. In part of my troubleshooting process, I did a mailbox move to a different server, but that didn't help. Anyone have any ideas? -- Matt Lathrum General Dynamics Decision Systems When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
ever growing log files
We have one Exchange 5.5 server, SP4, running on NT 4 SP6a. Just recently after the removal of one of our servers from the site, the C: drive on our remaining exchange server has started running low on disk space. Looking out there in the exchsrvr\imcdata\log folder, there are about 17 different files named L000, L001, etc. The biggest one is almost 2GB in size and some of the others are over 100MB. Couple of questions. Should these logs be this big? I thought when you do a full backup it was supposed to flush the logs. We use Backup Exec 7.3 and are doing full backups every day. Circular logging is enabled. We have checked these logs for the past 4 days or so and they are growing larger each day. Second, can I just run the optimizer and move these logs to a bigger partition? I suggested doing that, but one of my coworkers says not to touch them. Thanks for your help. Tim List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
ever growing log files
I tried sending this yesterday, but right after we got hit by Goner so I don't know if it ever got through. > We have one Exchange 5.5 server, SP4, running on NT 4 SP6a. Just recently after the >removal of one of our servers from the site, the C: drive on our remaining exchange >server has started running low on disk space. Looking out there in the >exchsrvr\imcdata\log folder, there are about 17 different files named L000, >L001, etc. The biggest one is almost 2GB in size and some of the others are over >100MB. > > Couple of questions. Should these logs be this big? I thought when you do a full >backup it was supposed to flush the logs. We use Backup Exec 7.3 and are doing full >backups every day. Circular logging is enabled. We have checked these logs for the >past 4 days or so and they are growing larger each day. > > Second, can I just run the optimizer and move these logs to a bigger partition? I >suggested doing that, but one of my coworkers says not to touch them. > > Thanks for your help. > > Tim List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: ever growing log files
Thanks everyone for your assistance on this. As usual, you were right on the money. The SMTP protocol logging was set to "Maximum". One final question though if anyone knows. Can these logs be configured to save somewhere other than C:? Or can you set them to not grow beyond a certain size? I don't see any configuration options in the GUI. Thanks. Tim -Original Message- From: Diane Beckham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 2:35 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: ever growing log files Tim, I'm not a Exchange expert, but I don't think those are the transaction log files that are flushed when a backup is done (at least they aren't on my Exchange Server) Those are the MDBData logs and usually start like edb.log and they are always 5,120KB. The log files you are looking at, I think, is caused by someone who has set up message tracking or diagnostic logging. I think you can just delete them, but you better ask Martin, Don, Kevin, or William to be sure. Look around in Exchange Admin to see if you have any type of diagnostics being logged. HTH, Diane -----Original Message- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 6:39 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: ever growing log files I tried sending this yesterday, but right after we got hit by Goner so I don't know if it ever got through. > We have one Exchange 5.5 server, SP4, running on NT 4 SP6a. Just recently after the removal of one of our servers from the site, the C: drive on our remaining exchange server has started running low on disk space. Looking out there in the exchsrvr\imcdata\log folder, there are about 17 different files named L000, L001, etc. The biggest one is almost 2GB in size and some of the others are over 100MB. > > Couple of questions. Should these logs be this big? I thought when you do a full backup it was supposed to flush the logs. We use Backup Exec 7.3 and are doing full backups every day. Circular logging is enabled. We have checked these logs for the past 4 days or so and they are growing larger each day. > > Second, can I just run the optimizer and move these logs to a bigger partition? I suggested doing that, but one of my coworkers says not to touch them. > > Thanks for your help. > > Tim List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Print distribution list members
Much appreciated! I am late reading this so I've already done it "the hard way". But now I'll know for future requests. -Original Message- From: Mommens, Matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 10:08 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Print distribution list members There is a BORK utility called ONDL that will do this. Matt -Original Message----- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 11:07 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Print distribution list members Is there an easy way to print off a list of all members of a distribution list. I did an export, but the export format is not very printer friendly. Exchange Resource Kit maybe? List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
Defragging the IS
Tomorrow we are scheduled to move our single server Exchange 5.5 site over to a new Compaq DL380 server that is part of a SAN. Old server is NT4, SP6. New server will be Windows 2000, SP2 but will still have Exchange 5.5, SP4. My boss wants us do a complete backup of the server tonight, then come in tomorrow and do a defrag of the database, back it up again, and restore it to the new server. It seems to be the general consensus on this list that defrag=bad. But what about in this situation where we are moving to a new server and we are scheduled to have the server down for 24 hours anyway? I checked the event logs and, as of last night it shows that the database has 16 megabytes of free space after online defragmentation. Is this the "white space" that I've heard about? And is that all the space we will gain by doing a defrag? If that's the case, I will suggest we don't take the time and risk of doing a defrag of the IS. I'm guessing it will take at least 2-3 hours to defrag our 36GB database Or will there be a performance increase by doing a defrag now? Thanks for your input. Tim List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Defragging the IS
OK, what would be a more realistic estimate then? I'd like to be able to give them some idea. -Original Message- From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 1:49 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Defragging the IS Don't do a defrag for a measly 16MB! 2-3 hours for a 36GB IS!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Yeah, rggghhh. D "Mistakes: It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others." -Original Message----- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 10:40 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Defragging the IS Tomorrow we are scheduled to move our single server Exchange 5.5 site over to a new Compaq DL380 server that is part of a SAN. Old server is NT4, SP6. New server will be Windows 2000, SP2 but will still have Exchange 5.5, SP4. My boss wants us do a complete backup of the server tonight, then come in tomorrow and do a defrag of the database, back it up again, and restore it to the new server. It seems to be the general consensus on this list that defrag=bad. But what about in this situation where we are moving to a new server and we are scheduled to have the server down for 24 hours anyway? I checked the event logs and, as of last night it shows that the database has 16 megabytes of free space after online defragmentation. Is this the "white space" that I've heard about? And is that all the space we will gain by doing a defrag? If that's the case, I will suggest we don't take the time and risk of doing a defrag of the IS. I'm guessing it will take at least 2-3 hours to defrag our 36GB database Or will there be a performance increase by doing a defrag now? Thanks for your input. Tim List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Defragging the IS
That was actually my recommendation, but I don't make the final decisions around here. -Original Message- From: Clark, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 2:04 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Defragging the IS Call me slow, but why not put the NT 4 server in your new AD world and move the IS and such over so as to prevent any loss or downtime? Don't really call me slow - I might have to go to the carebear list that William runs. Steve Clark Clark Systems Support, LLC AVIEN Charter Member "Who's watching your network?" www.clarksupport.com 301-610-9584 voice 240-465-0323 Efax The data furnished in connection with this document is deemed by Clark Systems Support, LLC., to contain proprietary and privileged information and shall not be disclosed or used for the benefit of others without the prior written permission of Clark Systems Support, LLC. -Original Message- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 1:50 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Defragging the IS OK, what would be a more realistic estimate then? I'd like to be able to give them some idea. -Original Message- From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 1:49 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Defragging the IS Don't do a defrag for a measly 16MB! 2-3 hours for a 36GB IS!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Yeah, rggghhh. D "Mistakes: It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others." -Original Message- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 10:40 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Defragging the IS Tomorrow we are scheduled to move our single server Exchange 5.5 site over to a new Compaq DL380 server that is part of a SAN. Old server is NT4, SP6. New server will be Windows 2000, SP2 but will still have Exchange 5.5, SP4. My boss wants us do a complete backup of the server tonight, then come in tomorrow and do a defrag of the database, back it up again, and restore it to the new server. It seems to be the general consensus on this list that defrag=bad. But what about in this situation where we are moving to a new server and we are scheduled to have the server down for 24 hours anyway? I checked the event logs and, as of last night it shows that the database has 16 megabytes of free space after online defragmentation. Is this the "white space" that I've heard about? And is that all the space we will gain by doing a defrag? If that's the case, I will suggest we don't take the time and risk of doing a defrag of the IS. I'm guessing it will take at least 2-3 hours to defrag our 36GB database Or will there be a performance increase by doing a defrag now? Thanks for your input. Tim List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
Free Busy information
Over the weekend we moved our echange 5.5, SP4 server to a new box by doing an offline restore (long story). Everything went fairly well but now I have noticed that when people go in to schedule a meeting, there is no free/busy info for anyone in the company. If I look at Exchange Admin under hidden recipients, I actually see two entries for Schedule+ Free Busy Information. If I try and open the first, it says that the object in the information store could not be found. The other one I can open fine. The smtp address for the 2nd one has a "2" added on to the end of it ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Anyone seen this before or have any suggestions? List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: How could .pif file get through....
can someone remind me again where to get hotfix7? -Original Message- From: Clark, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 8:40 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: How could .pif file get through Make sure you either have hotfix7 or you have selected the radio button for file or extension filtering. Steve Clark Clark Systems Support, LLC AVIEN Charter Member "Who's watching your network?" www.clarksupport.com 301-610-9584 voice 240-465-0323 Efax The data furnished in connection with this document is deemed by Clark Systems Support, LLC., to contain proprietary and privileged information and shall not be disclosed or used for the benefit of others without the prior written permission of Clark Systems Support, LLC. -Original Message- From: Craig Cameron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 9:00 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: How could .pif file get through We blocked the usual set of attachments in Groupshield for Exchange 5.5 some months ago. Including .pif Yet this morning I received an e-mail with a .pif attachement? Anyone had this problem? Craig This E-Mail is confidential and is intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not /par disclose or use the information contained in it. If you received this e-Mail in error, please contact the sender /par immediately and delete the document. This e-Mail is for information purposes only and is not intended to be relied upon /par or used as a substitute for the medical advice of physicians. Specific advice should always be sought on any individual /par matter, in particular matters relating to the addressee's health and any symptoms that may require diagnosis or medical /par attention. /par List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: How could .pif file get through....
Yep, we got hit by Goner despite having all .scr extensions blocked. -Original Message- From: Craig Cameron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 9:00 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: How could .pif file get through We blocked the usual set of attachments in Groupshield for Exchange 5.5 some months ago. Including .pif Yet this morning I received an e-mail with a .pif attachement? Anyone had this problem? Craig This E-Mail is confidential and is intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not /par disclose or use the information contained in it. If you received this e-Mail in error, please contact the sender /par immediately and delete the document. This e-Mail is for information purposes only and is not intended to be relied upon /par or used as a substitute for the medical advice of physicians. Specific advice should always be sought on any individual /par matter, in particular matters relating to the addressee's health and any symptoms that may require diagnosis or medical /par attention. /par List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
Meeting request problems
1 exchange 5.5 Server, SP4 running on W2K, SP2 member server. Clients are mostly Outlook 98, some Outlook 2000. Hope someone can help me out with this one. We have one user that I know of who is running into a problem when scheduling meetings. She sends out the requests to several people and those people accept the meetings. She receives the email back stating that it was accepted by that person. But when she looks at the meeting in her calendar under attendee availability, it shows "None" instead of "Accepted." It doesn't happen for everyone she sends the meeting to, but it usually only shows the actual status of say 3 people out of 10 who have actually accepted the meeting. The rest just say "None". I have gone to her client and run Outlook with the /cleanfreebusy switch but that had no effect. I have recreated her outlook profile. And I have logged into her mailbox from another machine but it shows the same information. Anyone have any ideas on what else I can try? I don't even really know if it is a server or client issue??? TIA, Tim List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Meeting request problems
Just curious why would that make a difference? -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 3:20 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Meeting request problems Make sure these folks are also not in her contact folder. -Original Message- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 10:38 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Meeting request problems 1 exchange 5.5 Server, SP4 running on W2K, SP2 member server. Clients are mostly Outlook 98, some Outlook 2000. Hope someone can help me out with this one. We have one user that I know of who is running into a problem when scheduling meetings. She sends out the requests to several people and those people accept the meetings. She receives the email back stating that it was accepted by that person. But when she looks at the meeting in her calendar under attendee availability, it shows "None" instead of "Accepted." It doesn't happen for everyone she sends the meeting to, but it usually only shows the actual status of say 3 people out of 10 who have actually accepted the meeting. The rest just say "None". I have gone to her client and run Outlook with the /cleanfreebusy switch but that had no effect. I have recreated her outlook profile. And I have logged into her mailbox from another machine but it shows the same information. Anyone have any ideas on what else I can try? I don't even really know if it is a server or client issue??? TIA, Tim List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Meeting request problems
No, I just checked her machine and she still has all the opened responses in her mailbox. -Original Message- From: Nikki Cleland - ITCX [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 2:37 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Meeting request problems Is she opening the accept/deny response or simply deleting them as they come. If she doesn't open the response, it does not get tally'd up in the meeting form. -Original Message----- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 11:38 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Meeting request problems 1 exchange 5.5 Server, SP4 running on W2K, SP2 member server. Clients are mostly Outlook 98, some Outlook 2000. Hope someone can help me out with this one. We have one user that I know of who is running into a problem when scheduling meetings. She sends out the requests to several people and those people accept the meetings. She receives the email back stating that it was accepted by that person. But when she looks at the meeting in her calendar under attendee availability, it shows "None" instead of "Accepted." It doesn't happen for everyone she sends the meeting to, but it usually only shows the actual status of say 3 people out of 10 who have actually accepted the meeting. The rest just say "None". I have gone to her client and run Outlook with the /cleanfreebusy switch but that had no effect. I have recreated her outlook profile. And I have logged into her mailbox from another machine but it shows the same information. Anyone have any ideas on what else I can try? I don't even really know if it is a server or client issue??? TIA, Tim List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Meeting request problems
Checked her contacts folder in outlook and there's nothing there either. -Original Message- From: David N. Precht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 6:20 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Meeting request problems My thoughts is it would resolve meetings locally and not on Exchange. Call me crazy ! -Original Message- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 17:07 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Meeting request problems Just curious why would that make a difference? -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 3:20 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Meeting request problems Make sure these folks are also not in her contact folder. -Original Message- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 10:38 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Meeting request problems 1 exchange 5.5 Server, SP4 running on W2K, SP2 member server. Clients are mostly Outlook 98, some Outlook 2000. Hope someone can help me out with this one. We have one user that I know of who is running into a problem when scheduling meetings. She sends out the requests to several people and those people accept the meetings. She receives the email back stating that it was accepted by that person. But when she looks at the meeting in her calendar under attendee availability, it shows "None" instead of "Accepted." It doesn't happen for everyone she sends the meeting to, but it usually only shows the actual status of say 3 people out of 10 who have actually accepted the meeting. The rest just say "None". I have gone to her client and run Outlook with the /cleanfreebusy switch but that had no effect. I have recreated her outlook profile. And I have logged into her mailbox from another machine but it shows the same information. Anyone have any ideas on what else I can try? I don't even really know if it is a server or client issue??? TIA, Tim List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: No room at the Inn
You also may be able to reduce the size of some rules by using distribution lists instead of lists of individual users. -Original Message- From: Lefkovics, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 1:50 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: No room at the Inn Dear thread hijacker: There is a 32kb limit for server-side rules. This is not an Exchange limitation. Complain to the Outlook people. Outlook requires all the server side rules be within a single RDP packet which it seems is limited to 32kb. William Lefkovics, MCSE-NT4, MCSE-W2K, A+, ExchangeMVP --- Why just ride, when you can fly? http://www.airborne.net --- Rent this space: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Ropiak Steve - NAO Florence Office Exchange and Bar Code Admn. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 10:27 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: No room at the Inn When I try to create a server based rule, Outlook always comes back and says there's not enough room on the server. Is this a rights issue or am I missing something? Exchange 5.5 SP3 on NT4 SP6. Thanks mit freundlichen Grüßen,(Best Regards), Steve Ropiak ZF Group NAO CERT, Exchange and Bar Code Administrator (207) 989-9115 voice (207) 989-8722 fax (513) 317-0197 cell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Allen Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 9:10 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Relaying problem This is what I'm doing here, except we are on Exchange 5.5. -Original Message- From: Brent Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 1:32 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Relaying problem If you open the SMTP server properties, Access tab and click relay restrictions, then check the "Allow all computers which successfully authenticate ... bla, bla, bla ... then in Outlook/ Oexpress you can indicate that the mail client MUST authenticate to send via the server .. you should be ok... works for me... B -Original Message- From: Jennifer Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 03 January 2002 08:05 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Relaying problem Depending on their connection type, specify an IP range under the relay tab of your Virtual SMTP Server(s). -Original Message- From: Greg Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 9:39 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Relaying problem Hi I appear to be having a problem with some remote users attaching to my exchange server using Outlook Express. The issue is that if I allow relaying all remote users are able to send and receive email. However if I have it this way I am susceptible to spammers. (already happened once, never again) When I stop it from allowing relaying no remote users are able to send email. Instead they receive an NDR saying that relaying is not allowed. I am using exchange 2000 with the latest service pack and Outlook Express for the clients. I suspect that I need to alter the way I have it setup. Is there a step by step guide to seting up Exchange for pop3/smtp clients? Regards... Greg List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
custom fields for email messages
Not sure if this is possible but I figured someone here would know. User just came up and asked me about organizing email messages in a folder. Basically what he wants to do is sort them by subject and then under that subject, sort by another field that he creates for each message. For example, all these emails have a common subject (Purchase Order, for example). He can sort by subject but then he also wants to classify them by the department which submitted them. The department number is nowhere in the subject line. Can a custom field be added to all these messages where he can enter a department number and sort by it? Exchange 5.5, SP4 running on W2K, SP2. Client in question is Outlook 2000. Thanks for any help, Tim Crosby List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: custom fields for email messages
Thanks Kevin, I actually had just discovered the categories option before receiving your message and I think that will do the trick. -Original Message- From: Snook, Kevin S (ITD) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 12:36 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: custom fields for email messages Tim, Take a look at Categories for adding the Department. Get your user to add all Departments to his Master Category List. Then add the Category (Department) using View-Options in the Read window for each message. Then use the Customise Current View (or Cretae a new view) to Group by Categories and the sort by Subject. Seems a lot of hassle to me but I guess we are here to serve!! Kevin -Original Message- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 January 2002 16:24 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: custom fields for email messages Not sure if this is possible but I figured someone here would know. User just came up and asked me about organizing email messages in a folder. Basically what he wants to do is sort them by subject and then under that subject, sort by another field that he creates for each message. For example, all these emails have a common subject (Purchase Order, for example). He can sort by subject but then he also wants to classify them by the department which submitted them. The department number is nowhere in the subject line. Can a custom field be added to all these messages where he can enter a department number and sort by it? Exchange 5.5, SP4 running on W2K, SP2. Client in question is Outlook 2000. Thanks for any help, Tim Crosby List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: no outgoing mail
strange, I had this EXACT PROBLEM yesterday. Changes to DNS settings don't take effect until the IMS is stopped and restarted. Which would explain why everything worked until the reboot. Now if you have entered the old DNS info back in correctly (and assuming that DNS server is working), probably just need to stop and start IMS again. -Original Message- From: John John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 4:33 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: no outgoing mail I have an exchange 5.5 sp4 machine that has suddenly stopped sending outgoing mail. Outside mail is being routed internally, and internal mail is routed fineit's just mail destined for outside. The exchange box uses a different dns server than it did previously, but this was done weeks ago. Messages stopped going out after a reboot yesterday. I've tried switching back to the old dns server, to no avail. The Exchange box is behind a proxy 2.0. Any ideas would be helpful. I can't find anything on TechNet. John. _ Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
Exchange 5.5 Event ID 1160
Exch. 5.5, SP4 on W2K Adv. Server, SP2. Server has 4GB of memory. We have had two occasions in the last 2 weeks where our IMS stops and can't be restarted. Checking the event viewer, I see lots of Event ID 1160 which says: "Database resource failure error Out of memory occurred in function JTAB_BASE::EcCreateIndex while accessing the database." Q195006 says this can happen on servers with more than 800MB of memory, but it says the problem was fixed in SP3. I checked our version of perfwiz and it is 5.5.2653.23 (SP4). Anyone else seeing this problem? List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Exchange 5.5 Event ID 1160
Title: RE: Exchange 5.5 Event ID 1160 Server is a Compaq ML580 with 4 Intel Xeon processors. How do I determine the volume of internet messages? Log files? I know we disabled logging on the IMS recently because it was getting huge. We have run the performance optimizer. Is that what you mean by optimize? Or is there another utility? I have not run it with the -v switch but I plan to try and run it again tonight so I can try that if I need to. Thread settings for IMS? Where do I find this? -Original Message-From: Rick Ward - HQ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 12:41 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: Exchange 5.5 Event ID 1160 What kind of hardware(Server brand, CPU, # of CPU's). Is it in the HCL for WIN2K. When I've seen this in the past it generally a result of I/O threads being maxed out or to many locks open at once. Then the JET DB times out in some cases as it stops working for about 1-2 minutes and then you see this error posted in the Event Log. How much volume(total internet messages) are you pumping through the IMS? You might be hitting some limit. Have you run the OPTIMIZE(-v) in verbose mode? Can you send me your thread settings for the IMS? -Rick -Original Message----- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 8:55 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 5.5 Event ID 1160 Exch. 5.5, SP4 on W2K Adv. Server, SP2. Server has 4GB of memory. We have had two occasions in the last 2 weeks where our IMS stops and can't be restarted. Checking the event viewer, I see lots of Event ID 1160 which says: "Database resource failure error Out of memory occurred in function JTAB_BASE::EcCreateIndex while accessing the database." Q195006 says this can happen on servers with more than 800MB of memory, but it says the problem was fixed in SP3. I checked our version of perfwiz and it is 5.5.2653.23 (SP4). Anyone else seeing this problem? List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at:http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
Problems with Distribution list
Got a strange one that I'm hoping someone has the solution for. One of our users regularly sends out attachments to a bunch of external email address that are not setup as custom recipients on our system. She has a personal distribution list that she uses which contains all the addresses. Some of the people that she sends to report that the attachment arrives at their end with an attachment named "C.DTF" instead of the file she attached. Q259065 says this can happen when sending Rich Text messages to a Lotus Notes MTA. But I checked the last time she sent a message and verified that it was all in plain text. She still says some people reported getting the C.DTF file. But it only seems to happen when sending to the group as a whole. When people send her replies saying they couldn't open the file, she then replies directly to that person with the original attachment, and they always receive that one fine. From looking at the DL, it looks to have about 65 addresses in it. Anyone seen this one before? Should I try putting those names in our system as custom recipients? Or maybe creating a DL on the exchange server with all those names in it? By the way, Exchange 5.5, SP4 running on W2K server, SP2. Client is Outlook 2000. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Problems with Distribution list
Oh, and by the way, I just looked at one of the replies back from someone who couldn't open the attachment. This appears where the attachment would normally be: > > > > > >Part 1.2Type: application/ms-tnef > >Encoding: base64 > > > Name: Club Pub Services.doc >Club Pub Services.docType: Winword File (application/msword) > Encoding: base64 -----Original Message- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 11:22 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Problems with Distribution list Got a strange one that I'm hoping someone has the solution for. One of our users regularly sends out attachments to a bunch of external email address that are not setup as custom recipients on our system. She has a personal distribution list that she uses which contains all the addresses. Some of the people that she sends to report that the attachment arrives at their end with an attachment named "C.DTF" instead of the file she attached. Q259065 says this can happen when sending Rich Text messages to a Lotus Notes MTA. But I checked the last time she sent a message and verified that it was all in plain text. She still says some people reported getting the C.DTF file. But it only seems to happen when sending to the group as a whole. When people send her replies saying they couldn't open the file, she then replies directly to that person with the original attachment, and they always receive that one fine. From looking at the DL, it looks to have about 65 addresses in it. Anyone seen this one before? Should I try putting those names in our system as custom recipients? Or maybe creating a DL on the exchange server with all those names in it? By the way, Exchange 5.5, SP4 running on W2K server, SP2. Client is Outlook 2000. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Problems with Distribution list
Outbound attachments are set to use Mime, Plain Text. Character sets are Western European. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 11:48 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Problems with Distribution list What are your MIME settings on your IMS? -Michèle, MOS+BP, TSCSP, soon to be a California Girl Immigration site: <http://LadySun1969.tripod.com> The Miata has gone to live with Grandma for a little while: <http://members.cardomain.com/bpituley> Tiggercam: <http://www.tiggercam.co.uk> - Cooking lesson #1: Don't fry bacon in the nude. - -Original Message----- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 11:22 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Problems with Distribution list Got a strange one that I'm hoping someone has the solution for. One of our users regularly sends out attachments to a bunch of external email address that are not setup as custom recipients on our system. She has a personal distribution list that she uses which contains all the addresses. Some of the people that she sends to report that the attachment arrives at their end with an attachment named "C.DTF" instead of the file she attached. Q259065 says this can happen when sending Rich Text messages to a Lotus Notes MTA. But I checked the last time she sent a message and verified that it was all in plain text. She still says some people reported getting the C.DTF file. But it only seems to happen when sending to the group as a whole. When people send her replies saying they couldn't open the file, she then replies directly to that person with the original attachment, and they always receive that one fine. From looking at the DL, it looks to have about 65 addresses in it. Anyone seen this one before? Should I try putting those names in our system as custom recipients? Or maybe creating a DL on the exchange server with all those names in it? By the way, Exchange 5.5, SP4 running on W2K server, SP2. Client is Outlook 2000. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Problems with Distribution list
I have now. :) Seems to indicate that rich text was included with the original message. But I looked at the item she sent, and there were no colors, bold, underline etc. in the message so I'm not sure where that is coming from. I have now gone into the IMS and put in entries for the domains having trouble to always send in plain text. I hope that will fix the problem. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 11:49 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Problems with Distribution list Have you searched TechNet for ms-tnef? -Michèle, MOS+BP, TSCSP, soon to be a California Girl Immigration site: <http://LadySun1969.tripod.com> The Miata has gone to live with Grandma for a little while: <http://members.cardomain.com/bpituley> Tiggercam: <http://www.tiggercam.co.uk> - Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. -Lily Tomlin - -Original Message----- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 11:47 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Problems with Distribution list Oh, and by the way, I just looked at one of the replies back from someone who couldn't open the attachment. This appears where the attachment would normally be: > > > > > >Part 1.2Type: application/ms-tnef > >Encoding: base64 > > > Name: Club Pub Services.doc >Club Pub Services.docType: Winword File (application/msword) > Encoding: base64 -Original Message- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 11:22 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Problems with Distribution list Got a strange one that I'm hoping someone has the solution for. One of our users regularly sends out attachments to a bunch of external email address that are not setup as custom recipients on our system. She has a personal distribution list that she uses which contains all the addresses. Some of the people that she sends to report that the attachment arrives at their end with an attachment named "C.DTF" instead of the file she attached. Q259065 says this can happen when sending Rich Text messages to a Lotus Notes MTA. But I checked the last time she sent a message and verified that it was all in plain text. She still says some people reported getting the C.DTF file. But it only seems to happen when sending to the group as a whole. When people send her replies saying they couldn't open the file, she then replies directly to that person with the original attachment, and they always receive that one fine. From looking at the DL, it looks to have about 65 addresses in it. Anyone seen this one before? Should I try putting those names in our system as custom recipients? Or maybe creating a DL on the exchange server with all those names in it? By the way, Exchange 5.5, SP4 running on W2K server, SP2. Client is Outlook 2000. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Problems with Distribution list
Good point. Thanks for clearing that up for me. I assumed it would only go out as rich text if there was rich text in the message. Putting in the domain names and setting those to only send in plain text seems to work for now. Thanks for your help. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 1:02 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Problems with Distribution list Just because she didn't use any Rich Text "features" doesn't mean that the message wasn't in Rich Text. I hope that works for you. :-) -Michèle, MOS+BP, TSCSP, soon to be a California Girl Immigration site: <http://LadySun1969.tripod.com> The Miata has gone to live with Grandma for a little while: <http://members.cardomain.com/bpituley> Tiggercam: <http://www.tiggercam.co.uk> - Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and goes through their pockets. -- Eddy Peters ----- -----Original Message- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:23 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Problems with Distribution list I have now. :) Seems to indicate that rich text was included with the original message. But I looked at the item she sent, and there were no colors, bold, underline etc. in the message so I'm not sure where that is coming from. I have now gone into the IMS and put in entries for the domains having trouble to always send in plain text. I hope that will fix the problem. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 11:49 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Problems with Distribution list Have you searched TechNet for ms-tnef? -Michèle, MOS+BP, TSCSP, soon to be a California Girl Immigration site: <http://LadySun1969.tripod.com> The Miata has gone to live with Grandma for a little while: <http://members.cardomain.com/bpituley> Tiggercam: <http://www.tiggercam.co.uk> - Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. -Lily Tomlin ----------------- -Original Message- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 11:47 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Problems with Distribution list Oh, and by the way, I just looked at one of the replies back from someone who couldn't open the attachment. This appears where the attachment would normally be: > > > > > >Part 1.2Type: application/ms-tnef > >Encoding: base64 > > > Name: Club Pub Services.doc >Club Pub Services.docType: Winword File (application/msword) > Encoding: base64 -Original Message- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 11:22 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Problems with Distribution list Got a strange one that I'm hoping someone has the solution for. One of our users regularly sends out attachments to a bunch of external email address that are not setup as custom recipients on our system. She has a personal distribution list that she uses which contains all the addresses. Some of the people that she sends to report that the attachment arrives at their end with an attachment named "C.DTF" instead of the file she attached. Q259065 says this can happen when sending Rich Text messages to a Lotus Notes MTA. But I checked the last time she sent a message and verified that it was all in plain text. She still says some people reported getting the C.DTF file. But it only seems to happen when sending to the group as a whole. When people send her replies saying they couldn't open the file, she then replies directly to that person with the original attachment, and they always receive that one fine. From looking at the DL, it looks to have about 65 addresses in it. Anyone seen this one before? Should I try putting those names in our system as custom recipients? Or maybe creating a DL on the exchange server with all those names in it? By the way, Exchange 5.5, SP4 running on W2K server, SP2. Client is Outlook 2000. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.ht
Outlook message icons not changing
All right, I know this one is kinda off the wall, but it is happening to the CIO so I guess I have to solve it When you reply or forward messages, the icon for that message usually changes from an open envelope to an open envelope with a forward or backward arrow on it indicating you have responded. His Outlook client has stopped showing the arrows when he responds. We have tried recreating his profile, reinstalling Outlook 98 and even upgrading to Outlook 2000. The server is 5.5, SP4. Anyone care to venture a guess on this one? List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
Scheduled messages
> I sure hope someone out there can help me out with this one. I'm fairly new to >Exchange Administration so I hope this isn't a no brainer. > > Our company has periodically emails out virus update files to everyone in the >company. We have one person who sends out the emails and they usually schedule the >message to be delivered sometime late at night (around 2 am). When the user gets >ready to leave for the day, they close their outlook client and it tells them that >they have one message remaining in their outbox. They go ahead and close Outlook. >The message does not get delivered at the scheduled time in the middle of the night. >Instead it gets delivered sometime in the middle of the next day. > > He scheduled one to be sent last night and as of 11:00 am this morning, it still has >not been delivered. If I go to Exchange Admin and track the message, it shows that >it has been transferred to the private information store on our exchange server at >11:27 pm last night. > > I have 3 questions: > > 1) does he need to leave his outlook client open all the time for the scheduled >message to be delivered properly > 2) Why is it taking so long to deliver the message? > 3) I don't want this message to be delivered in the middle of the day. Is there a >way I can go into the IS and remove it before it is delivered? > > Thanks for any assistance, > > Tim List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Scheduled messages
No, the message is being sent from their main mailbox. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 1:59 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scheduled messages Are your users using PSTs? -Michèle Immigration site: <http://LadySun1969.tripod.com> Our new 2001 Miata: <http://members.cardomain.com/bpituley> Tiggercam: <http://www.tiggercam.co.uk> - Life's golden age is when the kids are too old to need baby-sitters and too young to borrow the family car. - -Original Message----- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 1:40 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Scheduled messages > I sure hope someone out there can help me out with this one. I'm fairly new to Exchange Administration so I hope this isn't a no brainer. > > Our company has periodically emails out virus update files to everyone in the company. We have one person who sends out the emails and they usually schedule the message to be delivered sometime late at night (around 2 am). When the user gets ready to leave for the day, they close their outlook client and it tells them that they have one message remaining in their outbox. They go ahead and close Outlook. The message does not get delivered at the scheduled time in the middle of the night. Instead it gets delivered sometime in the middle of the next day. > > He scheduled one to be sent last night and as of 11:00 am this morning, it still has not been delivered. If I go to Exchange Admin and track the message, it shows that it has been transferred to the private information store on our exchange server at 11:27 pm last night. > > I have 3 questions: > > 1) does he need to leave his outlook client open all the time for the scheduled message to be delivered properly > 2) Why is it taking so long to deliver the message? > 3) I don't want this message to be delivered in the middle of the day. Is there a way I can go into the IS and remove it before it is delivered? > > Thanks for any assistance, > > Tim List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Scheduled messages
Sorry, I misunderstood. The message is pretty much going to the entire company, so I'd say 99% of the users receiving the message use the store on the server. But it was delivered to everyone at about the same time. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 2:23 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scheduled messages Um, I'm not sure that I understand your answer -- or that you understood my question. Where are the messages RECEIVED to? Are you using the store on the Exchange server? or are your users downloading their mail into pst files? -Michèle Immigration site: <http://LadySun1969.tripod.com> Our new 2001 Miata: <http://members.cardomain.com/bpituley> Tiggercam: <http://www.tiggercam.co.uk> - Things a Mother Learns: You probably do not want to know what that odour is. - -Original Message----- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 2:08 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scheduled messages No, the message is being sent from their main mailbox. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 1:59 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scheduled messages Are your users using PSTs? -Michèle Immigration site: <http://LadySun1969.tripod.com> Our new 2001 Miata: <http://members.cardomain.com/bpituley> Tiggercam: <http://www.tiggercam.co.uk> - Life's golden age is when the kids are too old to need baby-sitters and too young to borrow the family car. ------------- -Original Message- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 1:40 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Scheduled messages > I sure hope someone out there can help me out with this one. I'm fairly new to Exchange Administration so I hope this isn't a no brainer. > > Our company has periodically emails out virus update files to everyone in the company. We have one person who sends out the emails and they usually schedule the message to be delivered sometime late at night (around 2 am). When the user gets ready to leave for the day, they close their outlook client and it tells them that they have one message remaining in their outbox. They go ahead and close Outlook. The message does not get delivered at the scheduled time in the middle of the night. Instead it gets delivered sometime in the middle of the next day. > > He scheduled one to be sent last night and as of 11:00 am this morning, it still has not been delivered. If I go to Exchange Admin and track the message, it shows that it has been transferred to the private information store on our exchange server at 11:27 pm last night. > > I have 3 questions: > > 1) does he need to leave his outlook client open all the time for the scheduled message to be delivered properly > 2) Why is it taking so long to deliver the message? > 3) I don't want this message to be delivered in the middle of the day. Is there a way I can go into the IS and remove it before it is delivered? > > Thanks for any assistance, > > Tim List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Scheduled messages
Sorry, I forgot the basics. Exchange 5.5, SP4, client sending the message is Outlook 98. Clients receiving are mostly 98, some Outlook 2000. -Original Message- From: Lefkovics, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 2:22 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Scheduled messages 1) No, scheduled messages have a pointer to the outbox, but the actual message resides in the MTA already. 2) I don't know. I'd confirm the client time and timezone settings. Do some tests with messages that are small. What version of Exchange/Outlook? What service pack? 3) No. This is really not worth the effort. William Lefkovics, MCSE, A+ -Original Message----- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 10:40 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Scheduled messages > I sure hope someone out there can help me out with this one. I'm fairly new to Exchange Administration so I hope this isn't a no brainer. > > Our company has periodically emails out virus update files to everyone in the company. We have one person who sends out the emails and they usually schedule the message to be delivered sometime late at night (around 2 am). When the user gets ready to leave for the day, they close their outlook client and it tells them that they have one message remaining in their outbox. They go ahead and close Outlook. The message does not get delivered at the scheduled time in the middle of the night. Instead it gets delivered sometime in the middle of the next day. > > He scheduled one to be sent last night and as of 11:00 am this morning, it still has not been delivered. If I go to Exchange Admin and track the message, it shows that it has been transferred to the private information store on our exchange server at 11:27 pm last night. > > I have 3 questions: > > 1) does he need to leave his outlook client open all the time for the scheduled message to be delivered properly > 2) Why is it taking so long to deliver the message? > 3) I don't want this message to be delivered in the middle of the day. Is there a way I can go into the IS and remove it before it is delivered? > > Thanks for any assistance, > > Tim List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Outlook message icons not changing
Yes. Messages were replied to about 2 days ago. -Original Message- From: David N. Precht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 7:45 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook message icons not changing Did he/she close the message in question BEFORE looking at the "envelope" ? -Original Message- From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 16:35 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook message icons not changing It's the CIO, must've been fooling around with something!!! ;) -Original Message----- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 3:30 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Outlook message icons not changing All right, I know this one is kinda off the wall, but it is happening to the CIO so I guess I have to solve it When you reply or forward messages, the icon for that message usually changes from an open envelope to an open envelope with a forward or backward arrow on it indicating you have responded. His Outlook client has stopped showing the arrows when he responds. We have tried recreating his profile, reinstalling Outlook 98 and even upgrading to Outlook 2000. The server is 5.5, SP4. Anyone care to venture a guess on this one? List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Is this doable?
Outlook 2000 (and XP?) rules wizard allows you to print messages when they meet certain conditions. -Original Message- From: Stuart Pittwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 4:21 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Is this doable? Hi, Can anyone tell me if this is doable or not, we're running Exchange 2000 SP2 to handle all of out mail. We have an aggreement with one of our partners where they e-mail us the details of a case, we then print the email (with the word attachments) and then act on it. Is it possible for this to be automated, such as: The email is dropped into a public folder which then prints the email and any attachments to a specific printer and then forwards a copy of the mail onto another mailbox while filing the original in a subfolder of the public folder? I think I could do it all with rules except the printing bit, every case that comes in will have two or more attached word documents. Thanks _ Stuart Pittwood, CCNA, MCP (x5) IT Technician Amery-Parkes Solicitors List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
Export public folder owners
Is it possible to export a list of all public folders and the associated owners of each public folder? I tried Directory Export but that doesn't appear to give me the option to export public folder information. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Export public folder owners
DOH! Sorry, 5.5, SP4. -Original Message- From: David N Precht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 2:09 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Export public folder owners What version of Exchange? -Original Message- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 14:03 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Export public folder owners Is it possible to export a list of all public folders and the associated owners of each public folder? I tried Directory Export but that doesn't appear to give me the option to export public folder information. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Export public folder owners
Thanks William, PFAdmin did the trick. -Original Message- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 2:06 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Export public folder owners pfadmin and pftree from the resource kit will help greatly in admin for pf folders. BackOffice Resource Kit for 5.5 Exchange2000 resource kit for 2000. William Lefkovics, MCSE, A+ -Original Message- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 11:03 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Export public folder owners Is it possible to export a list of all public folders and the associated owners of each public folder? I tried Directory Export but that doesn't appear to give me the option to export public folder information. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
Pocket Inbox name lookup
Title: Pocket Inbox name lookup We have one Exchange 2k server in a single site. I'm trying to configure an HP Jornada 720 to check email names from the exchange server. I'm using Pocket Inbox over a SecurID dialup connection. The help file states that you can lookup names via LDAP from an exchange server. So I go into the address lookup options and enter my exchange server under the server name. I have checked the box for "Server requires authentication" and entered my user credentials there. I have even tried entering a search base for LDAP (DC=domain,DC=com) but I am unable to get it to find any names when I do a check names. The box at the top of the window asks for a "Directory Name", but I'm not sure if of what it is asking for here. I've tried our domain name and the name of our exchange server. Has anyone had any luck configuring LDAP to work on these devices? I'm told that this feature used to work when we were on Exchange 5.5, but hasn't worked since switching to Exch2k. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
Users over their limit can't delete items
Title: Users over their limit can't delete items We have seen a new problem here since switching to Exchange 2000 (sp2). I've had at least 3 people recently who can't delete anything from their mailbox after they exceed their mailbox limit. It gives them an error that the item was either already deleted or moved. But then if you do a shift-delete, you can delete the items. This was not the case on Exchange 5.5. Is there a setting somewhere I need to tweak? We have deleted item retention turned on for 30 days and a 100MB limit. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Ethernet cable
We do this all the time with our 5.5 server. No issues yet. -Original Message- From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 3:33 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Ethernet cable We need to do some work on the Ethernet wires that connect to Exchange. Should there be an issue with simply unplugging the cable, rerunning it and plugging it back in without shutting down the services? I realize that the users will not be able to connect while it is unplugged but downtime is much less with just unplug and replug than shutdown and restart. I want to make sure that I do not cause an issue with Exchange itself. NT 4.0 Exchange 5.5 (with IMS) Thank you, John List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Migration of mailboxes and decommissioning of old server with ing 1 site
Title: Message Removing the first server from a site: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q152959 -Original Message-From: Le Roux, Jacques (TWIi London) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 12:14 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: Migration of mailboxes and decommissioning of old server withing 1 site Hi there all, I am running exchange 5.5 sp4 on NT4 and am replacing one of my servers with a newer one as the lease is running out. I have brought the second server up in the same site and have migrated most of the users and all the connectors to the new server. I still need to do rehome some ofthe public folders and move some of the DL's. Any good tools about for DL moves? I can vaguely remember something being said about a few things you need to do prior to shutting down the old server, but am unable to find anything on the web other than what I have mentioned above. Can anybody tell me what dependencies a site has on the first server. Any pointers would be great !!! Thanks JacquesList Charter and FAQ at:http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm DISCLAIMER - The preceding e-mail message (including any attachments) contains information that may be confidential, may be protected by the attorney-client or other applicable privileges, or may constitute non-public information. It is intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not an intended recipient of this message, or have otherwise received it in error, please notify the sender by replying to this message and then delete all copies of it from your computer system. Any use, dissemination, distribution, or reproduction of this message by unintended recipients is not authorized and may be unlawful. The contents of this communication do not necessarily represent the views of this company. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
Shrink 5.5 database
Title: Shrink 5.5 database We are attempting to setup a test environment and do a restore of our 5.5 server from tape. We got database and directory restored to a test server, but when I try to start the IS, it tells me I have to do a defrag. Problem is, my IS is about 35GB and I only have about 15GB of free space to work with on my test server. So the defrag runs out of space before it completes. I don't have the option of putting any more drives in this server, it is maxed out. Can't I use exmerge or something like that to strip out some of the larger attachments in the store so that I can shrink it down enough to finish the defrag? I don't really need all the mail, I just want a working server. Or does the store have to be running to run exmerge? List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Shrink 5.5 database
Title: Message Thanks for the tip. Didn't know you could put the temp file on a remote drive. Got it running right now and will let it run all weekend. That should be long enough. :) -Original Message-From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 4:27 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: Shrink 5.5 database What's the exact error message? Also, Exchange Enterprise or Standard on the recovery server? You can redirect the temp. database to a share if necessary, provided you've got the space on a remote machine Be prepared to wait a good long while, though... -Original Message-----From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 13:12To: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: Shrink 5.5 database We are attempting to setup a test environment and do a restore of our 5.5 server from tape. We got database and directory restored to a test server, but when I try to start the IS, it tells me I have to do a defrag. Problem is, my IS is about 35GB and I only have about 15GB of free space to work with on my test server. So the defrag runs out of space before it completes. I don't have the option of putting any more drives in this server, it is maxed out. Can't I use exmerge or something like that to strip out some of the larger attachments in the store so that I can shrink it down enough to finish the defrag? I don't really need all the mail, I just want a working server. Or does the store have to be running to run exmerge? List Charter and FAQ at:http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htmList Charter and FAQ at:http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Shrink 5.5 database
Title: Message I ran the defrag over the weekend, and I got this error at the end of the whole process... The operation terminated with error -1062 0xFBDA JET_errInvalidLanguageId Invalid or unknown language id 4294966234 I am trying to do a restore to a Win2k server but the database was originally running on NT4.0 server. Is this the problem? Any workaround? -Original Message-From: Morse, George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 5:06 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: Shrink 5.5 database If this recovery server is on the network and another PC or Server is available with at least 35GB you can map a drive to it and then run the defrag. This works and is approved my MS. I have only seen it ask if the recovery server was a Win2k and the original server was NT4. This is why I had to do it. I went from 35GB to 5GB. George -Original Message-From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 4:12 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: Shrink 5.5 database We are attempting to setup a test environment and do a restore of our 5.5 server from tape. We got database and directory restored to a test server, but when I try to start the IS, it tells me I have to do a defrag. Problem is, my IS is about 35GB and I only have about 15GB of free space to work with on my test server. So the defrag runs out of space before it completes. I don't have the option of putting any more drives in this server, it is maxed out. Can't I use exmerge or something like that to strip out some of the larger attachments in the store so that I can shrink it down enough to finish the defrag? I don't really need all the mail, I just want a working server. Or does the store have to be running to run exmerge? List Charter and FAQ at:http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htmList Charter and FAQ at:http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: restores
Title: Message I believe you need to stop all exchange services except the system attendant and start your restore. Uncheck the "No Loss Restore" option in BE if you want to return to exactly what you had when the backup was done. Then try and start the IS. You'll probably have to do a defrag to get it started. -Original Message-From: MHR(Michael Ross) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 12:24 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: restores let me ask you this... Im doing a restore of my exchange server. I have created an off lan server, setup the same way as my production server. I made an online backup of the production server. I want to restore it on my test lan's server , which is my recovery server. both servers are the same org, site, and server name. within backup exec, i choose to restore the information store. do i need to take my store offline for this, or will it do it online? i thought i should take it offline, and when the job is done, do an isinteg -patch command and be done. am i right? List Charter and FAQ at:http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
Questions about swing upgrade to E2K
Title: Questions about swing upgrade to E2K We are getting ready to start our swing upgrade and I was wondering about a couple of things. We have one E5.5 server on Win2k. We are setting up a 2nd E2k server on Win2k (all with latest SP). We are setting up the E2k server in a different domain than the E5.5 server is currently in. Both servers will be in child domains of a parent domain. Once both servers are up and running, we are going to start moving mailboxes over to E2k. Question 1: At what point should we run the Exchange ADC? I have read different articles, some stating you run it before you install E2k, some stating after you install Exchange 2k. Also, some sources say you need to have at least 1 domain running in native mode. The way things are right now, none of our domains can be switched to native mode. We thought we might be able to just create a subdomain off the domain with E2k and make it native if that is all that is required. Question 2: When you start moving mailboxes from 5.5 to 2k, does it break single-instance-store? Question 3: As far as the logistics of moving the mailboxes, we were considering moving them during the day and asking users to stay out of Outlook for a period of time. But what happens if someone has their mailbox open when we go to move it? Will it bomb or just kick them out? Is there a way of locking a group of users out of exchange while we move their mailboxes? Thanks for any assistance, Tim List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
Exchange 2000 migration issues
Title: Exchange 2000 migration issues We are in the middle of migrating our single site, single server organization over to Exchange 2000. We have setup the ADC and run ForestPrep. Everything seems cool so far. All accounts seem to be syncing in AD. We are at the point now where we are going to build the E2k box, join the 5.5 site and start moving mailboxes. What I'd like to know is what to look out for once users are moved over. What should we test specifically to make sure that the moved mailboxes work? I have a few obvious ones in mind, check sending and receiving internet mail, check calendar availability, GAL, sending from E2k to E5.5, etc. Is there a list of all the things you should test in order to make sure the E2k box is working properly? What problems have you all run into when moving to E2k? Thanks, Tim List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Exchange 2000 migration issues
Title: Message Thanks William, we are planning to get rid of 5.5 as soon as we feel like the 2000 Server is running OK. What is the easiest way to get the public folders moved over? Right now, we are going into each folder and setting it to replicate to E2k, but then we'll wait until it has replicated and go back in and remove it from E55. But don't you also then have to set the "home server" for each folder to be the new E2k? Isn't there a simpler way than going into properties on each folder and doing this? -Original Message- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 6:18 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2000 migration issues The requirement of patience can not be underestimated. Use the E2K tools to admin E2K and the 5.5 tools to admin 5.5. If it's single server, single site, minimize co-existence. Get the mailboxes and public folders moved then free yourself of the ADC and 5.5. -----Original Message- From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 8:15 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 2000 migration issues We are in the middle of migrating our single site, single server organization over to Exchange 2000. We have setup the ADC and run ForestPrep. Everything seems cool so far. All accounts seem to be syncing in AD. We are at the point now where we are going to build the E2k box, join the 5.5 site and start moving mailboxes. What I'd like to know is what to look out for once users are moved over. What should we test specifically to make sure that the moved mailboxes work? I have a few obvious ones in mind, check sending and receiving internet mail, check calendar availability, GAL, sending from E2k to E5.5, etc. Is there a list of all the things you should test in order to make sure the E2k box is working properly? What problems have you all run into when moving to E2k? Thanks, Tim List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Exchange 2000 migration issues
Title: Message
Thanks
William, that's exactly what I was looking for.
-Original Message-From: William
Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June
05, 2002 7:52 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE:
Exchange 2000 migration issues
There is a specific whitepaper on the
process:
http://www.microsoft.com/Exchange/techinfo/deployment/2000/UpgradeFolders.asp
1)
create public folder agreement (which is two way) in ADC.
2)
configure permissions and remove bad accounts.
3)
set replicas to migrate data
Rehoming and removal of 5.5 are covered in the
migration docs as well.
In
Exchange2000, you can rehome by top level folder and
propogate:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q288150
And
don't forget the chats on June 19:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/itcommunity/chats/default.asp
William
-Original Message-From: Crosby, Tim
(Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June
05, 2002 4:12 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject:
RE: Exchange 2000 migration issues
Thanks William, we
are planning to get rid of 5.5 as soon as we feel like the 2000 Server is
running OK. What is the easiest
way to get the public folders moved over? Right now, we are going into each
folder and setting it to replicate to E2k, but then we'll wait until it has
replicated and go back in and remove it from E55. But don't you also then have to set
the "home server" for each folder to be the new E2k? Isn't there a simpler way than going
into properties on each folder and doing this?
-Original
Message-From: William
Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 6:18
PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin
IssuesSubject: RE:
Exchange 2000 migration issues
The
requirement of patience can not be
underestimated.
Use
the E2K tools to admin E2K and the 5.5 tools to admin
5.5.
If
it's single server, single site, minimize co-existence. Get the
mailboxes and public folders moved then free yourself of the ADC and
5.5.
-Original
Message-From:
Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 8:15
AMTo: MS-Exchange Admin
IssuesSubject: Exchange
2000 migration issues
We are in the middle of
migrating our single site, single server organization over to Exchange
2000. We have setup the ADC and run ForestPrep. Everything
seems cool so far. All accounts seem to be syncing in AD. We
are at the point now where we are going to build the E2k box, join the 5.5
site and start moving mailboxes. What I'd like to know is what to
look out for once users are moved over. What should we test
specifically to make sure that the moved mailboxes work? I have a
few obvious ones in mind, check sending and receiving internet mail, check
calendar availability, GAL, sending from E2k to E5.5, etc. Is there
a list of all the things you should test in order to make sure the E2k box
is working properly? What problems have you all run into when moving
to E2k?
Thanks,
Tim
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Public folders not replicating
Title: Public folders not replicating Just setup our first E2k server and joined it to our 5.5 site. We're trying to get public folders replicated to the 2000 server. Here's the order we did things: AD Domain was already setup in mixed mode 1 Exch. 5.5 site with a single server Installed the ADC on a new Win2k server and created connection agreements to sync user accounts and DLs. Installed the E2k server and joined 5.5 site Created a Public Folder Connection Agreement in the ADC The 2000 server seems to be working ok as we have moved a user over there and mail flow is functioning. But Public Folders are not showing up in ADU&C and we can't seem to get any replicas to go over to E2k server. For a while, we were getting Event ID #8270 - "LDAP returned the error [32] Insufficient Rights when importing the transaction" on the ADC server application log. I found Q287137 which seems to address this and applied that fix. We are no longer getting those events, but still no public folders are showing up in AD. Nothing of interest in any of the logs on either exchange server or the ADC server. Can anyone lend some advice? List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Public folders not replicating
Title: Message Yes, that's the problem. The only items I see under "Microsoft Exchange System Objects" are: EventConfig globalevents internal OAB Version 2 Offline Address Book OWAScratchPad StoreEvents SystemMailbox There are a ton of Public Folders on the 5.5 server that should be in here, right? The ADC seems to be working with user accounts, but not public folders. -Original Message-From: Neil Hobson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 11:52 AMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: Public folders not replicating When you say the public folders don't appear in AD, do you mean that they are not seen in the Microsoft Exchange System Objects container in ADUC? You'll need to select View / Advanced Features to see this container. They need to be represented here in AD first. Neil -Original Message-From: Crosby, Tim (Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: 07 June 2002 16:45Posted To: Sunbelt Exchange ListConversation: Public folders not replicatingSubject: Public folders not replicating Just setup our first E2k server and joined it to our 5.5 site. We're trying to get public folders replicated to the 2000 server. Here's the order we did things: AD Domain was already setup in mixed mode 1 Exch. 5.5 site with a single server Installed the ADC on a new Win2k server and created connection agreements to sync user accounts and DLs. Installed the E2k server and joined 5.5 site Created a Public Folder Connection Agreement in the ADC The 2000 server seems to be working ok as we have moved a user over there and mail flow is functioning. But Public Folders are not showing up in ADU&C and we can't seem to get any replicas to go over to E2k server. For a while, we were getting Event ID #8270 - "LDAP returned the error [32] Insufficient Rights when importing the transaction" on the ADC server application log. I found Q287137 which seems to address this and applied that fix. We are no longer getting those events, but still no public folders are showing up in AD. Nothing of interest in any of the logs on either exchange server or the ADC server. Can anyone lend some advice? List Charter and FAQ at:http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htmList Charter and FAQ at:http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm * This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any view or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Silversands, or any of its subsidiary companies. If you have received this email in error, please contact our Support Desk immediately on 01202-360360 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
Event ID 1025 on E2k Public Store
Title: Event ID 1025 on E2k Public Store Just got our Exchange 2000 Server (sp2) up and running in our single server Exchange 5.5 site. I have synchronized all the public folders and it appears to be working OK. I can see all public folders from both servers. But I get lots of these events in my application log: Event ID 1025 Source: MSExchangeISPublic Type: Warning An error occurred on database "First Storage Group\Public Folder Store (SERVER)". Function name or description of problem: SLINK::EcUpdate Error: 0x80004005 The only other app on the box is Trend Antivirus. It doesn't seem to be causing a problem, so I don't know if I should be concerned. I have found a few articles that say you should run ISINTEG for Event 1025, but not for the specific error that I'm getting. Anyone have a suggestion? List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Event ID 1025 on E2k Public Store
Title: Message
No,
there are no 1160 events. Everything SEEMS to be working OK. I can
see all public folders on both sides. All public folders are in AD and I
have replicated to the E2k server. We are in the process of moving users
over now. The public folders have been replicated since Saturday but we
are just now starting to put a load on the box.
One
other question though. How can you tell which Exchange server is providing
public folder content to a given outlook client? I thought that if your
mailbox was on E2k, that server gave you public folder content. But it
doesn't seem to work that way. When we first put in E2k (before any public
folders were replicated to E2k), we had no mailboxes moved over to E2k.
But yet we had a couple of users who called in reporting that they could only
see "Internet Newsgroups" under Public folders. This was the only folder
setup on E2k so it appeared that even thought their mailbox was on 5.5, their
public folder stuff was coming from 2k. I also can look on my E2k server
now under "logons" and I see people logged on that don't have mailboxes on that
server?
-Original Message-From: William
Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June
11, 2002 7:45 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE:
Event ID 1025 on E2k Public Store
I
don't think this applies to that isinteg suggestion.
Any
other events logged? Like 1160?
http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q309746
Does
everything work ok? Your public folder connection agreement has
replicated Public folder info to AD and you've created the
replicas?
William
-----Original Message-From: Crosby, Tim
(Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June
11, 2002 4:33 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject:
Event ID 1025 on E2k Public Store
Just got our Exchange 2000 Server (sp2) up and
running in our single server Exchange 5.5 site. I have synchronized
all the public folders and it appears to be working OK. I can see all
public folders from both servers. But I get lots of these events in my
application log:
Event ID 1025 Source: MSExchangeISPublic Type: Warning
An error occurred on database "First Storage
Group\Public Folder Store (SERVER)". Function name or description of problem: SLINK::EcUpdate
Error: 0x80004005
The only other app on the box is Trend
Antivirus. It doesn't seem to be causing a problem, so I don't know if
I should be concerned. I have found a few articles that say you should
run ISINTEG for Event 1025, but not for the specific error that I'm
getting. Anyone have a suggestion?List Charter and FAQ
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How to setup internet email on E2k
Title: How to setup internet email on E2k We have now successfully migrated about 99% of our users over to our E2k server now. Thanks to everyone who gave my advice along the way. We have one 5.5 server and one E2k in the same site. Right now, all internet email is going through the 5.5 server and we need to get that role over to the E2k server so the 5.5 can be removed. This seems like it should be fairly simple. All our email goes from E5.5 to a relay server. To set this up on E2k, do I set it up as a new routing group connector? Or do I configure it under Protocols, SMTP, Default SMTP Virtual Server? And can I have an SMTP connector setup on E2k at the same time as the IMC is setup on 5.5? Will both deliver internet email or should I turn off the IMC before installing E2k SMTP mail? Thanks for any assistance. Tim List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
User can't see encrypted emails after moving to E2k
Title: User can't see encrypted emails after moving to E2k I have one user who can't see messages that were sent to him encrypted while he was on the exchange 5.5 system. He was able to open them while on 5.5, but when we moved him over to the E2k server, he selects the message but it doesn't open in the preview pane and you get a blank screen if you double click the message. I opened his mailbox from my machine and I could see the encrypted emails with no problem. We both use the same client (Outlook XP). If I move him back over to the 5.5 server, he can open the encrypted messages again??? Anyone seen this before? List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
Unable to add second SMTP address on recipient policy
Title: Unable to add second SMTP address on recipient policy We have one 5.5 server and one E2k server (with ADC) in the same site and I'm trying to get E2k to handle all internet mail. On our old exch 5.5 server, we had the IMC setup to route mail for 2 domains. After doing some research on this, it appears that to do this in Exchange 2000, you have to add the email address for both domains to your recipient policy for your users. There is no equivalent routing tab in E2k. So currently, all our users have [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I just want to add [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two recipient policies setup on E2k. I opened the default policy and added a 2nd SMTP address. However, that SMTP address never shows up on the "email addresses" tab of any users in ADUC. I have tried updating the Recipient Update Service and it still doesn't show. The 2nd recipient policy will not allow me to add a 2nd SMTP address. The add button is grayed out. Am I missing a step somewhere? How do I get this second address to show up? List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Unable to add second SMTP address on recipient policy
Title: Message
That
seems to be the problem. The policy with highest priority will not let me
add an additional SMTP address. The button is grayed out. I think
that is because it is getting the highest priority policy from Exchange
5.5?
How do
I add a 2nd address in Exchange 5.5?
-Original Message-From: Benjamin Zachary
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002
3:12 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: Unable
to add second SMTP address on recipient policy
Are
you modifying the Default policy with 'lowest' priority? and what does the 1st
policy do? I have seen this on some servers that host multiple domains and
sometimes the policies dont get handled in the proper order or something
blocks them in the filtering from being in another recipent policy.
-Original Message-From: Crosby, Tim
(Sarcom) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June
27, 2002 1:28 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject:
Unable to add second SMTP address on recipient policy
We have one 5.5 server and one E2k server (with
ADC) in the same site and I'm trying to get E2k to handle all internet
mail. On our old exch 5.5 server, we had the IMC setup to route mail
for 2 domains. After doing some research on this, it appears that to
do this in Exchange 2000, you have to add the email address for both domains
to your recipient policy for your users. There is no equivalent
routing tab in E2k. So currently, all our users have
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and I just want to add [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are two recipient policies setup on
E2k. I opened the default policy and added a 2nd SMTP address.
However, that SMTP address never shows up on the "email addresses" tab of
any users in ADUC. I have tried updating the Recipient Update Service
and it still doesn't show.
The 2nd recipient policy will not allow me to add
a 2nd SMTP address. The add button is grayed out.
Am I missing a step somewhere? How do I get
this second address to show up? List Charter and FAQ
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Rights to modify distribution lists
We need to give an individual rights to go into all of our Exchange 2000 distribution lists and assign an owner to the distribution list. All of the distribution lists are in a separate OU in our AD. We don’t want to give him any rights that are not necessary. What right is needed to do this? Is this a right I have to set within Exchange2k Administrator or within ADUC? List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
