RE: Internal,External URLs. SSL
For our hosting clients (who are all external) we are doing a single cert with the autodiscover redirector. For internal/lan clients we are doing SAN certs (they are 90 bucks now @ godaddy). So its much more economical than it used to be. From: Paul Cookman [mailto:paul.cook...@selection.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 7:57 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Internal,External URLs. SSL Hi All, I have been using the internal/external URLs the same with internal DNS to match to avoid certificate errors and I see there is an article saying you could go to the IIS EWS dir and untick the require SSL. I am interested to see what others are doing, internal and external the same/Internal CA or disable SSL for internal? Regards, Paul. --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
RE: Autodiscover Exchange 2010
Im troubleshooting the same thing, we are on ex2k10sp1 in /hosting mode .. We have a UCC cert but also use the autodiscover redirect config.. On our side what happens is that the server is exchange.domain.com and the redirector is on autodiscover.domain.com . For our clients we have autodiscover pointing to our autodiscover.domain.com. When we set this up manually as https://exchange.domain.com and msstd:exchange.domain.com after a few minutes we found autodiscover.exchange.com in place for both. We fixed part of it by setting the EXPR (Set-OutlookProvider EXPR -CertPrincipalname: msstd:exchange.domain.com) this fixed the msstd connection but the actual rpc/https url remains as autodiscover.domain.com Hope that helps you a bit .. From: Paul Cookman [mailto:paul.cook...@selection.co.uk] Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 7:21 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Autodiscover Exchange 2010 Hi, Has anyone had any strange issues with autodiscover from external? I have my external url's pointing to webmail and also have a record for autodiscover.domain.com but it only lets me connect when I go through the setup manually from the outlook client. Exchange connectivity test website looks fine. Any ideas? --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
RE: How to exmerge/export a mailbox 2GB
I did this on a bunch of 10+gb mailboxes on e2k3 by using Outlook 2010. I initially purchased 2 products that didn't get the job done (edb mounters) and then looked at ontrack which used to work and decided to just use outlook 2010 for the 10 mboxes. From: Todd Lemmiksoo [mailto:tlemmik...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 2:48 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: How to exmerge/export a mailbox 2GB Have an e-discovery request on a user that has an 8 GB mailbox (Exchange 2003). Can I use a Exchange 2007 CAS to export the mailbox to a pst. Or do I need a third party application. -- T. Todd Lemmiksoo --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
RE: Exchange 2010 backup.
We have moved to Veeam for vmware installations (I guess HyperV is coming soon) , and for on-premise hardware setups we are using Arca/BDR units, which is just Shadow Protect with Ontracks Recovery piece tied into it for the most part. The largest client we manage is @ 1.2TB with 6 Exchange DB's , we moved from BEX 2010, to Veeam onto a Data Domain De-Dupe unit and haven't looked back. With 13 databases it sounds like your much larger than that, so the usual YMMV applies :) From: Tobie Fysh [mailto:tobie.f...@freebridge.org.uk] Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 4:55 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 backup. DPM 2010 - http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/data-protection-manager.aspx /returns to lurking From: Liby Philip Mathew [mailto:lmat...@path-solutions.com] Sent: 24 May 2011 07:49 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 2010 backup. Hi All, A big thank you to the forum! I transitioned my Exchange to 2010 from 2007 without any issues with the help of the forum. I am looking for a backup solution for my Exchange 2010. What are my options? I have 13 database. Right now I am using Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Windows Server Backup. I understand WSB cannot be used with tape drive. I have read a comment on some other forum by Mike that it may backup only the first database. In exchange 2007 I was using BackupExec 12. But the price for BackupExec 2010 is prohibitive. Regards Liby Philip Mathew | ICT Consultant Disclaimer [The information contained in this e-mail message and any attached files are confidential information and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. This transmission may contain information that is privileged, confidential or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Path Solutions accepts no responsibility for any errors, omissions, computer viruses and other defects.] --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist This message has been scanned by MimeCast on behalf of Freebridge Community Housing and found to be free of viruses and not SPAM. If you have any concerns about the message contents please contact the ICT ServiceDesk. [cid:image001.gif@01CC1A2F.5FEE4E60]http://www.freebridge.org.uk [cid:image002.gif@01CC1A2F.5FEE4E60]http://twitter.com/Freebridge [cid:image003.gif@01CC1A2F.5FEE4E60]http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kings-Lynn-United-Kingdom/Freebridge-Community-Housing/192690183387?v=box_3 This e-mail (including any attachments), is confidential and intended only for the use of the addressee(s). It may contain information covered by legal, professional or other privilege. If you are not an addressee, please inform the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Do not copy, use or disclose this e-mail. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error free. The sender does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard copy version. Freebridge Community Housing Ltd is a Charitable Industrial and Provident Society - Reg No IP29744R Registered with the Housing Corporation - No L4463. VAT Registration Number 860762121 Freebridge Community Housing, Juniper House, Austin Street, Kings Lynn, Norfolk PE30 1DZ This email message has been scanned for viruses by Mimecast. Mimecast delivers a complete managed email solution from a single web based platform. For more information please visit http://www.mimecast.com --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelistinline: image001.gifinline: image002.gifinline: image003.gif
RE: Hosted Exchange Solutions - SMB
Intermedia has an AD Link tool From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 2:11 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hosted Exchange Solutions - SMB Just the same as everyone else. Lots of enterprise customers here (at TEC'2011) complaining about not being able to jump to the head of the line with support issues. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Eric [mailto:seag...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 2:09 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hosted Exchange Solutions - SMB I've heard about Office 365, but wonder how well those type of services treat smaller companies. On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Steve Ens stevey...@gmail.commailto:stevey...@gmail.com wrote: BPOS or Office365? Sent from my iPad On 2011-04-19, at 12:46 PM, Eric seag...@gmail.commailto:seag...@gmail.com wrote: I have a client who is looking for hosted Exchange services that allows AD synchronization. They are a small shop of about 35 users. Do people have any recommendations for hosting provider for small businesses? One company they've looked at is intermedia.nethttp://intermedia.net/ but I have not experience with them and would like to offer them some suggestions. Thanks! --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
RE: Hosted Exchange Solutions - SMB
I have put a handful of clients on intermedia and its worked just fine... they have a reseller platform so you can make a couple bucks and their deployment tool/mgmt. tools can have your logo and company name so it looks more seamless. I have not used their AD link tool, although we are getting ready to deploy 200 person network from Lotus to Intermedias Exchange platform in the next month or two using their AD sync tool. From: Level 5 Lists Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 2:06 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hosted Exchange Solutions - SMB Intermedia has an AD Link tool From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 2:11 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hosted Exchange Solutions - SMB Just the same as everyone else. Lots of enterprise customers here (at TEC'2011) complaining about not being able to jump to the head of the line with support issues. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Eric [mailto:seag...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 2:09 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hosted Exchange Solutions - SMB I've heard about Office 365, but wonder how well those type of services treat smaller companies. On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Steve Ens stevey...@gmail.commailto:stevey...@gmail.com wrote: BPOS or Office365? Sent from my iPad On 2011-04-19, at 12:46 PM, Eric seag...@gmail.commailto:seag...@gmail.com wrote: I have a client who is looking for hosted Exchange services that allows AD synchronization. They are a small shop of about 35 users. Do people have any recommendations for hosting provider for small businesses? One company they've looked at is intermedia.nethttp://intermedia.net/ but I have not experience with them and would like to offer them some suggestions. Thanks! --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
Enable vrfy recievers
We have an ex2k10sp1 box that sits behind our spam system. We have always had verify recievers on (450 or 550). This would greatly reduce the amount of email we have to process because an email address that doesn't exist the filter simply drops it. Since 2010 our filter gets dropped by the exchange server. It's a single server, small office, I thought maybe if I put the anti-spam agents on it and enabled recipient filtering that would solve my issue but it doesn't ... There probably is a workaround but for example this month we have processed 350k messages outbound from (i.e. ndrs) and such going out for invalid user. When we had the verify options on that number would be right in line with our outbound email counts. Ive been googling around about seeing if theres a way to re-enable that without success. Mail flow is perfect otherwise so I don't think it's a misconfig on my end... I looked at enabling my external smtp as a trusted internal connector and such thinking maybe I would get more smtp options but that didn't seem to do it either. Thanks Connection info from external spam filter: RCPT from mail-vx0-f175.google.com[209.85.220.175]: 450 4.1.1 b...@email.com: Recipient address rejected: unverified address: lost connection with my.ip.add.ress --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
RE: exchange 2010 odd issues
As a follow up after I put all the required fixes and sp1 was installed and rebooted everything seems to be working ok except OAB. But at least I can troubleshoot through that error easy enough and it doesn't affect production . Also I had to d/l sp1 5 times to get it . it kept coming down at 475mb and getting an invalid win32 app when run it. I did the manual download and that worked . From: Level 5 Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 10:06 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: exchange 2010 odd issues We put in a small 2008r2 server w/ exchange 2010. Went out and purchased a cert and installed it easy enough. OWA was working, but ActiveSync wasn't, we were getting an OPTIONS error. So we took off requiring ssl and that worked (for whatever reason). Then we were showing OAB errors, and I remembered I didn't set the OAB on the store, so we did that and rebooted. Now RPC doesn't work. I get errors loading airfilter.dll , I searched around for that and no go. OWA and EPS have always worked , and when I go through and check settings from IIS standpoint they all look about the same. Any ideas? I am currently d/ling sp1 (our 2010 w/ sp1 from eopen was corrupted initially). Im getting all sorts of weird errors, with seemingly everything looking okay and nothing major to report previously. Now I get a lot of errors loading airfilter.dll but everything looks correct from some of the troubleshooting steps. I don't know that this is affecting rpc or not but just wondering overall what the heck is going on that rebooting the server makes different issues each time it seems ;) --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
RE: Easy way to switch exchange users?
Ok , thanks, I wasn't sure I could do that easily enough. Thanks From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 4:47 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Easy way to switch exchange users? Disconnect their current AD account from the mailbox and connect to the new one after the trust relationship is in place. On Mar 4, 2011 1:43 PM, Level 5 - Lists li...@levelfive.us wrote: I have a site that purchased another company that was using lotus, so we pushed them onto Exchange and just using rpc/https to get them going, now we have a tunnel up between sites and were thinking of doing a trust between domains to make it a little easier but then I would need to switch mailboxes for the users to keep it all together .. besides extraction to a pst and import to a new mbox any shortcuts?? Thx --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
RE: corrupt transport queues
We had 2 servers running HT during migration, and went down to 1 about 2 weeks ago, but only had 1 before forever. I did see that the HT had an unlimited send/recv size although we have a max size on smtp and the spam filter so I fixed that. I turned the server we migrated away from which was still on back into HT and had the same problem with it too! So I let it keep going and I reset the HT by deleting mail.que about 5 times and then it seemed to fix itself a bit and I was good. I must have a disconnect somewhere because although HT was running and obviously falling behind if you look at the actual queues themselves they were 0 on both servers but the mail.que would just build up. One of the files was 4.9gb and became corrupted I moved the queue folder out and ran a repair and afterwards it was 2mb. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 7:05 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues Is there just one HT? Sounds like you are being bitten either by the transport dumpster or by something huge trying to come into your HT. You do have limits set on the connectors, right? (And I mean on the CONNECTORS, not at the global level or per-user level.) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Level 5 - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 11:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues We don't have rollup 2 for exchange sp3, according to windows update. The only errors I really get is starting transport service then you see the logiles replaying in the eventvwr but it goes basically in circles you can see it go all the way from oldest to newest then it starts bouncing around and 45 mins later it says completed but the transport is already in 'starting' so nothing I can do but wipe and try again. Thx From: Level 5 Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 10:58 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues Im checking if any updates have been applied recently but this is 2007sp3 at minimum. WSUS shows last updates @ 12/5/2010 I did that btw, and what happens is the mail.que built up to 3gb in about 20 mins with hundreds of log files, if I stop the transport (or reboot) when it comes back on it starts replaying all the logfiles and then times out. Then I get database dirty shutdown and I have to pull it out. Whats odd is that during this time mail is delivering just fine it seems when we send test emails back and forth and the email transactions on the server in that time frame is just a few hundred and nowhere near 3gb, so im wondering if we are losing mail or the transport role is corrupted. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 9:07 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues stop msexchangetransport rename/move both the logs AND the database start msexchangetransport THat is - start over. You didn't answer the question about whether you were current on service packs and update rollups or whether any tasks were aborting. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com http://theessentialexchange.com/ _ From: Level 5 - Lists [li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 8:29 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues No, just replaying log files, it takes well over 2 hours to go through it. the mail.que is 5.9gb, and the queue is basically empty when I get it running. There was a couple of iis warning about .net having a locked process or something but not sure if its related. I moved the logfiles out and bounced the server, transport came up and said it found 191 messages (in a 5.9gb file?) . The system basically works for a few hours, then backs up in the queues and then the only fix is to wipe the transport folder and bounce the box and make a new mail.que From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 1:58 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues Are you current on service packs and update rollups? Are any tasks aborting? Are there any errors in the event logs? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Level 5 - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 1:53 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: corrupt transport queues This am we had some corrupt transport queue, a 2.1gb mail.que file and logfiles. I pulled them out and bounced the server, everything started we got about 800 messages in queue it dropped to about 530 and then stopped again. restarting the transport service yields the same results. I get all the logfiles
RE: corrupt transport queues
So this had to come from the inside, as the mail server(s) are behind a spam filter that's nat'ed and smtp/25 is only listening from the spam server ip (and a handful of other production servers for mail alerts) From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 10:09 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues You just got hit by an attempted DOS. J You should be able to look at your connection logs (on by default) and see where the emails were coming from. This is also why setting ALL the send/recv limits is important. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Level 5 - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 9:21 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues We had 2 servers running HT during migration, and went down to 1 about 2 weeks ago, but only had 1 before forever. I did see that the HT had an unlimited send/recv size although we have a max size on smtp and the spam filter so I fixed that. I turned the server we migrated away from which was still on back into HT and had the same problem with it too! So I let it keep going and I reset the HT by deleting mail.que about 5 times and then it seemed to fix itself a bit and I was good. I must have a disconnect somewhere because although HT was running and obviously falling behind if you look at the actual queues themselves they were 0 on both servers but the mail.que would just build up. One of the files was 4.9gb and became corrupted I moved the queue folder out and ran a repair and afterwards it was 2mb. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 7:05 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues Is there just one HT? Sounds like you are being bitten either by the transport dumpster or by something huge trying to come into your HT. You do have limits set on the connectors, right? (And I mean on the CONNECTORS, not at the global level or per-user level.) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Level 5 - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 11:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues We don't have rollup 2 for exchange sp3, according to windows update. The only errors I really get is starting transport service then you see the logiles replaying in the eventvwr but it goes basically in circles you can see it go all the way from oldest to newest then it starts bouncing around and 45 mins later it says completed but the transport is already in 'starting' so nothing I can do but wipe and try again. Thx From: Level 5 Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 10:58 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues Im checking if any updates have been applied recently but this is 2007sp3 at minimum. WSUS shows last updates @ 12/5/2010 I did that btw, and what happens is the mail.que built up to 3gb in about 20 mins with hundreds of log files, if I stop the transport (or reboot) when it comes back on it starts replaying all the logfiles and then times out. Then I get database dirty shutdown and I have to pull it out. Whats odd is that during this time mail is delivering just fine it seems when we send test emails back and forth and the email transactions on the server in that time frame is just a few hundred and nowhere near 3gb, so im wondering if we are losing mail or the transport role is corrupted. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 9:07 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues stop msexchangetransport rename/move both the logs AND the database start msexchangetransport THat is - start over. You didn't answer the question about whether you were current on service packs and update rollups or whether any tasks were aborting. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com http://theessentialexchange.com/ _ From: Level 5 - Lists [li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 8:29 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues No, just replaying log files, it takes well over 2 hours to go through it. the mail.que is 5.9gb, and the queue is basically empty when I get it running. There was a couple of iis warning about .net having a locked process or something but not sure if its related. I moved the logfiles out and bounced the server, transport came up and said it found 191 messages (in a 5.9gb file?) . The system basically works for a few hours, then backs up in the queues and then the only fix is to wipe the transport folder and bounce the box and make a new
RE: corrupt transport queues
Looks like connectivity logs are not on, using this cheat sheet: http://exchangepedia.com/2007/11/exchange-server-2007-how-many-logs-hath-the e.html I went to the transportroles\logs and there isn't even a connectivity folder. Would have been interesting though just to know what happened. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 9:55 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues I didn't suggest inside or outside - look at the connection logs. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com http://theessentialexchange.com/ _ From: Level 5 - Lists [li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 9:50 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues So this had to come from the inside, as the mail server(s) are behind a spam filter that's nat'ed and smtp/25 is only listening from the spam server ip (and a handful of other production servers for mail alerts) From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 10:09 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues You just got hit by an attempted DOS. J You should be able to look at your connection logs (on by default) and see where the emails were coming from. This is also why setting ALL the send/recv limits is important. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Level 5 - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 9:21 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues We had 2 servers running HT during migration, and went down to 1 about 2 weeks ago, but only had 1 before forever. I did see that the HT had an unlimited send/recv size although we have a max size on smtp and the spam filter so I fixed that. I turned the server we migrated away from which was still on back into HT and had the same problem with it too! So I let it keep going and I reset the HT by deleting mail.que about 5 times and then it seemed to fix itself a bit and I was good. I must have a disconnect somewhere because although HT was running and obviously falling behind if you look at the actual queues themselves they were 0 on both servers but the mail.que would just build up. One of the files was 4.9gb and became corrupted I moved the queue folder out and ran a repair and afterwards it was 2mb. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 7:05 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues Is there just one HT? Sounds like you are being bitten either by the transport dumpster or by something huge trying to come into your HT. You do have limits set on the connectors, right? (And I mean on the CONNECTORS, not at the global level or per-user level.) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Level 5 - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 11:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues We don't have rollup 2 for exchange sp3, according to windows update. The only errors I really get is starting transport service then you see the logiles replaying in the eventvwr but it goes basically in circles you can see it go all the way from oldest to newest then it starts bouncing around and 45 mins later it says completed but the transport is already in 'starting' so nothing I can do but wipe and try again. Thx From: Level 5 Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 10:58 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues Im checking if any updates have been applied recently but this is 2007sp3 at minimum. WSUS shows last updates @ 12/5/2010 I did that btw, and what happens is the mail.que built up to 3gb in about 20 mins with hundreds of log files, if I stop the transport (or reboot) when it comes back on it starts replaying all the logfiles and then times out. Then I get database dirty shutdown and I have to pull it out. Whats odd is that during this time mail is delivering just fine it seems when we send test emails back and forth and the email transactions on the server in that time frame is just a few hundred and nowhere near 3gb, so im wondering if we are losing mail or the transport role is corrupted. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 9:07 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues stop msexchangetransport rename/move both the logs AND the database start msexchangetransport THat is - start over. You didn't answer the question about whether you were current on service packs and update rollups or whether any tasks were aborting. Regards, Michael B
corrupt transport queues
This am we had some corrupt transport queue, a 2.1gb mail.que file and logfiles. I pulled them out and bounced the server, everything started we got about 800 messages in queue it dropped to about 530 and then stopped again. restarting the transport service yields the same results. I get all the logfiles replaying then a timed out message and then it starts replaying the logs again and again in a loop. It gets all the way to the top log file and then hangs there then seems to start over again. --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
RE: corrupt transport queues
No, just replaying log files, it takes well over 2 hours to go through it. the mail.que is 5.9gb, and the queue is basically empty when I get it running. There was a couple of iis warning about .net having a locked process or something but not sure if its related. I moved the logfiles out and bounced the server, transport came up and said it found 191 messages (in a 5.9gb file?) . The system basically works for a few hours, then backs up in the queues and then the only fix is to wipe the transport folder and bounce the box and make a new mail.que From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 1:58 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues Are you current on service packs and update rollups? Are any tasks aborting? Are there any errors in the event logs? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Level 5 - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 1:53 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: corrupt transport queues This am we had some corrupt transport queue, a 2.1gb mail.que file and logfiles. I pulled them out and bounced the server, everything started we got about 800 messages in queue it dropped to about 530 and then stopped again. restarting the transport service yields the same results. I get all the logfiles replaying then a timed out message and then it starts replaying the logs again and again in a loop. It gets all the way to the top log file and then hangs there then seems to start over again. --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
RE: corrupt transport queues
Im checking if any updates have been applied recently but this is 2007sp3 at minimum. WSUS shows last updates @ 12/5/2010 I did that btw, and what happens is the mail.que built up to 3gb in about 20 mins with hundreds of log files, if I stop the transport (or reboot) when it comes back on it starts replaying all the logfiles and then times out. Then I get database dirty shutdown and I have to pull it out. Whats odd is that during this time mail is delivering just fine it seems when we send test emails back and forth and the email transactions on the server in that time frame is just a few hundred and nowhere near 3gb, so im wondering if we are losing mail or the transport role is corrupted. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 9:07 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues stop msexchangetransport rename/move both the logs AND the database start msexchangetransport THat is - start over. You didn't answer the question about whether you were current on service packs and update rollups or whether any tasks were aborting. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com http://theessentialexchange.com/ _ From: Level 5 - Lists [li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 8:29 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues No, just replaying log files, it takes well over 2 hours to go through it. the mail.que is 5.9gb, and the queue is basically empty when I get it running. There was a couple of iis warning about .net having a locked process or something but not sure if its related. I moved the logfiles out and bounced the server, transport came up and said it found 191 messages (in a 5.9gb file?) . The system basically works for a few hours, then backs up in the queues and then the only fix is to wipe the transport folder and bounce the box and make a new mail.que From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 1:58 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues Are you current on service packs and update rollups? Are any tasks aborting? Are there any errors in the event logs? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Level 5 - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 1:53 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: corrupt transport queues This am we had some corrupt transport queue, a 2.1gb mail.que file and logfiles. I pulled them out and bounced the server, everything started we got about 800 messages in queue it dropped to about 530 and then stopped again. restarting the transport service yields the same results. I get all the logfiles replaying then a timed out message and then it starts replaying the logs again and again in a loop. It gets all the way to the top log file and then hangs there then seems to start over again. --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
RE: corrupt transport queues
We don't have rollup 2 for exchange sp3, according to windows update. The only errors I really get is starting transport service then you see the logiles replaying in the eventvwr but it goes basically in circles you can see it go all the way from oldest to newest then it starts bouncing around and 45 mins later it says completed but the transport is already in 'starting' so nothing I can do but wipe and try again. Thx From: Level 5 Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 10:58 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues Im checking if any updates have been applied recently but this is 2007sp3 at minimum. WSUS shows last updates @ 12/5/2010 I did that btw, and what happens is the mail.que built up to 3gb in about 20 mins with hundreds of log files, if I stop the transport (or reboot) when it comes back on it starts replaying all the logfiles and then times out. Then I get database dirty shutdown and I have to pull it out. Whats odd is that during this time mail is delivering just fine it seems when we send test emails back and forth and the email transactions on the server in that time frame is just a few hundred and nowhere near 3gb, so im wondering if we are losing mail or the transport role is corrupted. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 9:07 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues stop msexchangetransport rename/move both the logs AND the database start msexchangetransport THat is - start over. You didn't answer the question about whether you were current on service packs and update rollups or whether any tasks were aborting. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com http://theessentialexchange.com/ _ From: Level 5 - Lists [li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 8:29 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues No, just replaying log files, it takes well over 2 hours to go through it. the mail.que is 5.9gb, and the queue is basically empty when I get it running. There was a couple of iis warning about .net having a locked process or something but not sure if its related. I moved the logfiles out and bounced the server, transport came up and said it found 191 messages (in a 5.9gb file?) . The system basically works for a few hours, then backs up in the queues and then the only fix is to wipe the transport folder and bounce the box and make a new mail.que From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 1:58 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: corrupt transport queues Are you current on service packs and update rollups? Are any tasks aborting? Are there any errors in the event logs? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Level 5 - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 1:53 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: corrupt transport queues This am we had some corrupt transport queue, a 2.1gb mail.que file and logfiles. I pulled them out and bounced the server, everything started we got about 800 messages in queue it dropped to about 530 and then stopped again. restarting the transport service yields the same results. I get all the logfiles replaying then a timed out message and then it starts replaying the logs again and again in a loop. It gets all the way to the top log file and then hangs there then seems to start over again. --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
RE: ex07 pf replication
Thanks, I will try that. Last time I looked about 3 weeks ago SP3 didn't show up on windows update although I saw many people talking about it. Im already forced to restore from backup because somewhere along the line I now have several folders with 0 items that had thousands, not all folders just some .. using pfdavadmin shows me no deleted items and reflects the same item counts . I have to wait until after hours to take the PF DB offline since RSG seems to only work with mailboxes (something I did not know previously). So it looks like that moveallreplicas script really screwed the pooch for me this time, I did use it a few times before without incident FWIW From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 10:25 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: ex07 pf replication MoveAllReplicas has never worked for me. Webster From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Subject: RE: ex07 pf replication MoveAllReplicas has rarely worked for me (I say it that way, because some people swear it's great; my experience has been otherwise). I recommend that you: [a] Upgrade to 2007 SP3 and use the new functionality in the console to modify all replicas [b] Use the script AddReplicaToPfRecursive. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Lists - Level5 [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] Subject: ex07 pf replication We are migrating away from an SCR 2007 cluster to a single vm box for our mailbox database. We have 4 DB's and have been moving mailboxes over the past several weeks. Our PF DB is about 40GB. When I looked at all the PF's they had a replication of the new server, and all the stores were set to point to the new server and everything was fine. When I went to decommission the server I noticed that the entire PF db on the new server was still at 0 even though everyone had it listed as their PF for the database. I tried doing the moveallreplicas.ps1 script and waited a day, and I see all kinds of event logs about incoming message replication , processing message but the new server still showing 0 messages. What made it worse was after the script people this morning said all the PFs were empty, so I repointed the DB to the old server and re-ran the moveallreplicas.ps1 back to the old server they are good now, but Im not sure of what Im missing. Thanks for reading my long winded post J --- You are currently subscribed to exchangelist as: li...@levelfive.us. To unsubscribe click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/u?id=8240454.664147b564e01d0f78df91c0007c6 0c2 http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/u?id=8240454.664147b564e01d0f78df91c0007c 60c2n=Tl=exchangelisto=9079339 n=Tl=exchangelisto=9079339 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-9079339-8240454.664147b564e01d0f78df91c0007c6...@lyris.sunbelt-softwar e.com --- You are currently subscribed to exchangelist as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/u?id=8142876.1678b53fdef861a9e8adf304b808c1e6n=Tl=exchangelisto=9079540 or send a blank email to leave-9079540-8142876.1678b53fdef861a9e8adf304b808c...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
