Question about Exchange white space and archiving with EV

[Matthew McComas]

Greetings:

 

I understand that you can eliminate white space in an Exchange mail
store by either an offline defrag, or moving mailboxes to a new store.
I have a few related questions:

 

1.   If we use an archiving solution like EV to archive messages,
will this create more white space?

2.   Will exchange ever start consuming this white space by putting
messages in it so that the database file no longer grows until all white
space is consumed?

 

Thanks,

MM


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exchange reporting question

[Matthew McComas]

Can anyone recommend a solid reporting product for Exchange?  A product
which can give us detailed info of our user's email patterns, they types
of mail in our system, etc.?

 

Matt McComas

Sr. Systems Administrator

Information Technology

Westdale Asset Management, Ltd.

214.515.7063

 

For 24x7 status updates on Westdale Information Technology network and
system infrastructure, please visit http://status.westdale.net
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Question about Exch2k03 and EV6/SP3

[Matthew McComas]

We run Enterprise Vault 6, SP3.  We have a few mailboxes that have a
policy set to archive all mail older than 6 months.  The policy is
working fine, as any message 6 months or older has been replaced with a
stub or short-cut to the archived message.

 

Question: If you set up a mailbox manager recipient policy to delete all
mail 6 months or older for one of these 6 month or older archived
mailboxes will the policy delete the Enterprise Vault short-cuts, or
simply ignore them since technically they are not messages but rather
short-cuts to the actual message which now resides in the EV database?

 

Thanks,

MM


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reasonable Exchange reporting software?

[Matthew McComas]

Anybody know of a reasonably priced Exchange reporting software?  We
want to run some reports on our mail stores, mailbox content, types of
content, attachment types, at a mailbox-by-mailbox level.  We have about
500 mailboxes, so not a tremendously large environment.

 

Thanks,

MM


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dreaded Event ID 447

[Matthew McComas]

We had a power outage yesterday and due to our inadequate back up power,
we were forced to power all of our servers off.  Our Exchange server was
gracefully shut down, however, ever since the outage we started getting
this event:

Event Type:Error

Event Source:ESE

Event Category:Database Corruption 

Event ID:  447

Date: 3/6/2008

Time: 9:13:29 AM

User: N/A

Computer:  WAMEXCH03

Description:

Information Store (2760) First Storage Group: A bad page link (error
-327) has been detected in a B-Tree (ObjectId: 2353, PgnoRoot: 28516) of
database D:\Exchsrvr\mdbdata\Corp\Corp Mailbox Store.edb (10214338 =>
2781183, 10221014). 

 

Looking at articles and such, it's obvious we will have to run an
integrity check with ISinteg as soon as possible.  I saw a further
example of the issue with a single mailbox which would not receive any
new email...you could send email from it but it wouldn't receive...so
the question is:  How long can we go with the database in question?  Can
it wait a day or two until we have a maintenance window?  Is there a
risk of corruption spreading?

 

Thanks,

MM


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RE: dreaded Event ID 447

[Matthew McComas]

No hardware failures...everything shows green...yes, I can restore, but the 
corruption started yesterday morning at 9 AM, so basically if I restore to that 
point I have either missing mail, or some kind of mail merge to do...at any 
rate, will be messy...instead of doing all that, and since my mail store will 
still mount (so far-knock on wood), I'm going to just create a new mail store 
and move mailboxes out of the corrupt one and into the new one.

 

From: HELP_PC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 9:52 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: R: dreaded Event ID 447

 

But first check for hardware failures.

 

GuidoElia

HELPPC

 

 



Da: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Inviato: giovedì 6 marzo 2008 16.37
A: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Oggetto: RE: dreaded Event ID 447

If it were me, I wouldn't waste the time doing isinteg, and just restore the 
database from the last backup and replay the log files. I think I read it here 
that once a DB has corrupted once, it's suddenly a lot more prone to corruption 
in the future, and you may very well find yourself doing a restore anyway.

 

From: Matthew McComas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 06 March 2008 15:31
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: dreaded Event ID 447

 

We had a power outage yesterday and due to our inadequate back up power, we 
were forced to power all of our servers off.  Our Exchange server was 
gracefully shut down, however, ever since the outage we started getting this 
event:

Event Type:Error

Event Source:ESE

Event Category:Database Corruption 

Event ID:  447

Date: 3/6/2008

Time: 9:13:29 AM

User: N/A

Computer:  WAMEXCH03

Description:

Information Store (2760) First Storage Group: A bad page link (error -327) has 
been detected in a B-Tree (ObjectId: 2353, PgnoRoot: 28516) of database 
D:\Exchsrvr\mdbdata\Corp\Corp Mailbox Store.edb (10214338 => 2781183, 
10221014). 

 

Looking at articles and such, it's obvious we will have to run an integrity 
check with ISinteg as soon as possible.  I saw a further example of the issue 
with a single mailbox which would not receive any new email...you could send 
email from it but it wouldn't receive...so the question is:  How long can we go 
with the database in question?  Can it wait a day or two until we have a 
maintenance window?  Is there a risk of corruption spreading?

 

Thanks,

MM

 

 

 

 

 

 


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E2k03 to E2k07 upgrade question

[Matthew McComas]

We have a pretty basic Exchange 2003 environment that contains two
servers.  A small server holds OWA and Exchange wireless Activesync
roles.  The big server holds the mailbox server role, and also SMTP
virtual server, etc.  We're preparing for the Exchange 2k07 upgrade and
we've taken the MS class for the upgrade so we're pretty familiar with
the process, however, I have a few questions:

 

1.   What would be the best way to start the project?  My thought is
to simply install Exchange 2007 on the new hardware, add it to the
current email organization and start moving mailboxes.  The new
environment will also hold two servers-a CAS server, and then a mailbox
server that will hold the other Exchange roles.  We won't have an Edge
Transport at first...we have an email gateway set up already on a SPAM
device that will host this role at first.

2.   I guess I'm just confused on what to do first.  Also, at what
point we need to configure the new SMTP routing roles.  I'd prefer to
bring the new Exchange into the environment gradually, and first move
mailboxes to the server, and slowly migrate the roles out of the old
environment.

3.   I'm also a little confused as to when you can safely remove the
old environment...I assume once all rolls have been moved to E2k07, you
simply uninstall E2k03 out of the environment?

 

I have the MS Exchange upgrade class manual, so I can easily do some
refresher reading, but I just thought I'd run our upgrade scenario by a
few colleagues to get some feedback.

 

Thanks,

MM


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