RE: pst troubles, please help
My first post, I feel so excited:) I've used this utility with great success in the past. Well worth the price, especially if you're in a org that uses a lot of .pst files. http://www.officerecovery.com/outlook/index.htm Regards Ruan Kotze MCSE, Master ASE For: Comparex Namibia -Original Message- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 April 2002 11:45 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: pst troubles, please help .pst's get corrupted. You could try scanpst.exe a few times to try to fix it. Or use the backup. William -Original Message- From: Desiree Herrmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 1:39 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: pst troubles, please help I've got an evil .pst file that won't open now that I've reformatted the PC and recreated the Outlook account. This .pst file is approx. 584MB, not exceeding the 2GB limit... But, it's crashing everything that tries to get to it. When I open the mailbox, after approx. 7 minutes of cranking away at 100%CPU utilization, then I try to open this Personal Folders file, I get a message that I don't have permission to open it. What? I wonder if there's a way to get into this file? I've searched TechNet, Google, my archive of messages from this list. Anyone have a suggestion? Thanks in advance. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: pst troubles, please help
True, True... -Original Message- From: Snook, Kevin S (ITD) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 April 2002 10:40 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: pst troubles, please help Not when you can get it done for free! -Original Message- From: Ruan Kotze / CPX NAM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 April 2002 08:41 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: pst troubles, please help My first post, I feel so excited:) I've used this utility with great success in the past. Well worth the price, especially if you're in a org that uses a lot of .pst files. http://www.officerecovery.com/outlook/index.htm Regards Ruan Kotze MCSE, Master ASE For: Comparex Namibia -Original Message- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 April 2002 11:45 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: pst troubles, please help .pst's get corrupted. You could try scanpst.exe a few times to try to fix it. Or use the backup. William -Original Message- From: Desiree Herrmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 1:39 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: pst troubles, please help I've got an evil .pst file that won't open now that I've reformatted the PC and recreated the Outlook account. This .pst file is approx. 584MB, not exceeding the 2GB limit... But, it's crashing everything that tries to get to it. When I open the mailbox, after approx. 7 minutes of cranking away at 100%CPU utilization, then I try to open this Personal Folders file, I get a message that I don't have permission to open it. What? I wonder if there's a way to get into this file? I've searched TechNet, Google, my archive of messages from this list. Anyone have a suggestion? Thanks in advance. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: DMZ
Matthew, I Would avoid putting the Exchange server in the DMZ. You could put an SMTP relay on a server in the DMZ and have it relay to your Exchange server, but IMHO putting a Exchange Server in the DMZ kinda defeats the purpose of the DMZ. Ruan Kotze MCSE, Master ASE For: Comparex Namibia -Original Message- From: Matthew Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 4:08 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: DMZ Does anyone know what ports are used to authenticate users for Exchange? What I mean is, I put our web server on a DMZ, and now I can not authenticate users in OWA. I can access the site, but it appears that the domain information is not accessible. I want to verify that my PIX config is set up correctly. TIA Matthew Carpenter, MCP, CNA, A+ Network Engineer and Exchange Administrator SARMA 1801 Broadway San Antonio, TX 78215 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: DMZ
Please disregard my last post, didn't read the question carefully enough. -Original Message- From: Ruan Kotze / CPX NAM Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 3:15 PM To: 'MS-Exchange Admin Issues' Subject: RE: DMZ Matthew, I Would avoid putting the Exchange server in the DMZ. You could put an SMTP relay on a server in the DMZ and have it relay to your Exchange server, but IMHO putting a Exchange Server in the DMZ kinda defeats the purpose of the DMZ. Ruan Kotze MCSE, Master ASE For: Comparex Namibia -Original Message- From: Matthew Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 4:08 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: DMZ Does anyone know what ports are used to authenticate users for Exchange? What I mean is, I put our web server on a DMZ, and now I can not authenticate users in OWA. I can access the site, but it appears that the domain information is not accessible. I want to verify that my PIX config is set up correctly. TIA Matthew Carpenter, MCP, CNA, A+ Network Engineer and Exchange Administrator SARMA 1801 Broadway San Antonio, TX 78215 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 DMZ
Matthew, What Servers have you got running on your DMZ - web servers, ftp servers etc?, If any of those servers were to be compromised, the attacker would have a much better chance of getting onto your Exchange Box, which of course has a high level of access to your internal/private network. The reason, I believe, people put their web/ftp/whatever servers in a DMZ is that those servers are not to be entrusted with access to the private network. Exchange is different of course, the whole idea is that the system is giving access to the private network. I would suggest, if you're using OWA, to put the exchange on the private network, and allow only https (port 443, IIRC). If your users insist on using Outlook, you can connect them via VPN. Regards Ruan Kotze MCSE, Master ASE For: Comparex Namibia -Original Message- From: Matthew Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 10:01 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange DMZ What are the pros and cons to putting your Exchange on a DMZ. Note: The web server is already on the same DMZ. We use OWA and a VPN. EX5.5 SP4 NT4 SP6 Matthew Carpenter, MCP, CNA, A+ Network Engineer and Exchange Administrator SARMA 1801 Broadway San Antonio, TX 78215 List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm Disclaimer Notice : Note this is a disclaimer List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Personal Folders
Regressive hypnosis? If that fails, you could try scouring the net for a program called pst19upg. You'll have to move the .pst over to a PC first, since it doesn't run on a Mac. RegardsRuan Kotze MCSE, Master ASE For: Comparex Namibia -Original Message- From: Pamela Gengler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 5:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Personal Folders I have a user who has set a password for personal folders and cannot remember the password. This is on a Macintosh running 8.6 with Outlook 8.2. Does anyone know of a way to override this? Pamela Gengler Systems Administrator 510 G Street Antioch, CA 94509 925-776-2091 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: ESEUTIL
Deja Vu :) Regards Ruan Kotze MCSE, Master ASE For: Comparex Namibia -Original Message- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 4:51 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Regular offline defrags: definitive answer I guess Ed is not busy enough these days, so he took time to answer very difinitively why regular offline defrags with eseutil is totally unnecessary with Exchange. It is fairly thorough, a good read, and what we have seen posted here before: -Original Message- From: Woodrick, Ed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] First in looking at the arguments, it helps to understand what you are arguing. Somewhat as stated, your team is right defragmentation should be done on a regular basis. It reduces the number of extensions on messages, but more importantly makes it faster and easier to find free space to store the messages. Exchange's database is just like any current art database. It's a transaction oriented, journal led write database. Nothing really spectacular about it, regular database maintenance is all that is really needed. So you can easily go to a DBA and get suggestions on how to best care for a database. In most large database products, take SQL for example, as you create a database, you give it an initial size and then specify if the database is extensible or not and if so, how big is an extension. A common default that I use is 50MB for the initial size and 5MB extensions. Then on a regular basis, the database should be defragmented, and then, once in a blue moon you might want to reload the database, although it's not often done anymore. That's the same with Exchange, you want to defragment the database regularly and then reload it on a extremely rare, probably never basis. Sounds good? Install Exchange 5.5 and let it do it's thing and that's what you've got. Nightly, the system makes two runs through each database to defragment it. It also runs through each page of the database to make sure that the checksum is correct as you perform a backup. And I believe that another process goes through and validate the structure periodically. So why run eseutil/d? Well, when I was talking about databases growing, noticed I never said shrinking. SQL doesn't shrink a database, neither does Exchange. Biggest reason is because there really isn't a need for it in most cases. How many people hear of their total storage decreasing? It's usually at least a 5-10% a year increase. But, there are situations where indeed your database could decrease dramatically. That would be if you put a new storage policy into effect, although with the dumpster it could be a few weeks before the messages are actually deleted and SIS can also impact it. Or if you've added a new server and moved users to it. There are a variety of reasons why you would have gained a lot of white space in your database. The question that you need to ask yourself is "are you going to use it again?" If you've deleted some users or objects and you've created 1-% additional white space, just how long do you expect it to be before the space fills back up? If it's a few months, don't worry about it. I tend to make a few GB or 10% of the total store, whichever is higher, the number at which I even start thinking about repacking. I saw last night that I've got 50MB of white space in one of my DBs. It's not even on the radar screen to be compacted. If I had 5GB of white space on a 50GB database, then I might start looking for a window to compact it. But remember that it's going to take a few hours of downtime to do it. Eseutil /d is really a misnomer, a hangover from earlier days. For Exchange 5.5 and later, it really should be eseutil /c or "compact" While it does an applied defragmentation, the database is seldom fragmented, because it is defragmented twice every evening. Oh, and if you do compactions on a regular basis to the same disk, you are probably going to get some ugly NTFS fragmentation. (And yes Daniel, if you compact your database, the system is going to take extra overhead to have to expand the database. And compared to writing a single object, I suspect that it's a rather lengthy process. Okay, it's probably a hundredth of a second, but when you compare it to ill-advised behavior like compacting regularly, at least it make sense) But the real reason why not to do it is like everyone has said, there is nothing to be gained, and a lot to be lost. It is NOT REQUIRED and NOT SUGGESTED to obtain 99.999% uptime. Matter of fact, doing it brings you down to about 99.5% uptime, just taking 4 hours per month. As to making an Exchange Server reach 100% uptime, the equation is pretty simple Keep the Hands Off! (This assume nightly full backups and verification that the backup ran --VERY important!) -Original Message- From: Matthew Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 6:41 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: ESEUTIL What is the recomm
RE: Exchange 5.5 and Windows 2000 Server in an NT4 Domain?
James, Yes it will, keep in mind that you should make it a member server in your NT4 domain (as opposed to standalone). It doesn't need to be a AD DC either. Regards Ruan Kotze MCSE, Master ASE For: Comparex Namibia -Original Message- From: James Palmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 11:23 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 5.5 and Windows 2000 Server in an NT4 Domain? My current email server hardware is in need of replacement, so whilst looking at alternatives, can I replace it with the following setup; Windows 2000 Server and exchange 5.5 sp4+hotfixes? Will this work? Does the server need to be a DC (in 2000 terms)? All the other servers are NT4 and I am running a domain toplogy. Thanks James Palmer This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk 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: Domain name change
Will you be moving over to a new IP range as well? Regards Ruan -Original Message- From: Dawson, Valencia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 6:38 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Domain name change The domain name is what is changing- email address etc. I am not moving the server to a new domain. -Original Message- From: Missy Koslosky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 12:16 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Domain name change http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq_appxk.htm - Original Message - From: "Dawson, Valencia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 12:03 PM Subject: Domain name change We will soon be changing domain names. If any of you have recently undergone this please advise me of the steps to take. We are using WindowsNT/Exchange 5.5 with Outlook 98/200/XP. What changes do I make on the Exchange server to reflect this change? How do I make an easy transition so people can get mail from both the new and the old at least for a while? How do I make the change so the email addresses at least going out will reflect the new name. Any help in the right direction will be appreciated. Thank you 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: Domain name change
In that case you'll need to have two smtp addresses on each mailbox, one for the old and one for the new domain. Change the MX and A records on the old domain to point to the new ip, and you'll be all set. If your old domain doesn't exist anymore, you'll have to re-register it. Regards Ruan -Original Message- From: Dawson, Valencia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 6:53 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Domain name change That was already done. -Original Message----- From: Ruan Kotze - CPX NAM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 11:47 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Domain name change Will you be moving over to a new IP range as well? Regards Ruan -Original Message- From: Dawson, Valencia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 6:38 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Domain name change The domain name is what is changing- email address etc. I am not moving the server to a new domain. -Original Message- From: Missy Koslosky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 12:16 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Domain name change http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq_appxk.htm - Original Message - From: "Dawson, Valencia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 12:03 PM Subject: Domain name change We will soon be changing domain names. If any of you have recently undergone this please advise me of the steps to take. We are using WindowsNT/Exchange 5.5 with Outlook 98/200/XP. What changes do I make on the Exchange server to reflect this change? How do I make an easy transition so people can get mail from both the new and the old at least for a while? How do I make the change so the email addresses at least going out will reflect the new name. Any help in the right direction will be appreciated. Thank you 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 List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Moving OWA to another server
Geoff On the new OWA to-be server, stick in your exchange 5.5 cd, run setup and select Outlook Web Access. Deselect everything else. It will ask you to specify your exchange server, and that's about it. Regards Ruan Kotze For: Comparex Namibia -Original Message- From: Jonathan Schober [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 4:12 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Moving OWA to another server This is called a front-end back-end configuration. There are several good articles on MS' website that describe how to configure the system this way. As a side note, with E2k, you have to have the "Enterprise" edition of Exchange to split off the OWA on a different server. I think more people should Bixxx about that. jds -Original Message- From: Robbins, Geoff. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 05:54 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Moving OWA to another server Although I am fairly competent with Exchange, I need a bit of assistance with OWA. We currently access all OWA traffic through one Exchange server. However, we want to move that to another Exchange server so that the old server can be decommissioned. I have had a look in TechNet but without success. Can anyone advise how to do this? We are a Ex5.5 SP4 house running IIS4. TIA Geoff Robbins * PLEASE NOTE: We are a Microsoft Office Site, our base version is 95 (v7). Please make sure that files you send can be read in this format. The information contained in this email is confidential and is intended for the addressee(s) only. Any attachments to this message contain information from Lincolnshire Police, which is confidential or privileged. The copyright in the contents of this message and any attachments is the property of Lincolnshire Police, and any unauthorised reproduction or disclosure is contrary to the provisions of the Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act 1988. If you have received this message in error or there are any problems, please notify the originator immediately. The unauthorised use, disclosure, copying or alteration of this message is strictly forbidden. Lincolnshire Police is not responsible for the content of this message. Individuals are responsible for messages transmitted under their user ID and their compliance with the law. This message and any attachments have been scanned for viruses. Lincolnshire Police will not be liable for direct, special, indirect or consequental damages arising from alteration of the contents of this message or as a result of any virus being passed on. * 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: How to Rename an Exchange 2000 server
I once did the following in a lab environment: 1. Installed Exchange2K 2. Create a couple of mailboxes 3. Renamed the server Of course after that I couldn't connect any of the mail clients, so in a fit of pique (4.) I fired up ADSIedit. 4. In the user properties I changed the HomeMta and HomeDB (It might be called something like (homemdb/homedatabase, anyways it's easy to spot) settings to point to the new server. 5. Et Viola, it worked, been working now for about two months. 6. Of course I would never attempt this in a production environment. Good Luck Ruan Kotze For: Comparex Namibia -Original Message- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 11:12 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: How to Rename an Exchange 2000 server That is how I would do it. The name must be really bad before I'd take that kind of time. ;o) So, what did you call it? C'mon...share... -Original Message- From: Clack, William J (Bill) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 1:48 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: How to Rename an Exchange 2000 server I need to change the NetBIOS name of the Exchange 2000 machine. In Exchange 5.5 the process is quite difficult. It is described in Q155269 in detail. Question is what is the process on a Exchange 2000 server to change the NetBIOS name. Not concerned about the DNS and mx records at this time. The best option I have is to create an additional Exchange 2000 server move data and users, rebuilt the original Exchange 2000 server with a new name then move the data and users back to the new server. Is there and more simple method? Thanks, -Original Message- From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 2:02 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: How to Rename an Exchange 2000 server ??? Does the NetBIOS name or the DNS name need to be changed? Would it not be easier to add an MX record with the new name (in addition to the current name) and add the appropriate DNS name for Inbound Routing? -Original Message- From: Clack, William J (Bill) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 11:19 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: How to Rename an Exchange 2000 server What is the correct procedure to rename an Exchange 2000 server? I am familiar with the procedure to rename an Exchange 5.5 server, which is NOT a whole lotta fun. Is it similar with Exchange 2000? I have a customer that needs to change the name of his Exchange 2000 server because it's present name is causing E-Mail from his server to be rejected because of filtering. Thanks, -Bill Clack 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: desktop?..
Long shot, but maybe you've got active desktop is enabled? -Original Message- From: AHMET KAYA(EBI Bsk.- Uygulama Prog.) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 12:12 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: desktop?.. nothing in the event log about this situation,i can log into the other node there is no problem on the other node, Additionally,everything is working on both nodes,but no(empty)desktop for first node??? -Original Message- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 10:20 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: desktop?.. Odd. Anything in the event log? Can you log into the other node? (Ew... NT Cluster) -Original Message- From: AHMET KAYA(EBI Bsk.- Uygulama Prog.) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 12:14 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: desktop?.. hi all, we have an exchange 5.5 w SP4 on NT 4.0 w SP6a cluster server, when we try to logon the server from the one node, a purely emty desktop is appearing and all of objects are disappeared!!! i'm curious about what the problem is,and what the solution is?thanx for your all responses... (the problem is may be out of topic sorry for that),good bye... 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
