RE: Database recovery help
I had the same type of problem with a corrupt database with no good
backups. We worked with MS and ended up shipping them a tape with an
off-line backup of the bad databases and they were able to extract almost
all the email from it. Now at the same time the company had agreed to sign
up for a Permier support contract, (lots of bucks).So, if you talk to
the right people and have enough they can get mail out of the
database.
Larry Manno
3RD Level Backoffice Support
Phone: 813-978-6531
Pager: 813-216-1086 pin 1821284
EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Todd Wood"
t.com> cc:
Subject: RE: Database recovery help
01/09/2002 09:35
PM
Please respond
to "MS-Exchange
Admin Issues"
Unfortunately not this time. I don't know if they have the option of
taking the database and working on it but they did not offer that solution.
I believe the exchange database is so sensitive to corruption that there
isn't much that can be done once it is corrupted, unlike a SQL database. I
know SQL can be difficult to deal with but at least you can extract
individual tables to recover some data. I also don't like the fact that
the Exchange database relys so heavily on log files.
Todd
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/09/02 05:44PM >>>
I thought MS, for the right price of course, could recover more of the
data.
-Original Message-
From: Todd Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 6:13 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Database recovery help
I've had good luck with MS assistance as well and it is worth the money.
Unfortunately MS was not able to help this time. I don't think there is
anything available to recover the database but I wanted to investigate it
first before I gave up hope. Hopefully a miracle will happen and someone
will have a utility that might help. They are running with a database from
Nov. 3rd so they didn't lose everything, only the last 2 stinking months of
e-mail, but that makes a big difference to management.
thanks,
todd
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/09/02 05:05PM >>>
Yup...just went thru the scenerio described...my database went bad...only
to
realize we were backing up the wrong info...spent 3-4 hours running all the
esutils with no luck...called MS support at 11:30pm (thinking there was no
way they could help me with no backups)...they had my Exchange up in 20
minutes...and worked to clean out the database thru the next day (I was so
so relieved..)...also taught me how to backup (correctly)...boy did I learn
a lot. Best $249.00 I've ever spent...saved my ass and my job.
Fred Valdez
Global Software Resources
Network Systems Administrator
-Original Message-
From: Lefkovics, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 4:56 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Database recovery help
PSS.$249US approx.Worth every penny.
Or have you already gone down that path? ("attempted to recover with
Microsoft")
William
-Original Message-
From: Todd Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 4:44 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Database recovery help
A client of ours has a corrupted database that we attempted to recover with
Microsoft with no luck. I was wondering if anyone has any input on a 3rd
party utility that might assist us in recovering at least some of the mail?
I know restoring from backups would be the ideal solution but we don't have
that option, I know, I know, it's a long story but unfortunately we don't
have that option at this time.
A
RE: Blackberry
Title: Message I am in the Tampa Fl area and I live about 20 miles outside the city. The BlackBerry I had would not work from my house. The coverage did not go out that far. -Original Message-From: David N. Precht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 4:10 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: Blackberry Somewhat ... sometimes the coverage can get spotty even in metro areas -Original Message-From: Micciche Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 11:42To: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: Blackberry They have complete coverage of Continental US? -Original Message-From: Paul M. Puccinelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 11:35 AMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: Blackberry You can get coverage in Canada for an additional fee as well. -Original Message-From: Nelson Aguillon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 8:36 AMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: Blackberry Within the USA that is. Unless things have changed, the coverage is limited to domestic locations. Nelson Aguillón -Original Message-From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 7:03 AMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: Blackberry My top 2 Ease of administration (virtually none) Email access anywhere, anytime -Original Message-From: Micciche Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 6:56 AMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: Blackberry I am looking for an unbiased synopsis of this product from an Exchange admin. I would love to know what the fascination is. Could someone give me a short opinion and a few bullet comments about it's main features? 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.htmList 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.htmList 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: HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable
Since you have re-installed the OS and exchange and verified the server configuration, about the only thing else is the hardware. Have you looked at the NIC, Hub/Router ports and things like that? Larry -Original Message- From: Anderson, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 3:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable I have a front/backend exchange server topology setup but I am having problems with one of the frontend servers. When I try to access my account through OWA I get this message to popup in the browser (HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable). If I shutdown the one frontend server that is causing problems everything works fine. The 2 frontend's are setup the same(services, software,...) as far as I can tell. I have even went so far as to reinstall the OS (advanced server) from scratch and reinstall exchange 2000 without luck. Any help/ideas would be appreciated. Jeff Anderson Southwest State University 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: NAV for Exchange Server not picking up Nimda
Symantec released two different Defs dated 9/18/01, one shows in subdirectory name of 20010912.22, the other subdirectory name is 20010918.064. Do you have the most current (.064) version? Larry -Original Message- From: Matthew Western [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 9:57 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: NAV for Exchange Server not picking up Nimda Is anybody having a problem where the Nimda virus isn't being picked up by the latest definitions from Symantec? I've just tested our server as our workstations are falling like flies and it's not being detected... any ideas (i'm on hold to symantec at the moment)... I've disabled IMC for the time being as it doesn't seem to propigate over Outlook 2000 only outlook express. Mathew 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: AnitiVirus Scan error
Title: AnitiVirus Scan error We also use NAV on our exchange servers. What I was told from Symentac was that when the scan engine cannot open a file to check it, that is the message that NAV gives out. You can change the way NAV processes these Scan failures. The instructions are in this link: http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security.nsf/pfdocs/280214113248 Larry -Original Message-From: Rick Ward - HQ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 4:27 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: AnitiVirus Scan error Anyone seeing something similar to this? We've been getting a lot of these from various servers all with different file attachment, but the error always reads the same way. We have 33 Exchange sites all running WIN2K SP1 and XCHG 5.5 SP4. NAV is version 7.5 Corp Edition. It is messing with the attachment and removing it from USERY's inbox. thanks in advance.. -Rick -Original Message- From: NAV for Microsoft Exchange-SERVERX To: Antivirus Admins Sent: 9/22/2001 7:19 AM Subject: Admin Alert: Norton AntiVirus quarantined an attachment in a message. Sender of the attachment: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recipient of the attachment: USERY\Inbox Subject of the message: Fwd: Girl Friend One or more attachments were quarantined. Attachment embedmsg.msg was Quarantined for the following reasons: Scan Engine Failure (0x80004005) Scan Engine error in opening a compressed file. occurred in girlsfriend.doc. Scan Engine error in opening a compressed file. 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 Servers Stopped Talking
I have also seen this problem when there is network problems between the servers. The RPC traffic between the servers are having problems getting through in a timly manner. Larry -Original Message- From: Brad Foss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 9:15 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange Servers Stopped Talking We have three Exchange servers (5.5 SP3) in the same site. Two of the servers are in one NT 4.0 domain, the third is in a W2K AD domain. This was working, until we had to change the IP addressing scheme in our NT 4.0 domain. We changed the address for the DNS and WINS server in the Echange server in the AD domain. We can ping the other two servers by name form the AD domain. The users on the Exchange server in the AD domain can send mail to each other, just not to anyone on the NT 4.0 Exchange servers. I've restarted the servers with no success. The error log shows the following errors repeated; Event Type: Warning Event Source: MSExchangeMTA Event Category: Interface Event ID: 9318 Date: 10/15/2001 Time: 11:36:33 AM User: N/A Computer: SCARBOROUGH Description: An RPC communications error occurred. Unable to bind over RPC. Locality Table (LTAB) index: 4, NT/MTA error code: 5. Comms error5, Bind error 5, Remote Server Name EXCHINT1 [MAIN BASE 1 500 %10] (14) Event Type: Warning Event Source: MSExchangeMTA Event Category: X.400 Service Event ID: 289 Date: 10/15/2001 Time: 11:36:33 AM User: N/A Computer: SCARBOROUGH Description: A connection to /O=NEOPOST/OU=HOMEOFFICE/CN=CONFIGURATION/CN=SERVERS/CN=EXCHINT1/CN=MICROSOF T MTA could not be opened. [MTA XFER-IN 17 26] (12) Technet issues refer to a connection or DNS problem, but the diagnosis doesn't confirm that as the problem. Any suggestions on where to look? 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: Antivirus API
Title: RE: Antivirus API We use NAV with exchange 5.5. Once we setup the NAV to do background scanning the problem you have went away. We were able to keep the MAPI/VAPI mode running. With only the MAPI mode running on NAV you can get some virus' get through the NAV scans. If at all possible you should try to keep the VAPI mode enabled. Larry -Original Message-From: Rick Ward - HQ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 2:04 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: Antivirus API Our implementation of NAV for EXCHANGE SERVER 5.5 has the exact same issues using the VAPI option.. we switched to MAPI Only and all problems went away. -Rick -Original Message- From: Ropiak Steve - NAO Florence Office Exchange and Bar Code Admn. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 10:57 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Antivirus API We're using NAV in MAPI AVAPI mode and haven't seen that one but do occasionally get a rash of NDRs for messages going between the servers. I think someone here had an open call with Trend who pointed the finger at the AVAPI. From what I've read, the one in 55 is so buggy that I'm thinking of re-installing NAV in MAPI mode only. mit freundlichen Grüßen, Best Regards, Steve Ropiak ZF Group NAO CERT, Exchange and Bar Code Administrator -Original Message- From: Montgomery, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 1:32 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Antivirus API Of those of you that are using an antivirus program that utilizes the Antivirus API, have you seen and or addresses the MAPI issues discussed in Q264731? Basically we are seeing issues with MAPI clients accessing unscanned attachments getting errors. After the first attempt everything seems to work fine. We were told to look at Q264731. I was curious if anyone else has done these changes and if so did it fix the issue for you or did it cause other problems? Exchange 5.5 SP4 GroupShield 4.5 Thank you for your time, John Montgomery Information Technology LAN Administrator HoneyBaked Ham 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: Questions about Outlook.
When you create a DL in the GAL you can select an Owner of the DL. This owner will be able to make changes to the DL. Just make this user the owner of the DL and they can do to all by himself. Larry Manno 3RD Level Backoffice Support Phone: 813-978-6531 Pager: 813-216-1086 pin 1821284 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wayne Hanks com.au> cc: Subject: RE: Questions about Outlook. 01/23/2002 09:56 PM Please respond to "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" That's the problem. With older versions of Outlook pre 2000 you can only create distribution lists in either the GAL using the exchange admin utility or in the Personal Address Book. The problem is that list in the GAL is a pain to administer ( this user expects to be able to do things by himself) and the pab list cannot be shared. I expect with Outlook 2000 it is possible to create the DL in this PF and give it permissions as you have stated. -Original Message- From: Ellery July [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 23 January 2002 22:21 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Questions about Outlook. How about just having s/he create the DL in the PF then giving permissions to people s/he wants to use it. ellery july phone - 651-225-3895 -Original Message- From: Wayne Hanks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 8:46 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Questions about Outlook. Hi gurus, I have the following setup and need to resolve the situation if possible. Exchange server is NT4 sp6, Exch 5.5 sp3 client is Outlook 98 I have a user who has setup a contacts folder in a public folder and would like to create a distribution list in this folder that can be accessed by the staff in his group. I have found a couple of ways of doing this. The first is to install Outlook 2000 ( I believe the CAL for Exchange allows this) which apparently can create a distribution list in any contacts folder ( http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/dl.htm <http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/dl.htm> ). I would need to get hold of the media or the install for this so I don't know if this is an option. The second option also comes from the slipstick.com site and is a utility called contlist.exe which allows you to create contact lists in any contacts folder (including public folders) for OL98. The problem I have here is that the file provided is only a 30 day demo and the company that supported it ( Simplecomputing.net) is no longer around. Can anyone tell me where I can contact the author (Stephen P. Johnson formerly of Simple Computing LLC) of this program to try and organise a license for this program as this is the simplest solution for me. cheers Wayne Hanks Systems Administrator Paterson Ord Minnett Ph 08 9263 1114 fax 08 9325 1086 "Don't Panic" -Douglas Adams "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" 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: NAVMSE showing scanned mail on inactive server
Do you have background scanning turned on? If you do then these other emails being scanned might be ones that are already in the infomation store. Larry Manno 3RD Level Backoffice Support Phone: 813-978-6531 Pager: 813-216-1086 pin 1821284 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bob Fronk liot.com>cc: Subject: NAVMSE showing scanned mail on inactive server 02/15/2002 09:12 AM Please respond to "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" I have a weird problem (not really a problem, but something weird happening) Here is the setup: Windows 2000 Server SP2 Exchange 2000 SP2 NAVMSE 2.6 for EX2K Message tracking in EX2K is on. This is a "test" machine setup to practice with before our actual migration. It is a fresh install with all patches and hot fixes installed. It is statically assigned in internal address (129.168.1.250) and is not connected to another site or NAT to any external addresses. (it is on a subnet with another domain, but is a different domain - no connectors or trusts) I was testing NAVMSE by sending some test emails and making sure it was scanning them. Overnight, I left the NAVMSE statistics screen up. When I arrived at work the NAVMSE statistics showed several hundred emails scanned. However, message tracking says no emails were sent through the server. Being interested in what is causing this, I set up a second test machine in the identical fashion. This machine also shows emails scanned by NAVMSE but no messages have been sent through the server. Again, these machines are not "on the Internet" and have no MX records pointing to them. They are single machine domains. (Native mode in W2K and E2K) What is NAV scanning? I know many of you will say to use different anti-virus software. This is not an option at this point. Thanks in advance for your ideas and input. Bob Fronk , MCSE Information Technology Davis H. Elliot Company, Inc. [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: exchsvr\imcdata directory full of garbage?
The imcdata\in\archive and imcdata\out\archive folders have mail in them because you have diagnostic logging set in the IMS for "Message Archival". Trun this off and that will stop. For the imcdata\in and imcdata\out here is a little into to explain them: There are four queues for the Internet Mail Service. Outbound messages travel from the MTA's Internet Mail Service queue (Exchsrvr\Imcdata\Out) to the Internet Mail Service's MTS-OUT queue in the information store. The Internet Mail Service converts the messages and places them in the Out queue until they are sent. The Internet Mail Service places messages received from the Internet in its In queue (Exchsrvr\Imcdata\In). The messages are then converted by the Internet Mail Service and moved to the MTS-IN queue in the information store. Hope this helps. Larry Manno 3RD Level Backoffice Support Phone: 813-978-6531 Pager: 813-216-1086 pin 1821284 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Jimmy Dejesus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> m> cc: Subject: exchsvr\imcdata directory full of garbage? 02/15/2002 03:50 PM Please respond to "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" HI, I am wondering why the exchsvr\imcdata\in and exchsvr\imcdata\out directories always gets filled up with so much garbage of email. It also happens that the imcdata\in\archive and imcdata\out\archive gets filled up as well. I don't even know where they're coming from. Is this a spam related issue? How can I stop messages from those directories from filling up? I am using exchange 5.5 sp4 on windows NT sp6a. Any thoughts would be great, thanks. 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
