What am I doing wrong?

2008-02-11 Thread Rausch, Michael D
Exchange 2007 SP1. Give a user full mailbox access to another mailbox. User can open the other person's mailbox in Outlook without issue. User cannot open other user's mailbox in OWA. It says they don't have permission. Anybody know what is going on here? Mike Rausch ~ Ninja Email

RE: Flags in Public Folders

2008-02-11 Thread Matt Lathrum
The only thing I can think of is to just create more subfolders, one per status that you need. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 9:57 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Flags in Public Folders Hi folks, My company is a small

Re: Sluggish performance of Mail Store, Server sitting mostly idle

2008-02-11 Thread Steven Peck
Disk IO. Check your disk IO. If it is above 50 ms then you are toast and you will have end users get the 'waiting on exchange server' pop-ups. Exchange Best Practices analyzer can help you spot this. We have this issue currently using a Hitachi SAN. A major in house project went live recently

Re: BES issues?

2008-02-11 Thread Peter Hotchkiss
News article re outage. http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN1114968920080211 Pete Hotchkiss On Feb 11, 2008 5:19 PM, Ara Avvali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have the same issue -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 11, 2008

RE: BES issues?

2008-02-11 Thread Ara Avvali
We have the same issue -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 11, 2008 5:15 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: BES issues? Anyone seeing BES issues right now? We are attempting to contact RIM and our major phone lines but getting all

RE: Incomplete FreeBusy in Outlook

2008-02-11 Thread Nikki Peterson - OETX
Yes, we have seen similar in our system also. We worked closely with MS and found that the hotfix was successful. SYMPTOMS: Free/Busy Calendar data was displayed inconsistently or missing in Microsoft Outlook 2003. RESOLUTION: This hotfix was created after the close date for additions to the

Re: Sluggish performance of Mail Store, Server sitting mostly idle

2008-02-11 Thread Robb Pickinpaugh
Sean, I'll check the boot.ini switches hadn't thought of that yet. As for using Diskpart, yes I partitioned those disks following my initial setup SAs instructions very carefully. As for the dedicated spindles... we didn't have any way to determine the damage that was going to be done by the

Incomplete FreeBusy in Outlook

2008-02-11 Thread wgardner
Gents/Ladies with Sue Moss out for an extended leave, I turn to the Exchange group for help/direction Exchange: 2003/SP2 Windows: 2003/SP1 (SP2 update later in month) Outlook: Office 2003/SP2 I have at least 1 user whose shared Outlook Calendar displays all of the appointments and

RE: Exchange Attendant Service

2008-02-11 Thread Andy David
Running SP1 yet? From: Brown, Larry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 12:44 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Cc: McCready, Robert Subject: Exchange Attendant Service Occasionally we are having to restart the Exchange Attendant Service. The first clue is usually some

RE: Exchange Attendant Service

2008-02-11 Thread Michael B. Smith
I would guess that 90% of the time that I have seen this problem, in Exchange 2003, it was related to a name resolution problem (that is, DNS was messed up, or A/D sites were messed up). If I were to make a SWAG, I would say that the same is likely to be true on Exchange 2007. Every 60-90

Exchange Attendant Service

2008-02-11 Thread Brown, Larry
Occasionally we are having to restart the Exchange Attendant Service. The first clue is usually some of our Multifunction Devices lose the ability to scan to email, getting an Unable to Connect to Exchange Server error. Setting up new Mail profiles also stops working. And today about 10% of

Re: Sluggish performance of Mail Store, Server sitting mostly idle

2008-02-11 Thread Sean Martin
Yuckyou definitely want to dedicate spindles to your Exchange server if at all possible. Sounds like you may have identified the performance problem. We're running our Exchange server off a similiar setup as yours (CX700, switched fabric, etc.) Did you partition your Exchange LUNs using

RE: Sluggish performance of Mail Store, Server sitting mostly idle

2008-02-11 Thread Robb Pickinpaugh
A little deeper and the Queue length is all in the disk the store is on... Hm... I think I want to run a longer snapshot to look at this. Say a couple of hours. Any suggestions about how to correct the Disk Queue time, or is that a hardware / vendor specific type question? Haven't ever dug

RE: Sluggish performance of Mail Store, Server sitting mostly idle

2008-02-11 Thread Michael B. Smith
Like the other guys said - first thing I'd take a look at is the network. But the second thing - start perfmon on that Exchange server. Is the disk queue averaging over 1? Is paging averaging over 20? Is the processor averaging over 70%? Any of these could be causing the issue as well...

RE: Sluggish performance of Mail Store, Server sitting mostly idle

2008-02-11 Thread Robb Pickinpaugh
AV = Symantec... I'll check for updates there. The switch and server are set to auto-negotiate, and they're both capable of 1Gbps. I'll look at specifying the 1Gb Full on both sides of that link and see what happens. Thanks for the ideas so far. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam

RE: Sluggish performance of Mail Store, Server sitting mostly idle

2008-02-11 Thread Eric Wittersheim
Trend as your AV perhaps? This happened when we brought a new server online. I don't recall the exact details but an update from Trend fixed the problem. -Original Message- From: Robb Pickinpaugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 8:03 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin

RE: Sluggish performance of Mail Store, Server sitting mostly idle

2008-02-11 Thread Davies,Matt
Sounds like network problems, either on the clients or the server. Check for errors on the switch and make sure both the switch and server are not set to auto negotiate. Cheers Matt -Original Message- From: Robb Pickinpaugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 February 2008 14:21 To:

RE: Sluggish performance of Mail Store, Server sitting mostly idle

2008-02-11 Thread Maglinger, Paul
Are you running any kind of anti-virus on the Exchange server? Did this start happening after an update? -Original Message- From: Robb Pickinpaugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 8:03 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Sluggish performance of Mail Store,

re: Sluggish performance of Mail Store, Server sitting mostly idle

2008-02-11 Thread Robb Pickinpaugh
Also another tibit. The server is sitting at 2.45GB of RAM in use, and the processors never exceed 10% usage. Hence the confusion, I would understand the behavior if the server was overloaded, but it's practically doing nothing. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam

Sluggish performance of Mail Store, Server sitting mostly idle

2008-02-11 Thread Robb Pickinpaugh
I have a really odd behavior pattern happening here and I'm sort of at a loss as to how to fix it. All of the sudden starting toward the end of last week (Thursday or Friday) the mail store seems to be acting funny. Outlook connections all over the building are popping the Trying to retrieve

Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

2008-02-11 Thread Mark Milosavljevic
Performance on our Exchange 2003 box has deteriorated and users are complaining of poor response in opening emails. The box is an IBM 2.4 Ghz, 4gig ram supporting 500 users. The software is windows 2003 enterprise. Running performance monitor gave disk queue length of around 10 on the stores

Re: BES issues?

2008-02-11 Thread Kat Collins
Yes there is currently a RIM issue: A component of the network infrastructure is experiencing a service interruption Service Affected: BlackBerry All service for some *The Americas Network (MULT) subscribers in the following locations: The Americas, Summary: BlackBerry Network

Re: BES issues?

2008-02-11 Thread Steven Peck
Ya, saw the news article. Our actual clue was the inability to actually contact RIM (All circuits are busy, please try again later). If only they would have and maintain a status page, they could keep the call volume down significantly. Steven Peck On Feb 11, 2008 2:48 PM, Stefan Jafs [EMAIL

Re: BES issues?

2008-02-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Feb 11, 2008 5:14 PM, Steven Peck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone seeing BES issues right now? Apparently, RIM is having a widespread outage. Our BES server isn't showing any obvious signs of distress (SRP is up, no log warnings) but users don't get mail on the handhelds. And this came

RE: Extract mail from @domain.com

2008-02-11 Thread Benjamin Zachary
Thanks for the reply, Ontrack's power controls actually had it by domain so I ended up using that. _ From: Matt Lathrum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:17 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Extract mail from @domain.com Try your anti-virus

RE: BES issues?

2008-02-11 Thread Stefan Jafs
Apparently major North America outage. __ Stefan Jafs | Director of Engineering Amico Corporation :  905.747.5010  |  Toll Free: 1.877.462.6426 /5010 :  905.764.0862  |  Cellular: 416.543.0210 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-

RE: BES issues?

2008-02-11 Thread Nikki Peterson - OETX
From NTSysAdmin List: Here's official word http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN1114968920080211 Nikki Peterson -Original Message- From: Ara Avvali [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:19 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: BES issues?

BES issues?

2008-02-11 Thread Steven Peck
Anyone seeing BES issues right now? We are attempting to contact RIM and our major phone lines but getting all circuits are busy and/or long hold times. Not the best of things to see. We're in California if that narrows it down. Steven Peck ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine

Re: Importing employee ID into AD

2008-02-11 Thread Kurt Buff
On 2/11/08, MarvinC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our payroll department uses a process that syncs AD with their Ceridan application. New users are manually created in AD by the helpdesk and once an email address is generated it's passed back over to HR for further updating. When HR gets it they

Re: Importing employee ID into AD

2008-02-11 Thread Don Ely
Yes, it is possible On Feb 11, 2008 9:49 PM, MarvinC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our payroll department uses a process that syncs AD with their Ceridan application. New users are manually created in AD by the helpdesk and once an email address is generated it's passed back over to HR for

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

2008-02-11 Thread Mark Milosavljevic
Stores are not large - 100 gig in total (raid array has 144 gig available for stores). Disk layout is operating system raid 1, stores raid 5 and logs single disk. On-line maintenance takes about 24 hours. Server is a IBM with a RAID 5I controller Mark -Original Message- From: Michael

RE: BES issues?

2008-02-11 Thread Don Andrews
Agree - or at minimum email notification - it's on my management's list - as of 10 minutes ago. -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:00 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: BES issues? Ya, saw the news article. Our

RE: Incomplete FreeBusy in Outlook

2008-02-11 Thread Campbell, Rob
Are you running in cached mode, and do you get the same results if you look at the free/busy information via OWA? Original Message- From: wgardner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 12:12 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Incomplete FreeBusy in Outlook

RE: BES issues?

2008-02-11 Thread Barsodi.John
They have one, I was subscribed, but didn't receive an email on this yet or haven't. -Original Message- From: Don Andrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:04 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: BES issues? Agree - or at minimum email notification -

RE: What am I doing wrong?

2008-02-11 Thread Rausch, Michael D
LOL. Sorry Went into the Exchange 2007 GUI, went to Full Mailbox Access management and added the person. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 10:21 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: What am I doing wrong?

RE: Exchange Attendant Service

2008-02-11 Thread Brown, Larry
No...we aren't allowed to install it until we test in our lab...and the lab servers are, uh...still on order... From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 12:56 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Cc: McCready, Robert Subject: RE: Exchange Attendant Service Running

RE: Sluggish performance of Mail Store, Server sitting mostly idle

2008-02-11 Thread Davies,Matt
Robb, I hope your San isn't the bottleneck, but then again it is a EMC Clariion, so you never know. The disk counters in performance would be able to give you a better picture. Cheers Matt -Original Message- From: Robb Pickinpaugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 February 2008

Re: BES issues?

2008-02-11 Thread sriram3
We got an email notification. At around 1544 EST. (But I can't post to this list from work except via BIS on my BB). Sent via BlackBerry by ATT -Original Message- From: Don Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:03:47 To:MS-Exchange Admin Issues

RE: BES issues?

2008-02-11 Thread Don Andrews
Yeah, we've been getting caught up for the last 1/2 hr or so. -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 4:24 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: BES issues? Jusr kicked back in here in Fl Painstakingly sent to you from my

RE: Sluggish performance of Mail Store, Server sitting mostly idle

2008-02-11 Thread Robb Pickinpaugh
Mine's a 2850 and has Intel NICs... figures it wouldn't be THAT easy LOL. I've been working with newer servers lately that's why my jump to Broadcoms was so quick... Thanks for the info, and I'll watch for that when I apply SP2 to the server for sure. I'm still going to look for updated

RE: Sluggish performance of Mail Store, Server sitting mostly idle

2008-02-11 Thread Davies,Matt
Robb, Either look at the following document http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8679F6BD-7FF0-41F5-BDD0-C09019409FC0displaylang=en Which goes over exchange performance troubleshooting, and what to look for. Or Download the Microsoft exchange performance and

Re: From Mario Guerrrero: New Mexico - Albuquerque Baloons / Santa Fe Pictures

2008-02-11 Thread Steve Ens
Thanks Mario, nicely done on the ballooning trip. On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Mario Guerrero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Dear Family: Below is a link (with a password) to access 3 albums of our trip to New Mexico last October. Hope you enjoy them.

RE: Sluggish performance of Mail Store, Server sitting mostly idle

2008-02-11 Thread Bob Fronk
I had the same thing happen a few months ago. Turned out to be the IP Chimney / RSS issue. http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2008/01/03/more-issues-with-the-windows-server-2003-scalable-networking-pack.aspx (Watch for wrappage in the link) Bob Fronk -Original

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

2008-02-11 Thread Don Andrews
I'm seeing our backlog working off now. I expect we'll have a conversation with our rep soon. -Original Message- From: Dennis Rogov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:59 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003 I just try

RE: Sluggish performance of Mail Store, Server sitting mostly idle

2008-02-11 Thread Robb Pickinpaugh
Michael, Quick look at the permon (running real time) and I think you've picked up on something. Avg Disk Queue is about 1.1 Pages/Sec avg has run as high as 35 and as low as 11. Looks like I may need to do some performance tweaks perhaps? ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

2008-02-11 Thread Dennis Rogov
I just try contacting Rim it goes to their auto reply and then drops the call. This is a dark day for all blackberry users I can't believe they don't have redundecy or contingency planning in place. Dr Dennis Rogov Senior Network Analyst THE Peer GROUP an informed medical communications

RE: Sluggish performance of Mail Store, Server sitting mostly idle

2008-02-11 Thread Campbell, Rob
Sounds like network. Any changes to the adapter or switch port settings? -Original Message- From: Robb Pickinpaugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 8:21 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: re: Sluggish performance of Mail Store, Server sitting mostly idle

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

2008-02-11 Thread Michael B. Smith
An average disk queue length of 10 is abysmal. Running a defrag will not help and may very well hurt. How large are your stores? What is the hardware of the disks? How often is online maintenance completing? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com

Re: Importing employee ID into AD

2008-02-11 Thread Kurt Buff
LOL - yeah, I'm sure he appreciated that response. Heh. On 2/11/08, Don Ely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, it is possible On Feb 11, 2008 9:49 PM, MarvinC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our payroll department uses a process that syncs AD with their Ceridan application. New users are manually

RE: Journaling to multiple archives

2008-02-11 Thread Clayton Doige
Monday morning, lol, figured this one out, and yes it is possible. Who would have thought the answer would be in the Exchange Help Files. Go figure! ;-) From: Clayton Doige [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 February 2008 09:47 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Journaling to multiple

Importing employee ID into AD

2008-02-11 Thread MarvinC
Our payroll department uses a process that syncs AD with their Ceridan application. New users are manually created in AD by the helpdesk and once an email address is generated it's passed back over to HR for further updating. When HR gets it they add basic account info. This is the way it's been

RE: What am I doing wrong?

2008-02-11 Thread Michael B. Smith
So...how did you do it? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Rausch, Michael D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 10:28 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: What am I doing wrong? Exchange 2007

RE: Incomplete FreeBusy in Outlook

2008-02-11 Thread Gardner, Wendell
no, definitely not running in cached mode - even created a new profile on another computer with no change ... OWA yields same results arg!! Wendell -Original Message- From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 2:13 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin

RE: Sluggish performance of Mail Store, Server sitting mostly idle

2008-02-11 Thread Campbell, Rob
A disk queue depth of 1.1 doesn't seem to be nearly enough to cause the kind of symptoms you're seeing, IMHO. -Original Message- From: Robb Pickinpaugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 8:57 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sluggish performance of

Re: BES issues?

2008-02-11 Thread tmccarty
They are supposed to publish Root Cause tomorrow morning. Tom McCarty Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We got an email notification. At around 1544 EST. (But I can't post to this list from work except via BIS on my BB). Sent via BlackBerry by ATT -Original Message- From: Don Andrews

RE: Incomplete FreeBusy in Outlook

2008-02-11 Thread Gardner, Wendell
interesting - unfortunately I've been approaching this as being an Exchange server/data issue, since it has been easy to replicate from several different workstations (all running Outlook 2003, SP2) and didn't delve to deep into the client side . According to the link

Re: BES issues?

2008-02-11 Thread John Cook
Jusr kicked back in here in Fl Painstakingly sent to you from my Blackberry. - Original Message - From: Don Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Mon Feb 11 18:08:53 2008 Subject: RE: BES issues? Any details welcome - even if

RE: Extract mail from @domain.com

2008-02-11 Thread Matt Lathrum
Try your anti-virus product using content filtering rules, perhaps. From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 11:35 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Extract mail from @domain.com I thought exmerge would give me an easy way to do this, but

RE: Sluggish performance of Mail Store, Server sitting mostly idle

2008-02-11 Thread Andy David
Only if it's sustained above 50ms is it an issue. Spikes are ok. -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 5:25 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Sluggish performance of Mail Store, Server sitting mostly idle Disk IO.