RE: Upgrading from 2003 to Exchange 2007 Estimate

You guys have given me some great insight. Thank you very much. Joseph Danielsen, CSBS, MCSA-Messaging, MCP Network Blade Inc. 49 Marcy Street Somerset, NJ 08873 732-213-0600 From: John Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:47 PM Posted To: Exchange Co

RE: Contacts missing

We haven't seen this much with Blackberrys (which are company owned and authorized) but with poorly configured personally owned phones, palm, pda's etc. that the users sneak in on their own and attempt to sync with various unsupported methods. From: Steve Ens [

OT: From another list I read: Trend Issue

Just a quick FYI Trend sent out a bad DAT version 4.995 around 10AM EST today (2/12/08). If you are running Trend and have an issue you need to roll back to 4.993. Problems experienced include extremely high disk I/O load and network problems. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP h

Re: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

I wouldn't be so quick to blame RAID 5 for the performance issues. I have two stores, one at 100GB another at 6GB, running on a RAID 5 and we average between .005-.008ms on both Disk Sec/Read and Writes and we're servicing about 1800 mailboxes. Granted we have 9 spindles in our RAID 5 but still. I

RE: From another list I read: Trend Issue

4.997 was was released just awhile ago that supposedly fixes. From: Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 4:28 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: OT: From another list I read: Trend Issue Just a quick FYI Trend sent out a bad D

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

I'm taking a shot in the dark here, but as long as CPU and memory are not being overly taxed, the user can get away with expanding his storage into an external array. Either a 7 or 14 drive bay would work well, 10K disks at 73.4 Gbytes per disk. You can run the drive array as a striped set to give

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

I have 4 stores and each has approx 1.2 gig of free space. The server is about 4 years old so it appears replacement is going to be the best option :-( -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 13 February 2008 7:44 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issue

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

Sounds to me like your I/O subsystem is slammed and needs to be upgraded. (Slammed is a technical term.) :-) The 1221 event log entries that should be spit out when online maintenance finishes - how much free space do you have in your database? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

Unfortunately the server has no space for disk expansion which raid 10 would require. We are a NFP so funds are tight although I suspect that a replacement server with much better disk array performance will be required. -Original Message- From: Jason Gurtz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] S

Re: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

In addition to the stuff Michael has said, there are some client side considerations. http://www.blkmtn.org/outlook-settings-and-considerations I think your bigger problem is elsewhere, but if you had a sudden uptake of Google Desktop Search, people leaving thousands of items in their inbox and no

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

An external drive array would be an option. My main concern is why my current setup is performing so badly. I have a 3 disk raid 5 array. I understand raid 10, mirroring would be faster for the stores but the current performance is simply dreadful. Disk is about 63% utilized and there are four stor

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

> 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. I would look at migrating the stores to RAID 10. RAID 5 isn't so great when there's a lot of writes going on and is better suit

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

The raid 5 is composed of 3 disks each 73.4GB Ultra 320 10K rpm. The on-line maintenance is happening daily from about 7 am completing next day around 3 AM Regards Mark -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 13 February 2008 12:18 AM To: MS-

Re: Contacts missing

Nope no crackberries for executive assistants... On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Steve Ens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not that we're aware of...but I will check. > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Nikki Peterson - OETX < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have seen this happen with a syn

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Re: Contacts missing

Not that we're aware of...but I will check. On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Nikki Peterson - OETX < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have seen this happen with a sync to a device not configured well. > > Just sucks them off the server, never to be seen again. > > > > *Nikki Peterson* > > *Sr. Gro

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

Are there any guidelines I should be using in sizing server for 500 mailboxes /100 gig total stores - in particular the I/O subsystem? . About 70% of staff are connected via vpn and use cached mode. We are a Not For Profit so don't have too much money to spend. We have as a rule used HP in the past

RE: Upgrading from 2003 to Exchange 2007 Estimate

The mailbox move utility would only allow 10-12 instances at a time, so I used the built-in scheduler to kick them off every couple of hours. With 300 boxes/200GB, it took Thursday night(11pm-7am), Friday night, and most of the weekend to move them. The old box was kind of a dog though. From: T

RE: Upgrading from 2003 to Exchange 2007 Estimate

We were just kidding. From: ExchList [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 1:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Upgrading from 2003 to Exchange 2007 Estimate You guys have given me some great insight. Thank you very much. Joseph Danielsen, CSBS, MCSA-Messaging,

RE: create a corp calendar

I think SharePoint Services 3 can do this. Bill Lambert Concuity 847-941-9206 From: Thomas Gonzalez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:06 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: create a corp calendar Our environment consists of Exchange 2K3, SP2 with Offi

Contacts missing

I've just discovered that a user who accesses a shared contact list has deleted some items from the other user's contacts. I've checked deleted items and they are not there, in either deleted items folder (perhaps they empty deleted items daily) and nothing in the dumpster. I am assuming that con

RE: 550-Verification failed for

The only DNS changes that were made were in September of 2007 when their original ISP went belly up and they had to change the IP addresses. The DNS report from DNSStuff.com indicates the PTR records exist, and the abuse and postmaster addresses exist. Both ISPs say it is not their problem. The

create a corp calendar

Our environment consists of Exchange 2K3, SP2 with Office 2k3 sp2. I would like to create a corporate calendar that would allow users to upload their weekly schedule and then notify them of success and then notify a group of individuals that the calendar was updated. Not really sure where to st

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

Well, I should have added that caveat I suppose. In our case, we were getting spikes of 4 seconds. On the plus side, Exchange wasn't corrupting the database, just freezing everything. Spikes will still cause intermittent pop-ups unless you have clients in cached mode to mitigate this. Steven Pe

RE: Upgrading from 2003 to Exchange 2007 Estimate

To add to Scot, What exchange services are you running? I constantly lecture about having exchange off the DC and putting money into mail, but some folks use exchange MAPI in office only for small businesses and it totally works fine. If you have intentions of running OWA, OA, EAS.you pro

RE: Upgrading from 2003 to Exchange 2007 Estimate

I figure it would take me between six and eight hours to examine your network and give you a detailed estimate as to how long the upgrade would take - properly tested, documented, staged, and deployed. J Given the information you've provided - anywhere between three days and two weeks.

RE: Upgrading from 2003 to Exchange 2007 Estimate

First question is do you have a spare x64 box to put E2007 on as this is not an upgrade, it's a migration. You'll need to install W2K3 SP1 first then E2007. Not knowing how complex your environment is (any BES servers, archiving, etc...) it's hard to say. The first step is getting your DCs and c

RE: Upgrading from 2003 to Exchange 2007 Estimate

Hi, first of all, forget upgrading Exchange, 2007 is 64 Bit, so you will need the appropriate hardware etc. Personally I am not a fan of upgrades, having been royally burned a few years back, but if you have no other choice, the actually domain controller part should not be too bad, and take 4

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

Good morning Mark: I don't think you have missed anything. Trying to run 500 users on a 3 drive RAID 5 array (which means you're really using only two disks) is tight as far as disk I/O is concerned. Some of the things I didn't ask were if you were running full text indexing on yo

RE: Contacts missing

I have seen this happen with a sync to a device not configured well. Just sucks them off the server, never to be seen again. Nikki Peterson Sr. Groupware Administrator Office of Enterprise Technology (OET) Maricopa County 301 West Jefferson, #B-10 Phoenix, Arizona 85003 Phone: 602-506-5848 Cell

Upgrading from 2003 to Exchange 2007 Estimate

Thanks for your comments - I mis-wrote using the term Upgrade, where as I will have new servers being integrated into the network so Migration is a better definition. The two new servers are going to 64bit. No archiving, no BES etc. 50 users IS = 80GB Basic Services: OWA, rpc/http, OMA,

RE: Upgrading from 2003 to Exchange 2007 Estimate

He'll need Windows 2003 Sp2 since I assume he'll want to install Exch 2007 SP1. Beware the Chimney! From: John Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:48 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Upgrading from 2003 to Exchange 2007 Estimate First question is do yo

RE: Spamhaus

I can see why I'm receiving about 50k messages / month! __ Stefan Jafs From: Ellis, John P. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:33 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Spamhaus Looks like you need their Data

RE: Spamhaus

You don't look like you qualify for the free service. "Use of the SBL is free for individuals operating small mail servers as long as your email traffic is low. Commercial users, corporate networks and ISPs need to purchase a yearly subscription to use the service: see DataFeed

Spamhaus

It looks like my free service to them is no longer working! I'm nowhere near to the maximum of the "free" service limits. 1.Your use of the Spamhaus DNSBLs is non-commercial*, and 2.Your email traffic is less than 80,000 SMTP connections per day, and 3.Your DNSBL query volume is

RE: What am I doing wrong?

I'm going to "assume" that's a new GUI feature with SP1, which I won't have until next week. I've been using a simple PS command to add these where needed, which has worked for us (including for OWA). Maybe try this out? add-mailboxpermission MBXNAME -accessrights fullaccess -user "Domain\User

Re: Exchange Attendant Service

True enough. We also have two physical DC¹s. The physical and virtual share the GC/DNS load so while I don¹t recommend going totally virtual, we have had good success so far with our virtual systems; Exchange being one of them. On 2/12/08 9:17 AM, "Sherry Abercrombie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Exchange Attendant Service

I wouldn't rely entirely on a virtual DC for critical stuff like this. I have virtual DC's, but I also have physical DC's running, the virtual is for redundancy & DR. On Feb 12, 2008 8:06 AM, Hixon Jr., Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have two of our DCs running in a virtual environment

Re: Exchange Attendant Service

We have two of our DCs running in a virtual environment and have had no issues. They¹ve been running like that for several months now. On 2/12/08 9:02 AM, "Brown, Larry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > WellŠapparently one of our DC/GC servers messed all over itself yesterdayŠI > pointed out the err

RE: Exchange Attendant Service

Well...apparently one of our DC/GC servers messed all over itself yesterday...I pointed out the error messages I was seeing in the DC's event logs to the server admin responsible...when he tried to log in he couldn't. He rebooted the system (it's a virtual machine, he used virtual tools to forc

RE: Upgrading from 2003 to Exchange 2007 Estimate

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Re: Contacts missing

That's what we thought, but can't find anything there. Also the users wouldn't know how to do this... On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Campbell, Rob < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any chance they got moved somewhere (PF, maybe)? > > > -- > > *From:* Steve Ens [mailto

RE: Contacts missing

Any chance they got moved somewhere (PF, maybe)? From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:31 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Contacts missing

RE: Contacts missing

Did you check the deleted items and dumpster of the user who performed the delete? From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:14 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Contacts missing I've just discovered that a user w

RE: Upgrading from 2003 to Exchange 2007 Estimate

Took us two months to make the transition...but then we went from one Exchange box, with email filtered on a DMZ by Mailsweeper...to two Edge servers on a DMZ, two Hub transports, and two CCR servers for clustering. First month was spent building, testing and documenting everything in a lab. S

RE: Exchange Attendant Service

I had some experience with using them with Exchange a couple of years ago. None of it good. From: Brown, Larry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 8:02 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange Attendant Service Well...a

RE: Sluggish Performance Exchange 2003

How often is online maintenance completing? How many disks are in the RAID5 storage array? What speed? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Mark Milosavljevic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 1:16

Re: Importing employee ID into AD

Appreciate? Man I'm hitting flips! I get this working and I may be inclined to donate to one of your favorite causes! Will try and post with results. Thanks! On 2/12/08, Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > LOL - yeah, I'm sure he appreciated that response. > > Heh. > > On 2/11/08, Don Ely <[EM

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

The switch fabric is running at 4Gbps. I didn't check the switch utilities for usage during peak times, I was seriously just looking at the server. If it starts up again I'll be looking there as well. We have a complete redundant path to the SPs on the Clariion for each host, and we are not lo

RE: Exchange Attendant Service

Thanks for the input. We have one physical and one virtual DC on the same subnet as Exchange...and several real DC's on other subnets in the same domain. From: Hixon Jr., Anthony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:22 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange

RE: Incomplete FreeBusy in Outlook

Yes, I worked every Exchange scenario, cached issue, Network GC, client error, strait down to deleting the actual Free/busy in the system folders for rebuild. I hope this is the answer for you. Nikki Peterson -Original Message- From: Gardner, Wendell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mond

RE: Spamhaus

Looks like you need their Datafeed service. We had the same issue with Spamhaus. John From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 February 2008 15:54 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Spamhaus It looks like my free service to them is no longer w

Upgrading from 2003 to Exchange 2007 Estimate

I have a Windows 2000 / Exchange 2000 network that is scheduled for an upgrade to Windows 2003 / Exchange 2007. Server1: Windows 2000 Domain Controller, file/print Server2: Windows Domain Controller, Exchange 2000 Upgrade to > Server1: Windows 2003 Domain Controller, File/print (new bo

RE: Upgrading from 2003 to Exchange 2007 Estimate

How many and how big are the mailboxes? I would take this opportunity to separate Exchange from DC, but that's just me. From: ExchList [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:36 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Upgrading from 2003 to Exchange 2007 Estimate I have a

Re: Contacts missing

You bet...and we ran simulations...they should be there. But they are not. We've searched all through the mailboxes for the contacts but can't find them. On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Don Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you check the deleted items and dumpster of the user who perfo