RE: PFMigrate

2009-05-05 Thread Matthew Bullock
Thanks for the info, I remember having some problems with pfmigrate on a 2007 migration and never bothered to sort it out. Next time I'll look for the right version. -mb From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 5:18 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Is

RE: Exchange archiving

2009-05-05 Thread Stefan Jafs
Yes I do __ Stefan Jafs From: Bob Fronk [mailto:b...@btrfronk.com] Sent: May-05-09 9:54 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange archiving I have about 130 users and a 250GB store Wow.. you must have some strict limits set. Bob

RE: Exchange archiving

2009-05-05 Thread Ben D. Kusa
I have about ~450 users. We recently switched from commvault to sunbelt archiving. Still in the process of finalizing the move but currently the db's are at 800gb, %50 white space. And the archived email is at 300gb. It would be nice to have strict rules where the db's could be lower but the com

RE: Exchange archiving

2009-05-05 Thread Bob Fronk
I have about 130 users and a 250GB store Wow.. you must have some strict limits set. Bob From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 2:43 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange archiving That's good to hear. I have about 160 user

Re: System message lost display name

2009-05-05 Thread Tom Kern
Ok that sounds like something else then With RU7 if you hide a recipient from the address book, you get an IMCEA encapsulated legdn and the DSN/NDR's from the "Micorsoft Exchange"sender as a guid On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > I'm familiar with that issue, but it does

RE: System message lost display name

2009-05-05 Thread Michael B. Smith
I'm familiar with that issue, but it doesn't address the problem that I experienced. I don't have anything "hidden from exchange addressbooks". From: Tom Kern [tpk...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 8:03 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re:

Re: System message lost display name

2009-05-05 Thread Tom Kern
RU7 addressed this -http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/956455/ One of the by products is what you are seeing This is due to be correct in RU8 In the meantime a workaround is to unhide the mailbox On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Campbell, Rob wrote: > Ack.  My bad.  It’s SP1 w/roup

RE: System message lost display name

2009-05-05 Thread Campbell, Rob
Ack. My bad. It's SP1 w/rollup 7. I'll keep an eye on it, and let you know if I find anything. Right now, I'm inclined toward investigating the DC's. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 4:46 PM To: MS-Exchange

RE: System message lost display name

2009-05-05 Thread Michael B. Smith
Not that it helps you - but I ran into this in a server I maintain last week. Also, OWA-originated emails had their "From:" header set to the legacyExchangeDN of the sender, as opposed to the typical displayName. I rebooted the server. That took care of it. I didn't have time to debug it as too

RE: Exchange archiving

2009-05-05 Thread Stefan Jafs
I'm virtual running VMware 3.5, my SEA VM has 2 Processors and 4GB of vRAM, I have a separate VM SQL and my data storage is currently and old DELL PE4600 with a 270GB drive. I'm archiving after 30 days and retention is currently 5 years. ___ Stefan Jafs From: Dav

RE: Exchange archiving

2009-05-05 Thread David Mazzaccaro
That's good to hear. I have about 160 users and currently have a 24GB store. What kind of hardware is SEA running on? processor, storage? How long are you archiving for? thx From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:sj...@amico.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1:20 PM To:

Re: PFMigrate

2009-05-05 Thread Alex Fontana
ah-hah. sweet, thanks. On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > Which is why you must use the one from the downloaded exdeploy tools; > which works cross-AG. The version on the CD does not. > > -- > *From:* Alex Fontana [afontana...@gmail.com] > *

RE: PFMigrate

2009-05-05 Thread Michael B. Smith
Which is why you must use the one from the downloaded exdeploy tools; which works cross-AG. The version on the CD does not. From: Alex Fontana [afontana...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1:32 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: PFMigrate I seem t

RE: Exchange DB Portability

2009-05-05 Thread Joseph L. Casale
No, As I said in the first email, it was a vm'ed lab scenario. I blew it out and built another, same topology, different server names though. One dc, one exchange server. Probably a Beta anomaly... I'll make note of that event id the next time as I am will likely blow this one out soon again:)

Re: PFMigrate

2009-05-05 Thread Alex Fontana
I seem to recall an issue with pfmigrate between Ex2003 and Ex2007 due to the differing administrative groups...? On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > I still use pfmigrate quite regularly, as it gives better reporting and > control. > > Make sure you use the version from Ex

Re: Exchange DB Portability

2009-05-05 Thread Alex Fontana
Well...there used to be another server right? And AD knows about it...if it's the same AD setup that is. If it is then a move-mailbox -configurationonly is necessary to update AD. If this is a different AD/Exchange Org then you may need to run a clean-mailboxdatabase to expose the disconnected m

RE: Exchange archiving

2009-05-05 Thread Stefan Jafs
I have recently installed the SEA solution. I'm impressed, everything works, we had a bit of a challenge with RPC / HTTP, we had to get another certificate etc. but it's all good now and I had any help I needed from Sunbelt. The setup was included in the cost and Sunbelt came in remotely and had

RE: Exchange DB Portability

2009-05-05 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Sure, if you come across. I should have mentioned I did absolutely check the logs expecting something if not at least an error and got nothing. Thanks! jlc From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:r.so...@imperial.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 9:06 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange

System message lost display name

2009-05-05 Thread Campbell, Rob
I have a puzzle. Exchange 2007 SP2. Last night all the system mailbox cleanup messages came through without the "Microsoft Exchange" display name. All they show is the smtp address in Outlook. I also got reports of messages delivery and read receipt notifications coming in the same way durin

Re: Exchange archiving

2009-05-05 Thread James Wells
It depends. I didn't realize you meant an environment that large. Assuming the archive product empties the journal mailboxes often enough, you can do that with about 12-20 journal mailbox targets. I've implemented this before for that volume of users. Again...the performance warnings never seem t

RE: Exchange archiving

2009-05-05 Thread John Cook
Exactly. Especially of you make changes along the lines of narrowing your archiving window (say from 90 days to 60) I have to run an eseutil every so often but I monitor the 1221 events to see when it will be worthwhile. -Original Message- From: James Wells [mailto:jam...@gmail.com] Sent

RE: Exchange archiving

2009-05-05 Thread Don Andrews
I'm not sure a small server will handle journaling of all 60k+ active users. Ok, just meant to point out that not all environments are equal. -Original Message- From: James Wells [mailto:jam...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 8:51 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Excha

Re: Exchange archiving

2009-05-05 Thread James Wells
Messages taken out are just going to leave you with whitespace. While most of that space will be reused (thus reducing the growth of the store over time), it will never reduce the size of the store on disk without an offline defrag. --James On 5/5/09, David Mazzaccaro wrote: > Thanks for the re

Re: Exchange archiving

2009-05-05 Thread James Wells
Every article I've seen that describes horrible performance seems to be talking about having the journal mailbox on the same Exchange server as the mailboxes being journaled. In my experience, journaling should only be turned on if you have a compliance reason to do so. If that's the case, let you

RE: Exchange archiving

2009-05-05 Thread Don Guyer
We archive, but it Journal's copies of the e-mail which is then extracted out by the vendor and stored. So, it does not reduce the Stores. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299

RE: Exchange archiving

2009-05-05 Thread Eric Hanna
Depends on your solution. There are some out there that just do log shipping from the Exchange server and don't do anything for the store size. There are some that only archive the journaling mailbox and don't have anything to do with the individual mailboxes (though you will be reducing the siz

RE: Exchange archiving

2009-05-05 Thread David Mazzaccaro
Thanks for the reply. We have just started discussing archiving, and while compliancy is a goal, I suppose it would be nice to reduce the size of the store. I would think that once you have enabled any archiving solution, you will be reducing your store? Won't messages that people are keeping now b

RE: Exchange archiving

2009-05-05 Thread Eric Hanna
In my experience, the load on the Exchange server tends to depend on how many mailboxes are being journaled, the amount of journaling mailboxes, and how much traffic is being ran through the Exchange server. Based on these factors, I would say you will probably see about a 5-15% increase in util

RE: Exchange DB Portability

2009-05-05 Thread Sobey, Richard A
Well, think of it as you're moving the mailbox to a new database..but since the mailbox data already exists within the EDB, all you want to do is update AD with the new mailbox information. Just out of interest, once you've completed steps 1-9, you should see entries in the Application log rela

RE: Exchange DB Portability

2009-05-05 Thread Joseph L. Casale
That's in essence what I did, except for the renaming. I made the new one the same name but since it's a single exchange server setup, there was no move-mailbox possible? Oh well... I'll just assume broken in Beta :) jlc From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:r.so...@imperial.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, May

Exchange archiving

2009-05-05 Thread David Mazzaccaro
I am beginning to look into our options for archiving Exchange 2003. It seems like most solutions involve enabling journaling on the exchange server and having the server grab a copy of every email that is sent and received. Then (with a hosted solution for example), the copies of emails get secure

RE: PFMigrate

2009-05-05 Thread Michael B. Smith
I still use pfmigrate quite regularly, as it gives better reporting and control. Make sure you use the version from ExDeploy.exe (available from microsoft.com/downloads) and not the version on the Exchange 2003 CD. From: Matthew Bullock [mbull...@root9.com] Sent:

RE: Exchange DB Portability

2009-05-05 Thread Sobey, Richard A
Assuming DB portability in 2010 works the same as 2007, these are the high level steps I used to move all databases from one server to another. It works lovely. I've taken some of my own notes out that relate specifically to my organization. 1) Shut down Exchange on . Run ESEUTIL /MH