Another question not asked...are these log files RECENT? i.e. How old
is the newest file? If they correlate to a store that has been
deleted or the log path was moved, BE won't purge that location after
backup completes...
--James
On 1/19/10, Cameron Cooper ccoo...@aurico.com wrote:
Exchange
Might want to check your end...Blackberry indicated that full service
was restored around 0545 EST. Should have at least seen SOMETHING
trickle in by now
BIS or something else might be a different story...
--James
On 12/23/09, Jeff Brown 2jbr...@gmail.com wrote:
7:15 central time and our
I'd recommend calling a forensic service (I almost always use Iron
Mountain). Given enough of your config information, they can restore
tapes much faster than you can, and feed them into a discovery engine,
exporting only the emails you need to PST.
They can also sign off on chain of custody,
I think Microsoft also assumed that partners would step up and make
GUI tools that bolted onto the powershell for Exchange and for any
other product that they didn't feel like adding a full-feature GUI
for...this has become all too common with vendors (well, we have that
feature - here's the
Lots of other good responses...
Only thing I'll add, is that most large outsourcing efforts (i.e. all
helpdesk and level 2 support, 6000 developers replaced by offshore
staff, etc) really come down to accountability, as the base reason.
At some point (often because of perceived incompetence by
Exchange 2003 SP2, running on Windows 2003 SP2 in Windows 2003 domain
(all Exchange servers and all users+mailboxes in one domain in a
two-domain forest).
For the past week or so, we've had two major Categorizer problems,
randomly on almost all 30 of our Exchange servers:
1) Messages Awaiting
You aren't having a problem with meeting requests (in the Inbox) not
going on the Calendar as tentative, are you?
That processing doesn't happen with Outlook 2007, because the
Availability Service does it in Exchange 2007. But when we had your
combo of server and Outlook, VIPs that were always 3
FYI - one of the reasons to put the journal mailbox(es) on a different
database (different sotrage group, really) is so the database and logs
can be on a different disk group than the mailboxes being journaled.
You didn't say how many mailboxes are being journaled...if it's a few
hundred, the
I'd say that Exchange MAIL is doomed. But really, Exchange has never
enjoyed market share for MAIL. It's integration, calendar/scheduling,
archiving and compliance that have kept it at the top.
Google has a long way to go to replace EVERY feature that business
(especially Enterprise IT) relies
Quest Recovery Manager for Exchange is by far the best product for the
job, in my opinion.
--James
On 6/8/09, Paul Cookman paul.cook...@selection.co.uk wrote:
I am looking for a free tool to extrack an edb file off of a backup tape,
backed up with Backup Exec.
We upgraded Backupexec and
Not sure about Sharepoint support on all of them...but I would start
with Symantec and Commvault. Zantaz will look fine on paper, but I had
too many support problems with them in recent years to suggest their
product.
Above all, do a very extensive test/POC with each. In an isolated
environment
All true..though not completely honest comparisons. If there's a
business requirement, size the solution and tell the business how much
it costs. Simply telling people I know you spent thousands/millions,
but I won't help you store files in a way that's easy for the business
to understand doesn't
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
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
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: Exchange archiving
Every article I've seen that describes horrible performance seems to
be talking about
I'll second the recommendation for Exchange Resource Manager (by
Simpler-Webb). One of the best products out there...but sadly, it is
being discontinued since Exchange 2007 includes much of its
functionality.
But you can't come close to it with Exchange 2003+AutoAccept agent.
--James
On Fri,
Chris,
That article is usually talking about 2xchange to Exchange (across
connectors) -- but I've also seen it when Exchange 2003 forwards to
Sendmail.
I'd try the fix in the KB - also had Microsoft analyzing plenty in
that case. They may have had an additional step that I can't remember,
so you
That will vary by vendor.
I know that when I've used Zantaz, they had a mode that would just
analyze/report but not modify anything.
You'll have to see what your compression looks like, retention period
for the archive, index sizes if searching...but I'd be sure to get a
solution that let's you
Correct. I'll try to dig up some links (there are KBs out there now on
this; there were originally none).
What matters is the critical path - both for common user operations
and background tasks, Outlook in Online Mode+Exchange will keep a
view of the Inbox,Sent,Calendar and I think one other
I'm not Kevin but I'll answer anyway. Microsoft actually said last
year in a whitepaper that they don't recommend stubbing, because of
what was mentioned here - it saves on size certainly, but if a user
never touches their Inbox again, 8 items will quickly become a
performance problem.
This is not new in Exchange 2007. Same behavior exists in Exchange 2003.
And the table is unique per Information Store.
--James
On 3/20/09, Davies,Matt mdav...@generalatlantic.com wrote:
Please forgive me if I appear stupid.
Am I reading this whole thread correctly ?
Every time
You may want to try your question over at windows-hied (apologies if
you already have...I left that list when I changed jobs).
There are some large shops like UT (Texas) that may have needed to
address this.
--James
On 3/12/09, Boggis, Josh josh.bog...@uconn.edu wrote:
We have recently
Exchange 2003, not 2007 like we are. So we have no place to
point autodiscover for their users to.
-Original Message-
From: James Wells [mailto:jam...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 12:27 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Autodiscover service and multiple
This is a pretty big generalization...but for an Exchange environment
with a small(er) number of high-powered mailbox servers, however you
want to divide up your resources - CPU, RAM, disk I/O -- you get the
same product on physical or virtual. If you aren't going to scale up
to a dozen or more
$$, but Quest Collaboration Suite provides for this with a great deal
of flexibility and no firewall ports to open (syncs data via email
payload).
--James
On 2/24/09, Hurley, Leslie L CIV SPAWAR Charleston
leslie.hur...@navy.mil wrote:
ADAM / ILM
LH*
Leslie Hurley
Beauty without
First thing to check is going to be the STM file. No whitespace exists
in there to be used.
Is this the only store on that disk? If there's more than one, be
sure that you are checking event I'd 1221 for all of them...
--James
On 12/19/08, Sobey, Richard A r.so...@imperial.ac.uk wrote:
A
If you're really designing a new BB environment for an ENTERPRISE
deployment, then you either need to pay for strong professional
services, maybe even 3rd party (or Sprint, as suggested) or you need
to hire someone with experience in Enterprise deployment.
If you're only talking one or two BES
Also check for 2003 SP2 SNP problems or anything else related to
nonpaged pool memory (when the server has problems, go to task manager
or perfmon and check the counter for nonpaged pool. If it is too low,
like below 32K, something is wrong with a low-level driver).
--James
On 12/9/08, Michael
Nortel and others will differ from Unity.
Unity uses Exchange as the voicmail storage; default option for Nortel
is to use an Outlook Add-In that pulls voicemails from the CallPilot
server.
Unity polls Exchange exactly like BES does -- active MAPI connections
to every mailbox.
--James
On
Why would you run an offline defrag whether it's needed or not ?
On 11/21/08, William Lefkovics [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How often do you folks perform offline defrags?
Every few years or so, whether it's needed or not.
when disk space is running a little low?
Add more disks.
How would that have changed the scenario here, Tim? That device would
still have to talk back to the ActiveSync server to establish the
session, yes?
On 11/20/08, Tim Vander Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yet another reason to upgrade to Exchange 2007 and Direct Push. :)
From: Don Andrews
And be sure you're using the same version of eseutil as your Exchange
store was last mounted with...
On 11/13/08, Jake Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not 100% on this but what about copying the /mbdata folder to the
ext drive, run eseutil on it there. Just make sure you're all backed
1) Have the program written to avoid that prompt by using the trust
center code. (Not likely)
2) Install ClickYes. http://www.contextmagic.com/express-clickyes/
I suggestion option 2 ;)
--James
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Greg Mulholland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anybody know if there
Steelcase RoomWizards will do the trick (for a steep price). Their
second generation of product is much better than the first (updated
embedded linux, flash HDD, etc). Integrates with Exchange via WebDAV.
http://www.steelcase.com/na/roomwizard_products.aspx?f=12117
--James
On Tue, Nov 11,
Ironport uses its on reputation scoring - and it's quite good. You
will spend more time whitelisting smaller domains that get caught up
in others' spamming than you will on spam getting through.
They also let you use Brightmail as an engine. You might have more
luck participating in that one.
The only reason NOT to do both is if you have some very large stores
with very large mailbox item counts. VSAPI scanning can start to be a
performance problem in those environments.
For environments with reasonable quotas - no reason not to scan at every level.
On 11/7/08, Randal, Phil [EMAIL
You've eliminated Server 2003 SP2 SNP (TCP chimney) as a cause, right?
On 11/7/08, Eric Woodford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We're trying to install intrust, but due to the number of apps on the
server, we keep having issues with non-paged pooled memory(sp?). It's the
straw that keeps crashing
There are also solutions that stamp all your outgoing email with a
custom X-Header. When valid NDRs come back, they will contain this
header in the original message. All other NDRs can be safely ignored.
--James
On 10/20/08, Micheal Espinola Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Implement sender
The answer to this problem is usually to ingest and index the PSTs,
and leave them searchable from the vendor's Outlook plugin. GFI (I
think) has a brand-new release that advertises archive retrieval
without stubs (not sure how) - but it sounds like a client plugin that
let's you display archived
Once online maintenance runs, you should see Event ID 1221 in the
Application Log - that will show how much whitespace is available in
the EDB file. Exchange will use up that white space before expanding
the EDB file on disk (IF you have multiple stores on the same disk, be
sure to watch all of
Michael,
Are those documented somewhere (I believe you - I've always asked for
those as something other than a services deliverable, and never got
them).
--James
On 10/9/08, Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Microsoft guidance says that if you are doing streaming backups, you should
Has anyone ever had a valid reason to change Outlook's RPC binding
order? (KB 163576). We had some complaints about Outlook performance
over VPN, and a consultant recommended that setting as a fix...the
customers claim to have seen improvement, but I had never even heard
of this setting,
with no issues, but we are
Exchange 2007 sp1
-troy
-Original Message-
From: James Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 9:41 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Change Outlook RPC bind order?
Has anyone ever had a valid reason to change Outlook's
over EAS if you are starting from square one today.
TVK
-Original Message-
From: James Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 9:13 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: ActiveSync Set Up Veterans-GOING OT
I'm curious - is there anyone on list
I'm curious - is there anyone on list with a large (hundreds or more)
WM devices in the hands of customers, using EAS?
I'm a fan of EAS and have carried a WM device for years - but for
enterprise management, Blackberry DOES have advantages. When a
customer calls with a device problem after the
Have you actually seen any iPhones enforce that particular policy?
The documentation and all of our testing indicates that an iPhone
WON'T wipe after xx bad PIN attempts.
--James
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Eric Woodford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Problem we are having with our Windows
1) Outlook can't accomplish the same thing with default Exchange
security. Auto-forwarding to the internet is disabled by default, and
there are good reasons for it. This setting was changed if your users
can do this in Outlook.
2) There's no security there. Email travels in transit over SMTP
came
out and closed his ticket from here through his BB.
Are any of you folks using BBs doing any customizations for integration with
your apps/processes?
Joe Louis
-Original Message-
From: James Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:36 PM
To: MS
Remote wipe and some light controls are there in Exchange 2003 SP2.
Exchange 2007 adds a large number of controls, if you pay for an
Exchange 2007 premium CAL.
Microsoft also has a new product, Microsoft System Center Mobile
Device Manager, that enables even more policy controls. I've not run
Try increasing the log level for the WM Service. That will output lots of
info about Exchange (and AD) polling. What happens when you run the
SyncMWI tool from the depot?
Unity operates just like Blackberry, etc. Just a ton of threads that keep a
connection open to every subscriber mailbox,
.
By the same logic, if CRM isn't working, maybe Salesforce would! J
From: James Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 11:18 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange 07 on VMware
True - it's not a certification. But they did join, which wasn't
at your storage requirements primarily.. unless you have
explicit HA requirements
James.. that was a premier agreement also with the customer .. maybe
the good news hasn't filtered thru.. for me it's just a bit
vernacular :-)
Cheers,
Mylo
On 8/23/08, James Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED
Sure isdownload PFDavAdmin from microsoft.com.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=635be792-d8ad-49e3-ada4-e2422c0ab424DisplayLang=en
It has tools to export all of the public folders and their permission lists
to CSV for you. (among many other great features).
iPhone 2.0 software will support it. It's a 'normal' looking
implementation of Exchange Activesync, as of Exchange 2003 SP2, with the
exception of the 'wipe after xx failed PIN attempts' policy.
iPhone 1.0 software doesn't have any Activesync support at all and must use
IMAP.
On Fri, Aug 22,
I vote for PFDavAdmin.
--James
On 8/22/08, Andy Shook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
SBS 2003 std. fully patched
What's the best tool to modify a user's calendar permissions from the
server? PFDAVAdmin? WebDAV? Kevin Snook's utility?
Thanks,
Shook
~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam
If you have a Premier agreement, then that should change. VMWare is
now supported as a platform for Windows Server (it wasn't as of last
week). I would expect those trends to start to reverse somewhat, or
Microsoft will start to get itself into trouble...
--James
On 8/22/08, Damian Myles
of DB or Log disks :)
--James
On 8/22/08, TechInfo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone have any info on my original question?? :)
-Original Message-
From: James Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Aug 22, 2008 4:00 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange 07 on VMware
If they're road warriors - take it one step further and publish
RPC/HTTPS for them. No VPN required for email.
Their complaints might be some silliness, like mobile devices getting
the email before cached mode Outlook...but they will be much better
off in cached mode. So will your mailbox
You may have to check the IIS Metabase itself. If a stale IP address
is stuck, it may not show in the IIS GUI.
The IIS Resource Kit has some good tools - or you can mark the
Metabase readable and search the XML for the old IP address.
--James
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Miller Bonnie L.
No - mail-enabled user and mailbox-enabled user are NOT the same.
A mail-enabled user has targetAddress populated and basically acts
like a mail-enabled contact, for mail-routing purposes.
A mailbox-enabled user has is the term for a user object with a
mailbox in an Exchange store.
--James
On
Any chance that NIC teaming configured on that node?
--James
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Sascha Riela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
we have installed a widows 2003SP2 X64 environment with exchange 2007 Sp1
Rollup Patch2. I receive every day 3 warnings with source: ClusSvc Category:
Are you running out of transaction log disk space on the destination
server? Or are you hitting log checkpoint depth exhaustion because
backups are running while you move mailboxes?
In either case - circular logging gets dangerous in case of any
hardware problems that take your stores offline.
Is this the problem you're having?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905801
--James
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Karsten, Matthew
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think I got plenty of space for the logs on the server (currently 80GB
free out of 120GB total on that particular drive). I just
backups when you do the moves, then immediately take a full backup?
--James
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Karsten, Matthew
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That would be the one.
Matt
-Original Message-
From: James Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:48 PM
Article on this issue, it mentions that, that is
probably the place to start.
The destination server is actually the same as the source in terms of
physical machine. We just gave it additional disk storage space.
Matt
-Original Message-
From: James Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent
backup isn't exactly quick. So when I get to these really large
mailboxes, I am going to have to do them in very small groups? I was
hoping to avoid extending this out as long as that would take, if I
can't, I will deal with that though.
Matt
-Original Message-
From: James Wells
-
From: James Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 3:12 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Moving Mailboxes
That's certainly a problem. Unless your SLA lets you alternate
incremental and full backups (ie. do moves one night, then incremental
backup -- full
Not sure what your budget is...but we've been very happy using Quest
Recovery Manager for Exchange...it integrates with almost every ESE
backup product, and gives you brick-level restores without having to
take brick-level backups or use Recovery Storage Groups...
With Quest Recovery Manager, you
handling the SSL conversion, so we
just need to proxy it inbound.
Speaking of which, they really dislike the OCS Edge model, because it
means bypassing their NATs and SSL decryption. But that's a different
topic :)
-Original Message-
From: James Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED
Consultant
From: James Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue 15-Jul-08 16:18
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Edge server placement for multi-site configuration
Here you go, Liby:
1. If they're both using the same email domain (example.com
From: James Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed 16-Jul-08 15:43
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Edge server placement for multi-site configuration
Almost.
If eiter site goes down (and goes down means that the server with
the MX record doesn't respond on port 25
If you're load balancing at the first layer (the hardware load
balancer), don't do any load balancing further down the line. You
also don't need ISA in the mix if you're not doing anything else but
passing the traffic or doing AD lookups.
If you want an ISA security model, then that needs to be
Here you go, Liby:
1. If they're both using the same email domain (example.com), then
you can't control what country receives the external SMTP email. You
could list both Edge servers' external IPs as MX records for the
domain, but it would be pretty random as to which country receives.
You
A big part of the iPhone 2.0 is licensing of the Exchange Activesync
software from Microsoft.
It will allow password policies, remote wipe, etc. Email and Calendar
should work flawlessly. I'll know for sure once we get some demos in
this week (but from checking the HTTP-agents in our logs, I
?
-Original Message-
From: James Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 10:42 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Ok it's starting BB to iPone
A big part of the iPhone 2.0 is licensing of the Exchange Activesync
software from Microsoft.
It will allow password
Well, folder management wasn't going to happen...and no, Exchange
Activesync isn't 'push' since Microsoft doesn't have control of the
communcations stream - it can't be push in the sense that Goodlink
and Blackberry use.
I'd say it's MUCH better than having a bunch of devices with NO
management
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