RE: ISINTEG question.

2008-01-06 Thread Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT)
nd Stripes." Woodrow Wilson -Original Message- From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 1:58 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: ISINTEG question. I'd agree with that I recently had an issue with a corrupt database, albeit a very s

RE: ISINTEG question.

2008-01-04 Thread Greg Mulholland
ad()' . There was a temptation for a second to run eseutil and isinteg on the database for a fix but certainly everything ide been taught and read was that these tools (isinteg particularly) can be abrasive to the database and potentially cause more issues. In my situation I was without a decent

R: ISINTEG question.

2008-01-04 Thread HELP_PC
If you are not sure where to find the last integer database ? You have to move mailboxes to a new store and so on. In any case happened to me just once to use eseutil and isinteg and it was successful. The db was small (4gb) so I could easily make a copy of edb and stm files before operations

RE: ISINTEG question.

2008-01-04 Thread Andy Shook
Microsoft SQL = Blackstone at the Blue Oyster Shook http://www.linkedin.com/in/andyshook -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 10:35 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: ISINTEG question. Other than the specific

RE: ISINTEG question.

2008-01-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 9:50 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: R: ISINTEG question. I don't have experience on other mail servers, but I am sure there are other

RE: ISINTEG question.

2008-01-04 Thread Andy David
What's complicated about running a restore? -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 9:50 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: R: ISINTEG question. I don't have experience on other mail servers, but I am sure there are o

R: ISINTEG question.

2008-01-04 Thread HELP_PC
I don't have experience on other mail servers, but I am sure there are other less complicate to repair and/or restore GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: venerdì 4 gennaio 2008 15.02 A: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: IS

RE: ISINTEG question.

2008-01-04 Thread Andy David
Yeppers. Ironically, repairing is destructive and you will lose data. It's a salvage operation. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 8:28 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: ISINTEG question. Online recovery i

RE: ISINTEG question.

2008-01-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
Online recovery is the first resort (i.e., letting the database engine play back it's logfiles). I would consider recovering from backup then playing back logfiles to be the second resort. Finally, database repair (eseutil + isinteg) to be the last resort. IMHO. YMMV. Regards, Michael B.

RE: ISINTEG question.

2008-01-04 Thread Tom Strader
Yeah, I spent a lot of time at that "Resort" back in 2003 and 2004. DOH! -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 7:57 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: R: ISINTEG question. Yes its well known, but even for 2007 isn

R: ISINTEG question.

2008-01-04 Thread HELP_PC
Yes its well known, but even for 2007 isn't a FIRST resort ? GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: venerdì 4 gennaio 2008 13.17 A: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: ISINTEG question. Eseutil's /p option (repair

RE: ISINTEG question.

2008-01-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
Eseutil's /p option (repair) followed by isinteg. But it should really be considered a "method of last resort". Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January

R: ISINTEG question.

2008-01-03 Thread HELP_PC
Practically there is no real option to get a Exchange database repaired ? No Ese no isinteg so what ? GuidoElia HELPPC -Messaggio originale- Da: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: giovedì 3 gennaio 2008 19.16 A: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: ISINTEG question

RE: ISINTEG question.

2008-01-03 Thread Andy David
rather then use what is essentially a broken store in production. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 1:16 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: ISINTEG question. Urg. Non-trivial to explain. I tried to find a public

Re: ISINTEG question.

2008-01-03 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
rivial to explain. > > I tried to find a public document that describes some of what isinteg does > on a technical level, but couldn't. > > Historically, isinteg was a debugging tool for PSS. It allowed them to scan > a store and in the case of corruption, basically get rid of th

RE: ISINTEG question.

2008-01-03 Thread Michael B. Smith
Urg. Non-trivial to explain. I tried to find a public document that describes some of what isinteg does on a technical level, but couldn't. Historically, isinteg was a debugging tool for PSS. It allowed them to scan a store and in the case of corruption, basically get rid of the offending

RE: ISINTEG question.

2008-01-03 Thread Tom Strader
Michael, I guess the term "detuned" is in question. By running isinteg, how does it "detune" the indexes?? By what means are the indexes kept "intune"? I'm curious also. Thanks, Tom -Original Message- From: Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th S

ISINTEG question.

2008-01-03 Thread Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT)
You can run isinteg on a dismounted database - pretty much ANY dismounted database - and it will give you warnings. This is because isinteg is a utility and not a database engine itself. You can tell isinteg to fix those warnings, and run it multiple times until there aren't any more war

RE: ISinteg

2002-07-10 Thread Brien Mayer
Thanks -Original Message- From: Neil Hobson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 9:12 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: ISinteg http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q301460 And http://www.microsoft.com/Exchange/techinfo/deployment

RE: ISinteg

2002-07-10 Thread Neil Hobson
Conversation: ISinteg Subject: ISinteg Does anyone have any links or white papers on ISinteg & the switches that can be used & when to use them for E2k? Thanks Brien List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_cha

ISinteg

2002-07-10 Thread Brien Mayer
Does anyone have any links or white papers on ISinteg & the switches that can be used & when to use them for E2k? Thanks Brien List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

RE: Esutil/Isinteg

2002-04-19 Thread William Lefkovics
Look for event ID 1221 in the application event log. William -Original Message- From: Brenda Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 9:12 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Esutil/Isinteg How do you determine how much white space your database has

RE: Esutil/Isinteg

2002-04-19 Thread Brenda Anderson
How do you determine how much white space your database has? Thank you. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

RE: Esutil/Isinteg

2002-04-19 Thread Neil Hobson
ication that the backup ran --VERY important!) Sorry folks, not enough time to give you the long version :-) -Original Message- From: Julie Lienemann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: 19 April 2002 16:52 Posted To: Sunbelt Exchange List Conversation: Esutil/Isinteg Subject: RE: Esutil/I

RE: Esutil/Isinteg

2002-04-19 Thread Mal Sasalu
She heard it Kevin- - - loud and clear :). Mal -Original Message- From: Julie Lienemann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 9:52 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Esutil/Isinteg Okay I will quote you on that -Original Message- From: Kevin Miller

RE: Esutil/Isinteg

2002-04-19 Thread Julie Lienemann
Okay I will quote you on that -Original Message- From: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 9:49 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Esutil/Isinteg Just tell them Mal, William, Kevin and Don say it is a bad idea. What more do they need? Look at

RE: Esutil/Isinteg

2002-04-19 Thread Kevin Miller
WebDesign, GO here! -Original Message- From: Julie Lienemann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 8:31 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Esutil/Isinteg Thanks for everyone's response, now if I can just convince the powers that be. -Original Me

RE: Esutil/Isinteg

2002-04-19 Thread Julie Lienemann
Thanks for everyone's response, now if I can just convince the powers that be. -Original Message- From: Mal Sasalu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 9:10 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Esutil/Isinteg Thank you. -Original Message-

RE: Esutil/Isinteg

2002-04-19 Thread Mal Sasalu
Thank you. -Original Message- From: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 9:01 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Esutil/Isinteg WOW! Thanks very much. --Kevinm TSSSBE, M, WLKMMAS, UCC+WCA, And Beyond http://www.daughtry.ca/ For Graphics

RE: Esutil/Isinteg

2002-04-19 Thread Kevin Miller
/Isinteg Here are excerpts of postings from people who know exchange very well. Print this out and give it to the guys who are pestering you with the idea of using eseutil on a regular basis. Mal If you are running out of disk space AND there is no whitespace in the database, as indicated by

RE: Esutil/Isinteg

2002-04-19 Thread Mal Sasalu
NE [EMAIL PROTECTED]Calgary, AB T2E 8S5 -Original Message- From: Ely, Don [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 8:04 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Esutil/Isinteg Search the archives, this is discussed just about wee

RE: Esutil/Isinteg

2002-04-19 Thread Ely, Don
Search the archives, this is discussed just about weekly. If you find that you aren't finding it in the archives, I'm sure there are those of us who have archived copies of this list that will resend a copy of the why's and why not's for

RE: Esutil/Isinteg

2002-04-19 Thread Julie Lienemann
the messages I read about these utilities were in reference to using them when you had problems. I will keep looking -Original Message- From: Ely, Don [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 7:41 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Esutil/Isinteg MS Support did not

RE: Esutil/Isinteg

2002-04-19 Thread Ely, Don
http://www.tripathimaging.com -Original Message- From: Julie Lienemann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 9:24 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Esutil/Isinteg I don't think it's necessary to use them at least not on a weekly basis but I am having a hard time co

RE: Esutil/Isinteg

2002-04-19 Thread Neil Hobson
gular basis. Neil -Original Message- From: Julie Lienemann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: 19 April 2002 14:24 Posted To: Sunbelt Exchange List Conversation: Esutil/Isinteg Subject: RE: Esutil/Isinteg I don't think it's necessary to use them at least not on a weekly basis

RE: Esutil/Isinteg

2002-04-19 Thread Julie Lienemann
PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Esutil/Isinteg Why do you want to use those tools? Any particular reason? -Original Message- From: Julie Lienemann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 1:07 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Esutil/Isinteg Sorry I

RE: Esutil/Isinteg

2002-04-18 Thread Mal Sasalu
Why do you want to use those tools? Any particular reason? -Original Message- From: Julie Lienemann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 1:07 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Esutil/Isinteg Sorry I must have missed that message, guess I'll be

RE: Esutil/Isinteg

2002-04-18 Thread Julie Lienemann
Sorry I must have missed that message, guess I'll be using scripts. I was hoping for more feedback on not using Eseutil and Isinteg regularly. Anyone have any good references on these topics? Julie -Original Message- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wedn

RE: Esutil/Isinteg

2002-04-18 Thread Neil Hobson
How about: 10 eseutil /d 20 isinteg -fix -alltests 30 goto 10 Should "routinely run" the utilities nicely! :-) -Original Message- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: 17 April 2002 23:23 Posted To: Sunbelt Exchange List Conversation: Esutil/Isint

RE: Esutil/Isinteg

2002-04-17 Thread William Lefkovics
uot;; As with 5.5, running those utilities do little to nothing to benefit a healthy exchange server installation. William -Original Message- From: Julie Lienemann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 3:16 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Esutil/Isinteg Tes

Esutil/Isinteg

2002-04-17 Thread Julie Lienemann
Testing Win2K SP2 /E2K SP2. Routinely ran the Eseutil /d and Isinteg -fix -alltests on my Exchange 5.5 server. (long story) Does anyone have suggestions or comments about doing the same with Exchange 2000, from research I have done this doesn't appear to be a good idea but I need more to

RE: Arcserve2000 and ISINTEG

2001-10-23 Thread Savoie, David
Title: Message HE said ARRGHServe, LOL -Original Message-From: HOLLIDAY, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 5:51 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: Arcserve2000 and ISINTEG Thank you all, for your input.  As usual, I can count on this

RE: Arcserve2000 and ISINTEG

2001-10-22 Thread HOLLIDAY, Eric
orporate Information SystemsLogistics Management Institute[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 5:27 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: Arcserve2000 and ISINTEG One issue to realize when running this utility,

RE: Arcserve2000 and ISINTEG

2001-10-22 Thread Don Ely
From: John Matteson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 1:26 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: Arcserve2000 and ISINTEG Microsoft's documents call for ISINTEG to process at about 10 Gbytes per hour, but it all depends on what resources are free on you

RE: Arcserve2000 and ISINTEG

2001-10-22 Thread John Matteson
Microsoft's documents call for ISINTEG to process at about 10 Gbytes per hour, but it all depends on what resources are free on your machine while running ISINTEG. I have a 60 Gbyte store, running on a 5 disk RAID, Dual 800 Mhz processors with a Gig of RAM. It takes about 9 hours to m

RE: Arcserve2000 and ISINTEG

2001-10-22 Thread HOLLIDAY, Eric
  -Original Message-From: John Matteson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 3:28 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: Arcserve2000 and ISINTEG I will assume that you have the Exchange agent installed, activated, licensed by CA and blessed by the

RE: Arcserve2000 and ISINTEG

2001-10-22 Thread John Matteson
I will assume that you have the Exchange agent installed, activated, licensed by CA and blessed by the local spirit leader.   Assuming that you have enough downtime available, I would run ISINTEG -PRI/pub -Fix -TEST ALLTESTS on the information store to ensure that you have any corruption in

RE: Arcserve2000 and ISINTEG

2001-10-22 Thread Purviance, Chad
.   CJP   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 2:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Arcserve2000 and ISINTEG   Environment: Exchange (Enterprise) 5.5 SP4 Hardware: Compaq Proliant ML530 dual Xeon processors, 1Gb RAM, 34Gb

RE: Arcserve2000 and ISINTEG

2001-10-22 Thread Benjamin Winzenz
I would be running a backup with NTBackup WAY before I would be attempting to run ISINTEG.  Given the knoweldeg (or lack or it) exhibited by various CA techs, I trust them about as far as I can throw them.  Now, if you can’t get a good backup with NTBackup, then maybe it’s time to call

Arcserve2000 and ISINTEG

2001-10-22 Thread HOLLIDAY, Eric
is:(E8602 Failed to read from database. (DBNAME=Information store.EC=) Now Here's where it gets interesting - After telling us to run ISINTEG with the -patch option (which didn't fix the problem), CA support is now telling us to run: ISINTEG -PRI -FIX -TEST and ISINTEG -PUB -FIX -TEST.

RE: isinteg tests

2001-09-04 Thread Kopec, David
When you run ISINTEG -FIX against a database, the following happens: 1. The databases have pointers to the information in the database, such as mail messages, folders, etc. Running isinteg -fix removes pointers that point to information that is no longer there (usually this is pointers to

RE: isinteg tests

2001-09-04 Thread Kopec, David
Q183400 is good, Resource Guide for Exchange chapter 8 is excellent. -Original Message- From: Richardson, Kendall (UNISYS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 9:57 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: isinteg tests Greetings. I have Exchange 55, SP3 running

Re: isinteg tests

2001-09-04 Thread missy koslosky
D]> To: "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 9:56 AM Subject: isinteg tests Greetings. I have Exchange 55, SP3 running on NT4, 6a. Over the weekend I ran eseutil to clean up 3.5GB of free/white space in the info store after moving lo

isinteg tests

2001-09-04 Thread Richardson, Kendall (UNISYS)
Greetings. I have Exchange 55, SP3 running on NT4, 6a. Over the weekend I ran eseutil to clean up 3.5GB of free/white space in the info store after moving lots of email around for users. I also ran isinteg in test mode just to see what information it provides (I had never used it before). Test