Lost mailbox

2004-01-12 Thread Kim Schotanus
Hi there I have an urgent question. I came in this morning and found the AD completely blocked because surveyor.exe was taking up all memory resources on the DC. After rebooting the memory use went back to normal and users could log to the network. Unfortunately when our director booted his PC

RE: smtp receives but stops sending

2004-01-12 Thread Mark Dewell
Hi, I think I am probably the poster you are refering to. We haven't posted the fix because we still haven't resolved it. Since my last posting on this thread, we have tried running without the Sophos MailMonitor anti-virus and also without the GFI MailEssentials. The problems continued while

From 5.5 to 2003; ADC can't see 5.5 on port 389

2004-01-12 Thread Robert
Good morning, I have a client that is moving from 5.5 to 2003. Their 5.5 box had been set for LDAP to run on port 390, all was well. However when I load 2003 on a new member server and run everything through, the new 2003 box can't connect and move mailboxes from the 5.5 box. ADC says that

Electronic Forms

2004-01-12 Thread Mark Condron
All, We extensively use MS Electronic Forms/Forms Designer here, I would be grateful if someone could point me in the right direction on how the forms could be used to populate a database as well as being delivered to the relevant public folder for action. Does anyone know of a good resource

RE: Lost mailbox

2004-01-12 Thread Tony Hlabse
Not sure what happened to answer your first question. But you can not restore a single mailbox from backup unless you use bricklevel backup method. Restore DB to a recovery box then run exmerge is the one way. From: Kim Schotanus [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL

RE: smtp receives but stops sending

2004-01-12 Thread Tony Hlabse
I had a customer run into the same issue. Althoug still not resolved the last time I spoke with them they tried all of the things you mentioned. They where running TrendMicro. Please post if you finally resolve it. From: Mark Dewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL

RE: Electronic Forms

2004-01-12 Thread Tony Hlabse
Might want to look at www.slipstick.com From: Mark Condron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Electronic Forms Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:20:39 - All, We extensively use MS Electronic Forms/Forms Designer

Converting OST to PST

2004-01-12 Thread Juancho Ciocon
Hi, folks: Our environment: native AD and E2k SP3, WinXP on the desktops, Outlook 2000/2002 clients. Would anyone have tips on how to access OSTs when the primary mailbox owner/account has already been deleted from AD? We recently had some downsizing and are trying to get to emails on laptops

RE: Lost mailbox

2004-01-12 Thread Kim Schotanus
I can't restore the backup to the store. (it is indeed brick-level) -Original Message- From: Tony Hlabse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 January 2004 15:28 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Lost mailbox Not sure what happened to answer your first question. But you can not

RE: Converting OST to PST

2004-01-12 Thread Ben Winzenz
There is a tool called OST2PST. It is supposed to convert the ost file to a pst file, which you can then work with. Google found this link. http://salvatore.f2o.org/media/apps/ost2pst.zip Ben Winzenz Network Engineer Gardner White (317) 581-1580 ext 418 -Original Message- From:

Mailbox Manager Report Customization

2004-01-12 Thread Exchange
Can anyone point me to resources covering this topic? Specifically, I'd like to include information like: Your current mailbox size is X The size of your Y folder is Z etc. -Yanek. This electronic message

RE: Mailbox Manager Report Customization

2004-01-12 Thread Woodruff, Michael
Here is a good link http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/MF012.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Exchange Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 10:23 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Mailbox Manager Report Customization Can anyone

RE: Converting OST to PST

2004-01-12 Thread Douglas A. Jones
There is in fact an OST2PST converter. I used it several years ago to convert the ost of a user that had left on his computer. It worked like a champ and I think it cost less then $100. I don't remember the website but you should be able to google for it. -Doug Jones -Original

RE: Converting OST to PST

2004-01-12 Thread Roger Seielstad
One other option is to start the machine up, log in as the user (using cached credentials) and then open Outlook offline, and copy it to a PST. That's assuming, of course, you can reasonably hack their password. -- Roger D. Seielstad -

RE: Converting OST to PST

2004-01-12 Thread Eric Fretz
With a Win2K machine running post SP3, Syskey is enabled by default and makes most attempts at breaking the users password useless unless you are launching a brute force login attack. I have had some limited success with logging into the machine as a another privilaged user account, rolling the

RE: Converting OST to PST

2004-01-12 Thread Ben Winzenz
Shoot, just log in as the local admin. You will have access to all the user profiles, hence access to the .ost file. Ben Winzenz Network Engineer Gardner White (317) 581-1580 ext 418 -Original Message- From: Eric Fretz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Monday, January 12, 2004

RE: Lost mailbox

2004-01-12 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
Was his AD account deleted or was his mailbox deleted? -Original Message- From: Kim Schotanus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 4:45 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Lost mailbox Hi there I have an urgent question. I came in this morning and found the AD

RE: smtp receives but stops sending

2004-01-12 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
Could be a DNS problem. Is your AD DNS server using root hints or forwarders? I had an issue a while ago where my SMTP servers stopped sending mail. It started happening soon after we changed our AD DNS servers from using forwarders to using root hints. It turned out that MS AD DNS was not fully

RE: Lost mailbox

2004-01-12 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
When you look at the list of mailboxes in the information store, do you see the orphaned mailbox marked with red? -Original Message- From: Kim Schotanus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 11:05 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Lost mailbox Only the

RE: Lost mailbox

2004-01-12 Thread Kim Schotanus
No, he's gone completely, but I have brick level backups Kind regards, Kim -Original Message- From: Fyodorov, Andrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 January 2004 17:08 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Lost mailbox When you look at the list of mailboxes in the information

RE: Lost mailbox

2004-01-12 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
I have not used brick level that much... maybe you need to manually create a new mailbox for him and then restore it from a brick level backup? -Original Message- From: Kim Schotanus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 11:13 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE:

Incorrect NDRs Miss-Addressed Email Queues

2004-01-12 Thread Martin, Jon
Yesterday morning the Unix box our Exchange system hands off Internet-bound email to was having a problem, as initially evidenced on the Exchange side by the filling up of remote SMTP queues. As part of the troubleshooting process I restarted the SMTP virtual server. When I did this it flushed all

RE: Mailbox Manager Report Customization

2004-01-12 Thread Exchange
Perhaps, but unless I'm totally missing something, it doesn't answer my question. :) -Original Message- From: Woodruff, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Monday, January 12, 2004 10:28 Posted To: Exchange Conversation: Mailbox Manager Report Customization Subject: RE:

RE: Converting OST to PST

2004-01-12 Thread Juancho Ciocon
Thank you all for your replies. Regards, -Juancho _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang=english To

2003 ADC can't see 5.5 box on port 389

2004-01-12 Thread Robert
Good afternoon, I have a client that is moving from 5.5 to 2003. Their 5.5 box had been set for LDAP to run on port 390, all was well. However when I load 2003 on a new member server and run everything through, the new 2003 box can't connect and move mailboxes from the 5.5 box. ADC says that

Recipient Policies

2004-01-12 Thread Hutchins, Mike
E2K SP3 W2K SP3 Any idea why I can't add an smtp address to every mailbox in the org? I am trying to add it to the default policy then apply the ppolicy, and it isn't working.. _ List posting FAQ:

RE: 2003 ADC can't see 5.5 box on port 389

2004-01-12 Thread Roger Seielstad
Is the Exchange 5.5 server also a Windows 2000 DC? -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -Original Message- From: Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 11:58

Internal relay test

2004-01-12 Thread Boyd, Nathan
Does anyone have a utility to test relaying through a isolated relay? I have built an IMSS server, to take over the task of relaying from Exchange for internal use. The server points internal mail to Exchange and external to another IMSS server on the DMZ. Normally I would telnet in and send

Clogged IMS...

2004-01-12 Thread Jim Blunt
Ok...slight problem here. O/S - Win2k, SP2 Exch - 5.5, SP4+ Situation: MTS-Out is so clogged with outbound NDR's to spammers, that when I open the 5.5 Exchange Admin Console and attempt to look at the Outbound awaiting conversion queue of the IMS connector, the console just freezes. Had this

RE: Annoying event in Exchange 2003.

2004-01-12 Thread Ed Crowley [MVP]
Just pretty sure? Have you checked? Ed Crowley MCSE+I MVP Protecting the world from PSTs and bricked backups. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Joyce Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 11:20 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject:

RE: From 5.5 to 2003; ADC can't see 5.5 on port 389

2004-01-12 Thread Ed Crowley [MVP]
Have you run all the prerequisite steps such as ForestPrep and DomainPrep? Ed Crowley MCSE+I MVP Protecting the world from PSTs and bricked backups. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 7:19 AM To:

RE: Recipient Policies

2004-01-12 Thread Ed Crowley [MVP]
Anything in the event log? Ed Crowley MCSE+I MVP Protecting the world from PSTs and bricked backups. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hutchins, Mike Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 12:30 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Recipient

RE: Internal relay test

2004-01-12 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
If it were an open relay, it would let you send mail from any From address regardless of whether or not you have a valid account. Sincerely, Andrey Fyodorov, Exchange MVP Systems Engineer Messaging and Collaboration Spherion -Original Message- From: Boyd, Nathan [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Recipient Policies

2004-01-12 Thread Hutchins, Mike
Nothing at all.. I am on the phone with PSS as we speak, he seems a tad confused.. -Original Message- From: Ed Crowley [MVP] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 11:34 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Recipient Policies Anything in the event log? Ed

RE: Recipient Policies

2004-01-12 Thread Pillai, Raj
Restarting the System Attendant Service might help. -Original Message- From: Hutchins, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 11:30 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Recipient Policies E2K SP3 W2K SP3 Any idea why I can't add an smtp address to every mailbox

RE: Exchange 2003 backups

2004-01-12 Thread Chris Scharff
The first may be true, don't believe the second is. But it's Monday and I was up late helping my son with his science project so... -Original Message- From: Webb, Andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Sunday, January 11, 2004 10:17 PM Posted To: swynk Conversation: Exchange 2003

RE: Recipient Policies

2004-01-12 Thread Tony Hlabse
When you create a new mailbox the smtp address doesn't get show until the user logs in although the address is valid. Not sure if this applies to new addresses set by new recipient policies. Did you try sending to a user to see if it goes through? From: Ed Crowley [MVP] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Electronic Forms

2004-01-12 Thread Chris Scharff
www.slipstick.com www.outlookcode.com www.cdolive.com -Original Message- From: Mark Condron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Monday, January 12, 2004 6:21 AM Posted To: swynk Conversation: Electronic Forms Subject: Electronic Forms All, We extensively use MS Electronic Forms/Forms

RE: Converting OST to PST

2004-01-12 Thread Chris Scharff
Exchange not configured to not permanently delete mailboxes when the associated AD account is deleted. Wow, that kinda sucks. Someone might want to change that setting back to the way it was out of the box. -Original Message- From: Juancho Ciocon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At:

RE: Converting OST to PST

2004-01-12 Thread Chris Scharff
It's not simply a question of access to the file if one wants to open it offline using Outlook. -Original Message- From: Ben Winzenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Monday, January 12, 2004 9:53 AM Posted To: swynk Conversation: Converting OST to PST Subject: RE: Converting OST to

RE: Internal relay test

2004-01-12 Thread Boyd, Nathan
It is restricted to certain hosts; I can add any host in there for testing. Nathan -Original Message- From: Fyodorov, Andrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 10:45 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Internal relay test If it were an open relay, it would

Public Folder Replication

2004-01-12 Thread Woodruff, Michael
I am trying to move PFs to from and exchange 2000 server (SP3) to a exchange 2003 server. I added the new server as a replica to all pfs. Here is what is weird. Before I replicated the folders over, I could see the contents fine(my mailbox is on the new server). When the new server was added as

RE: Exchange 2003 backups

2004-01-12 Thread Webb, Andy
Oh, and it's only Outlook 2003 that can use large PST files. The Exchange MAPI drivers (exmerge, etc) are still limited to small PST files. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Webb, Andy Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 10:17 PM To: Exchange

RE: Recipient Policies

2004-01-12 Thread Hutchins, Mike
Ok, now he says we need to restart the SA for it take effect... -Original Message- From: Hutchins, Mike Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 12:08 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Recipient Policies Nothing at all.. I am on the phone with PSS as we speak, he seems a tad confused..

RE: Recipient Policies

2004-01-12 Thread Yanek Korff
This happened me too. When I finally got rid of my Exchange 5.5 box and went to native mode, it worked. You don't have a 5.5 box in your org, do you? -Yanek. -Original Message- From: Hutchins, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Monday, January 12, 2004 12:30 Posted To:

RE: Recipient Policies

2004-01-12 Thread Hutchins, Mike
Nah, it stamps all the attr's. It just wont stamp existing ones. MS PSS says I have to restart all the SA's on E2K servers running a RUS. In our case, 7. Argh... -Original Message- From: Tony Hlabse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 12:14 PM To: Exchange

RE: Public Folder Replication

2004-01-12 Thread Chris Scharff
Sounds like folder replication was not yet complete for the folder(s) in question. PF replication is a lazy operation IIRC. -Original Message- From: Woodruff, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Monday, January 12, 2004 1:33 PM Posted To: swynk Conversation: Public Folder

RE: Public Folder Replication

2004-01-12 Thread Woodruff, Michael
Yeah that's what I was beginning to think. I just checked the actual pub.edb and the modified date goes back to Nov of 2003, but the pub.stm has a modified date of today. If I go to a PF and post content on it from Outlook, should it not modify the modified date on the pub.edb? -Original

RE: Incorrect NDRs Miss-Addressed Email Queues

2004-01-12 Thread Martin, Jon
Guess I should have mentioned that this is an Exchange 2000 sp3 system. Jon -Original Message- From: Martin, Jon Posted At: Monday, January 12, 2004 8:35 AM Posted To: exchange Conversation: Incorrect NDRs Miss-Addressed Email Queues Subject: Incorrect NDRs Miss-Addressed Email Queues

RE: Recipient Policies

2004-01-12 Thread Hutchins, Mike
Nope E2K native mode.. -Original Message- From: Yanek Korff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 12:47 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Recipient Policies This happened me too. When I finally got rid of my Exchange 5.5 box and went to native mode, it

RE: Recipient Policies

2004-01-12 Thread Steve
If there are problems with the RUS, generally you will see the errors while the System Attendant starts (because this is the process that manages the RUS). When troubleshooting RUS problems I generally only need to work with one RUS from the domain that is having the problems to see where the

RE: Recipient Policies

2004-01-12 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
You can try to move RUS to another server and see what happens. In the RUS config, you have two knobs to twist - the RUS home server and domain controller. Try different combos and see what happens. This is a part of my scientific jiggle method. Sincerely, Andrey Fyodorov, Exchange MVP Systems

RE: Recipient Policies

2004-01-12 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
In the really early releases of Exchange 2000, there were some issues with RUS. If there was an address conflict, RUS would stop stamping addresses. But those issues were taken care of by the service packs. Sincerely, Andrey Fyodorov, Exchange MVP Systems Engineer Messaging and Collaboration

Hardware requirements for Front end/ Back end server -- EX2003

2004-01-12 Thread JohLex
Dear All, I am getting ready to upgrade an Exch 5.5 system running on NT4 to Exch 2003 on Win 2003 and am trying to decide whther or not to use a front end server. I will have approx. 100 users accessing this server via POP3/IMAP and another 30 or so via OWA. Additionally I will have another

RE: Hardware requirements for Front end/ Back end server -- EX2003

2004-01-12 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
There used to be a FE/BE document on http://www.microsoft.com/ISN I don't know if it is still there. Based on my own experience at the previous place, we ran two OWA/SMTP FEs configured with MS Windows Load Balancing. Each machine had 512MB RAM, dual 800MHz CPUs, and one 18GB RAID1 volume (I

RE: Hardware requirements for Front end/ Back end server -- EX2003

2004-01-12 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
Actually, in a pinch, if one of those FEs was down, the other one was able to handle things by itself fine. More RAM would have helped. Sincerely, Andrey Fyodorov, Exchange MVP Systems Engineer Messaging and Collaboration Spherion -Original Message- From: Fyodorov, Andrey Sent:

RE: Hardware requirements for Front end/ Back end server -- EX200 3

2004-01-12 Thread Eric Fretz
I can't get too scientific here, but I currently have 100 in-house users running outlook, plus another 50 at any given time accessing their mail over OWA. All of this is being done on the following very modest hardware: Intel P3-1000 Mhz, 512 MB Ram and 10k rpm SCSI disks. I log all of the

Clogged IMS...

2004-01-12 Thread Blunt, James H (Jim)
Ok...slight problem here. O/S - Win2k, SP2 Exch - 5.5, SP4+ Situation: MTS-Out is so clogged with outbound NDR's to spammers, that when I open the 5.5 Exchange Admin Console and attempt to look at the Outbound awaiting conversion queue of the IMS connector, the console just freezes. Had this

RE: smtp receives but stops sending

2004-01-12 Thread Matthew Joyce
I think I may have fixed my occurrences of a similar issue. I had an Dell RAC3 which didn't have drivers so was disabled. When the drivers were loaded it defaulted to a 192.162.x.x address. SMTP vs was set to use 'all assigned'. I have explicitly set it to one ip address. I'm not sure if this was

RE: Annoying event in Exchange 2003.

2004-01-12 Thread Matthew Joyce
Is it possible to find out which folder is contained in the data section of the event ? one such data section is: : 004d005b 00580042 0043003a 00720068 0010: 00730069 00690074 0065006e 00530020 0020: 00680063 006c0075 0065006c 005d0072 0030: 0049002f 0062006e 0078006f is there a way to

OOO not going out to the internet

2004-01-12 Thread Jees
Exchange 5.5,sp4 Outlook xp with sp2 when my users are away, they set ooo for their emailers, however, these ooo messages are only delivered to the local network only. I have tested this by sending an email from my network-outlook account to my yahoo account and no ooo message is delivered. Did

Re: Clogged IMS...

2004-01-12 Thread JohLex
James, mr.bhi-erc.com internet address = 206.61.211.99 --- this box is not running Exchange. Rgds. -Original Message- From: Blunt, James H (Jim) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jan 12, 2004 11:42 AM To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Clogged IMS... Ok...slight problem here.