[Exchange] Exchange 2010 - two datacenters - # of dags

2013-08-05 Thread Stringham, Steven
We are redoing our SAN and Exchange (business merger stuff). The connection between the primary and secondary datacenter is 200mb at about 35ms. We are looking at about 8tb of exchange data right now. I am presently using 2 copies of the DAG at the primary and 1 at the old secondary

[Exchange] RE: Exchange 2010 - two datacenters - # of dags

2013-08-05 Thread Stringham, Steven
on that MBX be able to fail over to the secondary datacenter with little to no admin action, and with little to no user outages? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Stringham, Steven Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 4

[Exchange] RE: Exchange 2010 - two datacenters - # of dags

2013-08-06 Thread Stringham, Steven
:49 AM To: exchange@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [Exchange] RE: Exchange 2010 - two datacenters - # of dags Depends entirely on configuration. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Stringham, Steven Sent: Monday, August 5, 2013 7:51 PM

[Exchange] GAL contact - problem with calendaring

2013-08-20 Thread Stringham, Steven
We are working on combining with another law firm. In this process we have created contacts in both of our Ex2010 (sp2Ru6) environments of the users on both sides. They are AD 2008 and we are still on AD 2003. If I have a contact for them in my GAL: * When I send them a calendar invite, they

[Exchange] RE: Removing PF database from ex2007 server

2013-09-10 Thread Stringham, Steven
, what can you see in the PF Admin Toolbox console? And to the best of my knowledge and memory: no. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com]mailto:[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Stringham, Steven Sent

[Exchange] DAG - log files different sizes

2013-09-26 Thread Stringham, Steven
I have a DAG with multiple databases – three servers have copies of the databases in two datacenters. I use snapshots on my SAN to backup the databases. This moves the log files to a directory where they are purged later – after many other backups. They all snap at about the same time. So,

[Exchange] RE: DAG - log files different sizes

2013-09-26 Thread Stringham, Steven
Different subnets? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.commailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com]mailto:[mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Stringham, Steven Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 2:42 PM To: exchange

[Exchange] Mailbox locking up...

2014-01-07 Thread Stringham, Steven
Environment - Ex2010 SP2 RU6. From time to time (once/twice a week) we have a mailbox (this is a moving target – not the same one) that decides to refuse all connection attempts. Everyone else in that database (and others) are able to connect to their mailbox. But, whichever is the lucky one

[Exchange] RE: Mailbox locking up...

2014-01-07 Thread Stringham, Steven
...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Stringham, Steven Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2014 4:07 PM To: exchange@lists.myitforum.commailto:exchange@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [Exchange] Mailbox locking up... Environment - Ex2010 SP2 RU6. From time to time (once/twice

[Exchange] Cross forest access with exchange - verification

2014-01-16 Thread Stringham, Steven
Situation: Company A and Company B get merged becoming Company C. A/B both have exchange worlds. We create a C AD domain, install exchange 2010, and put contacts/mailbox links in A/B/C. Inbound now flows to C and then to either A or B as needed. Trusts exist between the three AD domains.

[Exchange] Antivirus placement - Exchange 2010

2014-04-22 Thread Stringham, Steven
Antivirus software and Exchange 2010 – where should I put it? I am looking at this as a performance, security balancing act. So, my thoughts are where do you folks put it. A little poll please… AntiSpam outside service – before my internal systems see it. Email AV gateway

[Exchange] Connect-mailbox error - mailbox does not exist.

2016-08-23 Thread Stringham, Steven
Exchange 2010 SP3 – from a merger. Recently upgraded from 2010 SP1 RU5. The setting on maximum attachment size at one point on these mailbox was unlimited. So, as I am looking at these mailboxes, there are some 500mb attachments. I discovered this after the fact. I moved a mailbox to another

[Exchange] exchange 2010 search online vs cached mode

2016-10-20 Thread Stringham, Steven
I have found that in cached mode I can do an advanced search using the field level, and contains and find strings in the middle of a word or number – so “uper” will find super, superman, supervisor, etc. However, in online mode this search returns zero results. Is this as expected? Am I

[Exchange] Exchange 2010 to 2016 on premise - Upgrade

2017-07-07 Thread Stringham, Steven
We are presently on 2010. 600+ users. We are starting to look at 2016. So, a couple of questions: 1) Is 2016 ready for prime time? Are there big gotchas to be worried about? 2) Reading list – best books/resources for study to prep for the upgrade. Thanks Steven Stringham

RE: [Exchange] Exchange 2010 to 2016 on premise - Upgrade

2017-07-13 Thread Stringham, Steven
acks...I run it in production and it works great. Best resource is to do the migration in a test lab...hands on is the way I learn the best. On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 2:04 PM Stringham, Steven <sstring...@lrrc.com<mailto:sstring...@lrrc.com>> wrote: We are presently on 2010. 600+ users. We are

RE: [Exchange] Exchange 2010 to 2016 on premise - Upgrade

2017-07-13 Thread Stringham, Steven
com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Stringham, Steven Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 5:11 PM To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com' Subject: RE: [Exchange] Exchange 2010 to 2016 on premise - Upgrade Thanks – I picked up his book – and am looking at it now. Two other questions

[Exchange] RE: Exchange 2016 on Windows Server 2016

2017-07-18 Thread Stringham, Steven
, there are known issues. And there may be some unknown issues as well. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Stringham, Steven Sent: Monday, July 17, 2017 3:03 PM To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com' Subject: [Exchan

[Exchange] RE: Exchange Online Archiving (EOA) question - DPT/RPT

2017-07-20 Thread Stringham, Steven
is, for some odd reason, you really need to have a single mailbox with more than 125 GB of data. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Stringham, Steven Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 5:06 PM To: 'ex

[Exchange] RE: Exchange Online Archiving (EOA) question - DPT/RPT

2017-07-20 Thread Stringham, Steven
-folder-is-automatically-added-to-your-office-365-mailbox From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Stringham, Steven Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 5:06 PM To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com' <

[Exchange] Exchange Online Archiving (EOA) question - DPT/RPT

2017-07-19 Thread Stringham, Steven
I know that with on premises exchange – a DPT or RPT tag will apply both to the primary mailbox and to the archive. Is this true in a hybrid environment? Here is my issue. I have number of mailboxes that are huge (think 100g+). We wish to archive the contents of these mailboxes – to store like

[Exchange] RE: Exchange Online Archiving (EOA) question - DPT/RPT

2017-07-20 Thread Stringham, Steven
mailboxes with a DPT of 180 day permanent delete. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com<mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com> [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Stringham, Steven Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 3:40 PM To: 'exchange@lists.myitforum.com' Subject: [Exchange] Ex

[Exchange] Exchange 2016 - New DB index issues

2017-08-29 Thread Stringham, Steven
I have an issue with Exchange 2016 creating DAG databases. I create the database on the first server, and mount it. The content index stays in the failed mode for a little while, but then goes into a healthy state. I then tell it to create a databasecopy to another DAG member. The database