You might also take a look at Q183739. Might not apply completely to
your situation, but it might give you a few ideas.
Tom.
-----Original Message-----
From: Sagert, Lori [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 10:26 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Orphans in the Directory
Hi All:
<sucking up>
Hoping you guys can possibly give a little of your vast experience and
knowledge in this one. Yes I 've read the FAQ's and even like Fish Tacos
and beer.....and I'm going to the MEC so maybe I'm gonna need to hide my
wallet.
</sucking up>
Exchange 5.5 SP4 NT4.0 SP6a--Orphans in the Directory
5 servers in the site and 4 connected with x400 connectors.
We have a very large Exchange Org with over a 100 x400 Connectors all
over the world with over 200,000 recipients in the GAL. We recently
added a new server into our site (I refused to let them use yet another
connector) and started getting 1171 errors in the eventviewer. The users
were experiencing lock-ups and would have to endtask to get out of
Outlook.
A call to PSS and we were told to chkds.exe in read-only mode. No
surprise here, but I found almost 2000 orphaned objects on our main
server, not the new server. At this point I am planning to run chkds.exe
-fixorphaned on the server with the orphaned objects. PSS tells me to
make a backup copy of the dir.edb first which I was going to do anyway.
I also intend to make backup copies of the dir's on all the servers in
our site including 3 remote ones that are connected by an x400. I will
then shut down all Exchange services on all the servers before running
the utility.
My question is: Any pitfalls/heads-up I need to know before running
chkds.exe. Have any of you ever had to run this utility and had any
problems I need to look out for?
Thanks for any insight you might have,
Lori Sagert
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