Plus, ever since I was partonized I've had to buy new shirts. -- be - MOS
Support your local church or synagogue. Worship at Bank of America. > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Di Nardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 10:02 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Drive m:???? > > > Sarcasm is the word you need to become familiar with. > > Tom. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Felicity Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 8:30 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Drive m:???? > > pardon me for sounding so partonizing, but the M drive is the > installable > file system that ships with exchange. As you know all internet > protocols > (http, smtp, nntp, pop, imap) are now server by the same engine that > does > IIS. IIS consults the Exhcange store and a file handle to > the item you > are looking for in the Exchange store is returned. > > This is a true NTFS file handle and is provided by the EPoxy or EXIPC > mechanism which masquarades exchange items as NTFS file > handles using an > asynchornous work queue which is extremely fast and provides little > context switching. Think of it as another file system driver just the > same as FAT, NTFS, CDFS, HPFS. > > The reason some of you do and some of you don't see an M drive is > because > IIS launches (specifically the W3svc service) before your > exchange store > service completes it start up process. Hence no M drive. > All you do is > bounce your w3svc service and you will have an M Drive. > > I chose to change > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W3SVC and make > DependOnService have the value of MSExchangeIS. > > You can change the drive letter by editing the following registry key. > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\EXIFS\Parameters > On the Edit menu, click Add Value, and then add the following registry > value: > Value Name: DriveLetter Data Type: REG_SZ Value: P > NOTE: If the DriveLetter value already exists, double-click the value, > and > then change the drive to n: or another letter. > > One more point about the EXIFS (Exchange Installable File System) - > there > are three methods of application deployment - xcopy from the file > system, > ftp, or email or sending data to an exchange public folder. NT admins > like xcopy, web admins like ftp or webdave, exchange admins like to > deploy > to public folders. EXIFS provides a mechisim to keep everyone happy. > > --Felicity > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
