I'll keep that in mind. As it turns out, a rebuild of exchange from scratch and PST imports may be in order.
What is PSS? (Pardon my ignorance) Cheers --- Great Cthulhu Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FDISK and reinstall's always been kind to me. Your > mileage may vary. > > What did PSS say? > > (:= > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Darrkon > Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 10:15 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Exchange Disaster Recovery Issues > > > A brilliant deduction! > This leads to my next question > > "How do we fix it???" > > Cheers :) > > > --- Great Cthulhu Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Probably whatever made it crash in the first > place. > > > > (:= > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > > Behalf Of Darrkon > > Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 7:08 PM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: RE: Exchange Disaster Recovery Issues > > > > > > We will definantly stop OST users from getting on > > the > > exchange server until a PST dump has been > performed > > from their OST file. > > > > Just further to this issue. > > > > The damn thing started working and saved us > > rebuilding > > the whole exchange server using PST export/import > at > > 7pm on a Tuesday night. > > The problem now is that each mailbox CAN be > accessed > > but ONLY by the user who initially owned the > > mailbox. > > (ie JBloggs is the only user account that can > access > > the Joe Bloggs mailbox) > > No matter what permissions we set on any mailbox > > that > > still remains, only the initial owner of the > mailbox > > can use it, this includes administrator being > unable > > to view the mailboxes. > > > > Any ideas what might have caused this to occur? > > > > Thanks for the advice :) > > > > Luke > > > > --- Tim Ault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Perhaps. But I don't believe PSS hires > > necromancers. > > > > > > Luke, are any of the users OST Outlook clients? > If > > > so, disable their NT > > > accts before answering my question. Tell them to > > > export their mailbox to a > > > PST. You'll at least preserve what mail was > synced > > > locally prior to the > > > "incident". > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Chris Scharff > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 11:17 AM > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > Subject: RE: Exchange Disaster Recovery Issues > > > > > > > > > For quite some time. > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Martin Blackstone > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 9:54 AM > > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > > Subject: RE: Exchange Disaster Recovery Issues > > > > > > > > > > > > Sounds like a call to PSS is in order. > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Luke Cassar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 12:32 AM > > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > > Subject: Exchange Disaster Recovery Issues > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > a client of ours recently deleted several log > > > files for > > > > exchange. The result was that exchange stopped > > > working. The > > > > client has run several utilities ISINTEG and > > > ESEUTIL in no > > > > particluar order and we were called in to fix > > the > > > problem. We > > > > continued running these utilities in a > > particular > > > sequence. > > > > The end result was working exchange, but with > a > > > lot of data > > > > missing from mailboxes. A directory import was > > > performed > > > > using an export from an oversease exchange > > server. > > > This was > > > > imported and restored most of the mailboxes. > We > > > tried the > > > > consistency adjuster for mailboxes to try and > > find > > > orphaned > > > > data in the information store, but the size of > > the > > > database > > > > files is significantly reduced. (eg. from 20GB > > to > > > 5GB for > > > > priv.edb) We have gotten to the point where we > > are > > > writing > > > > off any chance of recovering the data from the > > > database > > > > itself and are reverting to restoring > partially > > > from backups > > > > (backups had not been working for a > significant > > > time). The > > > > problem we are now encountering is that > > mailboxes > > > that have > > > > shown up as being empty (ie, all data lost) > can > > no > > > longer be > > > > accessed by any user (administrator or > > otherwise). > > > We have > > > > re-assigned server and site permissions > > > appropriatley and > > > > given permission to the user for this mailbox > > but > > > still the > > > > user cannot log on. (even re-mapping the > profile > > > does not > > > > help). If we delete and re-create the mailbox, > > > users still > > > > cannot access them. > > > > > > > > Are there any known issues along these lines > and > > > what would > > > > be the best course of action for this > situation. > > > > > > > > Help is appreciated. > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Luke Cassar > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > > List posting FAQ: > > > http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > > > Archives: > > > http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > === message truncated === ===== "Dare to be indifferent" -Sabre- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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