Wow. Please accept my most sincere condolences.
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife < [email protected]> wrote: > Oh no, Michael, in all seriousness, my sarcasm was not, nor would it > ever be, directed towards you personally. You have saved my bacon more > than once, and are very much appreciated.**** > > ** ** > > I think some of my frustration is with the project that we in the State of > California are being forced into. The original intent was to consolidate > e-mail for the entire state, and to cut costs of each department running > their own. Great idea. However, implementation is a nightmare. Microsoft > O365 is what we’re going to, but here’s the catch. They are treating the > entire state as one company. The problem with that, is that we are about > 160 separate departments, each with our own users, etc. So, when you treat > us as one company, how do you allow, for instance, me, to manage my users > within Exchange. If you give me access to EMC, EMS or ECP, then I can make > changes that could potentially affect other departments as well as my own. > Well, we can’t have that. So they’re taking that access away from all > departmental Exchange Admins. For me to create a mailbox, I have to go > into ADUC, and use the Attribute Editor, and manually manipulate about 6 or > 7 different attributes. An automatic sync happens every 30 minutes, and > the creation gets processed back at Microsoft, in either San Antonio, or > Chicago. Which could take up to a few hours. If I make a typo during that > process? Well, I have to fix it, and wait another few hours for the > process to happen again.**** > > ** ** > > They are giving us a very rudimentary “admin” interface, in which we can > do about 10 different things:**** > > ** ** > > Export a mailbox to PST**** > > Add/Remove Mailbox Permission**** > > Add/Remove Delegate**** > > Activesync – Enable/Disable**** > > Activesync – Apply Policy**** > > OWA – Enable/Disable**** > > Apply Retention Policy**** > > Group Admin (create or modify cross-forest distribution lists)**** > > Live Meeting Admin – If you paid for this service (we did not)**** > > Contact Admin – allows us to add, edit or delete Contacts within the > system.**** > > ** ** > > That’s it. That’s what I can directly affect. Anything beyond that, I > have to call the Helpdesk for the mail system, and wait. The SLA’s vary, > but with the track record of the organization that’s actually going to be > doing the work, the wait time will be hours, days and for some things > possibly weeks.**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > Oh, and as far as saving money? Umm, no. We’re not completely in the > system yet, but I’ve spoken to someone who’s department is, and he’s saying > his costs went from about 30k per year for running Exchange in-house, to a > cool half million now.**** > > ** ** > > Yippee!**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 06, 2013 12:59 PM > > *To:* Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Reconnect Exchange 2010 mailbox**** > > ** ** > > I appreciate the irony. But please do not shoot the messenger. J**** > > ** ** > > Also, Clean-MailboxDatabase does not perform well “at scale”. In > Microsoft’s perspective that means, when you have mailbox databases > containing many thousands of mailboxes.**** > > ** ** > > That being said, there _*IS*_ a way in Exchange 2013 to simulate > Clean-MailboxDatabase and have it perform well at scale. Whenever I have a > few minutes, I plan on writing it up. J**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife > [mailto:[email protected]<[email protected]>] > > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 6, 2013 12:38 PM > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Reconnect Exchange 2010 mailbox**** > > ** ** > > Now that’s funny. Exchange is “supposed” to be smart enough, so whether > it is or not, we’re going to take away the tool you could use to make sure > it happens…**** > > ** ** > > Awesome.**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:michael@smithconscom<[email protected]>] > > *Sent:* Tuesday, February 05, 2013 6:19 AM > *To:* Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Reconnect Exchange 2010 mailbox**** > > ** ** > > Theoretically, you should never HAVE to run the cmdlet. Exchange is > supposed to be smart enough to do this for you > > That is why the cmdlet is gone in Exchange 2013. > > Sent from my Windows Phone**** > > ------------------------------ > > *From: *Guyer, Don > *Sent: *2/5/2013 3:54 PM > *To: *MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject: *RE: Reconnect Exchange 2010 mailbox**** > > When you run this command, aren't you just forcing it to run right away > so you don't have to wait until it runs when scheduled? We do this all the > time with Xch2k7. > > That's the way I always understood it. Unless 2010 is different... > > Educate me as necessary. > > : ) > > Regards, > > Don Guyer > Catholic Health East - Information Technology > Enterprise Directory & Messaging Services > 3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073 > email: [email protected] > Office: 610.550.3595 | Cell: 610.955.6528 | Fax: 610.271.9440 > For immediate assistance, please open a Service Desk ticket or call the > helpdesk @ 610-492-3839. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Miller [mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] > Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 4:10 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Reconnect Exchange 2010 mailbox > > That was it. I saw in an MS support forum that the Clean-Mailboxdatabase > db_name is needed for immediate access. Supposedly fixed in the current > rollup (I'm not on it). > > Thank you, > Tom > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rupprecht, James R. [mailto:[email protected]<[email protected]>] > > Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 1:18 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Reconnect Exchange 2010 mailbox > > Run Clean-MailboxDatabase against the database that hosts the reconnected > mailbox. > > Jim Rupprecht > KU Information Technology > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Tom Miller [mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] > Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 11:40 AM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Reconnect Exchange 2010 mailbox > > We have an account that was disabled accidentally. I recreated the > account in ADUC, and used the "reconnect" option in the EMC. However, when > I go into the account on OWA, the web page states that the account is > disabled, but it is not. 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