Exchange 2000, SP3 + Hotfixes.
I'm a little confused by this one, and couldn't find an answer in MSKB, so thought I'd
open it to the list. We have set modest limits on the size of data sent/received in a
single message. (under Global Settings/Message Delivery) However when mail is sent
which
Dear List, I have seen lots of mails in my badmail folder all containing a text This
is multi-part message in MIME format. Why are they in badmail folder, as the
recipients email address is right, what could be the problem. I am using windows 2000
and exchange 2000.
Cheers,
Irf.
Malik Irfan
But I have removed the check box in the Limits tab of the PF properties
to use PF Store defaults.
This should effectively remove any inherited size limits, right?
-Original Message-
From: Tony Hlabse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 2:22 PM
To: Exchange
Hi all.
I currently have 1 Exchange Server 2000 SP3, single site.
I'm planning to upgrade to Exchange 2003. My plan is:
- install a second server with Windows Server 2003 and Exchange Server
2003
- Join this Exchange to the existing Organization
- Move all the mailboxes (about 25)
- Remove the old
Our organisation is currently running 5.5 SP4 on NT4 SP6a. Exchange is well hidden
behind a DMZ, MailSweeper, and an external anitvirus company. The future will
probably be an upgrade to Exchange 2003, but not soon, so we need to keep 5.5 optimal
for some time yet.
My question is, what
Jerry, I think you should know this scam is on all our news channels and
just type it in your search engine and see how many hits your get.
:(
Better luck on the next one.
Yours truly,
Sir
-Original Message-
From: jerry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 26,
My view on this is to not apply the hotfixes unless and until you encounter
the problem specified in the hotfix doco. In short, if it ain't broke don't
fix it.
Nate Couch
EDS Messaging
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From: Kevin Ball
Reply To: Exchange Discussions
Sent: Friday, September 26,
Q to all...after reading part of this thread and being in the boat of
starting to plan my migration and just reading some of the FAQ's
with regard to:
Exchange 2003 server. And the only other option is called the leap frog
migration. You configure the Active Directory Connector (ADC) for
I am waiting for our new server but am almost out of drive space. I had
people clean their mailboxes (probably 3.5 GB) but I dont see the freed up
space on the Hard drives. What do I need to do to see the free'd up space?
Thanks a ton to anyone who can help!
The 'free'd up space' becomes white space in the store... you can see
how much space by looking in the eventlog after an online defrag... if
you want to physically free the space, you would have to do an offline
defrag...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL
Keep an eye on the logs during the next online maintenance window for 1221
events for the private store and it'll show the white space that can be
re-used within the database.
regards,
Paul
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Paul Hutchings
Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd.
Tel: 44 (0)24 7635 5378, Fax: 44 (0)24 7635 8378
Offline defrag of the exchange db.
-Original Message-
From: Jake Wallendal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 8:57 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Drives almost at capacity
I am waiting for our new server but am almost out of drive space. I had
people
You won't. Exchange takes but doesn't give back. Only an offline defrag
will shrink the Information Store files.
Cheers,
Phil
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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK
-Original Message-
From: Jake Wallendal
Read the Application Event log and you will see free whitespace reported
there. Event 1221.
Sincerely,
Andrey Fyodorov
Systems Engineer
Messaging and Collaboration
Spherion
-Original Message-
From: Jake Wallendal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 9:57 AM
To:
You won't see the PRIV decrease in size when people clean out their
mailboxes. All you will see is an increase in the amount of white space in
the PRIV (look for 1221 events in your Application Log).
Nate Couch
EDS Messaging
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From: Jake Wallendal
Reply To: Exchange
Dang... you beat me to it
Sincerely,
Andrey Fyodorov
Systems Engineer
Messaging and Collaboration
Spherion
-Original Message-
From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 10:00 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: Drives almost at capacity
Keep
You all Rule! Thanks so much. I will be singing everyones praises for the
rest of the week!
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I was sweating like Mike Tyson in a spelling bee. Thanks so much.
Is the offline defrag risky? I have good backups but am just curious.
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THe event logs say that I only have 1 megabyte of drive space.
I am also getting 9582 warnings saying that Virtual memory is fragmented.
I have restarted the services but the warnigs seem to be happening alot.
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Well Jake, you can look at it like this.
The database isn't going to grow anymore until you fill up that white space,
so reducing its size may not do much. Sure it will free up disk space, but
chances are it will just get eaten up again.
There is always a risk when doing this kind of stuff. You
Is that event 1221 reporting only 1MB of free space? For Priv or Pub?
Sincerely,
Andrey Fyodorov
Systems Engineer
Messaging and Collaboration
Spherion
-Original Message-
From: Jake Wallendal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 10:18 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Wow, not using African names anymore.
Sincerely,
Andrey Fyodorov
Systems Engineer
Messaging and Collaboration
Spherion
-Original Message-
From: Bruess, Don [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 9:04 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: forward for a
my bad. The Priv and 24 MB when the online defrag was done.
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To
Do you have deleted item retention enabled?
24 Mb is a drop in the ocean.
-Original Message-
From: Jake Wallendal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 7:30 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: Drives almost at capacity
my bad. The Priv and 24 MB when the
Looks like your users did not clean that much after all...
Are you using deleted item retention? If so, how many days? The mail
that users have deleted is probably sitting there now and will sit for
the specified number of days, hogging the space.
Sincerely,
Andrey Fyodorov
Systems Engineer
That sounds normal. In my experience users always forget to clean out Sent
Items, too.
Cheers,
Phil
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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK
-Original Message-
From: Fyodorov, Andrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
We are looking into setting up High availability for exchange. We have
two sites, and currently the exchange servers are at one site. I would
like to setup a front-end and 4 backend servers at each site. And the
ability to have all exchange servers running, wherever a user logs in
there mail
I had this same issue and was able to resolve it by following the instructions in MS
KB article Q306845 (XADM: Public Folders Use Public Store Default Limits Even Though
the Use Public Store Defaults Check Box Is Not Selected).
Abby
-Original Message-
From: Bennett, Josh [mailto:[EMAIL
This is too high for me.
Sincerely,
Andrey Fyodorov
Systems Engineer
Messaging and Collaboration
Spherion
-Original Message-
From: Whitlock, James A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 10:43 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Exchange 2000 high
When you say routed, do you mean physically routed, as in SMTP-routed?
Or do you mean that you want user to hit OWA on the front-end server and
get connected to his/her mailbox on the appropriate back-end server?
If latter, then yes, this functionality is already built into the
All,
I have an inbound SMTP Exchange 2000 server (SP3 with the May rollup) that I
enabled circular logging on and restarted the IS. For some reason the
setting is not being enforced as the partition on which the logs are homed
filled up last night and dis-mounted the Store. I even verified
Supposed to work. Always worked for me when I needed it.
Sincerely,
Andrey Fyodorov
Systems Engineer
Messaging and Collaboration
Spherion
-Original Message-
From: Miller, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 11:21 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject:
The clown who worked before me had 90 day retention of deleted items. So I
will be taking care of that tonight!
Thanks so much. Again you guys rule a whole bunch! If you are ever in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin call me for a free dinner!
_
Why are you enabling Circular logging? Do you intend to never back up
this server? Otherwise, with a Full Backup of the Information Store,
all committed logs get flushed. But to answer your question, circular
logging works fine. Are you saying that you set Circular logging to
only keep logs
He says it is his SMTP server. No need to have a TL farm on an SMTP
server.
Sincerely,
Andrey Fyodorov
Systems Engineer
Messaging and Collaboration
Spherion
-Original Message-
From: Ben Winzenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 11:37 AM
To: Exchange
I just schedule ntbackup nightly on my two SMTP frontends. I have each
server write it's backup file to the other server. It takes up very
little space, automatically clears the logs, and I have the backup
should I ever need it.
-Original Message-
From: Fyodorov, Andrey [mailto:[EMAIL
But why would one need to disable circular logging on a server that's
not a mailbox server? You can still do a full backup with circular
logging enabled.
Maintaining a day-worth of transaction logs is good when you need to
restore the information store to the point of failure. And that's great
SMTP Exchange 2000 server.
Robert, care to clarify? Does this server host mailboxes or not?
Have you also done a reboot since then? I don't believe Circular
logging requires a reboot, but if it hasn't applied, perhaps that is
what is needed.
Ben Winzenz
Network Engineer
Gardner White
(317)
I agree. On servers that do not host mailboxes, circular logging is not
a problem. I would never enable it on a mailbox server though. Problem
is we don't know if it hosts mailboxes or not because the description
was too vague.
Ben Winzenz
Network Engineer
Gardner White
(317) 581-1580 ext
Sorry for the confusion. This server does not house mailboxes. It is a
dedicated SMTP server (thousands of messages per day).
Thanks to all that has responded.
BTW: After just restarting the IS for circular logging to take affect, I did
indeed bounce the server. For some reason this server will
That Clown may have just been enforcing some management decision or being
just plain prudent. A 90 day retention is the minimum that I would have on
my server. 180 days is more like it. It has saved my company thousands of
dollars in revenue because we were able to recover a seemingly irrelevant
180? Wow.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 12:55 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Re: Drives almost at capacity
That Clown may have just been enforcing some management decision or
We do 30 days and have never needed any more. But different business's have
different needs.
Jake, I suspect if you cut that number in half today, by tomorrow you will
have a lot more white space to work with.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
I have seen sometimes when you have a LOT of TLs, it takes a while for
the server to eat them after circular logging is turned on and IS is
restarted (I have seen a few hours)
Sincerely,
Andrey Fyodorov
Systems Engineer
Messaging and Collaboration
Spherion
-Original Message-
From:
Maybe for a deleted mailbox retention... but 180 for messages sounds
like too much. You might as well never delete anything.
Sincerely,
Andrey Fyodorov
Systems Engineer
Messaging and Collaboration
Spherion
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
Don't wait till tomorrow - just change the information store's
maintenance schedule to run sooner.
Sincerely,
Andrey Fyodorov
Systems Engineer
Messaging and Collaboration
Spherion
-Original Message-
From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003
They are not in badmail folder because of MIME. They are in badmail
folder because they are NDRs that could not be bounced back to the
originator addresses because the originrator addresses were bad.
Sincerely,
Andrey Fyodorov
Systems Engineer
Messaging and Collaboration
Spherion
-Original
Where did you set the limits? On the org? on the user? On the SMTP
Virtual Server?
Sincerely,
Andrey Fyodorov
Systems Engineer
Messaging and Collaboration
Spherion
-Original Message-
From: Busby, Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 6:04 AM
To: Exchange
Your plan sounds fine to me.
The only suggestion I have is to install the latest post SP3 rollup
fixes on the Exchange 2000 server. This will ensure that the Exchange
2003 ESM doesn't cause a problem if you make changes to the E2K server
config.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL
For various reasons, my director would like me to get answers about the
messaging (not necessarily exchange) setup at other large retail
corporations.
If you are willing to do so, please e-mail me _*off-list*_ and let me
know.
Anyone who works for a retail book chain (other than BN) I would be
Trying to find a vbscript called rpchttp_setup.vbs which is supposed to
configure registry settings for RPC over HTTP in Windows 2003/Exchange
2003. Any ideas on where I can download it? I already downloaded all the
tools from the Exchange 2003 website...no joy.
Tks...
It's due to be released early next year. It isn't available to the public
just yet.
-Original Message-
From: Info1 Team [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 1:24 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RPCHTTP_Setup.vbs
Trying to find a vbscript called
We have 4. After we went native, they became orphans. Only one of them
allows to be homed. The other ones remain orphans after I try to home
them in ESM.
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Its not available. MS has it and will perhaps release it later. But right
now you cannot get it.
-Original Message-
From: Info1 Team [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 1:24 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RPCHTTP_Setup.vbs
Trying to find a vbscript called
What isn't available yet? The script? I've seen mention of it in several
magazine articles, and one indicated it was available for download from
Microsoft. I already have E2k3 with my EA subscription cd's.
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No, it is not available.
-Original Message-
From: Info1 Team [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 1:38 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: RPCHTTP_Setup.vbs
What isn't available yet? The script? I've seen mention of it in several
magazine articles, and one
Ok...tks anyway.
No, it is not available.
-Original Message-
From: Info1 Team [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 1:38 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: RPCHTTP_Setup.vbs
What isn't available yet? The script? I've seen mention of it in several
Quoted from Windows 2000 Magazine
There are some other installation steps that I won't go into because the
Exchange 2003 release notes and reference manuals document them. I will give
you a handy tip, though. The Web release of the Exchange 2003 toolset
includes an automatic setup script called
Yes, it is not accurate. Paul Robichaux also sent out the same information
in a newsletter that he later recanted.
-Original Message-
From: Dean, Nathaniel, V. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 1:43 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: RPCHTTP_Setup.vbs
That doesn't change the fact that you cant get it.
Paul misspoke in those articles.
-Original Message-
From: Dean, Nathaniel, V. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 1:43 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: RPCHTTP_Setup.vbs
Quoted from Windows 2000 Magazine
Your plan is fine. I did the same thing here. I built an Exchange 2003
server using the eval media, then moved all the executives mailboxes to
it. That way they can get used to using the new OWA and RPC over HTTP.
I'm hedging my bet that when the evaluation expires, there's no way
they'll want to
Thanks andrey.
-Original Message-
From: Fyodorov, Andrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 10:20 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: MIME
They are not in badmail folder because of MIME. They are in badmail
folder because they are NDRs that could not be
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