IMC partial hangs

2003-11-23 Thread Herold Heiko
Exchange 5.5sp4, IMC not directly reachable from the outside (push/receive
to an external smtp gateway).
Lately the IMC hanged various times, exactly we seem to:

- receive a particular email, a message il logged: A message from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] in temporary file C:\EXCHSRVR\imcdata\in\X2QQCAY2 was
received from mail.previnet.it with 4 local recipients. 

- other operations continue to work flawlessly

- that message becomes stuck, nothing else is logged regarding to it, the
message is not delivered, the X2QQCAY2 (or whatever) files stays.

- stopping the service does not succeed, kill of the MSEXCIMC process is
needed

- by removing that file from imcdata\in restart succeeds

- if that file stays in imcdata\in at imc start it will become stuck again.

In technet I found lots of articles regarding IMC stops (which it does not),
only a few regarding IMC hangs, nothing (apparently) relevant.

Only similarity I found yet (by eyeball inspection) between those email are:

- about half of them are forwards of emails containing rightfax fax
notifications with the images (TIF) attached. Usual mime decoders like
decode shell extension do decode the attachments without problems. There
are at least two instances where the remote senders were notified of a
problem (we did not receiver yet your urgent email), and forwarded the
message several times directly or by another mailbox in the same (remote)
organization. These emails were stuck, too.

- the other half of those messages seem to be reply to all (without
attachments) to some our emails where the original messages had a CC to
internal recipients without smtp addresses, so those recipients became auto
converted in the our outbound email to the form
IMCEAEX-_O=org_OU=site_CN=container_CN=alias@our domain
and the stuck message was a reply to that address (being a reply to all).
That conversion to IMCEAEX won't happen anymore, now every recipient does
have a smtp address, the filtering of internal mailboxes without access to
internet is done differently, but there are still lots of old emails around
people can reply to.
I'm now going to filter those IMCEAEX recipients on the gateway box, still
the first half of the stuck messages doesn't have these recipients so I
don't think that's the real problem (at least not the whole of it).

Also, the stuck emails I do have available (earlier ones unfortunately
haven't been saved) all have a X-Mailer header Internet Mail Service
(5.5.2653.19).

Any ideas ?
Thanks
Heiko

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Sent to PF move ?

2003-11-17 Thread Herold Heiko
Hi,

I need to move everything arriving in the Sent Items of a particular
mailbox to a public folder (EX5.5).

A outlook rules wizard rule would be client side only (move to PF), but
there could be no client open (those mails actually are sent by cdo agent
running in another PF with the priviledge of that particular mailbox), so
that's not ok.

Another possibility would be (I think, didn't test it yet) another agent
running in the Sent Items folder of that mailbox. This should work fine
but has the drawback of being async.

Any other idea how to do this ?

Heiko 

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smtp and Send As ?

2003-10-06 Thread Herold Heiko
Scenario:
exchange 5.5, smtp connector to the outside.
User USER with Send As permission (such as granted from exchange
administrator on a domain account) on a object PF (happens to be a PF
visible in the GAL).
Users sends a mail From: PF.
Mail goes outside with correct From: PF headers, but wrong smtp
transaction, like
MAIL From: USER
RCPT To: ...
DATA

This means any error messages (address unknown...), notifications and so on
go back to the USER, not to PF.

Is there any way to change this behavior, either globally or for specific
items ? Didn't find anything related.
Thanks
Heiko

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RE: Need a product to move attachements for the web

2003-06-05 Thread Herold Heiko
Funny thing,
it's a while I'm about to code something like that REALLY SOON NOW for
internal use. A little bit more complicated since I'll need to traverse some
firewalls and use unix based webservers, but basically the idea is exactly
the same.

Stupid instant poll: how many of you out there have something like that
deployed internally ? Doesn't matter if it uses a commercial product or a
internal development, I'm just curious how many organizations choose to...
ahm... work around the insistence of users using email in order to send
??+MB files by email.
Heiko

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 -Original Message-
 From: P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 9:33 PM
 To: Exchange Discussions
 Subject: Need a product to move attachements for the web
 
 
 This is what I have in mind:
 
 1) User composes email in email client with attachment
 
 2) Sends to outside organization
 
 3) Email (Exchange) looks at message and compares size of 
 attachments with
 an administrator defined setting
 
 4) If it is less than the size, just sends on the message normaly
 
 5) If it is greater than or equal to the size it moves the 
 attachment to
 an IIS location and inserts a link and a passcode into the message
 (inplace of the attachment)
 
 6) recipient recieves the message and clicks on the link
 
 7) types in the passcode
 
 8) downloads the file
 
 Get my drift?
 
 Anybody know a product that does this  . . . I am sure I am not an
 original genius who just designed a product . . . .
 
 Paul  
 
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RE: Programmatically recover from the Dumpster ?

2003-05-29 Thread Herold Heiko
What I meant is, I know for certain some instances of all those objects had
been moved to PSTs, others were still remaining in the db.
Moving back everything from PST to pub would restore the initial situation
but we'd loose SIS (the moved back objects would count as new ones if I
understand it correctly), effectively gaining about 10GB of store.

We ended up doing a massive recover form deleted items, one for every
directory. Took about half a day and lots of patience :)

Heiko

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 -Original Message-
 From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 5:13 AM
 To: Exchange Discussions
 Subject: RE: Programmatically recover from the Dumpster ?
 
 
 Anything is possible, though not necessarily practical.  If 
 you recover,
 won't it recover back to the original folder structure? 
 
 Ed Crowley MCSE+I MVP
 There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral 
 problems.
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Herold Heiko
 Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 11:15 PM
 To: Exchange Discussions
 
 Hello,
 I facing a recover from the dumpster for 1000 folders or a restore to
 restore server + export to pst + import procedure, which I'd 
 prefer not to
 do since in that way I'd gain several GB of store size due to 
 lost SIS (I
 know all of those objects are stil present in other areas of 
 the public
 database, but recreating the correct structure from those is 
 not possible).
 Is it possible to restore the items programmatically from the 
 dumpster via
 outlook objects or cdo or something else ? A quick glance in the
 documentation didn't reveal anything useful :(
 
 Heiko
 
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Programmatically recover from the Dumpster ?

2003-05-28 Thread Herold Heiko
Hello,
I facing a recover from the dumpster for 1000 folders or a restore to
restore server + export to pst + import procedure, which I'd prefer not to
do since in that way I'd gain several GB of store size due to lost SIS (I
know all of those objects are stil present in other areas of the public
database, but recreating the correct structure from those is not possible).
Is it possible to restore the items programmatically from the dumpster via
outlook objects or cdo or something else ? A quick glance in the
documentation didn't reveal anything useful :(

Heiko

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programm. read the PF Permission Roles ?

2003-02-28 Thread Herold Heiko
Is there any way to read programmatically the permissions set on public
folders on EX5.5/NT4 ? Not the client permissions, those set on the
Permissions page from exchange administrator.
Directory export doesn't seem to have any working field for that info (at
least I tried every field offered by headers.exe and didn't get that info).
CDO doesn't seem to have relevant fields. Possibly ADSI ?
Thanks
Heiko

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CDO phone/fax fields problem

2003-02-18 Thread Herold Heiko
Please consider this working prototype of code using CDO.
What it does is finding the GAL, find some mailbox, change the phone and fax
number.

Const CdoPR_TRANSMITABLE_DISPLAY_NAME_A = H3A20001E
Const CdoPR_PRIMARY_FAX_NUMBER = H3A23001E
Set cdo = CreateObject(MAPI.Session)
cdo.Logon , , 0, 0, 0
Set addrlists = cdo.AddressLists
For C = 1 To addrlists.Count
If addrlists.Item(C).Name = Global Address List Then
Set gal = addrlists.Item(C)
Exit For
End If
Next
If gal Is Nothing Then
MsgBox Gal is nothing
Exit Sub
Else
Set addrentries = gal.AddressEntries
Set addrentry = addrentries.GetFirst
Do While Not addrentry Is Nothing
Set thefields = addrentry.Fields
If thefields.Item(CdoPR_TRANSMITABLE_DISPLAY_NAME_A).Value =
SomeAccount Then
Exit Do
End If
Set addrentry = addrentries.GetNext
Loop
thefields.Item(CdoPR_BUSINESS_TELEPHONE_NUMBER).Value = 123
thefields.Item(CdoPR_PRIMARY_FAX_NUMBER).Value = 456
addrentry.Update
End If

If instead I want to reset those fields (as in delete the content of the
field from exchange admin) I thought I'd have to

thefields.Item(CdoPR_BUSINESS_TELEPHONE_NUMBER).Delete
thefields.Item(CdoPR_PRIMARY_FAX_NUMBER).Delete
addrentry.Update

This gets me a E_ACCESSDENIED on the .Delete . So I thought possibly those
fields can't be deleted (even if some freshly created mailbox won't have
them), so I'l reset the content since the type is a Variant/String:
thefields.Item(CdoPR_BUSINESS_TELEPHONE_NUMBER).Value = 
thefields.Item(CdoPR_PRIMARY_FAX_NUMBER).Value = 
addrentry.Update

This one gets me E_ACCESSDENIED at .Update (btw I definitively are using an
acconut with rights, I even tried using the service account).

Any idea what I'm doing wrong ? What's the correct way to empty those fields
?
Thanks
Heiko

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RE: Moving Exchange Database

2003-01-22 Thread Herold Heiko
Why ?
Probably I'll have to do a transition to a NAS (Hitachi, reselled by HP)
sometime soon, so I'm somewhat interested :)
Obviously I will test before moving the production databases, though.
Heiko

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 -Original Message-
 From: John Matteson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 2:50 PM
 To: Exchange Discussions
 Subject: RE: Moving Exchange Database
 
 
 If you are describing a Network Attached Storage device, step 
 away from
 the keyboard.
 
 John Matteson
 Geac Corporate ISS
 (404) 239 - 2981
 Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
 
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Eve Jimah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
 Posted At: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 4:31 AM
 Posted To: Exchange Discussion List
 Conversation: Moving Exchange Database
 Subject: Moving Exchange Database
 
 
 I am running exchange 5.5 service pack 4 on NT4
 server. We have just acquired an external storage
 system and a new drive letter is mapped to my exchange
 server pointing at this new storage system with up to
 40g assigned for exchange .
 
 I now want to move my exchange database from the
 current location on drive d: to the new location which
 is drive E:
 
 I intend using the performance optimizer tool, are
 there any issues involved in moving the database from
 a local drive on the current server to an external
 storage system.
 
 Thanks
 
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RE: Moving Exchange Database

2003-01-22 Thread Herold Heiko
Bummer!
Thanks!
Heiko

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 -Original Message-
 From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 10:44 AM
 To: Exchange Discussions
 Subject: RE: Moving Exchange Database
 
 
  
 Microsoft Does Not Support Network Attached Storage (NAS)
 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;317173
 
 Microsoft says it will not support the configuration because it can
 cause corruption in Exchange databases and degrade the performance of
 the server.
 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2001/0618infra.html
 
 
 William Lefkovics, MCSE-NT4, MCSE-W2K, A+, WLKMMAS, ExchangeMVP
 
  
  
 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Herold Heiko
 Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 1:32 AM
 To: Exchange Discussions
 
 Why ?
 Probably I'll have to do a transition to a NAS (Hitachi, 
 reselled by HP)
 sometime soon, so I'm somewhat interested :)
 Obviously I will test before moving the production databases, though.
 Heiko
 
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  -Original Message-
  From: John Matteson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
  Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 2:50 PM
  To: Exchange Discussions
  Subject: RE: Moving Exchange Database
  
  
  If you are describing a Network Attached Storage device, step 
  away from
  the keyboard.
  
  John Matteson
  Geac Corporate ISS
  (404) 239 - 2981
  Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
  
  
  
  -Original Message-
  From: Eve Jimah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
  Posted At: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 4:31 AM
  Posted To: Exchange Discussion List
  Conversation: Moving Exchange Database
  Subject: Moving Exchange Database
  
  
  I am running exchange 5.5 service pack 4 on NT4
  server. We have just acquired an external storage
  system and a new drive letter is mapped to my exchange
  server pointing at this new storage system with up to
  40g assigned for exchange .
  
  I now want to move my exchange database from the
  current location on drive d: to the new location which
  is drive E:
  
  I intend using the performance optimizer tool, are
  there any issues involved in moving the database from
  a local drive on the current server to an external
  storage system.
  
  Thanks
  
 
 
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RE: Moving Exchange Database

2003-01-22 Thread Herold Heiko
Double Bummer!
It seems I had a moment of dyslexia - what I'm about to deploy is a SAN, not
a NAS. SANs are supported.
As a matter of fact the idea is to keep running only differential backups
(logs only, all the logs) every night.
Once a month (or less, tuning will be needed, fortunately we have the whole
sunday available as a downtime window):
- full online backup.
- stop exchange services.
- detach a mirror of the databases. Offline backup of the whole server (os
ecc.) except the databases. Restart of services.
- backup the detached mirror of the databases (offline backup of the db
files, added with the backup of the previous step this constitutes a whole
offline backup).
- reattach and sync that mirror to the (already running online) master
discs.

In case of need for a single mailbox restore (really has been needed only
twice in 3 years, the Ed Crowley metod works fine): on a spare identical box
(spare network) restore the whole offline os backup and databases. Restore
online logs if neccesary, restore mailbox.

In case of disaster recovery:
Ditto, then move server to main network.

Supposed advantage: This should minimize restore time, since there's no need
for the reinstallation of OS, service packs, exchange, service packs. Also
the restore time of the databases as a offline file restore should be less
than a restore of the exchange db.

Disadvantage: from time to time (once a month ? once a week) a downtime
window is needed, for the time neccessary to stop services, OS backup, start
services.

Heiko

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 -Original Message-
 From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 10:44 AM
 To: Exchange Discussions
 Subject: RE: Moving Exchange Database
 
 
  
 Microsoft Does Not Support Network Attached Storage (NAS)
 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;317173
 
 Microsoft says it will not support the configuration because it can
 cause corruption in Exchange databases and degrade the performance of
 the server.
 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2001/0618infra.html
 
 
 William Lefkovics, MCSE-NT4, MCSE-W2K, A+, WLKMMAS, ExchangeMVP
 
  
  
 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Herold Heiko
 Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 1:32 AM
 To: Exchange Discussions
 
 Why ?
 Probably I'll have to do a transition to a NAS (Hitachi, 
 reselled by HP)
 sometime soon, so I'm somewhat interested :)
 Obviously I will test before moving the production databases, though.
 Heiko
 
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  -Original Message-
  From: John Matteson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
  Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 2:50 PM
  To: Exchange Discussions
  Subject: RE: Moving Exchange Database
  
  
  If you are describing a Network Attached Storage device, step 
  away from
  the keyboard.
  
  John Matteson
  Geac Corporate ISS
  (404) 239 - 2981
  Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
  
  
  
  -Original Message-
  From: Eve Jimah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
  Posted At: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 4:31 AM
  Posted To: Exchange Discussion List
  Conversation: Moving Exchange Database
  Subject: Moving Exchange Database
  
  
  I am running exchange 5.5 service pack 4 on NT4
  server. We have just acquired an external storage
  system and a new drive letter is mapped to my exchange
  server pointing at this new storage system with up to
  40g assigned for exchange .
  
  I now want to move my exchange database from the
  current location on drive d: to the new location which
  is drive E:
  
  I intend using the performance optimizer tool, are
  there any issues involved in moving the database from
  a local drive on the current server to an external
  storage system.
  
  Thanks
  
 
 
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RE: Add custom smtp header ?

2002-12-18 Thread Herold Heiko
Argh.
I *did* check cdolive and slipstick, but still missed it. And found it, now.
Thanks
Heiko Herold

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 Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 4:48 PM
 To: Exchange Discussions
 Subject: Re: Add custom smtp header ?
 
 
 Yes, it's quite possible. Fishing lesson for the day... 
 
 FAQ | Outlook? | Slipstick! | Search? | header | joy
 
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 On 12/16/02 2:05, Herold Heiko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
 
 Is it possible to add a custom smtp header to outgoing email 
 with EX5.5 ? 
 I'd like to add a X-CUSTOM-something: data to outgoing email. 
 More than that, if possible I'd like to add that data from 
 code running in a
 
 custom form. 
 Any chances ? 
 Heiko 
 
 
 
 
 
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RE: PFADMIN

2002-12-16 Thread Herold Heiko
You need to get a list of your folders - either walk the tree or directory
export (admin.exe) with the column Folder-Pathname.
Then massage the list in order to produce a series of lines like this:
SETACLtabcomplete\folder\path\nametabusernametabO

(use a real Tab char instead of tab, obviously)

Then run something like
type lines.txt | pfadmin mapiprofilewithpermissions

This is with pfadmin.exe v1.3.0

DO TEST WITH with a test folder first, as always.

Am I the only one who does not like being (or having a administrative
mailbox as) Folder Owner everywhere ? Getting lots of conflict notifications
for all the folders is not fun, I prever having the admin/antivirus mailbox
every right except owner and folder contact.

Bye
Heiko

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 -Original Message-
 From: Hatley, Ken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 10:44 PM
 To: Exchange Discussions
 Subject: PFADMIN
 
 
 Is anyone familiar with PFADMIN?  I am looking for a way to 
 systematically
 add myself as an owner to all public folders in order to 
 assess the current
 environment in preparation for Exchange 2000.  I am looking 
 at the help
 files and it appears that I can at the very least write a 
 batch file that
 adds myself as an owner to each Top Level folder (there a 
 switch to add to
 all subfolders.)  My question is, will that overwrite the existing
 permissions?  I want to just add myself as an owner without 
 affecting anyone
 else's ACLs.  If this does not work, does anyone have any 
 other suggestions
 or solutions?
 
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Add custom smtp header ?

2002-12-16 Thread Herold Heiko
Is it possible to add a custom smtp header to outgoing email with EX5.5 ?
I'd like to add a X-CUSTOM-something: data to outgoing email.
More than that, if possible I'd like to add that data from code running in a
custom form.
Any chances ?
Heiko

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Progr. change PF permissions ?

2002-11-20 Thread Herold Heiko
Hello,

is there any way to change programmatically the client permissions on
public folders on EX 5.5?
If I understand it correctly vba from outlook can't reach those properties.
csv directory import neither I believe ?
Cdo ?
ADSI ?

Thanks
Heiko

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RE: Public Folder Send As

2002-07-04 Thread Herold Heiko

You did unhide the PF, do you ?
Heiko

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 -Original Message-
 From: Sander Van Butzelaar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 11:39 AM
 To: Exchange Discussions
 Subject: Public Folder Send As
 
 
 
 I suspect a Murphy rather than a real bug, but I'm unable 
 to send as
 a public folder (nor a Distribution List). The error in 
 outlook states:
 You do not have the permission to send the message on behalf of the
 user. I do have the send as box ticked. I have checked and double
 checked the rights, replication of DC's etc. I have gone through the
 archives and Microsoft TechNet and some 3rd party web sites, but to no
 avail. I'm running Exchange 2000 SP1 on a Windows 2000 SP2 box. No
 errors in the Event Log.
 
 Microsoft has a very short article on the matter, stating 
 basically tick
 the send as box in the properties and off you go. I'm trying to
 replicate the problem on my test environment, but I thought I'd ask if
 anybody has ever run into anything like this before.
 
 Thanks
 
 Sander
 
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PF won't create in the correct container ?

2002-07-01 Thread Herold Heiko

EX 5.5 sp4.

Due to some wrong design we have a separate container for some special PF
(yeah, bad design, should have used adress book views ecc.)
In order to create new folders there usually we do (this happens at very
rare times though) change the PF container in information store site
configuration, create the folder, change back.
Since I had to add a second and third server I've got some problems with
that. Situation is, only one server has a public store, no replication. Yet
sometimes it does happen we have to wait a while and/or change that setting
on more than one server, even if the outlook client creating the folder does
use a mailbox on the PF server and the container change has be done on that
server. Now the situation became even worse, as those PF simply won't create
in that other container, but only in Recipients, even after changing that
setting, waiting and double checking the new setting has propagated to the
other servers ecc.

Any idea what could be going on ?

Thanks
Heiko

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RE: Contact Public Folder Problems (ex 2000)

2002-05-03 Thread Herold Heiko

Beside the obvious (check client permissions on the folder for that user), I
have a similar problem with some (not all) contacts created with outlook 2K
who can't be opened by old OL97. Apparently all the properties can be viewed
in table view if appropriate columns are added, but the contact won't opened
(can't be changed in table view, either). Could that apply ?
Not very helpfull I suppose, sorry
Heiko

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 -Original Message-
 From: Jean-Francois Bourdeau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 4:19 PM
 To: Exchange Discussions
 Subject: Contact Public Folder Problems (ex 2000)
 
 
 Hi
 
 our customer has a Exchange 2000 sp1 (W2K SP2) server.
 
 one user is having problem to modify the contacts in one of the public
 Folder on wich she has the access to do it.
 
 Last time (1 month ago), we recreated the Public Folder 
 database (edb file)
 and exported the Contacts to a user contact and draged back 
 the contact in
 the Public Folder  and it solved our problem.  Now after one month the
 problem came back, that user cannot anymore modify the 
 contacts in that
 public Folder.
 
 Any ideas ?
 
 JF
 
 
 
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Agent Tab missing onf PF

2002-04-17 Thread Herold Heiko

Any idea why the Agent tab could suddenly be somewhat missing from the
properties of newly created PF ?
Exactly, talking about a bunch of subfolders of a particular folder,

- The service account and two admin accounts (one with service account
permissions, the other one is a View only admin on the site but permissions
admin on the container hosting those public folders) are configured as owner
of Folders\System Folders\Events Root\EventConfig_servername. 

- Preexisting folders still have the agent tab visible for everybody with
folder permissions.

- Newly created subfolders have the agent visible for those two admin
accounts, while the real service account won't get the agent tab for those
folders although owner permissions are configured (through a DL the
service account is member of). Adding explicit owner permissions doesn't
change anything.

- A copy of a existing folder with agent tab visibile has the tab visible,
too. A copy of a folder without tab doesn't show the tab (to a profile
configured for the service account ecc. ecc., the tab does still display for
those other admin accounts).

- a side-by-side compare of the raw properties of those folders didn't show
any evident discrepancies (not that I'd expect some but..)

In case it matters, the mailbox of the service account is hosted on a
different server than the PF store server, while these other two accounts
are hosted on the PF server. No other server in the site has a public store.

Any ideas ?

Heiko Herold

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RE: HELP IMS problems

2002-03-25 Thread Herold Heiko

FYI,
in the time I had available I found no easy way to extract that info, so I
ended with a helpdesk slave writing down through mbdbvu32
sender/time/subject of the mails in order to notify users, then deleting
them.
One of those mails made crash mdbvu32, probably the culprit. I ended not
taking chances and erase/recreated the connector.

Heiko 

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 -Original Message-
 From: Herold Heiko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 2:47 PM
 To: Exchange Discussions
 Subject: RE: HELP IMS problems
 
 
 I dumped the whole application event log to a text file, nothing.
 Well, one thing:
 Three days before a mail was received in temporary file
 C:\EXCHSRVR\imcdata\in\HFHNJBAD.
 However the previous one was HFHNJBA1 and the next one 
 HFHNJBAF so I don't
 think that's relevant.
 
 With
 
 XFOR: 4037 Event Starting Internet Mail Service, 1067 IMC 
 Error [Q168883]
 
 (no luck) and
 
 Q165505 XADM: How to View/Delete Messages in MTS-IN and MTS-OUT Queues
 
 I can see what is present in MTS-OUT. I could just delete 
 thos messages (not
 very nice), is there any way to set them undeliverable (send 
 back NDR to
 internal user) or extract the data ? Going through evey one 
 with mdbvue32
 while writing down sender/recipients/date in order to notifiy 
 internal users
 is not the best solution (lengthy queue). I'm looking for the 
 documentation
 of the message properties I can see i that way, where can I 
 find that ?
 
 Heiko Herold
 
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  -Original Message-
  From: Hunter, Lori [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
  Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 8:15 PM
  To: Exchange Discussions
  Subject: RE: HELP IMS problems
  
  
  Are you sure you don't have an error in the application log 
  referencing a
  BAD message?  The error appears just like that - with BAD in caps.
  
  -Original Message-
  From: Herold Heiko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
  Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 11:36 AM
  To: Exchange Discussions
  Subject: HELP IMS problems
  
  
  Hello,
  I've some trouble here :(
  
  NT4, EX5.5 sp4, 3 servers in site, one of them with a IMS 
  configured to
  forward everything to another host (sendmail box).
  The IMS just started to die without reason, no log anywhere. 
  When restarted
  it does work for some seconds to die again even before the 
  control panel
  thingy stops to animate its icon.
  Push up every IMS log available, restart.. nothing special 
  anywhere, nothing
  in the event viewer, nothing (appareantly) different than 
 usual in the
  exchsrvr\imcdata\log logs.
  
  So I raised it's cost, add another connector on another 
  server with cost 1,
  change firewall and mail gateway, recalculate routing, now 
  mail at least is
  flowing again but I still don't know what happened, and the 
  queues of the
  old connector seem to be rather full. So for now I'm running 
  a batch trying
  to start the connector every 30 seconds, some mail goes out, 
  die, loop.
  
  Any idea ?
  It should not be a malformed incoming mail - everything 
  waiting went to the
  new connector.
  Could be a outgoing mail, eventually (I hope) everyhting 
  present now in the
  old connector queues will go out except that one, but how 
  could I check ?
  The connector won't stay up long enough to check with axhange 
  admin, at
  least the queue tab keeps staying grayed out.
  That machine had no change lately, there's no local 
 antivirus, no disk
  defragger, no freshly installed software.
  
  Addendum:
  Now even worse.
  Trying to restart the service it seems to leave behind pieces in
  imcdata/out, and keeps adding them to the spool - which means 
  a growing
  queue and multiple sent emails. ANY idea please ?
  
  Heiko Herold
  
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HELP IMS problems

2002-03-20 Thread Herold Heiko

Hello,
I've some trouble here :(

NT4, EX5.5 sp4, 3 servers in site, one of them with a IMS configured to
forward everything to another host (sendmail box).
The IMS just started to die without reason, no log anywhere. When restarted
it does work for some seconds to die again even before the control panel
thingy stops to animate its icon.
Push up every IMS log available, restart.. nothing special anywhere, nothing
in the event viewer, nothing (appareantly) different than usual in the
exchsrvr\imcdata\log logs.

So I raised it's cost, add another connector on another server with cost 1,
change firewall and mail gateway, recalculate routing, now mail at least is
flowing again but I still don't know what happened, and the queues of the
old connector seem to be rather full. So for now I'm running a batch trying
to start the connector every 30 seconds, some mail goes out, die, loop.

Any idea ?
It should not be a malformed incoming mail - everything waiting went to the
new connector.
Could be a outgoing mail, eventually (I hope) everyhting present now in the
old connector queues will go out except that one, but how could I check ?
The connector won't stay up long enough to check with axhange admin, at
least the queue tab keeps staying grayed out.
That machine had no change lately, there's no local antivirus, no disk
defragger, no freshly installed software.

Addendum:
Now even worse.
Trying to restart the service it seems to leave behind pieces in
imcdata/out, and keeps adding them to the spool - which means a growing
queue and multiple sent emails. ANY idea please ?

Heiko Herold

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RE: C2C Compression Utility

2002-03-20 Thread Herold Heiko

It really is a client and a server product.
The server product (which is better run on its own server) can be configured
to select attachments with a bunch of rules, and replace them with a
compressed (zip) version, while preserving SIS.
The client side will decompress received attachments transparently on the
fly when received (if composed of a single file in a zip, that is), using
the clients cpu. Also it will transparently compress any sent attachments,
or batch compress received files. Possibility of some rulesets, possibly
centrally enforced.
Licencing based on dynamic mailbox count.

Currently I'm evaluating the product, I'd say nice but could have a better
configuration logic and interface, yet not a bad product on the whole. YMMV,
since I did only some sngle mailbox testing, not a complete real world usage
test. Some smaller easily resolvable installation issues.

Heiko Herold

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 Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 6:29 PM
 To: Exchange Discussions
 Subject: Re: C2C Compression Utility
 
 
 What do you want to compress or for that matter why?
 
 
 
 
 Does anyone have experience with the C2C Compression Utility 
 for Exchange?  
 Are there any other compression utilites that are better?
 
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RE: Move mailbox = can't reveive ?

2002-01-29 Thread Herold Heiko

OK users should not be connected during move mailbox - no problem.
But mail can't be delivered ? Let's see, this means
a) every connector on every exchange server must be down, no user
anywhere must be connected, or
b) every connector on the source and destination server must be down,
they must not be able to communicate with any other exchange server in
the same org/site, but they still must be able to communicate with a
domain controller. Oh, no user logged in those two servers obviously.

Seems not exactly an easy task if you don't want to risk loosing mail
during a move mailbox... is there any way to do this ? Every network has
moments when there are few users and external mail is trickling in
slowly, but still not 100% sure. 

For the drive space issue... I was still thinking, what if on a
partition is say, pub.edb only ? BTW I'm just copying the exchange
resource kit and service pack on that partition :)
 
Heiko

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 -Original Message-
 From: Jim Brady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 7:01 PM
 To: Exchange Discussions
 Subject: RE: Move mailbox = can't reveive ?
 
 
 Users shouldn't be connected to the server while their mailboxes are
 being moved, nor can mailboxes accept mail while they are being moved
 (assuming your using the mailbox tool).
 
 1 GB question - done this myself and works great ... freeing up a few
 hundred MB does get the store back up quickly, although I've never see
 this on a best practices list.  Quicker than moving the logs 
 to another
 drive.  
 
 Jim
 
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 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Herold Heiko
 Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 6:30 AM
 To: Exchange Discussions
 Subject: Move mailbox = can't reveive ?
 
 EX4.4 sp4
 
 say, server Gateway (IMC connector only), server A and server B
 (mailboxes).
 During move mailbox from A to B arrived a incoming mail (smtp to
 Gateway) for the mailbox on the move.
 server A sent back a reply Your message ... did not reach the 
 following
 recipient(s):
 
 Display name on Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:33:39 +0100
  Unable to deliver the message due to a communications failure
   The MTS-ID of the original message is: c=us;a= ;p=...
 ;l=Gateway020201281117D5DWCYXN
  MSEXCH:MSExchangeMTA:site:server A
 
 Is this normal ? During move mailbox incoming external mail 
 is rejected
 ? I could not find any reference to this in technet (well, 
 searched only
 for a couple of minutes to be honest, found nothing related).
 
 Similary, I was looking exactly when a services will shut down for no
 more space available (now you know why I'm moving mailboxes 
 :), the only
 thing I found was several references (EX 5.5 Server Guide, 
 Administering
 and Maintaining, the Disaster Recovery White paper and similar) to
 res1.log and res2.log. Those are 5MB each and are used as last resort
 when the disk is full - does this mean services shut down 
 really at the
 last moment (new page can't be allocated) ?
 Somehow I always thought it would shutdown with some % of disk space
 still available.
 
 If the services do shutdown when the store partition is really full
 could it be considered a good practice creating a 1GB (or something)
 file, which can be deleted in order to create space as last resort...
 say, to restart services and move somewhere else some mailboxes or
 public folders ?
 Then decide if to spank the users who eat space like peanuts or the
 managers who want won't allow space limits, in order to use the
 infinite resources approach for supposedly faster development but
 won't fund the same infinite (or at least sufficent) approach 
 to server
 space ?
  
 Heiko
 
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RE: Move mailbox = can't reveive ?

2002-01-29 Thread Herold Heiko

Well, I did mov some mailboxes during prime time the other day (for
space reason): phone user with top #1 mailbox please close outlook
until notice, move mailbox, give clearance for outlook. After moving
around ~ 10 users (~7GB, sigh) I got notice from a couple of those for
bounced and resent mail.
So I was wondering if there is a better solution.
As it sems the low-traffic time with crossed fingers way seems to be
the only better one, possibly combined with the delay external mail
prior to entering the exchange system.
As a matter of fact I need to take a look again at the configuration of
our mail gateways (sendmail) - it should be possible to match the
relevant addresses before every other rule, and send it to an empty IP
address (without anything answering on that address) so the mail would
just sit in the queue. Then redirect it to a real mail gateway later,
after completition of the move.
 
Heiko

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 -Original Message-
 From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 2:25 PM
 To: Exchange Discussions
 Subject: RE: Move mailbox = can't reveive ?
 
 
 My average mailbox move takes around 5 minutes. Actual risk 
 of mail being
 NDR'd is a number significantly close to zero (e.g. I moved 
 1100 users from
 one server to another one evening and received 0 complaints 
 about bounced or
 missing mail). Mail which is sent during that time is 
 bounced, not lost, so
 the sender can simply try and resend the message... not like 
 the occasional
 odd NDR doesn't happen anyway.
 
 What's the actual problem we're trying to solve here or is 
 this just an
 academic exercise?
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Herold Heiko
 To: Exchange Discussions
 Sent: 1/29/2002 6:01 AM
 Subject: RE: Move mailbox = can't reveive ?
 
 OK users should not be connected during move mailbox - no problem.
 But mail can't be delivered ? Let's see, this means
 a) every connector on every exchange server must be down, no user
 anywhere must be connected, or
 b) every connector on the source and destination server must be down,
 they must not be able to communicate with any other exchange server in
 the same org/site, but they still must be able to communicate with a
 domain controller. Oh, no user logged in those two servers obviously.
 
 Seems not exactly an easy task if you don't want to risk loosing mail
 during a move mailbox... is there any way to do this ? Every 
 network has
 moments when there are few users and external mail is trickling in
 slowly, but still not 100% sure. 
 
 For the drive space issue... I was still thinking, what if on a
 partition is say, pub.edb only ? BTW I'm just copying the exchange
 resource kit and service pack on that partition :)
  
 Heiko
 
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Move mailbox = can't reveive ?

2002-01-28 Thread Herold Heiko

EX4.4 sp4

say, server Gateway (IMC connector only), server A and server B
(mailboxes).
During move mailbox from A to B arrived a incoming mail (smtp to
Gateway) for the mailbox on the move.
server A sent back a reply Your message ... did not reach the following
recipient(s):

Display name on Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:33:39 +0100
 Unable to deliver the message due to a communications failure
The MTS-ID of the original message is: c=us;a= ;p=...
;l=Gateway020201281117D5DWCYXN
 MSEXCH:MSExchangeMTA:site:server A

Is this normal ? During move mailbox incoming external mail is rejected
? I could not find any reference to this in technet (well, searched only
for a couple of minutes to be honest, found nothing related).

Similary, I was looking exactly when a services will shut down for no
more space available (now you know why I'm moving mailboxes :), the only
thing I found was several references (EX 5.5 Server Guide, Administering
and Maintaining, the Disaster Recovery White paper and similar) to
res1.log and res2.log. Those are 5MB each and are used as last resort
when the disk is full - does this mean services shut down really at the
last moment (new page can't be allocated) ?
Somehow I always thought it would shutdown with some % of disk space
still available.

If the services do shutdown when the store partition is really full
could it be considered a good practice creating a 1GB (or something)
file, which can be deleted in order to create space as last resort...
say, to restart services and move somewhere else some mailboxes or
public folders ?
Then decide if to spank the users who eat space like peanuts or the
managers who want won't allow space limits, in order to use the
infinite resources approach for supposedly faster development but
won't fund the same infinite (or at least sufficent) approach to server
space ?
 
Heiko

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RE: unread mail marked read by itself ?????

2002-01-28 Thread Herold Heiko

Multiple exclamation marks... a sign of a diseased mind.
Terry Pratchett
Maskerade
 
Heiko

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 -Original Message-
 From: Jim Helfer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 4:49 PM
 To: Exchange Discussions
 Subject: RE: unread mail marked read by itself ?
 
 
 
   I sure do !!!
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Joyce, Louis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 10:40 AM
 To: Exchange Discussions
 Subject: RE: unread mail marked read by itself ?
 
 
 No. I find them annoying as well.
 
 Anyone else find them annoying?
 
 :)
 
 Regards
 
 Mr Louis Joyce
 Network Support Analyst
 Exchange Administrator
 BT Ignite eSolutions
 
 
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Soysal, Serdar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: 28 January 2002 15:41
 To: Exchange Discussions
 Subject: RE: unread mail marked read by itself ?
 
 
 It is also possible that the users themselves do it without knowing.
 Another possibility is that if they have a delegate, the 
 delegate might have
 had their Inbox open in a separate window.  Since these two people are
 higher up in the company it is quite possible that they have 
 a number of
 delegates that manage their calendar, and maybe even respond to their
 messages.
 
 S.
 
 PS: Am I the only one who finds multiple question marks extremely
 irritating?  
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Aristotle Zoulas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
 Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 10:35 AM
 To: Exchange Discussions
 Subject: RE: unread mail marked read by itself ?
 
 
 This is a possibility. If this was the case someone would 
 have to sit there
 and scroll though each message thus marking it as read. Correct?
 
 TIA
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
 Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 10:20 AM
 To: Exchange Discussions
 Subject: RE: unread mail marked read by itself ?
 
 I would guess someone is reading their email. They probably 
 have OL set to
 mark as read when selection changes.
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Aristotle Zoulas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
 Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 7:17 AM
 To: Exchange Discussions
 Subject: unread mail marked read by itself ?
 
 
 Is this possible? Several members of the firm that I am 
 consulting for claim
 to have had this problem. They came in one morning several 
 days ago and to
 their surprise, mail that they NEVER read was marked as being read by
 outlook. The firm is running  Exchange 5.5 with outlook as a client .
 
 Some possibilities are: 1.)something happened to the internal 
 database that
 caused this error.2.) Someone within the company tampered 
 with the mail and
 read their mail, thus marking it as read. 3.) Perhaps their 
 backup system
 had something to do with it. They are doing brick level back ups using
 Veritas 8.5.
 
 
 #3 does not seem like an option since only two people, albeit 
 high level IT
 people, were affected. This also NEVER happened before.
 
 
 Any help would be appreciated.
 
 
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PF restore problem

2002-01-10 Thread Herold Heiko

A coadmin of mine created somewhat of a problem when I wasn't available
(some PF rehoming done incorrectly, without waiting for replication),
some PF contents are gone.
Take restore server, reinstall (NT4, sp, exch 55, sp4). Restore stores
(from backup exec 8.5, private and pub, no dir).
Restart services, run DS/IS consistency adjuster (with all 4 options
enabled, Filter set all inconsistencies).
Run, ok.
Mailboxes appeared correctly, assign permission, connect with client,
ahah, the PF is there, click on it: PF unavailable ??

PF did NOT appear, in ex administrator Public Folder Resources
contains only EventConfig, Events Root, Offline Address Book and
Schedule + Free Busy info. Note the PF structure appeared fine, just the
contents are missing - trying to access the folder content from OL (or
property in ex administrator) I get a msg roughly like the contents are
unavailable - either the server computer servicing this pf is down or
the pf has not been replicated to this site.

Basic check of the ebd file sizes: priv.edb 5GB, pub.edb 11GB (about
same size as the working server, ok). Wondering if any content at all
has been restored I tried a offline defragmentation of the public edb -
compacted down to about 3GB which should be correct - I moved lot of
data to another server lately.

Any idea what I did wrong or what to do ? In the meantime I'm restoring
again from scratch in case I forgot something basic but I just can't
understand what :(
 
Heiko

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RE: PF restore problem

2002-01-10 Thread Herold Heiko

Found! Q164805,
b. After restoring the public folders there are instance on the site of
this folder but NOT on your server (for the moment). That is the cause
of the error message reported in the symptoms section and the reason why
you can't access the contents of all the restored folders. To solve this
problem you need to select the Public Information Store Object. On the
File menu, click Properties and in the Instance tab add all the
restored folders to your server. 

So after all what I did was correct, I just missed a (vita) point :)

Michael, Beat, Roger, thank you all very much.
 
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 -Original Message-
 From: Rickenbacher Beat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 2:07 PM
 To: Exchange Discussions
 Subject: AW: PF restore problem
 
 
 Did you try:
 Error Message: The Contents of This Public Folder Are 
 Currently Unavailable
 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;DE;q164805?
 
 Additional Input:
 Function and Effects of Running the DS/IS Consistency Adjuster
 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;DE;q182979
 
 Ricki
 
 -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
 Von: Herold Heiko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Gesendet: Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2002 11:56
 An: Exchange Discussions
 Betreff: PF restore problem
 
 
 A coadmin of mine created somewhat of a problem when I wasn't 
 available
 (some PF rehoming done incorrectly, without waiting for replication),
 some PF contents are gone.
 Take restore server, reinstall (NT4, sp, exch 55, sp4). Restore stores
 (from backup exec 8.5, private and pub, no dir).
 Restart services, run DS/IS consistency adjuster (with all 4 options
 enabled, Filter set all inconsistencies).
 Run, ok.
 Mailboxes appeared correctly, assign permission, connect with client,
 ahah, the PF is there, click on it: PF unavailable ??
 
 PF did NOT appear, in ex administrator Public Folder Resources
 contains only EventConfig, Events Root, Offline Address Book and
 Schedule + Free Busy info. Note the PF structure appeared 
 fine, just the
 contents are missing - trying to access the folder content from OL (or
 property in ex administrator) I get a msg roughly like the 
 contents are
 unavailable - either the server computer servicing this pf is down or
 the pf has not been replicated to this site.
 
 Basic check of the ebd file sizes: priv.edb 5GB, pub.edb 11GB (about
 same size as the working server, ok). Wondering if any content at all
 has been restored I tried a offline defragmentation of the 
 public edb -
 compacted down to about 3GB which should be correct - I moved lot of
 data to another server lately.
 
 Any idea what I did wrong or what to do ? In the meantime I'm 
 restoring
 again from scratch in case I forgot something basic but I just can't
 understand what :(
  
 Heiko
 
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RE: PF restore problem

2002-01-10 Thread Herold Heiko

 From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 
 Yep. One crucial step is missing, and I've never found it 
 documented in the
 DR Whitepapers..

GRRR.

 In ExAdmin, you need to add a replica of the PF to the 
 restore server. Once
 you do that, you'll have client access to them again.

Exactly.
Thanks
Heiko

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Moving folders through replication, agent scripts

2001-11-28 Thread Herold Heiko

Just a thing I found out while experimenting with PF replication,
moving, where some PF have agents installed. I thought somebody else
could find this interesting.
Some help arouse by Michael Veitch (thanks).

Two server, same site, PF server for old and new is the old server (new
didn't have a PF store until recently).
PF with agent on old server. Add replica on new server, wait for
syncronization, change home server, wait, remove instance on old server.
Bummer, agent won't run anymore.
Give permission on the destination server for the Events
Root\Eventconfig_server and wait some time, until dest. server  is
available for selection in outlook - agents - run scripts in this
server. Change it, test:

Event has fired for newly arrived object, but not for a couple of email
arrived while the event service was still configured on the old server.

This is rather important - appareantly it means it is necessary to move
the event script to the new server *before* removing the old instance.
It also means when moving recursively (with propagate change to
subfolders) lots of folders it is necessary to change manualy from
outlook the server scripts are running on, or to write code which does
it, before removing the old instance.

Bye
Heiko

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-Original Message-
From: Veitch, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 11:26 AM
To: 'Herold Heiko'
Subject: RE: Public Folders


Maybe a stupid question, have you installed the event service 
on the new PF
server ?

If you have you given yourself the necessary rights to create an event,
client permissions must be at least author level?

Mike
 -Original Message-
 From:Herold Heiko [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent:28 November 2001 10:02
 To:  Veitch, Michael
 Subject: RE: Public Folders
 
 Yes, could be usefull, thanks.
 In fact in this moment I'm experimenting with the event 
service: after
 replicating, changing home server, remove original replica the event
 service on the dest. server won't monitor that folder. In fact in
 outlook there's a value run these agents on these servers where
 currently the old server only is selectable. Still pooring through
 documentation.
 Bye
 Heiko
 
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 -Original Message-
 From: Veitch, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 11:00 AM
 To: 'Herold Heiko'
 Subject: Public Folders
 
 
 Just in case your trying to check if your PF's are fully 
 replicated, there
 is a tool supplied on the Exchange CD that you can use to do this:
 
 The Public Folder Replication Verification tool 
(Replver.exe) compares
 public folders on Microsoft Exchange Server computers to 
 determine if their
 contents have been successfully replicated. 
 
 
 Might be worth a look.
 
 Mike
 


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RE: (stupid?) directory replication question

2001-11-25 Thread Herold Heiko

Yes, and every restore seems to be like the turn-back-in-time thingy
from the third book :(
I'm really wondering what will happen the first time I'll need to
restore something replicated. Most probably a big eruption, but not
exactly of lava :-). I'd better start documentating possible problems
and need for testing NOW. 
On the other hand, after a brown eruption of that kind possibly I could
finally get resources (most notably, time) for a *decent* testing
environment.

Heiko

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-Original Message-
From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 4:34 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: (stupid?) directory replication question


You're not alone.  This public folder replication stuff is 
like the Hogwarts
curriculum.

Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
Tech Consultant
Compaq Computer Corporation (soon to be HP)
All your base are belong to us.


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Herold Heiko
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 1:41 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: (stupid?) directory replication question


Oh.
In this moment all visible (255/750) in folder replication 
status on the
old server are local modified, while those visible on the destination
server ((41/750) all are in sync.
I'm starting to wonder, since those are live folders, where both users
work and incoming mail is routed, could this be just due to new changes
applied continously, never permitting a complete quiescent state ?

I still lack to understand how exchange works in this case - I suppose
once the whole old content has replicated, the new arriving content
from outside is queued for both (all) servers containing a replica
(knowing which ones from directory replication), so it would not be a
problem removing the old instance if the old content has been
replicated.

However if I understand it correctly exchange users always use the
instance on their local server (performance optimization) - this means
any user who's mailbox is on the old server does work on the instance
hosted in the old server.
Now, if I remove that replica, just a moment after a change has made on
the old server (not in sync), is that change still queued and 
will it be
replicated, or will it be lost ? In other words, once the original
content has replicated, is it possible to remove that replica on a live
server, or is it necessary to force somehow a completely quiescent
system (kick off users, shut inbound connectors ecc, wait for
replication ) ?
On the other hand, if it is possible to remove the old instance as soon
as the base content has replicated, how are we supposed to know when
this is if every new change puts the state in modified ? I suppose it
is possible to wait and catch the exact moment for single folders, but
if you need to relocate a bunch of folders (remove old server or
whatever), how are you supposed to do it ?

Also, just another terrifying thought, what if lots of those 
folders had
agents installed ? Initially those agents were running on the original
server. At the end of the process they will be running on the new
server. But in between ? Is exchange intelligent enough to run them on
one server only ? Or will it be run on both, possibly conflicting ?

Feeling more newbie than ever :( 

Heiko

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-Original Message-
From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 10:17 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: (stupid?) directory replication question


Message size limits aren't supposed to apply to public folder
replication
messages.

I think you should wait a little while longer.

Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
Tech Consultant
Compaq Computer Corporation (soon to be HP)
All your base are belong to us.


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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Herold Heiko
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 5:30 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: (stupid?) directory replication question


I need to move a pf structure (about 750 folders, about 3GB
according to
outlook, however there should be lots of duplicated attachments) to
another server. All servers are 5.5sp4.

I thought it would be simple - from admin.exe, root folder of the
structure, add a replica to the new folder, propagate to the
subfolders.
Check the public info stores in both server: Replication
schedule is set
to always. Since this has some priority, lower the interval to
5 minutes
and push up the message size limit to 2MB (probably overkill).

Wait for full replication (has been a couple of days due to other
issues). Public store on the destination server has grown a lot, then
stopped (looking

RE: Will restored folders be destroyed by replication

2001-11-23 Thread Herold Heiko

Which would destroy SIS for those files ? Or is there a possibility to
preserve it ?

Heiko

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-Original Message-
From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 10:19 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: Will restored folders be destroyed by replication


Restore to a recovery server, copy the lost items to a PST, 
then copy them
back into production.

Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
Tech Consultant
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All your base are belong to us.


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Putley
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 10:52 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Will restored folders be destroyed by replication


Hi, please could someone help with this

I have a E2000 server that replicates to a number of E5.5 servers in
various sites. The E2000 server had issues with it's public 
store and an
ill advised eseutil /p was performed, this stripped all attachments to
postings :-( The stripped version of the postings has replicated to
other sites. If I restore the public information store from tape (which
is what should have been done in the first place) will my restored copy
be immediately destroyed by replication since the striped folders at
other sites are more recent that the copy on tape? Is there a strategy
to avoid this?

Thanks for you help

Mike


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RE: (stupid?) directory replication question

2001-11-23 Thread Herold Heiko

Oh.
In this moment all visible (255/750) in folder replication status on the
old server are local modified, while those visible on the destination
server ((41/750) all are in sync.
I'm starting to wonder, since those are live folders, where both users
work and incoming mail is routed, could this be just due to new changes
applied continously, never permitting a complete quiescent state ?

I still lack to understand how exchange works in this case - I suppose
once the whole old content has replicated, the new arriving content
from outside is queued for both (all) servers containing a replica
(knowing which ones from directory replication), so it would not be a
problem removing the old instance if the old content has been
replicated.

However if I understand it correctly exchange users always use the
instance on their local server (performance optimization) - this means
any user who's mailbox is on the old server does work on the instance
hosted in the old server. 
Now, if I remove that replica, just a moment after a change has made on
the old server (not in sync), is that change still queued and will it be
replicated, or will it be lost ? In other words, once the original
content has replicated, is it possible to remove that replica on a live
server, or is it necessary to force somehow a completely quiescent
system (kick off users, shut inbound connectors ecc, wait for
replication ) ?
On the other hand, if it is possible to remove the old instance as soon
as the base content has replicated, how are we supposed to know when
this is if every new change puts the state in modified ? I suppose it
is possible to wait and catch the exact moment for single folders, but
if you need to relocate a bunch of folders (remove old server or
whatever), how are you supposed to do it ?

Also, just another terrifying thought, what if lots of those folders had
agents installed ? Initially those agents were running on the original
server. At the end of the process they will be running on the new
server. But in between ? Is exchange intelligent enough to run them on
one server only ? Or will it be run on both, possibly conflicting ?

Feeling more newbie than ever :( 

Heiko

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From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 10:17 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: (stupid?) directory replication question


Message size limits aren't supposed to apply to public folder 
replication
messages.

I think you should wait a little while longer.

Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
Tech Consultant
Compaq Computer Corporation (soon to be HP)
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Herold Heiko
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 5:30 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: (stupid?) directory replication question


I need to move a pf structure (about 750 folders, about 3GB 
according to
outlook, however there should be lots of duplicated attachments) to
another server. All servers are 5.5sp4.

I thought it would be simple - from admin.exe, root folder of the
structure, add a replica to the new folder, propagate to the 
subfolders.
Check the public info stores in both server: Replication 
schedule is set
to always. Since this has some priority, lower the interval to 
5 minutes
and push up the message size limit to 2MB (probably overkill).

Wait for full replication (has been a couple of days due to other
issues). Public store on the destination server has grown a lot, then
stopped (looking at the free space on the filesystem). Huh ? the public
store now seems to be about 8GB, outlook said 3GB (and there sould be
some SIS kicking in, too), after another day I've got (on the dest
server) 1221 events of 116MB free in public. Free space ??

Let's check the replication status:

source server\pf store\server replication status says: in sync

on dest server says: local modified. Hmm I suppose this is 
because those
are live folders - users are working in some of them, in the original
copy on source server I suppose (since that one says in sync)

Let's check which folders exactly.

source server\pf store\folder replication status: huh ? Almost all of
those are local modified, only 27 folders are in sync - should be at
least 50% due to the current usage pattern. Also, only 44 folders (only
2 of those are in sync) have a last received time, starting from the
moment I added the second replica to now. All the other have a empty
entry in that column, although something must have been 
replicated since
the store on the dest server grew a lot more than the expected amount.

Check the same on the dest server: about 41 of those folders 
are listed,
all have a last received time listed, all are in sync except 
a couple.
Where are the others ?

Am I doing

RE: outlook closed when moving mailboxes?

2001-09-26 Thread Herold Heiko

With 5.5 the client often will Dr.Watson if open, anyway it won't work.
So, the answer is: NO, you must close the client. Dunno with E2k.

Heiko

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Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 10:09 AM
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Subject: outlook closed when moving mailboxes?


Just a short one about moving mailboxes. Can I move mailboxes 
to another
server without closing the clients outlook, or does it has to be closed
before moving?

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Purge PFs by date or other criteria ?

2001-08-28 Thread Herold Heiko

Hello,
is there any easy way to a) export (to PST) for long-term storage a
number of elements in a number of PF, selected by date or other
criteria, and b) possibly if requested remove those items afterwards ?

Basically something like Mailbox manager for PF, possibly more geared
for periodic semimanual operation ?

Thanks
Heiko

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