Friday, June 04, 2004
Don't backup Exchange 2003 Information Stores and the System State in the same backup job!
Of course we wouldn't do this anyway, or? Quite a lot of my customers are using the in-built ntbackup utility because its cheap, can do backup-to-file, and has an Exchange Agent free. What I didn't know is that you cannot backup the system state at the same time as the Exchange Information Store due to a feature of VSS. More information can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;820852
Exchange moving again and again
Been playing around with LOTS of Exchange Servers recently. Was at a customer for the last 3 days, and was confronted by another *gremlin*. I moved lots of Exchange mailboxes from the old server to the new one a few months ago. Yesterday I switched the old box off and deleted it from the Exchange world. From that moment on, there were problems with people accessing other peoples' calendars. Seems like that although Outlook updates the profile automatically when a mailbox is moved to reflect the new server, it does not update any saved calendar queries. Only way round is to delete them, or reopen them once using the "Open other user's folder", and not the quick link.
PFDAVAdmin again
I know I've already mentioned this program, but I was playing around with it again the other day, and found one of the best features. As long as the person running the program has enough rights, permissions for every single mailbox can be set from a central location. It used to be almost impossible to quickly see which permissions people had set for access to their calendar (or any other folder really) but with this tool, you can see each separate mailbox folder's permissions. Nice one MS.
New Printer
Finally plunged out for a new printer. Epson C64 (and I thought it was Commodore that made the C64 :-)) I am rather impressed. It only cost ?60, which is about 40 quid, and prints REALLY good photos. Also got 100 ready-to-print high glossy photo paper sheets for ?9 - 6 quid. Goodbye Lexmark Laser, you caused me a lot of problems, and ate more paper than you printed on... now which window is open...
Exchange 200x Troubleshooter
I've been promising myself and a few people that I would eventually get around to an easy to follow guide, a bit like a flowchart, for Exchange Disaster Recovery and Database Recovery. Well its started. Not finished, and won't be for a while yet, but from little acorns........
Of course we wouldn't do this anyway, or? Quite a lot of my customers are using the in-built ntbackup utility because its cheap, can do backup-to-file, and has an Exchange Agent free. What I didn't know is that you cannot backup the system state at the same time as the Exchange Information Store due to a feature of VSS. More information can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;820852
Exchange moving again and again
Been playing around with LOTS of Exchange Servers recently. Was at a customer for the last 3 days, and was confronted by another *gremlin*. I moved lots of Exchange mailboxes from the old server to the new one a few months ago. Yesterday I switched the old box off and deleted it from the Exchange world. From that moment on, there were problems with people accessing other peoples' calendars. Seems like that although Outlook updates the profile automatically when a mailbox is moved to reflect the new server, it does not update any saved calendar queries. Only way round is to delete them, or reopen them once using the "Open other user's folder", and not the quick link.
PFDAVAdmin again
I know I've already mentioned this program, but I was playing around with it again the other day, and found one of the best features. As long as the person running the program has enough rights, permissions for every single mailbox can be set from a central location. It used to be almost impossible to quickly see which permissions people had set for access to their calendar (or any other folder really) but with this tool, you can see each separate mailbox folder's permissions. Nice one MS.
New Printer
Finally plunged out for a new printer. Epson C64 (and I thought it was Commodore that made the C64 :-)) I am rather impressed. It only cost ?60, which is about 40 quid, and prints REALLY good photos. Also got 100 ready-to-print high glossy photo paper sheets for ?9 - 6 quid. Goodbye Lexmark Laser, you caused me a lot of problems, and ate more paper than you printed on... now which window is open...
Exchange 200x Troubleshooter
I've been promising myself and a few people that I would eventually get around to an easy to follow guide, a bit like a flowchart, for Exchange Disaster Recovery and Database Recovery. Well its started. Not finished, and won't be for a while yet, but from little acorns........
