Re: SBS2k Exchange recovery - HELP!

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Phil-

As Cris suggested earlier I think you really need to convince this client
that they must move to SBS 2003 with Exchange 2003 SP2 so you can
permanently increase the database size.

"Phil Partridge" <philp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <uU9B2$MAHHA.4024@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Anna Clark
<anna@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Hi Phil:

Glad to see you are making some progress. In thinking about your present
situation I think I would worry about OWA after getting the mail system in
hand. If you need to ask permission, perhaps you could get it under
control
and then ask forgiveness.

:-).


I only have remote access until Monday.. So far, all has been done
remotely with everything crossed!

So I think I would hit this problem as follows:

From the servers console, using exchange manager, view the store to see if
there are any users who have unusually large amounts of items in their
mail
boxes. Starting with the most likely suspects, go either to that users
workstation, (or to any workstation, create a profile for that user and
move
chunks of messages to the local .pest file). Better to do it from the
users normal workstation, as then you would have that users "junk" in his
local system. I would probably sort by subject and try to take out the
duplicates, but you are closer to the problem and can see the details
better
than I.

If you don't know all the passwords, you aren't going to have access from
OWE either, so I would, and have, changed all the passwords to something
simple, 123456, for a project like this, and then ticked the box that
required them to change them back on their next logon, presumably Monday
AM.

Anna


I will be on the doorstep first-thing Monday, but hoped to be able to
remotely attack one or two of the worst mailboxes. - Worst user reports
3.6GB in size. She keeps a load of emails with marketing proofs as
attachments in Outlook! There is also a 'monitor' account which gets a
'copy' of everything. I know it is a single instance DB, so it shouldn't
make a difference, but monitor is pretty big as well.

If I could have got OWA working from the RDP into the Server (so only
local net, not Internet) I could have had a go at clearing some of the
rubbish.
Most I have found on the Net about OWA is way above my head, so it will
have to be cleared Monday via 'sneaker-net'.

Thanks again for the pointer to the KB to increase the mailstore limit.

One final question;
I presume changing the Registry entry to '0' will disable the extra
storage? - Then it is there if I need to do this again.

Many thanks again,
Phil Partridge.


"Phil Partridge" <philp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <HZV4sDASm9SFFwvA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Phil Partridge
<philp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
In article <eiy30v5$GHA.4328@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Anna Clark
<anna@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Hi Phil:

See if this helps.

You will need to be on SP3, and you should unplug from the net.

How to temporarily increase the Exchange 2000 16-gigabyte database ...
A
new
update to Exchange 2000 Server Standard Edition has been developed.
This
update
lets you temporarily increase the database size limit by 1 GB. ...
support.microsoft.com/kb/813051


Regards:

Anna Clark


Brilliant!

Am clearing space to run eseutil... (slow) :-(
Will read up, and increase space, then run eseutil. - Have already
disabled collecting of email.

Will see how this goes.

If not, I will be back to get help with exmerge.

Thanks for the info.
Regards,
Phil.


All,

A little more help please!

Post sp3 update do-da worked a treat..
Eseutil crunched it a bit..
MTA and SMTP are manual and stopped..
I can open OE (on server) and clear 'rubbish'..

I have tried to use OWA to access other mailboxes from IE on the Server.
I get 403 forbidden messages from ISA (I presume)..
Is there a fast (dirty?) way to enable OWA? - I can then go into some of
the mailboxes and start to clear them before the Staff get in Monday.

I am searching for the answer myself, but haven't got there yet!

TIA,
Philip Partridge



Philip Partridge


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