Re: Strange Exchange configuration

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I absolutely agree...even with all the neat cool features of SBS2003 which
would benefit the customer, they are unwilling to spend the money and in fact
may not have the money to spend. I will approach them with the idea of
wiping and reinstalling Exchange. That would solve this issue.

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Sprocket in Texas


"Larry Struckmeyer" wrote:

Hi Sprocket:

IMHO, you and your client will be much further along to spend the few
hundred it costs to upgrade to SBS 2003.

SBS 2000 is out of its support window, and most have forgotten more about
SBS 2000 than they remember.

There are several flags on this installation. I don't like it, and I would
probably not want to support it.

You could also backup the exchange to pst files, backup the data to known
good restore points, and flatten and reinstall SBS 2000 to have a clean
installation.

If they went to 2000 in 2003, the cycle is about right for them to go to
2003 in 2007. :-)


Larry


"Sprocket" <Sprocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've recently taken over this account which apparently has had several
"experts" over the last 10 years. The customer at one time had sbs 4.5
with
a server name of server and an internal domain name of company, not
company.local, just company. For purposes of discussion, let's say their
public domain was company.com. They upgraded to SBS2000 in 2003.

Now in Exchange, there are two servers listed, one called server and we'll
call the other newserver. I cannot access server, when I click on it, I
get
a time out. I can click on and configure newserver. However, I
discovered
that server was setup as the master and I have changed that with newserver
as
the master and server as a member. I have been unable to delete the old
server.

When I send mail, I get the normal SMTP connector. However I'm also
getting
a strange remote mail listing under queues. The queue name is
server.domain
(which is the old server name) and when I click on that, I get the sent
from:
newserver-IS@xxxxxxxxxxxx There are several of these messages queued up
and
if I delete them, more appear. I don't know who they are going to and I
can't read the message.

My questions are:
Is there any way to read the messages in queue so I can figure out what
they
are?
What is the origin of messages with the from being newserver-IS? What
does
the IS mean.
How can I delete the non-functioning listing of the old server in Exchange
2000.

y'all have been great. Thanks for your help.
--
Sprocket in Texas



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