Re: Missing Public folders
- From: "Ben Winzenz [Exchange MVP]" <ben_winzenz@NOSPAMdotmessageonedotcom>
- Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 08:14:55 -0500
1. I doubt it, though anything is possible.
2. Could be worth it to run isinteg against the Public Store
3. You may end up having to do this anyways.
Good luck!
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Ben Winzenz
Exchange MVP
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"Nell" <Nell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Thanks again for the reply Ben. Looked again (next morning here) and gave
> myself top level permissions to everything. Went again down the Outlook
> recovery route and it began to recover folders. After the process had
> finished, there were still some folders that it could not recover and gave
> me
> the ususal "Outlook was unable to recover..." On closer inspection of
> these
> recovered folders I found that there were no mail items in them,
> origionaly
> they had masses of emails in them. Very confused as to what could have
> happened here, its not like an 'all-or-nothing' situation, more like a
> part
> recovery process. Replication wise, the only other server is the identical
> Win 2003 machine that is part of the 2 server cluster and looks identical
> in
> structure to the other so I assume replication is up to date and
> functioning
> fine.Have done some searching and can find no-one with any similar
> experiences. Have a couple of thoughts;
> 1.) Could it be an domain wide AD permission problem/corruption - DSACLS
> to
> reset permissions?
> 2.) Might be worth running isinteg utility to try and fix any errors?
> 3.) Next step would have to be a restore of the backed up pub store to
> recovery server.
>
> Very strange goings on. In trying to pinpoint the 'How it happened' apsect
> of the situation I can only think that it must have have been a user that
> accidently deleted it, however this would not be a simply click-delete
> job,
> the structure of the folders are such that it would have taken them about
> 10mins to delete. Flumoxed by this as well.
>
> Apologies for essay Ben.
>
> Neil
>
>
>
>
>
> "Ben Winzenz [Exchange MVP]" wrote:
>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/180117
>>
>> It sure would seem like Owner would do the trick. The above article
>> references needing to have at least Editor perms (Read, Write, Delete).
>>
>> Keep in mind that if you have recently changed permissions for a user
>> (made
>> them owner), those permissions aren't necesarrily applied immediately.
>> It
>> can take up to 2 hours for the permissions to be propagated.
>>
>> Also, I'm thinking that perhaps the reason you didn't see the deleted
>> folders previously may be because you were looking at a replica of the
>> folders that did not have deleted items retention enabled.
>>
>> --
>> Ben Winzenz
>> Exchange MVP
>> MessageOne
>>
>>
>> "Nell" <Nell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:F5984CF3-6E77-4AAC-9699-4D196C38F18D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Hi Ben,
>> >
>> > Thanks fo the reply. Could not find any of the folders through the
>> > 'find'
>> > method, however I have had a small breakthrough. I logged on to one of
>> > the
>> > client machines and opened outlook. Then selected the the top folder
>> > where
>> > the others are missing from and selected the 'Recover Deleted Items'
>> > option... bingo they all appeared. This leads me to believe that they
>> > were
>> > deleted by a user after all. However when I go to restore them I get
>> > the
>> > following error "Outlook was unable to recover some or all of the items
>> > in
>> > this folder. Make sure you have the required permissions to recover
>> > items
>> > in
>> > this folder, and try again etc.."
>> >
>> > I have given my user 'owner' permissions on the public folder and
>> > membership
>> > of the 'Administrators' security group. I understood it that just the
>> > 'owner'
>> > permission would be enough to recover?
>> >
>> > Anyways, hope you can help.
>> >
>> > Many thanks,
>> >
>> > Neil
>> >
>> > "Ben Winzenz [Exchange MVP]" wrote:
>> >
>> >> You might try using PFDavAdmin to export your public folder list. My
>> >> guess
>> >> is that it got moved somewhere accidentally.
>> >>
>> >> You can also use the built-in Find tool to see if the folder still
>> >> exists.
>> >> Within ESM, got under your Admin Group, then Folders, then click on
>> >> Public
>> >> Folders. In the right-hand pane, click on the Find tab, enter the
>> >> name
>> >> of
>> >> the public folder(s) you need to find. If it is still there, it will
>> >> show
>> >> you the complete path where it is located. If you have a lot of
>> >> Public
>> >> folders, I'd guess that it could take a little bit of time to search
>> >> them
>> >> all.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Ben Winzenz
>> >> Exchange MVP
>> >> MessageOne
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "Nell" <Nell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> >> news:AF8C20D2-43F3-4809-B9CC-04DEE5ADD2C2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >> > Hi All, running Exchange 2003 on Win 2003 cluster (2 x servers).
>> >> > Yesterday
>> >> > we
>> >> > had a large public folder with various folders within it. Today
>> >> > these
>> >> > folders
>> >> > within it have dissappeared. Have checked the logs and found nothing
>> >> > unusual.
>> >> > Have also checked to see if they have been deleted but could find no
>> >> > evidence
>> >> > of it, nothing to recover in the Recovery Option. Am very confused
>> >> > as
>> >> > to
>> >> > how
>> >> > this could have happened. Looking at the size of the Public DB, it
>> >> > looks,
>> >> > size wise, as big as normal which suggests to me that the data is
>> >> > still
>> >> > there. Is there a tool available that I can use to view the contents
>> >> > of
>> >> > the
>> >> > Public Store to confirm that the missing data is still there? Anyone
>> >> > have
>> >> > any
>> >> > ideas for a next step? Would appreciate some advice..
>> >> >
>> >> > Neil
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>
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