Re: Limiting logins to Exchange

From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 02/08/05 

Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 10:48:10 -0500

Catamount wrote:
> Windows 2000(SP4) Server with AD
> Exchange 2000(SP3 with Rollup)
> 2 Other windows 2000 Servers SP4
> Veritas 9.1 Backup Exec for Windows Servers with Open
> File/DR/Exchange add-ins on the exchange server. (The exchange
> server backs itself up and leaves the other servers to backup
> elsewhere)
>
> What I want, is to make it so that The Exchange 2000 server is made
> unavailable from 8pm to 8am on friday nights while it does a
> bricklayer backup. This would exclude Admins and the backup accounts
> used of
> course. Reason for doing this, I have asked users not to log into
> their email during this time as it causes the backup to fail and
> think the
> store is corrupt if they delete or move mail from one folder to
> another. I want to be able to Log them out if they are in it
> automatically and
> lock people out. Can thise be done? I would think it could be done
> via Group policy, but I can't see where. That is the reason for the
> cross post.

1. Online Exchange backups do not require this - that's what online means.
2. If you're doing mailbox-level backup, you might want to rethink it. Do it
*only* if you are also doing a full online backup of the Exchange stores,
successfully. Brick-level/mailbox-level backup is incredibly slow, sucks up
lots of tape, and is useless for disaster recovery - and even restoring
individual mailbox items will often cause problems, particularly with
calendars.

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