Re: Some mailboxes on one of two mailbox stores can't send

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From: Neil Hobson [MVP] (neil.hobson_at_nospam.silversands.co.uk)
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:40:38 +0100

What actually happens when they try to send mail? How long are you waiting
after moving the mailboxes? Things can take a little while to settle down.

I'm also curious as to why you've created two storage groups, each
containing just a single database. Just creating a single storage group
with two databases would have been better IMO. The single instance storage
mechanism is set per-database and not per-storage group, so as far as I see
you really gain nothing in creating two storage groups (especially since if
you created them correctly, you'd ideally have separate RAID arrays for the
transaction logs of each storage group). Best practice states to fill a
storage group before creating a new one. 

-- 
Neil Hobson
Exchange MVP
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"pklein22" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:70b701c48395$52595b10$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I am in the process of migrating to Exchange 2K via the
> move method.  I have two storage groups each with one
> mailbox store and am moving mailboxes into these stores
> based upon team affiliation (who talks most to who).
> Everyone I moved to mailbox store on storage group one is
> fine, 6 out of say 150 mailboxes moved to storage group
> two could not send mail.  I moved those 6 back to the 5.5
> server and they are fine.  I moved those six to the second
> storage group again, in case it was just a move issue, and
> once again, they cannot send.  Just for kicks, I move
> those six mailboxes to the first storage group on the
> Exchange 2K server and they can do eveything just fine.  I
> have checked the properties on both storage groups, I
> think I have covered everything, they are the same.  What
> am I missing, what could cause this?  I now have the issue
> with syncing microsoft active sync with the desktop on the
> contacts and calendar, once I moved the users mailbox to
> the first storage group on the Exchange 2K server from the
> second storage group, everything synched fine.  What the
> heck am I missing?  If the mailbox store is bad, then why
> don't  all the mailboxes on that store have a problem?
>
>
>

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