Re: Disaster Recovery - restored but 1 mailbox isn't working!

Hi again...

Unfortunately, we have a similar - albeit harder to pin down - issue with
one other mailbox. And some generally strange behaviour since the restore.

As I noted, restore went really smoothly once we'd removed the old ghost
cards in device manager. Server boots without error now and everything that
should start, does. Checked Exchange using ESEUTIL and ISINTEG and both come
back entirely clean.

We have one user now with the same issue as I had. 67 [at present] mails
sitting in the Exchange queue for local delivery that never arrive in either
OWA or Outlook 2003. I've tried moving ALL the mails showing in the Inbox in
Outlook to a temp folder to see if that would clear it. Didn't. Tried
deleting the mails since the day before the crash. Didn't. I'm now removing
ALL the mails to a PST file to see if that clears things up and allows the
new mails to start arriving in the Exchange mailbox.

Obviously, this is the critical issue at present and any pointers as to how
to investigate it further and ultimately resolve it would be appreciated.

We have a secondary issue with my own mailbox/OWA that is strange more than
problematic although its worrying none the less.

If I access OWA all my mails from my Exchange mailbox are there as they
should be. New mails are received fine. However, creating a new mail and
attemping to send this only causes the outgoing mail to be 'sent' to the
drafts folder where it sits until I send it from Outlook.

Again, given the Exchange tests come up clean I'm thinking this is either
something low-level and 'quirky' with regards possibly IIS/Exchange/my user
account or potentially something more serious? Advice on this would also be
appreciated.

Thanks again for your time and assistance,


David


"David Elders" <david_elders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sorted. Recreated profile. Copied email from last 3 days off to temp
folder. Email started appearing in Mailbox instantly. Corrupted mail
within copied mail obviously. Public Folder ones were arriving - it was
just the favourites offline copy that wasn't updating...


"David Elders" <david_elders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Just the usual Move, Delete or Configure Exchange Features - same as per
the working ones...

David



"cjobes" <cjobes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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When you go into ESM and right-click on your mailbox and select Exchange
tasks, what options do you see?

--
Claus
"David Elders" <david_elders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Another update.

Bizarrely, I am getting incoming spam delivered to my Trend CSM spam
folder... I'm assuming this is because Trend is checking this before
Exchange itself gets its beedy eyes on it and queues it...?

HELP!

David

PS - it also appears that incoming mail to our mail-enabled Public
folders
isn't getting there...


"David Elders" <david_elders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quick update.

ESEUTIL comes up clean on the priv1.edb
ISINTEG had 8 fixes in the Folders test then came up clean


"David Elders" <david_elders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all,

Our internal SBS2K3 Premium box's psu went down last night - bah!
Also
'did
something bad' to something else [possibly plural] on the mb. So...
swapped
mb, memory, processor and psu. Had backup on separate drive. Clean
install
of W2K3 - installed W2K3 SP1 - restored from backup. Usual fun with
NICs
etc
but once we'd got shot of the ghosted previous ones, booted up
without an
error. All services tickity boo. Everything seems fine apart from...
1
mailbox [which would be mine!] which isn't
quite right.

Outlook 2003 on my XP SP2 laptop opens fine and says its connected to
the
Server fine. Outgoing mail appears to be sending fine [testing to an
account
on our sister company and getting there no probs]. Replied from
sister
company account and it reaches our SBS box. But... it stays sitting
in the
Queue on the Server and doesn't reach my mailbox [checked with both
Outlook
2003 and OWA].

Have also tried just sending a mail [using OWA] from our SBS Box
[Admin
account] to my user account - didn't get here. Its sitting in the
queue.
Its
almost like my mailbox is no longer recognised by the server as
actually
being there. There is nothing obvious in the Exchange System Manager
and
in
a kind of cruel [for me] way I'm glad its me rather than one of my
users.
That said, I need this resolved ASAP obviously. Any ideas where I can
check?

Thanks,



David
















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