Exchange Server is down

[tm37]

Just waiting, waiting, waiting.

 

[GamerExpress]

Fix it.

 

[tm37]

No premission.

Came in ealry because I could not log into VPN last night. It is looking at it right now

 

[vi edit]

Oh how I miss the fond days of mail stores slamming into the 17 gig barrier and crashing and having to do offline defrags into the wee hours of the morning.

Well...no. I really don't miss that at all.



Crashed mail servers never make for a fun day.

 

[ZoomStop]

That'll teach them to use Exchange

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Oh how I miss the fond days of mail stores slamming into the 17 gig barrier and crashing and having to do offline defrags into the wee hours of the morning.

Well...no. I really don't miss that at all.



Crashed mail servers never make for a fun day.

Our Exchange 5.5 database is just a hair over 56GB right now.

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Oh how I miss the fond days of mail stores slamming into the 17 gig barrier and crashing and having to do offline defrags into the wee hours of the morning.

Well...no. I really don't miss that at all.



Crashed mail servers never make for a fun day.

Our Exchange 5.5 database is just a hair over 56GB right now.

Enterprise? I can't remember if 5.5 had a limit. I was on the Exchange 2000 "Standard" version.

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: vi_edit

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Oh how I miss the fond days of mail stores slamming into the 17 gig barrier and crashing and having to do offline defrags into the wee hours of the morning.

Well...no. I really don't miss that at all.



Crashed mail servers never make for a fun day.

Our Exchange 5.5 database is just a hair over 56GB right now.

Enterprise? I can't remember if 5.5 had a limit. I was on the Exchange 2000 "Standard" version.

Yessir

The funny thing is that we only have 117 mailboxes. You cannot enforce mailbox limits when your two top offenders are the head hanchos, though.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Our Exchange 5.5 database is just a hair over 56GB right now.

pssst!

That sounds like a lot but there's quite a few mailboxes and they do have limits.

 

[Crazee]

I have 2,200 users with 4 sites and 9 information stores in an Exchange 2003 environment. We use email archiving to keep our users from killing the databases and just as importantly from using PST files.

 

[tm37]

We are back- up!!!!


WOOW HOOOO!!!

I can work!!!!

 

[ryan256]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Yessir

The funny thing is that we only have 117 mailboxes. You cannot enforce mailbox limits when your two top offenders are the head hanchos, though.

I feel your pain. I remember doing an exchange 5.5 to 2000 migration once. Of course the M$ conversion tools didn't work right so we resorted to exporting everything as .pst files and then restoring them to the new 2000 box. Senior partner #1's .pst --- 7.4GB Senior partner #2 --- 11.4GB! :Q

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: ryan256

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Yessir

The funny thing is that we only have 117 mailboxes. You cannot enforce mailbox limits when your two top offenders are the head hanchos, though.

I feel your pain. I remember doing an exchange 5.5 to 2000 migration once. Of course the M$ conversion tools didn't work right so we resorted to exporting everything as .pst files and then restoring them to the new 2000 box. Senior partner #1's .pst --- 7.4GB Senior partner #2 --- 11.4GB! :Q

Our parent company is discussing a move to 2003 right now. I dread it.

 

[AdamSnow]

Who cares? You were getting paid for sitting there doing nothing...

 

[ryan256]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: ryan256
I feel your pain. I remember doing an exchange 5.5 to 2000 migration once. Of course the M$ conversion tools didn't work right so we resorted to exporting everything as .pst files and then restoring them to the new 2000 box. Senior partner #1's .pst --- 7.4GB Senior partner #2 --- 11.4GB! :Q

Our parent company is discussing a move to 2003 right now. I dread it.

Don't worry. Exchange 2k3 migrations from 2000 are much easier! Once the box was installed & configured, data migration was a snap.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: ryan256

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: ryan256
I feel your pain. I remember doing an exchange 5.5 to 2000 migration once. Of course the M$ conversion tools didn't work right so we resorted to exporting everything as .pst files and then restoring them to the new 2000 box. Senior partner #1's .pst --- 7.4GB Senior partner #2 --- 11.4GB! :Q

Our parent company is discussing a move to 2003 right now. I dread it.

Don't worry. Exchange 2k3 migrations from 2000 are much easier! Once the box was installed & configured, data migration was a snap.

Going from 5.5 to 2003 is going to be FUN. I'm no IT person but I hear screams through the waves to know better. 2003 is very good - good as the hardware it needs! At least you will be able to right click!

 

[ryan256]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn

Originally posted by: ryan256
Don't worry. Exchange 2k3 migrations from 2000 are much easier! Once the box was installed & configured, data migration was a snap.

Going from 5.5 to 2003 is going to be FUN. I'm no IT person but I hear screams through the waves to know better. 2003 is very good - good as the hardware it needs! At least you will be able to right click!

Ohh... 5.5 to 2K3... um yeah .. then be prepared for .pst hell. I haven't heard of anyone be able to pull of a smooth 5.5 migration yet.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: ryan256

Originally posted by: MS Dawn

Originally posted by: ryan256
Don't worry. Exchange 2k3 migrations from 2000 are much easier! Once the box was installed & configured, data migration was a snap.

Going from 5.5 to 2003 is going to be FUN. I'm no IT person but I hear screams through the waves to know better. 2003 is very good - good as the hardware it needs! At least you will be able to right click!

Ohh... 5.5 to 2K3... um yeah .. then be prepared for .pst hell. I haven't heard of anyone be able to pull of a smooth 5.5 migration yet.

I did a 5.5 to 2003 migration.

Migration went well except for some small issue with my AD setup that initially stalled the ForestPrep. It was a full network migration so I was planning to be there all night anyway.