MS Exchange server...

[bratwurst]

sucks.

That is all.

 

[Chaz]

sucks.

That is all.

Having trouble?

 

[bratwurst]

long story short...

I had a guy who thought he had made an adequate backup of his mailboxes using exmerge. He wanted to do the backups instead of me. So then I came in, blew his SBS2000 domain away (he wanted to start new) and reinstalled windows 2003 server and exchange 2k3.

SO then it turns out, a couple of the PSTs were 2 gigs in size. i knew that they were bad as soon as I saw them. I should have checked them beforehand.

So I just spent a good day and a half of work installing a new win2k server, loading service pack, running dc promo, then installing exchange, then loading sp3 for exchange, then trying to restore the database to notice that I f'd up and mistyped the organization name, do most of that over again, finally get the restored database to mount, only to see that the two mailboxes were 8 gigs and 4 gigs in size. biggest mailboxes I have ever seen.

Running exports of them in office 2k3 now, since the pst limit is over 20 gigs. The export is probably still running.

what a cluster.

 

[Chaz]

long story short...

I had a guy who thought he had made an adequate backup of his mailboxes using exmerge. He wanted to do the backups instead of me. So then I came in, blew his SBS2000 domain away (he wanted to start new) and reinstalled windows 2003 server and exchange 2k3.

SO then it turns out, a couple of the PSTs were 2 gigs in size. i knew that they were bad as soon as I saw them. I should have checked them beforehand.

So I just spent a good day and a half of work installing a new win2k server, loading service pack, running dc promo, then installing exchange, then loading sp3 for exchange, then trying to restore the database to notice that I f'd up and mistyped the organization name, do most of that over again, finally get the restored database to mount, only to see that the two mailboxes were 8 gigs and 4 gigs in size. biggest mailboxes I have ever seen.

Running exports of them in office 2k3 now, since the pst limit is over 20 gigs. The export is probably still running.

what a cluster.

That sucks.

Watch your 2 GB limit when archiving to .pst boys and girls!

I didn't know 2k3 could manage 20GB now.

 

[SweetD]

That sucks.

Watch your 2 GB limit when archiving to .pst boys and girls!

I didn't know 2k3 could manage 20GB now.

It doesn't? It will only handle 16gb max and then it locks up. If you run Enterprise you can go up to 16 terabytes

 

[bratwurst]

It doesn't? It will only handle 16gb max and then it locks up. If you run Enterprise you can go up to 16 terabytes

Exchange Standard has a limit of one information store of 16 Gb limit, which constitutes both the edb and the stm files combined together.

Exchange Enterprise does not have this limit.

But a personal folder file, (PST) had a limit in older versions of Outlook to support only up to 2 Gigabytes of data. The newest version of Outlook (2k3) supports a new PST format that will hold over 20 gigabytes of data.

So the PST and the Exchange stores are two different items.

 

[SweetD]

Exchange Standard has a limit of one information store of 16 Gb limit, which constitutes both the edb and the stm files combined together.

Exchange Enterprise does not have this limit.

But a personal folder file, (PST) had a limit in older versions of Outlook to support only up to 2 Gigabytes of data. The newest version of Outlook (2k3) supports a new PST format that will hold over 20 gigabytes of data.

So the PST and the Exchange stores are two different items.

I see are you an admin?

 

[bratwurst]

I see are you an admin?

Shhh! Keep your voice down.

 

[Chaz]

Exchange Standard has a limit of one information store of 16 Gb limit, which constitutes both the edb and the stm files combined together.

Exchange Enterprise does not have this limit.

But a personal folder file, (PST) had a limit in older versions of Outlook to support only up to 2 Gigabytes of data. The newest version of Outlook (2k3) supports a new PST format that will hold over 20 gigabytes of data.

So the PST and the Exchange stores are two different items.

I have run into the 16GB limit as well and had to archive to .pst, 2GB at a time.

First I thought I would just make a second store, no such luck unless you have the enterprise version.
That is the thing there is no technical reason you can have more than one store, it is a marketing reason.

 

[bratwurst]

I think the best thing to do in that situation is to grab an enterprise disk and reinstall right over the top of the old installation, then run the same service pack level of the store that is having an issue and then you are free of the 16 gig limitation.

At my old job I had a system policy that deleted any email that was over 30 days old, and it ran nightly. That kept most people's mailbox sizes in check.

 

[Chaz]

I think the best thing to do in that situation is to grab an enterprise disk and reinstall right over the top of the old installation, then run the same service pack level of the store that is having an issue and then you are free of the 16 gig limitation.

At my old job I had a system policy that deleted any email that was over 30 days old, and it ran nightly. That kept most people's mailbox sizes in check.

I don't have an enterprise disk and it was a public folder store that ran out of space.

Plus they like to save their e-mail. People like to change their story on them.