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[Edit] Ack! It's available now here!
More info here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb676323.aspx
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Posted at 09:29 AM in Bugs, Exchange2003 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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So, I used PFDAVAdmin yesterday to make some changes to the replicas of some huge public folder trees. I used the Custom Bulk Operation to perform a Replica List Operation type and selected the Merge action. It asked me for the list of stores I wanted to add to the replica list and then it asked me for a list of stores i would like to remove from the replica list.
Doesn't really tell you that this does both functions independently and is not a Search & Replace feature.
For instance, say you have a folder tree like the one listed below. The \RootFolder has a replica only on ServerA but \SubFolder3 has additional replicas on ServerB. You want to move those replicas from ServerB to ServerC.
\RootFolder
\SubFolder1
\SubFolder2
\SubFolder3
\SubSub1
\SubSub2
If you use the Merge action against \RootFolder to add ServerC and remove ServerB, the tool will add ServerC to the replicas of the \RootFolder and all subfolders and you'll end up replicating the ENTIRE \RootFolder structure to ServerC, not just the folders where the ServerB replicas were removed.
This could be very un-fun if the \RootFolder is very large. You'll probably get a call from one of your WAN guys asking why you're hogging all the bandwidth. :)
Instead, in SP2 for Exchange2003, they've added a context-menup for moving replicas. More info on that can be found here.
You've been forewarned.
Posted at 12:15 PM in Exchange2003 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
So yesterday afternoon I updated all of our Recipient Policies to make them more organized as well as to make some corrections. I did this at about 4:30pm. Around 9:00pm I got a call from another admin that he was getting the following error in ESM when he tried to expand the Public Folder hierarchy:
Posted at 11:58 AM in Bugs, Exchange2003 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I found this cool little add-in for Outlook 2007 yesterday and thought I'd share. It allows you to preview PDF attachments in Outlook 2007's preview pane.
Posted at 09:27 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Oh my God, this was hard to find!
Ok, so I started this new job as an Exchange 2003 admin at a new company. The previous admin had done all sorts of tweaking to the permissions in the Org (manually editing registry keys, dis-allowing permissions inheritance in ESM, etc). Of course, he left no documentation.
So I'm looking at the properties of the server in my office and notice that in the field for where the Message Tracking Log File directory is located I see:
Access is denied Facility: Win32 ID no: c0070005 Microsoft Exchange Management
I looked all over the net before I finally found the answer: LOCAL SERVICE must have Read permissions on the following registry key:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurePipeServers\WinReg
I even tested removing this permission on a lab server and sure enough it's easily replicated. I present this information so that perhaps you won't get as frustrated as I did.
Posted at 08:24 AM in Exchange2003, Permissions | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)