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anthony
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 Posted - 05/18/2012 : 07:39:08 AM
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| No, everything is set to 30 days. We are not using any of the fancy message retention features. I know the default setting is like 20GB per mailbox. That's is waaay more than we need. I think that should be changed right? I just dont want to be in the scenario I read about where users cannot delete any messages because they hit the quota... |
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anthony
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Posted - 05/18/2012 : 08:17:21 AM
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I found this:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff678798.aspx
IT says this:
"This example permanently deletes items from Gurinder Singh's Recoverable Items folder and also copies the items to the GurinderSingh-RecoverableItems folder in the Discovery Search Mailbox (a discovery mailbox created by Exchange Setup)."
Search-Mailbox -Identity "Gurinder Singh" -SearchDumpsterOnly -TargetMailbox "Discovery Search Mailbox" -TargetFolder "GurinderSingh-RecoverableItems" -DeleteContent
Then it says:
Note:
To delete items from the mailbox without copying them to another mailbox, use the preceding command without the TargetMailbox and TargetFolder parameters.
But I don't need to copy it, I just want to delete it so I run:
"Search-Mailbox -Identity "Username" -SearchDumpsterOnly -DeleteContent"
It says, "The term 'Search-Mailbox' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, funtion, script file, or operable program.
What am I missing? Do I need to put something BEFORE that command?
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anthony
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Posted - 05/18/2012 : 11:44:12 AM
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I think I'm just going to move the Mailboxes over to the new server and not worry too much about it. After looking at the event logs of the old server, there are not even any events from the "MSExchangeMailboxAssistants" showing the MRM is actually doing maintenance. However, on the new server I can see it's running every day (and has been). So I'm going to just move the mailboxes over and let the new server clean them up.
On the OLD server, there are only the start and stop events of the service.
On the new server I have these once a day:
Log Name: Application
Source: MSExchangeMailboxAssistants
Date: 5/17/2012 9:50:58 AM
Event ID: 10027
Task Category: Managed Folder Assistant
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: myserver.mydomain.local
Description:
Statistics of MRM expiration at end of this work cycle:
TotalItemsSoftDeleted: 0
TotalItemsPermanentlyDeleted: 3972
TotalItemsMoved: 0
TotalSizeItemsSoftDeleted: 0 Bytes
TotalSizeItemsPermanentlyDeleted: 473768568 Bytes
TotalSizeItemsMoved: 0 Bytes
TotalItemsWithPersonalTag: 0
TotalItemsWithDefaultTag: 0
TotalItemsWithSystemCleanupTag: 0
TotalItemsExpiredByDefaultExpiryTag: 0
TotalItemsExpiredByPersonalExpiryTag: 0
TotalItemsMovedByDefaultArchiveTag: 0
TotalItemsMovedByPersonalArchiveTag: 0
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anthony
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Posted - 05/22/2012 : 07:34:38 AM
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OK, moving on...
I got all my mailboxes moved (from what I can tell). My send connectors are are only using my new server. My Public Folders live on the new server. I even got all my Arbitration, Discovery, and Approval Mailboxes moved. I got the Offline Address Book Moved.
All my mail is flowing through the new server (from what I can tell). Everything on the network points to the new server (scanners, copiers, etc.). The firewall is pointed to the new server, and inbound mail is routing through it. Outbound mail as well, although it uses our Zix encryption as a smart host on the way out...
I say all that, because yesterday as a test, a re-booted the old server and loads of people lost their connection to Exchange.
What am I missing? How can I check and see what still needs to be removed? Clearly something is still pointing to it. |
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Pesos
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Posted - 05/22/2012 : 10:00:51 AM
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| Hi Anthony, how do you have your CAS configuration set up? Have you created a CAS array (with just the new server as a member) and assigned that array to your DBs? Once you do so, clients should be transparently redirected to the new server. After sufficient time for all clients to connect at least once and get the redirect, you should be able to take down the old server. Anyone who doesn't connect in that timeframe will need to be repointed manually I believe. Have you tested creating a new profile from scratch and seeing what values you are getting CASwise (from autodiscover)? |
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anthony
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Posted - 05/22/2012 : 10:22:43 AM
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I have not purposely "created" a CAS array if that's what you are asking. All I've done is installed an additional "iteration" of Exchange in the ORG. Then I moved mailboxes, public folders, connectors, etc...
When I run Get-ClientAccessArray it returns nothing. So if there is NO array, what info does Outlook use to connect? The server holding it's mailbox database? |
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Pesos
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anthony
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Posted - 05/22/2012 : 10:34:45 AM
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If I "Ctrl Right-Click" on my Outlook System Tray Icon and do a "Connection Status" it shows:
Server Name: Type:
newserver.domain.local Directory
newserver.domain.local Directory
OLDserver.domain.local Mail
newserver.domain.local Public Folders
If I go to create a new mail profile and enter my username, it finds the new server....
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Pesos
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anthony
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Posted - 05/22/2012 : 10:51:22 AM
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I am looking into that article you sent. I think it's exactly what is wrong.
Thanks for the tip. I guess this CAS array would never be an issue until a 2nd server was added to the org... makes sense now. |
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Pesos
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Posted - 05/22/2012 : 10:53:54 AM
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| Yep - definitely want to get that created even if you plan to only have one server at a time. Makes migration/dr smoother and sets you up for load balancing if you ever need to go there. |
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Pesos
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Posted - 05/22/2012 : 10:55:29 AM
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| p.s. I may be wrong about clients getting redirected to the new array value - they may cling to the old server name unfortunately... |
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anthony
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Posted - 05/22/2012 : 11:15:36 AM
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Yeah... that's what I'm reading. I'm trying to see if there is a way to remedy that situation. I hope so because as I posted above, I've already created mailbox DBs and moved all the mailboxes to them...  |
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Pesos
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anthony
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Posted - 05/30/2012 : 12:54:46 PM
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| One thought I had was to just create a temporary DB, move mailboxes to it, then move them back to the original DB. Would that not work? It's only about 25 mailboxes at this point. |
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Pesos
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Posted - 05/30/2012 : 12:56:57 PM
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| I don't think that will matter because your CAS server won't change and the clients will still route through that same CAS. I think the site has to change for outlook to change? |
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anthony
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Posted - 05/30/2012 : 1:03:48 PM
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| But would it not allow the RPCClientAccessServer entry to change. Because since I did not have a CAS array initially, the entry is just OLDSERVERNAME. But now I have a CAS array named outlook.mydomain.local, and I just need to get the clients to change to that since the new database would have the CAS array name attached to it since it was created AFTER the CAS array but BEFORE I moved Mailboxes to it? Then If I moved them back, the existing DB's have the CAS array entry now too. So it would be OK. Or am I missing something? |
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Pesos
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Posted - 05/30/2012 : 1:07:18 PM
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| Outlook won't take the new CAS name. It will continue to connect to the CAS it already has listed until that CAS is no longer available. The CAS will then just relay to your new DB IIRC. In order for Outlook to change, I think a switch to a DB in another AD site has to occur. Too busy this morning to dig into it though... |
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Jazzy
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Posted - 05/30/2012 : 2:14:54 PM
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Originally posted by Pesos
Outlook won't take the new CAS name. It will continue to connect to the CAS it already has listed until that CAS is no longer available. The CAS will then just relay to your new DB IIRC. In order for Outlook to change, I think a switch to a DB in another AD site has to occur. Too busy this morning to dig into it though...
I'm a bit confused too. But remember that Outlook connects to an Exchange 2007 Mailbox server or an Exchange 2010 Client Access server, not to the Exchange 2010 CAS server.
Interesting, need to look into this too when I have time.
Edit: check this interesting thread: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrmigration/thread/72dd3c25-dafb-4582-b447-3862be592157 |
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Edited by - Jazzy on 05/30/2012 2:16:59 PM |
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aval
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Posted - 05/30/2012 : 4:49:27 PM
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I'm a bit confused too. But remember that Outlook connects to an Exchange 2007 Mailbox server or an Exchange 2010 Client Access server, not to the Exchange 2010 CAS server.
Shouldn't that last part be MB server?
Except for Public Folders (still). |
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Jazzy
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Posted - 05/30/2012 : 5:50:06 PM
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| Actually I meant to say that Outlook doens't connect to an Exchange 2007 CAS server, other then for web services. |
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Edited by - Jazzy on 05/30/2012 5:50:38 PM |
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anthony
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Posted - 07/11/2012 : 2:04:45 PM
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Between hundreds of trouble tickets (unrelated to this) and other projects, I'm still pluggin' away at this. I think I'm almost there but...
I have made sure all workstations now have their Outlook pointing to the new server. However, when I do a NETSTAT on my old Exchange server I still have about 12 out of 100 systems connecting to the old server. If I do a "Shift Right-Click" and do a "Connection Status" it still shows a single connection to the old server - the rest of the connections are pointing to my CAS Array.
So the question is I guess, how do I figure out WHY it's still connecting to the old server? |
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Moving 2010 to new hardware question...
