My UPS failed last night, and my sbs server shutdown. In doing so it messed
up the information stores so they won't mount.
Since I have a full backup and incrementals of Exchange using NTbackup I
followed the procedure to restore from the Exchange Server 2003 Disaster

I have many users that have been migrated to another
Exchange system. I'd like to recover the file space in
the information stores that is no longer used after the
migration. Since I have IFS (M:) enabled, once I identify

I had a hardware crash, fter wich the Exchange database corrupted.
The crash was due to a scsi / DLT failure, so the backup was not completed.
eseutil /r won't work because of the corruption.
eseutil /p on pub1.edb worked fine, but.....

     I have a backup of an Exchange 2000 server which no longer exists. Is
is possible to restore the storage group/databases to an Exchange 2003
server? The new server is in the same domain but it has a different name. I
have backups of the storage group as well as the log ...

I have a production archive server with 2 SG's. Each SG has 3 mail stores.  I
have been experiencing some problems with backups and would like to remove
the 2nd SG and its mail stores. I am successful with 2 of the 3 mail stores
but get message from mail store 2 that users are ...

We're in a midst of a 5.5 to 2000 migration. We have applied forest prep and
domain prep and an ADC is in place with a Public Folders connection. However
when I tried to add the Exch2000 server that we set-up to replicate the
public folders on 5.5 and click Apply, an error ...

We have Exchange 2000 and run a batch file at night to stop all the Exchange
and McAfee GroupSheild services for an offline backup of the edb files.
However at least twice a week the Information Store takes hours to stop
instead of normally a minute or so.

Not sure if this belongs here or in Microsoft OS and
Software but....
Quick rundown of my mail server equipment:
- Dell poweredge 2550 server running Win2k Advanced Server

We recently had a big crash of one of our Exchange 2000 servers.  We have
restored the data to recovery server, and imported that to our new Exchange
server.  I have modified remote bridgeheads, and & routing group master.  I
have also removed the old Exchange server from AD via ...

I am using NTbackup to test a recovery.
I dismounted all stores
I checked this database can be overwritten by a restore
I restored the Full backup but left "Last Bakcup Set" unchecked

I hope someone can help me.  Our Exchange 2000 all of a
sudden deleted/disapeared (not in deleted items/sent
items/etc...) all email from its server mailboxes for ALL
users yesterday afternoon.  Since then - sometimes mail

I get the follwoing error message when trying to do a full
backup of my Exchange Information store:
Event Type:    Error
Event Source:    ESE

I have a server that when rebooted the Exchange services
(and the Exchange/GroupWise Calendar connector service)
fail during a server restart. The services can be started
manually.

I have a small exchange 2000 server, about 200 users, the problem is the
dimension of  priv1.stm file is 12 GB,  instead the edb file is about 4 GB,
and then i have many files .IFS.
I have not enough space on hdd, it's a big problem,

I have two Exchange 2000 servers. On one the priv1.edb
and priv1.stm files are nearly the same size, 3.5 Gb
vs.2.4 Gb. On the other one the priv1.stm is almost three
times the size of the priv1.edb file, 11.7 Gb vs. 3.5 Gb.