I am running an Exchange 2000 SBS server.
My client is using public folders containing calendar/contact items. Is
there any way to get rid of items over a certain age eg. items over 6 months
out of date?

Is there a way, within exhcnage 2003, to restore a deleted public folder?  I
asked if the folder was not being used and deleted it, now, all of a sudden,
they do use it.  What is wierd is that my nightly backups are able to
restore the public calendar, but there aren't any ...

Is there any disadvantage, other than time, to backing up the infostore
while users are hitting it at it's peak?  I schedule my backups over night,
but by adding an archiving scheme to my email, i'm cutting down on my backup
windows.  Just wondering what will happen if a backup ...

 We are currently running low on space on our database drive array.  I
formulated a plan that would allow me to upgrade to larger disks.  I would
like to see if it is a feasible plan and also determine if there may be
issues regarding this plan.  The details are below:

We are missing emails for an exchange mailbox. On some folders ALL of the
mail is complete in others it is missing anything from 5/13/04 and prior is
GONE ! The sent items folder has EVERYTHING back from 2004, additional
folders also have everything. For example everything under ...

DEAR ALL,
i made my network as the following :-
 1.one ( DC) win Advanced server 2000
 2.one exchange server 2000 - enterprise edition-.

Where specifically are the messages in the Deleted Items Recovery located
for each mailbox?  I understand that the mailbox counts and size are updated
when an email is "soft" deleted, so the message must be kept somewhere.
Thanks for the help in advance.

I have a user that complains that ever since a recent upgrade (Office
2000->2003), he has lost a Contact entry for one person.  Leaving aside
how that happened in the first place, now when tries to recreate this
entry, he cannot enter the e-mail address!  When he starts typing, ...

Win2k3 & Exch2k3 sp1
AV : Norton Mail Security for Exchange
I had serious corruption my db so I ran a restore and tried to recover the
database. It mounts in the recovey group but cannot recover any mailboxes. My

Looking for any comments regarding the following issue:
We are currently migrating exchange 2000 users to Exchange 2003 and
We mistankely defragmented an Exchange 2000 database with the eseutil from a
Exchange 2003 server, after the defragmentation was completed successfull we

i'd like to grant the domain admins security group "the owner permission"
for all folders, child objects, etc (everything) in entire public folders
hierarchy. is this possible? i open exchange system manager, i navigate to
company_name (exchange), administrative groups, first ...

Where do I go and how do I delete corrupt email in mailboxes at the top of
the Information Store in Exchange2000?? Several users' mailboxes have corrupt
messages in them and Vertias 9.1 gives me an error message and fails the back
up.

One of our users can't open any of his appointments as they pop up on the
screen (Office 2000). When they attempt to open many of their appointments
in their Outlook Calendars, they get messages like "Unable to open this
item." "The end date you entered occurs before the start date" ...

I had an OS drive fail, and had not done an actual backup in quite some
time.  I had my Exchange information store sitting on a RAID 5 disk, and that
remained in tact.  
I proceeded to rebuild the server from scratch.  I used the same domain name

Hi
I have a big problem :S
My service microsoft information store stop since last monday (2 may). stop
one time for day. I have exchange 2000 windows server 2000 groupshield to