Best Practice Ezine #39 - Lookout, XP and Exchange
Before going onto Exchange, just to remind you of my previous OutLook / LookOut tip. LookOut does
for OutLook what Google does for
searching the web. LookOut
Two Exchange Utilities ESEUTIL and ISINTEG
I have two Exchange utilities which are worth getting to know for their own
sakes, and they may also help you in troubleshooting specific problem like poor
performance, or error 080040301
As ever, my theme is getting you started. To find ESEUTIL or ISINTEG,
either navigate in DOS to the exchsrvr\bin folder (easier) ,or type
path=c:\program files\exchsrvr\bin (cleverer). My point is that if you
issue the ESEUTIL command in DOS, even on an exchange server, nothing will happen unless
you are in the correct path.
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ESEUTIL has several useful switches, for example:
/cc for troubleshooting.
/cc. Take the case where you are restoring exchange but you forgot to select ' The Last
Backup Set Check Box '. The result maybe: Error Code -939523485 To resolve this issue, run the hard recovery process manually by using the
following command: eseutil /cc path of the directory that contains restore.env.
(Naturally Eseutil is not case sensitive.)
Calculating IP Address
ranges is a black art, which many network managers solve by creating custom
Excel spreadsheets. IPAT cracks this problem of allocating IP addresses
in networks in two ways:
For Mr Organized there is a nifty subnet
calculator, you enter the network address and the subnet mask, then IPAT
works out the usable addresses and their ranges.
For Mr Lazy IPAT
discovers and then displays the IP addresses of existing computers.
Download the Free IP Address Tracker
/d to defrag the .edb database
Problem: Exchange's mailstore is bigger than it should be, space from deleted
mailboxes has not been recovered, you have not defragged for
over a year.
Preparation for eseutil -d, first stop the store services.
Make sure you have plenty of free disk space, at least as much as the
priv.edb or store.edb that you wish to defrag.
eseutil /d e:\path\priv.edb (Or other name for your store)
Start the store service when you have finished.
/k to check for damaged headers.
This
/k switch works in the same manner as checksum; useful after an unscheduled
shutdown.
See more ESEUTIL here
ISINTEG - Firstly, one of my rare disclaimers. Be careful with Isinteg,
especially the - fix switch. Backup your exchange .edb
and log files BEFORE you even think about using isinteg. Always begin by
using ISINTEG - test, rather than -fix.
Example, you get error 080040301 when you are moving mailboxes to another store.
Best solution get a hotfix. However, in an emergency try ISINTEG
ISINTEG - s - fix is Guy's candidate for the worlds most dangerous switch,
the - fix has
been know to destroy exchange. So only use in an emergency, and yes you
did backup BEFORE you tried Isinteg -s BigServer -fix?
See more on ISINTEG
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