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2003 Exchange Down after Acronis Disk management attempt
Our 2003 Exchange server is Down after Acronis Disk management attempt
Here is our layout
C: (OS)
E: (Exchange installed + data files)
I installed Acronis Disk Manager to free up some space on C:\ and reduced the disk space on E: to allow some room
Normally this isnt an issue, but after the reboot Acronis started the process and then errored out. i start up the OS and my E: drive is gone! Under disk management I was able to find it and assign the drive letter E back to it, all the MS exchange services are stopped when I try to start them I get...
could not start...>XXXXXXXX.. on the local computer ..
any ideas, I've restore from a back up already.. exchange was working when i assigned the drive letter back but I tried the disk manager again thinking it was a faul and now I got the same results and exchange is out
Ideas?
Here is our layout
C: (OS)
E: (Exchange installed + data files)
I installed Acronis Disk Manager to free up some space on C:\ and reduced the disk space on E: to allow some room
Normally this isnt an issue, but after the reboot Acronis started the process and then errored out. i start up the OS and my E: drive is gone! Under disk management I was able to find it and assign the drive letter E back to it, all the MS exchange services are stopped when I try to start them I get...
could not start...>XXXXXXXX.. on the local computer ..
any ideas, I've restore from a back up already.. exchange was working when i assigned the drive letter back but I tried the disk manager again thinking it was a faul and now I got the same results and exchange is out
Ideas?
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I changed the drive letter to D: and I was able to start the services but exchange still isnt working
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I was able to get the server up and running, Im sending and receiving email but one on mobile devices and on OWA, if I go to a client like outlook 2010, it says connected but the emails are not sync'ed ..
Ideas?
Ideas?
Time to resort to your last full backup before you installed Acronis, which I would hope you took before doing something potentially lethal like messing with the disk partitions.
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what no..Ive got everything up and working.. my issue now is we are receiving mail via OWA and mobile devices, but not via outlook clients, well some work, some dont. I read up and it they we talking about the clients running in cache mode
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Ok that makes sense but for 100+ clients?
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deleting the .ost file did work thank you.. is there a way to automate this i wonder
I am not sure you would want to automate the deletion of OST files since you would need to ensure the Exchange clients were not operational and then there is the oops I didn't mean to do that factor.
That said if you really wanted to you could do something as simple as a batch file that would delete the OST files on each machine, you just need to map the location of each machines OST
But again I wouldn't do this since the OST can be your friend, i.e. as Alan pointed out in a failure like this you can have users connect to Outlook in Offline mode to access the OST contents and then export to PST as a fallback method for any missing items for each user
That said if you really wanted to you could do something as simple as a batch file that would delete the OST files on each machine, you just need to map the location of each machines OST
But again I wouldn't do this since the OST can be your friend, i.e. as Alan pointed out in a failure like this you can have users connect to Outlook in Offline mode to access the OST contents and then export to PST as a fallback method for any missing items for each user
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