Trying to figure specifically what's slowed down a laptop, but I guess it's a general question

windows 10 pro laptop, joined to a domain, but off the network for months now.

it's an i5 and 8GB ram, 320 GB 720RPM hard drive with about 100GB of data (so there's space on the hard drive).

I ran crystal disk info and it says the drive is physically OK.

Ran disk cleanup, removed old system files
Ran ccleaner for disk cleanup and registry clean up

But overall, the computer is sluggish  and will take upwards of 7 minutes to restart (keeps saying restarting'.  Although repeated restarts, the time does drop to 3 minutes or so.

It did have bitlocker turned on and it was running OK.  Then I wanted to put in an SSD and read you should turn off bitlocker.  started that and also ran the windows native disk cleanup... it was deleting files while also decrypting.  then it froze / I let it sit for hours.... black screen / woudln't wake up.

Turned off by pressing power button, then turned back on.  I think this is when it got sluggish.

I turned on bitlocker, it encrypted, then I turned off bitlocker / it decrypted...  still sluggish, especially at restart.

I cloned the drive to an SSD and it runs nice and fast.  So the software isn't corrupted - it cloned a fast experience.  

What about cloning back to the regular hard drive.  Might speed up the experience on the old drive?

I also ran wise registry cleanup.  the rotating hard drive was still slow opening apps,…

Hello,

We are running Small Business Server 2011 with Exchange 2010.  it has been patched and updated recently to the latest updates.

We had a user, AJ, that left the company 3 years ago.  His account was deleted a few months, maybe 6, after he left.  The mailbox was deleted and the AD User. when he returned we created the account as new and added a mailbox.   we are having some issues with people not being able to email him. we get hard bounces with what looks like and LDAP lookup string being the unknown address.

I have done some research and it points to the X500 address being wrong. everything I have used to find the proper legacy email DN has failed. i used a powershell command from the exchange management console, but that did not seem to work. all the examples I have read about don't quite line up with what I'm seeing. I was told to get the legacy info from ADSI, but I don't have the attribute tab.

Any suggestions that might help?

Thanks,
Matt.

Recover from the loss of an Exchange DB.

I have lost an Exchange 2010 Database, without going into it, I have no backup.

The question is how to recover from this situation.
About 20 users.  DB Size approx 200GB
All users of their email in OST files on there PC's.
Exchange is running in a Hyper-V Guest
Have access to the DB Files.

Believe that an underling disk error, on the host, corrupted the DB.
(as a side not - and not that it matters to getting this issue fix, believe the disk was the cause for the backup failures, hence no backup)

Thinking - Create a new DB on a different physical disk.
Move the users to the new DB - is this possible if the original DB cannot be mounted?

So apart from - is this a good way to go - the other questions are;
Do I need to do anything with outlook for the clients to connect to the new DB?
As their mailboxes would be empty in the new DB, will outlook sync the OST file contents back up to exchange?

If the OST wont sync, should I convert them to PST and then manually attach the PST to the Outlook Profile and them move the email into the empty DB.

I appreciate any any scenario I will loose single instance store and therefore the DB will end up larger than the original.

Has anyone used/got thoughts on - using 3rd party exchange DB recovery software?
if it can't recovery everything, then again will the OST sync up the missing emails or are they gone?


Any suggestions help would be appreciate.

Setting up our first 'real' client on office 365 (others have been SOHO accounts - either new domains / starting from scratch or existing IMAP accounts.  but never more than 2 - 3 mailboxes).

Here we have 12 users on an SBS 2011 standard domain with the exchange running on the SBS 2010

They would like a proposal for moving to office 365.

Would anyone care to share their thinking on the things involved and the time involved below? Or does Microsoft offer info on this?

I would envision figuring the time is  a bit of a formula?  

Some fixed hours for setting up the office 365 tenant, changing the MX, SPF records, disabling exchange on the sbs box, and ____?  This would be the base work you'd do for setting up a domain that has 1 user or 100 users.... call that AccountSetupHours

Then there's time per mailbox to setup that specific user account on office 365, touch each desktop and each user's phone to change where outlook is pointing to (is there an easier way than just hitting each desk and each phone?  I am using Synnex as CSP for office 365 and they say for that small a number of users, there's a migrationwiz product but doesn't make sense to use that product).   Call that time PerUserSetupHours.  Figure this does NOT include migration of old data)

And they most likely would want it, but to keep it separate, migrating their old data as a separate item -  setup and running migrationwhiz (i never used it before), What else would go under this?  But …

I have a netbook (remember those!?).  It's a Toshiba with an Atom N280 processor, 2GB ram and a 160GB platter hard drive (Im only using 35GB of it).  It's running win 7 STARTER

IT 'works' but whatever you need to do on it just takes soooo long.

That's the max amount of ram it can take.  Any way to tell what replacing the drive with an SSD would do?  And maybe use some of the drive as RAM / swap file, etc?  Would that make a difference?  Or the boat anchor processor will kill it anyway?

damn, makes my skin crawl looking at what I am playing with

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Atom+N280+%40+1.66GHz&id=615

hundreds?!  When 'normal' chips are thousands!?

Haven’t had to deal with this in a while but have a client we handle LAN tasks for. Their current web/ imap / pop mail host lowered mailbox limits to unusable numbers.

They don’t want to go to o365.

I’ve used hostgator reseller account for years but in thinking of moving them there I remember how we have wanted to get away from hostgator for so long. Their service / support works just enough to keep my inertia on moving at bay.

I know HG (and many other hosts) are part of a much larger holding company.

Is there any good hosting company you’d recommend? Or warn about?

I need a Step by Step Guide to migrating Exchange 2010 from Windows SBS 2011 to new hardware running Windows Server 2016 (DC).  I am not terribly familiar with the Exchange Powershell system so need to know how to do this via the Management Console if possible.  The existing Windows SBS 2011 server (DC) will remain in service but only for a short time as hardware is well past its sell buy date.  Many thanks

This is likely networking 101, but.... I'm stuck.

SBS 2011 server at location A (192.168.1.0 subnet)
Location B is connected to location A with VPN, subnet 192.168.2.0.  The router at location B currently gives out public DNS IP addresses

What's the right way to set things up for domain added laptops running win 10 pro at location B to be able to access shares on the server like \\serer\files?  The server is the domain controller.  There's only that 1 server.

Use a Hosts file?  It has that now with entries:

server  192.168.1.3
server.domainname.local  192.168.1.3 (is this needed?)

When they click on a mapped drive, a windows security box pops up asking for credentials, and even though we check 'remember my credentials', it asks again after a reboot.  This window ALSO says 'the system cannot contact a doimain controller to service the authentication request.  Please try again later.

You click OK after adding credentials, get to the files and all is fine.  till a reboot.

What do I need to do so it can get to the domain controller across the VPN?

Why doesn't it save the credentials after a reboot?

Why does it even ask for the credentials - the user and password entered when logging in are the credentials.

THANKS!

Posted a previous question about removing the password from a PDF that I DO have the password for.  Just to simplify opening it going forward (accountant emailed tax returns with our SSN on them).  Different ways to do that, but printing to a new PDF is 1 way and seems to be (for me) the cheapest / simplest way.

Touches on another issue that I've wondered about for a long time.

Printing  a PDF (or even a web page or text doc, etc) to PDF using different apps can yield wildly different size documents.

Any (free preferred) app that you like for printing to PDF ... and makes small resulting files?

I know with this password protected file (monochrome text), the original was 90KB and any app I tried using to make a PDF resulted in files that  was hundred Kilobytes / megabytes.

And even PDF Forge - for a password protected PDF, it won't even print to PDF (at least when viewing it from Adobe Reader.

From PDF Forge forum:

it isn't really up to us, this is a Ghostscript "feature". Ghostscript is what PDFCreator uses internally to convert the Postscript print data to PDF and other formats.
The idea behind it (I guess) is that you can't use Ghostscript to strip protection from PDF files. Even though the settings allow print, printing it to a virtual PDF printer will basically remove the user password for you, so it is really something different than printing it to a piece of paper. On the other hand, if you have the password and you can view/copy all content …

Exchange 2010 on an SBS 2011 server, starting a few days ago, the transport DB mail.que is growing to ~5GB at which time the Exchange transport moves the  Queue folder contents to  a subfolder Queue.old and proceeds again with rapid expansion of the mail.que file, along with ~1,000 .log files.  The Transport service will steadily increase in CPU and Memory usage.  Once the mail.que file hits ~ 5GB the second time, the service stops.   The service does however change status in services.msc, to blank.   I disable the service and reboot the server, rename the Queue folder, restart the transport service and the cycle starts over.  The entire cycle of events takes 1 - 2 hours to complete.

During the time that the Transport services is running, mail moves in and out, running a Get-Queue at various times during the 1-2 hours shows mail moving through without issue the queue is empty most of the time once it processes through the stacked up messages from being down.

Following are the items attempted/addressed so far, in chronological order:

Verified no AV is loaded or scanning now.
Verified Drive space is no issue
Mail.que stops growing when transport service is stopped.
Edited the Edgetransport.config to move the QueueDatabasePath and QueueDatabaseLoggingPath to another partition.
Downloaded and Scanned the system with Malwarebytes, no issues found, uninstalled.

I am familiar in Exchange Admin but not an expert by any means.

Thanks,

Dave