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Exchange Load Generator (32 bit)

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How to increase the Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 18-gigabyte database size limit

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

INTRODUCTION

New functionality has been included with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2). You can now configure database size limits.

The database size limits for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition have been increased from 16 GB to 18 GB. The limit can be increased to as much as 75 GB by using a registry key.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise Edition does not have a maximum database size limit.

For more information about how to set the database size limit, see the Exchange Server 2003 Help topic. The Help topic was updated during the installation of Exchange Server 2003 SP2.

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Warning Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly by using Registry Editor or by using another method. These problems might require that you reinstall the operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that these problems can be solved. Modify the registry at your own risk.

To increase the Exchange Server 2003 SP2 database size, follow these steps.

Important Before you increase the maximum size of an Exchange database, verify that sufficient hard disk space is available for the larger database.

1. On the computer that is running Exchange 2003 SP2, click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. Click one of the following registry subkeys, as appropriate for the store that you want to increase: • For a mailbox store, click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeIS\Server name\Private-Mailbox Store GUID
 
• For a public folder store, click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeIS\Server name\Public-Public Store GUID
 
 
3. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
4. In the New Value #1 box, type Database Size Limit in Gb, and then press ENTER.
5. Right-click Database Size Limit in Gb, and then click Modify.
6. Click Decimal, and then type an integer from 1 to 75 in the Value data box.
Note These integer values represent the maximum size of the database in gigabytes (GB). For example, a value of 75 represents a database that has a maximum size of 75 GB.
 
7. Click OK, and then exit Registry Editor.
8. Restart the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service. To do this, follow these steps: a. Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK.
b. At the command prompt, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
net stop msexchangeis
 
c. After the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service has stopped successfully, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
net start msexchangeis
 
 
9. Examine the Application log to verify that the database size has been set successfully. To do this, follow these steps: a. Click Start, click Run, type eventvwr, and then click OK.
b. In the Event Viewer tool, click Application.
c. Double-click event ID 1216 to verify that the database size has been set successfully.
 

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Exchange 2003

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

1.) Restore to last full backup

2.) Run a repair of the databases with posible dataloss (see procedure

below)

a.) Stop the information store service

b) Move out to a safe location all transaction log files

c) Run eseutil /p on the priv1.edb

d) Run eseutil /d on the priv1.edb (this will require at least 110% of the

database size of free space)

e) Start the IS service

f) Mount and then Dismount the Database

g) Run “ininteg -s<servername> -fix -test alltest” until you get 0 fixes

performed

h) Mount the databases

This process will do a hard repair on your databases and then clean up after
the fact.? This process is only to be used in situations where there is no
other alternative.

Microsoft Exchange Server Mailbox Merge Wizard (ExMerge)

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

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Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Help

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

The Exchange Server 2007 Help can help you in the day-to-day administration of Exchange. Use this information to guide you through Exchange Server 2007 features, tasks, and administration procedures.

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Permissions on Mailbox Folders

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Grant Mailbox Rights

  1. Login to a machine with the account that you want to use to make the setting changes. This machine needs to have Outlook installed, and preferably the Exchange System Manager tools.
  2. Start ADMODIFY and select the users that you want to change.
  3. Click Next and choose the tab “Mailbox Rights”.
  4. The setting you want to change is “Add User to Mailbox Rights”, enter the username of the account you are using in the format domain\username and select the option “Full Mailbox Rights”.

Start Setperm

  1. Setperm needs to be run from a command line, initially connecting to a specific mailbox.
    Open a command prompt in the folder where you have extracted the setperm.exe utility.
  2. Start the application using the following command:setperm /Mailbox:alias\servername

    For example, if your mailbox is jsmith and the server is mail1 then you would enter:

    setperm /Mailbox:jsmith\mail1
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  3. If you get an ActiveX error such as
    “Run-time error ‘429’:
    ActiveX component can’t create object ”
    Then you haven’t registered the dll file correctly – repeat and try again.
  4. Once you have brought up the box, adjust the permissions as required.
    Setting the permissions: Your best option is to set the “Reviewer” permission to your equivalent to “All Staff”. Then set higher permissions on an individual or group basis. Don’t use the default setting – choose “Custom” and then select the group.
  5. Select the mailboxes that you want to set these permissions on – you cannot use a group – but you can select all the mailboxes using the standard methods.
  6. Once satisfied, click “Set Permissions”.

The tool will now connect to each mailbox and set the permissions as required. Note that you can only do one set of permissions at a time – so if you want some users to have “Reviewer” and others to have higher permissions, you will need to run the tool again to set the alternative permissions.

Once the tool has finished, check the permissions are correct. You should then remove the rights to the mailbox that you granted to yourself.

Remove Mailbox Rights

You should remove the mailbox rights so that they are set as before. This is not only good practise from a security point of view, it also ensures that you do not come under suspicion of illicit mailbox access.

Repeat the process that you used to grant the mailbox rights. EXCEPT:

  • Do not select the account you are using – otherwise you will lock yourself out of the mailbox.
  • Select the option to remove the full mailbox rights.

Permissions on Mailbox Folders