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Gabrie
Hi
Friday I had a nasty disk failure of a server which services a small
network, it has only about 5 users. It's the only server in the AD,
running as DC ofcourse, W2003 Sp1, Exchange 2003 Sp2. The disk was dead
as dead can be. So the disaster recovery plan kicks in... yeah right.
Last good tape turned out to be from august 15th 2005. Don't get me
started on why.
I put in a new disk, installed W2003 SP1 eval edition (only cd
arround), restored from tape the c-drive, system state and exchange.
After a few reboots solving minor issues about WMI etc, I started
checking my mailboxes. With my own laptop who had an offline cached
outlook, I connected and Outlook started syncing. On a pc that wasn't
using cached mode I connected to the same mailbox. The result was very
strange:
Outlook on laptop:
- Shows mails from beginning of exchange usage until yesterday.
- New mails are not showing, external or internally sent mail.
- Sending e-mail works, mail shows in sent items
- Pressing F9 will sync the mail folders, but gives errors on the
addressbook
Outlook on pc:
- Shows mail until august 15th, then has a gap from aug 15th to
yesterday (as expected), but strangely enough also has 10 mails (out of
200) from the period in between.
- New mail immediately shows in this mailbox
- Sending e-mail works, mail shows in sent items
- When e-mail sent from laptop, these will also show in sent items.
So it looks as if some internal pointer in Outlook is a bit off. Is
there an easy way to correct this? Because it is a small network,
exporting to pst and then importing it all again is a solution. Never
the less, I would like to try and fix it by justing pushing or forcing
something.
Gabrie
Friday I had a nasty disk failure of a server which services a small
network, it has only about 5 users. It's the only server in the AD,
running as DC ofcourse, W2003 Sp1, Exchange 2003 Sp2. The disk was dead
as dead can be. So the disaster recovery plan kicks in... yeah right.
Last good tape turned out to be from august 15th 2005. Don't get me
started on why.
I put in a new disk, installed W2003 SP1 eval edition (only cd
arround), restored from tape the c-drive, system state and exchange.
After a few reboots solving minor issues about WMI etc, I started
checking my mailboxes. With my own laptop who had an offline cached
outlook, I connected and Outlook started syncing. On a pc that wasn't
using cached mode I connected to the same mailbox. The result was very
strange:
Outlook on laptop:
- Shows mails from beginning of exchange usage until yesterday.
- New mails are not showing, external or internally sent mail.
- Sending e-mail works, mail shows in sent items
- Pressing F9 will sync the mail folders, but gives errors on the
addressbook
Outlook on pc:
- Shows mail until august 15th, then has a gap from aug 15th to
yesterday (as expected), but strangely enough also has 10 mails (out of
200) from the period in between.
- New mail immediately shows in this mailbox
- Sending e-mail works, mail shows in sent items
- When e-mail sent from laptop, these will also show in sent items.
So it looks as if some internal pointer in Outlook is a bit off. Is
there an easy way to correct this? Because it is a small network,
exporting to pst and then importing it all again is a solution. Never
the less, I would like to try and fix it by justing pushing or forcing
something.
Gabrie