Exchange Hell

So, the message store unmounted itself around 12:45 this PM. So I re-mounted it. And a minute later, it unmounted itself. ???

So a quick peek at the application log showed the application log was full. So I cleared it. And mounted again. And then I got the error when it unmounted. The store had reached it's size limit. "Eh?", I thought. There is no size limit. Google quickly told me that the Standard Edition of Exchange has a 16GB limit. Only, I was under the impression I had installed the Enterprise Edition. Apparently, I was mistaken. :(

So the mail/calendar server that's been in production for two weeks now goes out in the middle of the day. And it will take a few hours to defrag the store to free up space. And it worked, took only 2.5 hours, got it back up around 4pm, 3 hours after I first noticed there was a problem.

To fix this, I need to install the right version. Which we need to buy. So we get our reseller on the horn, he shoots us a quote, we get the PO filled out and signed, and run down to the Purchasing chick to get it processed. Only, she left early. So we run up to see her backup. Only, she's sick today. So we can't get the order in until Wed. AM, and it takes 2 days to get the media to us thanks to Microsoft's anti-Piracy bullshit.

So I'm nursing this wounded beast along for a few days. Trimmed a GB off the size. Added a temporary GB to the limit via a registry hack. I'll hit up the heavy users to trim some fat, and defrag again tomorrow night.

I've lost a lot of fights in my time. But losing the anti-Exchange one is proving to be the most painful.

Posted by danisaacs at April 15, 2003 09:31 PM | TrackBack