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The Fool: Oct 16, 2003

Originally posted in the ticket thread, but this is probably a better fit:

New customer, no backups, had two drives in a raid 5 die. I've been working with them on getting their data recovered, and have got everything set back up except for one thing.

Exchange Public Folders.

They're running Exchange 2007, I set up exchange fresh, and have the 40 gb EDB and a ton of transaction log files from the old server, but restoring the edb into the new server appears to be basically voodoo. All of the write-ups I've seen on restoring databases in this situation mostly involve using a recovery store, but that public folders don't work with a recovery store.

What do I need to do to get the public folder database up and running again without sacrificing a goat?

# ¿ Jun 6, 2011 18:55

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 01:05

The Fool: Oct 16, 2003

Gyshall posted:

Don't quote me on this, but you should be able to use Outlook to dump the public folders to a PST file, and then export or save them as MSG files then.

I'm quoting you. ha

That would probably be possible if the public folders were cached in an OST. That's how I recovered their mailboxes. I'll look into it, but if all of the folders were not cached, it may not work.

e: I would prefer to be able to mount the edb in exchange anyway, if possible

# ¿ Jun 6, 2011 20:44

The Fool: Oct 16, 2003

The Fool posted:

Originally posted in the ticket thread, but this is probably a better fit:

New customer, no backups, had two drives in a raid 5 die. I've been working with them on getting their data recovered, and have got everything set back up except for one thing.

Exchange Public Folders.

They're running Exchange 2007, I set up exchange fresh, and have the 40 gb EDB and a ton of transaction log files from the old server, but restoring the edb into the new server appears to be basically voodoo. All of the write-ups I've seen on restoring databases in this situation mostly involve using a recovery store, but that public folders don't work with a recovery store.

What do I need to do to get the public folder database up and running again without sacrificing a goat?

So, after doing some stuff with eseutil, I am getting an error in event viewer that says the db is not mounting because the site and org name are different. After doing some research it appears the only way to resolve this without any downtime on the customers part is going to be:

1. Setup a test install in vmware at my shop, matching the original site and org names
2. Restore db's to test environment.
3. use either exmerge or an outlook client to export what I need to pst
4. import from pst to new server

Am I right in thinking that this is probably the best way to do this?

# ¿ Jun 7, 2011 00:48

The Fool: Oct 16, 2003

Customer of mine has started having a problem sending e-mail to specific government related addresses. My message implies that it's being rejected as spam, but I'm not on any of the blacklists I've checked using mxtoolbox or dnsbl. Both the mxtoolbox smtp test and the dns health test seem to show that everything is configured fine on my end. I've had no luck contacting admins for any of the addresses we're having problems with.

Censored NDS follows:

code:

ESMTP rejected your message to the following e-mail addresses:
 
[email]xxxxx@eielson.af.mil[/email] (xxxxx@eielson.af.mil)
 
ESMTP gave this error:
Transaction Failed Spam Message not queued. 
 
A problem occurred during the delivery of this message 
to this e-mail address. Try sending this message again.
 If the problem continues, please contact your helpdesk.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Diagnostic information for administrators:
 
Generating server: TPECI-SERVER.tpeci.local
 
[email]xxxxx@eielson.af.mil[/email]
ESMTP #554 Transaction Failed Spam Message not queued. ##
 
Original message headers:
 
Received: from TPECI-SERVER.tpeci.local ([fe80::f81a:9a25:943a:c078]) by
 TPECI-SERVER.tpeci.local ([fe80::8d6b:3650:338c:1edd%11]) with mapi id
 14.01.0218.012; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:56:37 -0800
From: xxxxx xxxxx <xxxxx@tpeci.com>
To: "xxxxx@eielson.af.mil" <xxxxx@eielson.af.mil>
Subject: test
Thread-Topic: test
Thread-Index: AcxFrrVnsepsegE6Q2yw0yn/LtH6WQ==
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:56:35 +0000
Message-ID: <E096E75663ABF64480F1530441A280D210E96A39@TPECI-SERVER.tpeci.local>
Accept-Language: en-US
Content-Language: en-US
X-MS-Has-Attach:
X-MS-TNEF-Correlator:
x-originating-ip: [192.168.1.117]
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
        boundary="_000_E096E75663ABF64480F1530441A280D210E96A39TPECISERVERtpec_"
MIME-Version: 1.0

# ¿ Jul 19, 2011 17:58

The Fool: Oct 16, 2003

Thanks for the ideas,

rDNS PTR and FQDN both match the mx record of mail.tpeci.com

I have no SPF record set, I will fix that now.

If that doesn't help, I'll come back with SMTPDiag results

# ¿ Jul 19, 2011 20:49

The Fool: Oct 16, 2003

The Fool posted:

Thanks for the ideas,

rDNS PTR and FQDN both match the mx record of mail.tpeci.com

I have no SPF record set, I will fix that now.

If that doesn't help, I'll come back with SMTPDiag results

SPF record is set, and propagated. SPF record passed tests at http://www.kitterman.com/spf/validate.html

Ran SMTPdiag, and my server passed all of the tests.

We are still having problems with .gov and .mil e-mail addresses.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2011 00:51

The Fool: Oct 16, 2003

Mierdaan posted:

Are these actual messages or OOO replies that are getting rejected?

Actual e-mail messages are getting rejected.

Mierdaan posted:

I'm not sure what SMTPdiag does - can you walk through the smtp dialog in telnet and see if there's any more information given there?

Annoyingly, if I telnet mail4.blm.gov 25 from the server and send a test e-mail that way, it all appears to go through with no problems, and I have yet to receive an NDR from it. On the other hand, sending a test e-mail from exchange, I still immediately get the same NDR.

The Fool fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Jul 20, 2011

# ¿ Jul 20, 2011 01:10

The Fool: Oct 16, 2003

Linux Nazi posted:

If you add -v you get a pretty verbose response that will include anything you are likely to see in the raw logs. If it passes that, and still cant be submitted via exchange then idk.

smtpdiag.exe "sender@domain.com" "reciever@domain.gov" -v

If you want, post the get-sendconnector|fl output?

I was working on another project for a while, but this is still an issue, so I'm revisiting it. I've tried contacting admins at a couple of the domains we're having problems with but haven't had any luck. (gently caress federal employees)

Here's the output from get-sendconnector|fl

code:

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>get-sendconnector|fl


AddressSpaces                : {SMTP:*;1}
AuthenticationCredential     :
Comment                      :
ConnectedDomains             : {}
ConnectionInactivityTimeOut  : 00:10:00
DNSRoutingEnabled            : True
DomainSecureEnabled          : False
Enabled                      : True
ErrorPolicies                : Default
ForceHELO                    : False
Fqdn                         : mail.tpeci.com
HomeMTA                      : Microsoft MTA
HomeMtaServerId              : TPECI-SERVER
Identity                     : Send Internet Mail
IgnoreSTARTTLS               : False
IsScopedConnector            : False
IsSmtpConnector              : True
LinkedReceiveConnector       :
MaxMessageSize               : 10 MB (10,485,760 bytes)
Name                         : Send Internet Mail
Port                         : 25
ProtocolLoggingLevel         : None
RequireOorg                  : False
RequireTLS                   : False
SmartHostAuthMechanism       : None
SmartHosts                   : {}
SmartHostsString             :
SmtpMaxMessagesPerConnection : 20
SourceIPAddress              : 0.0.0.0
SourceRoutingGroup           : Exchange Routing Group (DWBGZMFD01QNBJR)
SourceTransportServers       : {TPECI-SERVER}
TlsAuthLevel                 :
TlsDomain                    :
UseExternalDNSServersEnabled : False

And here's some log data from my send connector:

code:

#Software: Microsoft Exchange Server
#Version: 14.0.0.0
#Log-type: SMTP Send Protocol Log
#Date: 2011-07-28T16:55:28.893Z
#Fields: date-time,connector-id,session-id,sequence-number,local-endpoint,remote-endpoint,event,data,context
2011-07-28T16:55:28.893Z,Send Internet Mail,08CE0DFE7BCC3E4E,0,,204.124.92.28:25,*,,attempting to connect
2011-07-28T16:55:29.000Z,Send Internet Mail,08CE0DFE7BCC3E4E,1,192.168.1.50:33452,204.124.92.28:25,+,,
2011-07-28T16:55:29.199Z,Send Internet Mail,08CE0DFE7BCC3E4E,2,192.168.1.50:33452,204.124.92.28:25,<,220 SMTP Proxy Server Ready,
2011-07-28T16:55:29.199Z,Send Internet Mail,08CE0DFE7BCC3E4E,3,192.168.1.50:33452,204.124.92.28:25,>,EHLO mail.tpeci.com,
2011-07-28T16:55:29.302Z,Send Internet Mail,08CE0DFE7BCC3E4E,4,192.168.1.50:33452,204.124.92.28:25,<,250-ESMTP Server Ready,
2011-07-28T16:55:29.302Z,Send Internet Mail,08CE0DFE7BCC3E4E,5,192.168.1.50:33452,204.124.92.28:25,<,250-SIZE 5242880,
2011-07-28T16:55:29.302Z,Send Internet Mail,08CE0DFE7BCC3E4E,6,192.168.1.50:33452,204.124.92.28:25,<,250 DSN,
2011-07-28T16:55:29.302Z,Send Internet Mail,08CE0DFE7BCC3E4E,7,192.168.1.50:33452,204.124.92.28:25,*,5077,sending message
2011-07-28T16:55:29.302Z,Send Internet Mail,08CE0DFE7BCC3E4E,8,192.168.1.50:33452,204.124.92.28:25,>,MAIL FROM:<GCity@tpeci.com> SIZE=3733,
2011-07-28T16:55:29.404Z,Send Internet Mail,08CE0DFE7BCC3E4E,9,192.168.1.50:33452,204.124.92.28:25,<,250 +OK Sender OK,
2011-07-28T16:55:29.404Z,Send Internet Mail,08CE0DFE7BCC3E4E,10,192.168.1.50:33452,204.124.92.28:25,>,RCPT TO:<xxxxx@blm.gov>,
2011-07-28T16:55:29.504Z,Send Internet Mail,08CE0DFE7BCC3E4E,11,192.168.1.50:33452,204.124.92.28:25,<,250 +OK Recipient OK,
2011-07-28T16:55:29.505Z,Send Internet Mail,08CE0DFE7BCC3E4E,12,192.168.1.50:33452,204.124.92.28:25,>,DATA,
2011-07-28T16:55:29.604Z,Send Internet Mail,08CE0DFE7BCC3E4E,13,192.168.1.50:33452,204.124.92.28:25,<,"354 Start mail input, end with '<CR><LF>.<CR><LF>'  ",
2011-07-28T16:55:29.763Z,Send Internet Mail,08CE0DFE7BCC3E4E,14,192.168.1.50:33452,204.124.92.28:25,<,554 Transaction Failed Spam Message not queued.,
2011-07-28T16:55:29.840Z,Send Internet Mail,08CE0DFE7BCC3E4E,15,192.168.1.50:33452,204.124.92.28:25,>,QUIT,
2011-07-28T16:55:29.944Z,Send Internet Mail,08CE0DFE7BCC3E4E,16,192.168.1.50:33452,204.124.92.28:25,<,221 Service closing transmission channel closing connection,
2011-07-28T16:55:29.944Z,Send Internet Mail,08CE0DFE7BCC3E4E,17,192.168.1.50:33452,204.124.92.28:25,-,,Local

While this hasn't been a high priority, it still needs to get resolved. I wasn't wanting to but I may just have to convince the client to go with postini or something similar.

# ¿ Jul 28, 2011 18:07

The Fool: Oct 16, 2003

Moey posted:

Alaska!

May want to edit out your company info, up to you though.

Not too worried about it, anyone that lives in this town would recognize my avatar.

Linux Nazi posted:

Do you have any default signatures or transport rules appending messages in any way?

No default signatures, no transport rules. This is literally a fresh install of SBS 2011.

Linux Nazi posted:

Also your connector is completely typical, if you don't mind show me your Get-RemoteDomain|fl output.

code:

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-RemoteDomain|fl
Creating a new session for implicit remoting of "Get-RemoteDomain" command...


RunspaceId                        : 2e481e5b-4524-4a24-8458-f8ae5e148dd2
DomainName                        : *
IsInternal                        : False
TargetDeliveryDomain              : False
CharacterSet                      : iso-8859-1
NonMimeCharacterSet               : iso-8859-1
AllowedOOFType                    : External
AutoReplyEnabled                  : False
AutoForwardEnabled                : False
DeliveryReportEnabled             : True
NDREnabled                        : True
MeetingForwardNotificationEnabled : False
ContentType                       : MimeHtmlText
DisplaySenderName                 : True
TNEFEnabled                       :
LineWrapSize                      : unlimited
TrustedMailOutboundEnabled        : False
TrustedMailInboundEnabled         : False
UseSimpleDisplayName              : False
NDRDiagnosticInfoEnabled          : True
AdminDisplayName                  :
ExchangeVersion                   : 0.1 (8.0.535.0)
Name                              : Default
DistinguishedName                 : CN=Default,CN=Internet Message Formats,CN=Global Settings,CN=First Organization,CN=
                                    Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=tpeci,DC=local
Identity                          : Default
Guid                              : d14aa643-ea2d-4128-8f44-beae12bca10c
ObjectCategory                    : tpeci.local/Configuration/Schema/ms-Exch-Domain-Content-Config
ObjectClass                       : {top, msExchDomainContentConfig}
WhenChanged                       : 6/14/2011 11:59:39 AM
WhenCreated                       : 6/14/2011 11:59:39 AM
WhenChangedUTC                    : 6/14/2011 7:59:39 PM
WhenCreatedUTC                    : 6/14/2011 7:59:39 PM
OrganizationId                    :
OriginatingServer                 : TPECI-SERVER.tpeci.local
IsValid                           : True

No unique configuration here either.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2011 00:13

The Fool: Oct 16, 2003

Drumstick posted:

In exchange how can I set it so that a users mail from their old user name is sent to the new inbox? I would prefer to do this from exchange rather then relying on users to set up forwarding.

Does the old mailbox still exist? If not, you can set an e-mail alias pretty easily. What version of exchange?

# ¿ Aug 1, 2011 18:42

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 01:05

The Fool: Oct 16, 2003

Mithra6 posted:

Not entirely on topic, but I figured someone here would know.

I read somewhere in SA that O'Reilly has some kind of subscription thingy where you can have access to all of their e-books for a certain flat fee.

I couldn't find it on their website. Am I imagining things?

http://www.safaribooksonline.com

It's a bit pricey if your employer isn't willing to pick it up for you though.

# ¿ Aug 16, 2011 21:49

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