Exchange 2007 and VMWare snapshots

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• Exchange 2007 and NetApp FC

  Here's the skinny:

  1200 + users. approx. 600 GB data messaging; 1 CASE/HTX server & 1 Server MBX under EXC 2007 Enterprise 64-bit, server 08.  We have a lot of equipment and storage for the design.  I have questions on is the configfor of the vm to the server of the mailbox.  I had intended to give the vm vHDD 2.  1 vmfs containing BONES and such and the 2nd vHDD would be a RDM to FC SAN volume.

  All thoughts, recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

  I would create readers separate newspapers and mailboxes, databases between 500 GB and more boxes to the letters and 100 GB for logs and each environment varies so plan accordingly.  Did you check NetApp & Exchange 2007 on VMware best practices for different scenarios and designs.  Here's a quick look at http://www-download.netapp.com/edm/TT/docs/NetApp_VMware_Exchange_TR.pdf I'm assuming you use CCR so plan carefully for optimal performance and layoffs.

  If you found this information useful, please consider awarding points to 'Correct' or 'useful '. Thank you!!!

  Kind regards

  Stefan Nguyen

  VMware vExpert 2009

  iGeek Systems Inc.

  VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Consultant

• Exchange 2007 and Cliq

  I can't add an Exchange 2007 account in Corporate Sync. I have an Exchange 2003 account works fine, but the Exchange 2007 keeps saying invalid account information. I use the generated self Cert deployment Exchange and not a public cert if it matters. I also tried to use SMTP on Port 587, I can receive emails, but cannot send via this method. I tried 2 different Exchange 2007, OWA on the two exchange 2007 servers is defined and works very well.

  I agree, if you can connect with the touchdown, then other connections should be good. I just re-read your first message.

  I think your self generated cert is the problem. There is no root to validate the cert self-produced, and from what I can tell there is no way to install certificates root on the Cliq. Reading the android forums, there is no central key database on Android, each application maintains its own keys and the root certificates.

  Touchdown, have its own store of certificates and import tool. Also, true touchdown push. Construction Enterprise sync tool is every 15 minutes.

  Post edited by: AlphaDog

• Snapshot with Exchange 2007 and AD backups?

  Hi all

  I was wondering if best practices in ESX4 changed regarding snapshots for backups go. Is still a bad idea to take a snapshot of your Exchange and AD server? As I know that in the last restore from a snapshot in a situation of failure total was not recommended for AD or Exchange. This changed at all or anyone has tested this more in detail?

  Also as far as backups go it is always advisable to make an announcement file level backup and exchange with your agent of backup software (IE. Backup Exec Agent 12.5 Exchange / AD agent, ect)

  A lot depends on how you have the Exchange Setup program.  You have your database and logs on the VMDK files?  RDM?  All these things will make a difference on how you protect the virtual machine.  In my view, there is no size unique all the backup strategy for virtual machines and applications, so it depends on what your environment looks like.

  I have the environments that use snapshots and vRanger to connect to VMS Exchange backup.  But the restore strategy depends on what actually happens to know which method is used for the restore.

• Exchange 2007 and Outlook 2007 (public folder favorite Outlook)

  Adding a public folder to favorite Outlook

  Under favorite folders, all bookmarks that link to public folders have "public folders" added to name favorites.

  This means that I must make the column wide artificially in order to not see the number of unread messages in these folders.

  Is there a way to display the Favorites so the expression "in the public records" does not appear as part of the name of the folder?

  Thank you.

  For more help on this thread post your request in the below link

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en/exchangesvrclients/threads

• Exchange 2007: HA solution for the mailbox role

  Hello!

  I'm a new infrastructure of Exchange 2007 on VMWare vSphere 4.1 design... My question is about HA for servers with the role of box mailbox.

  I need to no (or little) downtime, so HA vSphere isn't enough... in design documents, I found two solutions:

  -two VM clustered Windows 2008 (part of witness) + CSC Exchange (CCR)

  -a single VM with vSphere active FT

  Which is the best solution in your opinion / experience? I would use FT but I'm worried by the limit of 1vCPU.

  Thank you!

  The amount of required CPU will be directly linked the number of mailboxes, that you intend to host the mailbox profile.  A single vCPU should be plenty for up to the mailbox of 750-1000 of a medium profile (100 messages sent/rec'd by day).  The MS Exchange team has a calculator that you can use to determine the exact cpu and memory required for your configuration (http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/07/05/445802.aspx).

  EMC has conducted trials of a unique virtual machine running 1000 mailboxes and protected by FT (http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/technical-documentation/h6237-virtual-infrastructure-clariion-cx4-120-vsphere-reference-architecture.pdf).

  Which solution is right for you will depend on what you are trying to protect and how much you want to spend on the solution.  FT will be work very well protect against hardware failures, not need business licenses and have no service interruptions but as failover, is limited to a single vCPU.  Exchange 2007 CCR will protect against hardware and software failures (awareness of the Exchange), but you will have to maintain two virtual machines / systemes systems operating, requires twice the storage and requires licensing of the company.

  -alex

• Exchange 2007/Forefront 10 SP1

  We are planning to launch an Exchange 2007 environment virtually for updating our current Exchange 2003 servers.  Currently, these servers are in a test environment, but we seek to implement in production as soon as possible.  For our Setup, we have 2 Exchange servers (1 mailbox, 1 CASE/Hub Transport).  We gave letters 8 GB of RAM and 4 GB of RAM IF the server.  Both have 1vCPU assigned to them.  We don't see huge problems with Exchange 2007, itself, but we don't have much of a load put on it immediately.

  The main question which is about me is with Forefront 10 Scanner updates.  I hope someone here has Exchange 2007 and Forefront 10 virtualized for comparrison.  Anyway, what I see is the update download well, but as soon as that's done, he settled and spikes the CPU at 100% for 3 to 5 minutes.  Obviously, this is no good, because our mailbox will be disturbed whenever an update installs.

  As a side note, I tried 2 vCPU assignment to one of the servers to test and noticed that it would boost the two hearts 'around' of 50% for the same amount of time.  Ideally, we'd have only 1 vCPU assigned to each if possible.

  We lack two vCPUs on our HTs mainly due to Microsofts best practices, but we're reassessing it in our environment as we like to configure vCPUs as little as possible as well.

  In response to what model CPU, ESX and guest OS. all are in the white paper on the link below.  To answer these questions here we run ESX 3.5 U1 and U3 on Intel 7340 @ 2.4 GHz.  All times is made dynamically by ESX, no pinning is done for virtual machines in our environment.  All Exchange servers running Windows 2003 R2 x 64, SP2.

  http://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/solutions/08Q4_VM_Exchange_Server_2007_VI3_WP.PDF

  -alex

• Exchange 2007, P2V or migrate the mailboxes?

  We have our Exchange 2007 running on two servers environment. A server is to access to the client and one for the letters/hub transport boxes. Months ago we did a P2V on the client access server and there work very well since. Next week we want to virtualize our box at the letters/hub transport server. I got two options:

  1. perform a P2V with VMWare Converter making a cold conversion

  2 set up a new server instance of the letters/hub Exchange 2007 under VMWare boxes and then migrate the mailboxes. It would involve a new installation of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise (64-bit) and a new installation of Exchange 2007 under VMWare and then using Microsoft tools to migrate the mailboxes.

  Any thoughts on how we should go?

  We run what ESX 3.5 fully patched. Our current box the letters/hub Exchange Server works on a blade in my IBM BladeCenter. We present this server with two LUNS of my Netapp FAS3020, one for the mail store and one for the log files. The disks we use currently in the Netapp are SATA. Monday we're going to bring online a new tray of fiber channel disk, and this will be where the data for our virtualized Exchange servers store will reside. In the end, it would be easier if the virtualized Exchange Server had the same IP address and the host name, otherwise I have some additional work to do with my ISP and my Barracuda Spam firewall. If we move to the second track, I don't know if this part will be delicate.

  We have about 600 mailboxes and our database of mailboxes is about 90 GB in size

  Migrate the mailboxes - fully phased in with little or no risk and roll back is a snap.

• Internal error 4238 blackBerry Smartphones, exchange 2007

  BlackBerry 8320, Outlook 2007, Windows XP, Exchange 2007 and Blackberry Desktop Manager 5.0.1.28, extreme frustration.

  Try to get the Exchange calendar to sync to the blackberry.  Outlook is configured to deliver mail to the mailbox on the server.  AFAIK synch is set up correctly, synchronization begins, ends with the error message "failed to get an Outlook or Exchange.  Lack of network access to the server Exchange can cause this problem ' Journal lists 'Read '' ' to the list of items, so connection to the server at a certain level is assumed, but ends with:

  >>

  Total of the second system entries: 1063

  Used for the translation field mapping:
  Feature of Microsoft Outlook
  -Title Description
  Start date - Date of start
  Start - Start time
  End date - End Date
  End time - end time
  Alarm Date - Date alarm
  Time alarm - the alarm time
  Reminder flag Set - alarm indicator
  Body - Notes
  Show Time as - free busy
  -Place
  Private - private
  Participants in the meeting - participants

  #4238 internal error.
  Cancelled translation!

  >>

  It is one of the only two blackberrys in the Agency (and likely to stay at this rate), so BES installation is not an option.  Outlook works fine, we deleted then recreated the Outlook profile and the sync folder in the folder settings for the application - no luck.

  Is there something in particular that must be set on the server Exchange to enable the Blackberry communicate with her?  The specific services that should be running?  The Blackberry is replacing a Nokia that synchronized without problems on the same Exchange Server.

  Thanks for your responses and suggestions.

  Hi and welcome to the Forums!

  Here are a few KB dealing with this message:

  • KB11951 Unable to get data from a Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Exchange Record. Lack of access to the network for MS Exchange Server can cause this problem.
  • KB01172 Error 'Unable to get a folder Outlook or Microsoft Exchange' when syncing with BlackBerry Desktop Manager
  • KB03339 'Unable to get data from an Outlook or Microsoft Exchange' when syncing with Microsoft Outlook calendar
  • KB16222 Cannot synchronize smart phone BlackBerry using Microsoft Outlook 2000

  jgallott wrote:

  Is there something in particular that must be set on the server Exchange to enable the Blackberry communicate with her?  The specific services that should be running?  The Blackberry is replacing a Nokia that synchronized without problems on the same Exchange Server.

  Just a small clarification here - there is never any direct communication between a BB and the Exchange Server. All require ducts (BIS/OWA, BES, Desktop Redirector).

  Good luck and let us know!

• Treo 680 does not synchronize with Microsoft Exchange 2007

  Hello

  My company just upgraded to Microsoft Exchange 2007 and my 680 order teo synchronize my emails. I checked with the support of plam and they informed me that "the Treo 680 unlocked device no is not supported with Exchange Server 2007."

  All the world is facing this problem. Can anyone help?

  Thanks in advance.

  That link doesn't work for me, but I followed him it down here: support > phones > Centro > Verizon > downloads > software Bonus > Palm Versamail (to half way down on the next page)

  http://ws.Palm.com/MyPalm/MyPalmGenericUser/ControllerGeneric.jsp?&action=showbonus&ProductName=CENTRO690P

  Glad to hear VM4 works for you, if you encounter bugs, please post to inform others.

• Crawling Exchange 2007 does not detect any document

  Is it possible to analyze an Exchange 2007 with the robot "Microsoft Exchange (WebDAV) ' provided?
  
  Only exchange 2003 is mentioned in the documentation and the WebDAV protocol seems to be deprecated in Exchange 2007 and entirely gone in Exchange 2010.
  
  Are there plans to make a crawler based on the Exchange Web Services instead?
  
  Our current problem is that the crawling process terminates without error in the newspaper, but no new documents are found. Change the any field name to username/password / server in the configuration of the source to an error in the journal result is an invalid value. From there I conclude that we have achieved the right server and the user is authenticated correctly. I can connect to Outlook Web Access with the same user and see items in his Inbox, with or without attachments.
  
  Our fear is that Exchange 2007 is not simply supported. Other ideas would be very appreciated.

  The robot from Exchange 2003 does not work with 2007 or 2010. We have a new version available soon.

• Is there a problem using CFPOP in CF MX 7 with Exchange 2007?

  We have a scheduled task that checks the mailbox and, according to the request, replies to the sender with our basic contact information. It worked fine for several years using the CF MX 7 Standard and MS Exchange 2000. We have just changed to MS Exchange 2007 and we get an error as follows: ' connection failure: unknown username or bad password. " We can access the mailbox directly from Exchange by using the account and the password, so we think we send the correct information (example below).
  
  < CFPOP ACTION = "GetHeaderOnly" SERVER = "192.168.1.15" USERNAME = "testaccount" PASSWORD = "testpassword" NAME = "getMail" >
  
  Is there something we're missing? We believe that the IP address, the account and the password is always accurate. We have assigned to this mail server in the Mail tab in the CF Administrator and he can see and route CFMAILs by it.
  
  Any help is appreciated.

  We discovered that Exchange 2007 has five specific steps that need to occur in a particular order for CFPOP resume working properly. We did it (despite several security issues) because this function is strictly internal. Not recommended for an application available for the general public.

  Procedure for Exchange 2007 works for CFPOP:
  (1) start the service of POP on the Exchange 2007 server.
  (2) allow the e-mail accounts to use POP3.
  (3) lower the requirements of security on these accounts to allow CF to send clear text instead of encrypted (SSL) requests for POP3.
  (4) set the Exchange Server to accept the relay.
  (5) lower the safety requirements for the relay.

  I hope I explained this correctly. That's how my network supervisor explained to me there.

• ESXi 5.1 - Exchange 2007 - file Page memory and CPU allocation

  I'm currently migrating a class Cluster CSC Exchange 2007 running on vmware on windows 2008, 2003.  It is also a SCC Cluster.  I followed all of the vmware and MS best practices, but not sure of one thing IM is the size of memory and CPU allocation page/swap file.  I have 5 Esxi hosts and each is running only Exchange 2007 comments according to vmware and MS recommendations when you use the Clustering of CSC.

  Each host has 2 CPUs to 6 cores per processor and 48 gb of Ram and that each host will have only a guest, would like to send it to the guest.  I read somewhere that it is recommended this page exchange 2007 memory size + 10 mb file.  Do I really need to get the page to the size of the file?  250 GB of disk space is a lot for swap files! IM also not sure what to set the allocation processor too.  If someone can point me in the right direction, I would be grateful.

  Thank you

  Dave

  Hi dlargeit,

  First of all, off - welcome to the VMTN forums!

  I'm with Josh26 I've ever seen any recommendations indicating that when a CCS cluster virtualization virtual machine by host is taken in charge. It is recommended to keep only a single node SCC by host (which is true for all virtual clusters or technologies like Exchange CSC/CCR/DAG), but there is nothing specific regarding the keep only a single virtual machine by host.

  On the file page, you are actually right on that.  For Exchange 2007, the paging file must be on the amount of memory configured as well as 10 MB to account for overhead costs of the kernel.  It is recommended by Microsoft and it is planned to provide enough space page Exchange should exchange more provide the necessary overhead if meet you a server failure and need to create a complete memory dump.

  You can find this recommendation here: http://technet.microsoft.com/library/aa996719 (EXCHG.80) .aspx

  In terms of CPU allocation, which should really be made according to your individual needs rather than just give all the resources the VM on the ESXi host.  Microsoft lists the maximum recommended for processor resources (Planning Processor Configurations: Exchange 2007 help) and it says that 12 hearts is the maximum for mailbox or Hub Transport box.  Is your really big enough environment need a lot of CPU resources?  Why not start small and increase it if necessary?

  You are in control of your own destiny in some of these configurations.  If you know the recommended page file size is 10 MB of RAM +, do not give the server more RAM is really needed, or you will have to pay for it in the consumed disk space to host the pagefile.  See the guide to memory resources (Planning Memory Configurations: Exchange 2007 help) to understand the maximum rates of memory for Exchange.  You will see that the maximum memory is 32GB, so there are very few reasons to assign all 48GB of RAM on your server, if it can even use.

  In short, the size of the server based on the real needs and I am confident, that you will have a virtualized Exchange system that performs as well as physical.

  Matt

  http://www.thelowercasew.com

• Export Exchange 2007 Journal rules and import them into Exchange 2013

  Hello

  I need to export our Journal of exchange rules 2007 and then import them into exchange 2013, this 'http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ee633488%28v=exchg.141%29.aspx' page said how it was possible, but I don't have the export-Jou... option in exchange 2007.

  Any help will be greatfull.

  Thank you

  William

  Post in the Forums of Exchange Server:
  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/Exchange/en-us/home?category=exchangeserve

• NFS and Exchange 2007 VMDK datastore

  If I have a big NFS Datastore (E.g. 1 TB) does make sense to create different VMDK for log files and database for Exchange 2007? The entire data store will run on 10 discs. The performance increase if I separate the VMDK?

  The design of your storage groups is less a review of virtualization and more of your Exchange environment.  How many storage groups, storage group users, etc., may differ according to the specific needs of your organization.  If you need storage for four groups, I put all four on a single VMDK to make things simpler.  Also, I'd create a separate VMDK file for the newspaper that another Envoy said.

  If you need to create separate records for each of them, then you'd have 4 storage groups VMDK and 4 more newspapers.  The complexity of managing that alone would make it worth it.  And even once since he was on the same piece of storage shared with the same number of underlying PIN as your performance will be substantially the same.