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phiendar
Here's my setup:
Outlook 2000 SR-1a, MS Exchange 2000, and Windows XP Pro. Primary mail
delivery is the Exchange box, the other services setup on each
workstation is Outlook Address Book, and archive.pst which is in the
c:\documents and settings\%username% folder. We use roaming network
profiles, so the archive is copied to our Dell 2003 Server NAS as part
of the profile at each logon/off.
I've used nearly this exact setup for every Exchange system I've worked
on since '97 and I haven't had a SINGLE corrupt .pst until about 6
weeks ago, and now I've had nearly a dozen.
We migrated to the NAS about 3 mos. ago and had no issues with .pst's
then, so I don't think that's the issue. About the only thing that's
happened is an upgrade to our switches to 10/100/1000 3Com's. We had
some initial problems with auto-negotiation, especially since our
workstations tried to go to 1g but we really have uncertified Cat5
wires in the wall. I set the switch to disable auto-negotiation and
force 100-full (which is where we were prior to upgrade) and I found
quite a few of our workstations would end up at 100-half, and there
seemed to be a correlation between those workstations and the corrupt
..pst's. I've since reset every workstation in the building to 100-full,
and it slowed the issue, but it hasn't resolved it. I lost 2 more on
Friday.
I included the detail about the network just for background, I'm more
looking for ANY ideas/problems/solutions that anyone's encountered
regarding regular corruption of .pst's. Like I said, in the nearly 10
years I've run this setup I haven't lost a single one, so I have no
idea what's going on and I'm open to any ideas. Since our first loss
I've included the .pst's in the nightly backup, so it's not a data-loss
issue anymore, it's more of a system-trust and resources spent
restoring them issue.
Other things I've considered: the anti-virus setup and version has not
changed in the past few weeks, there is no disk-level corruption on
either the server or the affected workstations, the size of the .pst's
are way <1g, the largest would be 550m, I'm noticing no network
connectivity or quality issues at the time of loss, and disk space is
not an issue on either side.
Any ideas how I track down these failing .pst's?????
Outlook 2000 SR-1a, MS Exchange 2000, and Windows XP Pro. Primary mail
delivery is the Exchange box, the other services setup on each
workstation is Outlook Address Book, and archive.pst which is in the
c:\documents and settings\%username% folder. We use roaming network
profiles, so the archive is copied to our Dell 2003 Server NAS as part
of the profile at each logon/off.
I've used nearly this exact setup for every Exchange system I've worked
on since '97 and I haven't had a SINGLE corrupt .pst until about 6
weeks ago, and now I've had nearly a dozen.
We migrated to the NAS about 3 mos. ago and had no issues with .pst's
then, so I don't think that's the issue. About the only thing that's
happened is an upgrade to our switches to 10/100/1000 3Com's. We had
some initial problems with auto-negotiation, especially since our
workstations tried to go to 1g but we really have uncertified Cat5
wires in the wall. I set the switch to disable auto-negotiation and
force 100-full (which is where we were prior to upgrade) and I found
quite a few of our workstations would end up at 100-half, and there
seemed to be a correlation between those workstations and the corrupt
..pst's. I've since reset every workstation in the building to 100-full,
and it slowed the issue, but it hasn't resolved it. I lost 2 more on
Friday.
I included the detail about the network just for background, I'm more
looking for ANY ideas/problems/solutions that anyone's encountered
regarding regular corruption of .pst's. Like I said, in the nearly 10
years I've run this setup I haven't lost a single one, so I have no
idea what's going on and I'm open to any ideas. Since our first loss
I've included the .pst's in the nightly backup, so it's not a data-loss
issue anymore, it's more of a system-trust and resources spent
restoring them issue.
Other things I've considered: the anti-virus setup and version has not
changed in the past few weeks, there is no disk-level corruption on
either the server or the affected workstations, the size of the .pst's
are way <1g, the largest would be 550m, I'm noticing no network
connectivity or quality issues at the time of loss, and disk space is
not an issue on either side.
Any ideas how I track down these failing .pst's?????