Recent content by Paranoid

Alvin, After trying a number of things, I exmerged the all the contents from the mailbox, and deleted the mailbox. I then created a new mailbox and exmerged the data into the new mailbox. Hope this helps, Paranoid

Well, the mailboxes were moved out before the server was shipped. There were a couple of bridgehead servers that were communicating with this server. I just want to make sure that the Exchange 5.5 organization gets cleaned up before the server is completely removed. I just didn't want to...

I have just received an Exchange 5.5 server from an office that was shut down. What would be the best way to decommission the server? Thanks.

User gets the "unable to display the folder" pane when accessing the Inbox using Outlook 2003. I do too when trying access it. However, we can view the subfolders and items within the Inbox folder. All the other folders within the mailbox can also be viewed and accessed. Also, I can view the...

Thanks for the help guys as always.

Guys, I am trying to run a query that displays systems with which version of Office and IE. I have tried querying for just the Office version so far. SMS_G_System_SoftwareProduct.ProductName like "Microsoft Office %" However, when I run the query certain systems will display a number of...

Thanks, that's what I thought.

Is it possible for an owner to edit a distribution list that resides in a separate site? I was told that it should be possible, but I am finding that many owners cannot edit their lists if their mailboxes reside on servers on differents sites from the DL. If not, can you explain why. Thanks.

Update. I am only able to run the Admin console from the database server. The site server shows the folowing error in the esvent viewer. DCOM error DCOM got error "General access denied error " from the computer <database server> when attempting to activate the server...

I am receiving the "Connection Failed: \\Site Server\root\sms\site_code" error on my admin console. This happened right after I installed some Microsoft critical updates. Do you know if there are updates that may conflict with connecting to the SMS site server. I have tried running the...

Thanks. Guess that was an easy one.

It's a small thing, but something that's always bothered me. Whenever I export queries to .csv files, large numbers with commas get separated into different columns, which of course is not what I want. Is there a work around this?

Looks like it did work. User said that it took a while for the nk2 file to be created. Thanks.

What happens when renaming the *.nk2 file doesn't work? http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=287623 Is there another way of changing the nickname? Thanks.

Okay, I just uninstalled XP SP2, and I am now able to view everything. Hmmm... I guess I need to find the SMS patch to fix the SP2 problem. Anyway, thanks tbrennans for your help.