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M DRIVE LOCATION

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GP

IS-IT--Management
Jan 14, 2002
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The virtual M: Drive is created on my C Drive which is the system drive. I only have 250MB free space and the M drive is 600MB. Can I change the location of the M Drive to another partition?
 
Don't ever mess with drive M: or your entire exchange will be gone!
You can either reinstall and use another drive, or go through the steps of moving Echange to another disk, if you have one.

Marc
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I've read somewhere that you can manipulate the M:drive without killing Exchange.. forgot what exactly the tool thats used but it can be moved or eliminated all together.. just be careful!

gman
 
Three big issues with this script.

1) only deletes for the individual users session. You can put it into the logon script but the users can click on the close box to stop the script from running.
2) the script actually stops and then restarts the exchange services. So if it's in the logon script everytime a user logs on it makes the exchange server stop and then restart
3) User must have permission to start and stop services and mess with the registry. Not a big fan of that either.


"1) but the users can click on the close box to stop the script from running"

According to You can set up scripts to run when users log on or log off, or when the system starts up or shuts down. All scripts are Windows Scripting Host (WSH)-enabled. By default, Group Policy scripts that run in a command window (such as .bat or .cmd files) run hidden, and legacy scripts (those defined in the user object) are by default visible as they are processed (as was the case for Windows NT 4.0), although there is a Group Policy that allows this visibility to be changed. The policy for users is called Run logon scripts visible or Run logoff scripts visible, and is accessed in the User Configuration\Administrative Templates node, under System\Logon/Logoff. For computers, the policy is Run startup scripts visible and can be accessed in the Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates node, under System\Logon.


"2) everytime a user logs on it makes the exchance server stop and then restart"

Nothing to do about that, but you can limit it to once a day for each user, if you save a "dummy-file" to tell about it, and test the dummy-file, for last access. You have to use WSH, to append date/time.


"3) User must have permission to start and stop services"
I can't find it, but there must be a global policy to allow certain users access to stop and start services.
 
I have already moved exchange to e:\ which has bags of room. However when it mounts this virtual M drive it still uses space on c:\.

What I need to do is just get the M drive to mount on e:\ rather than c:\.
 
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