Simcfc73 Posted December 27, 2007 Posted December 27, 2007 Upgrading my Ex 2003 server this holidays whilst everyones away marking. Migrated all mailboxes today but I messed up as GFI was still running and it didn't delete the mailboxes on the old server. Thennnnnnn my raid has failed so I've had to leave the it rebuilding a failed drive. And I haven't even installed 2007 yet Don't ya just love IT.
FN-GM Posted December 27, 2007 Posted December 27, 2007 Just what you need How become you are upgrading? Z
Simcfc73 Posted December 27, 2007 Author Posted December 27, 2007 For the new features of OWA mainly.
Simcfc73 Posted December 27, 2007 Author Posted December 27, 2007 OWA in exchange 2007 is very similar to outlook 2007, its hard to tell the difference except the speed obviously. Main draw for me is the ability to browse the users documents from within OWA using its security.
FN-GM Posted December 27, 2007 Posted December 27, 2007 Take a look at this http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/code/OWA/index.html Z
john Posted December 27, 2007 Posted December 27, 2007 You can also view the entire address book in OWA2007 from the word go rather than having to search like you did in 2003 which fine is good for mobile PDA viewing so you don't have to load up 1000000 users, but local OWA use, which is what I use it for really its a PITA selecting your little monsters for teaching, I do actually feel a bit sorry for the teachers there, but hey ho So thats an Instant 2007 love that I have .
Simcfc73 Posted December 27, 2007 Author Posted December 27, 2007 Oh and it autorefreshes the OWA when new mail arrives. Managed to decommision the old server now, tommorow its installing 2003 x64
john Posted December 27, 2007 Posted December 27, 2007 Yup thats true, then again I did only just hack the MS VM demo unit to tadge onto my spare, pre-configured email setup (I keep a domain and IP setup ready for such email system evaluations) so didn't really test it that much just played with it really, but there are a good few many new bits to it.
maniac Posted December 27, 2007 Posted December 27, 2007 Our exchange 2007 upgrade is on the cards for Easter or Summer (undecided yet!) mainly to take advantage of the extra features in OWA too. Seems like a lot of people are liking the new interface, particularly the file access feature! Mike.
john Posted December 27, 2007 Posted December 27, 2007 Yeah, must admit thats one of the things I like, the interface is very much now identical to Outlook 2007 so its on the To Do list as well
Simcfc73 Posted December 30, 2007 Author Posted December 30, 2007 Bit of advice in this upgrade. Remove GFI when you upgrade. I moved my mailboxes yesterday and came in this morning and my mailbox has around 100,000 emails from GFI mailsecurity which seems to be in a never ending loop. Think it messed up the mailbox move also as theres duplicate boxes, not too much of an issue as you just remove the exchnage attribute, purge the box on the old server and reconnect the correct box on the new server. Outlook still hasn't caught up with the GFI messages, I uninstalled it an hour ago and mail is still coming in, when I try and open it (they are coming through at about 10 a second) the times of the GFI messages are in the middle of the night. Only stumbling block up to now is a user who's mailbox is too big for the new server.... no fat jokes.
maniac Posted December 30, 2007 Posted December 30, 2007 How big is too big?? We have lots of mailboxes which are several gigabytes, they're all SLT members so difficult to tell them to slim down a bit! Mike.
Simcfc73 Posted December 30, 2007 Author Posted December 30, 2007 Couldn't tell, sure it says somewhere but she had lots of 2Mb funny vids in her mailbox. I had to use the Exchange Management Shell to move it with the -preservemailboxsizelimit command and it eventually moved successfully. Seems to be working now... woooooohooooo. Managed to get GFI working too. Just a few bits to sort out like OWA access externally and allowing home folder access automatically. Now to run a complete backup
FN-GM Posted December 30, 2007 Posted December 30, 2007 How big is too big?? We have lots of mailboxes which are several gigabytes, they're all SLT members so difficult to tell them to slim down a bit! Mike. Seriously? our SLT don't mind. Must have a good bunch. Z
john Posted December 30, 2007 Posted December 30, 2007 Must admit top of the tree in our place is SMT closely followed by IT in the main. Unlimited mailboxes are evil really, and we should move away from them. Ours are getting better at saving them to text files, which can then be indexed by Windows search assistant thingy so they are great to use then
Simcfc73 Posted January 2, 2008 Author Posted January 2, 2008 Well its up and running now and its working a dream, does take a while to get used to the interface, especially now you do all the AD users administering inside the Exchaneg interface and not in Active Users and Computers. Even changing the graphics and fonts that OWA use is a breeze, well done M$. Only pain was that the Send Connector seemed to vanish today for no reason leaving all mail in the queue (which took me a while to find) Oh and the recovery storage group is ace. PS. I didn't alter the mailbox max size when I moved the oversized mailbox so she got an email saying... 'your mailbox is too large. no emails can be send or received until this is resolved' Nice warning
john Posted January 2, 2008 Posted January 2, 2008 hehe Good one you Teach them a lesson. I jiggled some storage quotas today and the phone went quickly when they revereted back to small quotas rather than huuuge ones, whoopsy! First day back mixups
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