I am an IT professional in a mid-sized company, and I am having a problem with the Exchange Server 2003. This is an inherited system, so I and this may be a quick fix, but I don’t see the fix right now, as before, all I did was restart Exchange, and if that didn’t work, restart the server, and neither has worked. When I try to connect to outlook even on the server, it says that there are folders that cannot be found.
I am not sure what may have caused this problem, but this is everything that I have done in the past week. Everything was fine until the last part of this week.
First of all, I Installed a new server onto the network, but the only thing that I have given it to do is become a file server. I updated it completely by connecting it directly to the router and bypassing the Firewall, as I did not know how to get activeX to work through my firewall. I am using WS 2003 64bit edition fully upgraded. I then connected the system back up behind the firewall. There were no noticable problems after this installation.
I detected that the Exchange server’s harddrive was filling to capacity, and I noticed that the log files were filling up. I did an NT backup on the server to let it backup everything and get rid of the log files safely. I backed up onto the new server and everything seemed fine after the backup.
I then wanted to search out why I could not use activeX through the firewall. After looking through the settings of Sonicwall, I noticed that the firewall did not allow activeX connections. I unchecked this box, and looked at some other settings, but I don’t believe that I changed anything.
I got some calls later on in the week stating that someone could not send an email, but it was a simple fix, and everything was fine, then I got another call that the internet was slow, and then I found a computer with the Beagle virus on it, but I quickly disconnected that computer, and let them know that I would be back to fix it, as I was training at that time. When I got back to the computer, the user had connected the computer back up. At the end of Friday, Exchange was not running, and I could not get it to start up.
I am not sure what made this happen, but any help on this subject would be appreciated.
In case I didn’t state it, I am currently using Exchange server 2003.