Q.1 What is the role of the “MDBDATA” folder in Exchange 2000?
Answer: - It contains the transaction log files and the EDB/STM databases.
Q.2 What is the role of the “MTADATA” folder in Exchange 2000?
Answer: - Any message that goes to the message transfer agent (MTA) is written to the “MTADATA” directory on an NTFS partition and passed to the Store.exe process.
Q.3 Is there a way to know what emails have been sent or received into one mailbox without accessing the users mailbox?
Answer: - Check the “Archive all messages sent or received by mailboxes on this store” checkbox.
Thus “Message Archiving” has been enabled.
Q.4 Is there a way to suspend an Exchange 2000 mailbox without affecting logging into network?
Answer: - Delete the user’s mailbox.
Q.5 What is the basic role of transaction log files in Exchange 2000?
Answer: - The log files you see in the mdbdata directory are used to restore a previous nights database backups to the point of failure, in the event that the server fails. When you back up the store the log files are purged and are of no use anymore assuming the backup was valid.
Q.6 Recently moved E2K over to a new server(W2K+SP4). Have E2K+SP3 and post-SP3 Rollup installed. The store.exe process starts small (100MB or so) and slowly, but surely, takes more and more RAM until there's only about 30MB left.
Once that happens, the SMTP VM queues start backing up until the store basically stops responding. Only rebooting seems to help and this is necessary approx. every 30 hours.
Answer: - 1. If you have over 1Gb of memory, try the /3GB switch in Boot.ini to allow more memory for Store.exe.
2. Groupsheild for exchange, as it does a background scan on the mailbox and public stores. This causes store.exe to use up all the virtual memory and the information store fall over.
Q.7 How does one grant permissions for a user to send and receive mails to a particular DL ( e.g Emp of ICICI Bank@UK )?
Answer: - To enable sending:
<>1. <>Go to ADàFindàEmp of ICICI Bank@UK
<>2. <>PropertiesàExchange General Tab
<>3. <>Message RestrictionsàAccept messages:Only from
<>4. <>Add
<>5. <>ApplyàOK
To enable receiving:
<>1. <>Go to ADàFindàEmp of ICICI Bank@UK
<>2. <>PropertiesàMembers
<>3. <>Add
<>4. <>ApplyàOK
Q.8 How would you define a SMTP Queue? What is the default location?
Answer:- The SMTP queue is simply a directory with files representing mail items in it. The default (when installing on drive C:\) is
C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\Mailroot\Vsi 1
Q.9 What are the 3 directories inside the above location?
Answer: - The 3 directories are
<>1. <>Pickup
<>2. <>Queue
<>3. <>Badmail.
Q.10 What does the “Badmail” folder comprise of? Can one delete the “Badmail” folder?If yes how?
Answer: - The Badmail folder contains messages that cannot be delivered into your organisation, and also cannot be returned back to the sender. Therefore, the folder typically contains spam, and the files within the folder can usually just be deleted.
DO NOT OPEN THE BadMail FOLDER. Depending on how much spam the Small Business Server 2000 computer processes, this folder may contain several hundred thousand files. If you open this folder, the server may appear to have stopped responding.
2.. Right-click the BadMail folder, click Rename, and then change the name
to BadMailOld.
3.. In the VSI 1 folder, create a new folder that is named BadMail.
4.. Permanently delete the BadMailOld folder. To do this, click the
BadMailOld folder, hold down the SHIFT key, and then press DELETE.
5.. Click Yes when you are prompted with the question of whether you want
to delete the BadMailOld folder. Deleting this folder may take a long time,depending on the number of files in this folder
Q.11 I moved some emails from the queue to another directory to solve my queuing corroupted queue problem, now that queue is working, I moved back the messages, but would not be delivered.
Answer: -
Q.12 What is the quickest way to find all hidden mailboxes on the system in Exchange 2000?
Answer: - Hidden mailboxes are identified by the fact that the attribute msExchHideFromAddressLists is set to a value of TRUE. All we have to do is perform a custom LDAP query against our AD to search for users with the above attribute set accordingly.
This can easily be done with Active Directory Users & Computers:
1. Bring up Active Directory Users & Computers.
2. Right-click your domain name at the top, and choose Find.
3. In the Find combo box at the top, select Custom Search.
4. Click the Advanced tab.
5. Paste in the following LDAP query and then click Find Now.
(&(objectclass=user)(msExchHideFromAddressLists=TRUE))
The list of hidden mailboxes will then be displayed. Don't forget that this will include System Mailboxes. Be sure to leave those alone!
Q. 13 Explain “Messages awaiting Directory Lookup” and how would you troubleshoot the same?
Answer: - Description: This queue contains messages to recipients who have not yet been resolved against the Microsoft Active Directory service. Messages are also held in this queue while distribution lists are expanded.
Troubleshooting: 1. Generally, messages accumulate in this queue because the advanced queuing engine cannot categorize the message.
2. The advanced queuing engine may not be able to access the global catalog servers or to access the recipient information.
3. Or, the global catalog servers are unreachable or are performing slowly.
4. Increase diagnostic logging for the MSExchangeDSAccess service and for the MSExchangeTransport service to collect information about Categorizer components.
Q.14 Why do we need to “Run cleanup Agent”?
Answer: - 1. To see the orphaned mailbox.
2. To connect to a recreated account so as to retrieve mail.
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