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I am really scratching my head on this and I hope it is an easy remedy -
something easy that I forgot to click or something, but here is the problem:
I have been running 2003 SBS ever since it came out. It has had no problem
and everything has been running beautifully. Recently, though, my Exchange
Server seems to have developed a mind of its own and is trying to figure out
what I want to keep and what I don't want to keep.
Here is an example: I store all of my appointments since 2002 in my
Exchange calendar, along with notes and other pieces of info. Everything
worked fine until a few months ago. Now, I'll go to do a search (to look for
an historic appointment), and the results show only back to January of the
current year. I manually browse back to previous year, and ALL OF MY
APPOINTMENTS ARE MISSING!! I search all the computers on the network for an
"archive.pst" file just in case I missed something along the way and left
archiving on in one of the Outlook installs, but I find nothing.
I restore from a backup pst that I luckily made earlier, and everything
stays where it should - at least for a couple more months when it happens all
over again.
It is important to note that I have only allowed the autoupdates to run and
such, and other than that, I haven't messed with my server configuration in
over a year, so I'm confused why it is suddenly causing this problem. I have
no limits set on the mailbox sizes or data folder sizes, and do not have
"default" values selected. I have checked in outlook and in Exchange, also
looking in the user preferences in Active Directory and can't find anything
that really stands out.
The situation just happened to one of my employees who was trying to look up
some data from 2005, and she has lost the entire year's notes too (no
backup). We are desperate to find a solution since some of the data would be
helpful for end of year paperwork, etc.
Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated. If you need further
information, please let me know and I will be more than happy to provide it
for you.
Thank you very much,
Stacy
something easy that I forgot to click or something, but here is the problem:
I have been running 2003 SBS ever since it came out. It has had no problem
and everything has been running beautifully. Recently, though, my Exchange
Server seems to have developed a mind of its own and is trying to figure out
what I want to keep and what I don't want to keep.
Here is an example: I store all of my appointments since 2002 in my
Exchange calendar, along with notes and other pieces of info. Everything
worked fine until a few months ago. Now, I'll go to do a search (to look for
an historic appointment), and the results show only back to January of the
current year. I manually browse back to previous year, and ALL OF MY
APPOINTMENTS ARE MISSING!! I search all the computers on the network for an
"archive.pst" file just in case I missed something along the way and left
archiving on in one of the Outlook installs, but I find nothing.
I restore from a backup pst that I luckily made earlier, and everything
stays where it should - at least for a couple more months when it happens all
over again.
It is important to note that I have only allowed the autoupdates to run and
such, and other than that, I haven't messed with my server configuration in
over a year, so I'm confused why it is suddenly causing this problem. I have
no limits set on the mailbox sizes or data folder sizes, and do not have
"default" values selected. I have checked in outlook and in Exchange, also
looking in the user preferences in Active Directory and can't find anything
that really stands out.
The situation just happened to one of my employees who was trying to look up
some data from 2005, and she has lost the entire year's notes too (no
backup). We are desperate to find a solution since some of the data would be
helpful for end of year paperwork, etc.
Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated. If you need further
information, please let me know and I will be more than happy to provide it
for you.
Thank you very much,
Stacy