OK, I know this is the Exchange 5.5 forum, but you can't imagine how hard it's been trying to even find anything on Exchange 4.0. I figured 5.5 was close enough in how you do things to be able to figure out what to do.
Anyway, onto my problem. I'm what you would call a self taught MIS Admin. I moved up in my company to Estimator in '97 and just kinda took over the job of MIS Administrator along with Quality Manager because the person that was doing it was no longer with the company. Our server was purchased in late '96. It's a HP LHPRO 200Mhz with mirrored 4gig hdd with WinNT server 4.0. There isn't an option to buy a new server and software at the moment because of financial reasons. I know alot about computers and have managed to keep things running fine. The problem is that the priv.edb file has never been defraged. And now is to an unmanagable point. Since adding the internet to everyone, the email has grown alot. The file has grown to 1.5gig and is too large to even defrag on the server and read that I have to map a drive. I have managed to find a "Exchange Server 4.0 Survival Guide" on a filesharing program after weeks of searching for info. I just came across this site recently(thank goodness). So I have many questions. First, to run edbutil.exe do you need to be in true DOS or just the command prompt in windows? Second, everytime I try to backup the file. It says it's in use. I've disconnected the server from the network and also shut down Exchange server as I read. But I still get this error. I'm ready to just tell everyone to back up the email they need and defrag with out backing up the file. I know I should have a backup incase of problems. Any help is very much appreciated and if anyone needs a copy of the Survival guide, just contact me. Not sure if you can put URls here but I can add it in a zip file to a site.
Anyway, onto my problem. I'm what you would call a self taught MIS Admin. I moved up in my company to Estimator in '97 and just kinda took over the job of MIS Administrator along with Quality Manager because the person that was doing it was no longer with the company. Our server was purchased in late '96. It's a HP LHPRO 200Mhz with mirrored 4gig hdd with WinNT server 4.0. There isn't an option to buy a new server and software at the moment because of financial reasons. I know alot about computers and have managed to keep things running fine. The problem is that the priv.edb file has never been defraged. And now is to an unmanagable point. Since adding the internet to everyone, the email has grown alot. The file has grown to 1.5gig and is too large to even defrag on the server and read that I have to map a drive. I have managed to find a "Exchange Server 4.0 Survival Guide" on a filesharing program after weeks of searching for info. I just came across this site recently(thank goodness). So I have many questions. First, to run edbutil.exe do you need to be in true DOS or just the command prompt in windows? Second, everytime I try to backup the file. It says it's in use. I've disconnected the server from the network and also shut down Exchange server as I read. But I still get this error. I'm ready to just tell everyone to back up the email they need and defrag with out backing up the file. I know I should have a backup incase of problems. Any help is very much appreciated and if anyone needs a copy of the Survival guide, just contact me. Not sure if you can put URls here but I can add it in a zip file to a site.
