Probably not the best but I have W2K server, under Administrative tools
there is a little performance program. You can add a nice list of things to
watch on the graph and see what kind of activity is hitting the server. You
have to find which works best for you because there are a lot that you can
include. After a while you can pretty much get a "gut" feeling on the heart
beat of your network, and what kind of hits you're taking.
Shirley
-----Original Message-----
From: Mitchell Kirby [mailto:
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Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 3:18 PM
To:
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Shirley, you have all the nice toys. Where/how do you check performance?
Mitchell Kirby
V. P. Manufacturing
Riten Industries, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Shirley Graver [mailto:
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Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 12:38 PM
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We haven't had any noticeable difference in performance. But then all the
workstations are a gigahertz or better, the server is 2.5 gig with a gig of
ram. The server drives are 10000 rpm scsi and we've replaced our hubs with
a 100mhz switch. If there is a performance hit I'd say our infra structure
is robust enough not to cause a noticeable slow down. A workstation does get
a noticeable hit when I forget and leave the Task Scheduler service running.
I've looked at performance graphs and with the workday in full swing
capacity was never over 5%. The one bog I had was when the company
president had his "band flyers" (don't ask) emailed to 200 recipients all at
once. Each transmission was about 4 megs. Not a test I had been planning
for, capacity went sky high for a long time.
Shirley
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Polvinale [mailto:
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Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 12:15 PM
To:
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Shirley,
If you're keeping the live Outlook PST's on the server, doesn't this degrade
network performance? The way I understand it, when Outlook reads one email,
it accesses the whole PST file throught the network. And some of those can
get pretty big.
Gary Polvinale
Denton ATD
Milan OH
-----Original Message-----
From: Shirley Graver [mailto:
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Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 11:49 AM
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Since you already have PST's created it should be fairly easy. You'll have
to reconfigure each outlook. I setup private directories for each user on
the server, made those directories as home base for all of the users. Find
the individual PST and cut and paste them into the User directories. ( set
security so that Admin and the user has the only access). With Outlook 2000
you go to Tools add a Personal Folder then browse to your PST file. All
done. In Outlook 2002 you have to do a bit more fiddling to get things
right but it pretty much works the same way. I also tell users that they
store data on their local machines at their own risk. Most don't now, I've
warned enough times and had workstations vaporize data enough times that
most listen.
Shirley
-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Anderson [mailto:
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Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 11:07 AM
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Shirley,
How are you doing this?
Thanks,
Todd
-----Original Message-----
From: Shirley Graver [mailto:
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Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:15 AM
To:
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I force our outlook to use a PST file on the Server, then have the server
backup the PST files. Its all automatic.
Shirley
-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Anderson [mailto:
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Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:36 AM
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Subject: [Vantage] [Off Topic] MS-Outlook Macro
Ok, this should be a good brain twister ...
Given Exchange V 5.5 and MS-Outlook-2000 ... ( And the lack of a good way to
backup and restore individual mailboxes ... )
I'd like to take 1 PC, install Outlook, add the mailboxes for our key
employees, and then once a week export every mailbox to a PST file as a
backup in case of emergency. ( 1 mailbox = 1 pst )
Options ?
- Use a keystroke/mouse recorder like Ground Control or AimKeys ...
- Use a command line switch to tell outlook to create a pst file for a
specific mailbox as part of bat file containing all mailboxes?
- Use a Outlook Macro to issue the commands?
I sort of like the idea of writing a Macro to issue the "Export/to a
file/pst/mailbox name/all-sub-folders/put it here" idea.
Does anyone know how to write a Outlook Macro to do this or does anyone have
a better idea?
Thanks,
Todd Anderson
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