Single global catalog in topology - This is somehow being misread as there are two GCs in this domain, one of which is the Exchange 2003 server Temporary file path optimization - TMP and TEMP on same drive as system partition SMTP performance warning - SMTP queue located on same drive as system partition I have configured the memory settings for Exchange 2003 according to the following MS Technet article:Ī scan of the server using the Exchange Best Practice analyzer tool lists the following as recommended changes to optimize performance, although none of these is listed a "critical": Users were still able to access email until 5:17pm when it became unresponsive. The last time it went down was 4/20, with Event ID 2019, Source: SRV, "The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the pool was empty" starting at 2:21pm, logging every few minutes. All errors in the event log point to virtual memory problems. Since then it has gone down at least once a week at varying times and days of the week. No one could access email and the server was unresponsive forcing a hard boot just to get it back up. So everything seemed to be running smoothly, but within one week the server stopped responding. Once the mailbox migration completed successfully I uninstalled the Exchange 2000 server from the domain, demoted the DC and removed it from the domain. I should also note that the old and new Exchange servers are domain controllers as well. In my haste to get this migration completed as soon as possible, I built the server on a single partition. This was my first experience with Exchange, so much was learned during this process but unfortunately some of it was learned too late.
I built the new server alongside the existing Exchange server and migrated all the mailboxes over to the new server.
The old server was Windows 2000 Server with Exchange 2000 and the new server is 2003 Standard with 2GB RAM.
Where is poolmon.exe located upgrade#
On April 2nd I performed an upgrade of Exchange 2000 to 2003 on new hardware.