Cant search for any items in Outlook from the past since 2010 SP1 upgrade
I've upgraded my 2003 exchange servers to 2010 SP1 this past weekend and everything went ok, but my users are reporting that they can not search for items that are in the mailbox (Inbox, Sent,...) from the past, however post upgrade to 2010 emails, tasks,.... are searchable. Any ideas how to fix this? Thank you Hani
December 28th, 2010 11:21am

i just tried searching outlook tasks in outlook 2010 and works great, so it has to be something with outlook 2003 settings... H ***** correction on that. it searched for "To do list" but not the Tasks! :(
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December 28th, 2010 3:55pm

Anyone??
December 29th, 2010 10:40am

Hi Lanzi Hani, Sorry for the later reply. Could I confirm some information about your scenario? 1. Which version outlook do you use? 2. Does all the client have the issue or just special users? 3. Did you make a test with different outlook clients, such as outlook 2010? 4. Any special error on the client, and the exchange server. I have run into the same issue in other threads, Personally opinion, it maybe a issue, I would do more research about it, maybe resolved soon by some KB. :) If any new information, I would post here. Regards! GavinPlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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December 30th, 2010 4:20am

Hi Lanzi Hani, Sorry for the later reply. Could I confirm some information about your scenario? 1. Which version outlook do you use? 2. Does all the client have the issue or just special users? 3. Did you make a test with different outlook clients, such as outlook 2010? 4. Any special error on the client, and the exchange server. I have run into the same issue in other threads, Personally opinion, it maybe a issue, I would do more research about it, maybe resolved soon by some KB. :) If any new information, I would post here. Regards! Gavin TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
December 30th, 2010 4:21am

Gavin, all Outlook clients are 2003, and i have tested on 2010 and the same thing happens. i found a forum at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee633475.aspx which addresses this issues but haven't tried it yet because i built an ADG and started a resynchronization and is taking FOREVER to do it. I started it on 12/29 and it still says it is resynchronizing (Copy Queue Length is increasing)... another issue, but is this normal? my exchange database is about 500Gb big. Thank you here is a get-mailboxdatabasecopystatus Identity : DB\MAIL1 Name : DB\MAIL1 DatabaseName : DB mailboxes Status : Resynchronizing MailboxServer : MAIL1 ActiveDatabaseCopy : MAIL2 ActivationSuspended : False ActionInitiator : Service ErrorMessage : ErrorEventId : ExtendedErrorInfo : SuspendComment : SinglePageRestore : 0 ContentIndexState : Healthy ContentIndexErrorMessage : CopyQueueLength : 138286 ReplayQueueLength : 0 LatestAvailableLogTime : 12/29/2010 10:58:20 AM LastCopyNotificationedLogTime : 12/29/2010 10:58:20 AM LastCopiedLogTime : LastInspectedLogTime : LastReplayedLogTime : LastLogGenerated : 138286 LastLogCopyNotified : 127923 LastLogCopied : 0 LastLogInspected : 0 LastLogReplayed : 127679 LogsReplayedSinceInstanceStart : 0 LogsCopiedSinceInstanceStart : 0 LatestFullBackupTime : LatestIncrementalBackupTime : LatestDifferentialBackupTime : LatestCopyBackupTime : SnapshotBackup : SnapshotLatestFullBackup : SnapshotLatestIncrementalBackup : SnapshotLatestDifferentialBackup : SnapshotLatestCopyBackup : LogReplayQueueIncreasing : False LogCopyQueueIncreasing : False OutstandingDumpsterRequests : {} OutgoingConnections : IncomingLogCopyingNetwork : SeedingNetwork : ActiveCopy : False
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January 5th, 2011 11:30am

Gavin, all Outlook clients are 2003, and i have tested on 2010 and the same thing happens. i found a forum at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee633475.aspx which addresses this issues but haven't tried it yet because i built an ADG and started a resynchronization and is taking FOREVER to do it. I started it on 12/29 and it still says it is resynchronizing (Copy Queue Length is increasing)... another issue, but is this normal? my exchange database is about 500Gb big. Thank you here is a get-mailboxdatabasecopystatus Identity : DB\MAIL1 Name : DB\MAIL1 DatabaseName : DB mailboxes Status : Resynchronizing MailboxServer : MAIL1 ActiveDatabaseCopy : MAIL2 ActivationSuspended : False ActionInitiator : Service ErrorMessage : ErrorEventId : ExtendedErrorInfo : SuspendComment : SinglePageRestore : 0 ContentIndexState : Healthy ContentIndexErrorMessage : CopyQueueLength : 138286 ReplayQueueLength : 0 LatestAvailableLogTime : 12/29/2010 10:58:20 AM LastCopyNotificationedLogTime : 12/29/2010 10:58:20 AM LastCopiedLogTime : LastInspectedLogTime : LastReplayedLogTime : LastLogGenerated : 138286 LastLogCopyNotified : 127923 LastLogCopied : 0 LastLogInspected : 0 LastLogReplayed : 127679 LogsReplayedSinceInstanceStart : 0 LogsCopiedSinceInstanceStart : 0 LatestFullBackupTime : LatestIncrementalBackupTime : LatestDifferentialBackupTime : LatestCopyBackupTime : SnapshotBackup : SnapshotLatestFullBackup : SnapshotLatestIncrementalBackup : SnapshotLatestDifferentialBackup : SnapshotLatestCopyBackup : LogReplayQueueIncreasing : False LogCopyQueueIncreasing : False OutstandingDumpsterRequests : {} OutgoingConnections : IncomingLogCopyingNetwork : SeedingNetwork : ActiveCopy : False
January 5th, 2011 7:25pm

Hi Hani Lanzi, If the clients use outlook 2003, I would strongly suggest that you use outlook 2007 or later version of outllook, per my known, there are many issues when use outlook 2003 with exchange 2010. Per your DAG issue, if you have 500 Gb database, it maybe need more time to resynchronizing, it sounds normal. But, in my opinion, one database is good to keep 200GB size, if we need more, we could create another datase, it is also good to resync to the copy. I would also use Test-ReplicationHealth to test it, you also could post the information here, and we could do more research about it. Regards! Gavin TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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January 5th, 2011 10:32pm

Gavin, Thank you for your information. Yes, the database is still "Resynchronizing", it's been more than a week now. Copy Queue Length is at 141000+ number now, and it is still growing, i don't know if this is good or bad. Is it possible that it really is taking that long to resync the databases between two servers?? i tried test-replicationhealth: Server Check Result Error ------ ----- ------ ----- MAIL1 ClusterService Passed MAIL1 ReplayService Passed MAIL1 ActiveManager Passed MAIL1 TasksRpcListener Passed MAIL1 TcpListener Passed MAIL1 DagMembersUp Passed MAIL1 ClusterNetwork Passed MAIL1 QuorumGroup Passed MAIL1 FileShareQuorum Passed MAIL1 DBCopySuspended Passed MAIL1 DBCopyFailed Passed MAIL1 DBInitializing *FAILED* Continuous Replication for database 'AGO Mailboxes\MAIL1' is in a 'Resynchronizing' state on server 'MAIL1'. The copy might be wai ting for log files to be copied or checked for divergence so that replay can proceed. MAIL1 DBDisconnected Passed MAIL1 DBLogCopyKeepingUp Passed MAIL1 DBLogReplayKeepingUp Passed on MAIL2 everything passed. Hani
January 6th, 2011 4:27pm

Gavin, Thank you for your information. Yes, the database is still "Resynchronizing", it's been more than a week now. Copy Queue Length is at 141000+ number now, and it is still growing, i don't know if this is good or bad. Is it possible that it really is taking that long to resync the databases between two servers?? i tried test-replicationhealth: Server Check Result Error ------ ----- ------ ----- MAIL1 ClusterService Passed MAIL1 ReplayService Passed MAIL1 ActiveManager Passed MAIL1 TasksRpcListener Passed MAIL1 TcpListener Passed MAIL1 DagMembersUp Passed MAIL1 ClusterNetwork Passed MAIL1 QuorumGroup Passed MAIL1 FileShareQuorum Passed MAIL1 DBCopySuspended Passed MAIL1 DBCopyFailed Passed MAIL1 DBInitializing *FAILED* Continuous Replication for database 'AGO Mailboxes\MAIL1' is in a 'Resynchronizing' state on server 'MAIL1'. The copy might be wai ting for log files to be copied or checked for divergence so that replay can proceed. MAIL1 DBDisconnected Passed MAIL1 DBLogCopyKeepingUp Passed MAIL1 DBLogReplayKeepingUp Passed on MAIL2 everything passed. Hani
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January 7th, 2011 12:23am

Hi Hani, I have run into an issue looks like yours, the issue caused by:The required log file is missing on the active copy. The resolution: We dismounted the active database copy (S-Z mail store) Moved the log files to another folder Ran the update-mailboxdatabasecopy, check the healthy status I would also suggest you could open a ticket from MS, then could confirm the issue through more log. Regards! Gavin TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
January 7th, 2011 4:35am

Hi Hani, I have run into an issue looks like yours, the issue caused by:The required log file is missing on the active copy. The resolution: We dismounted the active database copy Moved the log files to another folder Ran the update-mailboxdatabasecopy, check the healthy status I would also suggest you could open a ticket from MS, then could confirm the issue through more log. Regards! Gavin TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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January 7th, 2011 12:30pm

Still recynchronizing after the weekend. Anyone else with this problem??
January 10th, 2011 10:39am

Gavin, thank you for your reply. Now, once you dismounted the active copy of the database, which log files did you move? the ones from the active database that you just dismounted? Thanky ou
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January 10th, 2011 10:44am

Still recynchronizing after the weekend. Anyone else with this problem??
January 10th, 2011 6:35pm

Gavin, thank you for your reply. Now, once you dismounted the active copy of the database, which log files did you move? the ones from the active database that you just dismounted? Thanky ou
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January 10th, 2011 6:39pm

Hi Hani Lanzi, Sure, if we dismount the database on the active node, the database would be clean shutdown, we could move all the log for the database to other folder, and then mount it to creat new log, it is a workaround. Also note that, is there any antivirus software installed on the DAG member server, please confirm the file exclusion configured well. Regards! Gavin TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
January 10th, 2011 9:09pm

ok, so i got DAG working now by dismounting the active store, deleting log files on active node and deleting everything on a passive node and now they are showing mounted and healthy with CQL 0. YAY! i do have a different problem thou, which is the original one and that is, nobody in the organization can search for any items in the mailbox, when i say can not search i mean nothing is found except starting from today on. also, i tried moving my mailbox to another database and i reseeded that database and i can find items, however my mailbox is now showing as disconnected mailbox and cannot reconnect because it does not find any names under matching or existing user.... weird! Thank you for your time and help Hani
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January 11th, 2011 12:36pm

ok, so i got DAG working now by dismounting the active store, deleting log files on active node and deleting everything on a passive node and now they are showing mounted and healthy with CQL 0. YAY! i do have a different problem thou, which is the original one and that is, nobody in the organization can search for any items in the mailbox, when i say can not search i mean nothing is found except starting from today on. also, i tried moving my mailbox to another database and i reseeded that database and i can find items, however my mailbox is now showing as disconnected mailbox and cannot reconnect because it does not find any names under matching or existing user.... weird! Thank you for your time and help Hani
January 11th, 2011 8:31pm

Hi Hani Lanzi, Per your information,firstly I want to verify which mode of you outlook end is using, cach mode or online? It may be caused by corrupted index of the database, we could check it, refer to below: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123701.aspx And then reseed the search catalog, refer to below: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee633475.aspx If the clients are using cach mode, how about install the windows search feature, then make a test. Regards! gavin TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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January 12th, 2011 1:30am

Gavin, all outlook clients are in online mode. i went through the instructions provided and everything checks out, i also reseeded the databases and same results. If i do a local move on a non-working search mailbox and move it to the 2nd database, search comes back with results... thats weird. on a different note, i should probably open a new thread but i will ask you anyways. is there a solution for a 5 second delay between outlook 2003 and ex2010? it seems like when you delete and item form inbox it sits there for about 5 seconds and then goes to deleted items. same with sending emails... once you hit send, it sits in Outbox for 5 seconds and then leaves. i tested when in cached mode and i dont experience the same problem. Thank you Hani
January 12th, 2011 3:03pm

Hi Hani lanzi, -> i went through the instructions provided and everything checks out, i also reseeded the databases and same results.If i do a local move on a non-working search mailbox and move it to the 2nd database, search comes back with results... thats weird. A: It sounds the database has some corruption, I would suggest that you could move all the mailbox to other database, and delete the database, it is easy to achieve. For you another question, I would suggest that you could open a new threads, thank you! Regards! Gavin TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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January 12th, 2011 9:45pm

Gavin, all outlook clients are in online mode. i went through the instructions provided and everything checks out, i also reseeded the databases and same results. If i do a local move on a non-working search mailbox and move it to the 2nd database, search comes back with results... thats weird. on a different note, i should probably open a new thread but i will ask you anyways. is there a solution for a 5 second delay between outlook 2003 and ex2010? it seems like when you delete and item form inbox it sits there for about 5 seconds and then goes to deleted items. same with sending emails... once you hit send, it sits in Outbox for 5 seconds and then leaves. i tested when in cached mode and i dont experience the same problem. Thank you Hani
January 12th, 2011 10:59pm

Gavin, that's exactly what i ended up doing was that i moved all the mailboxes to the second database over the past week, now both databases are showing mounted and healthy when i reseeded them, on both servers, do you think i should still delete the database? Thank you Hani
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January 18th, 2011 11:34am

Gavin, that's exactly what i ended up doing was that i moved all the mailboxes to the second database over the past week, now both databases are showing mounted and healthy when i reseeded them, on both servers, do you think i should still delete the database? Thank you Hani
January 18th, 2011 7:29pm

Hi Hani Lanzi, It depends on you, :), if it will not be used, we could delete it, or just keep it and not use it. Regards! Gavin TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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January 18th, 2011 8:37pm

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