Exchange Gurus, Sorry, I am not an Exchange expert, but I will try to explain the situation that we are having as much as possible. Hoping someone would be able to help here. Environment: Exchange 2010 joined to a AD 2008 (non r2) child domain (DFL 2008) AD 2003 (forest root FFL 2003 DFL 2003) Problem: We are noticing that our Exchange servers the MaxInboundConnectionPerSource settings keep reverting back to the default (20). Our desired setting is 100 but it happend twice with in 3 months that the setting reverted back to 20 suggesting that somethign in AD got restored. My questions are: 1. Has any one seen this behavior before? If yes, what was the fix? 2. I beleive these settings are saved in configuration partition of AD. The reverting to default suggests that someone has reverted the configuration partition (auth restored) which is not the case as other AD objects are just fine.

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 07:14:59 +0000, Papa1370 wrote: >Exchange Gurus, Sorry, I am not an Exchange expert, but I will try to explain the situation that we are having as much as possible. Hoping someone would be able to help here. Environment: Exchange 2010 joined to a AD 2008 (non r2) child domain (DFL 2008) AD 2003 (forest root FFL 2003 DFL 2003) Problem: We are noticing that our Exchange servers the MaxInboundConnectionPerSource settings keep reverting back to the default (20). Our desired setting is 100 but it happend twice with in 3 months that the setting reverted back to 20 suggesting that somethign in AD got restored. My questions are: 1. Has any one seen this behavior before? If yes, what was the fix? 2. I beleive these settings are saved in configuration partition of AD. The reverting to default suggests that someone has reverted the configuration partition (auth restored) which is not the case as other AD objects are just fine. The simpler explanation is that someone's run a script that reset the values. Check the modified date on the AD object the next time it changes (before you set it back to 100, of course). --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP