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Article ID: 157003 - Last Review: October 30, 2006 - Revision: 2.1
PC Adm: The Microsoft Mail Administrator Program and MS-DOS Virtual Machines
This article was previously published under Q157003
Running the Microsoft Mail Administrator program under an MS-DOS virtual
machine (VDM) is supported; however, just as with any application being run
under a VDM, it is susceptible to causing corruption to the postoffice
under certain situations.
Any networked MS-DOS application that relies on the sophisticated file I/O
caching of a VDM could potentially experience file corruption because of
one of the following:
- Closing the VDM without properly closing down the MS-DOS application
running in its window.
- Ungracefully shutting the power down to a computer that has a running
MS-DOS application under a VDM.
- Faulty networking hardware or network card device drivers that do not
properly handle I/O requests from the network and return improper values
to the MS-DOS application.
When you run the Microsoft Mail Administrator program under a VDM in
Microsoft Windows, Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95, or Windows NT, the
following rules should be followed to prevent any corruption to the
Microsoft Mail 3.x postoffice database files:
- Always shut down the Administrator program by first pressing the ESCAPE
(ESC) key, and then pressing Y, and then closing the VDM window.
- If you are experiencing problems performing normal Administrator
functions under a VDM, try performing the same task in a VDM on another
workstation or from a native MS-DOS workstation.
- If the problems persist, contact Microsoft Technical Support.
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Mail for PC Networks 3.2
- Microsoft Mail for PC Networks 3.5
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