Scary isn't it? By the way, we always put AV on Exchange servers; I wasn't joining sides with the non-AV Exchange server brigade! :-)
Neil -----Original Message----- From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: 14 December 2001 16:43 Posted To: Exchange Mailing List Conversation: Antivirus causing move errors thingamajig Subject: RE: Antivirus causing move errors thingamajig This would be the same Microsoft which was hammered internally by Nimda and has been the first sender of a dozen of so new major viruses I've received over the last couple of years? I've adopted a bit of a different strategy myself. But, to each his own I suppose. Chris -- Chris Scharff Senior Sales Engineer MessageOne If you can't measure, you can't manage! > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Hobson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 10:47 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Antivirus causing move errors thingamajig > > > Isn't that what Microsoft do (or at least did) internally? > I'm sure Dave Walsh of Microsoft said that at a meeting in > the UK earlier this year. > > Neil > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Posted At: 14 December 2001 16:33 > Posted To: Exchange Mailing List > Conversation: Antivirus causing move errors thingamajig > Subject: RE: Antivirus causing move errors thingamajig > > > I stand corrected. That sounds like a $wonderful idea. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Woodruff, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 10:36 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: RE: Antivirus causing move errors thingamajig > > > > > > The solution would be not to use any AV products on a production > > exchange server. Use an SMTP gateway AV and client AV. > > > > Michael Woodruff > > System Administrator > > inChord Communications Inc. > > A group of communications companies providing clients > > unlimited visibility > > 614.543.6405 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 11:23 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: RE: Antivirus causing move errors thingamajig > > > > > > Sophos doesn't appear to have an Exchange 5.5 aware AV > product, so I > > don't know how great of a solution it would be for poor Thomas' > > Exchange server. > > > > Chris > > -- > > Chris Scharff > > Senior Sales Engineer > > MessageOne > > If you can't measure, you can't manage! > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Woodruff, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 9:45 AM > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > Subject: RE: Antivirus causing move errors thingamajig > > > > > > > > > Being from the UK I would think you would use SOPHOS. > Sophos is by > > > far the greatest Anti Virus Software. > > > > > > Michael Woodruff > > > System Administrator > > > inChord Communications Inc. > > > A group of communications companies providing clients unlimited > > > visibility 614.543.6405 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Alverson, Thomas M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 10:44 AM > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > > Subject: RE: Antivirus causing move errors thingamajig > > > > > > > > > I am running NAV 2.12 in MAPI/VAPI and it seems to work > fine IF the > > > background scanning option is enabled. The only drawback is that > > > every time the definitions are updated it must rescan the > > whole IS in > > > the background (about 24 hours for our 20G store). In > version 2.14 > > > the added an option to inhibit the automatic rescanning when new > > > definitions are installed. How did you get version 2.17? > We paid > > > extra for a year of updates and had to call and bug them > to get the > > > corporate 7.6 update but they sent no navmse update. > > > > > > Tom > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Halliday S (ISELS) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 5:09 AM > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > Subject: RE: Antivirus causing move errors thingamajig > > > > > > > > > If you check the archives, I had and still have the same > > problem here > > > with NAV and users not being able to move attachments. I > > had MS look > > > at it and Symantec and both blamed each other. I ran > optimiser and > > > that didn't cure it. The next stage (which I still > haven't got round > > > to yet) is checking the IS for corruption. What I have found is > > > that when I upgrade to a new version of NAV (uninstall/reinstall) > > > it starts of working fine and then gradually performance > > > becomes a real issue with alot of stuff being quarantined > > > (when quarantining is disabled!) and users start to get mail > > > sitting in the outbox for a while. I am running NAV 2.17 > > > Build 75 in MAPI/VAPI. Ex 5.5 SP4.0, NT4.0 SP5a. > > > > > > Stephanie. > > > University of Glamorgan. > > > UK > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Hansen, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: 11 December 2001 18:17 > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > Subject: RE: Antivirus causing move errors thingamajig > > > > > > > > > Exactly. Well almost, I'm at the background part. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Alverson, Thomas M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 10:10 AM > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > Subject: RE: Antivirus causing move errors thingamajig > > > > > > So your problem is the same one I ran into: > > > > > > -Had old NAV for exchange 2.0 running in mapi mode (only mode it > > > supported). > > > > > > -Upgraded to NAV 2.1 and enabled dual mapi/avapi mode. > > > > > > -Users could not move multiple messages at once without > > errors. Also > > > exporting to a PST file would cause errors and an > incomplete export. > > > > > > -Went back to MAPI only mode. > > > > > > -Got nervous and went back to MAPI/AVAPI mode but enabled the > > > background scan. No complaints yet, but I have not tried > > to break it > > > either. > > > > > > Tom > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Hansen, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 10:22 AM > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > Subject: RE: Antivirus causing move errors thingamajig > > > > > > > > > Yes I am, I'll look for that option. Thank you. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Alverson, Thomas M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 7:12 AM > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > > Subject: RE: Antivirus causing move errors thingamajig > > > > > > Are you running Norton AV for exchange? If so, there is a > > background > > > scanning option that will prescan all your mail whenever new > > > definitions arrive. Once they are prescanned, a multi > message move > > > will not require all the messages to be checked for > > viruses. I turned > > > on the background scan option here and it took over a day to scan > > > everything (about 20gig of mail), but a definition update > > came in the > > > middle of that. > > > > > > Tom > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Hansen, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 4:28 PM > > > To: Exchange Discussions > > > Subject: Antivirus causing move errors thingamajig > > > > > > > > > A while back I submitted a item about getting errors(access denied > > > errors) when moving emails to and from mailboxes and > > someone suggested > > > it may be related to VAPI mode in my antivirus, something > > to do with a > > > scan time or something. > > > Does anyone have the vaguest clue what I'm talking about? > > > > > > I looked back but I cant seem to find it. > > > > > > Recap > > > Single site, single domain. 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