Might be indeed a good choice. With aprx 90k employees worldwide it is
certainly not an easy task to roll out Win2k AD *and* Exch2k at the same
time.
At least I wouldn't do it that way...
<Siegfried />
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bendall, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 5:34 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Exchange Banner editing - Interesting Article on the
sercurit
> y list - here's a summary for those who missed it
>
> Maybe not a bad approach to migrate Openmail to Exchange 5.5 and then
2000
> after that, would give them time to sort out their AD design. The
company
> that I was talking about has spent two years talking about AD design
> without
> any consideration on E2K, mail is managed by a team using HP-UX and
> Openmail
> who have never had to speak to the NT team, what are party that is!
>
> Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Siegfried Weber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 22 August 2001 16:29
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Exchange Banner editing - Interesting Article on the
sercurit
> y
> list - here's a summary for those who missed it
>
>
> From what I gathered at this workshop HP neither has Active Directory
nor
> Exchange 2000 rolled out yet but do have quite a lot NT4/Exchange 5.5
> deployment.
>
> So they start planning how to migrate all those stuff soon.
>
> <Siegfried />
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bendall, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 4:42 PM
> > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: Exchange Banner editing - Interesting Article on the
> sercurit
> > y list - here's a summary for those who missed it
> >
> > I thought HP had moved to Exchange 2000 already. I know they are
> stopping
> > Openmail support in the next year or so, should be busy time for you
> > migrating the Openmail deployments. I know one place that sent their
> > Openmail admins on Exchange 2000 course expecting them to come back
> and
> > start deploying in three weeks, unfortunately they hadn't heard
about
> AD
> > ;o)
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Siegfried Weber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 22 August 2001 15:19
> > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: Exchange Banner editing - Interesting Article on the
> sercurit
> > y
> > list - here's a summary for those who missed it
> >
> >
> > I've been OOF doing a training for HP Germany on how to migrate from
> > OpenMail to Exchange 2000 ;-)
> >
> > <Siegfried />
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 4:01 PM
> > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: Exchange Banner editing - Interesting Article on the
> sercurit
> > y
> > list - here's a summary for those who missed it
> >
> > Well where have you been? We've been waiting for you to chime in!
<g>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Siegfried Weber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 4:25 AM
> > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: Exchange Banner editing - Interesting Article on the
> > sercurit y list - here's a summary for those who missed it
> >
> > You don't need *any* C/C++ skills to change such a thing. The
> Microsoft
> > Visual C++ IDE offers a way to open an .EXE or .DLL file as resource
> to
> > change a string compiled into the file.
> > That's what the discussion is talking about and that's how you could
> > also change the mailbox warning messages which are stored in
> mdbres.dll
> > IIRC.
> > <Siegfried />
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Matthew Western [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 1:12 AM
> > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> > > Subject: RE: Exchange Banner editing - Interesting Article on the
> > sercurit
> > > y list - here's a summary for those who missed it
> > >
> > > Join the club. my C++ skills are non-existant... i don't think
i'll
> > be
> > > mucking around with the production server....
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Lefkovics, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, 22 August 2001 8:31 AM
> > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> > > Subject: RE: Exchange Banner editing - Interesting Article on the
> > > sercurit y list - here's a summary for those who missed it
> > >
> > >
> > > Nah.
> > >
> > > My event sink skills are limited to VBScript and some VB. I'm
> feeble
> > in
> > > C++
> > > beyond "Hello World".
> > >
> > > William
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Matthew Western [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 4:05 PM
> > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> > > Subject: RE: Exchange Banner editing - Interesting Article on the
> > > sercurit y list - here's a summary for those who missed it
> > >
> > >
> > > ah, i thought you'd reply :) i just thougt it was an interesting
> > read....
> > > someone might find it useful...
> > > you change yours OK? anyway,
> > > , cheers
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Lefkovics, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, 22 August 2001 8:25 AM
> > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> > > Subject: RE: Exchange Banner editing - Interesting Article on the
> > > sercurit y list - here's a summary for those who missed it
> > >
> > >
> > > All true.
> > >
> > > I'd want to play with it just cause I can. We know more about the
> > script
> > > kiddies than they know about us. Oooo... Netcraft...
> > >
> > > It's the hackers I'd worry about, and they could care less what
your
> > port
> > > 25
> > > telnet banner says.
> > >
> > > William Lefkovics, MCSE, A+
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Matthew Western [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 3:55 PM
> > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> > > Subject: Exchange Banner editing - Interesting Article on the
> > sercurity
> > > list - here's a summary for those who missed it
> > >
> > >
> > > Q:
> > >
> > > How do you change the Exchange banner that appears when you telnet
> to
> > the
> > > exchange box on port 25?? I have heard that you must hex edit a
> .dll
> > but
> > > do
> > > not know which .dll to edit?? Anyone know??
> > >
> > > A:
> > >
> > > http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q281/2/24.asp in
> e2k
> > >
> > >
> > > 5.5
> > >
> > > I can speak only for version 5.5:
> > >
> > > For port 25, the strings that need to be edited (with something
like
> > > WinHex) are found in /exchsrvr/connect/msexcimc/bin/msexcimc.exe.
> > > For port 110, the strings are in /exchsrvr/bin/store.exe.
> > >
> > > As pointed out, you will have to redo the strings after you apply
a
> > > service pack. Also, be careful editing store.exe. I strongly
> > > recommend knowledge of C programming for changing the strings
since
> > > the printf parameters are found in the strings (i.e. %s, %i). If
you
> > > overwrite the first one, you most likely will align a wrong
argument
> > > (try printing a long with %s :) in which case the process calls
the
> > > doctor (Watson that is).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > interesting post --
> > >
> > >
> > > I wouldn't say that. Deception and misinformation has always been
> > > used in the intelligence community as part of their security
posture
> > > enhancement.
> > >
> > > Yes, changing banners doesn't make you secure by fixing problems.
> > > Bugs don't go away. But banner grabbing is often done by automated
> > > tools, services (i.e. NetCraft), or individuals. Making it harder
> for
> > > them to identify your systems does increase security posture. (I
> > > have used this on MS IIS successfully. Netcraft had listed a site
as
> > > running Koyote web server... hehe).
> > >
> > > Most of the rest is just noise.....
> > >
> > > Matthew
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > List Charter and FAQ at:
> > > http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
> > >
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> > >
> > >
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> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > > List Charter and FAQ at:
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> >
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> >
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> >
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>
>
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