RE: From another list I read: Trend Issue
I'd have to agree here, we've used them for years and they created bout 4 hotfixes for latest release of IMSS when it was released for us because of a simply unbelievable bug. (They had a option to hook into LDAP to check if an email address existed but only checked the Primary SMTP and no others!) Oh, and when they release the previous version of Scanmail for Exchange there was a default setting for maximum size of attachments to check (about 5mb), what they didn't mention is that it would delete any attachments over that criteria also in the exchange store! We've moved off using them for our servers but Officescan isn't too bad, but I still put them up there with MS when you need to install/upgrade their product...wait until SP1!! From: Matt Lathrum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 February 2008 16:44 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: From another list I read: Trend Issue I used to be that way, and have used IMSS for years, but they've gone downhill the past couple of years. We're ready to jump ship. From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 7:24 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: From another list I read: Trend Issue I'll take Trend over just about any other AV vendor any day. From: Tom Strader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 9:00 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: From another list I read: Trend Issue This is not the FIRST time they did this. Hence the reason we went away from Trend. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 4:28 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: OT: From another list I read: Trend Issue Just a quick FYI Trend sent out a bad DAT version 4.995 around 10AM EST today (2/12/08). If you are running Trend and have an issue you need to roll back to 4.993. Problems experienced include extremely high disk I/O load and network problems. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com --- Actix is the trading name of Actix Limited, with registered offices at: 200 Hammersmith Road, London, W6 7DL, United Kingdom. Legal Notice - Actix Limited Actix Limited 200 Hammersmith Road, London, W6 7DL, United Kingdom Actix is registered in England and Wales with company no. 02660615 and VAT no. GB 858742087 Legal Notice (Handelsrechtliche Pflichtangaben) - Actix GmbH Actix GmbH Company no.: Handelsregister Amtsgericht Dresden HR B 19204 Place of business (Sitz der Gesellschaft): Dresden (Germany) (Dresden (Deutschland)) VAT no. (Ust-IDNr.): DE 813 115 475 Managing directors (Geschaeftsfuehrer): Johannes Huebner, Dietrich Hunold and Karl-Peter Moehres Information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender, and please delete the message from your system immediately. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Actix. Whilst Actix takes every effort to ensure this message is virus free it cannot guarantee that this is the case. It is the recipient's responsibility to carry out such virus checks as it deems necessary. Actix company details: www.actix.com ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Recovery Storage Groups
Been following the rest of this thread, and you need to move this user back to the group/store s/he was on when it was backed up, else exmerge will throw a wobbly. From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 February 2008 16:56 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Recovery Storage Groups I need to find a contacts folder for a user who has deleted them. I've already checked deleted items, DIR, etc...they are nowhere. So either they were moved somewhere, or deleted more than thirty days ago. I have a monthly backup that was created about 6 months back that I want to check to see if they were there. The only trouble is that we had a corrupted store in between then and now and the the mailboxes are in a different store now. The user's folder was originally backed up in the original store. I've created a recovery storage group, but am not sure which store to choose to restore the data. Any ideas? Also on a side note, when doing the restore in backup exec, there is no option to choose the recovery storage group to restore to. Does this just happen by default? Thanks ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
step 1
OK, I admit I am powerless over Exchange and my life has become unmanageable. My dumbest move of 2008 (and it's only February)... We have Ex 2K3 running at Site1 and are connected to Site2 via a 3mb MPLS connection. One domain over both. I brought up a second Ex 2k3 server at Site2, thinking I was creating some reliability. RIGHT...! Now, when the Site2 Ex 2k3 server is down, Site1 users get Exchange is off-line messages. 1. Where did I go wrong (aside from not testing this under virtualization we don't have)? 2. And is there a path out of the quicksand? Thanks in advance G. Waleed Kavalec - In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. -- Mark Twain ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: step 1
We are clueless here because you've said nothing about: a) why and for whom you thought a second E2K3 would create reliability b) the steps you took in bringing up the E2K3 at site 2 b) what the topology of DCs and GC's happens to be, before and after Generally speaking, when you document the history and configuration to the extent that those who know nothing about it will understand it, you will end up understanding it better yourself, and in so doing you might even figure out the problem. Carl _ From: G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 12:46 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: step 1 OK, I admit I am powerless over Exchange and my life has become unmanageable. My dumbest move of 2008 (and it's only February)... We have Ex 2K3 running at Site1 and are connected to Site2 via a 3mb MPLS connection. One domain over both. I brought up a second Ex 2k3 server at Site2, thinking I was creating some reliability. RIGHT...! Now, when the Site2 Ex 2k3 server is down, Site1 users get Exchange is off-line messages. 1. Where did I go wrong (aside from not testing this under virtualization we don't have)? 2. And is there a path out of the quicksand? Thanks in advance G. Waleed Kavalec ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: step 1
Very good points Carl! Mr. G: Did you happen to move all the mailboxes PF to Site 2? If not, what did you move over to site2? Joseph Danielsen, CSBS, MCSA-Messaging, MCP Network Blade Inc. 49 Marcy Street Somerset, NJ 08873 732-213-0600 From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Monday, February 18, 2008 1:10 PM Posted To: Exchange Conversation: step 1 Subject: RE: step 1 We are clueless here because you've said nothing about: a) why and for whom you thought a second E2K3 would create reliability b) the steps you took in bringing up the E2K3 at site 2 b) what the topology of DCs and GC's happens to be, before and after Generally speaking, when you document the history and configuration to the extent that those who know nothing about it will understand it, you will end up understanding it better yourself, and in so doing you might even figure out the problem. Carl From: G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 12:46 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: step 1 OK, I admit I am powerless over Exchange and my life has become unmanageable. My dumbest move of 2008 (and it's only February)... We have Ex 2K3 running at Site1 and are connected to Site2 via a 3mb MPLS connection. One domain over both. I brought up a second Ex 2k3 server at Site2, thinking I was creating some reliability. RIGHT...! Now, when the Site2 Ex 2k3 server is down, Site1 users get Exchange is off-line messages. 1. Where did I go wrong (aside from not testing this under virtualization we don't have)? 2. And is there a path out of the quicksand? Thanks in advance G. Waleed Kavalec ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: step 1
a) We need site2 to be usable as a back-up / disaster recovery site, even though it is already up and running production (not my design); the idea was to have a second set of mailboxes there with alternate email addresses and a second smtp outgoing channel. b) at site2 I simply installed E2k3 and checked this is an additional server. c) GC was likely most of my problem, so you were far less clueless that I Thanks On Feb 18, 2008 12:09 PM, Carl Houseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are clueless here because you've said nothing about: a) why and for whom you thought a second E2K3 would create reliability b) the steps you took in bringing up the E2K3 at site 2 b) what the topology of DCs and GC's happens to be, before and after Generally speaking, when you document the history and configuration to the extent that those who know nothing about it will understand it, you will end up understanding it better yourself, and in so doing you might even figure out the problem. Carl -- *From:* G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, February 18, 2008 12:46 PM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* step 1 OK, I admit I am powerless over Exchange and my life has become unmanageable. My dumbest move of 2008 (and it's only February)... We have Ex 2K3 running at Site1 and are connected to Site2 via a 3mb MPLS connection. One domain over both. I brought up a second Ex 2k3 server at Site2, thinking I was creating some reliability. RIGHT...! Now, when the Site2 Ex 2k3 server is down, Site1 users get Exchange is off-line messages. 1. Where did I go wrong (aside from not testing this under virtualization we don't have)? 2. And is there a path out of the quicksand? Thanks in advance G. Waleed Kavalec -- -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec - In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. -- Mark Twain ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: step 1
I moved zilch over to site2, but as it turns out (due to historical reasons) the GC was on the site2 DC that became the site2 e2k3. The short-story version: site2 was brought up 100% win2k3 nice and clean, site1 is still a mixed bag, half of which is on our older 2k domain. On Feb 18, 2008 1:30 PM, ExchList [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very good points Carl! Mr. G: Did you happen to move all the mailboxes PF to Site 2? If not, what did you move over to site2? Joseph Danielsen, CSBS, MCSA-Messaging, MCP Network Blade Inc. 49 Marcy Street Somerset, NJ 08873 732-213-0600 *From:* Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Posted At:* Monday, February 18, 2008 1:10 PM *Posted To:* Exchange *Conversation:* step 1 *Subject:* RE: step 1 We are clueless here because you've said nothing about: a) why and for whom you thought a second E2K3 would create reliability b) the steps you took in bringing up the E2K3 at site 2 b) what the topology of DCs and GC's happens to be, before and after Generally speaking, when you document the history and configuration to the extent that those who know nothing about it will understand it, you will end up understanding it better yourself, and in so doing you might even figure out the problem. Carl -- *From:* G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, February 18, 2008 12:46 PM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* step 1 OK, I admit I am powerless over Exchange and my life has become unmanageable. My dumbest move of 2008 (and it's only February)... We have Ex 2K3 running at Site1 and are connected to Site2 via a 3mb MPLS connection. One domain over both. I brought up a second Ex 2k3 server at Site2, thinking I was creating some reliability. RIGHT...! Now, when the Site2 Ex 2k3 server is down, Site1 users get Exchange is off-line messages. 1. Where did I go wrong (aside from not testing this under virtualization we don't have)? 2. And is there a path out of the quicksand? Thanks in advance G. Waleed Kavalec -- -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec - In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. -- Mark Twain ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: step 1
What you have envisioned is not a designed way for Exchange 03 to function. A second set of mailboxes and emails is another database. Outlook doesn't fail over to another database in the event of server1 failure. To do what you are thinking about takes a secondary software like Doubletake to create a replication/fail over scenario. b. Is the new Exchange server in site 2, a DC/GC or is it just a member server? B1. Did you create 2 sites in AD or is it just one Domain and AD doesn't see one site different from the other(Just one big cloud) Greg From: G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 2:47 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: step 1 a) We need site2 to be usable as a back-up / disaster recovery site, even though it is already up and running production (not my design); the idea was to have a second set of mailboxes there with alternate email addresses and a second smtp outgoing channel. b) at site2 I simply installed E2k3 and checked this is an additional server. c) GC was likely most of my problem, so you were far less clueless that I Thanks On Feb 18, 2008 12:09 PM, Carl Houseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are clueless here because you've said nothing about: a) why and for whom you thought a second E2K3 would create reliability b) the steps you took in bringing up the E2K3 at site 2 b) what the topology of DCs and GC's happens to be, before and after Generally speaking, when you document the history and configuration to the extent that those who know nothing about it will understand it, you will end up understanding it better yourself, and in so doing you might even figure out the problem. Carl From: G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 12:46 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: step 1 OK, I admit I am powerless over Exchange and my life has become unmanageable. My dumbest move of 2008 (and it's only February)... We have Ex 2K3 running at Site1 and are connected to Site2 via a 3mb MPLS connection. One domain over both. I brought up a second Ex 2k3 server at Site2, thinking I was creating some reliability. RIGHT...! Now, when the Site2 Ex 2k3 server is down, Site1 users get Exchange is off-line messages. 1. Where did I go wrong (aside from not testing this under virtualization we don't have)? 2. And is there a path out of the quicksand? Thanks in advance G. Waleed Kavalec -- -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec - In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. -- Mark Twain ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: step 1
I am not looking for automatic failover. I know that will take 3rd party software to do with e2k3.* * All I want is to be able to notify a few key clients: hey, hurricane! Per plan A please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] (and yes we have both our domains registered) While a hurricane is NOT in town I need site2 to be able to send via site2's e2k3, and site1 via site1's. MOST of the time both sites are up just fine, running production, no problem. But up thru a month ago site2 needed site1 to do email (including automatic emails), and as of my little oops BOTH sites' need to be up. Replicating the GC *may* have fixed that. I will know soon. * It seems e2k7 can do failover though. Is this correct? On Feb 18, 2008 2:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you have envisioned is not a designed way for Exchange 03 to function. A second set of mailboxes and emails is another database. Outlook doesn't fail over to another database in the event of server1 failure. To do what you are thinking about takes a secondary software like Doubletake to create a replication/fail over scenario. b. Is the new Exchange server in site 2, a DC/GC or is it just a member server? B1. Did you create 2 sites in AD or is it just one Domain and AD doesn't see one site different from the other(Just one big cloud) Greg *From:* G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, February 18, 2008 2:47 PM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: step 1 a) We need site2 to be usable as a back-up / disaster recovery site, even though it is already up and running production (not my design); the idea was to have a second set of mailboxes there with alternate email addresses and a second smtp outgoing channel. b) at site2 I simply installed E2k3 and checked this is an additional server. c) GC was likely most of my problem, so you were far less clueless that I Thanks On Feb 18, 2008 12:09 PM, Carl Houseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are clueless here because you've said nothing about: a) why and for whom you thought a second E2K3 would create reliability b) the steps you took in bringing up the E2K3 at site 2 b) what the topology of DCs and GC's happens to be, before and after Generally speaking, when you document the history and configuration to the extent that those who know nothing about it will understand it, you will end up understanding it better yourself, and in so doing you might even figure out the problem. Carl -- *From:* G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, February 18, 2008 12:46 PM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* step 1 OK, I admit I am powerless over Exchange and my life has become unmanageable. My dumbest move of 2008 (and it's only February)... We have Ex 2K3 running at Site1 and are connected to Site2 via a 3mb MPLS connection. One domain over both. I brought up a second Ex 2k3 server at Site2, thinking I was creating some reliability. RIGHT...! Now, when the Site2 Ex 2k3 server is down, Site1 users get Exchange is off-line messages. 1. Where did I go wrong (aside from not testing this under virtualization we don't have)? 2. And is there a path out of the quicksand? Thanks in advance G. Waleed Kavalec -- -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec - In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. -- Mark Twain -- -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec - In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. -- Mark Twain ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Recovery Storage Groups
You bet, once I fixed that, everything fell into place... On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Sobey, Richard A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Been following the rest of this thread, and you need to move this user back to the group/store s/he was on when it was backed up, else exmergewill throw a wobbly. *From:* Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* 15 February 2008 16:56 *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* Recovery Storage Groups I need to find a contacts folder for a user who has deleted them. I've already checked deleted items, DIR, etc...they are nowhere. So either they were moved somewhere, or deleted more than thirty days ago. I have a monthly backup that was created about 6 months back that I want to check to see if they were there. The only trouble is that we had a corrupted store in between then and now and the the mailboxes are in a different store now. The user's folder was originally backed up in the original store. I've created a recovery storage group, but am not sure which store to choose to restore the data. Any ideas? Also on a side note, when doing the restore in backup exec, there is no option to choose the recovery storage group to restore to. Does this just happen by default? Thanks ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Recovery Storage Groups
Hows Florida Steve? On Feb 18, 2008 7:57 PM, Steve Ens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You bet, once I fixed that, everything fell into place... On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Sobey, Richard A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Been following the rest of this thread, and you need to move this user back to the group/store s/he was on when it was backed up, else exmergewill throw a wobbly. *From:* Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* 15 February 2008 16:56 *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* Recovery Storage Groups I need to find a contacts folder for a user who has deleted them. I've already checked deleted items, DIR, etc...they are nowhere. So either they were moved somewhere, or deleted more than thirty days ago. I have a monthly backup that was created about 6 months back that I want to check to see if they were there. The only trouble is that we had a corrupted store in between then and now and the the mailboxes are in a different store now. The user's folder was originally backed up in the original store. I've created a recovery storage group, but am not sure which store to choose to restore the data. Any ideas? Also on a side note, when doing the restore in backup exec, there is no option to choose the recovery storage group to restore to. Does this just happen by default? Thanks -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Recovery Storage Groups
Nice...thanks for asking...Epcot yesterday, MGM Studios today...can't beat wearing shorts and sandals after a few months of parkas and boots. On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Sherry Abercrombie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hows Florida Steve? On Feb 18, 2008 7:57 PM, Steve Ens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You bet, once I fixed that, everything fell into place... On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Sobey, Richard A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Been following the rest of this thread, and you need to move this user back to the group/store s/he was on when it was backed up, else exmerge will throw a wobbly. *From:* Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* 15 February 2008 16:56 *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* Recovery Storage Groups I need to find a contacts folder for a user who has deleted them. I've already checked deleted items, DIR, etc...they are nowhere. So either they were moved somewhere, or deleted more than thirty days ago. I have a monthly backup that was created about 6 months back that I want to check to see if they were there. The only trouble is that we had a corrupted store in between then and now and the the mailboxes are in a different store now. The user's folder was originally backed up in the original store. I've created a recovery storage group, but am not sure which store to choose to restore the data. Any ideas? Also on a side note, when doing the restore in backup exec, there is no option to choose the recovery storage group to restore to. Does this just happen by default? Thanks -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
