Re: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP
You could also look for personal distribution list that the user has created. On 8/25/08, Evan Brastow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I could try that, but I'd rather not because the users really like to use that feature for easy addressing of emails. It seems like it may or may not be related to that, as we used the autofill option for several years without these issues. It just seems to weird that they can send an email without the extra address showing up in the To: field, and then it's somehow added when the email is sent. Evan *From:* Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Friday, August 22, 2008 7:42 PM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP Have you tried clearing the .nk2 files on the PC? (the autofill for Outlook) Close Outlook and delete the .nk2 file on the PC. See if the issue persists afterwards. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *From:* Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Friday, August 22, 2008 5:21 PM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP Okay, I used to think my users were crazy. Scratch that.. I still think they're crazy, but some weird things are going on with multiple people, so I don't think it's just a simple user screwed up issue. For the past few months, several users have been having issues in Outlook (2003) where they either start a new email, or hit reply, and it ADDS an address to the To: field at random. It seems to be an address that an email was previously sent to from that account. What's bad is that it happens with customers. So, for example: 1. I send an email to, say, Joe, talking about how we're having trouble with a job for customer A. 2. Joe replies to my email, yet somehow, a random email address (typically another customer, like customer B) is magically added to the To field. 3. Customer B replies with a WTH??? email. 4. People look at me with extreme frustration Any ideas what could be causing this? I don't think it's that they're accidentally hitting a key and it's using autocomplete to put a name in. The user that it happened to twice today swore that she checked the To field several times before sending the second email where this occurred (because obviously she was very nervous after it happened the first time.) Thanks, Evan -- 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: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP
The file will be re-created when they start using Outlook again. Deleting it would help pinpoint the problem. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:07 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP I guess I could try that, but I'd rather not because the users really like to use that feature for easy addressing of emails. It seems like it may or may not be related to that, as we used the autofill option for several years without these issues. It just seems to weird that they can send an email without the extra address showing up in the To: field, and then it's somehow added when the email is sent. Evan From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 7:42 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP Have you tried clearing the .nk2 files on the PC? (the autofill for Outlook) Close Outlook and delete the .nk2 file on the PC. See if the issue persists afterwards. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 5:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP Okay, I used to think my users were crazy. Scratch that.. I still think they're crazy, but some weird things are going on with multiple people, so I don't think it's just a simple user screwed up issue. For the past few months, several users have been having issues in Outlook (2003) where they either start a new email, or hit reply, and it ADDS an address to the To: field at random. It seems to be an address that an email was previously sent to from that account. What's bad is that it happens with customers. So, for example: 1. I send an email to, say, Joe, talking about how we're having trouble with a job for customer A. 2. Joe replies to my email, yet somehow, a random email address (typically another customer, like customer B) is magically added to the To field. 3. Customer B replies with a WTH??? email. 4. People look at me with extreme frustration Any ideas what could be causing this? I don't think it's that they're accidentally hitting a key and it's using autocomplete to put a name in. The user that it happened to twice today swore that she checked the To field several times before sending the second email where this occurred (because obviously she was very nervous after it happened the first time.) Thanks, Evan ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP
Hrmm... no, they don't really know how to create their own lists, and the addresses they're being sent to just append themselves to the address they actually wanted to send to. It's just so weird. I'm slowly rolling Outlook 2007 out, and perhaps that will fix this issue Not sure Evan From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:10 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP You could also look for personal distribution list that the user has created. On 8/25/08, Evan Brastow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I could try that, but I'd rather not because the users really like to use that feature for easy addressing of emails. It seems like it may or may not be related to that, as we used the autofill option for several years without these issues. It just seems to weird that they can send an email without the extra address showing up in the To: field, and then it's somehow added when the email is sent. Evan From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 7:42 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP Have you tried clearing the .nk2 files on the PC? (the autofill for Outlook) Close Outlook and delete the .nk2 file on the PC. See if the issue persists afterwards. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 5:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP Okay, I used to think my users were crazy. Scratch that.. I still think they're crazy, but some weird things are going on with multiple people, so I don't think it's just a simple user screwed up issue. For the past few months, several users have been having issues in Outlook (2003) where they either start a new email, or hit reply, and it ADDS an address to the To: field at random. It seems to be an address that an email was previously sent to from that account. What's bad is that it happens with customers. So, for example: 1. I send an email to, say, Joe, talking about how we're having trouble with a job for customer A. 2. Joe replies to my email, yet somehow, a random email address (typically another customer, like customer B) is magically added to the To field. 3. Customer B replies with a WTH??? email. 4. People look at me with extreme frustration Any ideas what could be causing this? I don't think it's that they're accidentally hitting a key and it's using autocomplete to put a name in. The user that it happened to twice today swore that she checked the To field several times before sending the second email where this occurred (because obviously she was very nervous after it happened the first time.) Thanks, Evan -- 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: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP
Maybe just rename the .n2k file instead of deleting it. Then you can go back to it, if it isn't the problem. Jeff From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 7:19 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP The file will be re-created when they start using Outlook again. Deleting it would help pinpoint the problem. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:07 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP I guess I could try that, but I'd rather not because the users really like to use that feature for easy addressing of emails. It seems like it may or may not be related to that, as we used the autofill option for several years without these issues. It just seems to weird that they can send an email without the extra address showing up in the To: field, and then it's somehow added when the email is sent. Evan From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 7:42 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP Have you tried clearing the .nk2 files on the PC? (the autofill for Outlook) Close Outlook and delete the .nk2 file on the PC. See if the issue persists afterwards. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 5:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP Okay, I used to think my users were crazy. Scratch that.. I still think they're crazy, but some weird things are going on with multiple people, so I don't think it's just a simple user screwed up issue. For the past few months, several users have been having issues in Outlook (2003) where they either start a new email, or hit reply, and it ADDS an address to the To: field at random. It seems to be an address that an email was previously sent to from that account. What's bad is that it happens with customers. So, for example: 1. I send an email to, say, Joe, talking about how we're having trouble with a job for customer A. 2. Joe replies to my email, yet somehow, a random email address (typically another customer, like customer B) is magically added to the To field. 3. Customer B replies with a WTH??? email. 4. People look at me with extreme frustration Any ideas what could be causing this? I don't think it's that they're accidentally hitting a key and it's using autocomplete to put a name in. The user that it happened to twice today swore that she checked the To field several times before sending the second email where this occurred (because obviously she was very nervous after it happened the first time.) Thanks, Evan ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Switch to Exchange?
Hello everyone, Right now I'm using Mdaemon by www.altn.com. I'm very happy with it, but I'm starting to need some features it does not provide very easily. We are a small company with about 10 email clients. Myself and another user have Blackberries and I want to use the Blackberry Professional Software (a smaller version of the Blackberry Enterprise Software) to run our email and manage them with. I'm starting to look at Exchange, and it's looking like overkill for what we need. I'm willing to live with that, but I want to know if it will hog all the resources on my server. I have a Win2k3 SP2 x64 server with two opteron CPU's and 4 Gig of ram. It is also running SQL Server 2005 x64 and some other smaller programs. Right now I would say I'm using about a 1/3 of it's resources. Can someone please tell me if I'm going to kill my server with this setup, or any other issues I should be considering? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Bayerdorffer, VP mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Numberall Stamp Tool Co., Inc. http://www.numberall.com/ www.numberall.com PO Box 187, Sangerville, ME 04479 USA TEL: 207-876-3541 FAX: 207-876-3566 Marked in Metal Blog: www.numberall.net http://www.numberall.net/ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Switch to Exchange?
In my experience it would not be a good idea to run Exchange on this setup. You always want Exchange on its own separate server. You may want to look at a hosted solution such as mailstreet (www.mailstreet.com) Here is a great listing of others as well: http://www.msexchange.org/services/Exchange-Hosting/ From: Daniel Bayerdorffer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:34 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Switch to Exchange? Hello everyone, Right now I'm using Mdaemon by www.altn.com. I'm very happy with it, but I'm starting to need some features it does not provide very easily. We are a small company with about 10 email clients. Myself and another user have Blackberries and I want to use the Blackberry Professional Software (a smaller version of the Blackberry Enterprise Software) to run our email and manage them with. I'm starting to look at Exchange, and it's looking like overkill for what we need. I'm willing to live with that, but I want to know if it will hog all the resources on my server. I have a Win2k3 SP2 x64 server with two opteron CPU's and 4 Gig of ram. It is also running SQL Server 2005 x64 and some other smaller programs. Right now I would say I'm using about a 1/3 of it's resources. Can someone please tell me if I'm going to kill my server with this setup, or any other issues I should be considering? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Bayerdorffer, VP [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Numberall Stamp Tool Co., Inc. www.numberall.com http://www.numberall.com/ PO Box 187, Sangerville, ME 04479 USA TEL: 207-876-3541 FAX: 207-876-3566 Marked in Metal Blog: www.numberall.net http://www.numberall.net/ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Switch to Exchange?
If you really need Exchange and only have 10 users I would look at a hosted solution, there's a lot out there and they could handle your BB's also. We were an Mdaemon shop also until we got to about 100 users and needed Exchange for work flow routing etc with our ERP. I still use Mdaemon as a secondary Gateway behind our Barracuda for spam/virus detection. For a couple hundred $$/year it makes a great secondary gateway scanner and backup if the primary were to ever fail. From: Daniel Bayerdorffer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:34 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Switch to Exchange? Hello everyone, Right now I'm using Mdaemon by www.altn.com. I'm very happy with it, but I'm starting to need some features it does not provide very easily. We are a small company with about 10 email clients. Myself and another user have Blackberries and I want to use the Blackberry Professional Software (a smaller version of the Blackberry Enterprise Software) to run our email and manage them with. I'm starting to look at Exchange, and it's looking like overkill for what we need. I'm willing to live with that, but I want to know if it will hog all the resources on my server. I have a Win2k3 SP2 x64 server with two opteron CPU's and 4 Gig of ram. It is also running SQL Server 2005 x64 and some other smaller programs. Right now I would say I'm using about a 1/3 of it's resources. Can someone please tell me if I'm going to kill my server with this setup, or any other issues I should be considering? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Bayerdorffer, VP [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Numberall Stamp Tool Co., Inc. www.numberall.com http://www.numberall.com/ PO Box 187, Sangerville, ME 04479 USA TEL: 207-876-3541 FAX: 207-876-3566 Marked in Metal Blog: www.numberall.net http://www.numberall.net/ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP
Have you looked at their sent items to verify the extra address is listed there? From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:19 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP Hrmm... no, they don't really know how to create their own lists, and the addresses they're being sent to just append themselves to the address they actually wanted to send to. It's just so weird. I'm slowly rolling Outlook 2007 out, and perhaps that will fix this issue Not sure Evan From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:10 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP You could also look for personal distribution list that the user has created. On 8/25/08, Evan Brastow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I could try that, but I'd rather not because the users really like to use that feature for easy addressing of emails. It seems like it may or may not be related to that, as we used the autofill option for several years without these issues. It just seems to weird that they can send an email without the extra address showing up in the To: field, and then it's somehow added when the email is sent. Evan From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 7:42 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP Have you tried clearing the .nk2 files on the PC? (the autofill for Outlook) Close Outlook and delete the .nk2 file on the PC. See if the issue persists afterwards. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 5:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP Okay, I used to think my users were crazy. Scratch that.. I still think they're crazy, but some weird things are going on with multiple people, so I don't think it's just a simple user screwed up issue. For the past few months, several users have been having issues in Outlook (2003) where they either start a new email, or hit reply, and it ADDS an address to the To: field at random. It seems to be an address that an email was previously sent to from that account. What's bad is that it happens with customers. So, for example: 1. I send an email to, say, Joe, talking about how we're having trouble with a job for customer A. 2. Joe replies to my email, yet somehow, a random email address (typically another customer, like customer B) is magically added to the To field. 3. Customer B replies with a WTH??? email. 4. People look at me with extreme frustration Any ideas what could be causing this? I don't think it's that they're accidentally hitting a key and it's using autocomplete to put a name in. The user that it happened to twice today swore that she checked the To field several times before sending the second email where this occurred (because obviously she was very nervous after it happened the first time.) Thanks, Evan -- 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: Switch to Exchange?
What kind of connection speed do you need for users to have an enjoyable Outlook experience with a hosted solution? To me that seems like the biggest hangup with hosted. Daniel -- Daniel Bayerdorffer, VP mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Numberall Stamp Tool Co., Inc. http://www.numberall.com/ www.numberall.com PO Box 187, Sangerville, ME 04479 USA TEL: 207-876-3541 FAX: 207-876-3566 Marked in Metal Blog: www.numberall.net http://www.numberall.net/ _ From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:43 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Switch to Exchange? In my experience it would not be a good idea to run Exchange on this setup. You always want Exchange on its own separate server. You may want to look at a hosted solution such as mailstreet (www.mailstreet.com) Here is a great listing of others as well: http://www.msexchange.org/services/Exchange-Hosting/ _ From: Daniel Bayerdorffer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:34 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Switch to Exchange? Hello everyone, Right now I'm using Mdaemon by www.altn.com. I'm very happy with it, but I'm starting to need some features it does not provide very easily. We are a small company with about 10 email clients. Myself and another user have Blackberries and I want to use the Blackberry Professional Software (a smaller version of the Blackberry Enterprise Software) to run our email and manage them with. I'm starting to look at Exchange, and it's looking like overkill for what we need. I'm willing to live with that, but I want to know if it will hog all the resources on my server. I have a Win2k3 SP2 x64 server with two opteron CPU's and 4 Gig of ram. It is also running SQL Server 2005 x64 and some other smaller programs. Right now I would say I'm using about a 1/3 of it's resources. Can someone please tell me if I'm going to kill my server with this setup, or any other issues I should be considering? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Bayerdorffer, VP mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Numberall Stamp Tool Co., Inc. http://www.numberall.com/ www.numberall.com PO Box 187, Sangerville, ME 04479 USA TEL: 207-876-3541 FAX: 207-876-3566 Marked in Metal Blog: www.numberall.net http://www.numberall.net/ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Switch to Exchange?
I would call MailStreet and ask for some references to get this question answered. They have a great website w/ demos and a ton of info on there. From: Daniel Bayerdorffer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:50 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Switch to Exchange? What kind of connection speed do you need for users to have an enjoyable Outlook experience with a hosted solution? To me that seems like the biggest hangup with hosted. Daniel -- Daniel Bayerdorffer, VP [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Numberall Stamp Tool Co., Inc. www.numberall.com http://www.numberall.com/ PO Box 187, Sangerville, ME 04479 USA TEL: 207-876-3541 FAX: 207-876-3566 Marked in Metal Blog: www.numberall.net http://www.numberall.net/ From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:43 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Switch to Exchange? In my experience it would not be a good idea to run Exchange on this setup. You always want Exchange on its own separate server. You may want to look at a hosted solution such as mailstreet (www.mailstreet.com) Here is a great listing of others as well: http://www.msexchange.org/services/Exchange-Hosting/ From: Daniel Bayerdorffer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:34 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Switch to Exchange? Hello everyone, Right now I'm using Mdaemon by www.altn.com. I'm very happy with it, but I'm starting to need some features it does not provide very easily. We are a small company with about 10 email clients. Myself and another user have Blackberries and I want to use the Blackberry Professional Software (a smaller version of the Blackberry Enterprise Software) to run our email and manage them with. I'm starting to look at Exchange, and it's looking like overkill for what we need. I'm willing to live with that, but I want to know if it will hog all the resources on my server. I have a Win2k3 SP2 x64 server with two opteron CPU's and 4 Gig of ram. It is also running SQL Server 2005 x64 and some other smaller programs. Right now I would say I'm using about a 1/3 of it's resources. Can someone please tell me if I'm going to kill my server with this setup, or any other issues I should be considering? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Bayerdorffer, VP [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Numberall Stamp Tool Co., Inc. www.numberall.com http://www.numberall.com/ PO Box 187, Sangerville, ME 04479 USA TEL: 207-876-3541 FAX: 207-876-3566 Marked in Metal Blog: www.numberall.net http://www.numberall.net/ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Switch to Exchange?
With 10 users, I know what I would be looking at - Small Business Server. For the cost of a full Exchange 2007 license and the CALs you could probably have a completely new system to run SBS. Buy it with Software Assurance as SBS 2008 is due very shortly (RTM last week). Then install BES on your existing machine where it can use the SQL server. If you are still looking at a hosted solution, as long as you use cached mode, most xDSL type connections will be fine. I have run more than 20 users on a regular 4mb xDSL (256k up) without any problems. The initial setup when you import your existing mail is the only slight headache. Simon. -- Simon Butler MVP: Exchange, MCSE Amset IT Solutions Ltd. e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.amset.co.uk w: www.amset.info Need cheap certificates for Exchange, compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0? http://CertificatesForExchange.com/http://certificatesforexchange.com/ for certificates from just $23.99. Need a domain for your certificate? http://DomainsForExchange.net/http://domainsforexchange.net/ From: Daniel Bayerdorffer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 August 2008 15:50 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Switch to Exchange? What kind of connection speed do you need for users to have an enjoyable Outlook experience with a hosted solution? To me that seems like the biggest hangup with hosted. Daniel -- Daniel Bayerdorffer, VP [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Numberall Stamp Tool Co., Inc. www.numberall.comhttp://www.numberall.com/ PO Box 187, Sangerville, ME 04479 USA TEL: 207-876-3541 FAX: 207-876-3566 Marked in Metal Blog: www.numberall.nethttp://www.numberall.net/ From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:43 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Switch to Exchange? In my experience it would not be a good idea to run Exchange on this setup. You always want Exchange on its own separate server. You may want to look at a hosted solution such as mailstreet (www.mailstreet.comhttp://www.mailstreet.com) Here is a great listing of others as well: http://www.msexchange.org/services/Exchange-Hosting/ From: Daniel Bayerdorffer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:34 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Switch to Exchange? Hello everyone, Right now I'm using Mdaemon by www.altn.comhttp://www.altn.com. I'm very happy with it, but I'm starting to need some features it does not provide very easily. We are a small company with about 10 email clients. Myself and another user have Blackberries and I want to use the Blackberry Professional Software (a smaller version of the Blackberry Enterprise Software) to run our email and manage them with. I'm starting to look at Exchange, and it's looking like overkill for what we need. I'm willing to live with that, but I want to know if it will hog all the resources on my server. I have a Win2k3 SP2 x64 server with two opteron CPU's and 4 Gig of ram. It is also running SQL Server 2005 x64 and some other smaller programs. Right now I would say I'm using about a 1/3 of it's resources. Can someone please tell me if I'm going to kill my server with this setup, or any other issues I should be considering? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Bayerdorffer, VP [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Numberall Stamp Tool Co., Inc. www.numberall.comhttp://www.numberall.com/ PO Box 187, Sangerville, ME 04479 USA TEL: 207-876-3541 FAX: 207-876-3566 Marked in Metal Blog: www.numberall.nethttp://www.numberall.net/ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Switch to Exchange?
What kind of connection speed do you need for users to have an enjoyable Outlook experience with a hosted solution? Outlook 2003 SP3 or 2007 SP1 set in cached mode work just fine over dialup after the initial sync. It's certainly fine over DSL/Cable and VPN. Be aware of large file attachments...do your users use email instead of shared folders to send files to each other? Address this non-optimal behavior beforehand as the large file will be traversing the WAN connection twice in addition to the inefficiencies of MIME encoding binary files. ~JasonG -- ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Online Spreadsheet
Happy Monday! We are currently looking for a collaborative online spreadsheet for both mac and pc users. I have seen google docs but are there any other products that you all have used or recommend. Does anyone want to comment on the drawbacks of using google docs vs other products. I have also been looking at sharepoint services but some functionality is missing when using a mac in particular the export to excel function. Regards, David ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Switch to Exchange?
Hi Simon, Thanks for the info. You've given me another option I'll have to seriously look at. Also thanks for the input on connection speeds. Daniel -- Daniel Bayerdorffer, VP mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Numberall Stamp Tool Co., Inc. http://www.numberall.com/ www.numberall.com PO Box 187, Sangerville, ME 04479 USA TEL: 207-876-3541 FAX: 207-876-3566 Marked in Metal Blog: www.numberall.net http://www.numberall.net/ _ From: Simon Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 11:08 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Switch to Exchange? With 10 users, I know what I would be looking at - Small Business Server. For the cost of a full Exchange 2007 license and the CALs you could probably have a completely new system to run SBS. Buy it with Software Assurance as SBS 2008 is due very shortly (RTM last week). Then install BES on your existing machine where it can use the SQL server. If you are still looking at a hosted solution, as long as you use cached mode, most xDSL type connections will be fine. I have run more than 20 users on a regular 4mb xDSL (256k up) without any problems. The initial setup when you import your existing mail is the only slight headache. Simon. -- Simon Butler MVP: Exchange, MCSE Amset IT Solutions Ltd. e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.amset.co.uk w: www.amset.info Need cheap certificates for Exchange, compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0? http://CertificatesForExchange.com/ for certificates from just $23.99. Need a domain for your certificate? http://DomainsForExchange.net/ _ From: Daniel Bayerdorffer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 August 2008 15:50 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Switch to Exchange? What kind of connection speed do you need for users to have an enjoyable Outlook experience with a hosted solution? To me that seems like the biggest hangup with hosted. Daniel -- Daniel Bayerdorffer, VP mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Numberall Stamp Tool Co., Inc. http://www.numberall.com/ www.numberall.com PO Box 187, Sangerville, ME 04479 USA TEL: 207-876-3541 FAX: 207-876-3566 Marked in Metal Blog: www.numberall.net http://www.numberall.net/ _ From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:43 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Switch to Exchange? In my experience it would not be a good idea to run Exchange on this setup. You always want Exchange on its own separate server. You may want to look at a hosted solution such as mailstreet (www.mailstreet.com) Here is a great listing of others as well: http://www.msexchange.org/services/Exchange-Hosting/ _ From: Daniel Bayerdorffer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:34 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Switch to Exchange? Hello everyone, Right now I'm using Mdaemon by www.altn.com. I'm very happy with it, but I'm starting to need some features it does not provide very easily. We are a small company with about 10 email clients. Myself and another user have Blackberries and I want to use the Blackberry Professional Software (a smaller version of the Blackberry Enterprise Software) to run our email and manage them with. I'm starting to look at Exchange, and it's looking like overkill for what we need. I'm willing to live with that, but I want to know if it will hog all the resources on my server. I have a Win2k3 SP2 x64 server with two opteron CPU's and 4 Gig of ram. It is also running SQL Server 2005 x64 and some other smaller programs. Right now I would say I'm using about a 1/3 of it's resources. Can someone please tell me if I'm going to kill my server with this setup, or any other issues I should be considering? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Bayerdorffer, VP mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Numberall Stamp Tool Co., Inc. http://www.numberall.com/ www.numberall.com PO Box 187, Sangerville, ME 04479 USA TEL: 207-876-3541 FAX: 207-876-3566 Marked in Metal Blog: www.numberall.net http://www.numberall.net/ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Switch to Exchange?
Thanks for answering. I really like Mdaemon, so if I can I would like to keep it. So your input on the number of users is helpful. -- Daniel Bayerdorffer, VP mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Numberall Stamp Tool Co., Inc. http://www.numberall.com/ www.numberall.com PO Box 187, Sangerville, ME 04479 USA TEL: 207-876-3541 FAX: 207-876-3566 Marked in Metal Blog: www.numberall.net http://www.numberall.net/ _ From: N Parr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:46 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Switch to Exchange? If you really need Exchange and only have 10 users I would look at a hosted solution, there's a lot out there and they could handle your BB's also. We were an Mdaemon shop also until we got to about 100 users and needed Exchange for work flow routing etc with our ERP. I still use Mdaemon as a secondary Gateway behind our Barracuda for spam/virus detection. For a couple hundred $$/year it makes a great secondary gateway scanner and backup if the primary were to ever fail. _ From: Daniel Bayerdorffer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:34 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Switch to Exchange? Hello everyone, Right now I'm using Mdaemon by www.altn.com. I'm very happy with it, but I'm starting to need some features it does not provide very easily. We are a small company with about 10 email clients. Myself and another user have Blackberries and I want to use the Blackberry Professional Software (a smaller version of the Blackberry Enterprise Software) to run our email and manage them with. I'm starting to look at Exchange, and it's looking like overkill for what we need. I'm willing to live with that, but I want to know if it will hog all the resources on my server. I have a Win2k3 SP2 x64 server with two opteron CPU's and 4 Gig of ram. It is also running SQL Server 2005 x64 and some other smaller programs. Right now I would say I'm using about a 1/3 of it's resources. Can someone please tell me if I'm going to kill my server with this setup, or any other issues I should be considering? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Bayerdorffer, VP mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Numberall Stamp Tool Co., Inc. http://www.numberall.com/ www.numberall.com PO Box 187, Sangerville, ME 04479 USA TEL: 207-876-3541 FAX: 207-876-3566 Marked in Metal Blog: www.numberall.net http://www.numberall.net/ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Online Spreadsheet
The only thing I can add is I would be very hesitant to use an outside service (especially Google) to host anything that was even remotely confidential. I would only go forward with something like that if everyone involved (and the lawyers) understood that there could be little or no privacy in that kind of a solution. From: David Baca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 11:13 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Online Spreadsheet Happy Monday! We are currently looking for a collaborative online spreadsheet for both mac and pc users. I have seen google docs but are there any other products that you all have used or recommend. Does anyone want to comment on the drawbacks of using google docs vs other products. I have also been looking at sharepoint services but some functionality is missing when using a mac in particular the export to excel function. Regards, David ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Online Spreadsheet
What about Groove ? Is that accessible by mac users ? CFee From: David Baca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 11:13 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Online Spreadsheet Happy Monday! We are currently looking for a collaborative online spreadsheet for both mac and pc users. I have seen google docs but are there any other products that you all have used or recommend. Does anyone want to comment on the drawbacks of using google docs vs other products. I have also been looking at sharepoint services but some functionality is missing when using a mac in particular the export to excel function. Regards, David ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Outlook Issue?
Often when sending an email from within Excel or Word 2007 everything works except the email never leaves the screen, after hitting the send button. I can go to sent folders and it was emailed but I have to close the Outlook form manually. Ideas? Thanks David This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not represent those of the Names in the News company. Warning: Although precautions have been taken to make sure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage that arise from the use of this email or attachments. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP
18 OOOs... Shazam! From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:19 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP The file will be re-created when they start using Outlook again. Deleting it would help pinpoint the problem. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:07 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP I guess I could try that, but I'd rather not because the users really like to use that feature for easy addressing of emails. It seems like it may or may not be related to that, as we used the autofill option for several years without these issues. It just seems to weird that they can send an email without the extra address showing up in the To: field, and then it's somehow added when the email is sent. Evan From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 7:42 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP Have you tried clearing the .nk2 files on the PC? (the autofill for Outlook) Close Outlook and delete the .nk2 file on the PC. See if the issue persists afterwards. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 5:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP Okay, I used to think my users were crazy. Scratch that.. I still think they're crazy, but some weird things are going on with multiple people, so I don't think it's just a simple user screwed up issue. For the past few months, several users have been having issues in Outlook (2003) where they either start a new email, or hit reply, and it ADDS an address to the To: field at random. It seems to be an address that an email was previously sent to from that account. What's bad is that it happens with customers. So, for example: 1. I send an email to, say, Joe, talking about how we're having trouble with a job for customer A. 2. Joe replies to my email, yet somehow, a random email address (typically another customer, like customer B) is magically added to the To field. 3. Customer B replies with a WTH??? email. 4. People look at me with extreme frustration Any ideas what could be causing this? I don't think it's that they're accidentally hitting a key and it's using autocomplete to put a name in. The user that it happened to twice today swore that she checked the To field several times before sending the second email where this occurred (because obviously she was very nervous after it happened the first time.) Thanks, Evan ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP
That's nothing. Try posting to Shavlik's patch management list. The last time posted there I stopped counting out of office replies at 150. Followed immediately by my unsubscribing from the list. Tim From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:13 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP 18 OOOs... Shazam! From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:19 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP The file will be re-created when they start using Outlook again. Deleting it would help pinpoint the problem. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:07 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP I guess I could try that, but I'd rather not because the users really like to use that feature for easy addressing of emails. It seems like it may or may not be related to that, as we used the autofill option for several years without these issues. It just seems to weird that they can send an email without the extra address showing up in the To: field, and then it's somehow added when the email is sent. Evan From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 7:42 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP Have you tried clearing the .nk2 files on the PC? (the autofill for Outlook) Close Outlook and delete the .nk2 file on the PC. See if the issue persists afterwards. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 5:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP Okay, I used to think my users were crazy. Scratch that.. I still think they're crazy, but some weird things are going on with multiple people, so I don't think it's just a simple user screwed up issue. For the past few months, several users have been having issues in Outlook (2003) where they either start a new email, or hit reply, and it ADDS an address to the To: field at random. It seems to be an address that an email was previously sent to from that account. What's bad is that it happens with customers. So, for example: 1. I send an email to, say, Joe, talking about how we're having trouble with a job for customer A. 2. Joe replies to my email, yet somehow, a random email address (typically another customer, like customer B) is magically added to the To field. 3. Customer B replies with a WTH??? email. 4. People look at me with extreme frustration Any ideas what could be causing this? I don't think it's that they're accidentally hitting a key and it's using autocomplete to put a name in. The user that it happened to twice today swore that she checked the To field several times before sending the second email where this occurred (because obviously she was very nervous after it happened the first time.) Thanks, Evan ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Switch to Exchange?
Daniel, We've used SBS 2k3 for years and have recently put BES on it. It's worked great for us. We have about 70 users (most of whom are remote) and have had very few issues with connectivity or our server bogging down. BJ No trees were killed in the sending of this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. - Original Message From: Daniel Bayerdorffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:14:11 AM Subject: RE: Switch to Exchange? Hi Simon, Thanks for the info. You've given me another option I'll have to seriously look at. Also thanks for the input on connection speeds. Daniel -- Daniel Bayerdorffer, VP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Numberall Stamp Tool Co., Inc. www.numberall.com PO Box 187, Sangerville, ME 04479 USA TEL: 207-876-3541 FAX: 207-876-3566 Marked in Metal Blog: www.numberall.net From: Simon Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 11:08 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Switch to Exchange? With 10 users, I know what I would be looking at - Small Business Server. For the cost of a full Exchange 2007 license and the CALs you could probably have a completely new system to run SBS. Buy it with Software Assurance as SBS 2008 is due very shortly (RTM last week). Then install BES on your existing machine where it can use the SQL server. If you are still looking at a hosted solution, as long as you use cached mode, most xDSL type connections will be fine. I have run more than 20 users on a regular 4mb xDSL (256k up) without any problems. The initial setup when you import your existing mail is the only slight headache. Simon. -- Simon Butler MVP: Exchange, MCSE Amset IT Solutions Ltd. e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.amset.co.uk w: www.amset.info Need cheap certificates for Exchange, compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0? http://CertificatesForExchange.com/ for certificates from just $23.99. Need a domain for your certificate? http://DomainsForExchange.net/ From: Daniel Bayerdorffer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 August 2008 15:50 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Switch to Exchange? What kind of connection speed do you need for users to have an enjoyable Outlook experience with a hosted solution? To me that seems like the biggest hangup with hosted. Daniel -- Daniel Bayerdorffer, VP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Numberall Stamp Tool Co., Inc. www.numberall.com PO Box 187, Sangerville, ME 04479 USA TEL: 207-876-3541 FAX: 207-876-3566 Marked in Metal Blog: www.numberall.net From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:43 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Switch to Exchange? In my experience it would not be a good idea to run Exchange on this setup. You always want Exchange on its own separate server. You may want to look at a hosted solution such as mailstreet (www.mailstreet.com) Here is a great listing of others as well: http://www.msexchange.org/services/Exchange-Hosting/ From: Daniel Bayerdorffer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:34 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Switch to Exchange? Hello everyone, Right now I'm using Mdaemon by www.altn.com. I'm very happy with it, but I'm starting to need some features it does not provide very easily. We are a small company with about 10 email clients. Myself and another user have Blackberries and I want to use the Blackberry Professional Software (a smaller version of the Blackberry Enterprise Software) to run our email and manage them with. I'm starting to look at Exchange, and it's looking like overkill for what we need. I'm willing to live with that, but I want to know if it will hog all the resources on my server. I have a Win2k3 SP2 x64 server with two opteron CPU's and 4 Gig of ram. It is also running SQL Server 2005 x64 and some other smaller programs. Right now I would say I'm using about a 1/3 of it's resources. Can someone please tell me if I'm going to kill my server with this setup, or any other issues I should be considering? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Bayerdorffer, VP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Numberall Stamp Tool Co., Inc. www.numberall.com PO Box 187, Sangerville, ME 04479 USA TEL: 207-876-3541 FAX: 207-876-3566 Marked in Metal Blog: www.numberall.net ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP
Yeah, but this list is for those who are presumed to be able to spell email - and one would think, would know better ;-) From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:16 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP That's nothing. Try posting to Shavlik's patch management list. The last time posted there I stopped counting out of office replies at 150. Followed immediately by my unsubscribing from the list. Tim From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:13 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP 18 OOOs... Shazam! From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:19 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP The file will be re-created when they start using Outlook again. Deleting it would help pinpoint the problem. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:07 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP I guess I could try that, but I'd rather not because the users really like to use that feature for easy addressing of emails. It seems like it may or may not be related to that, as we used the autofill option for several years without these issues. It just seems to weird that they can send an email without the extra address showing up in the To: field, and then it's somehow added when the email is sent. Evan From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 7:42 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP Have you tried clearing the .nk2 files on the PC? (the autofill for Outlook) Close Outlook and delete the .nk2 file on the PC. See if the issue persists afterwards. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 5:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP Okay, I used to think my users were crazy. Scratch that.. I still think they're crazy, but some weird things are going on with multiple people, so I don't think it's just a simple user screwed up issue. For the past few months, several users have been having issues in Outlook (2003) where they either start a new email, or hit reply, and it ADDS an address to the To: field at random. It seems to be an address that an email was previously sent to from that account. What's bad is that it happens with customers. So, for example: 1. I send an email to, say, Joe, talking about how we're having trouble with a job for customer A. 2. Joe replies to my email, yet somehow, a random email address (typically another customer, like customer B) is magically added to the To field. 3. Customer B replies with a WTH??? email. 4. People look at me with extreme frustration Any ideas what could be causing this? I don't think it's that they're accidentally hitting a key and it's using autocomplete to put a name in. The user that it happened to twice today swore that she checked the To field several times before sending the second email where this occurred (because obviously she was very nervous after it happened the first time.) Thanks, Evan ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Send a notification email
Agreed.. Here's the scenario. 1. New message arrives in mailbox. 2. Message is forward to external mailbox (say AOL.com) 3. AOL fills up (due to mailbox limit reached) 4. AOL sends notification back to sender (corporate mailbox) informing of failed delivery 5. See step 1. No loop detected as it is not the original message coming back. On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is SUCH a bad idea. Does the phrase mail loop mean anything to you? Anyway, on my blog is my Catchall Event Sink v2. You could adapt it to do what you want. http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/exchange-200x-catchall-script-version-2.aspx Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com *From:* Jason Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Friday, August 22, 2008 3:38 PM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* Send a notification email SBS 2003 R2. My client would like to create a rule that would fire when a any new message is received. The rule would send email email to an outside email address saying that a new message is waiting for you on the Exchange server. Apparently his users can't be bothered to check their email and for security reasons they have to keep the email in house. I don't see a rule for this in Outlook 2007, anyone have a script that I can borrow or any other ideas? Maybe even a central way to accomplish this using an event sink? *Jason Tierney, MCITP* Vice President, Consulting Services Corporate Network Services Count on Us 20010 Fisher Ave, Suite E Poolesville, MD 20837 direct: 240-425-4441 | main: 301.948.8077 | fax: 301.349.2518 http://www.cornetser.com *Best Place to Work, Alliance for Workplace Excellence – 2006, 2007, 2008 * ...ask me how to better manage your IT costs with [image: cid:image001.jpg@01C7A23F.5BB079C0] ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~image001.jpg
Re: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP
I would appreciate an occasional probe email from the list sponsor, who would then unsubscribe everyone who returned an OoO or bounce message. Kurt On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Don Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, but this list is for those who are presumed to be able to spell email – and one would think, would know better ;-) From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:16 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP That's nothing. Try posting to Shavlik's patch management list. The last time posted there I stopped counting out of office replies at 150. Followed immediately by my unsubscribing from the list. Tim From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:13 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP 18 OOOs... Shazam! From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:19 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP The file will be re-created when they start using Outlook again. Deleting it would help pinpoint the problem. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:07 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP I guess I could try that, but I'd rather not because the users really like to use that feature for easy addressing of emails. It seems like it may or may not be related to that, as we used the autofill option for several years without these issues. It just seems to weird that they can send an email without the extra address showing up in the To: field, and then it's somehow added when the email is sent. Evan From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 7:42 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP Have you tried clearing the .nk2 files on the PC? (the autofill for Outlook) Close Outlook and delete the .nk2 file on the PC. See if the issue persists afterwards. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 5:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP Okay, I used to think my users were crazy. Scratch that.. I still think they're crazy, but some weird things are going on with multiple people, so I don't think it's just a simple user screwed up issue. For the past few months, several users have been having issues in Outlook (2003) where they either start a new email, or hit reply, and it ADDS an address to the To: field at random. It seems to be an address that an email was previously sent to from that account. What's bad is that it happens with customers. So, for example: 1. I send an email to, say, Joe, talking about how we're having trouble with a job for customer A. 2. Joe replies to my email, yet somehow, a random email address (typically another customer, like customer B) is magically added to the To field. 3. Customer B replies with a WTH??? email. 4. People look at me with extreme frustration Any ideas what could be causing this? I don't think it's that they're accidentally hitting a key and it's using autocomplete to put a name in. The user that it happened to twice today swore that she checked the To field several times before sending the second email where this occurred (because obviously she was very nervous after it happened the first time.) Thanks, Evan ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP
You just wanna get probed! John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+ -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 3:31 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP I would appreciate an occasional probe email from the list sponsor, who would then unsubscribe everyone who returned an OoO or bounce message. Kurt On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Don Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, but this list is for those who are presumed to be able to spell email - and one would think, would know better ;-) From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:16 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP That's nothing. Try posting to Shavlik's patch management list. The last time posted there I stopped counting out of office replies at 150. Followed immediately by my unsubscribing from the list. Tim From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:13 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP 18 OOOs... Shazam! From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:19 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP The file will be re-created when they start using Outlook again. Deleting it would help pinpoint the problem. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 9:07 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP I guess I could try that, but I'd rather not because the users really like to use that feature for easy addressing of emails. It seems like it may or may not be related to that, as we used the autofill option for several years without these issues. It just seems to weird that they can send an email without the extra address showing up in the To: field, and then it's somehow added when the email is sent. Evan From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 7:42 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP Have you tried clearing the .nk2 files on the PC? (the autofill for Outlook) Close Outlook and delete the .nk2 file on the PC. See if the issue persists afterwards. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 5:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP Okay, I used to think my users were crazy. Scratch that.. I still think they're crazy, but some weird things are going on with multiple people, so I don't think it's just a simple user screwed up issue. For the past few months, several users have been having issues in Outlook (2003) where they either start a new email, or hit reply, and it ADDS an address to the To: field at random. It seems to be an address that an email was previously sent to from that account. What's bad is that it happens with customers. So, for example: 1. I send an email to, say, Joe, talking about how we're having trouble with a job for customer A. 2. Joe replies to my email, yet somehow, a random email address (typically another customer, like customer B) is magically added to the To field. 3. Customer B replies with a WTH??? email. 4. People look at me with extreme frustration Any ideas what could be causing this? I don't think it's that they're accidentally hitting a key and it's using autocomplete to put a name in. The user that it happened to twice today swore that she checked the To field several times before sending the second email where this occurred (because obviously she was very nervous after it happened the first time.) Thanks, Evan ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of
MS Outlook signature control
Hellos all. Anyone have any thoughts on how we can block the ability a user has to add signatures in MS Outlook desktop? We are planning to roll out via AD but ultimately users can add signatures in MS Outlook. Thanks to all. CAR Office: 305-443-0331 xt. 1202 Mobile: 786-412-1746 Skype: 305-851-2606 Fax: 305-443-0350 e-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] BB Pin: 23E727FF AIM: cramosMIA MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: cramosMIA This e-Mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-Mail in error please notify the sender via returned e-Mail. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this e-Mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. Although IDF operates anti-virus programs, it does not accept responsibility for any damage whatsoever that is caused by viruses being passed. ** Think before you print this message. ** ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Switch to Exchange?
Hi BJ, Thanks, it's good to hear it's doable! Daniel -- Daniel Bayerdorffer, VP mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Numberall Stamp Tool Co., Inc. http://www.numberall.com/ www.numberall.com PO Box 187, Sangerville, ME 04479 USA TEL: 207-876-3541 FAX: 207-876-3566 Marked in Metal Blog: www.numberall.net http://www.numberall.net/ _ From: King's Kid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 1:40 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Switch to Exchange? Daniel, We've used SBS 2k3 for years and have recently put BES on it. It's worked great for us. We have about 70 users (most of whom are remote) and have had very few issues with connectivity or our server bogging down. BJ No trees were killed in the sending of this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. - Original Message From: Daniel Bayerdorffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:14:11 AM Subject: RE: Switch to Exchange? Hi Simon, Thanks for the info. You've given me another option I'll have to seriously look at. Also thanks for the input on connection speeds. Daniel -- Daniel Bayerdorffer, VP mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Numberall Stamp Tool Co., Inc. http://www.numberall.com/ www.numberall.com PO Box 187, Sangerville, ME 04479 USA TEL: 207-876-3541 FAX: 207-876-3566 Marked in Metal Blog: www.numberall.net http://www.numberall.net/ _ From: Simon Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 11:08 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Switch to Exchange? With 10 users, I know what I would be looking at - Small Business Server. For the cost of a full Exchange 2007 license and the CALs you could probably have a completely new system to run SBS. Buy it with Software Assurance as SBS 2008 is due very shortly (RTM last week). Then install BES on your existing machine where it can use the SQL server. If you are still looking at a hosted solution, as long as you use cached mode, most xDSL type connections will be fine. I have run more than 20 users on a regular 4mb xDSL (256k up) without any problems. The initial setup when you import your existing mail is the only slight headache. Simon. -- Simon Butler MVP: Exchange, MCSE Amset IT Solutions Ltd. e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.amset.co.uk http://www.amset.co.uk/ w: www.amset.info http://www.amset.info/ Need cheap certificates for Exchange, compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0? http://CertificatesForExchange.com/ for certificates from just $23.99. Need a domain for your certificate? http://DomainsForExchange.net/ _ From: Daniel Bayerdorffer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 August 2008 15:50 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Switch to Exchange? What kind of connection speed do you need for users to have an enjoyable Outlook experience with a hosted solution? To me that seems like the biggest hangup with hosted. Daniel -- Daniel Bayerdorffer, VP mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Numberall Stamp Tool Co., Inc. http://www.numberall.com/ www.numberall.com PO Box 187, Sangerville, ME 04479 USA TEL: 207-876-3541 FAX: 207-876-3566 Marked in Metal Blog: www.numberall.net http://www.numberall.net/ _ From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:43 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Switch to Exchange? In my experience it would not be a good idea to run Exchange on this setup. You always want Exchange on its own separate server. You may want to look at a hosted solution such as mailstreet (www.mailstreet.com http://www.mailstreet.com/ ) Here is a great listing of others as well: http://www.msexchange.org/services/Exchange-Hosting/ _ From: Daniel Bayerdorffer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:34 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Switch to Exchange? Hello everyone, Right now I'm using Mdaemon by www.altn.com http://www.altn.com/ . I'm very happy with it, but I'm starting to need some features it does not provide very easily. We are a small company with about 10 email clients. Myself and another user have Blackberries and I want to use the Blackberry Professional Software (a smaller version of the Blackberry Enterprise Software) to run our email and manage them with. I'm starting to look at Exchange, and it's looking like overkill for what we need. I'm willing to live with that, but I want to know if it will hog all the resources on my server. I have a Win2k3 SP2 x64 server with two opteron CPU's and 4 Gig of ram. It is also running SQL Server 2005 x64 and some other smaller programs. Right now I would say I'm using about a 1/3 of it's resources. Can someone please tell me if I'm going to kill my server with this setup, or any other issues I should be considering? Thanks, Daniel --
