Tracing emails..

2009-11-10 Thread Paul Cookman

Does anyone know of a way you can track an email in an inbox of any user.

Scenario

An email comes into a public folder and a user drags it out into there inbox. 
Anybody know of any easy/free/cheep way of tracking this email?





Paul Cookman * Technical Account Manager
[cid:image89813d.jpg@7d90e82d.770c4ce2] +44(0) 844 874 1000 * 
[cid:image8f6df2.jpg@156da716.a5914290]  +44(0) 844 874 1001
[cid:image94dd12.jpg@7f0a8e44.53a946d2] paul.cook...@selection.co.uk * 
www.selection.co.ukhttp://www.selection.co.uk/


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This e-mail is confidential and is intended for the exclusive use of the 
addressee only. Selection Services Plc accepts no liability for personal views 
expressed. While every effort has been made to ensure the attachments are 
virus-free, they must be checked before further use, especially those 
containing encrypted data. If you have any problems with this e-mail, please 
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RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

2009-11-10 Thread McCready, Rob
Has anybody played with Exchange 2010 yet?

I'm curious to know if they incorporated any more functions into the GUI.

This PowerShell stuff of typing in 240 characters for one simple requests is 
for the birds.  Holy step backwards.


From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk]
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 4:10 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange 2010 RTM?

Hi Troy,

It was in the news.
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/11/09/453096.aspx

And it comes shortly after they announced it was Code complete:
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/10/08/452775.aspx

Enjoy!

Andrew

2009/11/9 Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.commailto:mailvor...@gmail.com
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:58 PM,  
tbarnh...@rcrh.orgmailto:tbarnh...@rcrh.org wrote:
 I thought we were still months out on these.  Is this correct that this is
 the RTM?
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=exchange+2010+rtm

-- Ben




RE: Tracing emails..

2009-11-10 Thread Dahl, Peter
You would need a mailbox archive tool or something that will export the content 
of the mailbox (exmerge) to have a record of any messages that are copied into 
a mailbox.

From: Paul Cookman [mailto:paul.cook...@selection.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:23 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Tracing emails..


Does anyone know of a way you can track an email in an inbox of any user.

Scenario

An email comes into a public folder and a user drags it out into there inbox. 
Anybody know of any easy/free/cheep way of tracking this email?




Paul Cookman * Technical Account Manager
[cid:image001.jpg@01CA61E0.EE9AA040]+44(0) 844 874 1000 * 
[cid:image002.jpg@01CA61E0.EE9AA040] +44(0) 844 874 1001
[cid:image003.jpg@01CA61E0.EE9AA040]Paul.Cookman@selection.co.uk * 
www.selection.co.ukhttp://www.selection.co.uk/



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This e-mail is confidential and is intended for the exclusive use of the 
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expressed. While every effort has been made to ensure the attachments are 
virus-free, they must be checked before further use, especially those 
containing encrypted data. If you have any problems with this e-mail, please 
contact our IT Manager on em...@selection.co.ukmailto:em...@selection.co.uk

Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 2758710 Registered Office: 
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Re: Exchange 2010 RTM?

2009-11-10 Thread Andrew Levicki
The videos are/will be here:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/teched/videos.mspx

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/teched/videos.mspxEnjoy!

Andrew

2009/11/10 John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org

  I'm sure it was recorded
 John W. Cook
 Systems Administrator
 Partnership For Strong Families
 Sent to you from my Blackberry in the Cloud

  --
 *From*: Campbell, Rob
 *To*: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
 *Sent*: Mon Nov 09 22:38:50 2009
 *Subject*: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

 I'm there, but missed the opening keynote.


 --
 From: John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org
 Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 6:53 PM
 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
 Subject: Re: Exchange 2010 RTM?

  It's the subject of the opening Keynote session here at Exchange/Win
 connections being discussed right now. I'm drinkin the koolaid!
 John W. Cook
 Systems Administrator
 Partnership For Strong Families
 Sent to you from my Blackberry in the Cloud

 --
 *From*: Andrew Levicki
 *To*: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
 *Sent*: Mon Nov 09 16:10:13 2009
 *Subject*: Re: Exchange 2010 RTM?

 Hi Troy,

  It was in the news.
 http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/11/09/453096.aspx

  And it comes shortly after they announced it was Code complete:
 http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/10/08/452775.aspx

  Enjoy!

  Andrew
  http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,100121,39867169,00.htm

 2009/11/9 Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com

 On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:58 PM,  tbarnh...@rcrh.org wrote:
  I thought we were still months out on these.  Is this correct that this
 is
  the RTM?

  http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=exchange+2010+rtm

 -- Ben




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RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

2009-11-10 Thread John Bowles
+1


John Bowles


From: McCready, Rob [rob.mccrea...@dplinc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:34 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

Has anybody played with Exchange 2010 yet?

I’m curious to know if they incorporated any more functions into the GUI.

This PowerShell stuff of typing in 240 characters for one simple requests is 
for the birds.  Holy step backwards.


From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk]
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 4:10 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange 2010 RTM?

Hi Troy,

It was in the news.
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/11/09/453096.aspx

And it comes shortly after they announced it was Code complete:
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/10/08/452775.aspx

Enjoy!

Andrew

2009/11/9 Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.commailto:mailvor...@gmail.com
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:58 PM,  
tbarnh...@rcrh.orgmailto:tbarnh...@rcrh.org wrote:
 I thought we were still months out on these.  Is this correct that this is
 the RTM?
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=exchange+2010+rtm

-- Ben




RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

2009-11-10 Thread John Hornbuckle
I have no clue what MS was thinking when they made that choice.

Adding functionality to the CLI is great. But who, exactly, thought it would be 
a good idea to REMOVE functionality from the GUI?




John Hornbuckle
MIS Department
Taylor County School District
318 North Clark Street
Perry, FL 32347

www.taylor.k12.fl.us



From: John Bowles [mailto:john.bow...@wlkmmas.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:13 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

+1


John Bowles


From: McCready, Rob [rob.mccrea...@dplinc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:34 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?
Has anybody played with Exchange 2010 yet?

I'm curious to know if they incorporated any more functions into the GUI.

This PowerShell stuff of typing in 240 characters for one simple requests is 
for the birds.  Holy step backwards.


From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk]
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 4:10 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange 2010 RTM?

Hi Troy,

It was in the news.
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/11/09/453096.aspx

And it comes shortly after they announced it was Code complete:
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/10/08/452775.aspx

Enjoy!

Andrew

2009/11/9 Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.commailto:mailvor...@gmail.com
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:58 PM,  
tbarnh...@rcrh.orgmailto:tbarnh...@rcrh.org wrote:
 I thought we were still months out on these.  Is this correct that this is
 the RTM?
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=exchange+2010+rtm

-- Ben




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Re: Exchange 2010 RTM?

2009-11-10 Thread John Cook
From a business standpoint you have to understand they came to a point where 
they had to cut off development to make a deadline for RTM. From an admin 
standpoint I think it sucks when you lose that kind of functionality, I'll wait 
till SP1, maybe they'll get to it by then.
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership For Strong Families
Sent to you from my Blackberry in the Cloud


From: John Bowles
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Sent: Tue Nov 10 10:27:22 2009
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

The argument is that when you add more complexity to an application you're 
going to have more complexity in the configuration.  Honestly, they could of 
kept majority of that functionality in the GUI.  I think it was a vast attempt 
to appease the CL weenies of the world.  And it back fired IMO.  I like E2K7, 
but I think they alienated majority of the population that buys their product.  
The GUI configuratbility from an Admin/Engineer standpoint is one of the big 
reason's Exchange stood out from the pack from the rest of the messaging 
platforms.


John Bowles


From: John Hornbuckle [john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:22 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

I have no clue what MS was thinking when they made that choice.

Adding functionality to the CLI is great. But who, exactly, thought it would be 
a good idea to REMOVE functionality from the GUI?




John Hornbuckle
MIS Department
Taylor County School District
318 North Clark Street
Perry, FL 32347

www.taylor.k12.fl.ushttps://outlook.com/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx



From: John Bowles [mailto:john.bow...@wlkmmas.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:13 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

+1


John Bowles


From: McCready, Rob [rob.mccrea...@dplinc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:34 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?
Has anybody played with Exchange 2010 yet?

I’m curious to know if they incorporated any more functions into the GUI.

This PowerShell stuff of typing in 240 characters for one simple requests is 
for the birds.  Holy step backwards.


From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk]
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 4:10 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange 2010 RTM?

Hi Troy,

It was in the news.
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/11/09/453096.aspx

And it comes shortly after they announced it was Code complete:
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/10/08/452775.aspx

Enjoy!

Andrew

2009/11/9 Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.commailto:mailvor...@gmail.com
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:58 PM,  
tbarnh...@rcrh.orgmailto:tbarnh...@rcrh.org wrote:
 I thought we were still months out on these.  Is this correct that this is
 the RTM?
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=exchange+2010+rtm

-- Ben


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RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

2009-11-10 Thread John Bowles
The argument is that when you add more complexity to an application you're 
going to have more complexity in the configuration.  Honestly, they could of 
kept majority of that functionality in the GUI.  I think it was a vast attempt 
to appease the CL weenies of the world.  And it back fired IMO.  I like E2K7, 
but I think they alienated majority of the population that buys their product.  
The GUI configuratbility from an Admin/Engineer standpoint is one of the big 
reason's Exchange stood out from the pack from the rest of the messaging 
platforms.


John Bowles


From: John Hornbuckle [john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:22 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

I have no clue what MS was thinking when they made that choice.

Adding functionality to the CLI is great. But who, exactly, thought it would be 
a good idea to REMOVE functionality from the GUI?




John Hornbuckle
MIS Department
Taylor County School District
318 North Clark Street
Perry, FL 32347

www.taylor.k12.fl.ushttps://outlook.com/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx



From: John Bowles [mailto:john.bow...@wlkmmas.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:13 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

+1


John Bowles


From: McCready, Rob [rob.mccrea...@dplinc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:34 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?
Has anybody played with Exchange 2010 yet?

I’m curious to know if they incorporated any more functions into the GUI.

This PowerShell stuff of typing in 240 characters for one simple requests is 
for the birds.  Holy step backwards.


From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk]
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 4:10 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange 2010 RTM?

Hi Troy,

It was in the news.
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/11/09/453096.aspx

And it comes shortly after they announced it was Code complete:
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/10/08/452775.aspx

Enjoy!

Andrew

2009/11/9 Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.commailto:mailvor...@gmail.com
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:58 PM,  
tbarnh...@rcrh.orgmailto:tbarnh...@rcrh.org wrote:
 I thought we were still months out on these.  Is this correct that this is
 the RTM?
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=exchange+2010+rtm

-- Ben


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or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and 
the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public 
disclosure.



Problems removing Exchange 2007

2009-11-10 Thread Mark Mucher
I have an existing 2003 SBS which I am trying to decommission.  My ultimate
goal is to install a fresh 2010 and just move the mailboxes.

I have a new Server 2008 Standard with a failed Exchange 2007 Standard
installation which doesn't show up in add/remove or even program files
anywhere, but the 2003 SBS can see it.

I've been struggling for weeks to find a way to remove it, including trying
to reinstall and then remove, and following TechNet instructions for
removal.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Mark




RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

2009-11-10 Thread Simon Butler
I keep hearing these complaints about things being cut from the GUI, and left 
in the command line only, but as someone who administrates many Exchange 2007 
servers, a lot of what I have to do day to day is done from the GUI, although I 
tend to use the command line because it is quicker. I suspect a lot of it comes 
from people who have simply evaluated Exchange 2007, as the command line is 
used a lot in the setup and configuration, but in the day to day operation, the 
GUI should fulfil most tasks.

However there are at least three active Exchange MVPs on this list, who can 
provide feedback to Microsoft. Therefore lets throw it open…

What do you think is missing from the GUI? You need to be very specific. That 
applies to both Exchange 2007 and 2010 for those who have already looked at it.
Its obviously too late to do anything about the released product, but Microsoft 
do listen – the change in policy over Windows 2008 R2 an Exchange 2007 is a 
clear example, but without being told, how do they know?

Over to you people now.

Simon.



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MVP: Exchange, MCSE
Sembee Ltd.

e: si...@sembee.co.uk
w: http://www.sembee.co.uk/
w: http://www.amset.info/
w: http://blog.sembee.co.uk/

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: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
Sent: 10 November 2009 15:39
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange 2010 RTM?


From a business standpoint you have to understand they came to a point where 
they had to cut off development to make a deadline for RTM. From an admin 
standpoint I think it sucks when you lose that kind of functionality, I'll wait 
till SP1, maybe they'll get to it by then.
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership For Strong Families
Sent to you from my Blackberry in the Cloud


From: John Bowles
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Sent: Tue Nov 10 10:27:22 2009
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?
The argument is that when you add more complexity to an application you're 
going to have more complexity in the configuration.  Honestly, they could of 
kept majority of that functionality in the GUI.  I think it was a vast attempt 
to appease the CL weenies of the world.  And it back fired IMO.  I like E2K7, 
but I think they alienated majority of the population that buys their product.  
The GUI configuratbility from an Admin/Engineer standpoint is one of the big 
reason's Exchange stood out from the pack from the rest of the messaging 
platforms.


John Bowles


From: John Hornbuckle [john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:22 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?
I have no clue what MS was thinking when they made that choice.

Adding functionality to the CLI is great. But who, exactly, thought it would be 
a good idea to REMOVE functionality from the GUI?




John Hornbuckle
MIS Department
Taylor County School District
318 North Clark Street
Perry, FL 32347

www.taylor.k12.fl.ushttps://outlook.com/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx



From: John Bowles [mailto:john.bow...@wlkmmas.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:13 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

+1


John Bowles


From: McCready, Rob [rob.mccrea...@dplinc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:34 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?
Has anybody played with Exchange 2010 yet?

I’m curious to know if they incorporated any more functions into the GUI.

This PowerShell stuff of typing in 240 characters for one simple requests is 
for the birds.  Holy step backwards.


From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk]
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 4:10 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange 2010 RTM?

Hi Troy,

It was in the news.
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/11/09/453096.aspx

And it comes shortly after they announced it was Code complete:
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/10/08/452775.aspx

Enjoy!

Andrew

2009/11/9 Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.commailto:mailvor...@gmail.com
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:58 PM,  
tbarnh...@rcrh.orgmailto:tbarnh...@rcrh.org wrote:
 I thought we were still months out on these.  Is this correct that this is
 the RTM?
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=exchange+2010+rtm

-- Ben


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RE: Problems removing Exchange 2007

2009-11-10 Thread Simon Butler
If SBS can see it then there are traces in the domain. 
Take the machine, wipe it. DO NOT DELETE THE COMPUTER ACCOUNT. Do not drop it 
from the domain. 

Reinstall Windows using the same machine name and add it back to the domain. 
Then reinstall Exchange 2007 using the recoverserver switch. 
At that point you can remove Exchange 2007 gracefully and it will be removed 
from the Exchange org. 

The key thing is to NOT delete the computer account. 

Simon. 


--
Simon Butler
MVP: Exchange, MCSE
Sembee Ltd.

e: si...@sembee.co.uk
w: http://www.sembee.co.uk/
w: http://www.amset.info/
w: http://blog.sembee.co.uk/

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/ 




-Original Message-
From: Mark Mucher [mailto:mmuc...@bellsouth.net] 
Sent: 10 November 2009 15:52
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Problems removing Exchange 2007

I have an existing 2003 SBS which I am trying to decommission.  My ultimate
goal is to install a fresh 2010 and just move the mailboxes.

I have a new Server 2008 Standard with a failed Exchange 2007 Standard
installation which doesn't show up in add/remove or even program files
anywhere, but the 2003 SBS can see it.

I've been struggling for weeks to find a way to remove it, including trying
to reinstall and then remove, and following TechNet instructions for
removal.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Mark






RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

2009-11-10 Thread John Hornbuckle
Here’s a little thing… Unless my memory is failing me, with the 2003 GUI I 
could view mailbox sizes and sort by size. I seem to have lost this with 2007 
and I know have to run a CLI command that exports to a file, then open that 
file. This takes more time. Not a lot more, but eventually it adds up.

Also, I miss the ADUC integration. To create new user accounts, I’ll frequently 
copy an existing account that already has the group membership I need. With 
2003, I could go into ADUC and copy a user, create the new user, and create the 
mailbox in a few easy steps. No more. Now I have to do the user 
copying/creating in ADUC, then launch EMC to create the mailbox. This takes 
more time. Not a lot more, but eventually it adds up.

Maybe there’s a better way to do these things than I’m currently doing. I’m not 
an Exchange wizard; keeping our system going is one of many things I’m 
responsible for, so I’m a jack of all trades, master of none!  :-)


John Hornbuckle
MIS Department
Taylor County School District
318 North Clark Street
Perry, FL 32347

www.taylor.k12.fl.us





From: Simon Butler [mailto:si...@sembee.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:57 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

I keep hearing these complaints about things being cut from the GUI, and left 
in the command line only, but as someone who administrates many Exchange 2007 
servers, a lot of what I have to do day to day is done from the GUI, although I 
tend to use the command line because it is quicker. I suspect a lot of it comes 
from people who have simply evaluated Exchange 2007, as the command line is 
used a lot in the setup and configuration, but in the day to day operation, the 
GUI should fulfil most tasks.

However there are at least three active Exchange MVPs on this list, who can 
provide feedback to Microsoft. Therefore lets throw it open…

What do you think is missing from the GUI? You need to be very specific. That 
applies to both Exchange 2007 and 2010 for those who have already looked at it.
Its obviously too late to do anything about the released product, but Microsoft 
do listen – the change in policy over Windows 2008 R2 an Exchange 2007 is a 
clear example, but without being told, how do they know?

Over to you people now.

Simon.



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From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
Sent: 10 November 2009 15:39
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange 2010 RTM?


From a business standpoint you have to understand they came to a point where 
they had to cut off development to make a deadline for RTM. From an admin 
standpoint I think it sucks when you lose that kind of functionality, I'll wait 
till SP1, maybe they'll get to it by then.
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership For Strong Families
Sent to you from my Blackberry in the Cloud


From: John Bowles
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Sent: Tue Nov 10 10:27:22 2009
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?
The argument is that when you add more complexity to an application you're 
going to have more complexity in the configuration.  Honestly, they could of 
kept majority of that functionality in the GUI.  I think it was a vast attempt 
to appease the CL weenies of the world.  And it back fired IMO.  I like E2K7, 
but I think they alienated majority of the population that buys their product.  
The GUI configuratbility from an Admin/Engineer standpoint is one of the big 
reason's Exchange stood out from the pack from the rest of the messaging 
platforms.


John Bowles


From: John Hornbuckle [john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:22 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?
I have no clue what MS was thinking when they made that choice.

Adding functionality to the CLI is great. But who, exactly, thought it would be 
a good idea to REMOVE functionality from the GUI?




John Hornbuckle
MIS Department
Taylor County School District
318 North Clark Street
Perry, FL 32347

www.taylor.k12.fl.ushttps://outlook.com/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx



From: John Bowles [mailto:john.bow...@wlkmmas.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:13 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

+1


John Bowles


From: McCready, Rob [rob.mccrea...@dplinc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:34 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?
Has anybody played with Exchange 2010 yet?

I’m curious to know if they incorporated any more functions 

Recipient Policy Issue?

2009-11-10 Thread Kelsey, John
Exchange 2003 patched up, Windows 08 domain.  Just started getting the
following errors on the exchange box.
 
The e-mail address description object in the Microsoft Exchange
directory for the 'PAGE' address type on 'i386' machines is missing. 
 
Permanent failure reported by policy group provider for 'CN=Recipient
Policies,CN=DRMC,CN=Microsoft
Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=drmc,DC=org':'MAD.EXE',
error=8000.  Taking provider offline
 
Not sure what changed or where the 'PAGE' address type came from.  I
removed the type from the recip policy list but the errors persist.  I
can't delete or add any mailboxes now. 
 
Do I have to run a rebuild against the RUS ?  Cycle some services?
 
Thanks all!
 
***
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RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

2009-11-10 Thread Davies,Matt
Seeing the presentations  and the questions from the audience at TechEd in 
Berlin, PowerShell is here to stay, and if anything it has been increased due 
to things like archiving.

From what was said, basic stuff you will always be able to do from the GUI, 
the rest needs Poweshell, what peoples idea of basic is seems to differ :)

With Server 2008R2  AD you can do ADUC stuff from Powershell.

Cheers

Matt







From: McCready, Rob [mailto:rob.mccrea...@dplinc.com]
Sent: 10 November 2009 13:35
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

Has anybody played with Exchange 2010 yet?

I'm curious to know if they incorporated any more functions into the GUI.

This PowerShell stuff of typing in 240 characters for one simple requests is 
for the birds.  Holy step backwards.


From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk]
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 4:10 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange 2010 RTM?

Hi Troy,

It was in the news.
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/11/09/453096.aspx

And it comes shortly after they announced it was Code complete:
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/10/08/452775.aspx

Enjoy!

Andrew

2009/11/9 Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.commailto:mailvor...@gmail.com
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:58 PM,  
tbarnh...@rcrh.orgmailto:tbarnh...@rcrh.org wrote:
 I thought we were still months out on these.  Is this correct that this is
 the RTM?
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=exchange+2010+rtm

-- Ben



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MS Sterling

2009-11-10 Thread Bill Lambert
Hello all...

 

Doing some initial budgeting for next year and was wondering if anyone
knows if/when Sterling will be out?

 

Thanks!

 

(PS...sending this to the NT and Exchange lists.)

 

Bill Lambert

Windows System Administrator

Concuity

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Fax  847-465-9147

 

 

 

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Re: MS Sterling

2009-11-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Bill Lambert blamb...@concuity.com wrote:
 ... was wondering if anyone knows if/when Sterling will be out?

  About three months before it's ready.  ;-)

(Stolen from someone on this list.)

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RE: MS Sterling

2009-11-10 Thread Bill Lambert
LOL!

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To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Cc: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
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On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Bill Lambert blamb...@concuity.com wrote:
 ... was wondering if anyone knows if/when Sterling will be out?

  About three months before it's ready.  ;-)

(Stolen from someone on this list.)

-- Ben





RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

2009-11-10 Thread John Hornbuckle
There's nothing wrong with PowerShell-a powerful CLI is a great thing. But from 
a design perspective, the goal needs to be to give people more choices rather 
than fewer. Don't give people just a GUI. Don't give them just a CLI. Give them 
both, and let them choose.

What Microsoft did with Exchange 2007 was to take away administrators' choices. 
They made it so that you *had* to use the CLI for things that you previously 
could do with a GUI. That's not a step in the right direction.



John


From: Davies,Matt [mailto:mdav...@generalatlantic.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:52 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

Seeing the presentations  and the questions from the audience at TechEd in 
Berlin, PowerShell is here to stay, and if anything it has been increased due 
to things like archiving.

From what was said, basic stuff you will always be able to do from the GUI, 
the rest needs Poweshell, what peoples idea of basic is seems to differ :)

With Server 2008R2  AD you can do ADUC stuff from Powershell.

Cheers

Matt







From: McCready, Rob [mailto:rob.mccrea...@dplinc.com]
Sent: 10 November 2009 13:35
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

Has anybody played with Exchange 2010 yet?

I'm curious to know if they incorporated any more functions into the GUI.

This PowerShell stuff of typing in 240 characters for one simple requests is 
for the birds.  Holy step backwards.


From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk]
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 4:10 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange 2010 RTM?

Hi Troy,

It was in the news.
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/11/09/453096.aspx

And it comes shortly after they announced it was Code complete:
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/10/08/452775.aspx

Enjoy!

Andrew

2009/11/9 Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.commailto:mailvor...@gmail.com
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:58 PM,  
tbarnh...@rcrh.orgmailto:tbarnh...@rcrh.org wrote:
 I thought we were still months out on these.  Is this correct that this is
 the RTM?
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=exchange+2010+rtm

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Re: Exchange Deployment Services

2009-11-10 Thread Don Ely
1000 users, single MB server with a CAS in front of it...  Easy squeezy...
What kind of storage are you hooking the ESX hosts to?  What connection
method are you using (iSCSI, NFS, or Fiber)?

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Brad Metzler bmetz...@cu-portland.eduwrote:

  Good question. The site is presently 2 Exchange servers, one for
 employees and instructors, one for students. The Employee/Instructor server
 is the priority with less than 1000 mailboxes, a mix of users and resource
 mailboxes for room scheduling. No public folders. The student server has
 about 5000 mailboxes and is scheduled to be decommissioned in the next 12-18
 months to be replaced by an outside service so we have no intention of
 upgrading it but it would need to continue to exist in the site until is it
 decommissioned.



 And my apologies to the ladies on the list, I’m sure you have brilliant
 recommendations as well, so let’s hear them!



 Brad



 *From:* Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:50 PM
 *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
 *Subject:* Re: Exchange Deployment Services



 How many users are we talking about?

 On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Brad Metzler bmetz...@cu-portland.edu
 wrote:

 Gentlemen,



 We are looking to upgrade from E2k3 to E2k7 or possibly even 2010
 immediately. I am looking for recommendations on providers, partners, or
 individuals in the Portland Oregon area that really know their stuff and
 wouldn’t come out here trying to figure it out on site but who could do a
 complete and competent deployment of at E2k7. Our current servers are
 physical but we intend to do the new deployments to a virtual environment
 (VMWare) so I’d prefer people who are familiar with deploying to a virtual
 environment. Also we are running Antigen on our E2k3 servers and Forefront
 is by far the cheapest on-board antivir we can get as an academic user for
 running on E2k7 or 2010, so another preference would be someone who has
 experience with Forefront as well.



 What say ye? Any hot talent or reliable companies anyone can speak to out
 here that know E2k7 with Forefront in a virtual environment? Microsoft’s
 list of providers doesn’t really help figure out who actually knows what
 they’re doing.



 Thanks guys.



 Brad





RE: Exchange Deployment Services

2009-11-10 Thread Brad Metzler
Don,

 

We are using iSCSI storage. The utilization on our Employee/Instructor
mail server is relatively low so I am not entirely concerned with the
I/O being an issue even in the virtual environment with the iSCSI. The
bigger issue is we already attempted an E2k7 install on W2k8 Server
earlier this year and did the requisite schema changes, however we were
never able to complete that installation successfully for reasons I do
not recall. My only admin right now is backlogged with a handful of
other projects for which he is better qualified than for Exchange, as am
I which is why we are looking to have an experienced party come in and
knock out the installation for us and ensure we don't missing anything
in the setup, routing, permissions, etc... Thanks

 

Brad

 

From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:02 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange Deployment Services

 

1000 users, single MB server with a CAS in front of it...  Easy
squeezy...  What kind of storage are you hooking the ESX hosts to?  What
connection method are you using (iSCSI, NFS, or Fiber)?

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Brad Metzler
bmetz...@cu-portland.edu wrote:

Good question. The site is presently 2 Exchange servers, one for
employees and instructors, one for students. The Employee/Instructor
server is the priority with less than 1000 mailboxes, a mix of users and
resource mailboxes for room scheduling. No public folders. The student
server has about 5000 mailboxes and is scheduled to be decommissioned in
the next 12-18 months to be replaced by an outside service so we have no
intention of upgrading it but it would need to continue to exist in the
site until is it decommissioned.

 

And my apologies to the ladies on the list, I'm sure you have brilliant
recommendations as well, so let's hear them!

 

Brad

 

From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:50 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange Deployment Services

 

How many users are we talking about?

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Brad Metzler
bmetz...@cu-portland.edu wrote:

Gentlemen,

 

We are looking to upgrade from E2k3 to E2k7 or possibly even 2010
immediately. I am looking for recommendations on providers, partners, or
individuals in the Portland Oregon area that really know their stuff and
wouldn't come out here trying to figure it out on site but who could do
a complete and competent deployment of at E2k7. Our current servers are
physical but we intend to do the new deployments to a virtual
environment (VMWare) so I'd prefer people who are familiar with
deploying to a virtual environment. Also we are running Antigen on our
E2k3 servers and Forefront is by far the cheapest on-board antivir we
can get as an academic user for running on E2k7 or 2010, so another
preference would be someone who has experience with Forefront as well.

 

What say ye? Any hot talent or reliable companies anyone can speak to
out here that know E2k7 with Forefront in a virtual environment?
Microsoft's list of providers doesn't really help figure out who
actually knows what they're doing.

 

Thanks guys.

 

Brad

 

 



Re: Exchange Deployment Services

2009-11-10 Thread Don Ely
H...  What kind of disks are in the SAN?  What kind of SAN is it?

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Brad Metzler bmetz...@cu-portland.eduwrote:

  Don,



 We are using iSCSI storage. The utilization on our Employee/Instructor mail
 server is relatively low so I am not entirely concerned with the I/O being
 an issue even in the virtual environment with the iSCSI. The bigger issue is
 we already attempted an E2k7 install on W2k8 Server earlier this year and
 did the requisite schema changes, however we were never able to complete
 that installation successfully for reasons I do not recall. My only admin
 right now is backlogged with a handful of other projects for which he is
 better qualified than for Exchange, as am I which is why we are looking to
 have an experienced party come in and knock out the installation for us and
 ensure we don’t missing anything in the setup, routing, permissions, etc…
 Thanks



 Brad



 *From:* Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:02 PM

 *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
 *Subject:* Re: Exchange Deployment Services



 1000 users, single MB server with a CAS in front of it...  Easy squeezy...
 What kind of storage are you hooking the ESX hosts to?  What connection
 method are you using (iSCSI, NFS, or Fiber)?

 On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Brad Metzler bmetz...@cu-portland.edu
 wrote:

 Good question. The site is presently 2 Exchange servers, one for employees
 and instructors, one for students. The Employee/Instructor server is the
 priority with less than 1000 mailboxes, a mix of users and resource
 mailboxes for room scheduling. No public folders. The student server has
 about 5000 mailboxes and is scheduled to be decommissioned in the next 12-18
 months to be replaced by an outside service so we have no intention of
 upgrading it but it would need to continue to exist in the site until is it
 decommissioned.



 And my apologies to the ladies on the list, I’m sure you have brilliant
 recommendations as well, so let’s hear them!



 Brad



 *From:* Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:50 PM
 *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
 *Subject:* Re: Exchange Deployment Services



 How many users are we talking about?

 On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Brad Metzler bmetz...@cu-portland.edu
 wrote:

 Gentlemen,



 We are looking to upgrade from E2k3 to E2k7 or possibly even 2010
 immediately. I am looking for recommendations on providers, partners, or
 individuals in the Portland Oregon area that really know their stuff and
 wouldn’t come out here trying to figure it out on site but who could do a
 complete and competent deployment of at E2k7. Our current servers are
 physical but we intend to do the new deployments to a virtual environment
 (VMWare) so I’d prefer people who are familiar with deploying to a virtual
 environment. Also we are running Antigen on our E2k3 servers and Forefront
 is by far the cheapest on-board antivir we can get as an academic user for
 running on E2k7 or 2010, so another preference would be someone who has
 experience with Forefront as well.



 What say ye? Any hot talent or reliable companies anyone can speak to out
 here that know E2k7 with Forefront in a virtual environment? Microsoft’s
 list of providers doesn’t really help figure out who actually knows what
 they’re doing.



 Thanks guys.



 Brad







RE: Exchange Deployment Services

2009-11-10 Thread Brad Metzler
Good question. The site is presently 2 Exchange servers, one for
employees and instructors, one for students. The Employee/Instructor
server is the priority with less than 1000 mailboxes, a mix of users and
resource mailboxes for room scheduling. No public folders. The student
server has about 5000 mailboxes and is scheduled to be decommissioned in
the next 12-18 months to be replaced by an outside service so we have no
intention of upgrading it but it would need to continue to exist in the
site until is it decommissioned.

 

And my apologies to the ladies on the list, I'm sure you have brilliant
recommendations as well, so let's hear them!

 

Brad

 

From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:50 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange Deployment Services

 

How many users are we talking about?

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Brad Metzler
bmetz...@cu-portland.edu wrote:

Gentlemen,

 

We are looking to upgrade from E2k3 to E2k7 or possibly even 2010
immediately. I am looking for recommendations on providers, partners, or
individuals in the Portland Oregon area that really know their stuff and
wouldn't come out here trying to figure it out on site but who could do
a complete and competent deployment of at E2k7. Our current servers are
physical but we intend to do the new deployments to a virtual
environment (VMWare) so I'd prefer people who are familiar with
deploying to a virtual environment. Also we are running Antigen on our
E2k3 servers and Forefront is by far the cheapest on-board antivir we
can get as an academic user for running on E2k7 or 2010, so another
preference would be someone who has experience with Forefront as well.

 

What say ye? Any hot talent or reliable companies anyone can speak to
out here that know E2k7 with Forefront in a virtual environment?
Microsoft's list of providers doesn't really help figure out who
actually knows what they're doing.

 

Thanks guys.

 

Brad

 



Exchange Deployment Services

2009-11-10 Thread Brad Metzler
Gentlemen,

 

We are looking to upgrade from E2k3 to E2k7 or possibly even 2010
immediately. I am looking for recommendations on providers, partners, or
individuals in the Portland Oregon area that really know their stuff and
wouldn't come out here trying to figure it out on site but who could do
a complete and competent deployment of at E2k7. Our current servers are
physical but we intend to do the new deployments to a virtual
environment (VMWare) so I'd prefer people who are familiar with
deploying to a virtual environment. Also we are running Antigen on our
E2k3 servers and Forefront is by far the cheapest on-board antivir we
can get as an academic user for running on E2k7 or 2010, so another
preference would be someone who has experience with Forefront as well.

 

What say ye? Any hot talent or reliable companies anyone can speak to
out here that know E2k7 with Forefront in a virtual environment?
Microsoft's list of providers doesn't really help figure out who
actually knows what they're doing.

 

Thanks guys.

 

Brad



Re: Exchange Deployment Services

2009-11-10 Thread Don Ely
How many users are we talking about?

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Brad Metzler bmetz...@cu-portland.eduwrote:

  Gentlemen,



 We are looking to upgrade from E2k3 to E2k7 or possibly even 2010
 immediately. I am looking for recommendations on providers, partners, or
 individuals in the Portland Oregon area that really know their stuff and
 wouldn’t come out here trying to figure it out on site but who could do a
 complete and competent deployment of at E2k7. Our current servers are
 physical but we intend to do the new deployments to a virtual environment
 (VMWare) so I’d prefer people who are familiar with deploying to a virtual
 environment. Also we are running Antigen on our E2k3 servers and Forefront
 is by far the cheapest on-board antivir we can get as an academic user for
 running on E2k7 or 2010, so another preference would be someone who has
 experience with Forefront as well.



 What say ye? Any hot talent or reliable companies anyone can speak to out
 here that know E2k7 with Forefront in a virtual environment? Microsoft’s
 list of providers doesn’t really help figure out who actually knows what
 they’re doing.



 Thanks guys.



 Brad



Re: Exchange Deployment Services

2009-11-10 Thread Steve Ens
And we are thankful for that!

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.comwrote:

 There's more than just gentlemen here on this list, there's a few of us
 ladies also...


 On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Brad Metzler bmetz...@cu-portland.eduwrote:

  Gentlemen,



 We are looking to upgrade from E2k3 to E2k7 or possibly even 2010
 immediately. I am looking for recommendations on providers, partners, or
 individuals in the Portland Oregon area that really know their stuff and
 wouldn’t come out here trying to figure it out on site but who could do a
 complete and competent deployment of at E2k7. Our current servers are
 physical but we intend to do the new deployments to a virtual environment
 (VMWare) so I’d prefer people who are familiar with deploying to a virtual
 environment. Also we are running Antigen on our E2k3 servers and Forefront
 is by far the cheapest on-board antivir we can get as an academic user for
 running on E2k7 or 2010, so another preference would be someone who has
 experience with Forefront as well.



 What say ye? Any hot talent or reliable companies anyone can speak to out
 here that know E2k7 with Forefront in a virtual environment? Microsoft’s
 list of providers doesn’t really help figure out who actually knows what
 they’re doing.



 Thanks guys.



 Brad




 --
 Sherry Abercrombie

 Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
 Arthur C. Clarke



Re: Exchange Deployment Services

2009-11-10 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
There's more than just gentlemen here on this list, there's a few of us
ladies also...

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Brad Metzler bmetz...@cu-portland.eduwrote:

  Gentlemen,



 We are looking to upgrade from E2k3 to E2k7 or possibly even 2010
 immediately. I am looking for recommendations on providers, partners, or
 individuals in the Portland Oregon area that really know their stuff and
 wouldn’t come out here trying to figure it out on site but who could do a
 complete and competent deployment of at E2k7. Our current servers are
 physical but we intend to do the new deployments to a virtual environment
 (VMWare) so I’d prefer people who are familiar with deploying to a virtual
 environment. Also we are running Antigen on our E2k3 servers and Forefront
 is by far the cheapest on-board antivir we can get as an academic user for
 running on E2k7 or 2010, so another preference would be someone who has
 experience with Forefront as well.



 What say ye? Any hot talent or reliable companies anyone can speak to out
 here that know E2k7 with Forefront in a virtual environment? Microsoft’s
 list of providers doesn’t really help figure out who actually knows what
 they’re doing.



 Thanks guys.



 Brad




-- 
Sherry Abercrombie

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke


RE: Exchange Deployment Services

2009-11-10 Thread Brad Metzler
A Dell NX1950, which is just a Windows server acting as an iSCSI host
for a few shelves of disks. It's cheap and works shockingly well. The
VMFS volumes are run on RAID5 SAS 10k disk sets. Most of the rest of the
storage are in much larger and cheaper (but slower) near-line SAS
arrays.

 

Brad

 

From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:16 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange Deployment Services

 

H...  What kind of disks are in the SAN?  What kind of SAN is it?

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Brad Metzler bmetz...@cu-portland.edu
wrote:

Don,

 

We are using iSCSI storage. The utilization on our Employee/Instructor
mail server is relatively low so I am not entirely concerned with the
I/O being an issue even in the virtual environment with the iSCSI. The
bigger issue is we already attempted an E2k7 install on W2k8 Server
earlier this year and did the requisite schema changes, however we were
never able to complete that installation successfully for reasons I do
not recall. My only admin right now is backlogged with a handful of
other projects for which he is better qualified than for Exchange, as am
I which is why we are looking to have an experienced party come in and
knock out the installation for us and ensure we don't missing anything
in the setup, routing, permissions, etc... Thanks

 

Brad

 

From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:02 PM 


To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange Deployment Services

 

1000 users, single MB server with a CAS in front of it...  Easy
squeezy...  What kind of storage are you hooking the ESX hosts to?  What
connection method are you using (iSCSI, NFS, or Fiber)?

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Brad Metzler
bmetz...@cu-portland.edu wrote:

Good question. The site is presently 2 Exchange servers, one for
employees and instructors, one for students. The Employee/Instructor
server is the priority with less than 1000 mailboxes, a mix of users and
resource mailboxes for room scheduling. No public folders. The student
server has about 5000 mailboxes and is scheduled to be decommissioned in
the next 12-18 months to be replaced by an outside service so we have no
intention of upgrading it but it would need to continue to exist in the
site until is it decommissioned.

 

And my apologies to the ladies on the list, I'm sure you have brilliant
recommendations as well, so let's hear them!

 

Brad

 

From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:50 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange Deployment Services

 

How many users are we talking about?

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Brad Metzler
bmetz...@cu-portland.edu wrote:

Gentlemen,

 

We are looking to upgrade from E2k3 to E2k7 or possibly even 2010
immediately. I am looking for recommendations on providers, partners, or
individuals in the Portland Oregon area that really know their stuff and
wouldn't come out here trying to figure it out on site but who could do
a complete and competent deployment of at E2k7. Our current servers are
physical but we intend to do the new deployments to a virtual
environment (VMWare) so I'd prefer people who are familiar with
deploying to a virtual environment. Also we are running Antigen on our
E2k3 servers and Forefront is by far the cheapest on-board antivir we
can get as an academic user for running on E2k7 or 2010, so another
preference would be someone who has experience with Forefront as well.

 

What say ye? Any hot talent or reliable companies anyone can speak to
out here that know E2k7 with Forefront in a virtual environment?
Microsoft's list of providers doesn't really help figure out who
actually knows what they're doing.

 

Thanks guys.

 

Brad

 

 

 



Re: Exchange Deployment Services

2009-11-10 Thread Don Ely
How big are your databases now?  Any retention policies?  Any size limits?

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Brad Metzler bmetz...@cu-portland.eduwrote:

  A Dell NX1950, which is just a Windows server acting as an iSCSI host for
 a few shelves of disks. It’s cheap and works shockingly well. The VMFS
 volumes are run on RAID5 SAS 10k disk sets. Most of the rest of the storage
 are in much larger and cheaper (but slower) near-line SAS arrays.



 Brad



 *From:* Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:16 PM

 *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
 *Subject:* Re: Exchange Deployment Services



 H...  What kind of disks are in the SAN?  What kind of SAN is it?

 On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Brad Metzler bmetz...@cu-portland.edu
 wrote:

 Don,



 We are using iSCSI storage. The utilization on our Employee/Instructor mail
 server is relatively low so I am not entirely concerned with the I/O being
 an issue even in the virtual environment with the iSCSI. The bigger issue is
 we already attempted an E2k7 install on W2k8 Server earlier this year and
 did the requisite schema changes, however we were never able to complete
 that installation successfully for reasons I do not recall. My only admin
 right now is backlogged with a handful of other projects for which he is
 better qualified than for Exchange, as am I which is why we are looking to
 have an experienced party come in and knock out the installation for us and
 ensure we don’t missing anything in the setup, routing, permissions, etc…
 Thanks



 Brad



 *From:* Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:02 PM


 *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
 *Subject:* Re: Exchange Deployment Services



 1000 users, single MB server with a CAS in front of it...  Easy squeezy...
 What kind of storage are you hooking the ESX hosts to?  What connection
 method are you using (iSCSI, NFS, or Fiber)?

 On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Brad Metzler bmetz...@cu-portland.edu
 wrote:

 Good question. The site is presently 2 Exchange servers, one for employees
 and instructors, one for students. The Employee/Instructor server is the
 priority with less than 1000 mailboxes, a mix of users and resource
 mailboxes for room scheduling. No public folders. The student server has
 about 5000 mailboxes and is scheduled to be decommissioned in the next 12-18
 months to be replaced by an outside service so we have no intention of
 upgrading it but it would need to continue to exist in the site until is it
 decommissioned.



 And my apologies to the ladies on the list, I’m sure you have brilliant
 recommendations as well, so let’s hear them!



 Brad



 *From:* Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com]
 *Sent:* Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:50 PM
 *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
 *Subject:* Re: Exchange Deployment Services



 How many users are we talking about?

 On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Brad Metzler bmetz...@cu-portland.edu
 wrote:

 Gentlemen,



 We are looking to upgrade from E2k3 to E2k7 or possibly even 2010
 immediately. I am looking for recommendations on providers, partners, or
 individuals in the Portland Oregon area that really know their stuff and
 wouldn’t come out here trying to figure it out on site but who could do a
 complete and competent deployment of at E2k7. Our current servers are
 physical but we intend to do the new deployments to a virtual environment
 (VMWare) so I’d prefer people who are familiar with deploying to a virtual
 environment. Also we are running Antigen on our E2k3 servers and Forefront
 is by far the cheapest on-board antivir we can get as an academic user for
 running on E2k7 or 2010, so another preference would be someone who has
 experience with Forefront as well.



 What say ye? Any hot talent or reliable companies anyone can speak to out
 here that know E2k7 with Forefront in a virtual environment? Microsoft’s
 list of providers doesn’t really help figure out who actually knows what
 they’re doing.



 Thanks guys.



 Brad









RE: Exchange Deployment Services

2009-11-10 Thread Brad Metzler
2GB limits on all the mailboxes right now. For the convenience of being
able to take down individual stores without killing everyone the
mailboxes are distributed across 9 stores on the server, presently about
180GB in total. 

 

Brad

 

From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:32 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange Deployment Services

 

How big are your databases now?  Any retention policies?  Any size
limits?

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Brad Metzler bmetz...@cu-portland.edu
wrote:

A Dell NX1950, which is just a Windows server acting as an iSCSI host
for a few shelves of disks. It's cheap and works shockingly well. The
VMFS volumes are run on RAID5 SAS 10k disk sets. Most of the rest of the
storage are in much larger and cheaper (but slower) near-line SAS
arrays.

 

Brad

 

From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:16 PM 


To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange Deployment Services

 

H...  What kind of disks are in the SAN?  What kind of SAN is it?

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Brad Metzler bmetz...@cu-portland.edu
wrote:

Don,

 

We are using iSCSI storage. The utilization on our Employee/Instructor
mail server is relatively low so I am not entirely concerned with the
I/O being an issue even in the virtual environment with the iSCSI. The
bigger issue is we already attempted an E2k7 install on W2k8 Server
earlier this year and did the requisite schema changes, however we were
never able to complete that installation successfully for reasons I do
not recall. My only admin right now is backlogged with a handful of
other projects for which he is better qualified than for Exchange, as am
I which is why we are looking to have an experienced party come in and
knock out the installation for us and ensure we don't missing anything
in the setup, routing, permissions, etc... Thanks

 

Brad

 

From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:02 PM 


To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange Deployment Services

 

1000 users, single MB server with a CAS in front of it...  Easy
squeezy...  What kind of storage are you hooking the ESX hosts to?  What
connection method are you using (iSCSI, NFS, or Fiber)?

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Brad Metzler
bmetz...@cu-portland.edu wrote:

Good question. The site is presently 2 Exchange servers, one for
employees and instructors, one for students. The Employee/Instructor
server is the priority with less than 1000 mailboxes, a mix of users and
resource mailboxes for room scheduling. No public folders. The student
server has about 5000 mailboxes and is scheduled to be decommissioned in
the next 12-18 months to be replaced by an outside service so we have no
intention of upgrading it but it would need to continue to exist in the
site until is it decommissioned.

 

And my apologies to the ladies on the list, I'm sure you have brilliant
recommendations as well, so let's hear them!

 

Brad

 

From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:50 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange Deployment Services

 

How many users are we talking about?

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Brad Metzler
bmetz...@cu-portland.edu wrote:

Gentlemen,

 

We are looking to upgrade from E2k3 to E2k7 or possibly even 2010
immediately. I am looking for recommendations on providers, partners, or
individuals in the Portland Oregon area that really know their stuff and
wouldn't come out here trying to figure it out on site but who could do
a complete and competent deployment of at E2k7. Our current servers are
physical but we intend to do the new deployments to a virtual
environment (VMWare) so I'd prefer people who are familiar with
deploying to a virtual environment. Also we are running Antigen on our
E2k3 servers and Forefront is by far the cheapest on-board antivir we
can get as an academic user for running on E2k7 or 2010, so another
preference would be someone who has experience with Forefront as well.

 

What say ye? Any hot talent or reliable companies anyone can speak to
out here that know E2k7 with Forefront in a virtual environment?
Microsoft's list of providers doesn't really help figure out who
actually knows what they're doing.

 

Thanks guys.

 

Brad

 

 

 

 



RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

2009-11-10 Thread McCready, Rob
Something I certainly considered very basic in Exchange 2003 was sorting 
mailboxes in the GUI by size, or even just LOOKING at a particular users 
current size.

I agree with.If you want to add functionality via PowerShell, 
great..but don't SUBTRACT functionality from the GUI!  Especially 
something as basic as a size column.  Geesh.

I don't know if that is back in 2010 or not, haven't seen the new release yet.

From: Davies,Matt [mailto:mdav...@generalatlantic.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:52 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

Seeing the presentations  and the questions from the audience at TechEd in 
Berlin, PowerShell is here to stay, and if anything it has been increased due 
to things like archiving.

From what was said, basic stuff you will always be able to do from the GUI, 
the rest needs Poweshell, what peoples idea of basic is seems to differ :)

With Server 2008R2  AD you can do ADUC stuff from Powershell.

Cheers

Matt







From: McCready, Rob [mailto:rob.mccrea...@dplinc.com]
Sent: 10 November 2009 13:35
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

Has anybody played with Exchange 2010 yet?

I'm curious to know if they incorporated any more functions into the GUI.

This PowerShell stuff of typing in 240 characters for one simple requests is 
for the birds.  Holy step backwards.


From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk]
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 4:10 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange 2010 RTM?

Hi Troy,

It was in the news.
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/11/09/453096.aspx

And it comes shortly after they announced it was Code complete:
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/10/08/452775.aspx

Enjoy!

Andrew

2009/11/9 Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.commailto:mailvor...@gmail.com
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:58 PM,  
tbarnh...@rcrh.orgmailto:tbarnh...@rcrh.org wrote:
 I thought we were still months out on these.  Is this correct that this is
 the RTM?
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=exchange+2010+rtm

-- Ben



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2009-11-10 Thread Stu Sjouwerman
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Re: Exchange 2010 RTM?

2009-11-10 Thread Jonathan Link
I think maybe you're at a point similar to where I am.  We're an exchange
2003 shop, currently.  I'm thinking really hard about pushing for a hosted
exchange.
Exchange is arguably the most complex piece of software MS ships and is only
becoming more so.  The reasons risk/reward profile of hosting v. on-site is
beginning to swing towards hosted.



On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:19 PM, John Hornbuckle 
john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote:

  There’s nothing wrong with PowerShell—a powerful CLI is a great thing.
 But from a design perspective, the goal needs to be to give people more
 choices rather than fewer. Don’t give people just a GUI. Don’t give them
 just a CLI. Give them both, and let them choose.



 What Microsoft did with Exchange 2007 was to take away administrators’
 choices. They made it so that you **had** to use the CLI for things that
 you previously could do with a GUI. That’s not a step in the right
 direction.







 John





 *From:* Davies,Matt [mailto:mdav...@generalatlantic.com]
 *Sent:* Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:52 PM

 *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
 *Subject:* RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?



 Seeing the presentations  and the questions from the audience at TechEd in
 Berlin, PowerShell is here to stay, and if anything it has been increased
 due to things like archiving.



 From what was said, basic stuff you will always be able to do from the GUI,
 the rest needs Poweshell, what peoples idea of basic is seems to differ J



 With Server 2008R2  AD you can do ADUC stuff from Powershell.



 Cheers



 Matt















 *From:* McCready, Rob [mailto:rob.mccrea...@dplinc.com]
 *Sent:* 10 November 2009 13:35
 *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
 *Subject:* RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?



 Has anybody played with Exchange 2010 yet?



 I’m curious to know if they incorporated any more functions into the GUI.



 This PowerShell stuff of typing in 240 characters for one simple requests
 is for the birds.  Holy step backwards.





 *From:* Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk]
 *Sent:* Monday, November 09, 2009 4:10 PM
 *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
 *Subject:* Re: Exchange 2010 RTM?



 Hi Troy,



 It was in the news.

 http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/11/09/453096.aspx



 And it comes shortly after they announced it was Code complete:

 http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/10/08/452775.aspx



 Enjoy!



 Andrew



 2009/11/9 Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com

 On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:58 PM,  tbarnh...@rcrh.org wrote:
  I thought we were still months out on these.  Is this correct that this
 is
  the RTM?

 http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=exchange+2010+rtm

 -- Ben




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RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

2009-11-10 Thread Thomas W Shinder
I think you're right about that. The fact that no major investments in
ease of use for the on premises solution always indicated to me that
Exchange Online was the future for small and mid-sized businesses for
Exchange. Big shops can afford Exchange teams who do that all the time
-- so their invesment in dealing with PS ins't quite as onerous. The big
push is to drive smaller shops to Online, which from my experience,
isn't too bad.

 



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From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 5:27 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange 2010 RTM?

 

I think maybe you're at a point similar to where I am.  We're an
exchange 2003 shop, currently.  I'm thinking really hard about pushing
for a hosted exchange.

Exchange is arguably the most complex piece of software MS ships and is
only becoming more so.  The reasons risk/reward profile of hosting v.
on-site is beginning to swing towards hosted.



 

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:19 PM, John Hornbuckle
john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote:

There's nothing wrong with PowerShell-a powerful CLI is a great thing.
But from a design perspective, the goal needs to be to give people more
choices rather than fewer. Don't give people just a GUI. Don't give them
just a CLI. Give them both, and let them choose.

 

What Microsoft did with Exchange 2007 was to take away administrators'
choices. They made it so that you *had* to use the CLI for things that
you previously could do with a GUI. That's not a step in the right
direction.

 

 

 

John

 

 

From: Davies,Matt [mailto:mdav...@generalatlantic.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:52 PM 


To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues

Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM? 

 

Seeing the presentations  and the questions from the audience at TechEd
in Berlin, PowerShell is here to stay, and if anything it has been
increased due to things like archiving.

 

From what was said, basic stuff you will always be able to do from the
GUI, the rest needs Poweshell, what peoples idea of basic is seems to
differ J

 

With Server 2008R2  AD you can do ADUC stuff from Powershell.

 

Cheers

 

Matt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: McCready, Rob [mailto:rob.mccrea...@dplinc.com] 
Sent: 10 November 2009 13:35
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

 

Has anybody played with Exchange 2010 yet?

 

I'm curious to know if they incorporated any more functions into the
GUI.

 

This PowerShell stuff of typing in 240 characters for one simple
requests is for the birds.  Holy step backwards.

 

 

From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.uk] 
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 4:10 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange 2010 RTM?

 

Hi Troy,

 

It was in the news.

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/11/09/453096.aspx

 

And it comes shortly after they announced it was Code complete:

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/10/08/452775.aspx

 

Enjoy!

 

Andrew

 

2009/11/9 Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:58 PM,  tbarnh...@rcrh.org wrote:
 I thought we were still months out on these.  Is this correct that
this is
 the RTM?

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=exchange+2010+rtm

-- Ben

 

 



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RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

2009-11-10 Thread Andrew Mclaren
I don't agree. We are a small shop of about 60 employees and we are running 
Exchange 2007 without a hitch. It simply just works. I have only had to delve 
into the mysteries of powershell once and everything else that my office has 
needed has been configurable using the GUI. No problem. Furthermore, the fact 
that Exchange is bundled with Essential Business Server, which (AFAIK) 
Microsoft targets towards small-medium sized businesses (300 users) suggests 
to me that they intend for Exchange to be used in those kinds of environments. 
I am not aware of any big push from Microsoft.

Regards,

Andrew
IT Manager

From: Thomas W Shinder [mailto:tshin...@tacteam.net]
Sent: 11 November 2009 01:57 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

I think you're right about that. The fact that no major investments in ease of 
use for the on premises solution always indicated to me that Exchange Online 
was the future for small and mid-sized businesses for Exchange. Big shops can 
afford Exchange teams who do that all the time -- so their invesment in dealing 
with PS ins't quite as onerous. The big push is to drive smaller shops to 
Online, which from my experience, isn't too bad.


TOM SHINDER   |   Sr. Consultant/Technical Writer
206.443.1117   |   shin...@prowesscorp.commailto:shin...@prowesscorp.com

5701 Sixth Avenue South   |   Seattle, WA 98108
PROWESS   |   WWW.PROWESSCORP.COMhttp://www.prowesscorp.com/


From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 5:27 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange 2010 RTM?

I think maybe you're at a point similar to where I am.  We're an exchange 2003 
shop, currently.  I'm thinking really hard about pushing for a hosted exchange.
Exchange is arguably the most complex piece of software MS ships and is only 
becoming more so.  The reasons risk/reward profile of hosting v. on-site is 
beginning to swing towards hosted.



On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:19 PM, John Hornbuckle 
john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.usmailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us 
wrote:
There's nothing wrong with PowerShell-a powerful CLI is a great thing. But from 
a design perspective, the goal needs to be to give people more choices rather 
than fewer. Don't give people just a GUI. Don't give them just a CLI. Give them 
both, and let them choose.

What Microsoft did with Exchange 2007 was to take away administrators' choices. 
They made it so that you *had* to use the CLI for things that you previously 
could do with a GUI. That's not a step in the right direction.



John


From: Davies,Matt 
[mailto:mdav...@generalatlantic.commailto:mdav...@generalatlantic.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:52 PM

To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

Seeing the presentations  and the questions from the audience at TechEd in 
Berlin, PowerShell is here to stay, and if anything it has been increased due 
to things like archiving.

From what was said, basic stuff you will always be able to do from the GUI, 
the rest needs Poweshell, what peoples idea of basic is seems to differ :)

With Server 2008R2  AD you can do ADUC stuff from Powershell.

Cheers

Matt







From: McCready, Rob 
[mailto:rob.mccrea...@dplinc.commailto:rob.mccrea...@dplinc.com]
Sent: 10 November 2009 13:35
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 RTM?

Has anybody played with Exchange 2010 yet?

I'm curious to know if they incorporated any more functions into the GUI.

This PowerShell stuff of typing in 240 characters for one simple requests is 
for the birds.  Holy step backwards.


From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:and...@levicki.me.ukmailto:and...@levicki.me.uk]
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 4:10 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange 2010 RTM?

Hi Troy,

It was in the news.
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/11/09/453096.aspx

And it comes shortly after they announced it was Code complete:
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/10/08/452775.aspx

Enjoy!

Andrew

2009/11/9 Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.commailto:mailvor...@gmail.com
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:58 PM,  
tbarnh...@rcrh.orgmailto:tbarnh...@rcrh.org wrote:
 I thought we were still months out on these.  Is this correct that this is
 the RTM?
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=exchange+2010+rtm

-- Ben



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