RE: Clearswift Users - A Question

[Ellis, John P.]

I find it OK. We use Edge server which stops a lot and then some more
gets caught on the internal box.
We still get some slipping through but its nowhere near as bad as it
used to be,
 
John



From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] 
Sent: 24 August 2010 18:29
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Clearswift Users - A Question



How are you finding the Antispam capabilities?

 

I'm trialling the secure email gateway and it's stopping a heck of a
lot, but a fair bit is still making it through to Exchange (where our
existing solution which uses Cloudmark is catching it).

 

As far as I know I can't lock it down much tighter and I guess I'm
curious how the rest of you are finding your spam stats? 



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RE: Exchange vs Google

[Greg Olson]

To Google,
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Serena-Dumping-Microsoft-Exchange-for-Google-Gmail-The-Cloud/

Then back to MS:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/Google-Apps-Poster-Child-Switches-to-Microsoft-BPOS-171445/




From: Lynden A. Philadelphia [mailto:lphiladelp...@philadelphiagroup.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 6:57 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange vs Google

Does anyone have any articles where companies have switched back to Exchange 
from Google Apps?

Exchange vs Google

[Lynden A. Philadelphia]

Does anyone have any articles where companies have switched back to Exchange 
from Google Apps?

RE: E-Mail Reporting

[Steve Hart]

I just installed Forefront Protection for Exchange 2010 on my new 2007 server 
and it seems to have disabled my Exchange content filtering. We're not routing 
mail through the new server yet, so I don't have any spam filtering.

Can I reenable it, or have I hosed my Anti-Spam?



Steve Hart
Network Administrator
503.491.4343 -Direct | 503.492.8160 - Fax

From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 12:30 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: E-Mail Reporting

www.promodag.com

SJ
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Sean Martin 
mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Good morning,

I've recently started putting together some reports tracking various stats 
regarding e-mail delivery in our environment. I'm currently reporting on the 
following:

# of messages (Inbound/Outbound) by Day/Month
Amount of Data (Inbound/Outbound) by Month
Top 10 Recipients/Senders by Month

I'm currently pulling stats on internet bound/received e-mails only, primarily 
because our gateways provide an easy method of exporting those stats. Do any of 
you also track internal stats? What tools are you using? We're running Exchange 
2003 so I'm assuming other than a 3rd party product, perfmon, message tracking 
and log parser are probably my best options for generating stats. I'd be 
interested to hear of any other free tools available.

Also, what are some of the other stats you all are tracking?

- Sean




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Clearswift Users - A Question

[Paul Hutchings]

How are you finding the Antispam capabilities?

 

I'm trialling the secure email gateway and it's stopping a heck of a
lot, but a fair bit is still making it through to Exchange (where our
existing solution which uses Cloudmark is catching it).

 

As far as I know I can't lock it down much tighter and I guess I'm
curious how the rest of you are finding your spam stats? 


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RE: Exchange 2010 device security on Android

[Brad Metzler]

The trick here being we have no AS policies configured. I would expect none of 
our devices would force a PIN. So far the only one that appears to do that is 
the Droid 2 running v2.2

Greg suggested it may be a difference between 2.1 and 2.2, but my point being 
that I have observed 2.2 on a Droid (1) and do not see that behavior.


I would be curious to know on what device Greg's 2.2 user was seeing this 
issue. Was is also a Droid 2 or a different device?

Brad

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 8:47 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 device security on Android

For a given phone from a given manufacturer and software version, and users 
deployed with the same AS policy, I would expect them to behave the same.

ActiveSync is a protocol which includes policies. A given implementation can 
choose to include or exclude whatever it wants, including which policies it 
chooses to enforce.

The only overall expectation is what when a device says it implements a policy, 
it actually does so.

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Brad Metzler [mailto:bmetz...@cu-portland.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 11:42 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 device security on Android

Oddly it isn't just software.

Droid 2 running 2.2 forced the PIN, Droid running 2.2 does not force the pin. 
Anyone else have any insight?

Brad

From: Greg Olson [mailto:gol...@markettools.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 2:11 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 device security on Android

I saw this yesterday on one of our new Droid users that was running the new 2.2 
Android software. I have the original Droid running 2.1 and it doesn't have 
this behavior. We just made him put in a pin, but would be interested to find 
out the answer as well.
-Greg



From: Brad Metzler [mailto:bmetz...@cu-portland.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 2:00 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange 2010 device security on Android

We just brought out first few Android users onboard. Our activesync  policy is 
default, no password or device requirements, however while iPhone and Winmobile 
don't require a password, the Android devices require a device password as soon 
as you add the exchange account and under settings indicate that it is required 
by corporate policy. Anyone else running into this or just a bug in our 
deployment?

Brad

RE: Exchange 2010 stops working with store using the majority of the cpu

[Michael B. Smith]

Then don't measure processor time inside the VM, measure it in the host/root 
partition.

Perfmon and procmon are what I would be using. The per-database performance 
objects are extremely detailed.

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Andy Lawrence [mailto:and...@ansltd.info]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 12:20 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 stops working with store using the majority of the 
cpu

Yes


From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: 24 August 2010 16:27
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 stops working with store using the majority of the 
cpu
Are these vm's?
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Andy Lawrence [mailto:and...@ansltd.info]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 8:54 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange 2010 stops working with store using the majority of the cpu
Hello All,
we have a mixed Exchange 2003 and 2010 exchange setup. Exchange 2010 has been 
installed for a couple of weeks and at least 3 times during the 2 weeks it has 
stopped servicing clients. Outlook clients cannot connect and when I have 
looked on the server the store.exe process is using as much cpu time as it can 
get its hands on, usually between 40% and 98%. If you test pop3 connectivity 
you can connect but after putting in a username and password it hangs.
The 2 Exchange 2003 servers continue to function normally.
Restarting the Microsoft Exchange information store service fixes it and all 
seems fine for a few days.
A couple of points to note:
There are only only about 10 mailboxes on the server.
One of them is large, about 12GB and is viewed by 6 or 7 people. I believe that 
most if not all the people with this mailbox are getting the mapi session error 
logged on the server stating that "the maximum of 500 objects of type 
objtfolder" has been exceeded. There is also similar logs for objtFolderView. I 
know how to change this but am loath to make it too high and would rather stop 
it happening.
We have configured a DAG for one of the databases but the server was 
misbehaving before we did this.
The server has been patched and has rollup 4 installed.
Any ideas how to troubleshoot this?!
Andy

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RE: Exchange 2010 stops working with store using the majority of the cpu

[Andy Lawrence]

Yes



From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] 
Sent: 24 August 2010 16:27
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 stops working with store using the majority
of the cpu



Are these vm's?

Regards,

Michael B. Smith

Consultant and Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Andy Lawrence [mailto:and...@ansltd.info] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 8:54 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange 2010 stops working with store using the majority of
the cpu

Hello All,

we have a mixed Exchange 2003 and 2010 exchange setup. Exchange 2010 has
been installed for a couple of weeks and at least 3 times during the 2
weeks it has stopped servicing clients. Outlook clients cannot connect
and when I have looked on the server the store.exe process is using as
much cpu time as it can get its hands on, usually between 40% and 98%.
If you test pop3 connectivity you can connect but after putting in a
username and password it hangs.

The 2 Exchange 2003 servers continue to function normally.

Restarting the Microsoft Exchange information store service fixes it and
all seems fine for a few days.

A couple of points to note:

There are only only about 10 mailboxes on the server.

One of them is large, about 12GB and is viewed by 6 or 7 people. I
believe that most if not all the people with this mailbox are getting
the mapi session error logged on the server stating that "the maximum of
500 objects of type objtfolder" has been exceeded. There is also similar
logs for objtFolderView. I know how to change this but am loath to make
it too high and would rather stop it happening.

We have configured a DAG for one of the databases but the server was
misbehaving before we did this.

The server has been patched and has rollup 4 installed.

Any ideas how to troubleshoot this?!

Andy

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RE: Shortening replication delay for send as

[Michael B. Smith]

I know that SendAs/FullControl are now only dependent on AD replication delays 
as DSAccess, as it used to be implemented, is "gone". I believe the IS caches 
still apply.

I've asked for confirmation on this several times myself, but never received a 
coherent answer.

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:r.so...@imperial.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 4:00 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Shortening replication delay for send as

Michael,

Do you know if this applies to Exchange 2010? Several posts on the subject 
suggest it does not, but equally I cannot find any authoritative information 
for Microsoft's newest server.

Thanks

Richard

From: bounce-9067956-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com 
[mailto:bounce-9067956-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of Michael 
B. Smith
Sent: 20 August 2010 17:29
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Shortening replication delay for send as

No, but my blog does:



Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Steve Hart [mailto:sh...@wrightbg.com]
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 12:26 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Shortening replication delay for send as

I'm setting up a new E2007 server and I know there is a setting change I've 
made on other servers to reduce the replication delays specifically when we add 
"send-as" permission for a user. IIRC it defaults to two hours and we'd like 15 
minutes.

I'm having trouble finding it with Google. Does anyone remember this off the 
top of their head?

RE: Exchange 2010 device security on Android

[Michael B. Smith]

For a given phone from a given manufacturer and software version, and users 
deployed with the same AS policy, I would expect them to behave the same.

ActiveSync is a protocol which includes policies. A given implementation can 
choose to include or exclude whatever it wants, including which policies it 
chooses to enforce.

The only overall expectation is what when a device says it implements a policy, 
it actually does so.

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Brad Metzler [mailto:bmetz...@cu-portland.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 11:42 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 device security on Android

Oddly it isn't just software.

Droid 2 running 2.2 forced the PIN, Droid running 2.2 does not force the pin. 
Anyone else have any insight?

Brad

From: Greg Olson [mailto:gol...@markettools.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 2:11 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 device security on Android

I saw this yesterday on one of our new Droid users that was running the new 2.2 
Android software. I have the original Droid running 2.1 and it doesn't have 
this behavior. We just made him put in a pin, but would be interested to find 
out the answer as well.
-Greg



From: Brad Metzler [mailto:bmetz...@cu-portland.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 2:00 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange 2010 device security on Android

We just brought out first few Android users onboard. Our activesync  policy is 
default, no password or device requirements, however while iPhone and Winmobile 
don't require a password, the Android devices require a device password as soon 
as you add the exchange account and under settings indicate that it is required 
by corporate policy. Anyone else running into this or just a bug in our 
deployment?

Brad

RE: Exchange 2010 device security on Android

[Brad Metzler]

Oddly it isn't just software.

Droid 2 running 2.2 forced the PIN, Droid running 2.2 does not force the pin. 
Anyone else have any insight?

Brad

From: Greg Olson [mailto:gol...@markettools.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 2:11 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 device security on Android

I saw this yesterday on one of our new Droid users that was running the new 2.2 
Android software. I have the original Droid running 2.1 and it doesn't have 
this behavior. We just made him put in a pin, but would be interested to find 
out the answer as well.
-Greg



From: Brad Metzler [mailto:bmetz...@cu-portland.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 2:00 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange 2010 device security on Android

We just brought out first few Android users onboard. Our activesync  policy is 
default, no password or device requirements, however while iPhone and Winmobile 
don't require a password, the Android devices require a device password as soon 
as you add the exchange account and under settings indicate that it is required 
by corporate policy. Anyone else running into this or just a bug in our 
deployment?

Brad

RE: Exchange 2007 managed content

[Michael B. Smith]

There is no built-in way to generate reports in Exchange 2007/2010; although 
they have been high on the MVP wish lists since at least Exchange 2000. What 
MSFT did instead was to improve the log files so that reports are easier to 
generate.

Unfortunately, the report you want would pretty much require reading every item 
in every mailbox, unless you can identify specific folders to report upon. Not 
a low-impact situation...

OpsMgr wouldn't give you this.

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Lists - Level5 [mailto:li...@levelfive.us]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 8:44 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange 2007 managed content

Hi all, we are preparing to finally get some Mail archiving solution going and 
wanted to run some reports on where we stand now to help the design portion. I 
was looking at managed content and just to 'report'. In 2003 you have the 
policy to report or perform the action on mail xx days old in such folder(s). I 
see in managed content I could create a policy but my choices are only to move, 
delete, or mark as past retention which grays the item out according to technet.

Is there anything else similar to this that could just give me the report on 
'what' it would affect like in 2k3?

We don't have MOM yet but I see there is an exchange reporting pack available 
and would consider using that if that's the only option.

Thanks

RE: Exchange 2010 stops working with store using the majority of the cpu

[Michael B. Smith]

Are these vm's?

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Andy Lawrence [mailto:and...@ansltd.info]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 8:54 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange 2010 stops working with store using the majority of the cpu

Hello All,

we have a mixed Exchange 2003 and 2010 exchange setup. Exchange 2010 has been 
installed for a couple of weeks and at least 3 times during the 2 weeks it has 
stopped servicing clients. Outlook clients cannot connect and when I have 
looked on the server the store.exe process is using as much cpu time as it can 
get its hands on, usually between 40% and 98%. If you test pop3 connectivity 
you can connect but after putting in a username and password it hangs.
The 2 Exchange 2003 servers continue to function normally.

Restarting the Microsoft Exchange information store service fixes it and all 
seems fine for a few days.

A couple of points to note:

There are only only about 10 mailboxes on the server.

One of them is large, about 12GB and is viewed by 6 or 7 people. I believe that 
most if not all the people with this mailbox are getting the mapi session error 
logged on the server stating that "the maximum of 500 objects of type 
objtfolder" has been exceeded. There is also similar logs for objtFolderView. I 
know how to change this but am loath to make it too high and would rather stop 
it happening.

We have configured a DAG for one of the databases but the server was 
misbehaving before we did this.

The server has been patched and has rollup 4 installed.

Any ideas how to troubleshoot this?!

Andy





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Re: resource calendar denied permission x2003

[Bill Songstad]

Thanks Ben,
Here's the NDR:


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*To:* (WCUL)
*Subject:* Undeliverable: WCUL Convention and Annual Business Meeting





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That is the message that one would get if they put the meeting request in
the required or optional field so I checked that straight away.

The delivery restrictions are the same for the resources that work and the
one that doesn't.  One exchange admin is listed as only accept from.  I'm
hunting for something off the beaten path I think.

-Bill

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Ben Scott  wrote:


> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Bill Songstad 
> wrote:
> > I have several resource calendars on my Exchange 2003 SP3 server.
>
>
>  Us too.
>
>  > Recently one of the calendars started bouncing meeting requests
> > with a 5.7.1 for anyone without full control of the mailbox.
>
>
>  Ideally, post a copy of the NDR.
>
>  > The funny thing is, after checking the permissions in both Outlook and
> > AD, the perms seem identical to the mailboxes that don't have any
> > problems.
>
>
>  In "Active Directory Users and Confusers", on the properties for the
> resource mailbox's user account, check the "Delivery Restrictions"
> section on the "Exchange General" tab.
>
>  > Did I mention that this used to work properly and there
> > have been no changes to any of the mailbox accounts.
>
>
>  Something changed or it would still work the same.  :)
>
>  Any recent changes to client software (Outlook), anti-virus
> software, or Exchange server configuration?
>
>  When booking the room in Outlook, are you picking it as a "Resource"
> (rather than "Required" or "Optional")?
>
> -- Ben
>
>
>
>

RE: Exchange 2010 stops working with store using the majority of the cpu

[Sobey, Richard A]

I don't think it's officially been updated for Exchange 2010 and because of the 
MAPI architecture changes it may not be possible to run it, but you could look 
into usermon.

What are your CAS servers doing during the high CPU spikes - is there a single 
server that's also being hammered?

Finally, the Performance section of Task Manager might give you a call as to 
which IP address / hostname is taking up all the CPU, or you could pin the 
problem to a different process that just happens to impact store.exe.

Good luck :)

From: bounce-9072433-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com 
[mailto:bounce-9072433-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of Andy 
Lawrence
Sent: 24 August 2010 13:54
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange 2010 stops working with store using the majority of the cpu

Hello All,

we have a mixed Exchange 2003 and 2010 exchange setup. Exchange 2010 has been 
installed for a couple of weeks and at least 3 times during the 2 weeks it has 
stopped servicing clients. Outlook clients cannot connect and when I have 
looked on the server the store.exe process is using as much cpu time as it can 
get its hands on, usually between 40% and 98%. If you test pop3 connectivity 
you can connect but after putting in a username and password it hangs.
The 2 Exchange 2003 servers continue to function normally.

Restarting the Microsoft Exchange information store service fixes it and all 
seems fine for a few days.

A couple of points to note:

There are only only about 10 mailboxes on the server.

One of them is large, about 12GB and is viewed by 6 or 7 people. I believe that 
most if not all the people with this mailbox are getting the mapi session error 
logged on the server stating that "the maximum of 500 objects of type 
objtfolder" has been exceeded. There is also similar logs for objtFolderView. I 
know how to change this but am loath to make it too high and would rather stop 
it happening.

We have configured a DAG for one of the databases but the server was 
misbehaving before we did this.

The server has been patched and has rollup 4 installed.

Any ideas how to troubleshoot this?!

Andy





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Exchange 2007 managed content

[Lists - Level5]

Hi all, we are preparing to finally get some Mail archiving solution going
and wanted to run some reports on where we stand now to help the design
portion. I was looking at managed content and just to 'report'. In 2003 you
have the policy to report or perform the action on mail xx days old in such
folder(s). I see in managed content I could create a policy but my choices
are only to move, delete, or mark as past retention which grays the item out
according to technet. 

 

Is there anything else similar to this that could just give me the report on
'what' it would affect like in 2k3?  

 

We don't have MOM yet but I see there is an exchange reporting pack
available and would consider using that if that's the only option.

 

Thanks

 

RE: Shortening replication delay for send as

[Sobey, Richard A]

Michael,

Do you know if this applies to Exchange 2010? Several posts on the subject 
suggest it does not, but equally I cannot find any authoritative information 
for Microsoft's newest server.

Thanks

Richard

From: bounce-9067956-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com 
[mailto:bounce-9067956-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of Michael 
B. Smith
Sent: 20 August 2010 17:29
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Shortening replication delay for send as

No, but my blog does:



Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

From: Steve Hart [mailto:sh...@wrightbg.com]
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 12:26 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Shortening replication delay for send as

I'm setting up a new E2007 server and I know there is a setting change I've 
made on other servers to reduce the replication delays specifically when we add 
"send-as" permission for a user. IIRC it defaults to two hours and we'd like 15 
minutes.

I'm having trouble finding it with Google. Does anyone remember this off the 
top of their head?