RE: Exchange Attachment Size Issue

[Benjamin Zachary]

Thanks all, I figured it was the mime encoding/decoding, never realized it was 
that much .we found the issue was with the client, who SWORE it was the same 
PDF they have been using for years. When I had them send me one from 3 months 
ago, it was 1MB, and the 'unchanged one' in January was 8.2MB ... thanks for 
the help!

-Original Message-
From: Don Andrews [mailto:don.andr...@safeway.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 4:52 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange Attachment Size Issue

Yup.  We've had a 10meg limit for years and get real tired of telling those 
users that insist on trying to use email as a file transfer system that email 
attachments grow when translated to internet format (user speak) typically from 
20 to 50%.

-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 12:14 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange Attachment Size Issue

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:31, Benjamin Zachary  wrote:
> Hi all, just an odd question. I have a client who sends out this 8.5MB 
> pdf contract , they have been using it for years, recently the last 
> couple of months its getting rejected as being larger than 10mb by many 
> organizations.
>
>
>
> I did a quick test, and I see in the logs that when the email is sent 
> the transfer is over 11 million bytes . Doing some quick math 8.5MB * 
> 1024 *
> 1024 = 8912 , but Im seeing 11.4 , 11.3 on the smtp transfer.
>
>
>
> As a test I sent it to gmail, and sent it back and it was basically 
> the same
> 11.4 million bytes. I could shrink the PDF size down as a possible 
> option (they make about 30 of these per day) but was trying to figure 
> out what would make an 8.5MB email (no text , tried plain , rich, 
> html) would come across as 11.4 million (or 11 megs). My initial 
> thought was that as people move to the cloud exchange and hosted apps 
> there probably is 10 meg limits , but some of these are clients they 
> do business with for years and is highly unlikely to impose these kind of 
> restrictions (although I am checking).
>
>
>
> Bottom line the client believes we did something in January to their 
> Exchange 2010 SP1 server that is causing this …
>
>
>
> Any ideas appreciated …

The reason why it's going over 10mbytes is because of the Base64 encoding of 
the attachment - this is very common, and your case is actually mild - extreme 
cases can as much as double the expected size of the attachment, and the usual 
culprit in the extreme case is binary data, such as jpegs, etc.

No idea why it's getting rejected more now than later, unless the recipient's 
orgs have gotten new appliances or cloud services that have that 10mb limit.

Kurt

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Ex2010 archiving

[Benjamin Zachary]

After getting burned a couple of times with 2003/2007 and archiving I just
wanted to make sure that when I setup a retention policy and include 'all
folders' it does not include calendar and contacts.

 

Im doing a little reading and a little testing, it seems that instead of
multiple retention tags I can just create one for the mailbox (items over
365)  to permanently delete. I just don't want to to affect calendar,
contacts, notes .. just mail items ..

 

Just wanted to double check Im reading everything properly .

 

Thanks

 

 


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RE: NDR for resigned users to contact their managers.

[Benjamin Zachary]

We looked at this a few months ago on Exchange 2007, and were referred to
setting up a transport rule to fire off a custom NDR . it seemed pretty
good, this was a blanket NDR for all ex-employees to contact a general
mailbox . I never did get it to work properly.

 

The problem with the OOO was once per day or per email address IIRC . the
legal firm was concerned that every message had to be responded to for legal
purposes because a lot of mail was auto generated from banks, judges, and
foreclosure proceedings.

 

From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 5:10 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: NDR for resigned users to contact their managers.

 

Will an Out-of-Office still fire if you allow delivery to the mailbox as
well as the forwarding?  I've never tried that scenario, so I personally do
not know.

--
Espi

 

 





On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Liby Philip Mathew
 wrote:

I am sorry; I am on multi-site AD and multi-site Exchange 2010 in 2
different countries.

In our policy, when a staff leaves, his mail is forwarded to his Manager for
45 days and hence it will be delivered to the manager and no question of
NDR.  

But after 45 days, the mailbox will be removed after archiving.  Now what
happens?  If a mail comes to the removed mailbox, can it be NDR'ed to the
sender asking the sender to contact so and so mail id?

Appreciate your help.

Regards

Liby Philip Mathew | ICT Consultant

ICT Professional Services

Path Solutions

Tel: +965 24824600 Ext. 703  

Fax: +965 24824500  

  www.path-solutions.com

 

From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:r.so...@imperial.ac.uk] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 2:40 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NDR for resigned users to contact their managers.

 

Perhaps a mailbox auto-reply rule, or an out of office if that's impersonal
enough?

 

I wonder if a transport rule could be used to send back a template - but I
haven't investigated them enough, and I'm not sure what version of Exchange
you're on anyway J

 

Richard

 

From: bounce-9460430-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
[mailto:bounce-9460430-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of Liby
Philip Mathew
Sent: 23 November 2011 10:54
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: NDR for resigned users to contact their managers.

 

Hi,

I need a customization on mail delivery so that, when an employee leaves,
instead of removing their e-mail account and a sender gets an error message,
my server should send a message back to the sender stating " xyz can't be
reached, please forward all your enquiries to < Recipient manager e-mail>
for follow up or something like that.

Is this possible?  Someone using it?

 

Regards

Liby Philip Mathew 

 

 

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RE: Outlook Anywhere gets reconfigured

[Benjamin Zachary]

Yes, there is/was one service that did not show up in the GUI and you have
to get it through the console. It escapes me at the moment .. but if you
want to not use autodiscover, you can make a hosts file with autodiscover
pointing to 127.0.0.1 and you will get through but you will not sync OAB and
such until its fixed ... mail will function though. I don’t know if that
helps .. Greg put a lot more effort than whats popping in my head ..
hopefully something helps.

-Original Message-
From: Greg Sweers [mailto:gswe...@acts360.com] 
Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 4:51 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook Anywhere gets reconfigured

Set your internal and external autodiscover records on the Exchange server.
Your DNS server at the remote sites should resolve the name through the VPN
to your autodiscover service.

Can you run these and tell me what you get:

Test-OutlookWebServices -ClientAccessServer "CASServer01"

Change "CASSERVER01" to your servername where the CAS services sit.  This
should pass.  If not you have an autodiscover configuration problem..

The rest of this means nothing until that is working.  If that is working,
send us the Get powershell commands.

get-ClientAccessServer | ft identity,AutodiscoverServiceInternalUri  
This should resolve to an address that your remote client can resolve either
externally or through the VPN.  


Set-ClientAccessServer -Identity * -AutodiscoverServiceInternalUri
"url/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml"
Change url to the url that it can reach through the vpn.  Should match the
certificate name on the server.  If it doesn't and you can make that DNS
name on your server resolve through VPN then that is good.

Enable-OutlookAnywhere -Server CAS01 -ExternalHostname "externalurl"
-DefaultAuthenticationMethod "Basic" -SSLOffloading:$False

"Change cas01 to your servername and the externalurl to the url that your
clients can connect to or resolve to your exchange mailbox, but it has to
match the ssl cert installed.  

Greg Sweers
CEO
ACTS360.com
P.O. Box 1193
Brandon, FL  33509
813-657-0849 Office
813-758-6850 Cell
813-341-1270 Fax

-Original Message-
From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@unetek.com] 
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 11:44 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook Anywhere gets reconfigured

I have a local autodiscover entry in the internal DNS settings for the
network, but the problem is because of red tape, we don't have access to
change any external DNS records that point to the company's FQDN, so I can't
make an external autodiscover.domain.edu A record - at least not right now.
I can probably make one in the not-so-distant future, but right now since
we're having this trouble I need to figure out how to resolve it.

We just have one Exchange 2010 server.  EXRCA just fails on everything,
probably because there are no external autodiscover records anywhere.  My
problem is I need the users to be able to connect with Outlook Anywhere for
the remote locations which have dedicated VPN connections but not enough
bandwidth to use the VPN connection to connect directly.  Outlook Anywhere
works great for them, but if the settings keep changing we have issues.  In
addition, for whatever reason I can't directly connect an Outlook client, I
can only connect it with an Outlook Anywhere configured client.

I understand how it works, but my problem is figuring out how to fix it when
it doesn't work.  In this case, the bottom line is I need to find out how to
make it work without any external lookups.  I have internal A records and
split-DNS setup, yet I get weird things like this happening where an Outlook
client can't connect directly or shows offline, or an Outlook client is
configured correctly with Outlook Anywhere settings and then the next day
the settings are all changed.

Thanks for any assistance provided!

Jay Dale
 Senior Systems Administrator
p:281-574-2414

-Original Message-
From: Wright, Seth - wrightst [mailto:wrigh...@jmu.edu] 
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 3:49 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Outlook Anywhere gets reconfigured

You don't need a SRV record for Autodiscover if you can use any of the other
methods, but since you don't provide any information on why you think you
need the SRV record and can't use any of the other methods, I can't say
whether you need it or not.  Do you have an A record for
autodiscover.domain.edu?  If no, are there reasons that prohibit using that
method?  How many CASes do you have?  Have you checked the Outlook Anywhere
/ Autodiscover settings for each CAS?  Do you have a client access array set
up?

It would also be really helpful to know what the ExRCA site is telling you.
Also, perhaps answering Michael's question about the Autodiscover XML
fragment would generate more helpful responses.

To me, it appears that you don't quite understand how Autodiscover
works--knowledge of which is essential to understanding how Exchange
2007/2010 operates.  

In answer to 

RE: Outlook Anywhere gets reconfigured

[Benjamin Zachary]

Chiming in late what about doing the autodiscover redirect where you put a
second ip in iis and point all the autodiscover there which then redirects
to the right spot.

 

We did this for our cloud clients, we point everyones autodiscover to our
autodiscover by ip not by name 

 

From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@unetek.com] 
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 2:37 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook Anywhere gets reconfigured

 

Can anybody help with this?

 

Jay Dale
 Senior Systems Administrator

P:281-574-2414

 

From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@unetek.com] 
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 11:14 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook Anywhere gets reconfigured

 

I thought everything was set up correctly, but now I have 2 issues:

 

1.   Local users can't directly access the Exchange server.  When you
remove any Outlook Anywhere settings and try to connect directly, it goes
offline.  Is there a way for local users to not use Outlook Anywhere and
connect directly to Exchange? 

2.   We still can't add any SRV records on their DNS provider - is there
a way to get it to work without it?

3.   How can I verify that Autodiscover is set up correctly?  I added a
user yesterday and she was working fine, then today her Outlook Anywhere
settings disappeared and she couldn't connect at all, even via TCP/IP.

 

Really could use some help on this.  I don't have a lot of research time and
the client is breathing down my neck for an answer.

 

Thanks,

 

Jay

 

Jay Dale
 Senior Systems Administrator

P:281-574-2414

 

From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@unetek.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 8:54 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook Anywhere gets reconfigured

 

I'm sorry if I'm insulting your intelligence Michael - I've followed this
list a long time and don't post too often.  I've tested with EXCRA and
unfortunately I can't add the SRV record for autodiscover at this point.
However I've set up split-DNS onsite, pointed an A record to the external
and internal IP addresses of the mail server, ran the shell commands to
point autodiscover to the external domain name, tested the Web Services with
all succeeding in the shell, and have a valid certificate from GoDaddy with
autodiscover as an alternative name.

 

So you're saying that all I need to do is set up the SRV record, which in
this case being an edu domain I'm having to jump through hoops to
accomplish, and everything will work?  Because so far everything I've read
and done seems to have been done already.

 

Thanks,

 

Jay

 

Jay Dale
 Senior Systems Administrator

p:281-574-2414

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 3:54 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook Anywhere gets reconfigured

 

See what I wrote earlier and answer the question:

 

www.exrca.com

 

What is the XML for Autodiscover? That'll answer your question.

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

Consultant and Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@unetek.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 2:44 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook Anywhere gets reconfigured

 

Ok, I've configured it properly (I think), but even after multiple reboots
and logins, Citrix users are not getting the updated information in Outlook.
I've even set it up in GP to enforce it and they still  aren't getting the
updated information - it keeps using Basic auth and the servername instead
of the FQDN.

 

Jay Dale
 Senior Systems Administrator

P:281-574-2414

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] 
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 3:12 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook Anywhere gets reconfigured

 

Because someone changed something. D'oh!

 

You can't NOT have autodiscover configured, unless you removed the vDIR from
all your CAS.

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

Consultant and Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@unetek.com] 
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 2:05 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook Anywhere gets reconfigured

 

We don't have Autodiscover configured - they were running Exchange 2003 and
migrated a couple of months ago.  They were working fine until now.  Why
would it change all of a sudden?

 

Jay Dale
 Senior Systems Administrator

P:281-574-2414

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] 
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 12:37 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook Anywhere gets reconfigured

 

www.exrca.com

 

What is the XML for Autodiscover? That'll answer your question.

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

Consultant and Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Jay Dale [mailto:jd...@unetek.com] 
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 1:20 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Outlook Anywhere gets reconfigured

 

Hey all,

 

I'm in a bit of a dilemma.  I have a client using Exchange 201

2003 fwds

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

 

 

So I have an odd situation I have never seen. An Exchange2000/ Win 2000
server has been upgraded to Exchange 2003/ Win2k3. There is a front end iis
server running webmail and such.

 

When the user uses webmail and fwds an email and then types in something and
sends it the message blanks out and the recipient only gets the fwd not what
the user typed in on top of it, basically it just gets stripped off. 

 

Apparently this is happening even on outlook inside the office. So if I send
an email to someone they fwd (not reply) to me and then I fwd that to
someone else and write additional text and the end user only gets the 2
parts of the message (original and 1st fwd)

 

The user(s) are hitting fwd it opens a new windows on Outlook 2003, and then
they have to go back and copy/paste the message. Im testing if this is
happening with replies too . any ideas where to even look? Since the message
gets delivered its not like im searching for missing items, just missing
text within an item.

 

Also, the Sent Items shows the text that is missing. 

 

Thanks

 

RE: Exchange PF on cluster

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

Thanks Michael, as always your input is appreciated.

> -Original Message-
> From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 6:53 AM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Exchange PF on cluster
> 
> You can put the PFs on the cluster. There are some caveats around that if
it
> were a CCR cluster, but they don't apply to a SCC cluster.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael B. Smith
> Consultant and Exchange MVP
> http://TheEssentialExchange.com
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 11:52 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Exchange PF on cluster
> 
> These are actual Public Folders for calendars, we have faxing folders
routing
> there and dozens of departments (the PF store is about 50GB).
> 
> On the cluster side this isn't an actual CCR cluster, I don't think, this
is a
> standard 2 server with DAS attached storage. Only one server is active at
any
> one time.
> 
> We are about 75% Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2003 is almost phased out,
> maybe another 30-60 days.
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 7:36 PM
> > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: Exchange PF on cluster
> >
> > There are several considerations. First, do you actually have real
> > public folders or are you just using the PF database to hold the system
> folders?
> >
> > Can you answer that question first?
> >
> > Secondly, what versions of Outlook are being used in your environment?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Michael B. Smith
> > Consultant and Exchange MVP
> > http://TheEssentialExchange.com
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 7:11 PM
> > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> > Subject: Exchange PF on cluster
> >
> > Currently we have a 2007 active/passive cluster running on 2008
> > enterprise and it works well. We have a front end server that has been
> > doing hub transport services with, the a/v and anti spam etc.
> >
> > We have recently migrated over to a new spam/av product which is
> > acting as an smtp connector so all mail transactions are simply handed
> > off from the front end server to the connector and vice versa.
> >
> > In our migration process I was asked about putting the Public Folders,
> which
> > were being stored there and not the cluster, so we can debate on
> > getting
> rid
> > of that server entirely or converting it to vm, but basically get the
> public store
> > off it. I poked around and saw some different mentions of problems
> > with doing it, so wanted to know if anyone is doing it successfully.
> >
> > Thanks
> 

RE: Exchange PF on cluster

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

These are actual Public Folders for calendars, we have faxing folders
routing there and dozens of departments (the PF store is about 50GB).

On the cluster side this isn't an actual CCR cluster, I don't think, this is
a standard 2 server with DAS attached storage. Only one server is active at
any one time. 

We are about 75% Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2003 is almost phased out, maybe
another 30-60 days.

> -Original Message-
> From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 7:36 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Exchange PF on cluster
> 
> There are several considerations. First, do you actually have real public
> folders or are you just using the PF database to hold the system folders?
> 
> Can you answer that question first?
> 
> Secondly, what versions of Outlook are being used in your environment?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael B. Smith
> Consultant and Exchange MVP
> http://TheEssentialExchange.com
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 7:11 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: Exchange PF on cluster
> 
> Currently we have a 2007 active/passive cluster running on 2008 enterprise
> and it works well. We have a front end server that has been doing hub
> transport services with, the a/v and anti spam etc.
> 
> 
> 
> We have recently migrated over to a new spam/av product which is acting as
> an smtp connector so all mail transactions are simply handed off from the
> front end server to the connector and vice versa.
> 
> 
> 
> In our migration process I was asked about putting the Public Folders,
which
> were being stored there and not the cluster, so we can debate on getting
rid
> of that server entirely or converting it to vm, but basically get the
public store
> off it. I poked around and saw some different mentions of problems with
> doing it, so wanted to know if anyone is doing it successfully.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Exchange PF on cluster

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

Currently we have a 2007 active/passive cluster running on 2008 enterprise
and it works well. We have a front end server that has been doing hub
transport services with, the a/v and anti spam etc. 

 

We have recently migrated over to a new spam/av product which is acting as
an smtp connector so all mail transactions are simply handed off from the
front end server to the connector and vice versa.

 

In our migration process I was asked about putting the Public Folders, which
were being stored there and not the cluster, so we can debate on getting rid
of that server entirely or converting it to vm, but basically get the public
store off it. I poked around and saw some different mentions of problems
with doing it, so wanted to know if anyone is doing it successfully.

 

Thanks

 

RE: Importing a new certificate

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

The first time I did this I went to digicert and went through their walk 
through and always refer to it whenever I need to do this to make sure I don’t 
miss a step and get the cert assigned to all the right services needed.


-Original Message-
From: Kleciak, Clint D A7IT [mailto:clint.klec...@cigna.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 2:28 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Importing a new certificate

Nope,,,import the new one, enable the new one, then delete the old one.

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-Original Message-
From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org]
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 1:15 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Importing a new certificate

I'm at the point of replacing my old cert (E2K7 SP1) with a new (different) 
cert so do I need to remove the old one (it's expired) before importing the new 
one?

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RE: ts mail hangs in outbox

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

Yah I'm not too sure, I just noticed that our BES was holding up mail,
webmail was *not* working even though it was over the weekend and outlook
internally  was working. Whats weird is that there was no mail stuck in any
queue on either server. In the end it was a fairly easy fix, but since mail
was routing from outlook clients both in and out I didn't think any service
wasn't running.

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 4:44 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ts mail hangs in outbox

 

Are they configured differently? That is, is one connected "directly" and
one connected via "RPC/HTTPs" or Outlook Anywhere?

 

That would be my swag. It would take installing exmon or some detailed
perfmon diving to figure it out for sure.

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

Consultant and Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] 
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 4:41 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ts mail hangs in outbox

 

Thanks im going to read that now .. 

 

After putzing around for an hour or so I decided to look at the cluster and
found that Microsoft Exchange Mail Submission wasn't running. Whats odd is
that people are getting mail from the FE server and if you run outlook in
the office mail seems to be going out. Not sure what the technical
difference is between BES/TS and an XP pro workstation from the exchange
perspective because there was mail sitting in the queue and being processed,
very strange.

 

 

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 11:18 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ts mail hangs in outbox

 

You can fix that:  <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940726>
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940726

 

(Thanks to Bonnie who first pointed out this KB to me. I use it all the time
now!)

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

Consultant and Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] 
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 11:14 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ts mail hangs in outbox

 

Good idea, we have it loaded already IIRC. 

 

I do know that the consultant who was here before me did not put a UCC cert
on so when you open Outlook internally you get a 'certificate' message and
click ok and then everything works. I don't remember if I ever saw it on the
TS (I think they added it into the enterprise trust) but I don't know that
has anything to do with it. 

 

Thanks

 

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 10:52 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ts mail hangs in outbox

 

Typical tool for this is "rpcping". Depending on the OS version, you may
need to install Windows Support Tools to get it (server 2003). It's built
into 2008/Vista and above.

 

See if you can rpcping from the TS servers to the mail cluster. There are
several KB articles on using rpcping - I refer you there for syntax. J

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

Consultant and Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] 
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 10:39 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: ts mail hangs in outbox

 

I have an exchange cluster (active/passive) with a front end server handling
spam/gateway services. We have a TS load balancer and 2 terminal servers.
This weekend we upgraded the exchange servers (ClusterA, ClusterB, Front
End, BES, BEX) to service pack 2 for exchange, as well as some windows
updates that were pending (5-10 on each). 

 

Mail flow is working fine from outlook clients and webmail, however from
either of our TS boxes  we cannot send mail it just sits in the outbox. I
bounced both TS boxes, and I removed and added a profile as a test. Incoming
mail is being updated appropriately so the mailbox appears connected.

 

Event logs show some dll registration errors but I think those are printer
related and am researching that now.. any other clues?

 

The message just says 'this message has not been sent' (send/receive doesn't
do anything either)

 

Thanks

 

 

 

RE: ts mail hangs in outbox

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

Thanks im going to read that now .. 

 

After putzing around for an hour or so I decided to look at the cluster and
found that Microsoft Exchange Mail Submission wasn't running. Whats odd is
that people are getting mail from the FE server and if you run outlook in
the office mail seems to be going out. Not sure what the technical
difference is between BES/TS and an XP pro workstation from the exchange
perspective because there was mail sitting in the queue and being processed,
very strange.

 

 

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 11:18 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ts mail hangs in outbox

 

You can fix that:  <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940726>
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940726

 

(Thanks to Bonnie who first pointed out this KB to me. I use it all the time
now!)

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

Consultant and Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] 
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 11:14 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ts mail hangs in outbox

 

Good idea, we have it loaded already IIRC. 

 

I do know that the consultant who was here before me did not put a UCC cert
on so when you open Outlook internally you get a 'certificate' message and
click ok and then everything works. I don't remember if I ever saw it on the
TS (I think they added it into the enterprise trust) but I don't know that
has anything to do with it. 

 

Thanks

 

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 10:52 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ts mail hangs in outbox

 

Typical tool for this is "rpcping". Depending on the OS version, you may
need to install Windows Support Tools to get it (server 2003). It's built
into 2008/Vista and above.

 

See if you can rpcping from the TS servers to the mail cluster. There are
several KB articles on using rpcping - I refer you there for syntax. J

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

Consultant and Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] 
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 10:39 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: ts mail hangs in outbox

 

I have an exchange cluster (active/passive) with a front end server handling
spam/gateway services. We have a TS load balancer and 2 terminal servers.
This weekend we upgraded the exchange servers (ClusterA, ClusterB, Front
End, BES, BEX) to service pack 2 for exchange, as well as some windows
updates that were pending (5-10 on each). 

 

Mail flow is working fine from outlook clients and webmail, however from
either of our TS boxes  we cannot send mail it just sits in the outbox. I
bounced both TS boxes, and I removed and added a profile as a test. Incoming
mail is being updated appropriately so the mailbox appears connected.

 

Event logs show some dll registration errors but I think those are printer
related and am researching that now.. any other clues?

 

The message just says 'this message has not been sent' (send/receive doesn't
do anything either)

 

Thanks

 

 

 

RE: ts mail hangs in outbox

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

Good idea, we have it loaded already IIRC. 

 

I do know that the consultant who was here before me did not put a UCC cert
on so when you open Outlook internally you get a 'certificate' message and
click ok and then everything works. I don't remember if I ever saw it on the
TS (I think they added it into the enterprise trust) but I don't know that
has anything to do with it. 

 

Thanks

 

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 10:52 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ts mail hangs in outbox

 

Typical tool for this is "rpcping". Depending on the OS version, you may
need to install Windows Support Tools to get it (server 2003). It's built
into 2008/Vista and above.

 

See if you can rpcping from the TS servers to the mail cluster. There are
several KB articles on using rpcping - I refer you there for syntax. J

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

Consultant and Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] 
Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 10:39 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: ts mail hangs in outbox

 

I have an exchange cluster (active/passive) with a front end server handling
spam/gateway services. We have a TS load balancer and 2 terminal servers.
This weekend we upgraded the exchange servers (ClusterA, ClusterB, Front
End, BES, BEX) to service pack 2 for exchange, as well as some windows
updates that were pending (5-10 on each). 

 

Mail flow is working fine from outlook clients and webmail, however from
either of our TS boxes  we cannot send mail it just sits in the outbox. I
bounced both TS boxes, and I removed and added a profile as a test. Incoming
mail is being updated appropriately so the mailbox appears connected.

 

Event logs show some dll registration errors but I think those are printer
related and am researching that now.. any other clues?

 

The message just says 'this message has not been sent' (send/receive doesn't
do anything either)

 

Thanks

 

 

 

ts mail hangs in outbox

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

I have an exchange cluster (active/passive) with a front end server handling
spam/gateway services. We have a TS load balancer and 2 terminal servers.
This weekend we upgraded the exchange servers (ClusterA, ClusterB, Front
End, BES, BEX) to service pack 2 for exchange, as well as some windows
updates that were pending (5-10 on each). 

 

Mail flow is working fine from outlook clients and webmail, however from
either of our TS boxes  we cannot send mail it just sits in the outbox. I
bounced both TS boxes, and I removed and added a profile as a test. Incoming
mail is being updated appropriately so the mailbox appears connected.

 

Event logs show some dll registration errors but I think those are printer
related and am researching that now.. any other clues?

 

The message just says 'this message has not been sent' (send/receive doesn't
do anything either)

 

Thanks

 

 

 

Disabling BCC

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

I have a small client (40 users) running on Exchange 2000 w/ Outlook2003 and
2007 clients. They asked me if I could find a way to disable BCC. I did some
poking around and doesn't seem anything available using any standard tools
is reliable enough, but wanted to double check the list before I tell them
no-go.

 

 

RE: Transport Service

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

As a follow up for anyone interested, I have to uninstall the exchange 2007
server. This task proved harder than it seems. 

 

Since the transport connector was broke I was not able to remove all the
PF's I pushed them in replica, I waited several hours (theres about 100 megs
of PF) and nothing seemed to go. I broke the replication and deleted all the
PF's I still couldn't uninstall due to the PF still having 'replica sets'.

 

I ended up going into ADSI Edit, I drilled down into the e2k7 exchange entry
and deleted the PF list. When I went back to mount it, I got an error it
didn't exist in AD and became dismounted. I was THEN able to uninstall
Exchange 2007. Afterwards I went back into ADSI Edit, and deleted the entire
Exchange First Organization Key. After I did that all the 4,000 'unknown'
messages were moved into the smtp delivery queue and were successfully
pushed to the users mailbox (we had 4k messages sitting in the e2k3-e2k7
connector). A few reboots I went in and installed Exchange but required me
to go back and schema/forest/domain prep. Did that, reinstalled, everything
is working now for 3 days.

 

Put those in your notes , apparently the 'corrupt' PF has been a problem for
several other people and makes Exchange uninstallable unless you delete the
PF key.

 

 

 

From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:54 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Transport Service

 

I didn't but that's a good question. The mail flow was working for 3 days
actually which is why the admin went and moved the mailboxes over. So he was
doing everything right. As a test I removed the transportrules folder,
uninstalled and reinstalled and everything was recreated, including the
connectors, but the same error exists.

 

So we now moved the mailboxes back to get people up and running but I have
4k emails in 'unavailable delivery' queue. I stop/started the smtp server
thinking they would re-queue and they do but build back up and continue to
increase. I guess I have to restart the exchange services so the store
recognizes that the mbox has moved back .

 

From: Tom Kern [mailto:tpk...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:46 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Transport Service

 

Did you change the perms on those folders? DID you have a custom GPO that
did that?

Reinstall the HT role and run procmon while trying to start transport and
see where you get a deny.



 

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Benjamin Zachary - Lists
 wrote:

I cant even get transport service to start. If I delete the transportroles
folder then it starts and exchange 2003 says connection cannot be
established in the queue viewer



-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]

Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:58 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Transport Service

What is the error shown in the queue viewer on 2003? In 2007?

-Original Message-
From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:55 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Transport Service

I do when I goto the 2003 exsm I see a routing group connector between the
two, I have 4k emails sitting in that queue unfortunately the admin there
moved his mailbox said 'looked good' and then moved about 25% of the company
over the weekend heh

When I delete the transportroles folder the service started but didn't
recreate anything and the connectors didn't work either.

Get-RoutingGroupConnector yields me 2 connectors:
Name  SourceRoutingGroup TargetRoutingGroup
  -- --
MX-EXCHANGE-QSTRAINT02Exchange Routing Group ... First Routing Group
QSTRAINT02-MX-EXCHANGEFirst Routing GroupExchange Routing Group
...


MX-EXCHANGE is the 2007 and QSTRAINT02 is the 2003. This is the same thing I
see on the 2003 exsm.

In reading some of the errors had to do with not installing in the default
folder, however I do have it installed in the default folder, but the stores
are on D:\



-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:16 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Transport Service

Get-RoutingGroupConnector -- do you have a connector (you should have two,
named the same thing, one in each direction).

From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:02 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Transport Service

I have a new 2007sp2 server running and connected to a 2003 exchange box.
The transport service refuses to start, it runs and then just says it
stopped. The error is:

The worker process crashes continuously on startup c:\program
files\microsoft\exchange\bin\edgetransport.exe the service 

RE: E2K3 Delivery Issue

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

Not sure if this is relevant but under the mailbox properties did you check
that its set to receive mail from everyone?

I forget the tab and don't know if there is even one on a contact but on a
group that would give you a message like that.

 

From: John Bowles [mailto:john.bow...@wlkmmas.org] 
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 3:03 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: E2K3 Delivery Issue

 

All-

 

I have a server that keeps sending these bouncebacks when someone tries to
send to a contact with an external smtp address:

 

The following recipient(s) cannot be reached: 

  Username on 1/22/2010 11:57 AM 
You do not have permission to send to this recipient. For 
assistance, contact your system administrator. 
 

Thiis is a one Exchange 2003 server enviroment.  So not alot of hops in the
routing structure.  The smtp connector is using DNS to send emails
externally.

 

Any ideas?

 

TIA,

 

John Bowles 

 

RE: Transport Service

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

I didn't but that's a good question. The mail flow was working for 3 days
actually which is why the admin went and moved the mailboxes over. So he was
doing everything right. As a test I removed the transportrules folder,
uninstalled and reinstalled and everything was recreated, including the
connectors, but the same error exists.

 

So we now moved the mailboxes back to get people up and running but I have
4k emails in 'unavailable delivery' queue. I stop/started the smtp server
thinking they would re-queue and they do but build back up and continue to
increase. I guess I have to restart the exchange services so the store
recognizes that the mbox has moved back .

 

From: Tom Kern [mailto:tpk...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:46 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Transport Service

 

Did you change the perms on those folders? DID you have a custom GPO that
did that?

Reinstall the HT role and run procmon while trying to start transport and
see where you get a deny.



 

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Benjamin Zachary - Lists
 wrote:

I cant even get transport service to start. If I delete the transportroles
folder then it starts and exchange 2003 says connection cannot be
established in the queue viewer



-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]

Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:58 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Transport Service

What is the error shown in the queue viewer on 2003? In 2007?

-Original Message-
From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:55 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Transport Service

I do when I goto the 2003 exsm I see a routing group connector between the
two, I have 4k emails sitting in that queue unfortunately the admin there
moved his mailbox said 'looked good' and then moved about 25% of the company
over the weekend heh

When I delete the transportroles folder the service started but didn't
recreate anything and the connectors didn't work either.

Get-RoutingGroupConnector yields me 2 connectors:
Name  SourceRoutingGroup TargetRoutingGroup
  -- --
MX-EXCHANGE-QSTRAINT02Exchange Routing Group ... First Routing Group
QSTRAINT02-MX-EXCHANGEFirst Routing GroupExchange Routing Group
...


MX-EXCHANGE is the 2007 and QSTRAINT02 is the 2003. This is the same thing I
see on the 2003 exsm.

In reading some of the errors had to do with not installing in the default
folder, however I do have it installed in the default folder, but the stores
are on D:\



-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:16 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Transport Service

Get-RoutingGroupConnector -- do you have a connector (you should have two,
named the same thing, one in each direction).

From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:02 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Transport Service

I have a new 2007sp2 server running and connected to a 2003 exchange box.
The transport service refuses to start, it runs and then just says it
stopped. The error is:

The worker process crashes continuously on startup c:\program
files\microsoft\exchange\bin\edgetransport.exe the service will be stopped
Event ID 1016
Source: MSExchange Transport Service


I poked all around so far and also removed and reinstalled the hub transport
with the same error.

Thinking of a call to PSS

Update: I was able to get the transport service started by deleting the
transportroles folder but the email is still sitting in the connector queue
of the exchange 2003 server..













 

RE: ExMerge ?

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

First rule of email: Read , I guess Im just like a congressman ... I don’t read 
the bill.

-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:07 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ExMerge ?

The OP had Exchange 2003...

-Original Message-
From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:57 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: ExMerge ?

Not that Im an expert but I use powergui in exchange 2007 to extract mailboxes 
and it seems to work fine using the newer pst format. 

-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 9:47 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: ExMerge ?

Ohhh...

What an excellent tool.

Many thanks for this.

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 06:42, Michael B. Smith  wrote:
> I recommend this tool:
>
> <http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2009/10/16/expo
> rting-mailboxes-larger-than-2-gb-on-an-exchange-server.aspx>
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael B. Smith
> Exchange MVP & Owner: The Essential Exchange 
> http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael
>
> From: James Winzenz [mailto:james.winz...@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 11:21 AM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: ExMerge ?
>
> 1. Yes
> 2. Check the mailbox size in Exchange to determine whether you may need to 
> split up the pst or not.  If the mailbox is close to 2GB or is larger, then 
> see 3.  Of course, if you run ExMerge and the pst ends up being larger than 2 
> GB, you can always run it again using the options below.  When ExMerge gives 
> you an estimate of how much space is needed, it is roughly 2X the size of the 
> mailbox(es), but I have never yet seen a pst that was twice the size of the 
> mailbox - usually about the same size.
> 3. You can tell ExMerge to only export certain messages based on date or you 
> can only process certain folders.  If we have to exmerge a large mailbox, we 
> typically use the date option rather than split it out by folder.  Keep in 
> mind that you would then have to run ExMerge twice against that mailbox, once 
> for the first set of messages, and a second time for the rest of them.  Also 
> keep in mind that if you don't move or rename the first pst file and rerun 
> ExMerge, it will overwrite the first pst.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James Winzenz
>
>
>
>
> 
> Subject: ExMerge ?
> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:50:08 -0500
> From: david.ri...@hwinstitute.com
> To: exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
> I have Exchange 2003 sp2.  I have to ExMerge out the email to a pst for the 
> Mimecast project.  This is in order to get my history up to them and then 
> stubbing can take place.
>
> 1)Can the end user be in the email when I run the tool?
> 2)Is there a way to make sure that the pst's I get are 2gb or less since 
> it seems that any higher may cause corruption.
> 3)Any  other tips to get all the pst's out and at a 2gb limit would be 
> great.
>
> Thank you,
>
>
> David
>
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> 
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>
>
>

RE: Transport Service

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

I cant even get transport service to start. If I delete the transportroles
folder then it starts and exchange 2003 says connection cannot be
established in the queue viewer


-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:58 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Transport Service

What is the error shown in the queue viewer on 2003? In 2007?

-Original Message-
From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:55 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Transport Service

I do when I goto the 2003 exsm I see a routing group connector between the
two, I have 4k emails sitting in that queue unfortunately the admin there
moved his mailbox said 'looked good' and then moved about 25% of the company
over the weekend heh

When I delete the transportroles folder the service started but didn't
recreate anything and the connectors didn't work either.

Get-RoutingGroupConnector yields me 2 connectors:
Name  SourceRoutingGroup TargetRoutingGroup
  -- --
MX-EXCHANGE-QSTRAINT02Exchange Routing Group ... First Routing Group
QSTRAINT02-MX-EXCHANGEFirst Routing GroupExchange Routing Group
...


MX-EXCHANGE is the 2007 and QSTRAINT02 is the 2003. This is the same thing I
see on the 2003 exsm.

In reading some of the errors had to do with not installing in the default
folder, however I do have it installed in the default folder, but the stores
are on D:\



-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:16 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Transport Service

Get-RoutingGroupConnector -- do you have a connector (you should have two,
named the same thing, one in each direction).

From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:02 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Transport Service

I have a new 2007sp2 server running and connected to a 2003 exchange box.
The transport service refuses to start, it runs and then just says it
stopped. The error is:

The worker process crashes continuously on startup c:\program
files\microsoft\exchange\bin\edgetransport.exe the service will be stopped
Event ID 1016
Source: MSExchange Transport Service


I poked all around so far and also removed and reinstalled the hub transport
with the same error.

Thinking of a call to PSS

Update: I was able to get the transport service started by deleting the
transportroles folder but the email is still sitting in the connector queue
of the exchange 2003 server..

RE: ExMerge ?

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

Not that Im an expert but I use powergui in exchange 2007 to extract mailboxes 
and it seems to work fine using the newer pst format. 

-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 9:47 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: ExMerge ?

Ohhh...

What an excellent tool.

Many thanks for this.

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 06:42, Michael B. Smith  wrote:
> I recommend this tool:
>
>  rting-mailboxes-larger-than-2-gb-on-an-exchange-server.aspx>
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael B. Smith
> Exchange MVP & Owner: The Essential Exchange 
> http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael
>
> From: James Winzenz [mailto:james.winz...@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 11:21 AM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: ExMerge ?
>
> 1. Yes
> 2. Check the mailbox size in Exchange to determine whether you may need to 
> split up the pst or not.  If the mailbox is close to 2GB or is larger, then 
> see 3.  Of course, if you run ExMerge and the pst ends up being larger than 2 
> GB, you can always run it again using the options below.  When ExMerge gives 
> you an estimate of how much space is needed, it is roughly 2X the size of the 
> mailbox(es), but I have never yet seen a pst that was twice the size of the 
> mailbox - usually about the same size.
> 3. You can tell ExMerge to only export certain messages based on date or you 
> can only process certain folders.  If we have to exmerge a large mailbox, we 
> typically use the date option rather than split it out by folder.  Keep in 
> mind that you would then have to run ExMerge twice against that mailbox, once 
> for the first set of messages, and a second time for the rest of them.  Also 
> keep in mind that if you don't move or rename the first pst file and rerun 
> ExMerge, it will overwrite the first pst.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James Winzenz
>
>
>
>
> 
> Subject: ExMerge ?
> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:50:08 -0500
> From: david.ri...@hwinstitute.com
> To: exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
> I have Exchange 2003 sp2.  I have to ExMerge out the email to a pst for the 
> Mimecast project.  This is in order to get my history up to them and then 
> stubbing can take place.
>
> 1)Can the end user be in the email when I run the tool?
> 2)Is there a way to make sure that the pst's I get are 2gb or less since 
> it seems that any higher may cause corruption.
> 3)Any  other tips to get all the pst's out and at a 2gb limit would be 
> great.
>
> Thank you,
>
>
> David
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RE: Transport Service

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

I do when I goto the 2003 exsm I see a routing group connector between the
two, I have 4k emails sitting in that queue unfortunately the admin there
moved his mailbox said 'looked good' and then moved about 25% of the company
over the weekend heh

When I delete the transportroles folder the service started but didn't
recreate anything and the connectors didn't work either.

Get-RoutingGroupConnector yields me 2 connectors:
Name  SourceRoutingGroup TargetRoutingGroup
  -- --
MX-EXCHANGE-QSTRAINT02Exchange Routing Group ... First Routing Group
QSTRAINT02-MX-EXCHANGEFirst Routing GroupExchange Routing Group
...


MX-EXCHANGE is the 2007 and QSTRAINT02 is the 2003. This is the same thing I
see on the 2003 exsm.

In reading some of the errors had to do with not installing in the default
folder, however I do have it installed in the default folder, but the stores
are on D:\



-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:16 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Transport Service

Get-RoutingGroupConnector -- do you have a connector (you should have two,
named the same thing, one in each direction).

From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:02 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Transport Service

I have a new 2007sp2 server running and connected to a 2003 exchange box.
The transport service refuses to start, it runs and then just says it
stopped. The error is:

The worker process crashes continuously on startup c:\program
files\microsoft\exchange\bin\edgetransport.exe the service will be stopped
Event ID 1016
Source: MSExchange Transport Service


I poked all around so far and also removed and reinstalled the hub transport
with the same error.

Thinking of a call to PSS

Update: I was able to get the transport service started by deleting the
transportroles folder but the email is still sitting in the connector queue
of the exchange 2003 server..

Transport Service

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

I have a new 2007sp2 server running and connected to a 2003 exchange box.
The transport service refuses to start, it runs and then just says it
stopped. The error is:

 

The worker process crashes continuously on startup c:\program
files\microsoft\exchange\bin\edgetransport.exe the service will be stopped

Event ID 1016

Source: MSExchange Transport Service

 

 

I poked all around so far and also removed and reinstalled the hub transport
with the same error.

 

Thinking of a call to PSS

 

Update: I was able to get the transport service started by deleting the
transportroles folder but the email is still sitting in the connector queue
of the exchange 2003 server..

 

 

RE: install e2k7sp1

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

Ok I found my answer, exchange 2007 is not supported with 2008r2 servers. It
looks like there is some xml fix, but I think I have to also go back and
create a new vm with just 2008 not 2008r2 as that doesn't appear to be
supported either. I guess I should have thought to look this up beforehand J
just didn't even think about it. 

 

 

From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 12:39 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: install e2k7sp1

 

I have a 2003 domain, earlier today we brought on 2 new 2008r2 dc's by
extending the schema and domain and then dcpromo both 2 servers. We then
demoted the 2003 servers to member servers and shut them down after
replication was completed. Everything looks like its running okay, so then I
goto ad sites/services and upgrade the forest to 2008 (not r2) and upgrade
the domain to 2008 (not r2).

 

I waited about 30 minutes (small network all lan) and goto install
exchange2007sp1 on a 2008 enterprise server, when I get to the pre-req I get
an error that no 2003sp1 or higher domain controller could be found and
sends me to this link:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb426946(EXCHG.80).aspx

 

I go through it and in Domain Controllers OU I have 2 servers DC1 and DC2
which are both 2008r2 DC/GC. So Im not sure why I would need to run
preparelegacyexchangepermissions. There is currently a 2003 exchange w/sp4
that's in native mode and we are going to swing the mailboxes over. The
install should be straight forward enough .

 

Any ideas?

 

install e2k7sp1

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

I have a 2003 domain, earlier today we brought on 2 new 2008r2 dc's by
extending the schema and domain and then dcpromo both 2 servers. We then
demoted the 2003 servers to member servers and shut them down after
replication was completed. Everything looks like its running okay, so then I
goto ad sites/services and upgrade the forest to 2008 (not r2) and upgrade
the domain to 2008 (not r2).

 

I waited about 30 minutes (small network all lan) and goto install
exchange2007sp1 on a 2008 enterprise server, when I get to the pre-req I get
an error that no 2003sp1 or higher domain controller could be found and
sends me to this link:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb426946(EXCHG.80).aspx

 

I go through it and in Domain Controllers OU I have 2 servers DC1 and DC2
which are both 2008r2 DC/GC. So Im not sure why I would need to run
preparelegacyexchangepermissions. There is currently a 2003 exchange w/sp4
that's in native mode and we are going to swing the mailboxes over. The
install should be straight forward enough .

 

Any ideas?

 

RE: RPC / HTTPS troubleshooting

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

Well I went on that premise and re-applied all the permissions in IIS6 using:  
secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb 
/verbose

Soon as I did that everything still didn’t work, but then I noticed that on my 
rpc it was set to scripts only, and another client's rpc was set to scripts and 
executables so I did that and all is well again.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2009 12:42 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: RPC / HTTPS troubleshooting

In particular:

http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7816

On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 08:32, Michael B. Smith  wrote:
> You shouldn’t get prompted to download the dll. You should get a blank
> screen or an “invalid post” error.
>
>
>
> Has someone been messing with your iis applications?
>
>
>
> From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us]
> Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2009 9:43 AM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RPC / HTTPS troubleshooting
>
>
>
> I have a 2003 server with exchange 2003 on it. Its been running rpc/https
> for over a year and last week it just stopped working.  Doing an rpcdiag
> just shows Disconnected after I get asked for credentials.  It works over a
> vpn.
>
>
>
> I went back through the initial setup and that didn’t work, so I rebuilt the
> firewall and that didn’t do it.
>
>
>
> The odd thing is that I can goto https://mydomain.com/rpc/rpcproxy.dll I get
> popped for credentials (no cert error) and then prompted to download/save
> the dll file.
>
>
>
> In IIS logs I see the MSPRC 501 messages, which seem to be the same messages
> that happen when I connect to the vpn or from outside the firewall..
>
>
>
> Any ideas where else to look? Or what would the difference be between vpn
> and nating? I was thinking maybe the 6001-6004 ports but doesn’t really make
> sense.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>
>

RE: RPC / HTTPS troubleshooting

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

This is what I was thinking. I also happened to find an ssl folder in the IIS 
wwwroot dir and inside it is a bunch of html pages that look like paypal (some 
phishing scheme apparently). Didn’t think much of it at the time but we already 
changed all the passwords and IIS_WPG users etc etc. 

I am going to be upgrading the server, our new vm is in place already I just 
have one app that is having an issue on the 64bit platform and then we can dump 
it. Hopefully later this week. 

Is there any easy way to reset this? I definitely think the 'download' prompt 
of the .dll is the issue. When I look in the iis applications its set for 
/ms-download for .dll but I checked a couple of other servers and they have the 
same thing. 

-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2009 12:42 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: RPC / HTTPS troubleshooting

In particular:

http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7816

On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 08:32, Michael B. Smith  wrote:
> You shouldn’t get prompted to download the dll. You should get a blank
> screen or an “invalid post” error.
>
>
>
> Has someone been messing with your iis applications?
>
>
>
> From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us]
> Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2009 9:43 AM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RPC / HTTPS troubleshooting
>
>
>
> I have a 2003 server with exchange 2003 on it. Its been running rpc/https
> for over a year and last week it just stopped working.  Doing an rpcdiag
> just shows Disconnected after I get asked for credentials.  It works over a
> vpn.
>
>
>
> I went back through the initial setup and that didn’t work, so I rebuilt the
> firewall and that didn’t do it.
>
>
>
> The odd thing is that I can goto https://mydomain.com/rpc/rpcproxy.dll I get
> popped for credentials (no cert error) and then prompted to download/save
> the dll file.
>
>
>
> In IIS logs I see the MSPRC 501 messages, which seem to be the same messages
> that happen when I connect to the vpn or from outside the firewall..
>
>
>
> Any ideas where else to look? Or what would the difference be between vpn
> and nating? I was thinking maybe the 6001-6004 ports but doesn’t really make
> sense.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>
>

RPC / HTTPS troubleshooting

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

I have a 2003 server with exchange 2003 on it. Its been running rpc/https
for over a year and last week it just stopped working.  Doing an rpcdiag
just shows Disconnected after I get asked for credentials.  It works over a
vpn.

 

I went back through the initial setup and that didn't work, so I rebuilt the
firewall and that didn't do it.

 

The odd thing is that I can goto https://mydomain.com/rpc/rpcproxy.dll I get
popped for credentials (no cert error) and then prompted to download/save
the dll file.

 

In IIS logs I see the MSPRC 501 messages, which seem to be the same messages
that happen when I connect to the vpn or from outside the firewall..

 

Any ideas where else to look? Or what would the difference be between vpn
and nating? I was thinking maybe the 6001-6004 ports but doesn't really make
sense.

 

Thanks in advance

 

 

public folders views

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

I have a exchange 2007 cluster with a front end server. The other day a
couple of the PF's stopped updating their views. 

 

Whats happening is I have a calendar item lets say its set for 11:00am, I
drag it to 12:00pm and it snaps back to 11. If I hover over it it still says
11:00am but when I open it

Shows up as 12:00pm.

 

If I delete it, it still shows up, if I goto delete it again I get this item
cannot be found so its been deleted. 

 

I checked pfdavadmin and reset ACLs etc but I don't think that's the issue
since Im able to actually process it but the view doesn't update. This is
happening organization wide and on just a couple of PF's not all of them.

 

Anywhere I can look?

 

RE: Suggestions on locking down Outlook

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

Since you don’t have exchange check with someone like postini or a hosted 
solution. Cloudmark works pretty well on the desktop too.


-Original Message-
From: Karla Nelson [mailto:gordnfn...@sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 3:12 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Suggestions on locking down Outlook

We don't use Exchange, but I don't see an Outlook (only) forum, so I'm going to 
ask my question here. I'm just curious to see what (if anything) other admins 
are doing to protect their networks from the constant barrage of scam emails. 
It seems that in the past six months, these have become increasing in 
frequency. I'm particularly annoyed with all of the UPS/FedEx/DHL emails with 
malicious attachments. We have Vipre Enterprise anti-virus, and we do have it 
scanning our email. Most employees know to ignore and delete these, but I'd 
really like to keep them from ever reaching their inbox.  We have disabled the 
Outlook preview pane on user's machines as a safe practice. Are any of the 
Outlook "security" options in the Trust Center worth tweaking?  Thanks~

RE: Exchange 2007 cluster

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

I haven't looked at it too much so far, Im just getting into it. I believe
when the help desk tech (not the IT member) was flipping through the servers
he said here is node1 and it was 2003x64 and then he got to node2 and it was
a 2008x64. Im working my way from top down and backups was one of their big
issues so it was near the top of my task list.

 

From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] 
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 10:51 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 cluster

 

Are you saying that you've inherited a 2 node A/P cluster with both Exchange
(200x?) and SQL (200x?), and one node is 2003 x64 while the other is 2008
x86?  Please, please tell me I read this wrong.  Even if they're both 64
bit, let me guess.  One Cluster group, right?

 

From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:li...@levelfive.us] 
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 9:52 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange 2007 cluster

 

I recently took over a network that's running an exchange and sql cluster.
One of the boxes is 2003x64 and the other is 2008. The cluster seems to be
working just fine. However, we have a 3rd server running BES 4.1 and the
exchange mgmt. tools. Apparently the backup was using this server to get
exchange backups. The problem is it hasn't run correctly in over a month.
When I run the backup I can see both storage groups and all the databases
are selected, however the backup ends successfully at about 55gb. The store
is about 1.1 TB. 

 

I'm thinking of dropping the BEX11 mgmt agent on each cluster server to get
a more precise backup. Just not sure what would be causing it to fall so
short.

 

Thanks

 

 

Exchange 2007 cluster

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

I recently took over a network that's running an exchange and sql cluster.
One of the boxes is 2003x64 and the other is 2008. The cluster seems to be
working just fine. However, we have a 3rd server running BES 4.1 and the
exchange mgmt. tools. Apparently the backup was using this server to get
exchange backups. The problem is it hasn't run correctly in over a month.
When I run the backup I can see both storage groups and all the databases
are selected, however the backup ends successfully at about 55gb. The store
is about 1.1 TB. 

 

I'm thinking of dropping the BEX11 mgmt agent on each cluster server to get
a more precise backup. Just not sure what would be causing it to fall so
short.

 

Thanks

 

 

RE: Droid - The next thing?

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

I picked up an HTC from Sprint with Android. My exchange ActiveSync works
great, it has an option right on the phone for it. I replaced my Windows
Mobile 6.1 which was nice, this phone definitely has a good feel to it. Its
not perfect and there are a few minor glitches, most importantly you have to
disable a bunch of unused items to have a decent battery. 

Right now I cleaned it all up, I don't use BT hardly at all and keep
wireless off unless I need it, and Im lucky if I make it through a business
day w/o needing to charge it. If they get this fixed this phone will be
fantastic.

For now, Im happy with it, lots of apps, although I only found 1 SIP app and
it didn't work on my * box although others have claimed theirs does.


-Original Message-
From: Jason Gurtz [mailto:jasongu...@npumail.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 4:43 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Droid - The next thing?

> Now if it only plays nice with Exchange...

I hope so too.  So far this is the first thing I've seen that could pry
the blackberry from my hands.

~JasonG

RE: MX Logic for Archiving

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

Without knowing your requirements:

Mailarchiva
Gfi mail archiver
Proxmox


-Original Message-
From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] 
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 3:42 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: MX Logic for Archiving

Anyone using MX Logic for Exchange e-mail archiving? If so, what are your
thoughts?



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

www.taylor.k12.fl.us


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Outlook - Plain Text

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

The president of one of my clients is having an outlook issue where he gets
mail forwarded to him from his sales managers and it gets flipped into plain
text.

 

If he forwards others the same email it is in html, its only the president
(go figure) that this occurs with.  I can forward the email to 10 people in
the office and everyone else sees it as Message (HTML) and he gets Message
(Plain Text)

 

Not, all of his email does this, just some of it. In particular, all the
html mail sent from the managers. 

 

Now, he is also the only user on BES, so Im thinking this is the only
difference, but because he seems to get other email in html wasn't really
thinking that would be related.

 

 


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postini & backscatter

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

I have a client whos been using postini for quite some time, about 100
mailboxes, and recently has been noticing a lot of backscatter sitting in
his queues. 

 

Now, from the few times I used postini, you setup a mailbox on their system
and then it redirects mail. So he shouldn't be sending out ndr's to people
who don't exist because the mail should never get to his server. Im going to
check the firewall, which has been set to only allow smtp/25 from the
postini ip range.  Im also wondering if this could be from his bes server he
setup in the past couple of months, that maybe its coming from the phones?
Or he has a virus internally, which I doubt, but we are doing a full scan
and going through smtp logs now.

 

 


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RE: Messages stuck in awaiting directory lookup

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

Found it.

 

When you stop/start the service there was an error opening the smtp
transport queue. Looking up the event showed me a quick adsutil.vbs to fix
it by creating the queue folder manually and mail shot out like a cannon.

 

 


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RE: SBS 2008 upgrade

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

I think it was RTM in October? Or this month, IIRC, so probably on the
street by January.

 

From: King's Kid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 09:08
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: SBS 2008 upgrade

 

Hi all,

 

I see where Microsoft is coming out with SBS 2008.  We're thinking of
upgrading (eventually) to it.  

 

Can anyone direct me to a good list, similar to this one, where they discuss
SBS?

 

TIA
 

BJ 

 

No trees were killed in the sending of this message, but a large number of
electrons were terribly inconvenienced. 

 

 


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Messages stuck in awaiting directory lookup

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

I have a client who is working remotely for a long period of time on a Mac
w/ Entourage. I set him up with IMAP , while we get him up on webdav
sometime in the future. 

 

Anyway, the isp blocks 25, so I made a new smtp on 26 and used that for
outbound, it works , however all mail is sitting in the awaiting directory
lookup smtp-26 queue. Its just a default new smtp virtual server, and then
changed to 26. All mail is working for people internally, and also if he
uses webmail it goes out the default smtp and works.

 

I cant recall ever running into this, I poked around and talk about turning
up logging via reghack etc etc, doesn't seem to be putting me in the right
direction.

 

Thx

 


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RE: Exchange Archiving

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

Heh, I guess the places I used it at aren't large by any means, single or
dual servers with 200-300gb stores. Overhead never seemed to be a problem,
but Ive never tested it against large multi terabyte type installs.

-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 15:24
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange Archiving

Come'on Don, tell us what you REALLY think...

Regards,

Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP
My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael
Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange

-Original Message-
From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 3:27 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange Archiving

GFI might be decent for a small environment but it sucks donkey balls
with teeth for medium to large environments.



On 10/26/08, Benjamin Zachary - Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mailarchiva (open source)
>
> Mailarchiver (gfi)
>
>
>
> Readily available web based archiving system, keeps the store smaller, and
> allows users to retrieve and search their own archived mail. Also, in the
> case of GFI's product it seems the database for the same amount of mail is
> smaller (than exchange itself) for the same time period.
>
>
>
>
>
> From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 22:12
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: Exchange Archiving
>
>
>
> I need to reduce the size of my store but need to provide offline access
to
> mail that's been purged.
> I had planned to dump the mb's from one date point back to give to the
> users, then that date forward to re-import.
>
>
>
> My only issue is the management of the PST's. I don't want these on my
file
> server, users roam, and I don't want them modifying these as I don't want
to
> manage backing them up.
>
>
>
> How do you guys deal with this?
>
>
>
> Thanks!
> jlc
>
>
>
>
>
>
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RE: Exchange Archiving

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

Mailarchiva (open source)

Mailarchiver (gfi)

 

Readily available web based archiving system, keeps the store smaller, and
allows users to retrieve and search their own archived mail. Also, in the
case of GFI's product it seems the database for the same amount of mail is
smaller (than exchange itself) for the same time period.

 

 

From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 22:12
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange Archiving

 

I need to reduce the size of my store but need to provide offline access to
mail that's been purged.
I had planned to dump the mb's from one date point back to give to the
users, then that date forward to re-import.

 

My only issue is the management of the PST's. I don't want these on my file
server, users roam, and I don't want them modifying these as I don't want to
manage backing them up.

 

How do you guys deal with this?

 

Thanks!
jlc

 

 


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RE: Address Book Views

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

I have never tried doing it per server myself, but whenever I need to make
separate address books, I typically use Department, or put all the users in
their own OU and then filter it there.

 

You can select the AD attributes on the 3rd tab? I think it is, and say is
exactly or contains. Maybe theres an option to put server is exactly SRV1
but I never looked. 

 

From: Kevan Dickinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 6:31 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Address Book Views

 

Hi

 

I am trying to create an address book view in Exchange 2003 that will only
show mailboxes, distribution lists and contacts from a particular exchange
server.

When creating the filter rule I am selecting the appropriate exchange server
and clicking find.  But I am returning all the email addresses in the
organization.  Same happens if I select to use only the mailbox store on
that server.

 

Any Idea where I am going wrong.

 

How should I set up an address book view to show only the addresses from one
particular server?

 

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NSF-CMI

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RE: Mail comes in and goes missing

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

We ended up rebuilding the server, ive never been able to track this down
successfully. I wasn't initially involved so trying to play Monday
quarterback isn't really the way to go. 

 

Thanks for the replies.

 

  _  

From: Matt Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 11:57 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Mail comes in and goes missing

 

Yep, I understand. Easy and simple is the way to go if you can..  It sounds
as if they didn't test their solution very well and should have their feet
held to the fire.  I've had a number of the "overseas techs" try and push me
to close a case prematurely.  They've made no bones about telling me they
get paid by completed/closed case.

Good luck 

 

----- Original Message - 

From: Benjamin Zachary - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Lists 

To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
<mailto:exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>  

Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 8:06 AM

Subject: RE: Mail comes in and goes missing

 

Yah, that's where we are going now, I was hoping it was something simple.
Just a strange one I guess.

 


  _  


From: Matt Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 10:43 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Mail comes in and goes missing

 

If they called MS and the problem is not resolved, call them back and get on
with it.  They have all the notes on what was done and should be prepared to
pick up where they left off.

M

 


  _  


From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 7:38 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Mail comes in and goes missing

 

I have an e2k box with sp3 on it. Apparently it had some problems last week
and they called MS and got everything remounted and such (smtp connector
blew up as far as I can tell)

 

 

Now, I can send emails out through manually connecting to the smtp
connector, but if I choose an internal email address the mail never gets
delivered. In the event logs I do see MS Exchange Transport Information and
it says success to usera and userb so it appears mail is getting into the
system but then the user doesn't ever receive it. 

 

Trying to get them through a couple of days until we can redo it, anyone
have any ideas?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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RE: Mail comes in and goes missing

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

Yah, that's where we are going now, I was hoping it was something simple.
Just a strange one I guess.

 

  _  

From: Matt Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 10:43 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Mail comes in and goes missing

 

If they called MS and the problem is not resolved, call them back and get on
with it.  They have all the notes on what was done and should be prepared to
pick up where they left off.

M

 

  _  

From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 7:38 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Mail comes in and goes missing

 

I have an e2k box with sp3 on it. Apparently it had some problems last week
and they called MS and got everything remounted and such (smtp connector
blew up as far as I can tell)

 

 

Now, I can send emails out through manually connecting to the smtp
connector, but if I choose an internal email address the mail never gets
delivered. In the event logs I do see MS Exchange Transport Information and
it says success to usera and userb so it appears mail is getting into the
system but then the user doesn't ever receive it. 

 

Trying to get them through a couple of days until we can redo it, anyone
have any ideas?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Mail comes in and goes missing

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

I have an e2k box with sp3 on it. Apparently it had some problems last week
and they called MS and got everything remounted and such (smtp connector
blew up as far as I can tell)

 

 

Now, I can send emails out through manually connecting to the smtp
connector, but if I choose an internal email address the mail never gets
delivered. In the event logs I do see MS Exchange Transport Information and
it says success to usera and userb so it appears mail is getting into the
system but then the user doesn't ever receive it. 

 

Trying to get them through a couple of days until we can redo it, anyone
have any ideas?

 

 

 

 

 


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RE: Exchange 2003 SP2

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

Good idea, I will take a look. This is occurring in Outlook as well as OWA,
but maybe something on the server is blocking. 

 

  _  

From: Bingham, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:36 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2003 SP2

 

Check the logs for the antivirus application.  I've seen this happen when an
antivirus scanner freaks out (technical term.)  Restarting the Anitivirus
service *usually* corrected the issue.

 

 

From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 8:55 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange 2003 SP2

 

Cannot open any email with an attachment, through outlook or the owa. 

 

Not just blocking the attachment, but you cant even see the email its like
its stuck/lost in there.

 

Nothing shows in the event log, and Im checking the regkey for the OWA
level1/level2 blocking, any other ideas?

 

Thx

 

 

 

 

 






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Exchange 2003 SP2

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

Cannot open any email with an attachment, through outlook or the owa. 

 

Not just blocking the attachment, but you cant even see the email its like
its stuck/lost in there.

 

Nothing shows in the event log, and Im checking the regkey for the OWA
level1/level2 blocking, any other ideas?

 

Thx

 

 

 


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Backup Errors

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

I have a 2000 SBS server, that's running Backup Exec 11d, and the backup
gets an access denied error on the Information Store. If I run the logon
account wizard it tests successful, and I double checked the account has
full admin rights as well as tried using the administrator account without
success.

 

So heres the odd part, I can run ntbackup and successfully backup the store,
however it doesn't drop the logfiles, even after several successful backups.
Im not sure if the access denied error in BEX is referring to this (because
the error appears to happen after it backs ups) or why ntbackup completes
successfully and it does not dump the logs.

 

Any ideas? nothing really stands out. 

 

 

 

 


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RE: SMTP logging

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

Okay thanks, yes EST so the 4 hours was accurate

 

  _  

From: Barsodi.John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:39 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: SMTP logging

 

Assuming you are in the EST, that's why you show 4 hours off.

 

 The check box for local time, is for file naming and rollover.  It logs in
GMT.

 

- John Barsodi

From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 9:37 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: SMTP logging

 

Im troubleshooting a bunch of smtp traffic and the logtime is 4 hours off, I
checked the smtp connector in Exchange and its set for local time, for a
goof, I unchecked it and restarted the service both in services.msc and in
the exchange mgr, and then put it back. No change, am I missing something?
Should be easy enough but kind of annoying trying to monitor traffic and all
the wrong times are there.

 

Thx

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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SMTP logging

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

Im troubleshooting a bunch of smtp traffic and the logtime is 4 hours off, I
checked the smtp connector in Exchange and its set for local time, for a
goof, I unchecked it and restarted the service both in services.msc and in
the exchange mgr, and then put it back. No change, am I missing something?
Should be easy enough but kind of annoying trying to monitor traffic and all
the wrong times are there.

 

Thx

 

 

 


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RE: Sync'ing Palms

[Benjamin Zachary]

Yah im wondering if pocket mirror will do it, the pro version, I need a
public calendar.

 

From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 10:25 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Sync'ing Palms

 

good messaging client from motorola can do it, but only for contacts

 

  _  

From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 9:12 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Sync'ing Palms

Does anyone know how to sync a public folder to a palm device (or set of?)

I thought using the hot sync over the internet would give me that option but
apparently it only will do the user's personal calendar.

 

 

 

 


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Sync'ing Palms

[Benjamin Zachary]

Does anyone know how to sync a public folder to a palm device (or set of?)

I thought using the hot sync over the internet would give me that option but
apparently it only will do the user's personal calendar.



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RE: Exchange 2003 and Lyris Listserv

[Benjamin Zachary - Lists]

You may also want to look at the smart host, and if mail is not found
forward to this host options

 

Depending on your setup. 


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Outlook losing favorites

[Benjamin Zachary]

Outlook 2003, Exchange 2003 SP2

All of the users that have public folders in their favorites also shows up
in their Calendar/Contacts as a secondary item. The next morning (it seems)
the items are still in favorites but *not* in the calendar/contact areas,
unless I go back and click on the Favorites under PF and then they will show
up again.

Anyone know of a patch/fix for this? I don't even know what to look for.
Missing favorites in Outlook 2003 talks about a lot of other stuff. 

Thx

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RE: Get Creative

[Benjamin Zachary]

Ive been too busy to really keep up with it, but you can write some good
email programs that do things as mentioned. I saw a pretty cool demo using
vbscript forms that were for ordering supplies.

 

The person would order supplies and hit submit, the order would goto the
person's manager with Approve/Decline. They hit approve and it gets
forwarded over to the person who orders stuff with an approval via the
manager. Seemed neat and the form was all prepopulated.

 

  _  

From: Angie Urtel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 4:58 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Get Creative

 

 


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Troubleshooting POP

[Benjamin Zachary]

 

 

 

My pop3 connector which we use for a handful of remote users seems to be
locking up every day or so. It says its running but if I goto logon to it
manually it just hangs after I put the password in. I can stop it, and
restart it in exchange mgr and it will work again for some period of time.
Nothing in event logs shows me anything. Occassionally, when I do stop it I
will get a timeout error but even then the logs don't show anything
reporting. 

 

You think the easiest thing is to simply drop the latest SP on there again?
Or is there something else I can look for?

 

Small environment @ 50 users, they pull their mail from corporate via pop3
(don't get me started) with a pop3 connector so maybe that's causing the
issue but I use popcon in a few places and never seen any problems with it.
Then they have a small subset of about 6 users who need pop mail to their
phones when they are out of the office. 

 

Thx


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RE: Extract mail from @domain.com

[Benjamin Zachary]

Thanks for the reply, Ontrack's power controls actually had it by domain so
I ended up using that.

 

  _  

From: Matt Lathrum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:17 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Extract mail from @domain.com

 

Try your anti-virus product using content filtering rules, perhaps.

 

 

From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 11:35 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Extract mail from @domain.com

 

I thought exmerge would give me an easy way to do this, but looks like it
oly does subject/attachments/dates. 

Any other easy way to gather a bunch of mail by domain out of exchange? I
have Ontracks Power Tools Im going to try that now, but IIRC it only does
per mailbox. 

Thx

 

 

 

 


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Extract mail from @domain.com

[Benjamin Zachary]

I thought exmerge would give me an easy way to do this, but looks like it
oly does subject/attachments/dates. 

Any other easy way to gather a bunch of mail by domain out of exchange? I
have Ontracks Power Tools Im going to try that now, but IIRC it only does
per mailbox. 

Thx


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RE: Removing SMTP addresses

[Benjamin Zachary]

Well the article looked like too much work for today, but I did find this:

 

http://www.drewery.net/blog/category/active-directory/

 

Which will accomplish what I need and I just tested it. It goes by full name
not username, so the users.txt file has to be exact and no spaces at the end
for those interested. Using the user.txt is better for me because I can
remove some users who actually need the smtp instead of ripping through AD.

 

  _  

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 4:00 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Removing SMTP addresses

 

 

No. Read the KB link.  :-)

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

MCSE/Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 3:20 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Removing SMTP addresses

 

 

Well, maybe I did it incorrectly, and always have been. 

 

If I goto default recipient policy and change from domain.com to new.com I
will get a message to update all smtp's but that nothing will be deleted.
Are you stating that if I make a new recipient policy for domain.com and
then delete it, it will in turn delete all smtp addresses from the
recipents?

 

  _  

From: Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 3:15 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Removing SMTP addresses

 

 

Hmmm, I understood it to be different.  Thanks for the clarification.

 

From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 3:09 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Removing SMTP addresses

 

 

If a receipt policy exists it will modify every account it can in the
Exchange Org.  If you remove an address, or several address from the receipt
policy(ies) in question it will pull those address off same accounts.  It
does take a while to sync up but it does work and those addresses will fall
off like TVK's clothes at the Blue Oyster club.  

 

Shook

http://www.linkedin.com/in/andyshook  

  _  

From: Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 3:05 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Removing SMTP addresses

 

 

Even by doing that, doesn't that stop any new entries for new AD accounts?
But, IIRC, doesn't delete any domains previously entered in the AD account
(whether manually, or by the recipient policy), no?

 

From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:50 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Removing SMTP addresses

 

 

Edit your recipient policy(ies) within ESM

 

(Shook answered an Exchange question before MBS did.na na na-na na!)

 

 

Shook

http://www.linkedin.com/in/andyshook  

  _____  

From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:46 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Removing SMTP addresses

 

 

I have a handful of domains attached to AD that most users shouldn't have
here. Its about 125 users, and going into each and removing the email
address seems pretty time consuming. Any ideas? 

 

Thx

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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RE: Removing SMTP addresses

[Benjamin Zachary]

I just tried making a new recipient policy for all users, I put in a domain,
and then waited until it was propogated out and then removed it and it told
me addresses with proxies will not be re-evaluated and may have to be
removed manually. 

 

I would love to do this automatically if possible, plus for my own knowledge
moving forward. I usually don't mind if a company changes domains and you
end up with the old email address but in this case I need it removed.

 

  _  

From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 3:09 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Removing SMTP addresses

 

 

If a receipt policy exists it will modify every account it can in the
Exchange Org.  If you remove an address, or several address from the receipt
policy(ies) in question it will pull those address off same accounts.  It
does take a while to sync up but it does work and those addresses will fall
off like TVK's clothes at the Blue Oyster club.  

 

Shook

http://www.linkedin.com/in/andyshook  

  _  

From: Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 3:05 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Removing SMTP addresses

 

 

Even by doing that, doesn't that stop any new entries for new AD accounts?
But, IIRC, doesn't delete any domains previously entered in the AD account
(whether manually, or by the recipient policy), no?

 

From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:50 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Removing SMTP addresses

 

 

Edit your recipient policy(ies) within ESM

 

(Shook answered an Exchange question before MBS did.na na na-na na!)

 

 

Shook

http://www.linkedin.com/in/andyshook  

  _____  

From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:46 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Removing SMTP addresses

 

 

I have a handful of domains attached to AD that most users shouldn't have
here. Its about 125 users, and going into each and removing the email
address seems pretty time consuming. Any ideas? 

 

Thx

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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RE: Removing SMTP addresses

[Benjamin Zachary]

Well, maybe I did it incorrectly, and always have been. 

 

If I goto default recipient policy and change from domain.com to new.com I
will get a message to update all smtp's but that nothing will be deleted.
Are you stating that if I make a new recipient policy for domain.com and
then delete it, it will in turn delete all smtp addresses from the
recipents?

 

  _  

From: Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 3:15 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Removing SMTP addresses

 

 

Hmmm, I understood it to be different.  Thanks for the clarification.

 

From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 3:09 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Removing SMTP addresses

 

 

If a receipt policy exists it will modify every account it can in the
Exchange Org.  If you remove an address, or several address from the receipt
policy(ies) in question it will pull those address off same accounts.  It
does take a while to sync up but it does work and those addresses will fall
off like TVK's clothes at the Blue Oyster club.  

 

Shook

http://www.linkedin.com/in/andyshook  

  _  

From: Fogarty, Richard R Mr CTR USA USASOC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 3:05 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Removing SMTP addresses

 

 

Even by doing that, doesn't that stop any new entries for new AD accounts?
But, IIRC, doesn't delete any domains previously entered in the AD account
(whether manually, or by the recipient policy), no?

 

From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:50 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Removing SMTP addresses

 

 

Edit your recipient policy(ies) within ESM

 

(Shook answered an Exchange question before MBS did.na na na-na na!)

 

 

Shook

http://www.linkedin.com/in/andyshook  

  _____  

From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:46 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Removing SMTP addresses

 

 

I have a handful of domains attached to AD that most users shouldn't have
here. Its about 125 users, and going into each and removing the email
address seems pretty time consuming. Any ideas? 

 

Thx

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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RE: Removing SMTP addresses

[Benjamin Zachary]

Okay, thanks I will take a look. I just found this script that looks decent
and works off a user list which may be better for me since I need  a handful
of users still.

 

  _  

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:51 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Removing SMTP addresses

 

 

I would write a PowerShell script.

 

Absent that, have you looked at ADModify.Net? I haven't downloaded it since
I went 64-bit, but it may be able to help you.

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

MCSE/Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:46 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Removing SMTP addresses

 

 

I have a handful of domains attached to AD that most users shouldn't have
here. Its about 125 users, and going into each and removing the email
address seems pretty time consuming. Any ideas? 

 

Thx

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Removing SMTP addresses

[Benjamin Zachary]

I have a handful of domains attached to AD that most users shouldn't have
here. Its about 125 users, and going into each and removing the email
address seems pretty time consuming. Any ideas? 

 

Thx

 

 

 


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RE: Could someone tell me where i can find this setting in exchange 2003

[Benjamin Zachary]

This is how I do it too, used to use some editor initially. I also like to
blank out pop3/smtp/imap banner messages.

Keep in mind the script provided is for the 1st (1) 
Smtpsvc, if you have others you want to change that to a 2 or whatever # is
relevant for your needs.

-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 4:35 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Could someone tell me where i can find this setting in exchange
2003

You've been told how to do it via the GUI, but I like the command-line
better. :-)

I'm gonna write a blog post on this. Hmmm. I might could expand it to a full
blown print article Anyway:

cscript adsutil.vbs set smtpsvc/1/FullyQualifiedDomainName mx2.idfllc.com

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
MCSE/Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com

-Original Message-
From: Victor Rodriguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 3:54 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Could someone tell me where i can find this setting in exchange
2003

WARNING: One or more of your mailservers is claiming to be a host other than
what it really is (the SMTP greeting should be a 3-digit code, followed by a
space or a dash, then the host name). If your mailserver sends out E-mail
using this domain in its EHLO or HELO, your E-mail might get blocked by
anti-spam software. This is also a technical violation of RFC821 4.3 (and
RFC2821 4.3.1). Note that the hostname given in the SMTP greeting should
have an A record pointing back to the same server. Note that this one test
may use a cached DNS record.

mx2.idfllc.com claims to be non-existent host idfmailprd01.idf.local: 
220 idfmailprd01.idf.local ESMTP Service ready 
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RE: Ridiculous customer requirement...

[Benjamin Zachary]

Use some cheap free pop3/smtp to make this happen. Probably easier than
trying to have exchange do it.

 

On that note you could have all incoming mail cc some other address like
archive for monitoring.

 

You could have them use exchange as a pop3 client I suppose with the replyto
being that mailbox. Then any mail that is sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is also 
copied
to the same email address.

 

  _  

From: Rick Corgiat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 4:17 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Ridiculous customer requirement...

 

 

All,

I have a customer that is requiring me to configure email in this ridiculous
way:

All users can send email to internal and external recipients.

The "Reply To" address for most users must be [EMAIL PROTECTED] when sent to
external recipients.

All incoming mail addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How do I configure Exchange/ADUC settings to make this happen? There is no
reasoning with the customer, this has to happen.

TIA,

Rick

 

 

 

 


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RE: "Journaling" a mail-enabled public folder

[Benjamin Zachary]

 

This should get you there
http://support.gfi.com/manuals/en/mar5/mar5manual.1.11.html#9000176 which
goes over journaling and the tool to get and refers to this
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=843105 for public folders

 

 

  _  

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 4:01 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: "Journaling" a mail-enabled public folder

 

 

Look on CDOLive. They used to have lots of that kinda stuff.

 

You are aware that those are synchronous, right?

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

MCSE/Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 3:57 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: "Journaling" a mail-enabled public folder

 

 

I need to capture all mail to and from a PF's SMTP address.  Sending them to
another mailbox, appending them to a file, either would work fine.

 

It looks like a CDO.ISMTPOnArrival event sink is the ticket.   Anyone have a
VBscript example that does such a thing?

 

thanks,

Carl

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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RE: Connect Exchange to non-Exchange

[Benjamin Zachary]

It looks like its working. I did both an SMTP connector and fwd unresolved
hosts in SMTP. I'm not sure which one is doing the workhorse, most likely
the SMTP. We aren't accepting any mail on SMTP from the outside, although
when I get to corporate tomorrow I'm going to see about creating an smtp
connector between the two orgs. Issue is they have about 25 offices
nationwide and probably are unable to route mail correctly. We have a vpn to
them over a 3 meg pipe that I would much rather use but I can only jump one
wall at a time :-)

 

Thanks Michael.

 

 

  _  

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:38 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Connect Exchange to non-Exchange

 

 

You can configure exchange to deliver unresolved recipients in any domain to
another server.  It just requires a little fiddling.

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

MCSE/Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:27 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Connect Exchange to non-Exchange

 

 

Im told I will have no rights to anything, so I have to treat this as an
outside connection. Im looking at under smtp the forward to unresolved
recipients. Im thinking this will not work on internal mail of which Im
supposed to be the domain. Im testing it now. 

 

  _  

From: Tom McCarty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:05 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Connect Exchange to non-Exchange

 

 

The best bet to retain your sanity is the Lotus Notes connector if they
really are using that.  But you may not have enough rights to set up the
other side

 

Tom McCarty

 


  _  


From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:17 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Connect Exchange to non-Exchange

 

 

 

I have a franchised client who right now gets all pop3 mail via outlook.
They have exchange 2003 and use it just for internal mail and pop off their
company mail. The parent company uses Lotus or Domino or something other
than Exchange Im told. 

 

I was thinking I could pop off the mail using a pop3 connector, and create
an SMTP connector so we use their SMTP for outbound mail so mx/rdns and all
matches up. However, what about mail sent to the same domain but the user
doesn't exist here. I know on SMTP I could say forward mail for unresolved
recipients to their SMTP but that's only going to be for inbound mail
correct? 

 

I was thinking I could rename my domain so its FL.company.com and then if I
could strip that send it back up, so all mail to company.com would be seen
as 'external', and of course internal communication would be quick and
painless since internally it would all be fl.company.com. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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RE: Connect Exchange to non-Exchange

[Benjamin Zachary]

Im told I will have no rights to anything, so I have to treat this as an
outside connection. Im looking at under smtp the forward to unresolved
recipients. Im thinking this will not work on internal mail of which Im
supposed to be the domain. Im testing it now. 

 

  _  

From: Tom McCarty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:05 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Connect Exchange to non-Exchange

 

 

The best bet to retain your sanity is the Lotus Notes connector if they
really are using that.  But you may not have enough rights to set up the
other side

 

Tom McCarty

 


  _  


From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:17 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Connect Exchange to non-Exchange

 

 

 

I have a franchised client who right now gets all pop3 mail via outlook.
They have exchange 2003 and use it just for internal mail and pop off their
company mail. The parent company uses Lotus or Domino or something other
than Exchange Im told. 

 

I was thinking I could pop off the mail using a pop3 connector, and create
an SMTP connector so we use their SMTP for outbound mail so mx/rdns and all
matches up. However, what about mail sent to the same domain but the user
doesn't exist here. I know on SMTP I could say forward mail for unresolved
recipients to their SMTP but that's only going to be for inbound mail
correct? 

 

I was thinking I could rename my domain so its FL.company.com and then if I
could strip that send it back up, so all mail to company.com would be seen
as 'external', and of course internal communication would be quick and
painless since internally it would all be fl.company.com. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Connect Exchange to non-Exchange

[Benjamin Zachary]

 

 

I have a franchised client who right now gets all pop3 mail via outlook.
They have exchange 2003 and use it just for internal mail and pop off their
company mail. The parent company uses Lotus or Domino or something other
than Exchange Im told. 

 

I was thinking I could pop off the mail using a pop3 connector, and create
an SMTP connector so we use their SMTP for outbound mail so mx/rdns and all
matches up. However, what about mail sent to the same domain but the user
doesn't exist here. I know on SMTP I could say forward mail for unresolved
recipients to their SMTP but that's only going to be for inbound mail
correct? 

 

I was thinking I could rename my domain so its FL.company.com and then if I
could strip that send it back up, so all mail to company.com would be seen
as 'external', and of course internal communication would be quick and
painless since internally it would all be fl.company.com. 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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RE: IP addresses different

[Benjamin Zachary]

I normally add that IP into my spf, and create another mx record for it.
Shouldn't matter because it will never respond on 25/smtp but its in the dns
config .

 

 

From: Don Andrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 12:18 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: IP addresses different

 

 

Yes, as long as you have a PTR or reverse lookup record pointing to the IP
your mail comes from.  

 

  _  

From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 7:35 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: IP addresses different

 





Hi all,

I have 5 public IP addresses from my ISP.

One of them is x.x.x.A which is assigned to the outside interface of my
firewall.

Another one is x.x.x.B and is the static mapping for SMTP to my Exchange
server.

So, when we send outgoing email, the return path is shown as x.x.x.A (the
outside interface of our firewall).

However, our MX record is configured in DNS to go to x.x.x.B so incoming
email hits x.x.x.B and then the firewall maps that to 192.168.x.x (our
Exchange server)

Is this setup ok?  (i.e. is it ok to have a different sending IP than a
receiving one?)

-Dave

 

 

 

 

 

 


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RE: Spam Filter / Anti-Spam

[Benjamin Zachary]

I use GFI in most installations, but Ninja is definitely less to manage.
Because of cost normally GFI goes installed and it creates Public Folders
which allow users to add/remove mail that gets through. If you turn on to
send everything to junk the user can create their own 'I trust this mail'
rule or filter and then it will end up in their inbox. This is the lowest
way to administrate it centrally I have found.

I don't think Ninja uses Bayesian filters which GFI does. It depends on your
opinion of that. The couple of clients that I have use Ninja, never call me
about their spam filters or ask questions about it. A few of my gfi clients
always need me to tweak or add or delete something. 




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RE: Security

[Benjamin Zachary]

What about going to the top level and applying a deny until your able to
resolve the root problem.

-Original Message-
From: Brian Rudnicke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 6:07 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Security

They are part of the local admins group to give them privies over machines. 
However, the last NA setup security to allow that group unfettered access to

employee mailboxes.  I don't want to just rip the group out of the security 
tree on the Exchange server because I have no idea what else is tied to this

group.

--Brian
- Original Message - 
From: "Michael B. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" 
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 9:23 AM
Subject: RE: Security


> It's probably at the administrative group level. Use adsiedit or ldp to 
> view
> that.
>
> That being said, domain admins are restricted from that behavior by 
> default.
> Are your managers domain admins? That wouldn't be a normal type of set up.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael B. Smith
> MCSE/Exchange MVP
> http://TheEssentialExchange.com
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Brian Rudnicke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 11:38 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: Security
>
> Hello.  I'm trying to remove any and all access to Send As and Receive As
> for domain admin accounts on every mailbox on our exchange server.  We 
> have
> a few managers who like to use OWA to access other users mailboxes.  Top 
> dog
>
> has asked me to make this stop.
>
> I've gone to the Exchange 2003 system manager, and when I click on the
> properties for the one Exchange server we have to view security, 
> everything
> is greyed out.  I cannot adjust the security.  I presume that the security
> settings are being inherited from something above, but I do not know 
> where.
> Can someone point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks,
> B. R.
>
>
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RE: EAS vs. BB - new thread for less confusion

[Benjamin Zachary]

 

Not sure if this is still the case or not, but when we had our bes server, I
could go into my BB browser and hit internal server shares. \\server\files
  for example and I would be able to browse the
files and documents that were shared with everyone or domain users access.
This made it convenient for us to be able to get documents and things on the
fly instead of trying to get the emailed to us or making sure you sync'ed
and such. 

 

 


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RE: can't get into account.

[Benjamin Zachary]

Title: Message



Michael, I think what you need to do is right click on the user in AD and 
delete the mailbox. Then goto the recipients list where you see the red X's and 
there's an update list or refresh list there. Do that. Then you can right click 
on the correct mailbox and you should be able to 'attach' it back to the user. I 
don't know the exact steps but I have had to do it and I just know the 
refreshing the list is the big step everyone misses. (Well everyone I know 
outside of this list :) )

  
  -Original Message-From: Michael Reid 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 
  11:21 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: can't get 
  into account.
  Ok, so I feel silly. Let me explain what 
  happened, and maybe someone can help me fix it.
   
  I have an account on an exchange2000 box. I ended 
  up putting a second email in tab in AD users and computers. The account 
  started getting double emails so I removed the second email account. That 
  didn't fix the issue so I deleted the account and recreated it. So it created 
  a second mailbox for the users. He can't get into the original account anymore 
  (client says that it won't accept password, etc). If I go into the Exchange 
  Manager there is a red X through two accounts that look identical and mail in 
  another ( I made the account twice, don't know why at the time, probably miss 
  typed something). So...
   
  How do I get rid of the accounts that have the X 
  in them, and let the user back into the original (or current) account? I'm not 
  super familiar with exchange at this point, so be specific on instructions if 
  at all possible. I'll let you know what happens.
   
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RE: Logging

[Benjamin Zachary]

For people who want some real good logging we put smtp relays in front.
GFi's mail essentials can act as an SMTP gateway and could duplicate all
mail to an odbc connection or dump into a log file for archiving. E2k
has some message tracking and logging features but I've never had to
play with them much

-Original Message-
From: McCready, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 11:49 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Logging


Outlook 98, Exchange 5.5.

What is the best way to handle keeping a copy of every E-mail sent in
the company? I assume I can't turn off Deleted Items Recovery, blocking
users from permanently deleting an E-mail.

I'm not near my Exchange books right now, so I can't read up on any
logging features, (which I've never used), IF they are available.  Sure
seams reasonable though.

If it can be done, it'll be interesting to see how fast the backup tape
fills up!

Thanks.

Robert



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RE: How mad would e2k get?

[Benjamin Zachary]

As a follow-up, I was thinking of defragging the exchange partition.
*NOT* the .EDB per se, but running std windows defrag on it. I did an
analyze and the .edbs show they have over 1,000 fragments across the
drive. Searching TechNet and mskb only came up with ways to run eseutil
and such to defrag the exchange db itself..


Thx

-Original Message-
From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 12:23 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: How mad would e2k get?



Just upgraded from e2k std to e2k enterprise, reapplied sp2 and all
seems well. 

Here is my 'thought'

I have a RAID1/RAID5/RAID5 config. Right now the o/s is on RAID1 and
exchsrvr is on RAID5 and the new RAID5 (300gb) is empty. I was thinking
to increase performance I would stop all exchange services, and *move*
the folder to the new RAID5. Then I would convert the old RAID5 to
RAID1, put the folder back and restart the services.

Of course changing from RAID5 to 1 on the raid controller will wipe out
the config that's why I thought I would ask first, and if its worth it
for performance benefit?

Thx



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How mad would e2k get?

[Benjamin Zachary]

Just upgraded from e2k std to e2k enterprise, reapplied sp2 and all
seems well. 

Here is my 'thought'

I have a RAID1/RAID5/RAID5 config. Right now the o/s is on RAID1 and
exchsrvr is on RAID5 and the new RAID5 (300gb) is empty. I was thinking
to increase performance I would stop all exchange services, and *move*
the folder to the new RAID5. Then I would convert the old RAID5 to
RAID1, put the folder back and restart the services.

Of course changing from RAID5 to 1 on the raid controller will wipe out
the config that's why I thought I would ask first, and if its worth it
for performance benefit?

Thx



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RE: Is there a way to send as a distribution list.

[Benjamin Zachary]

As a workaround you could have the user sendmail using like OE and put
the reply-to and from address as the mail enabled DL. This should be
okay since it is a valid box on the system you can relay through your
own server. 

-Original Message-
From: Juan Rosas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 4:12 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is there a way to send as a distribution list.


I did that earlier today and it did not work, I guest the changes did
not take effect soon enough.

Thanks

-Original Message-
From: Paul Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 3:42 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is there a way to send as a distribution list.


Under the security Tab in the Group properties.  Just add the users or
groups in there, and make sure the send as checkbox is selected.

Paul

-Original Message-
From: Juan Rosas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Posted At: Friday, August 02, 2002 12:32 PM
Posted To: Exchange 2000 Server
Conversation: Is there a way to send as a distribution list.
Subject: Is there a way to send as a distribution list.


Hello,

WIn2k SP2
Exchange 2000 SP2

I have been trying to find a way to allow a user to reply using a
distribution list as the from address. I know that 
for a mailbox this can be done by assigning send as permission to the
user. however, it does not seem to work for distribution lists.


Thank you,



Juan Rosas

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RE: Migrating user desktop settings across a domain.

[Benjamin Zachary]

CuteFTP pro can do a one way mirror with another site. You can make it a
service so it runs at bootup. The one way synch will check the file
local with the file remote and upload it if the size/timestamp doesn't
match. Or you could just say upload every night at XX, but you have to
delete the old one 1st

-Original Message-
From: Brent Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 11:19 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Migrating user desktop settings across a domain.


Thats a case I owe you now..
Thanks Tom..

B

-Original Message-
From: Tom Meunier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 01 August 2002 05:14 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Migrating user desktop settings across a domain.


Make a text file called PST_UPLD.TXT and pipe it into an FTP command
line.  Schedule it with AT or task scheduler or whatever.  Note that
most of your better FTP clients can also be scripted - I think we're
using um... WSFTP-LE or something now.

PST_UPLD.BAT
:: One-line batch file
:: Schedule it with AT or whatever
:: Pipes a file called pst_upld.txt containing the commands. FTP
-s:pst_upld.txt


PST_UPLD.TXT
open 123.123.123.123 ;ip address or fqdn of your ftp server
username ;ftp username or "guest" or whatnot
password ;ftp password or "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or whatnot
lcd c:\path\other-path ;path to the directory your PST is in
cd public/psts/username;wherever you want to put your PST
hash ; turn on hashmarks if you want.  I like watching
the pretty #s go past
bin  ; set type to BINARY
prompt   ; turn interactive mode OFF
put filename.pst ; upload a file called filename.pst located in
"LCD" command's path
quit

> -Original Message-
> From: Brent Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 09:48 AM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Migrating user desktop settings across a domain.
> 
> 
> Mmmm South African Breweries just bought Molsens.. so you
> might just be tasting Castle soon...
> 
> BTW (still OT) have you some script like that one that can
> run a ftp upload, my users all have pst's (50 Mb Exch mailbox 
> limit) and I would like the files to be uploaded to a FTH 
> folder at night.
> 
> B
> 

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RE: Migrating user desktop settings across a domain.

[Benjamin Zachary]

In exchange?

-Original Message-
From: Neil Rozario [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 1:59 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Migrating user desktop settings across a domain.


hi all,

can anyone recommend a utility to (painlessly) migrate user desktop
settings.


cheers - neil.

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RE: 2nd Exchange server outside of the original Organization

[Benjamin Zachary]

Title: Message



We use 
exmerge for all exchange migrations. Its slower but it works, it works, it 
works. Besides I get paid per hour :) hehe j/k

 
 
 -Original 
Message-From: ARAE NETWORKS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 4:23 PMTo: MS-Exchange 
Admin IssuesSubject: 2nd Exchange server outside of the original 
Organization

  Hi - i want to setup a 2nd Exchange 5.5 
  server for the purpose of migrating all of the mailboxes, resources, etc.. 
  from the now existing exchange 5.5 server.  I want it to be in the same 
  domain but I want to start off fresh and just move the mailboxes not inherit 
  the properties of the current one, not even the current system 
  attendant..  What is the best way to do this? Is it ok to setup a 2nd 
  Exchange 5.5 server in the same site? Then use move mailbox or 
  exnerge?
   
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RE: NT4/Win2k OWA

[Benjamin Zachary]

No. Just a member server, this is an NT4 domain. We put the win2k box on
because of its easy NAT capability and Gfi likes win2k better because of
the iis5 smtp. 

-Original Message-
From: Ryan Gorman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 1:40 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NT4/Win2k OWA


Is the W2K box a DC?

-Original Message-
From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: 31 July 2002 16:04
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: NT4/Win2k OWA




Ok, not sure where to fix this.

I have a small office with nt4 domain/network and exchange 5.5/sp4. We
are using a win2k server as a NAT firewall, Mail Essentials and put OWA
on it as the front. However, only the admin account can open any of the
mailboxes thru OWA. I remember in NT4 you had to add the logon locally
so I did that for the nt4 exchange box, and the win2k FW box for the
everyone group but it still doesn't work. I get access denied for all
users, but the admin can still open every mailbox on the system. Any
other rights I could be overlooking? 

Thx



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NT4/Win2k OWA

[Benjamin Zachary]

Ok, not sure where to fix this.

I have a small office with nt4 domain/network and exchange 5.5/sp4. We
are using a win2k server as a NAT firewall, Mail Essentials and put OWA
on it as the front. However, only the admin account can open any of the
mailboxes thru OWA. I remember in NT4 you had to add the logon locally
so I did that for the nt4 exchange box, and the win2k FW box for the
everyone group but it still doesn't work. I get access denied for all
users, but the admin can still open every mailbox on the system. Any
other rights I could be overlooking? 

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RE: Software Compliance OT

[Benjamin Zachary]

I don't care what the product is or anything. That's the completely
wrong tone at anytime. If I ever heard any of my sales guys saying or
sending this mail their jobs would be on the line. I never thought twice
about evaluating their products before but I definitely will remember to
not do so in the future. 

If they have tracking capabilities then why does he have to continually
ask you if your using it still? He lies to try and get you to simply
respond with F.U ?? Dumb, and professionally distasteful




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RE: Need help FAST.....!

[Benjamin Zachary]

Title: Message



We are 
a premier Gfi reseller so are pretty knowledgeable in most of their products. Im 
not particularly happy with their latest versions though. 
 
The 
Virtual SMTP in IIS disappears because it is now owned by e2k. Make sure you are 
reading their implementations of Gfi ON the e2k server. In which case you append 
SMTP servers within e2k manager, not iis. We use the mail essentials 6 on our 
servers which runs a little tighter than this latest package. You may find more 
happiness with it. It has many of the Gfi Mail Security features in it. Manual 
FTP to ftp.gfi.com and you can still d/l it. 

 
You 
can add a pop3 connector in e2k manager by simply making a new one. 


  
  -Original Message-From: Graham Cathcart 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 4:45 
  PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: Need help 
  FAST.!
  
  Hi 
  Benjamin….
   
  I got GFI 
  Mailsecurity program installed without a problem. However according to the 
  instructions for GFI Mail Essentials downloaded with the latest version you 
  have to do make some amendements to  Virtual SMTP in 
  IIS.
   
  Now that, thanks to 
  Rob and Co I have gotten Exchange up and running again the Virtual SMTp in IIS 
  has once again disappeared…How did you get around it Benjamin. 
  
   
  Do you rate the 
  program. Am testing it before rolling it out so would be interested in your 
  thoughts.
   
  Cheers
   
  Graham
   
  -Original 
  Message-From: Benjamin 
  Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 28 July 2002 17:57To: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: Need help 
  FAST.!
   
  
  Graham, 
  what is on port 25? What version of Gfi were you working on? on the newest 
  version you don't need to create multiple SMTP entries. However Gfi will sit 
  on the smtp port and check all mail. The Gfi Security product will intervene 
  on internal mail, which has nothing to do with smtp I don't think. I had a 
  similar problem with their new version on e2ksp2 where all mail was sitting in 
  the smtp queues for outbound delivery. Your best bet at this time is to remove 
  all the Gfi product, get the mail functional, and make a test box on 
  Monday.
  
-Original 
Message-From: Graham 
Cathcart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 7:28 
AMTo: MS-Exchange Admin 
IssuesSubject: Need help 
FAST.!
Hi 
all,
 
I am really pulling my hair our 
and REALLY need help from you guys….
 
I have a SBS 2000 set up and all 
has been fine, mail coming in from ISP and getting properly distributed to 
mail boxes ok.
 
That was until yesterday….. Now 
the mail is being brought in with no problem from ISP but the mail aint 
being delivered to the relevant mailboxes.
 
The ONLY thing I have done that 
may have caused things to foul up was yesterday….. I was going to install 
GFI Mail Security / Essentials, when going through the instructions I found 
I HAD TO have Virtual SMTP in IIS 5. When I checked there wasn’t one within 
IIS manager despite the fact that according to Components list in add/remove 
programs it WAS. So I unticked it applied and then reinstalled it. Lo and 
behold the virtual server appeared in the IIS manager list. 

 
Like I said I DON’T know this is 
what has caused it or even if it stopped working immediately after I did 
this. But it’s the ONLY thing I have done to the server that I can think of 
may have caused it.
 
Any help or suggestion would be 
most appreciated… I have some REALLY important email due to come in and am 
afraid I may have lost them
 
Thanks in 
advance
 
Graham
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RE: Need help FAST.....!

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Title: Message



Graham, what is on port 25? What version of Gfi were you working on? on 
the newest version you don't need to create multiple SMTP entries. However Gfi 
will sit on the smtp port and check all mail. The Gfi Security product will 
intervene on internal mail, which has nothing to do with smtp I don't think. I 
had a similar problem with their new version on e2ksp2 where all mail was 
sitting in the smtp queues for outbound delivery. Your best bet at this time is 
to remove all the Gfi product, get the mail functional, and make a test box on 
Monday.

  
  -Original Message-From: Graham Cathcart 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 7:28 
  AMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: Need help 
  FAST.!
  
  Hi 
  all,
   
  I am really pulling my hair our 
  and REALLY need help from you guys….
   
  I have a SBS 2000 set up and all 
  has been fine, mail coming in from ISP and getting properly distributed to 
  mail boxes ok.
   
  That was until yesterday….. Now 
  the mail is being brought in with no problem from ISP but the mail aint being delivered to the relevant 
  mailboxes.
   
  The ONLY thing I have done that 
  may have caused things to foul up was yesterday….. I was going to install GFI 
  Mail Security / Essentials, when going through the instructions I found I HAD 
  TO have Virtual SMTP in IIS 5. When I checked there wasn’t one within IIS 
  manager despite the fact that according to Components list in add/remove 
  programs it WAS. So I unticked it applied and then 
  reinstalled it. Lo and behold the virtual server appeared in the IIS manager 
  list. 
   
  Like I said I DON’T know this is 
  what has caused it or even if it stopped working immediately after I did this. 
  But it’s the ONLY thing I have done to the server that I can think of may have 
  caused it.
   
  Any help or suggestion would be 
  most appreciated… I have some REALLY important email due to come in and am 
  afraid I may have lost them
   
  Thanks in 
  advance
   
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RE: Exchange SP4

[Benjamin Zachary]

Also, don't forget the backup services need to be stopped otherwise you
may get those .dlls that cant be overwritten. 



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RE: Frontend - Backend servers : firewall issue

[Benjamin Zachary]

Title: Message



I 
skimped through most of it when it was at the lower level stuff but he got into 
some good details and had nice slides of different layouts and structures. 


  
  -Original Message-From: ONG Liang Bu 
  (CSC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 
  11:08 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: 
  Frontend - Backend servers : firewall issue
  Thanks found the webcast
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=/servicedesks/webcasts/wc070902/wcblurb070902.asp
  Oh 
  boy 2 hrs ...
  
-Original Message-From: Benjamin Zachary 
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 
2002 10:34 PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: 
Frontend - Backend servers : firewall issue
Yes, and there was recently a big web conference on this issue which 
you can find the link in the archives. It goes over in fair detail the ports 
and configurations using two tiered firewalls etc etc

  
  -Original Message-From: ONG Liang Bu 
  (CSC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 
  8:30 AMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: Frontend 
  - Backend servers : firewall issue
  Appreciate all 
  suggestions.
   
  I know this is 
  discussed before by putting the frontend servers at DMZ it compromised the 
  firewall
  security.
   
  After months 
  of planning we are migrating to Ex2k soon.  My site the firewall 
  configuration
  is different, 
  we have two-level firewalls.  That is from internet it will go thru 
  first level firewall
  to the DMZ, 
  then from DMZ go thru second level firewall to the internal 
  network.
   
  Question:  With this two-level firewall is is safe to put the 
  frontend servers at the DMZ?
   
  Thanks for any 
  help
  Ong 
  LBExchange Admin
  NIE/NTU
  Singapore
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RE: Exchange 2000 SP3

[Benjamin Zachary]

Speaking of which I have a test server on .net with exchange2000sp3.
Anything anyone wants me to try when I get it online tomorrow? ;)



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RE: User DOH of the Day

[Benjamin Zachary]

Depending on how important maybe a friendly call and a small check can
accomplish this temporarily :)

-Original Message-
From: Dennis Atherton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 10:40 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: User DOH of the Day


A copy of an e-mail I just received, with just the names changed to
protect the really stupid.

**

I need some help here. We set up a new e-mail address
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a couple of weeks ago and we just found out
that we do not own the domain name of fredsworldoftravel.com. So my
problem is this, we have in print for the Fred's tours that they are to
e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] if they would like further brochure
information. Is there a way that we can have those e-mails re-routed to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]? [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a live e-mail address and I did a
test from an outside source and it came directly into my mailbox. Is
there a way to do the re-routing?

Wilma Flintstone
Special Events Manager
The Wilma Club/Fred's World of Travel

Dennis

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RE: Frontend - Backend servers : firewall issue

[Benjamin Zachary]

Title: Message



Yes, 
and there was recently a big web conference on this issue which you can find the 
link in the archives. It goes over in fair detail the ports and configurations 
using two tiered firewalls etc etc

  
  -Original Message-From: ONG Liang Bu 
  (CSC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 8:30 
  AMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: Frontend - 
  Backend servers : firewall issue
  Appreciate all 
  suggestions.
   
  I know this is 
  discussed before by putting the frontend servers at DMZ it compromised the 
  firewall
  security.
   
  After months of 
  planning we are migrating to Ex2k soon.  My site the firewall 
  configuration
  is different, we 
  have two-level firewalls.  That is from internet it will go thru first 
  level firewall
  to the DMZ, then 
  from DMZ go thru second level firewall to the internal 
  network.
   
  Question:  
  With this two-level firewall is is safe to put the frontend servers at the 
  DMZ?
   
  Thanks for any 
  help
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  Admin
  NIE/NTU
  Singapore
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RE: Strange messages in IMS Queue

[Benjamin Zachary]

Could be spam attempts or something similar. You can look at the details
of the file and read the header information. I would tend to just delete
them if they are hanging there.

-Original Message-
From: Scott Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 10:33 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Strange messages in IMS Queue


Dear group,

Curious to know if anyone has seen this before.

NT 4.0 SP 6 
Exchange 5.5 SP 3

When looking at the Internet Mail Service queue
I
have found there are quite a few messages being held with the originator
name of " < > ".  It appears that the system does not know who the
messages are from.  This has been making me nervous.  Does anyone have
any clue to why this is happening and how to stop the messages from
coming in?  Any help would be awesome.






Scott Oliver
Liz Claiborne Shoes
Computer Operations Supervisor
Microsoft Exchange Administrator



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RE: Exchange 2000 -> Enterprise

[Benjamin Zachary]

No, I meant the pricing. Apparently I can run the enterprise edition
right over the top. This is a single site single org, that just needs
more space, so wasn't worried about that. But now I have to get another
6k for the version and toss out the old version. Oh well.. 

-Original Message-
From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 7:23 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 2000 -> Enterprise


You mean run setup?

I don't follow the pricing side very much.

-Original Message-
From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 4:14 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange 2000 -> Enterprise



I cant seem to find any upgrade paths from std server to enterprise.
Don't tell me we have to start all over with pricing? Ugh, and the
dreaded new S.A. schema heh




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Exchange 2000 -> Enterprise

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I cant seem to find any upgrade paths from std server to enterprise.
Don't tell me we have to start all over with pricing? Ugh, and the
dreaded new S.A. schema heh




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RE: GFI

[Benjamin Zachary]

Title: Message



You 
should be able to. I have run Gfi in almost every configuration. The only thing 
when you put it on the same server is you have to put your exchange to smtp on 
port26 then fwd to smart host on port 25 (same ip) so exchange will never answer 
internet mail directly.

  
  -Original Message-From: MHR(Michael 
  Ross) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 2:45 
  PMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: 
  GFI
  We are thinking of 
  using GFI mail essentials..
  am I correct in 
  thinking that you can put up an Exchange 5.5 SP4 server, as your smtp gateway, 
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RE: Event Logging of SMTP

[Benjamin Zachary]

As a followup, I have 26 queues of 0 size in my smtp queues. Many are
from domains we don't even deal with so unless we are getting nailed
with inbound messages from these domains btamail.net.cn, 2np.net, n0.com
just to name a few. 

When a mail comes inbound does it showup in the queue? Could these be
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Event Logging of SMTP

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Im getting a lot of queued messages on one of my servers. Some of the
domains that are in retry mode, I can hit from the cmd prompt nslookup
-q=mx domain.com and all seems to be working well. I am receiving mail
no problems and can pop it off as well. I even tried putting the
external DNS (SMTP/Advanced) to resolve all domains and bounced the box
and that still isn't pushing these mails through.

So what Im trying to do is see if I can enable logging (I see smtp in
the server properties, but doesn't seem to do anything) then force
connection for a domain and get the results to find my errors.


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RE: DS Export Complete??

[Benjamin Zachary]

Like 30 seconds.

This is a small shop, well 40 users, 3gb store, and like 4 PFs. The
event disappeared before I was able to go back and turn all logging on
etc etc, so Im just watching to see if it comes up again.

-Original Message-
From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 3:03 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: DS Export Complete??


I see.

How long between the event 41 and event 38?

-Original Message-
From: Snook, Kevin S (ITD) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 12:43 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: DS Export Complete??


What they take exactly one minute every time? Unlikely! I'm wondering if
anything is being done with the export - the timings may give us a clue.

-Original Message-
From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 17 July 2002 07:57
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: DS Export Complete??


"every minute for the past 6 hours"

-Original Message-
From: Snook, Kevin S (ITD) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 12:37 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: DS Export Complete??


What are the timings on these events? 

-Original Message-
From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 16 July 2002 22:44
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: DS Export Complete??



Windows 2000 SP2, Exchange 5.5 SP 4(organization has 31 sites).

The server has been running pretty slow for the past half of the day,
but working ok. I went in and every minute for the past 6 hours I have
the following

MSExchangeDSExp EventID:41 (Informational)
Starting the directory export.

MSExchangeDSExp EventID:38 (Informational)
The directory export is complete.


Im just wondering what would be making it happen about 500 times now.

My Store is hitting 80mb/ram which is pretty low, I think, and using
5-6% of cpu cycles (1gig machine, 1gig ram)




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RE: DS Export Complete??

[Benjamin Zachary]

Yeah, I thought it was a bit nuts, its to the point of bringing the
server down. Ill check on that admin.exe its all ntfs 5.0 so I can put
perms on it too. Im thinking its more being pulled from one of the other
locations, but they keep polling it. I looked thru mskb and there is
nothing I could find on what exactly those messages mean. Im trying
eventid.net or whatever that site is now .. Thx 

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From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 5:56 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: DS Export Complete??


Every minute?!?! 

Is the task scheduler at.exe or something starting admin.exe ?

How about limiting permissions to admin.exe, turn on logging for access
failure, then see if anything shows up in the event log? (Assuming the
partition containing admin.exe is formatted NTFS). 

Disconnect the server to see if it is running locally or from another
admin.exe?


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From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 2:44 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: DS Export Complete??



Windows 2000 SP2, Exchange 5.5 SP 4(organization has 31 sites).

The server has been running pretty slow for the past half of the day,
but working ok. I went in and every minute for the past 6 hours I have
the following

MSExchangeDSExp EventID:41 (Informational)
Starting the directory export.

MSExchangeDSExp EventID:38 (Informational)
The directory export is complete.


Im just wondering what would be making it happen about 500 times now.

My Store is hitting 80mb/ram which is pretty low, I think, and using
5-6% of cpu cycles (1gig machine, 1gig ram)




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DS Export Complete??

[Benjamin Zachary]

Windows 2000 SP2, Exchange 5.5 SP 4(organization has 31 sites).

The server has been running pretty slow for the past half of the day,
but working ok. I went in and every minute for the past 6 hours I have
the following

MSExchangeDSExp EventID:41 (Informational)
Starting the directory export.

MSExchangeDSExp EventID:38 (Informational)
The directory export is complete.


Im just wondering what would be making it happen about 500 times now.

My Store is hitting 80mb/ram which is pretty low, I think, and using
5-6% of cpu cycles (1gig machine, 1gig ram)




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