Re: determine who is accessing OWA

[Bill Songstad]

Bang.  Thanks Rob.  I guess it helps if I'm looking in the correct logs.  In
case anyone heads down the wrong path I blazed, the httperr logs in the
system32 directory-  totally useless for this...

-Bill

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Campbell, Rob <
rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net> wrote:

>  I think you may want to start with your IIS logs on the CAS server.
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 27, 2011 4:47 PM
> *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> *Subject:* determine who is accessing OWA
>
> ** **
>
> I'm trying to track down an unknown user connecting to my Exchange 2010
> server over https.  Since it is my exchange server and nothing else, I'm
> assuming that this connection is using OWA.  I have an external IP, how can
> I attach that to an internal mailbox?
>
>  
>
> I've tried exmon, but it shows almost every connection as client version
> 14.1.289.6  which if I'm not mistaken is my exchange server.  And to be more
> helpful, no external ip addresses or even the firewall address is showing up
> either.  Most connections are showing up as " ::1 "
>
>  
>
> I found a script
> http://exchangepedia.com/blog/2006/11/script-show-owa-users.html that is
> supposed to show all HTTP logons, but it only returns an error: Unable to
> connect to the WMI namespace.  That is too broad an error for me to get any
> useful hits so I'm back here soliciting advice yet again.
>
>  
>
> any help?
>
>  
>
> thanks, 
>
>  
>
> Bill
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determine who is accessing OWA

[Bill Songstad]

I'm trying to track down an unknown user connecting to my Exchange 2010
server over https.  Since it is my exchange server and nothing else, I'm
assuming that this connection is using OWA.  I have an external IP, how can
I attach that to an internal mailbox?

I've tried exmon, but it shows almost every connection as client version
14.1.289.6  which if I'm not mistaken is my exchange server.  And to be more
helpful, no external ip addresses or even the firewall address is showing up
either.  Most connections are showing up as " ::1 "

I found a script
http://exchangepedia.com/blog/2006/11/script-show-owa-users.html that is
supposed to show all HTTP logons, but it only returns an error: Unable to
connect to the WMI namespace.  That is too broad an error for me to get any
useful hits so I'm back here soliciting advice yet again.

any help?

thanks,

Bill

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OT: BESx and Java updates

[Bill Songstad]

Hi all.  I'm sort of feeling like I'm caught between a rock and a dumb place
here.  On the one hand, I've got my security guys telling me that Java 6 upd
18 that was installed by BESx has multiple vulnerabilities, and that I need
to upgrade it or remove it,  and on the other hand, I've got the folks at
Blackberry saying don't mess with the included version of Java.

How are you other BES admins dealing with this?

-Bill

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Re: Exchange mgmt tools stop working after update

[Bill Songstad]

All of those links point to files designed for WS2003.  I decided to hold
off until a little more was known.  Or at least until they updated the text
to reflect WS2008.

-Bill

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Damien Solodow  wrote:

>  Looks like they have fixes out:
>
> In order to resolve this problem:
>
>- If you never installed MS11-028 or have uninstalled it, you should
>install KB979744-v2 from 
> here<http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/KB979744/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=3993>or
>
> here<http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=27109>and
>  then install MS11-028
>- If you still have MS11-028 installed, and your Exchange Management
>tools are currently broken, you should install KB979744-v2 from 
> here<http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/KB979744/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=3993>or
>
> here<http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=27109>
>
> Any of the above should resolve the problem with Exchange Management tools
> not running. Relevant KB articles are being updated.
>
>
>
>
>
> DAMIEN SOLODOW
>
> Systems Engineer
>
> 317.447.6033 (office)
>
> 317.217.6851 (fax)
>
> HARRISON COLLEGE
>
>
>
> *From:* Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 20, 2011 11:43 AM
> *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Re: Exchange mgmt tools stop working after update
>
>
>
> I was just about to post the same thing.  I was up all night trying to shut
> the server down gracefully after uninstalling the patch.  dw20.exe and
> dw20.exe*32 or some such kept eating all my processor power and kept
> respawning when I killed them.  Finally set all the stuck exchange services
> to disabled and stopped them.  That allowed me to finally shut down the
> server.
>
>
>
> -Bill
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Young, Darren <
> darren.yo...@chicagobooth.edu> wrote:
>
> Had this happen to us today after installing last week’s updates.
>
>
>
>
> http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/04/15/exchange-2010-management-tools-do-not-start-after-the-installation-of-net-hotfix-kb-2449742.aspx
>
>
>
> Other mmc things like event viewer wouldn’t work either.
>
> *Darren Young
> *Systems & Security Architect
> Computing Services
> University of Chicago
> Booth School of Business
> 5807 South Woodlawn Avenue
> Chicago, IL 60637
>
> Voice 773.702.0331 | Fax 773.702.0233
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Re: Exchange mgmt tools stop working after update

[Bill Songstad]

I was just about to post the same thing.  I was up all night trying to shut
the server down gracefully after uninstalling the patch.  dw20.exe and
dw20.exe*32 or some such kept eating all my processor power and kept
respawning when I killed them.  Finally set all the stuck exchange services
to disabled and stopped them.  That allowed me to finally shut down the
server.

-Bill

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Young, Darren <
darren.yo...@chicagobooth.edu> wrote:

>  Had this happen to us today after installing last week’s updates.
>
>
>
>
> http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/04/15/exchange-2010-management-tools-do-not-start-after-the-installation-of-net-hotfix-kb-2449742.aspx
>
>
>
> Other mmc things like event viewer wouldn’t work either.
>
> *Darren Young
> *Systems & Security Architect
> Computing Services
> University of Chicago
> Booth School of Business
> 5807 South Woodlawn Avenue
> Chicago, IL 60637**
>
> Voice 773.702.0331 | Fax 773.702.0233
>
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Re: New-MailboxRestoreRequest -TargetRootFolder reveals recoverable items folder

[Bill Songstad]

Once again, my thanks to the most helpful of the big brains.  It is rare
that one with as much knowledge as you has the sense of community and desire
to help as much as you.  My hat is off to you sir.

-Bill

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Michael B. Smith wrote:

>  The folder is typically invisible because it’s located in the non-IPM
> subtree of a mailbox. Outlook doesn’t know how to look there.
>
>
>
> The one you now see is from the restored mailbox. You can delete it if you
> don’t want/need it.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Michael B. Smith
>
> Consultant and Exchange MVP
>
> http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/>
>
>
>
> *From:* Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 07, 2011 1:20 PM
> *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> *Subject:* New-MailboxRestoreRequest -TargetRootFolder reveals recoverable
> items folder
>
>
>
> I did a restore of a user folder to a new folder in their mailbox using the
> -TargetRootFolder parameter in Exchange 2010SP1.
>
>
>
> The original folder was restored to the new location but in the root of the
> new folder was the Recoverable Items folder and all of its subfolders.  It
> appears to be current, but the restore was from a backup yesterday so it
> could just look current and be yesterdays.
>
>
>
> Is this to be expected?  I thought that folder was pretty much always
> invisible.
>
>
>
> Is it in fact the real recoverable items folder for that users current
> mailbox, or the recoverable items folder from the recovery database
> mailbox?
>
>
>
> Can it be deleted without hosing the retention strategy?
>
>
>
> It seems that my testing is generating more questions than answers.  As
> always, I am very thankful for the group's wisdom.
>
>
>
> -Bill
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Re: restore single item EX2010

[Bill Songstad]

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff829875.aspx

This restores the "technical" subfolder of the inbox and the "newsletters"
folder for the user John Doe.  In this case the recovery database is called
"recoverydb".  It is a merge operation so existing items are ignored missing
items are added.

Careful of the wrapping.  It's all supposed to be one line.

New-MailboxRestoreRequest -SourceDatabase "recoverydb" -SourceStoreMailbox
"John Doe" -TargetMailbox "John Doe" -includefolders
Inbox/technical,newsletters

-Bill

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Harry Singh  wrote:

> Bill -- could you provide the cmdlet you used to get it working ? (assuming
> you did more than just substitute Restore-Mailbox) Or a link to the working
> cmdlet page.
>
> This is a great tip. Thanks all.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Michael B. Smith 
> wrote:
>
>>  I reported that the document needs correcting and received quick
>> feedback that it is planned for an update in the next TechNet document
>> refresh (3 – 5 weeks out).
>>
>>
>>
>> I had already complained about the limited search capabilities of
>> New-MailboxRestoreRequest, but that isn’t the kind of thing that gets
>> updated in a UR, and I have no information about whether it will be enhanced
>> in the future.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Michael B. Smith
>>
>> Consultant and Exchange MVP
>>
>> http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* Thursday, April 07, 2011 12:30 PM
>>
>> *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
>> *Subject:* Re: restore single item EX2010
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks Michael.  That worked.  Too bad you can't use the subject or
>> content keywords.  I'm developing a love-hate relationship with the technet
>> library.  I love all the info, hate the organization.  Apparently the
>> section entitled "restore data using a recovery database" needs to be
>> updated.  Thats where I found my original syntax.
>>
>>
>>
>> I guess I just need to bookmark "exchange 2010 commandlets" and just guess
>> what is a mailbox commandlet and what is a recipient commandlet, because I
>> can't seem to predict that in one try no matter what.
>>
>>
>>
>> -Bill
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Michael B. Smith 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Is this RTM or SP1? If SP1, you need to use New-MailboxRestoreRequest, not
>> Restore-Mailbox.
>>
>>
>>
>> If RTM, I think you need to be on at least UR3 before it worked properly.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Michael B. Smith
>>
>> Consultant and Exchange MVP
>>
>> http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 06, 2011 12:46 PM
>> *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
>> *Subject:* restore single item EX2010
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi all.  I am stuck on trying to restore a single item to a mailbox.  I
>> restored the database to a recovery database and mounted it fine.  I deleted
>> an old message certain to have been in the backup, and tried to restore it
>> with:
>>
>>
>>
>> Restore-Mailbox -Identity jdoe -RecoveryDatabase Recoverydb
>> -SubjectKeywords "test 426" -ContentKeywords "test" -IncludeFolders
>> \inbox,\Calendar
>>
>>
>>
>> The shell returns all the settings and apparently completes but the
>> deleted email is not returned.
>>
>>
>>
>> I also tried this with the same empty result:
>>
>>
>>
>> Restore-Mailbox -Identity jdoe -RecoveryDatabase Recoverydb
>> -SubjectKeywords "test 426" -ContentKeywords "test"
>>
>>
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>
>>
>> -Bill
>>
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New-MailboxRestoreRequest -TargetRootFolder reveals recoverable items folder

[Bill Songstad]

I did a restore of a user folder to a new folder in their mailbox using the
-TargetRootFolder parameter in Exchange 2010SP1.

The original folder was restored to the new location but in the root of the
new folder was the Recoverable Items folder and all of its subfolders.  It
appears to be current, but the restore was from a backup yesterday so it
could just look current and be yesterdays.

Is this to be expected?  I thought that folder was pretty much always
invisible.

Is it in fact the real recoverable items folder for that users current
mailbox, or the recoverable items folder from the recovery database
mailbox?

Can it be deleted without hosing the retention strategy?

It seems that my testing is generating more questions than answers.  As
always, I am very thankful for the group's wisdom.

-Bill

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Re: restore single item EX2010

[Bill Songstad]

Thanks Michael.  That worked.  Too bad you can't use the subject or content
keywords.  I'm developing a love-hate relationship with the technet
library.  I love all the info, hate the organization.  Apparently the
section entitled "restore data using a recovery database" needs to be
updated.  Thats where I found my original syntax.

I guess I just need to bookmark "exchange 2010 commandlets" and just guess
what is a mailbox commandlet and what is a recipient commandlet, because I
can't seem to predict that in one try no matter what.

-Bill
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Michael B. Smith wrote:

>  Is this RTM or SP1? If SP1, you need to use New-MailboxRestoreRequest,
> not Restore-Mailbox.
>
>
>
> If RTM, I think you need to be on at least UR3 before it worked properly.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Michael B. Smith
>
> Consultant and Exchange MVP
>
> http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/>
>
>
>
> *From:* Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 06, 2011 12:46 PM
> *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> *Subject:* restore single item EX2010
>
>
>
> Hi all.  I am stuck on trying to restore a single item to a mailbox.  I
> restored the database to a recovery database and mounted it fine.  I deleted
> an old message certain to have been in the backup, and tried to restore it
> with:
>
>
>
> Restore-Mailbox -Identity jdoe -RecoveryDatabase Recoverydb
> -SubjectKeywords "test 426" -ContentKeywords "test" -IncludeFolders
> \inbox,\Calendar
>
>
>
> The shell returns all the settings and apparently completes but the deleted
> email is not returned.
>
>
>
> I also tried this with the same empty result:
>
>
>
> Restore-Mailbox -Identity jdoe -RecoveryDatabase Recoverydb
> -SubjectKeywords "test 426" -ContentKeywords "test"
>
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
>
> -Bill
>
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restore single item EX2010

[Bill Songstad]

Hi all.  I am stuck on trying to restore a single item to a mailbox.  I
restored the database to a recovery database and mounted it fine.  I deleted
an old message certain to have been in the backup, and tried to restore it
with:

Restore-Mailbox -Identity jdoe -RecoveryDatabase Recoverydb -SubjectKeywords
"test 426" -ContentKeywords "test" -IncludeFolders \inbox,\Calendar

The shell returns all the settings and apparently completes but the deleted
email is not returned.

I also tried this with the same empty result:

 Restore-Mailbox -Identity jdoe -RecoveryDatabase Recoverydb
-SubjectKeywords "test 426" -ContentKeywords "test"

Any ideas?

-Bill

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Re: activesync on iphone still syncing after password change

[Bill Songstad]

Thanks Michael.  I'm running Exchange 2010 on WS2k8, IIS 7.  So I think I've
found the bridge I was looking for:  User tokens as referenced in the
article are NTLM tokens (with their 15 minute expiration).  But a properly
configured installation will be using Kerberos authentication with 10 hr TTL
service tokens.

Is that close?

I'm having a discussion offline about what is the expected behavior and
which is more "secure".   Obviously the Kerberos authentication is more
secure, but the difference in viable, yet invalid, tokens is huge.  This has
one of my peers thinking the NTLM is a better choice when one may require
frequent, immediate, credential revokation.  Thoughts anyone?

As always, I can't thank you enough for the help you provide in this forum.

-Bill
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote:

>  You didn’t tell us when version of IIS is involved. However, I don’t
> consider the KB article you quote to be valid for “modern” versions of IIS.
> I always concerns myself with Kerberos lifetimes, not NTLM.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Michael B. Smith
>
> Consultant and Exchange MVP
>
> http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/>
>
>
>
> *From:* Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 08, 2011 1:28 PM
>
> *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Re: activesync on iphone still syncing after password change
>
>
>
> I'm trying to get my head around the expected behavior here and I must be
> missing something.  As Michael states, the user is still using the old
> ticket, but it should expire after the default 15 minutes, right?  Or is it
> using the Kerberos service token with a 10 hr expiration?
>
>
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/152526  discusses the IIS user tokens and
> their default update interval of 15 minutes.  But the kerberos service token
> is good for 10 hrs.
>
>
>
> Since my user's phone didn't ask for the new password for about 4 hrs, I'm
> assuming the token used for access was the service token.
>
>
>
> So what is the IIS user token and why isn't it doing anything?  Obviously
> there is a gap in my knowledge, but I'm not finding a bridge.
>
>
>
> Can someone shed some light on my dimness.
>
>
>
> -Bill
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Michael B. Smith 
> wrote:
>
> Works as designed.
>
>
>
> IIS still has a valid ticket with the old password. Bounce IIS or recycle
> the app pool and it’ll stop working.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Michael B. Smith
>
> Consultant and Exchange MVP
>
> http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/>
>
>
>
> *From:* Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, March 07, 2011 2:13 PM
>
>
> *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
>
> *Subject:* activesync on iphone still syncing after password change
>
>
>
> I have a user that forgot their password after a few weeks of using the
> password.  Couldn't log into OWA manually, but their iphone was able to send
> and receive fine with the cached password.  We reset the password on the
> domain.  User logs in to OWA using the new password.  Does not change the
> password on iphone.  Now the user is sending from OWA and the iphone.  Two
> passwords.  One account.  Success both ways.  My knowledge tells me this is
> impossible.  My eyes tell me otherwise.  Could this just be the old
> activesync "session"?  or is something horribly wrong?  or another option
> more likely?
>
>
>
> as always, thanks for any assistance,
>
>
>
> -Bill
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Re: activesync on iphone still syncing after password change

[Bill Songstad]

I'm trying to get my head around the expected behavior here and I must be
missing something.  As Michael states, the user is still using the old
ticket, but it should expire after the default 15 minutes, right?  Or is it
using the Kerberos service token with a 10 hr expiration?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/152526  discusses the IIS user tokens and
their default update interval of 15 minutes.  But the kerberos service token
is good for 10 hrs.

Since my user's phone didn't ask for the new password for about 4 hrs, I'm
assuming the token used for access was the service token.

So what is the IIS user token and why isn't it doing anything?  Obviously
there is a gap in my knowledge, but I'm not finding a bridge.

Can someone shed some light on my dimness.

-Bill



On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Michael B. Smith wrote:

>  Works as designed.
>
>
>
> IIS still has a valid ticket with the old password. Bounce IIS or recycle
> the app pool and it’ll stop working.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Michael B. Smith
>
> Consultant and Exchange MVP
>
> http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/>
>
>
>
> *From:* Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, March 07, 2011 2:13 PM
>
> *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> *Subject:* activesync on iphone still syncing after password change
>
>
>
> I have a user that forgot their password after a few weeks of using the
> password.  Couldn't log into OWA manually, but their iphone was able to send
> and receive fine with the cached password.  We reset the password on the
> domain.  User logs in to OWA using the new password.  Does not change the
> password on iphone.  Now the user is sending from OWA and the iphone.  Two
> passwords.  One account.  Success both ways.  My knowledge tells me this is
> impossible.  My eyes tell me otherwise.  Could this just be the old
> activesync "session"?  or is something horribly wrong?  or another option
> more likely?
>
>
>
> as always, thanks for any assistance,
>
>
>
> -Bill
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Re: activesync on iphone still syncing after password change

[Bill Songstad]

Fair enough on the testing.  I have enough users with iphones that it
shouldn't be difficult to reproduce if it is not indeed user confusion.  I'm
pretty sure that the iphone password never got changed because I was talking
with them while I was resetting the password and they were sending me
messages from their phone.

I'll report back with my findings.

-Bill

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Jonathan Link wrote:

> How do you know that the user didn't change the password on the iPhone, but
> just forgot about it?
>
> In any event, something like this is testable, if you have access to
> another iPhone or can convince the user to change their password again while
> you're present and observe the results on their iPhone.
>
>   On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Bill Songstad wrote:
>
>> I have a user that forgot their password after a few weeks of using the
>> password.  Couldn't log into OWA manually, but their iphone was able to send
>> and receive fine with the cached password.  We reset the password on the
>> domain.  User logs in to OWA using the new password.  Does not change the
>> password on iphone.  Now the user is sending from OWA and the iphone.  Two
>> passwords.  One account.  Success both ways.  My knowledge tells me this is
>> impossible.  My eyes tell me otherwise.  Could this just be the old
>> activesync "session"?  or is something horribly wrong?  or another option
>> more likely?
>>
>> as always, thanks for any assistance,
>>
>> -Bill
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activesync on iphone still syncing after password change

[Bill Songstad]

I have a user that forgot their password after a few weeks of using the
password.  Couldn't log into OWA manually, but their iphone was able to send
and receive fine with the cached password.  We reset the password on the
domain.  User logs in to OWA using the new password.  Does not change the
password on iphone.  Now the user is sending from OWA and the iphone.  Two
passwords.  One account.  Success both ways.  My knowledge tells me this is
impossible.  My eyes tell me otherwise.  Could this just be the old
activesync "session"?  or is something horribly wrong?  or another option
more likely?

as always, thanks for any assistance,

-Bill

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Re: Exchange to 2003 to Exchange 2010 (migrate / export mailboxes)

[Bill Songstad]

I've recently used the exmerge route in a small organization.  The exmerge
and mailbox import worked on the sub 2GB mailboxes, although about 25%
needed to be tried twice as they failed to match file sizes on both ends.
No errors, just didn't get everything.

In another organization, one of my colleagues used cached mode psts on the
client, some up to 4.5 GB.  Then he connected to the new exchange server and
the cached data imported itself to the new exchange.  Not sure of the
details, but it apparently worked.

in both cases, the main drawback was not being able to update calendar items
in the new domain.  users were unable to impersonate the old user to send
meeting updates.  All old meetings had to be recreated before they could be
updated with time changes or the like.

Obviously, neither route scales well.  but with a small number, they worked
okay.

-Bill

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Jonathan  wrote:

> Do you require a GUI?
>
> If you want free..
>
> What is wrong with using exmerge to get PST files from Ex2k3, and then
> using the Import-Mailbox command to get them into 2010? (I know three is a 2
> gig limitation in exmerge, but aren't there workaround for that?)
>
> Jonathan - Thumb typed from my HTC Droid Incredible (and yes, it really is)
> on the Verizon network.
>   On Feb 18, 2011 8:22 PM, "justino garcia" 
> wrote:
> > I am looking for a tool Exchange to 2003 to Exchange 2010 (migrate /
> export
> > mailboxes).
> > I am looking for a tool to move or migrate mailboxes *including cals, and
> > contacts* to a brand new totaly different exchange 2010 server.
> >
> > Is thier a GUI mapi tool to do this..
> >
> > All I see is imapsync, but it will not do cals and contacts.
> >
> >
> > --
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> > IT-TECH
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Re: OT: RBLs

[Bill Songstad]

I don't have any greylisting capable software at this time, (using Exchange
2010 and Vipre Email security)  but I'm not sure it would be a good fit in
my organization because we run a discussion list through the exchange
transport.  Wouldn't greylisting put unreasonable lag in the discussions?

-Bill

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Jonathan  wrote:

> +100 on greylisting. As soon as GFI offered Greylisting, I implemented it.
> We immediately saw a significant decrease in the amount of spam that was
> coming through. Now, most of the spam that consistently makes it through we
> find is due to the "admin" [1] who put in manual wildcard exclusions...the
> latest one I recently found? *@UPS.com (eyeroll)
>
> [1] aforementioned "admin" is no longer employed by me.
>
> Jonathan - Thumb typed from my HTC Droid Incredible (and yes, it really is)
> on the Verizon network.
>  On Feb 10, 2011 5:35 PM, "Micheal Espinola Jr" 
> wrote:
> > If you arent, I highly recommend implimenting greylisting prior to RBL
> > filtering.
> >
> > --
> > ME2
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Bill Songstad 
> wrote:
> >
> >> I started using SpamCop and spamhaus a while ago to keep my spam filter
> >> from bursting into flames, and the results were fantastic, until
> recently
> >> when about 80 of Gmails servers wound up on SpamCops Block list. Sure
> the
> >> expire hourly if they stop spamming the spamtraps, but I'm missing 5-10
> out
> >> of 100 emails from gmail that I'm aware of. Not good.
> >>
> >> My question: What block lists are you all using? Management says Spamcop
> >> has to go. Gmail is more important. But I really liked the sense of
> quite
> >> I got from running both blocklists.
> >>
> >> Thanks for any feedback,
> >>
> >> -Bill
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OT: RBLs

[Bill Songstad]

I started using SpamCop and spamhaus a while ago to keep my spam filter from
bursting into flames, and the results were fantastic, until recently when
about 80 of Gmails servers wound up on SpamCops Block list.  Sure the expire
hourly if they stop spamming the spamtraps, but I'm missing 5-10 out of 100
emails from gmail that I'm aware of.  Not good.

My question:  What block lists are you all using?  Management says Spamcop
has to go.  Gmail is more important.  But I really liked the sense of quite
I got from running both blocklists.

Thanks for any feedback,

-Bill

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Re: to CDO or not CDO? or BESx with EX2010

[Bill Songstad]

Once again I must bow in humility to the master.

Thanks Michael

I'm going to have to start calling you the refrigerator for all the times
you've saved my bacon.

-Bill

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote:

>  The “assumption” of “Outlook 2010 on the mail store machine” goes away
> with Exchange 2010 sp1. It’s no longer required.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Michael B. Smith
>
> Consultant and Exchange MVP
>
> http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/>
>
>
>
> *From:* Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 22, 2010 5:58 PM
>
> *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> *Subject:* to CDO or not CDO? or BESx with EX2010
>
>
>
> situation:
>
> mail=server1: exchange server 2010
>
> besx=server2: member server in domain
>
>
>
> Requirements:
>
> import and export mailbox data
>
> use BESx to update calendars
>
>
>
> Assumptions:
>
>  MS requires Outlook 2010 on the mail store machine to import and export
> pst files
>
> RIM requires CDO 1.2.1 on exchange server for calendars to function
> correctly
>
>  Problem:
>
>  Outlook 2010 cannot coexist with CDO 1.2.1
>
>
>
>  Do I need to give up a requirement or purchase another exchange server?
>
>
>
> RIM support says remove Outlook.
>
> MS knowledgebase says RIM is lieing.
>
>
>
> Has anybody been down this road before?  I could sure use some insight,
>
>
>
> -Bill
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Re: to CDO or not CDO? or BESx with EX2010

[Bill Songstad]

dunno.  will give it a go.  just found this article hidden in technet.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee633455.aspx

It suggests that the Outlook 2010 requirement was only for Pre SP1.  So that
could be my savior.
I'll try uninstalling the Outlook and running the import.

Hpefully my original assumption was wrong.

-Bill

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Sobey, Richard A wrote:

>  Can you install the tools on your desktop 64-bit machine and run an
> elevated Powershell session with Mailbox Import/Export role?
>  --
> *From:* bounce-9214480-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [
> bounce-9214480-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] on behalf of Bill
> Songstad [bsongs...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 22 December 2010 22:57
> *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> *Subject:* to CDO or not CDO? or BESx with EX2010
>
>situation:
> mail=server1: exchange server 2010
> besx=server2: member server in domain
>
> Requirements:
> import and export mailbox data
> use BESx to update calendars
>
> Assumptions:
>
> MS requires Outlook 2010 on the mail store machine to import and export pst
> files
> RIM requires CDO 1.2.1 on exchange server for calendars to function
> correctly
>
> Problem:
>
> Outlook 2010 cannot coexist with CDO 1.2.1
>
>
> Do I need to give up a requirement or purchase another exchange server?
>
> RIM support says remove Outlook.
> MS knowledgebase says RIM is lieing.
>
> Has anybody been down this road before?  I could sure use some insight,
>
> -Bill
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to CDO or not CDO? or BESx with EX2010

[Bill Songstad]

situation:
mail=server1: exchange server 2010
besx=server2: member server in domain

Requirements:
import and export mailbox data
use BESx to update calendars

Assumptions:

MS requires Outlook 2010 on the mail store machine to import and export pst
files
RIM requires CDO 1.2.1 on exchange server for calendars to function
correctly

Problem:

Outlook 2010 cannot coexist with CDO 1.2.1


Do I need to give up a requirement or purchase another exchange server?

RIM support says remove Outlook.
MS knowledgebase says RIM is lieing.

Has anybody been down this road before?  I could sure use some insight,

-Bill

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Re: SBS websites and activesync

[Bill Songstad]

Thanks, Michael,  Simon.

Like you suppose Simon, its about making the client feel better.  I just
wanted to make sure I was correct in telling the client that disabling the
sites would disable the things that they wanted.  SBS is a strange beast,
but when it is configured by someone who understands it, for use by someone
who doesn't, it really is a good setup.  Now to keep the owners from trying
to change things not in the SBS Management Panel...

-Bill

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Simon Butler  wrote:

>  With SBS, if you remove the web sites, then you are going to break most
> of the functionality of the product.
> The main selling point for SBS is its remote access functionality over the
> web site data.
>
>
>
> If you want to restrict it, then put an ISA/TMG server in front of it. That
> will allow SBS to work correctly, but allow you to control what is seen by
> the internet.
>
>
>
> What is the concern about that content being exposed to the internet? Or
> are we just talking about someone who doesn’t understand how things like
> this work and simply want to restrict everything to make themselves feel
> better? (Rather blunt, but I can’t think of any other way of saying it).
>
>
>
> Simon.
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Simon Butler
> MVP: Exchange, MCSE
> Sembee Ltd.
>
> e: si...@sembee.co.uk
> w: http://www.sembee.co.uk/
> w: http://www.amset.info/
>
> w: http://blog.sembee.co.uk/
>
> Need cheap certificates for Exchange, compatible with the iPhone?
> http://CertificatesForExchange.com/ <http://certificatesforexchange.com/>for 
> certificates from just $26.99.
> Need a domain for your certificate? 
> http://DomainsForExchange.net/<http://domainsforexchange.net/>
>
>
>
> Exchange Resources: http://exbpa.com/
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
> *Sent:* 02 December 2010 15:45
>
> *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: SBS websites and activesync
>
>
>
> You can’t “disable all the websites”. There is only one website. I think
> you mean remove all the virtual directories.
>
>
>
> I think that would be a very bad plan.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Michael B. Smith
>
> Consultant and Exchange MVP
>
> http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/>
>
>
>
> *From:* Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 01, 2010 3:10 PM
> *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> *Subject:* SBS websites and activesync
>
>
>
> I'm side-working in a small shop where I've set up a SBS 2008 server for a
> client.  They love the Exchange with Activesync for their smartphones, but
> they are nervous about all the websites running on the server.  If I do as
> they ask and disable all the websites, including OWA, won't activesync go
> kaput?  Or is the OWA just a method for configuring and installing
> Activesync and is not actually a required component of Activesync?  Research
> shows that OWA is required to install and enable Activesync but apparently
> few people want to turn it off separately.  I don't want tell them no until
> I actually know for certain that what they want is going to break what I
> tell them it will break.
>
>
>
> When attempting the unusual, I tend to turn to this group.  I suppose I
> could just shut it down and test, but if someone out there knows and cares
> to share, it saves a disruption to somebody's workplace.
>
>
>
> Thanks for any insight,
>
>
>
> Bill
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SBS websites and activesync

[Bill Songstad]

I'm side-working in a small shop where I've set up a SBS 2008 server for a
client.  They love the Exchange with Activesync for their smartphones, but
they are nervous about all the websites running on the server.  If I do as
they ask and disable all the websites, including OWA, won't activesync go
kaput?  Or is the OWA just a method for configuring and installing
Activesync and is not actually a required component of Activesync?  Research
shows that OWA is required to install and enable Activesync but apparently
few people want to turn it off separately.  I don't want tell them no until
I actually know for certain that what they want is going to break what I
tell them it will break.

When attempting the unusual, I tend to turn to this group.  I suppose I
could just shut it down and test, but if someone out there knows and cares
to share, it saves a disruption to somebody's workplace.

Thanks for any insight,

Bill

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Re: Email tracking vs.Outlook

[Bill Songstad]

Set DumpsterAlwaysOn and check the dumpster for the sent items folder. That
should help you out in the event of a standard SHIFT+Del.  However, in
exchange 2003, one can always go into ones own dumpster and permanently
delete the emails in there.  If they were not in there long enough to be
backed up, they are as good as smoke, unless you have journaling turned
on.   Surprising how many users know this ...

-Bill

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Troy Werelius wrote:

> Could be the user hard deleted the items i.e. "SHIFT DELETE"  check out
> this article regarding DumpsterAlwaysOn
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/246153
>
> Alternatively you can also check out our DigiScope product
> http://www.lucid8.com/product/digiscope.asp since you can look directly
> into the Production database for that user and will see the hard deleted
> items as being grayed out.   Also DS can be used to mount up
> offline/backup copies of the database that may have information that has
> been purged from your production database due to deleted item retention
> settings.
>
>
>
>
> Troy C. Werelius
> Lucid8, LLC
> troy_werel...@lucid8.com
> 425.456.8499
> Monday-Friday 8AM to 6PM PST
>
> http://www.lucid8.com
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> -Original Message-
> From: Steve Hart [mailto:sh...@wrightbg.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 4:08 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: Email tracking vs.Outlook
>
> I have a request from our HR dept to look at emails from a single user.
>
> Message Tracking shows that he sent five emails to his home email
> address, just before he was let go. There's only one in his sent items.
> Nothing related in Deleted Items, nothing in Recover Deleted Items.
>
> Ideas?
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Re: Which files to backup on Exchange 2k7

[Bill Songstad]

If you use the SBS applications for managing the server, backing up exchange
is a snap.  Just use the built-in app.  I can't remember the tab but it is
in that little application unique to SBS for managing all the SBS stuff in
one place.  Using the standard WS2K8 stuff is much more difficult.

-Bill

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 6:23 AM, King's Kid wrote:

>   Good morning,
>
> We've recently upgraded our server to SBS2k8 which run Exchange 2k7.
>
> Because of an error when ordering our backup hardware we're using a
> non-standard way to backup our server.  I'm having to configure it manually.
>
> I've got our data files backing up with no problem but can't seem to find
> the what I need to backup for Exchange 2007.
>
> I've googled etc. with no luck.  Because we're running SBS2008 instead of a
> standalone Exchange box most of what I've found doesn't seem to apply.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> BJ
>
>
> When the whole world is against you paranoia is just good sense - Johnny
> Fever
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Re: third party brick level backup

[Bill Songstad]

Exchange 2003 currently.  Moving to 2007 or 2010.  (already licensed for
2007 but may go with 2010 if funding lasts.)  so I guess pretty much any
within the last 10 years.

-Bill

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Webster  wrote:

>  What version of Exchange will you be backing up?
>
>
>
>
>
> Webster
>
>
>
> *From:* Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com]
> *Subject:* third party brick level backup
>
>
>
> Are today's versions of Backup Exec and the like still a threat to the
> database when doing brick level backups and restores?  I've only used
> NTbackup since Exchange 5.0, but we are going through a merger and my new
> counterpart wants to use the third party software so we can restore
> individual mailbox items without loading the entire Recovery Storage Group.
> I remember seeing in the past that these sort of backups and restores can
> cause problems in the database.   Is this FUD, old news, or something that
> still should be avoided?
>
>
>
> Any insights are appreciated,
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third party brick level backup

[Bill Songstad]

Are today's versions of Backup Exec and the like still a threat to the
database when doing brick level backups and restores?  I've only used
NTbackup since Exchange 5.0, but we are going through a merger and my new
counterpart wants to use the third party software so we can restore
individual mailbox items without loading the entire Recovery Storage Group.
I remember seeing in the past that these sort of backups and restores can
cause problems in the database.   Is this FUD, old news, or something that
still should be avoided?

Any insights are appreciated,

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Re: OT: Deploying ESXi

[Bill Songstad]

I have to agree with the suggestion to keep VMs on a separate disk from the
hypervisor.  It is a little nerve-wracking to try and upgrade your
hypervisor on the same disk that has five production servers.

If you can't afford the upgrades that allow for vmotion, you may find that
making whole VM copies can take forever.  ESXi 4 allows for usb drives.
Which in theory can get you up and running on another hypervisor without
needing to use shared storage.  So if you have to move VMs, I think you can
shut down your machines, copy them to the removable USB hard drive and copy
them to another host.  I bet it will still take forever though.

I'm still looking for time to research/learn how to script
snapshot->copy-to-new-volume->clear-snapshot, so I have periodic copies for
a speedier DR rebuild.

-Bill
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Paul Steele  wrote:

>  We’ve been using VMware ESXi for test servers for quite a while, but
> haven’t put any production virtual servers into place under ESXi. We had a
> chance to deploy Exchange 2010 under ESXi but I wasn’t quite ready to take
> the plunge. A new project has come up that requires SharePoint 2007 and SQL
> Server 2008R2, and we’re thinking it may be a good time to look at deploying
> these servers under ESXi. This will give us the opportunity to upgrade to
> SharePoint 2010 without spending more money on server hardware. We do not
> have a SAN so we’ll probably go with two servers with DAS storage, one for
> the SQL server and another for a pair of SharePoint servers.
>
>
>
> One thing I was reading about deploying ESXi is that it’s a good idea to
> reserve a separate pair of mirrored disks for ESXi and keep all VMs on
> separate disks. This would allow for easier upgrades to ESXi in the future.
> Are there any other tips we should be aware of? Suggestions on using ESXi
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
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Re: OT: Outlook message won't go to PST file

[Bill Songstad]

Okay, converting the message to plain text worked, but it was so HTML heavy,
that it wasn't really useful that way.

I revisited the .msg file option and had success this time.  Simply saving
the journal message with the original message still attached as a msg file
did not work, but saving just the journalled attachment as a msg file did.
Unfortunately for posterity, I had already converted my original from HTML
to Rich text before saving the attachment, so I don't know if I
actually needed to convert it to rich text for it to work.

Oh well.  I'm done beating my head on this one.

Thanks guys,

Bill

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Campbell, Rob <
rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net> wrote:

>  If you can open and forward it, I’d be tempted to just forward it to the
> original recipient as plain text, and see if that will export and if it
> does, delete the original.
>
>
>
> *From:* Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 09, 2010 3:40 PM
> *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Re: OT: Outlook message won't go to PST file
>
>
>
> Dang! I thought we were on to it.  No love though.  Same error: "Cannot
> move the items.  The item cannot be moved.  It was either already moved or
> deleted, or access was denied."  This is crazy.
>
>
>
> Thanks for the assist though.
>
>
>
> Bill
>
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Rob Sargent  wrote:
>
> Maybe save the email as a .msg file, attach it to a new message and put the
> new message in the PST (?)...
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Bill Songstad  wrote:
>
> I have a strange situation where I have a single message which I have been
> able to copy from one exchange 2003 mailbox to another but it will not be
> copied into a PST file.  I can copy other files but not this one.  I have
> forwarded it to another user and tried to copy the forwarded message and
> received the same error: "Cannot move the items.  The item cannot be moved.
> It was either already moved or deleted, or access was denied."
>
>
>
> The original message was in the journal mailbox,and as I do each month, i
> was peeling off the previous month's journal items using the export feature
> of Outlook 2007.  I was able to successfully export thousands of items
> before and after this item. But no matter how I try to export it, it gives
> me the error.
>
>
>
> I have tried exporting with the full mailbox;  Copying to a new PST file;
> Move to a new PST file; forward and move the forwarded item to a new PST.
> I've tried reusing PSTs, new PSTs.  Nothing will get that item into PST.  It
> does move fine between folders in the same mailbox or even into other
> mailboxes.
>
>
>
> The orginal email was only 400Kb.  But it did have numerous tiny graphics
> in it.  I can open and read it just fine.  It was sent originally from a
> Mac.  I have had no other problems with the mac's emails though.
>
>
>
> Anybody have any ideas how I can get this stinking email into my archival
> PST?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Bill
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Re: OT: Outlook message won't go to PST file

[Bill Songstad]

Dang! I thought we were on to it.  No love though.  Same error: "Cannot move
the items.  The item cannot be moved.  It was either already moved or
deleted, or access was denied."  This is crazy.

Thanks for the assist though.

Bill

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Rob Sargent  wrote:

> Maybe save the email as a .msg file, attach it to a new message and put the
> new message in the PST (?)...
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Bill Songstad  wrote:
>
>> I have a strange situation where I have a single message which I have been
>> able to copy from one exchange 2003 mailbox to another but it will not be
>> copied into a PST file.  I can copy other files but not this one.  I have
>> forwarded it to another user and tried to copy the forwarded message and
>> received the same error: "Cannot move the items.  The item cannot be moved.
>> It was either already moved or deleted, or access was denied."
>>
>> The original message was in the journal mailbox,and as I do each month, i
>> was peeling off the previous month's journal items using the export feature
>> of Outlook 2007.  I was able to successfully export thousands of items
>> before and after this item. But no matter how I try to export it, it gives
>> me the error.
>>
>> I have tried exporting with the full mailbox;  Copying to a new PST file;
>> Move to a new PST file; forward and move the forwarded item to a new PST.
>> I've tried reusing PSTs, new PSTs.  Nothing will get that item into PST.  It
>> does move fine between folders in the same mailbox or even into other
>> mailboxes.
>>
>> The orginal email was only 400Kb.  But it did have numerous tiny graphics
>> in it.  I can open and read it just fine.  It was sent originally from a
>> Mac.  I have had no other problems with the mac's emails though.
>>
>> Anybody have any ideas how I can get this stinking email into my archival
>> PST?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bill
>>
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OT: Outlook message won't go to PST file

[Bill Songstad]

I have a strange situation where I have a single message which I have been
able to copy from one exchange 2003 mailbox to another but it will not be
copied into a PST file.  I can copy other files but not this one.  I have
forwarded it to another user and tried to copy the forwarded message and
received the same error: "Cannot move the items.  The item cannot be moved.
It was either already moved or deleted, or access was denied."

The original message was in the journal mailbox,and as I do each month, i
was peeling off the previous month's journal items using the export feature
of Outlook 2007.  I was able to successfully export thousands of items
before and after this item. But no matter how I try to export it, it gives
me the error.

I have tried exporting with the full mailbox;  Copying to a new PST file;
Move to a new PST file; forward and move the forwarded item to a new PST.
I've tried reusing PSTs, new PSTs.  Nothing will get that item into PST.  It
does move fine between folders in the same mailbox or even into other
mailboxes.

The orginal email was only 400Kb.  But it did have numerous tiny graphics in
it.  I can open and read it just fine.  It was sent originally from a
Mac.  I have had no other problems with the mac's emails though.

Anybody have any ideas how I can get this stinking email into my archival
PST?

Thanks,

Bill

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Re: resource calendar denied permission x2003

[Bill Songstad]

Thanks Ben,
Here's the NDR:


*From:* System Administrator
*Sent:* Monday, August 23, 2010 10:12 AM
*To:* (WCUL)
*Subject:* Undeliverable: WCUL Convention and Annual Business Meeting





Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.



  Subject:WCUL Convention and Annual Business Meeting

  Sent: 8/23/2010 10:12 AM



The following recipient(s) cannot be reached:



  Old Projector on 8/23/2010 10:12 AM

You do not have permission to send to this recipient.  For
assistance, contact your system administrator.



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

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

-Bill

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


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

resource calendar denied permission x2003

[Bill Songstad]

I have several resource calendars on my Exchange 2003 SP3 server.  They
auto-accept meeting requests as designed and have been for years. Recently
one of the calendars started bouncing meeting requests with a 5.7.1 for
anyone without full control of the mailbox.  The funny thing is, after
checking the permissions in both Outlook and AD, the perms seem identical to
the mailboxes that don't have any problems.  I'm sort of at a loss now as to
where to look.  If the permissions are the same in Outlook, and the same in
Active Directory, is there some place I can check for a more complete list
of permissions or some place I haven't checked.  These mailboxes should be
behaving the same.  Did I mention that this used to work properly and there
have been no changes to any of the mailbox accounts.

Thanks for any guidance

-Bill

Re: Remote wipe of ActiveSync devices

[Bill Songstad]

I'm only familiar with Exchange 2003, but there the policy is set in
exchange system manager.  Global settings> mobile services> device security.

Bill

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Ellis, John P. wrote:

>  What policy do I need to apply and where from?
>
> John
>
>  ------
> *From:* Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 11 August 2010 16:22
>
> *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Re: Remote wipe of ActiveSync devices
>
>   Until you have a policy applied to the device, auto-lock I think, only
> block and delete will be available.  This tripped me up a while back.
>
> I never found a way to get away from the locking requirement.
>
> -Bill
>
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Ellis, John P. 
> wrote:
>
>> Sean
>> Thanks for the reply. With you now.I was hoping it would show me whats
>> been going on.
>> Since the email I have installed the software on the DMZ boxes.
>> What I dont see is an option to wipe the device, only Block and Delete.
>>
>> I will do a search for activesync reporting
>>
>> Thanks
>> John
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: 11 August 2010 15:20
>> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
>> Subject: Re: Remote wipe of ActiveSync devices
>>
>> John,
>>
>> The transaction log within the mobile admin only shows what actions have
>> been performed within the tool. This includes the remote wipe of a
>> device, canceling a remote wipe request, and deleting a partnership with
>> a mailbox. It is not intended to show communication stats between the
>> device and Exchange.
>>
>> If you require that type of reporting, search for activesync reporting
>> with logparser. I'm not at my office otherwise I'd give you the link.
>>
>> - Sean
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 11, 2010, at 12:56 AM, "Ellis, John P."
>>  wrote:
>>
>> > We have Exchange 2003 with Outlook 2003/2007 Windows Mobile devices
>> > running ActiveSync to get emails via a 3g/GPRS connection
>> >
>> > In the DMZ we have two Front end OWA servers which host the OWA pages
>> > for External access and ISA Servers.
>> > ISA Servers publish the rule that allows access to ActiveSync
>> >
>> > On the internal network we have two other front end OWA servers which
>> > host the internal OWA pages etc, on the internal Front End servers the
>>
>> > MobileAdmin pack has been installed
>> >
>> > When looking at the transaction log files from within the MobileAdmin
>> > webpage it doesn't appear to show all the transactions. I have done
>> > some test syncs from my device and this doesn't show in the
>> > transaction log.
>> >
>> > Question time:
>> > Should the MobileAdmin pack be installed in the DMZ rather than the
>> > internal network?
>> > Where does the MobileAdmin pack get the info from for the log files?
>> > Anyone else run the MobileAdmin pack with good results?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > John
>> >
>> > **
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>> > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they
>> > are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify
>> > the system manager.
>> >
>> > This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by
>> > MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses.
>> >
>> > www.clearswift.com
>> > **
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

Re: Remote wipe of ActiveSync devices

[Bill Songstad]

Until you have a policy applied to the device, auto-lock I think, only block
and delete will be available.  This tripped me up a while back.

I never found a way to get away from the locking requirement.

-Bill

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Ellis, John P. wrote:

> Sean
> Thanks for the reply. With you now.I was hoping it would show me whats
> been going on.
> Since the email I have installed the software on the DMZ boxes.
> What I dont see is an option to wipe the device, only Block and Delete.
>
> I will do a search for activesync reporting
>
> Thanks
> John
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com]
> Sent: 11 August 2010 15:20
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Remote wipe of ActiveSync devices
>
> John,
>
> The transaction log within the mobile admin only shows what actions have
> been performed within the tool. This includes the remote wipe of a
> device, canceling a remote wipe request, and deleting a partnership with
> a mailbox. It is not intended to show communication stats between the
> device and Exchange.
>
> If you require that type of reporting, search for activesync reporting
> with logparser. I'm not at my office otherwise I'd give you the link.
>
> - Sean
>
>
>
> On Aug 11, 2010, at 12:56 AM, "Ellis, John P."
>  wrote:
>
> > We have Exchange 2003 with Outlook 2003/2007 Windows Mobile devices
> > running ActiveSync to get emails via a 3g/GPRS connection
> >
> > In the DMZ we have two Front end OWA servers which host the OWA pages
> > for External access and ISA Servers.
> > ISA Servers publish the rule that allows access to ActiveSync
> >
> > On the internal network we have two other front end OWA servers which
> > host the internal OWA pages etc, on the internal Front End servers the
>
> > MobileAdmin pack has been installed
> >
> > When looking at the transaction log files from within the MobileAdmin
> > webpage it doesn't appear to show all the transactions. I have done
> > some test syncs from my device and this doesn't show in the
> > transaction log.
> >
> > Question time:
> > Should the MobileAdmin pack be installed in the DMZ rather than the
> > internal network?
> > Where does the MobileAdmin pack get the info from for the log files?
> > Anyone else run the MobileAdmin pack with good results?
> >
> > Thanks
> > John
> >
> > **
> > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and
> > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they
> > are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify
> > the system manager.
> >
> > This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by
> > MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses.
> >
> > www.clearswift.com
> > **
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>

Re: Forwarding NDR's

[Bill Songstad]

I just created an Outlook 2007 rule to forward every email that I get to a
coworker.  I included an exception that excludes anything that contains the
phrase "NDR" in the subject.  I didn't actually have an NDR to get the
phrase right, but I could use text from the header, the subject or the
body.  The key to getting _everything_ is to create a new rule that checks
messages when they arrive and then skip "Step 1: Select Condition(s)"  You
will get a pop-up informing you that this will apply to every message you
receive.

-Bill




On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Jay Dale  wrote:

>  Yeah, I thought about doing that, but it would only forward NDR's to a
> folder within the mailbox, not to a different mailbox.  Typically the NDR's
> bypass forwarding rules.
>
>
>
> Jay
>
>
>
> *From:* Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 22, 2010 5:37 PM
> *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Re: Forwarding NDR's
>
>
>
> I'm not sure what you are asking, but it looks like you want user1 to get
> the NDRs they generate while forwarding everything else to user2.  I would
> use exceptions in an outlook rule to accomplish this.  Create a rule to
> forward everything to user2 except if it is a NDR.
>
>
>
> -Bill
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Jay Dale  wrote:
>
> Do you know how to forward the NDR of a user to another user? Meaning, if
> we send out an email as the user, the NDR gets returned to the user even if
> we have messages forwarded to another user.  On Exchange 2003.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Jay
>
>
>
> *Jay Dale*
>
> I.T. Manager, 3GiG
>
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>
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>
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Re: Recover deleted items

[Bill Songstad]

Have you set "DumpsterAlwaysOn"?  If not, perhaps it was deleted from a
folder other than the deleted items folder.

Another possibility is that they were deleted while the shift key was
depressed.  Perhaps as part of a large selection of items.

-Bill

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Jim Dandy wrote:

>  That doesn’t seem to do the trick.  Neither does closing outlook and
> restarting it which I think also causes it to sync the OST.  I’m using
> Exchange 2003.  Any other ideas?
>
>
>
> Curt
>
>
>
> *From:* Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, June 21, 2010 9:35 AM
>
> *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> *Subject:* RE: Recover deleted items
>
>
>
> Do a Send/Receive to sync the OST prior to recovering deleted items.  If
> you delete something and immediately try to recover it, you won't see it b/c
> the local cache where it was deleted has not yet updated the server.
>
>
>
> Carl
>
>
>
> *From:* Jim Dandy [mailto:jda...@asmail.ucdavis.edu]
> *Sent:* Monday, June 21, 2010 12:29 PM
> *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Recover deleted items
>
>
>
> Sometimes when I delete a message it shows up in “recover deleted items”
> and sometimes it doesn’t.  Is my info store corrupted or something?  How can
> I remedy this situation?  Thanks for your help.
>
>
>
> Curt Finley
>

Re: Forwarding NDR's

[Bill Songstad]

I'm not sure what you are asking, but it looks like you want user1 to get
the NDRs they generate while forwarding everything else to user2.  I would
use exceptions in an outlook rule to accomplish this.  Create a rule to
forward everything to user2 except if it is a NDR.

-Bill



On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Jay Dale  wrote:

>  Do you know how to forward the NDR of a user to another user? Meaning, if
> we send out an email as the user, the NDR gets returned to the user even if
> we have messages forwarded to another user.  On Exchange 2003.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Jay
>
>
>
> *Jay Dale*
>
> I.T. Manager, 3GiG
>
> Mobile: 713.299.2541
>
> Email: jay.d...@3-gig.com
>
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Re: Store brought down by a user today

[Bill Songstad]

I'm curious, wouldn't mailbox limits with suitably low prohibit send
thresholds have prevented this problem?

Bill

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Eric  wrote:

> I've never heard of PolyMon so thanks for the heads up, I'll check it out
> myself since free is good :)
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Michael B. Smith 
> wrote:
>
>> For my clients that can't afford third party monitoring
>> environments/tools, I'm using PolyMon. It works very well, and does 95% of
>> what ServersAlive did for me. And it's "free".
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Michael B. Smith
>> Consultant and Exchange MVP
>> http://TheEssentialExchange.com 
>>
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 6:38 PM
>> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
>> Subject: Re: Store brought down by a user today
>>
>>  On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 15:21, Michael B. Smith 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> > (Note: I can no longer recommend ServersAlive, despite having used it
>> > for OVER a decade, because it doesn’t support Server 2008, much less
>> > Server 2008
>> > R2.)
>>
>> Well that's not happy.
>>
>> I was thinking about upgrading, because I'm just not finding the time to
>> put into nagios, but if that's the case, I may have to reconsider.
>>
>> Kurt
>>
>>
>>
>

Re: Outlook 2007 rules issue

[Bill Songstad]

Double check your rule.  That is the behavior I would expect if you were
using an Out of Office rule.

I have successfully created reply-to-every-email rules on Outlook 2007.  I
never used them in production, but I did test them and they worked well
enough that I thought, hey, I probably shouldn't reply to "everything".

Bill

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Evan Brastow  wrote:

>  Hi fine peoples and peopettes of the Exchange list J
>
>
>
> Weird issue. I have a mailbox that customers always send their orders to. I
> set up a desktop machine that’s just dedicated to running Outlook 2007 with
> that mailbox open, so I could process rules.
>
>
>
> One rule I would like to implement is that every time an email comes in, it
> is replied to with a template email thanking them for the email and
> confirming that it was received. The only problem is that it only seems to
> trigger once for each sender. If a person sends an email, it sends them the
> template reply. But they don’t seem to get any more for subsequent emails.
> Is there a setting somewhere that I’m missing that would allow it to trigger
> for **every** email that comes in?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Evan
>

Re: System Back-up solution.

[Bill Songstad]

I don't duplicate for onsite.  I have the live copy and a raid 5 "copy",
Then I have the current backup onsite and the week-old backup offsite.  Long
term, we keep 2 years on site from disks rotated out quarterly.  Then
purge.  Our backups are really for DR only.  Nobody wants to restore
anything over 90 days; certainly not stuff that is years old.  Two years is
more than I think we need, but it is a service/faux security blanket to
users.  We aren't legally bound to retain anything not in live use except in
the case of lawsuit.  Then we'd just buy more disks.

My only suggestion to you is breaking your network apart an doing separate
backups.  You may be better off graduating to a data management solution
with deduplication. $$

-Bill

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Kurt Buff  wrote:

> So, not a huge amount of data. 500gb drives are pretty cheap, fer sher.
>
> Do you duplicate the drives for local storage before sending them
> offsite, or is it in a RAID array that you can break the mirror on, or
> even just replace both drives as part of your rotation?
>
> Do you need to worry about longer term archiving?
>
> We use D2D2T, and my problem is that I backup about 2.5tb over a
> weekend, and it takes a long time - if I start on Friday evening at
> 17:00, my last full backup (just to disk!) ends on Monday mid-morning.
> Since I then have to trickle to tape, and I have chosen to duplicate
> the full to a second copy on tape for offsite storage, it takes until
> Wednesday to finish.
>
> Kurt
>
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:20, Bill Songstad  wrote:
> > Not a lot of data being backed up.
> > Exchange= 11 GB 30 minutes
> > File server= 60 GB 4hrs
> > DB server= 25 GB 2 hrs
> > Web/backup server= 15 GB 30 minutes
> >
> > Each server except exchange does one full and 4 incrementals.  Exchange
> is
> > full every day.  I'm careful not to overlap jobs so nothing starts within
> a
> > half hour of finish time for anything else.  So Monday night basically
> takes
> > all night to get everything.  All the week's backups fit on a 500GB disk
> > with plenty of room.  Each week we take last week's disk to a
> > nearby safedeposit box when we send our bank deposit.
> >
> > Naturally that won't work for everybody, but if you can handle a lengthy
> > reinstall window, and risking a whole week's backup onsite, it is dirt
> > cheap.  And way more reliable than my tapes ever were.
> >
> > -Bill
> > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Kurt Buff  wrote:
> >>
> >> How much data are you backing up?
> >>
> >> What does your backup rotation look like?
> >>
> >> How long are your backup times?
> >>
> >> Do you rotate your media to secure offsite storage?
> >>
> >> Kurt
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:31, Bill Songstad 
> wrote:
> >> > I pitched tapes a few years ago, and never looked back.  I back up
> >> > exchange
> >> > over the network with NTbackup run from a scheduled task script
> on W2k3
> >> > server.  The backup destination has $20 drive trays attached to a hot
> >> > swappable SATA controller.  I put in my own Sata Drives and rotate
> them
> >> > by
> >> > hand weekly.  Very reliable.  Almost free.  I do a test restore weekly
> >> > and
> >> > have not had a failure in two years.  I think many more people spend
> >> > thousands on a backup solution for exchange than really need to.
> >> >
> >> > -Bill
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Doug Rooney <
> d...@sonomatilemakers.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Greetings all.
> >> >>
> >> >> We currently have DLT VS1 tape back-up as well as USB 2.0 connected
> >> >> external drives.
> >> >>
> >> >> We are using Backup Exec for the tapes and custom batch programs for
> >> >> the
> >> >> external drives, which by the way are connected on a separate back-up
> >> >> server.
> >> >>
> >> >> Our tapes are old and have many failures, upper management has
> decided
> >> >> to
> >> >> abandon tapes and go only with external drives.
> >> >>
> >> >> My question is, has anyone done this? What software do you use, Pros
> /
> >> >> Cons.
> >> >>
> >> >> The problem I am experiencing now is in order to back-up the data
> >> >> bases, I
> >> >> need to take them off-line.
> >> >>
> >> >> Thank you for any advice you can offer.
> >> >>
> >> >> (Exchange 2003, Windows 2003, one set of external drives are 500GB
> the
> >> >> other is 250GB)
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
>  >> >> Thank You
> >> >>
> >> >> ~Doug Rooney
> >> >> Sonoma Tilemakers
> >> >> IT Manager
> >> >> 7750 Bell Rd.
> >> >> Windsor Ca, 95492
> >> >> i...@sonomatilemakers.com
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>

Re: System Back-up solution.

[Bill Songstad]

Not a lot of data being backed up.
Exchange= 11 GB 30 minutes
File server= 60 GB 4hrs
DB server= 25 GB 2 hrs
Web/backup server= 15 GB 30 minutes

Each server except exchange does one full and 4 incrementals.  Exchange is
full every day.  I'm careful not to overlap jobs so nothing starts within a
half hour of finish time for anything else.  So Monday night basically takes
all night to get everything.  All the week's backups fit on a 500GB disk
with plenty of room.  Each week we take last week's disk to a
nearby safedeposit box when we send our bank deposit.

Naturally that won't work for everybody, but if you can handle a lengthy
reinstall window, and risking a whole week's backup onsite, it is dirt
cheap.  And way more reliable than my tapes ever were.

-Bill
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Kurt Buff  wrote:

> How much data are you backing up?
>
> What does your backup rotation look like?
>
> How long are your backup times?
>
> Do you rotate your media to secure offsite storage?
>
> Kurt
>
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:31, Bill Songstad  wrote:
> > I pitched tapes a few years ago, and never looked back.  I back up
> exchange
> > over the network with NTbackup run from a scheduled task script on W2k3
> > server.  The backup destination has $20 drive trays attached to a hot
> > swappable SATA controller.  I put in my own Sata Drives and rotate them
> by
> > hand weekly.  Very reliable.  Almost free.  I do a test restore weekly
> and
> > have not had a failure in two years.  I think many more people spend
> > thousands on a backup solution for exchange than really need to.
> >
> > -Bill
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Doug Rooney 
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Greetings all.
> >>
> >> We currently have DLT VS1 tape back-up as well as USB 2.0 connected
> >> external drives.
> >>
> >> We are using Backup Exec for the tapes and custom batch programs for the
> >> external drives, which by the way are connected on a separate back-up
> >> server.
> >>
> >> Our tapes are old and have many failures, upper management has decided
> to
> >> abandon tapes and go only with external drives.
> >>
> >> My question is, has anyone done this? What software do you use, Pros /
> >> Cons.
> >>
> >> The problem I am experiencing now is in order to back-up the data bases,
> I
> >> need to take them off-line.
> >>
> >> Thank you for any advice you can offer.
> >>
> >> (Exchange 2003, Windows 2003, one set of external drives are 500GB the
> >> other is 250GB)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Thank You
> >>
> >> ~Doug Rooney
> >> Sonoma Tilemakers
> >> IT Manager
> >> 7750 Bell Rd.
> >> Windsor Ca, 95492
> >> i...@sonomatilemakers.com
> >
>
>
>

Re: System Back-up solution.

[Bill Songstad]

I pitched tapes a few years ago, and never looked back.  I back up exchange
over the network with NTbackup run from a scheduled task script on W2k3
server.  The backup destination has $20 drive trays attached to a hot
swappable SATA controller.  I put in my own Sata Drives and rotate them by
hand weekly.  Very reliable.  Almost free.  I do a test restore weekly and
have not had a failure in two years.  I think many more people spend
thousands on a backup solution for exchange than really need to.

-Bill

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Doug Rooney wrote:

>  Greetings all.
>
> We currently have DLT VS1 tape back-up as well as USB 2.0 connected
> external drives.
>
> We are using Backup Exec for the tapes and custom batch programs for the
> external drives, which by the way are connected on a separate back-up
> server.
>
> Our tapes are old and have many failures, upper management has decided to
> abandon tapes and go only with external drives.
>
> My question is, has anyone done this? What software do you use, Pros /
> Cons.
>
> The problem I am experiencing now is in order to back-up the data bases, I
> need to take them off-line.
>
> Thank you for any advice you can offer.
>
> (Exchange 2003, Windows 2003, one set of external drives are 500GB the
> other is 250GB)
>
>
>
> Thank You
>
> ~Doug Rooney
> Sonoma Tilemakers
> IT Manager
> 7750 Bell Rd.
> Windsor Ca, 95492
> i...@sonomatilemakers.com
>

Re: Recovering an individual Calendar in Exchange 2003

[Bill Songstad]

If the deleted items retention option doesn't pan out for you, simply
restore the database into the recovery storage group.  Exmerge the mailbox
out to a PST and then either Exmerge the calendar items back into the
mailbox, or use Outlook to connect to the PST file and copy the items over
in Outlook.

Depending on the size of the datastore and the speed of your equipment,
restoring to the recovery storage group could take time.  Expect about as
long as your backup takes. Make sure you have sufficient space. All the
steps are easy.  I do this or similar every week as a part of my backup
verification process.

-Bill
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Postmaster  wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>
>
> We have a user who’s Blackberry overwrote his calendar and he is asking if
> we can recover it.  Running Exchange 2003 is there any way to recover his
> data (presumably from a backup)?  All suggestions gratefully accepted (he’s
> a VP level type guy)!
>
>
>
> al…
>
> *Al Woods*
> Prairie Information Technology and Services (PITS)   pits.prairie.edu
> Prairie Bible Institute   www.prairie.edu
> Pho: 403.443.5511 x3477
> Fax: 403.443.5540
>
> *"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme"  --  Mark Twain *
>

Re: Sharing Calendars

[Bill Songstad]

Bill, I had a similar challenge last year and handled it by creating an
exchange account for the outsiders.  I removed logon permissions from the
rest of the machines in my domain and had the outsiders use OWA to see the
calendars they needed.  Now they can see the calendars they need, and
schedule meetings with internal contacts without needing to call up an admin
and have them check calendars for them.

-Bill

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Bill Lambert  wrote:

>  Hello all…
>
>
>
> We have a need to share both Outlook 2003 and 2007 calendars with people
> outside of our Exchange org.  Is there a 3rd party app that you could
> recommend for this?
>
>
>
> We have Exchange 2003 fully patched.
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> *Bill Lambert*
>
> *Windows System Administrator*
>
> *Concuity*
>
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>
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Re: iphone: undo force password

[Bill Songstad]

If anyone cares, that did it.  Delete the account on the phone and all the
policies are gone.

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Jim Holmgren wrote:

>  ISTR that is correct Bill.  Once you remove the email account, you are
> removing the policy.
>
>
>
> *From:* Bill Songstad [mailto:bsongs...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 28, 2010 7:44 PM
>
> *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Re: iphone: undo force password
>
>
>
> I think I have it, but have to wait until tomorrow to test.  Apparently,
> the key is to remove the email account from the phone, which I hadn't done
> yet.  I'll post back in the morning with the results.
>
>
>
> -Bill
>
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Bill Songstad 
> wrote:
>
> I have an exchange 2003 server with some iphones connecting via
> activesync.  I had the enforce password policy set on all the devices, but
> one employee is leaving and taking their phone with them.  I tried deleting
> their relationship with the server, but the password policy is still in
> place on the phone and I can't figure out how to get it undone.  Anybody
> know how tear the activesync policies off an iphone without wiping it?
>
>
>
> Ay help would be appreciated.
>
>
>
> -Bill
>
>
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Re: iphone: undo force password

[Bill Songstad]

I think I have it, but have to wait until tomorrow to test.  Apparently, the
key is to remove the email account from the phone, which I hadn't done yet.
I'll post back in the morning with the results.

-Bill

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Bill Songstad  wrote:

>   I have an exchange 2003 server with some iphones connecting via
> activesync.  I had the enforce password policy set on all the devices, but
> one employee is leaving and taking their phone with them.  I tried deleting
> their relationship with the server, but the password policy is still in
> place on the phone and I can't figure out how to get it undone.  Anybody
> know how tear the activesync policies off an iphone without wiping it?
>
> Ay help would be appreciated.
>
> -Bill
>

iphone: undo force password

[Bill Songstad]

I have an exchange 2003 server with some iphones connecting via activesync.
I had the enforce password policy set on all the devices, but one employee
is leaving and taking their phone with them.  I tried deleting their
relationship with the server, but the password policy is still in place on
the phone and I can't figure out how to get it undone.  Anybody know how
tear the activesync policies off an iphone without wiping it?

Ay help would be appreciated.

-Bill

Outlook 2007 requests recipient domain credentials on replies to one sender

[Bill Songstad]

Very weird one here.

I have a user from another domain using Outlook 2007 that gets a "connect
to" prompt when she *replies* to one particular sender from my domain.  The
prompt pops up as soon as she clicks send.  Selecting "cancel" allows the
mail to go out.  The odd thing is that the "connect to" prompt is for MY
(the recipient) domain not hers.

>From her header it looks like she is running SBS so Outlook should not even
think about my domain.

More weirdness, the user can reply to messages from *me* without any
problems, the problem is only with replying to this other user from my
domain.  In fact, the prompt has only been experienced with this one user
from my domain.  Creating a fresh new email to that user works fine, but
replying causes the prompt to connect to the recipient domain.

Does anybody have a clue what could be causing this?

Thanks,

Bill

Archiving limits

[Bill Songstad]

I have a bit of a planning issue, and though it is not exactly technical, as
Exchange admins,  I'm sure many of you have had to deal with this.  Since
FRCP rules require businesses to have a data retention policy and to follow
it, how do you handle email archiving durations when some users want to hold
on to emails from 10 or 15 years ago?  Its easy enough to have my archiving
system pull out and destroy emails over a certain age, but how do you handle
users that want or need special durations.

Thanks for any insight,

Bill

RE: send as alias

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

Thanks Rob.  The alternate recipient angle was what I was missing.  Thanks to 
everyone for the gmail advice and the invites.  I was also trying to help out 
my users that have aliases in two domains on our exchange server and sometimes 
need to send as though from the parent company and other times needing to send 
from the subsidiary company.  It's been a pain to switch users' default address 
depending on whether or not they are talking to a member organization or a 
potential new client of our subsidiary that wouldn't recognize the parent 
company.  

As for lists... I guess it is time to dump the work address.  Besides, I hate 
showing my ignorance for all the world to search online.

-Bill



-Original Message-
From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net] 
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 11:45 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: send as alias

You can set up another user and mailbox with the alias you want to use as its 
primary address, give yourself Send As rights to that user, and make yourself 
the alternate recipient of all email going to that mailabox.

Then you just have to remember to Send As that user when you reply to lists.



-Original Message-----
From: Bill Songstad [mailto:administra...@waleague.org] 
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 1:34 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: send as alias

I have realized that the email address I use for convenience is a PITA on IT 
lists.  I was searching the term "administrator" in one of the archives and 
realized that my postst and their replies were coming up way too frequently.  
Apparently administra...@waleague.org is a poor choice for an email address for 
use on administrator lists.  

So the meat of this overly verbose question is this: Is there an easy way to 
send from one of my other aliases using Exchange 2003 and Outlook 2007?  Or do 
I need to change my default SMTP address in ADUC every time I want to send from 
an alias?

-Bill

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send as alias

[Bill Songstad]

I have realized that the email address I use for convenience is a PITA on IT 
lists.  I was searching the term "administrator" in one of the archives and 
realized that my postst and their replies were coming up way too frequently.  
Apparently administra...@waleague.org is a poor choice for an email address for 
use on administrator lists.  

So the meat of this overly verbose question is this: Is there an easy way to 
send from one of my other aliases using Exchange 2003 and Outlook 2007?  Or do 
I need to change my default SMTP address in ADUC every time I want to send from 
an alias?

-Bill

RE: NDRs backscatter and such

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

Nice call Carl, looks like this may have been user error.  Though I set
up the recipient filtering on the Global Settings -> Message Delivery, I
neglected to get the check boxes on the SMTP Virtual Server ->
properties -> general tab -> advanced ->IP addresses -> edit  ( and here
I thought that was just for editing the IP addresses for the virtual
server... How foolish) At any rate, my bad, no blame to Ninja.
Hopefully that will start the Recipient Filtering properly.  

 

Thanks,

 

Bill

 

From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 11:45 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NDRs backscatter and such

 

Haven't used it, but I'd call it a major flaw if it causes non-existent
recipient filtering to be bypassed without providing a similar
replacement feature within its own realm.

 

Carl

 

From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 2:32 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NDRs backscatter and such

 

I'm using Sunbelt's Ninja.  Crawling their forum isn't giving me any
love yet.  

 

I'm putting together a post to see if someone on that list has an idea.

 

Bill

 

From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 11:19 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NDRs backscatter and such

 

You do have recipient filtering enabled on the SMTP VS, right?   If so,
then your 'thwarting' analysis is probably right.  Perhaps if this
mystery spam filter was given a name, it might lead to more suggestions
about how to deal with this. J

 

Carl

 

From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 2:00 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NDRs backscatter and such

 

Thanks for all the insight.

 

I am filtering recipients who are not in the directory, but the SMTP
queue is full of retrying messages from postmaster to addresses like
"SMTP:w...@201-232-13-44.epm.net.co".  

 

I wonder if these messages are being accepted by the spam filter (it
sits in an SMTP sink on the exchange box) thus thwarting the filtering.

 

Bill

 

From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 10:48 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NDRs backscatter and such

 

Carl gave you the correct answer. I'll just add that his way will also
take a huge load off your server. What you are doing now is accepting
the whole message...then sending an entire new message for the NDR.

 

His way your server tells the sending server during the initial SMTP
conversation that there is no such recipient. So you never even accept
the original message.

 

From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 1:42 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NDRs backscatter and such

 

Enable recipient filtering and tick the box for "filter recipients who
are not in the directory".   That will eliminate all of the NDRs from
spam sent to non-existent addresses.

 

The senders who make a typo will still get NDRs, but those NDRs will be
generated by the sending servers instead of yours.  This is the Best
Practice thing to do.  The spammers won't get any NDRs because spambots
don't bother to generate them.

 

The other response about tarpitting, you want to do that too.
Tarpitting doesn't do anything for you unless you've enabled the
recipient filtering for non-existent addresess.

 

Carl

 

From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 1:25 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: NDRs backscatter and such

 

Okay, backscatter is an annoyance at the very least.  So I want to do
something about it.  My messaging queue is 90% NDRs to domains and
subdomains with no MX records.  

 

Of course the easy solution is to just uncheck "allow Non-Delivery
reports" in Internet Messaging formats within ESM.  But my organization
provides research services via email request to thousands of members.
Sometimes the members just fire off an email to the researcher who
helped them last time.  But, that researcher may be gone from the
organization.  So how do you have the NDR functionality without feeding
the spammers and contributing to backscatter?

 

Just trying to brainstorm here

 

Bill

 

Tarpit time

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

Does anybody have any strong opinions about how long to set your tarpit?
I've seen numbers as low as 5 seconds and as high as 30.  What are the
drawbacks to using a longer tarpit?

 

Thanks for any feedback,

 

Bill

 

RE: NDRs backscatter and such

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

I'm using Sunbelt's Ninja.  Crawling their forum isn't giving me any
love yet.  

 

I'm putting together a post to see if someone on that list has an idea.

 

Bill

 

From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 11:19 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NDRs backscatter and such

 

You do have recipient filtering enabled on the SMTP VS, right?   If so,
then your 'thwarting' analysis is probably right.  Perhaps if this
mystery spam filter was given a name, it might lead to more suggestions
about how to deal with this. J

 

Carl

 

From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 2:00 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NDRs backscatter and such

 

Thanks for all the insight.

 

I am filtering recipients who are not in the directory, but the SMTP
queue is full of retrying messages from postmaster to addresses like
"SMTP:w...@201-232-13-44.epm.net.co".  

 

I wonder if these messages are being accepted by the spam filter (it
sits in an SMTP sink on the exchange box) thus thwarting the filtering.

 

Bill

 

From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 10:48 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NDRs backscatter and such

 

Carl gave you the correct answer. I'll just add that his way will also
take a huge load off your server. What you are doing now is accepting
the whole message...then sending an entire new message for the NDR.

 

His way your server tells the sending server during the initial SMTP
conversation that there is no such recipient. So you never even accept
the original message.

 

From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 1:42 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NDRs backscatter and such

 

Enable recipient filtering and tick the box for "filter recipients who
are not in the directory".   That will eliminate all of the NDRs from
spam sent to non-existent addresses.

 

The senders who make a typo will still get NDRs, but those NDRs will be
generated by the sending servers instead of yours.  This is the Best
Practice thing to do.  The spammers won't get any NDRs because spambots
don't bother to generate them.

 

The other response about tarpitting, you want to do that too.
Tarpitting doesn't do anything for you unless you've enabled the
recipient filtering for non-existent addresess.

 

Carl

 

From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 1:25 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: NDRs backscatter and such

 

Okay, backscatter is an annoyance at the very least.  So I want to do
something about it.  My messaging queue is 90% NDRs to domains and
subdomains with no MX records.  

 

Of course the easy solution is to just uncheck "allow Non-Delivery
reports" in Internet Messaging formats within ESM.  But my organization
provides research services via email request to thousands of members.
Sometimes the members just fire off an email to the researcher who
helped them last time.  But, that researcher may be gone from the
organization.  So how do you have the NDR functionality without feeding
the spammers and contributing to backscatter?

 

Just trying to brainstorm here

 

Bill

 

RE: NDRs backscatter and such

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

Thanks for all the insight.

 

I am filtering recipients who are not in the directory, but the SMTP
queue is full of retrying messages from postmaster to addresses like
"SMTP:w...@201-232-13-44.epm.net.co".  

 

I wonder if these messages are being accepted by the spam filter (it
sits in an SMTP sink on the exchange box) thus thwarting the filtering.

 

Bill

 

From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 10:48 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NDRs backscatter and such

 

Carl gave you the correct answer. I'll just add that his way will also
take a huge load off your server. What you are doing now is accepting
the whole message...then sending an entire new message for the NDR.

 

His way your server tells the sending server during the initial SMTP
conversation that there is no such recipient. So you never even accept
the original message.

 

From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 1:42 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NDRs backscatter and such

 

Enable recipient filtering and tick the box for "filter recipients who
are not in the directory".   That will eliminate all of the NDRs from
spam sent to non-existent addresses.

 

The senders who make a typo will still get NDRs, but those NDRs will be
generated by the sending servers instead of yours.  This is the Best
Practice thing to do.  The spammers won't get any NDRs because spambots
don't bother to generate them.

 

The other response about tarpitting, you want to do that too.
Tarpitting doesn't do anything for you unless you've enabled the
recipient filtering for non-existent addresess.

 

Carl

 

From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 1:25 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: NDRs backscatter and such

 

Okay, backscatter is an annoyance at the very least.  So I want to do
something about it.  My messaging queue is 90% NDRs to domains and
subdomains with no MX records.  

 

Of course the easy solution is to just uncheck "allow Non-Delivery
reports" in Internet Messaging formats within ESM.  But my organization
provides research services via email request to thousands of members.
Sometimes the members just fire off an email to the researcher who
helped them last time.  But, that researcher may be gone from the
organization.  So how do you have the NDR functionality without feeding
the spammers and contributing to backscatter?

 

Just trying to brainstorm here

 

Bill

 

RE: NDRs backscatter and such

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

I do have tarpitting enabled, and it helped a bit.  But my Antispam
solution is signature based.  I have considered implementing SPF
solutions, but many of our clients have domains that don't comply, so
that would cause more trouble.

 

Bill

 

From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 10:31 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: NDRs backscatter and such

 

You can use "tarpitting" to help foil the spammers sending to
non-existent addresses, and that may help some.  However, I humbly
suggest that you need an anti-spam solution that handles this.  Like
you, my queue used to be monopolized by attempted NDRs to non-existent
domains.  Since implementing an anti-spam appliance (IronMail), no such
problems.  The appliance is in the class of devices that track malicious
behavior instead of (only) trying to determine if something is spam by
the content of the message.  A large percentage of connection attempts
are rejected before they start, because they come from known bad
addresses.

 

Bill Mayo

 

____

From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 1:25 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: NDRs backscatter and such

Okay, backscatter is an annoyance at the very least.  So I want to do
something about it.  My messaging queue is 90% NDRs to domains and
subdomains with no MX records.  

 

Of course the easy solution is to just uncheck "allow Non-Delivery
reports" in Internet Messaging formats within ESM.  But my organization
provides research services via email request to thousands of members.
Sometimes the members just fire off an email to the researcher who
helped them last time.  But, that researcher may be gone from the
organization.  So how do you have the NDR functionality without feeding
the spammers and contributing to backscatter?

 

Just trying to brainstorm here

 

Bill

 

NDRs backscatter and such

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

Okay, backscatter is an annoyance at the very least.  So I want to do
something about it.  My messaging queue is 90% NDRs to domains and
subdomains with no MX records.  

 

Of course the easy solution is to just uncheck "allow Non-Delivery
reports" in Internet Messaging formats within ESM.  But my organization
provides research services via email request to thousands of members.
Sometimes the members just fire off an email to the researcher who
helped them last time.  But, that researcher may be gone from the
organization.  So how do you have the NDR functionality without feeding
the spammers and contributing to backscatter?

 

Just trying to brainstorm here

 

Bill

 

RE: Mail store issues

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

Looks like some advice was designed for a larger enterprise.  

 

See:  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283283 

 

You may need to create a new temporary server.  Do a swing migration, delete 
the corrupt store and swing back.

 

Bill

 

From: Doug Rooney [mailto:d...@sonomatilemakers.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 2:09 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Mail store issues

 

OK, I created a new storage group, I then tried to create a new store in it, 
and I get an error.

This Storage group already contains the maximum number of stores allowed.

ID no: c1034a7a

Exchange System Manager.

 

Thank You 

~Doug Rooney 
Sonoma Tilemakers 
IT Manager 
7750 Bell Rd. 
Windsor Ca, 95492 
(707) 837-8177 X211
(707) 837-9472 FAX 
i...@sonomatilemakers.com 

 

 

From: Dahl, Peter [mailto:peter.d...@yum.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 2:00 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Mail store issues

 

No, moving mailboxes to a new store does not require the databases to be 
offline or dismounted. Use the Exchange Mailbox Move Wizard, the databases must 
be online for this to be successful.

 

Misc. Mailbox move information for Exchange 2000 and 2003.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821829

 

Hope that helps.

 

From: Doug Rooney [mailto:d...@sonomatilemakers.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 4:38 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Mail store issues

 

So interesting, as soon as I admit that I am new to this game, no replies. Hmm. 
Well thanks for the help I did get. J

 

Thank You 

~Doug Rooney 
Sonoma Tilemakers 
IT Manager 
7750 Bell Rd. 
Windsor Ca, 95492 
(707) 837-8177 X211
(707) 837-9472 FAX 
i...@sonomatilemakers.com 

 

 

From: Doug Rooney [mailto:d...@sonomatilemakers.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 7:57 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Mail store issues

 

You guys crack me up, any way thanks for the heads up, I have a store size of 
about 23 GB and 124 GB free, so I think I am OK there.

So, is there some clear concise instructions somewhere to do this, like does 
the store need to be off-line, which is what I am guessing.

And any ballpark on how long it takes?

 Please bear with me, I was sent to a 2 day Exchange Server seminar and handed 
the job as Exchange Admin, so I am kinda green still.

 

Thank You 

~Doug Rooney 
Sonoma Tilemakers 
IT Manager 
7750 Bell Rd. 
Windsor Ca, 95492 
(707) 837-8177 X211
(707) 837-9472 FAX 
i...@sonomatilemakers.com 

 

 

From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 1:54 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Mail store issues

 

Your = you're

 

 

 

From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 11:20 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Mail store issues

 

If you have 100 GB mail on store A, your going have 100 GB on store B, plus 100 
GB of logs.

Generally speaking of course. You mileage may vary.

 

From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:sj...@amico.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 11:14 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Mail store issues

 

Just realize that if you create it on the same server you'll have double the 
store size until you delete the original one! Actually I think it actually 
triples until you have done a successful B/U! Correct me if I'm wrong, just 
make sure you have the disk space.

 

___

Stefan Jafs

 

From: Stephan Barr [mailto:stephanbarr.li...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 1:35 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Mail store issues

 

Yes. On the same machine.  Not required though. If you have another Exchange 
2003 server in the same site you can create the store there as well.  
Apparently it's the moving of mailboxes from one store to another effectively 
repairs.

 

Cheers.

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Doug Rooney  wrote:

I am currently trying to copy the error message, but when you say create a new 
store, is that on the same machine?

 

 

Thank You 

~Doug Rooney 
Sonoma Tilemakers 
IT Manager 
7750 Bell Rd. 
Windsor Ca, 95492 
(707) 837-8177 X211
(707) 837-9472 FAX 
i...@sonomatilemakers.com 

 

 

From: Stephan Barr [mailto:stephanbarr.li...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 9:07 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Mail store issues

 

Try creating a new store. Move all the mailboxes to the new store and see if 
that clears up the corruption problem.

 

Cheers.

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Doug Rooney  wrote:

Hello,

I am running Ex 2003 on box that only run AD and is the PDC.

Since about 2 months ago, my backup have ÿÿ~failedÿÿ(tm) but the byte counts is 
still good.

The error says that there is corruption in the mail store. 

A re there utilities that I can run to clean this up?

 

Thank You 

~Doug Rooney 
Sonoma Tilemakers 
IT Manager 
7750 Bell Rd. 
Windsor Ca, 95492 
(707) 837-8177 X211
(707) 837-9472 FAX 
i...@sonomatilemakers.com 

 

 

 

 

This email and any a

RE: BLOCKING SPOOFED INTERNAL EMAIL

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

If you are a single server exchange operation, you can create an Outlook
rule that checks the header for @alanet.org and delete it or move it to
a spam folder.   Real internal email won't have anything in the headers.
Of course that will also affect any legitimately spoofed email.  (travel
confirmations jump to mind)

 

Bill

 

From: Murray Freeman [mailto:mfree...@alanet.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 2:28 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: BLOCKING SPOOFED INTERNAL EMAIL

 

Lately we're getting a lot of sp*m that appear to be coming from our own
staff. It's easy to spot, but our sp*m filter isn't catching them. The
reason they are easy to spot is the "FROM" has the full address as
oppossed to just the display name. Is it possible to create an Outlook
rule to block these? Is it possible to create a rule at the Exchange
Server level? And finally, if the rule works, will it impact email
created in OWA. We're using Outlook 2K3, Exchange 2K3 and Windows Server
2K3.

 

Murray 

 

RE: To see multiple room calendars...

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

As a meeting driven organization with a soho budget, we curse a lot.
But here are some resources that you can evaluate.

 

http://www.slipstick.com/addins/calendar.asp 

 

Bill 

 

 

 

From: David [mailto:blazer...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 3:53 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: To see multiple room calendars...

 

What do organizations do to let their users see multiple room calendars
-- say, 8 or 10 rooms, where even doing an 'overlay' view in Outlook is
too cumbersome?

 

We're doing a Notes to Exchange migration, and years ago they had
someone do a custom web app that interfaces with Notes and isn't a bad
system of room reservations, checks free/busy, size of room, etc.  I'm
curious what can be done in Exchange/Outlook to get to the same place.
I suspect Sharepoint is one of the usual suspects, though we're not on
MOSS yet.

 

Thanks,

 

David

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RE: remotely testing smtp

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

I've wished I've had a box outside my perimeter so many times that I think this 
excuse is a good one.  I don't have a spare port on the firewall, but I can 
drop a little hub on the line outside the firewall and build a little box with 
one of our public ips on it.  Then all your telnet are belong to us

Good info on the logs too.  And putting those hands together, I can put a 
sniffer on the outside machine and work at it from there.

thanks

Bill 



-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 4:19 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: remotely testing smtp

[reply to multiple messages from the same sender]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Bill Songstad (WCUL)
 wrote:
> Does anybody know of a website/service that I can use to start an SMTP
> session remotely?

  The problem is that most mass-market Internet feeds block TCP/25
outbound, as an anti-spam measure.  "Business class" feeds generally
don't (or have the option), but they cost more.

  Myself, for this sort of thing, I use a Unix shell account on a
server at an Internet hosting provider.  The server has a static IP
address and no filtering.  I can SSH (secure shell) in to that
remotely, then "telnet foo 25" or whatever.  There are companies which
rent such Unix shell accounts, but that might be overkill for your
needs.

  Since you're dealing with your ISP, see if they might be able to
provision you with a temporary shell account on one of their servers.

  Another option would be to put a computer on the public side of the
WatchGuard, with a public IP address on that Ethernet, and connect
from that.  This isn't the same as coming in from the cloud, but if
you want to focus on that WG in particular, it's a good test.

  Of course, you may not have a free IP address on the public side of
the WatchGuard.  In a pinch, one thing you can do is configure a
computer with the same IP address as the upstream gateway, and plug
that computer into the public interface of the WG with a cross-over
cable.  The WG will think your computer is the upstream gateway, and
you'll be able to run a simple "TELNET foo 25" test.  This will, of
course, knock out your Internet connection for the duration.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Bill Songstad (WCUL)
 wrote:
> Probably, but I really think the problem is at the firewall proxy.  Besides,
> I have the smtp logs from the server.   Shouldn't they have all that data?

  Sending or receiving server?  If receiving, no, because your
receiving server is behind the WatchGuard, and the WG is doing
we-don't-know-what to filter SMTP.

  If you have logs from the sending server, well, yes, sort-of, but
since somebody is blaming you, I suspect you'll want logs from your
end anyway.

  Plus, logs sometimes lie.  Packet sniffer traces show what was
*actually on the wire*, not what the server *claims* it sent/received.
 If we could always trust software to perform as advertised then you
wouldn't be having this problem.  :-)

  So I second the suggestion of putting a sniffer in front of the WatchGuard.

-- Ben

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RE: remotely testing smtp

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

Probably, but I really think the problem is at the firewall proxy.
Besides, I have the smtp logs from the server.   Shouldn't they have all
that data?

 

Bill 

 

 

 

 

 

From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 3:30 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: remotely testing smtp

 

Can you get netmon, wireshark, or some other packet sniffer on your mail
server?

 



From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:28 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: remotely testing smtp

 

Yes, I can telnet without the error inside my firewall, but need to test
the connection as it comes through the smtp proxy on my watchguard
firewall.

 

Bill 

 

 

From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 3:17 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: remotely testing smtp

 

Can you log on to your mail server and telnet to localhost?

 



From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:14 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: remotely testing smtp

 

Close, but it won't let me put in invalid data.  The error I'm trying to
track down is:

"Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname"

I think it is coming from a blank or non-existent RCPT TO: field

 

My ISP is claiming their stand-in is getting these bounced back to them
when they relay for us and my server is bouncing the message.  They say
it is creating a loop.  If I could see what was bouncing and why, I
could try to configure it to drop instead of bounce.

 

Bill 

 

 

 

From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 3:00 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: remotely testing smtp

 

Ive used this.

http://www.zoneedit.com/smtp.html

 

From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:56 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: remotely testing smtp

 

Does anybody know of a website/service that I can use to start an SMTP
session remotely?  My ISP is claiming certain responses from my mail
server and I would like to verify it.  I tried telneting in from home
but my home ISP blocks traffic on port 25.  I can't test from inside my
firewall because my firewall provides SMTP proxy which is probably the
culprit.  But my question is, without trying out all of my friend's ISPs
until one lets me through, is there a service I can use to open a SMTP
session from my desk and have it run commands and show me a session log?
Legitimate mail won't work because I need to send a non-compliant mail
that will bounce to verify the error.

 

Some sort of proxy terminal on the web somewhere would work just fine.

 

Thanks for any ideas

 

Bill 

 

 

 

 


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RE: remotely testing smtp

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

Watchguard firewall.  Good idea, I'll check to see if I can turn up the SMTP 
logging there.  

Bill 





-Original Message-
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 3:19 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: remotely testing smtp

What are you using for a proxy? Can it be set to log the entire SMTP
conversation?

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 15:13, Bill Songstad (WCUL)
 wrote:
>
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> they relay for us and my server is bouncing the message.�� They say it is 
> creating a loop��� If I could see what was bouncing and why, I could try to 
> configure it to drop instead of bounce.
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>
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> From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 3:00 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: remotely testing smtp
>
>
>
> Ive used this.
>
> http://www.zoneedit.com/smtp.html
>
>
>
> From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:56 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: remotely testing smtp
>
>
>
> Does anybody know of a website/service that I can use to start an SMTP 
> session remotely?�� My ISP is claiming certain responses from my mail server 
> and I would like to verify it.�� I tried telneting in from home but my home 
> ISP blocks traffic on port 25��� I can���t test from inside my firewall 
> because my firewall provides SMTP proxy which is probably the culpri��  But 
> my question is, without trying out all of my friend���s ISPs until one lets 
> me through, is there a service I can use to open a SMTP session from my desk 
> and have it run commands and show me a session log?�� Legitimate mail wot 
> work because I need to send a non-compliant mail that will bounce to verify 
> the error.
>
>
>
> Some sort of proxy terminal on the web somewhere would work just fine.
>
>
>
> Thanks for any ideas
>
>
>
> Bill
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RE: remotely testing smtp

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

Yes, I can telnet without the error inside my firewall, but need to test
the connection as it comes through the smtp proxy on my watchguard
firewall.

 

Bill 

 

 

From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 3:17 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: remotely testing smtp

 

Can you log on to your mail server and telnet to localhost?

 



From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:14 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: remotely testing smtp

 

Close, but it won't let me put in invalid data.  The error I'm trying to
track down is:

"Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname"

I think it is coming from a blank or non-existent RCPT TO: field

 

My ISP is claiming their stand-in is getting these bounced back to them
when they relay for us and my server is bouncing the message.  They say
it is creating a loop.  If I could see what was bouncing and why, I
could try to configure it to drop instead of bounce.

 

Bill 

 

 

 

From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 3:00 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: remotely testing smtp

 

Ive used this.

http://www.zoneedit.com/smtp.html

 

From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:56 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: remotely testing smtp

 

Does anybody know of a website/service that I can use to start an SMTP
session remotely?  My ISP is claiming certain responses from my mail
server and I would like to verify it.  I tried telneting in from home
but my home ISP blocks traffic on port 25.  I can't test from inside my
firewall because my firewall provides SMTP proxy which is probably the
culprit.  But my question is, without trying out all of my friend's ISPs
until one lets me through, is there a service I can use to open a SMTP
session from my desk and have it run commands and show me a session log?
Legitimate mail won't work because I need to send a non-compliant mail
that will bounce to verify the error.

 

Some sort of proxy terminal on the web somewhere would work just fine.

 

Thanks for any ideas

 

Bill 

 

 

 

 


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RE: remotely testing smtp

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

Close, but it won't let me put in invalid data.  The error I'm trying to
track down is:

"Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname"

I think it is coming from a blank or non-existent RCPT TO: field

 

My ISP is claiming their stand-in is getting these bounced back to them
when they relay for us and my server is bouncing the message.  They say
it is creating a loop.  If I could see what was bouncing and why, I
could try to configure it to drop instead of bounce.

 

Bill 

 

 

 

From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 3:00 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: remotely testing smtp

 

Ive used this.

http://www.zoneedit.com/smtp.html

 

From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:administra...@waleague.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:56 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: remotely testing smtp

 

Does anybody know of a website/service that I can use to start an SMTP
session remotely?  My ISP is claiming certain responses from my mail
server and I would like to verify it.  I tried telneting in from home
but my home ISP blocks traffic on port 25.  I can't test from inside my
firewall because my firewall provides SMTP proxy which is probably the
culprit.  But my question is, without trying out all of my friend's ISPs
until one lets me through, is there a service I can use to open a SMTP
session from my desk and have it run commands and show me a session log?
Legitimate mail won't work because I need to send a non-compliant mail
that will bounce to verify the error.

 

Some sort of proxy terminal on the web somewhere would work just fine.

 

Thanks for any ideas

 

Bill 

 

 

 


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remotely testing smtp

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

Does anybody know of a website/service that I can use to start an SMTP
session remotely?  My ISP is claiming certain responses from my mail
server and I would like to verify it.  I tried telneting in from home
but my home ISP blocks traffic on port 25.  I can't test from inside my
firewall because my firewall provides SMTP proxy which is probably the
culprit.  But my question is, without trying out all of my friend's ISPs
until one lets me through, is there a service I can use to open a SMTP
session from my desk and have it run commands and show me a session log?
Legitimate mail won't work because I need to send a non-compliant mail
that will bounce to verify the error.

 

Some sort of proxy terminal on the web somewhere would work just fine.

 

Thanks for any ideas

 

Bill 

 


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RE: Dumb question - Contacts

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

The delete key is your friend for errors or useless addresses in your
NK2 file.  When a bad or obsolete address shows up in the autofill, just
use the arrow key to highlight the bad one and hit the delete key.  Gone
until the next time you type the whole thing in.

 

Bill 

 

 

From: Steve Szabo [mailto:steve...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 4:38 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Dumb question - Contacts

 

We have contact info all over the place, so you can eventually find it
. We each have our own contacts in Outlook's contact folder, of which
mine is probably the most extensive with regard to clients and vendors.
We also have a public folder called Clients, and one called Vendors (oh,
we are so original) and under these are subfolders of each client and
vendor we have had email communication with. When we went to Exch2007,
we just migrated everything over, and create new public folders as
needed.

 

You are definitely asking for trouble if the auto-complete is the only
address book. I just gave myself a new (used really-there is no such
thing as a new machine in our environment unless it is for a client) and
left my *.NK2 file behind. Too many errors and useless addresses in it.
Was glad to be rid of it, but now, I need to remember enough of the
address for the contact search to kick in with any degree of accuracy. A
couple of weeks, and I'll have a decent list from my new *.NK2 file.

 

You'll need to get your people using their Outlook Contact folders at
least-they are good for lots of things, not only e-mail addresses, but
physical addresses, phone numbers, notes for that person, etc. If
necessary, though I have never found it to be so, you can create a
public folder of contacts as well, for those contacts that everyone
needs.

 

\\Steve// 

 

From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:58 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Dumb question - Contacts

 

Been a while since I've made a fool of myself* and I hate to disappoint
my fans, so

 

We're running a pretty small environment.. Exchange Server 2003
Enterprise and maybe 20 users. 

 

For years, peoples' "address book" has consisted of just using the
auto-complete in Outlook 2003 (and now Outlook 2007 in some cases.) But
now, I'm growing more and more concerned about that technique and would
like an easy and reliable way to have a central repository of contacts
that everyone can use and update.

 

My question is, what is everyone doing? I would assume a public folder
that contains contacts and then is assigned as an address book in
people's Outlook configurations, but then I've also heard that public
folders don't exist in E2K7, which I may upgrade to at some point, so
I'm not sure how to proceed. 

 

So, is there a third party solution that people know of and use, or is
it just a public folder filled with contacts?

 

Thanks,

Evan

 

 

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sending messages previously stuck in outbox

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

I know this isn't exactly an Outlook list, but I thought maybe the group
might have some collective knowledge.  I had a user pile up 970 emails
in her outbox while doing an email merge with Word 2007 and Outlook
2007.  She had "send and receive automatically" turned off due to a
problem with Word crashing during mail merges (a whole nuther can of
worms)  but when she hit send and receive, the list of emails stayed
italicized but would not go out.  Other subsequent  emails go out fine
but the original 970 stayed put.  I was able to move the emails out of
the outbox, but moving them back they have the icon of regular received
mail and still go nowhere.  Does anyone know of a way (short of opening
them one by one and hitting send) to move emails into the outbox and
have them send?  Is it even possible?

 

Thanks for any advice,

 

Bill 

 


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RE: Mailbox Limit Notifications

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

I've taken a different tack when notifying my users.  I set exchange to
notify them every 15 minutes twice a day.  I give them a break in the
morning, and at the end of the day, but from 9:30-11:30 and 1:30 to 3:30
they get hammered.  Very few people ignore the warnings for long.  And
those that do, c'mon, nobody can say they weren't given ample warnings.

 

Bill 

 

From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 2:14 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Mailbox Limit Notifications

 

It's not a major deal for us, but I'd rather make a phone call reminding
them than have them deal with the hassle of doing it under pressure.  

 

95% of my users are excellent, but, as always, it's the remaining  5%
who seem to have 95% of the problems.

 

   

 

Roger Wright

Network Administrator

Evatone, Inc.

727.572.7076  x388

_  

 

From: Kat Collins [mailto:messagel...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 4:45 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Mailbox Limit Notifications

 

I tend to treat my user community like grownups.  I give them
information, give them sufficient time between when they start getting
warnings and when they can no longer send mail, then train them on how
to help themselves.  

 

I do not do individual rescues unless the person is travelling and is
not a regular traveler.  In other words, if this is part of the person's
normal work routine, then they need to figure out how to deal... 

 

Start as you mean to continue... 

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Steven Peck  wrote:

Wait, why are 'you' scrambling to help them clean up their mess?  This
is disruptive behavior and is bad training for your user population.
If they can't send they can't work and their managers have to know
that they may be having training issues if this is a re-occurring
problem with select users.  Perhaps a quarterly IT Newsletter to
managers on #1 avoidable ticket/issues they could partner with IT to
address in their department meetings?

Now, you may very well be unable to effect a culture change in your
company.  Ah well.  :)

If you have standardized limits you could just script and run a
mailbox size report every morning and then sort by size and decide
whether to intervene on the ones close to the limits.  A friendly
phone call on why they shouldn't ignore the warnings ( you don't have
them set to the same as the recieve size right?)

Steven Peck
http://www.blkmtn.org  



On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Kennedy, Jim
 wrote:
> If it is not a bunch of users you could have them set up a rule in
their
> outlook so when they get it the message is then forwarded to you
>
>
>
>
>
> From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 2:05 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: Mailbox Limit Notifications
>
>
>
> Exchange 2003 SP2
>
>
>
> I have mailbox limits configured and the users receive Inbox
notifications
> when they reach the limits, however many tend to ignore these until
they can
> no longer send, then we have to scramble to help them clean up their
> mailbox.
>
>
>
> How can I also be notified when  user limits have been reached?  Any
free
> tools/configurations to do this?
>
>
>
>
>
> Roger Wright
>
> Network Administrator
>
> Evatone, Inc.
>
> 727.572.7076  x388
>
>
>
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RE: Allowing external forwards

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

I have to do something like this in my organization and I handle it like
this:

 

I created a Contact in AD, and assigned it the remote user's home email
address.  Then on the users actual Domain Account, I set the Exchange
General > Delivery Options >  Forwarding Address  to forward to the AD
Contact.  You can have email delivered locally as well so there's a copy
here as well as sent to their home.  I've been doing it off and on for a
couple of years without any problems.

 

I suppose that if the home user had a rule to forward things back to the
office as well, it could create a loop, but I don't see that happening.
They certainly don't want a rule to forward dirty jokes from their Uncle
Tasteless to the corporate office.

 

Bill 

 

From: Devin Meade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 8:12 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Allowing external forwards

 

Oh mighty Exchange gurus,

 

We have a user wanting to fwd all emails to an external address.  We run
Exchange 2003 and fwd to external is turned off.  If I turn this on,
will we be vulnerable to a mail loop?  We run one domain only.  

 

I see this here:  ESM > Global Settings > Internet Message Formats >
Default (which has * listed at the Domain) > Properties > Advanced >
"Allow auto foward" is unchecked.

Thanks,
Devin


 

 


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RE: OWA opening without credentials on local LAN

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

If I understand your issue correctly, on one windows profile you are not
prompted for credentials and on another you are when accessing the same
OWA mailbox.  From my experience, the logon prompt is suppressed when
windows authentication is allowed on the OWA server and the OWA website
is in the trusted sites group of internet explorer security settings.

 

Could that be what you are experiencing?

 

Bill Songstad

 

From: Liby Philip Mathew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 8:35 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OWA opening without credentials on local LAN

 

Hi Mike,

In exchange 2003, when I browsed the OWA using internal url, I used to
see OWA FBA screen.  But in Exchange 2007, I am automatically logged in.
When I log in as Administrator to a client PC and issue the internal url
to access "MY" mailbox, I am prompted with a popup box for credential.  

Following your hint, on my Mailbox server, Directory security - IIS
default web site\owa is configured as both Windows integrated and Basic.
Is this the correct configuration?.  On ISA I have configured the OWA
listener - Authentication - HTML form authentication and Windows (AD).
I also think that somewhere here lies my OWA performance issue which is
pathetic.

Hope you can help me with this?

Regards

Liby

 

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 4:07 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OWA opening without credentials on local LAN

 

I'm not sure you are describing a problem. Sounds like Integrated
Windows Authentication is turned on, and a password has been saved.

 

What do you see as an issue?

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Liby Philip Mathew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 6:02 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: OWA opening without credentials on local LAN

 

Dear All,

Identified another issue with my new Exchange 2007.  When I open OWA
from my profile with my local mail server url (kwmail.path.loc/owa), I
am not prompted for the for the credential.  On another PC, when I am
logged in as administrator and try the same url, I am prompted with a
popup  for credential

I am sure someone on the forum may have experience this.  Any help
appreciated.

Regards

Liby

 



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RE: Exchange cached mode

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

Not to try and hijack here, but are there security issues with Cached
Mode?  Is the OST file encrypted?  If the remote workers lose their
laptops, are all their emails available to the new owner?

Bill 


-Original Message-
From: Don Andrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:02 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange cached mode

Agree with the cached mode recommendation - and giving time for Outlook
to complete (i.e. disappear from task manager, not just close the
window) will reduce OST corruption to virtually nil in my experience.

We also use VPN - it avoids the requirement to publish or allow firewall
rules to any part of the exchange environment and provides access to
anything else internal that the road warriors need - securely.

-Original Message-
From: James Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:39 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange cached mode

If they're road warriors - take it one step further and publish
RPC/HTTPS for them.  No VPN required  for email.

Their complaints might be some silliness, like mobile devices getting
the email before cached mode Outlook...but they will be much better
off in cached mode.  So will your mailbox server. (takes < 50% of the
DB IOPS, according to Microsoft storage calculators).

I've seen corrupt OST files < 1% of the time.  It can happen, but it's
very rare, and the benefits FAR outweigh any risks.

--James

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Scott Schneider
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just looking for a general consensus. Remote road warriors, is it best
to
> have them use Exchange cached mode on an Exchange 2003 cluster with a
2003
> Outlook client. We are upgrading our clients from Outlook 2002 and are
> looking for best practices.
>
> Any gotchas to using/not using cached mode?
>
> External users connect through a SonicWall VPN client.
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RE: Send Mail to Every Contact in Outlook..

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

Quick and easy.  Use Word to compose a mail merge and merge to email.
Since my version of Word can't use outlook contacts for a mail merge, I
export my contacts to a spreadsheet, and point the mail merge wizard to
that file as my data source.  Once you've completed the merge, it will
have outlook send all 2000 emails to individual recipients one at a
time.  On my server that takes about 90 minutes.  Be prepared for a slew
of NDRs...

 

Bill Songstad

 

-Original Message-
From: Chyka, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 9:23 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Send Mail to Every Contact in Outlook..

 

Is there a easy way to send e-mail to about 2000 contacts in outlook
asking the contacts to update their phone numbers, addresses etc?  ive
found a couple scripts but before I look at them I was wondering if
there is a way to do it within outlook itself.

 

Any help is appreciated...

 

Thanks...

 

 


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RE: routing problem

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

Well, isn't this special.  After about two hours last night, mail started 
flowing properly both ways...  I suspect malconfigured antivirus which I had 
just reconfigured before leaving.
 
Thanks for all your help.  Wish I knew what was really going on.  Hate trying 
to do reactive repairs on the spot.  I much prefer taking my time to get the 
steps right.  Picking up somebody else's botched upgrade is a pain.

____

From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Fri 4/11/2008 9:23 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: routing problem


Mike, both SMTP virtual servers have the default settings of 
server1.private.net or server2.private.net for the fully-qualified domain name 
on the advanced tab for the SMTP virtual servers.  Maybe those should be 
server1&2.public.com, but that is a different story I think.
 
I don't have a SMTP connector configured.
 
Thanks for your help,
 
Bill Songstad



From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Fri 4/11/2008 8:45 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: routing problem



Have you made changes on the Delivery -> advanced tab for either the SMTP
virtual server or the SMTP connector?

Regards,

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


-Original Message-
From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 11:41 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: routing problem

Thanks for taking a stab at this for me John.

Both servers are in the same administrative group.  I think that means
yes to the exchange org as well.  They are both in the same (only)
routing group as well.  I tried changing routing group master roles last
night.  I'll see if it had an effect in a few minutes when I get on site
again.

The default smtp addresses are in the same domain for both and that is
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Server one gets stuck in an active session with server2.private.net
whenever user2 on server2 sends an email to any user on server1.  (it is
delivered fine the other direction)

DNS is handled on Server1 but there is not a zone for Public.com on it.
It resolves that from the firewall.  The firewall does have accurate DNS
entries for server1.privat.net and server2.private.net.  But, iirc, the
server to server traffic within the organization is supposed to use
routing tables for resolving intersite delivery and not use DNS.

I ran winroute on server2 against both servers and both see the other
server in the exchange routing tables and both recognize the correct
routing masters.

Last time I had to do this, it just worked.  I don't know what is wrong
here.

Thanks for your help,


Bill Songstad


-Original Message-
From: Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT)
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:17 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: routing problem

Hey Bill:

Understand about the brain hurting and needing beer.

Some fundamental questions; Are server one and server 2 in the
same Exchange organization?  Are they in the same routing group? Are
they in the same administrative group?

What is USER2's SMTP address as stamped on the account by RUS?
Is it different from users on Server 1? If so, does Server 1 know how to
get there internally or is everything pointed at the firewall for
routing resolution?

I have more, but this should be a start.


John H. Matteson, Jr.
Systems Administrator/ITT Systems
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outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or
birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming
in every facet an American, and nothing but an American... There can be
no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but
something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one
flag, the American flag.. We have room for but one language here, and
that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole
loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Teddy Roosevelt; 1907

-Original Message-
From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 4:55 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: routing problem

To update things, after the spin around the firewall, the emails wind up
stuck in a current session on server1 for delivery from server2 but
there they time out.  Emails the other direction, from server1 to
server2, are delivered in a timely fashion. 

Brain hurts... must have beer...

RE: routing problem

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

Mike, both SMTP virtual servers have the default settings of 
server1.private.net or server2.private.net for the fully-qualified domain name 
on the advanced tab for the SMTP virtual servers.  Maybe those should be 
server1&2.public.com, but that is a different story I think.
 
I don't have a SMTP connector configured.
 
Thanks for your help,
 
Bill Songstad



From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Fri 4/11/2008 8:45 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: routing problem



Have you made changes on the Delivery -> advanced tab for either the SMTP
virtual server or the SMTP connector?

Regards,

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


-Original Message-
From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 11:41 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: routing problem

Thanks for taking a stab at this for me John.

Both servers are in the same administrative group.  I think that means
yes to the exchange org as well.  They are both in the same (only)
routing group as well.  I tried changing routing group master roles last
night.  I'll see if it had an effect in a few minutes when I get on site
again.

The default smtp addresses are in the same domain for both and that is
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Server one gets stuck in an active session with server2.private.net
whenever user2 on server2 sends an email to any user on server1.  (it is
delivered fine the other direction)

DNS is handled on Server1 but there is not a zone for Public.com on it.
It resolves that from the firewall.  The firewall does have accurate DNS
entries for server1.privat.net and server2.private.net.  But, iirc, the
server to server traffic within the organization is supposed to use
routing tables for resolving intersite delivery and not use DNS.

I ran winroute on server2 against both servers and both see the other
server in the exchange routing tables and both recognize the correct
routing masters.

Last time I had to do this, it just worked.  I don't know what is wrong
here.

Thanks for your help,


Bill Songstad


-Original Message-
From: Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT)
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:17 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: routing problem

Hey Bill:

Understand about the brain hurting and needing beer.

Some fundamental questions; Are server one and server 2 in the
same Exchange organization?  Are they in the same routing group? Are
they in the same administrative group?

What is USER2's SMTP address as stamped on the account by RUS?
Is it different from users on Server 1? If so, does Server 1 know how to
get there internally or is everything pointed at the firewall for
routing resolution?

I have more, but this should be a start.


John H. Matteson, Jr.
Systems Administrator/ITT Systems
FOB Orgun-E
Afghanistan
DSN - 318 431 8001
VoSIP - (308) 431 - 
Iridium - 717.633.3823
Roshain - 079 - 736 - 3832

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes
here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he
shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an
outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or
birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming
in every facet an American, and nothing but an American... There can be
no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but
something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one
flag, the American flag.. We have room for but one language here, and
that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole
loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Teddy Roosevelt; 1907

-Original Message-
From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 4:55 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: routing problem

To update things, after the spin around the firewall, the emails wind up
stuck in a current session on server1 for delivery from server2 but
there they time out.  Emails the other direction, from server1 to
server2, are delivered in a timely fashion. 

Brain hurts... must have beer...



From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thu 4/10/2008 2:38 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: routing problem



I'm having a bit of a puzzler.  I think it has to with DNS but I can't
seem to pin it down. 



I added a second exchange 2000 server to a domain and moved one user
(user2) to the second server (server2).

User2 can send external mail fine.  And can send mail to himself fine.
But, when user2 sends email to any user on server1 the email is routed
out through the firewall proxy and then back in.



The domain network setup is like 

RE: routing problem

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

Thanks for taking a stab at this for me John.

Both servers are in the same administrative group.  I think that means
yes to the exchange org as well.  They are both in the same (only)
routing group as well.  I tried changing routing group master roles last
night.  I'll see if it had an effect in a few minutes when I get on site
again.

The default smtp addresses are in the same domain for both and that is
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Server one gets stuck in an active session with server2.private.net
whenever user2 on server2 sends an email to any user on server1.  (it is
delivered fine the other direction)

DNS is handled on Server1 but there is not a zone for Public.com on it.
It resolves that from the firewall.  The firewall does have accurate DNS
entries for server1.privat.net and server2.private.net.  But, iirc, the
server to server traffic within the organization is supposed to use
routing tables for resolving intersite delivery and not use DNS.

I ran winroute on server2 against both servers and both see the other
server in the exchange routing tables and both recognize the correct
routing masters.

Last time I had to do this, it just worked.  I don't know what is wrong
here.

Thanks for your help,


Bill Songstad


-Original Message-
From: Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT)
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:17 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: routing problem

Hey Bill:

Understand about the brain hurting and needing beer.

Some fundamental questions; Are server one and server 2 in the
same Exchange organization?  Are they in the same routing group? Are
they in the same administrative group?

What is USER2's SMTP address as stamped on the account by RUS?
Is it different from users on Server 1? If so, does Server 1 know how to
get there internally or is everything pointed at the firewall for
routing resolution?

I have more, but this should be a start.


John H. Matteson, Jr.
Systems Administrator/ITT Systems
FOB Orgun-E
Afghanistan
DSN - 318 431 8001
VoSIP - (308) 431 - 
Iridium - 717.633.3823
Roshain - 079 - 736 - 3832

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes
here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he
shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an
outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or
birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming
in every facet an American, and nothing but an American... There can be
no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but
something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one
flag, the American flag.. We have room for but one language here, and
that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole
loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Teddy Roosevelt; 1907

-----Original Message-
From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 4:55 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: routing problem

To update things, after the spin around the firewall, the emails wind up
stuck in a current session on server1 for delivery from server2 but
there they time out.  Emails the other direction, from server1 to
server2, are delivered in a timely fashion.  
 
Brain hurts... must have beer...

____

From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thu 4/10/2008 2:38 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: routing problem



I'm having a bit of a puzzler.  I think it has to with DNS but I can't
seem to pin it down.  

 

I added a second exchange 2000 server to a domain and moved one user
(user2) to the second server (server2).

User2 can send external mail fine.  And can send mail to himself fine.
But, when user2 sends email to any user on server1 the email is routed
out through the firewall proxy and then back in.

 

The domain network setup is like this:  public.com mx 30
=aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd (external interface of the firewall)

Private.net  exchange servers: server1.private.net server2.private.net

Recipient policies have mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
[EMAIL PROTECTED] being the default. 

DNS server=server1.private.net and forwards externally to the firewall.
But it has a zone internally for private.net with hosts and mx records
mx 10 server1.private.net mx 20 server2.private.net

 

When user2 sends an email to a user on server1, an outbound queue
appears on server2 labeled "server1.private.net (outbound)" but the
email only arrives after spending several minutes swirling around on the
firewalls smtp proxy.

 

There are no connectors or smart hosts configured on either box.

 

Does anybody have any thoughts on why the servers are sending the mail
outbound rather than routing them directly to the other server?

 

I swear my head's about t

RE: routing problem

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

To update things, after the spin around the firewall, the emails wind up stuck 
in a current session on server1 for delivery from server2 but there they time 
out.  Emails the other direction, from server1 to server2, are delivered in a 
timely fashion.  
 
Brain hurts... must have beer...



From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thu 4/10/2008 2:38 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: routing problem



I'm having a bit of a puzzler.  I think it has to with DNS but I can't seem to 
pin it down.  

 

I added a second exchange 2000 server to a domain and moved one user (user2) to 
the second server (server2).

User2 can send external mail fine.  And can send mail to himself fine.  But, 
when user2 sends email to any user on server1 the email is routed out through 
the firewall proxy and then back in.

 

The domain network setup is like this:  public.com mx 30 =aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd 
(external interface of the firewall)

Private.net  exchange servers: server1.private.net server2.private.net

Recipient policies have mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] being the default. 

DNS server=server1.private.net and forwards externally to the firewall.  But it 
has a zone internally for private.net with hosts and mx records  mx 10 
server1.private.net mx 20 server2.private.net

 

When user2 sends an email to a user on server1, an outbound queue appears on 
server2 labeled "server1.private.net (outbound)" but the email only arrives 
after spending several minutes swirling around on the firewalls smtp proxy.

 

There are no connectors or smart hosts configured on either box.

 

Does anybody have any thoughts on why the servers are sending the mail outbound 
rather than routing them directly to the other server?

 

I swear my head's about to pop.

 

Bill Songstad

 


 


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routing problem

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

I'm having a bit of a puzzler.  I think it has to with DNS but I can't
seem to pin it down.  

 

I added a second exchange 2000 server to a domain and moved one user
(user2) to the second server (server2).

User2 can send external mail fine.  And can send mail to himself fine.
But, when user2 sends email to any user on server1 the email is routed
out through the firewall proxy and then back in.

 

The domain network setup is like this:  public.com mx 30
=aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd (external interface of the firewall)

Private.net  exchange servers: server1.private.net server2.private.net

Recipient policies have mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
[EMAIL PROTECTED] being the default. 

DNS server=server1.private.net and forwards externally to the firewall.
But it has a zone internally for private.net with hosts and mx records
mx 10 server1.private.net mx 20 server2.private.net

 

When user2 sends an email to a user on server1, an outbound queue
appears on server2 labeled "server1.private.net (outbound)" but the
email only arrives after spending several minutes swirling around on the
firewalls smtp proxy.

 

There are no connectors or smart hosts configured on either box.

 

Does anybody have any thoughts on why the servers are sending the mail
outbound rather than routing them directly to the other server?

 

I swear my head's about to pop.

 

Bill Songstad

 


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~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~

RE: Exchange 2000 queue stuck

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

It appears that the queue built up as a result of a malformed journaling
connector.  Deleting the connector unfortunately allowed the queue to
retry and deliver the mail over the regular SMTP.  So, I never found the
emails, and now they are delivered.  I still wish I knew why I couldn't
find the queue.  All the normal queue locations were empty.  Oh well, at
least the queue is empty...  

 

Oh, turning on subject logging allowed me to see the subjects.

 

Bill Songstad

 

-Original Message-
From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 5:22 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange 2000 queue stuck

 

I have a client with an exchange 2000 server with a couple thousand
emails stuck in the queue: "Messages with an unreachable destination"
There is only one recipient for all the emails in the queue, and that
recipient is an external address used for archiving something or other
in the company.  The client wants to see the contents of the emails in
the queue before trying to delete the queue.  

 

Where and how are the emails in that queue stored?  

 

Is there an easy way to see those emails, or at least the subjects?
Can I have them delivered elsewhere?  I've never even seen that queue
before.

 

Thanks for any help.

 

Bill Songstad

 

 


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Exchange 2000 queue stuck

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

I have a client with an exchange 2000 server with a couple thousand
emails stuck in the queue: "Messages with an unreachable destination"
There is only one recipient for all the emails in the queue, and that
recipient is an external address used for archiving something or other
in the company.  The client wants to see the contents of the emails in
the queue before trying to delete the queue.  

 

Where and how are the emails in that queue stored?  

 

Is there an easy way to see those emails, or at least the subjects?
Can I have them delivered elsewhere?  I've never even seen that queue
before.

 

Thanks for any help.

 

Bill Songstad


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RE: Mass emailing?

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

We regularly email to around 3000 members of our organization.  Normally
we use MS Word to create a mail merge from an Excel spreadsheet of
addresses.  They all go out over our 512K pipe in about an hour or two.
We consider 40k the size limit that bogs down our internet connection.
But we target for messages under 30K.

We limit connections to 10per domain to keep *some* spam engines from
flagging the message as bulk, and we limit the number of concurrent
connections overall to 20 to keep the pipe from filling up.  

Since we use a mail merge, the emails usually aren't the same, so most
SPAM filters usually aren't triggered by *that*.

If you aren't sending more than a couple of addresses in any particular
domain, you aren't likely to trigger spam traps based on it simply being
bulk.

We used to just BCC the addresses by copying and pasting addresses from
excel, but that flagged us as spam from all the domains that had more
than a few recipients.

We track all our bounces and usually stay under 4%.  For you, that would
only be about 40 folks to check up on.  Of course, we don't get bounces
from most emails that are tagged as spam and just dropped.  But we feel
we have a pretty good penetration.

However, unless you request a response or use a service that can track
when the emails are opened, you won't really know how many actually get
slurped up by spam filters.  Based on our experiences, limiting the
connections and using a mail merge had measurable increase in delivery
rates.

Bill Songstad


-Original Message-
From: Steve Hart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 10:30 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Mass emailing?



We're a printing company and we're facing a large increase in the price
of paper, which is huge compenent of our costing. Our sales department
has asked me to come up with a way to send an email to about 1000 of our
biggest customers, explaining the increase and the price increases that
will result. The recipients are all existing customers, but I'm
concerned nonetheless with running afoul of spam lists and such.

Is there a commonly accepted way to do this?

We're on Exchange 2007.

Steve

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RE: to RSG or to not RSG

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

Thanks for your feedback Michael and Tom.  I really appreciate it.

 

Bill Songstad

 


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RE: to RSG or to not RSG

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

Yeah me too, what do you think about the method?  I was thinking one of
the following:

 

1) Restore the database directly to the First Storage Group or 

2) Restore to a recovery storage group and use exmerge to bring the data
up to date or

3) Restore to a recovery storage group, dismount both stores and copy
the recovered files to the live location or

 

But I don't have enough experience to know the pros and cons of each.

 

Bill Songstad

Director of Technology & Operations |  Washington Credit Union League

[EMAIL PROTECTED]  |  206.340.4837  |  800.552.0680 ext. 117  |
www.waleague.org

Washington's Credit Unions. together. better.

 

-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 9:20 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: to RSG or to not RSG

 

 

I wouldn't have done it that way, but that should be an ok way. Given
what you've said, I'd take a dump of the "crappy hardware" and restore
it on the "new hardware".

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

MCSE/Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:12 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: to RSG or to not RSG

 

 

It affects everyone.  I need to restore the entire Datastore.  I had a
mainboard failure and restored the server to crappy temporary hardware.
Now the new hardware is ready and I want to move the live data to the
new hardware.  I didn't do it with swing migrations because it took less
time to reboot into the crappy hardware than it would have to build a
machine to swing to.  I prepped the new machine using one half the
broken mirror from the original machine.  Now I have two clones of the
same machine and one has to come off line while I bring the other up.
AD should be none the wiser.   Then I restore the current database and
go on my merry way.

 

Bill Songstad

 

-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 8:57 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: to RSG or to not RSG

 

 

You have to answer first - what is the goal? Why are you doing the
restore? Does it impact all users or just one (or a few?).

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

MCSE/Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 11:38 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: to RSG or to not RSG

 

 

I find myself needing to restore my entire datastore.  The question is,
is it better to:

 

1) Restore the database directly to the First Storage Group or 

2) Restore to a recovery storage group and use exmerge to bring the data
up to date or

3) Restore to a recovery storage group, dismount both stores and copy
the recovered files to the live location or

4) Use an entirely different plan of which I'm as yet unaware

 

It is perfectly acceptable to bring the datastore offline.

 

What are the pros and cons of each strategy?

 

My biggest concerns are stability and integrity of the final data, and
total time spent by yours truly.

 

I'm running Exchange 2003 SP2 and NtBackup.

 

I'm leaning toward number 1, but that's probably because I'm more
familiar with exchange 2000 than X2K3 and that was the only way then.

 

Thanks for any insights,

 

Bill Songstad

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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RE: to RSG or to not RSG

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

It affects everyone.  I need to restore the entire Datastore.  I had a
mainboard failure and restored the server to crappy temporary hardware.
Now the new hardware is ready and I want to move the live data to the
new hardware.  I didn't do it with swing migrations because it took less
time to reboot into the crappy hardware than it would have to build a
machine to swing to.  I prepped the new machine using one half the
broken mirror from the original machine.  Now I have two clones of the
same machine and one has to come off line while I bring the other up.
AD should be none the wiser.   Then I restore the current database and
go on my merry way.

 

Bill Songstad

 

-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 8:57 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: to RSG or to not RSG

 

 

You have to answer first - what is the goal? Why are you doing the
restore? Does it impact all users or just one (or a few?).

 

Regards,

 

Michael B. Smith

MCSE/Exchange MVP

http://TheEssentialExchange.com

 

From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 11:38 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: to RSG or to not RSG

 

 

I find myself needing to restore my entire datastore.  The question is,
is it better to:

 

1) Restore the database directly to the First Storage Group or 

2) Restore to a recovery storage group and use exmerge to bring the data
up to date or

3) Restore to a recovery storage group, dismount both stores and copy
the recovered files to the live location or

4) Use an entirely different plan of which I'm as yet unaware

 

It is perfectly acceptable to bring the datastore offline.

 

What are the pros and cons of each strategy?

 

My biggest concerns are stability and integrity of the final data, and
total time spent by yours truly.

 

I'm running Exchange 2003 SP2 and NtBackup.

 

I'm leaning toward number 1, but that's probably because I'm more
familiar with exchange 2000 than X2K3 and that was the only way then.

 

Thanks for any insights,

 

Bill Songstad

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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to RSG or to not RSG

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

I find myself needing to restore my entire datastore.  The question is,
is it better to:

 

1) Restore the database directly to the First Storage Group or 

2) Restore to a recovery storage group and use exmerge to bring the data
up to date or

3) Restore to a recovery storage group, dismount both stores and copy
the recovered files to the live location or

4) Use an entirely different plan of which I'm as yet unaware

 

It is perfectly acceptable to bring the datastore offline.

 

What are the pros and cons of each strategy?

 

My biggest concerns are stability and integrity of the final data, and
total time spent by yours truly.

 

I'm running Exchange 2003 SP2 and NtBackup.

 

I'm leaning toward number 1, but that's probably because I'm more
familiar with exchange 2000 than X2K3 and that was the only way then.

 

Thanks for any insights,

 

Bill Songstad

 


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RE: Motorola KRZR K1 and activesync

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

I use self signed certs for activesync on our phones, and the way I get
them installed on the phones is by exporting the cert from the server
and transferring them to the phones via usb cable.  Double clicking the
cert on the phone installs it.  Then activesync works.  Not an option of
course, if you have lots of phones, but if you have lots of phones,
buying a cert from a trusted source shouldn't be a problem.  For that
matter, now that prices are under $100 a year, it is hard for me to
justify the PITA that is self signed certs either.

 

Bill Songstad

 

 

-Original Message-
From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 8:46 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Motorola KRZR K1 and activesync

 

 

That rocks!
I have used p2ktools before, but this phone is giving me issues. Now
that I know it can be done, I'll keep at it!

Thanks!
jlc

 

From: Troy Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 9:31 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Motorola KRZR K1 and activesync

 

 

Joe,

 

It looks like this is for a different phone, but it might work for  the
K1

 

http://bloggit.livejournal.com/

 

good luck. if all else fails you might try contacting your service
provider and ask about adding a new trusted root certificate

 

-troy

 

From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 8:20 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Motorola KRZR K1 and activesync

 

 

My PDA tanked, I was hoping to use my K1 phone as it supports
activesync. Problem is I am using a self signed cert. Any way around
this without disabling the need for https on as? If not, what is a safe
cert company to use that will surely gen a cert that works on the phone
and allows many SANs as I have about 3-4 I use!

 

Thanks!
jlc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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RE: shrinking font

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

We've tried Arial, Times New Roman, and Lucida Sans.  The problem exists
in the same way for each.  I'm pretty sure it has something to do with
the way Outlook translates the font size from Pixels on the Mac to
Points on the PC. Someone gave me a tip to check if the messages are
composed in RTF on the PC.  I'll play with that later this morning to
see if it has an effect.

 

Bill Songstad

Director of Technology & Operations |  Washington Credit Union League

[EMAIL PROTECTED]  |  206.340.4837  |  800.552.0680 ext. 117  |
www.waleague.org

Washington's Credit Unions. together. better.

 

-Original Message-
From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 6:13 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: shrinking font

 

 

Is it a standard font or something downloaded from the net?  Has she
tried other fonts?

 

  _  

From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 7:14 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: shrinking font

 

I know this isn't a Mac forum, but it is the highest concentration of
messaging brains I can find.  Hopefully someone can help me with this
annoyance.  

 

I have a user running Entourage 2004 (11.2.3) and whenever she sends
HTML email to one user (outlook 2002 sp3) on the same Exchange Server
(exchange 2003) the fonts mysteriously shrink.  She sends at 14
(entourage fonts are sized in pixels) and they arrive at 10.5 (points on
the PC, not pixels).  Then if the recipient replies, they come back to
the Mac at 10.5 (pixels, which is 8.5 point).  Now if the Mac replies
back, they shrink yet again. This goes on until they get too small to
read and they start a new thread.  This happens sometimes when she sends
to other users, even to outside users, but not predictably.  Sometimes
it is progressive, and sometimes it is not.  It seems to be consistent
between the two however.

 

Does anybody understand why this translation is going wonky, or what I
can do to stop it?

 

Bill Songstad

 

 

 

 

 

 


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shrinking font

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

I know this isn't a Mac forum, but it is the highest concentration of
messaging brains I can find.  Hopefully someone can help me with this
annoyance.  

 

I have a user running Entourage 2004 (11.2.3) and whenever she sends
HTML email to one user (outlook 2002 sp3) on the same Exchange Server
(exchange 2003) the fonts mysteriously shrink.  She sends at 14
(entourage fonts are sized in pixels) and they arrive at 10.5 (points on
the PC, not pixels).  Then if the recipient replies, they come back to
the Mac at 10.5 (pixels, which is 8.5 point).  Now if the Mac replies
back, they shrink yet again. This goes on until they get too small to
read and they start a new thread.  This happens sometimes when she sends
to other users, even to outside users, but not predictably.  Sometimes
it is progressive, and sometimes it is not.  It seems to be consistent
between the two however.

 

Does anybody understand why this translation is going wonky, or what I
can do to stop it?

 

Bill Songstad

 


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RE: Blackberry question

[Bill Songstad (WCUL)]

It is my experience that is often more productive for the users to
choose their tools and let me learn how to support them than it is to
try to expect lusers to learn the solutions that I want to support.  Of
course that falls apart when we are talking about significantly
complicated solutions.  But as others have pointed out, the BES isn't
that complicated.  It might actually be easier for you to adapt than it
would be for them to learn new thumbnastics.

 

Just my two cents...

 

 

Bill Songstad

 

-Original Message-
From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 2:32 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Blackberry question

 

 

Ya, I know, we've had discussions about it before.  But since you've now
admitted it again, here's the thing:

 

Is it worth the expenditure, both in time, and money (server, if needed,
software CALs, and, not least, new phones) to please one or two people
by implementing a BB solution?  Or should I just come out and tell the
Executive Director that he is a tool, and simply can't figure out how to
charge his phone? (It's charging just nicely now, on my coworker's
desk...)

 

 


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