RE: GFI - Ugh
Hi guys, Thank you for all of your opinions and help, including off-list. I wanted to give you an update, since I should report the good with the bad. The bad was the way this was handled by GFI in the first place. That was explained in my first email. But the good is that a couple of different people from GFI spoke with me today and we have cleared this up. They are going to credit me the money they charged me. So, I wanted to thank them publicly for taking the time to explain their position and to help make this right. Evan ___ Evan A. Brastow Automated Emblem Supplies, Inc. 61 Green Street Foxboro, MA 02035-2865 Phone: (508) 543-6511 Ext. 109 Fax: (508) 543-6512 Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still. - Chinese Proverb From: John Matteson [mailto:john.matte...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 5:38 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: GFI - Ugh Hi Evan: I think that's called ILLEGAL. Don't swallow the lost money, make a stink about it, first with the sales department, then with the higher up's in the company. Quotes are legally binding documents once they are executed. John M. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 12:17 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: GFI - Ugh Interesting experience this week that I thought I would share. We use GFI MailEssentials and MailSecurity. Not really thrilled with it, but when Sunbelt merged into GFI, we ended up going down that route. The other day, I get an email saying our maintenance will expire in 60 days. I follow the link and renew for a year. I then get an email from a GFI sales rep saying that what I had renewed wasn't correct. They would send me a new quote. They did. It was higher than what I'd ordered from their original email. I told them I'd have to look at some other options but may not going through with the renewal. Then they tell me there are no refunds, so I will lose the $503 they originally charged me for the product I renewed from the link they sent in their email that was incorrect. What a bait-and-switch! Here, renew this. Thanks. We have your money. Oops, we sent you the wrong renewal quote. The actual one is higher. No refunds. I doubt Sunbelt would have ever done that. Anyway, who has a good suggestion for anti-spam products that would integrate well in an Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2007 environment? Thanks all, Evan --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
RE: [Bulk] WAV files in Outlook
Nope, but I shall now. Thank you! Evan From: Orland, Kathleen [mailto:korl...@rogers.com] Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 4:22 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: [Bulk] WAV files in Outlook Did you read this? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926512 From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 1:56 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: [Bulk] WAV files in Outlook Hi all, Happy New Year and thanks to so many people that have helped me for the, gosh I don't know, 13 or 14 years I think I've been on this list. Quick question, maybe? My users are getting tired of the usual warning message they get when they go to open a .wav file from within Outlook 2007 (voicemail, for instance.) Is there a way of getting Outlook to not pop up the You should only open attachments from a trustworthy source message box every time they go to open a wav file? Thanks very much! Evan --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.comhttp://www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.2805 / Virus Database: 2637/5997 - Release Date: 12/30/12 --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
RE: Sending email from a hotfolder?
Thanks Rob. I've never done any scripting with Exchange. I may have to do it as a last resort, but I'm really hoping there's an off-the-shelf solution similar to Drop2Mail but that works on Exchange 2010. I appreciate the reply! Evan From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 4:04 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sending email from a hotfolder? I'm using the EWS Managed API, via Powershell scripts running as scheduled tasks. Glen Scales has an excellent blog that has many examples of how to use the API with Powershell. I can provide you with some code samples from my scripts if you need more help. http://gsexdev.blogspot.com/ From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 2:18 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Sending email from a hotfolder? You know how sometimes a search on Google gets you into the Dark Side of the Internet? I'm looking for a program that will run on a workstation and will monitor folders. When a text file shows up in a folder, it will email the text file out to whatever address(es) are configured for that folder. We're using Outlook 2007 and Exchange 2010 Enterprise. I found Drop2Mail (http://www.4-tech-engineering.com/software/drop2mail/drop2mail.htm) which is perfect, except I can't get it to connect to my Exchange server. I have a feeling it's too old of a program and can't talk to Exchange 2010. Anyone know of anything current out there that could just monitor a hotfolder and send an email to a specified address when a file shows up? Searching Google got me to a lot of those free-downloads-for-you-with-bonus-virus.com websites. Thanks, Evan --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist ** Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. ** --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
RE: Sending email from a hotfolder?
Thanks everyone for the replies. I couldn't get Drop2Mail working, even when setting up a receive connector (which I'd forgotten about - thank you Richard.) I ended up using WinAutomation (can't remember who suggested that, and can't find the email that I read it from.. but someone did) and it's working very well! Thanks as always for your time. Evan From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 11:25 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Sending email from a hotfolder? Do you need to create a receive connector to allow the drop2mail computer's ip to relay through your Exchange server? Or perhaps configure SMTP authentication instead? Those seem likely causes of why you're having trouble with drop2mail. Do you have any more info. on why it doesn't work as configured? Have you turned up SMTP logging and checked the results? Another solution would be to use File Watcher from Datamystic to monitor the folders, and something like blat to send the e-mail. I have used File Watcher with good success to automatically print pdf files that get dropped into any of several monitored folders. The issue with File Watcher is that it does not itself run as a service, so you either need to have an account logged on all the time, or use something like FireDaemon to keep it going. (I have not tried srvany, though that might work too.) Good luck, RS On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Evan Brastow ebras...@automatedemblem.commailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com wrote: Thanks Rob. I've never done any scripting with Exchange. I may have to do it as a last resort, but I'm really hoping there's an off-the-shelf solution similar to Drop2Mail but that works on Exchange 2010. I appreciate the reply! Evan From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.netmailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 4:04 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sending email from a hotfolder? I’m using the EWS Managed API, via Powershell scripts running as scheduled tasks. Glen Scales has an excellent blog that has many examples of how to use the API with Powershell. I can provide you with some code samples from my scripts if you need more help. http://gsexdev.blogspot.com/ From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 2:18 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Sending email from a hotfolder? You know how sometimes a search on Google gets you into the Dark Side of the Internet? I'm looking for a program that will run on a workstation and will monitor folders. When a text file shows up in a folder, it will email the text file out to whatever address(es) are configured for that folder. We're using Outlook 2007 and Exchange 2010 Enterprise. I found Drop2Mail (http://www.4-tech-engineering.com/software/drop2mail/drop2mail.htm) which is perfect, except I can't get it to connect to my Exchange server. I have a feeling it's too old of a program and can't talk to Exchange 2010. Anyone know of anything current out there that could just monitor a hotfolder and send an email to a specified address when a file shows up? Searching Google got me to a lot of those free-downloads-for-you-with-bonus-virus.comhttp://free-downloads-for-you-with-bonus-virus.com/ websites. Thanks, Evan --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist ** Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. ** --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com
RE: Archiving (again)
Hi Dave, I'd like to get it off the Exchange server so that I can free up resources and essentially keep my email server fast while people are searching archives. Again, since speed is my concern far more so than storage, I'm figuring throwing twice the hardware at a problem will help :) Thanks, Evan -Original Message- From: Dave Wade [mailto:dave.w...@stockport.gov.uk] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 5:27 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Archiving (again) Why do you want to get the data off the Exchange server? Exchange now has fairly minimal requirements for i/o so you no longer need high performance storage. Since SP1 whilst the archives MUST be on AN Exchange server it does not need to be the same server that the primary database is on. Even if it is on the same server you can have some slower storage for the archives. Sadly I did find that the OWA search only searches a single datastore so you need to select the archive to search, but at least its accessible from OWA by default without having to add extra's in. Dave Wade -Original Message- From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: 13 March 2012 19:10 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Archiving (again) I think I may have asked this a year or two ago, but, here I am again. A while back I bought the Exchange Archiver from Sunbelt, and found out that they didn't recommend putting it on a DC. So, it went on the backburner for a little over a year, and a few weeks ago, I freed up a server and reinstalled it as a member server. I was now ready to install the archiver. Found out that the product was sold off to Metalogix. So, I talked to them and they told me a tech wouldn't be available to do the install (over the phone) for two weeks. I made the appointment and waited. As it turns out, Metalogix support is horrible. I've been put off four times now about doing the install... each time they say they can do it, then they either never call me, or email me and say they're too busy. So, I'd like to give up on this product, but I'd like to know what current products you guys are having good luck with? Essentially I've got an Exchange 2010 Enterprise Server with just a few (less than 25) mailboxes and a total store of 155 GB. My reason for archiving is to get the mail off the Exchange server and onto a separate server, and have it be indexed so that people can search large mailboxes very quickly. I don't think Exchange's native archiving would work for me because from what I've read it has to be done on the same server as the Exchange server, so I don't think that's going to speed up searches. Any other products I could look at? Thanks, as always, Evan --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist ** The Council has launched its Streets Ahead initiative to show how we can keep Stockport moving during the winter months. For all the latest news visit the new web pages at www.stockport.gov.uk/streetsahead This email, and any files transmitted with it, is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. As a public body, the Council may be required to disclose this email, or any response to it, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, unless the information in it is covered by one of the exemptions in the Act. If you receive this email in error please notify Stockport ICT, Corporate Support Services via email.qu...@stockport.gov.uk and then permanently remove it from your system. Thank you. http://www.stockport.gov.uk ** --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
RE: Archiving (again)
My current issue is that although the install was supposed to be done by a level 2 tech this morning, it was postponed because he forgot to mention last night that the Exchange 2010 server needed to be at SP2 rollup 1, which mine is not. My bigger issue is a concern about something else he told me - that he has seen many times where updating to SP2 rollup 1 completely bombs the server and it has to be restored from backups. Are there some things I could do before running SP2 R1 that would minimize the chances of this happening!? Thanks, Evan -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 9:11 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Archiving (again) Our biggest issue with Sunbelt is that they were totally wrong in the estimate of how much storage was required. What was supposed to handle 5 years filled in just over a year. -Paul -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 4:57 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Archiving (again) I concur on their less than ideal support but once set up the software is pretty much set and forget. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families - Original Message - From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 02:39 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Archiving (again) I think I may have asked this a year or two ago, but, here I am again. A while back I bought the Exchange Archiver from Sunbelt, and found out that they didn't recommend putting it on a DC. So, it went on the backburner for a little over a year, and a few weeks ago, I freed up a server and reinstalled it as a member server. I was now ready to install the archiver. Found out that the product was sold off to Metalogix. So, I talked to them and they told me a tech wouldn't be available to do the install (over the phone) for two weeks. I made the appointment and waited. As it turns out, Metalogix support is horrible. I've been put off four times now about doing the install... each time they say they can do it, then they either never call me, or email me and say they're too busy. So, I'd like to give up on this product, but I'd like to know what current products you guys are having good luck with? Essentially I've got an Exchange 2010 Enterprise Server with just a few (less than 25) mailboxes and a total store of 155 GB. My reason for archiving is to get the mail off the Exchange server and onto a separate server, and have it be indexed so that people can search large mailboxes very quickly. I don't think Exchange's native archiving would work for me because from what I've read it has to be done on the same server as the Exchange server, so I don't think that's going to speed up searches. Any other products I could look at? Thanks, as always, Evan --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal penalties. Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
RE: Archiving (again)
Well, since I have very few users, everyone is online anyway. Not an issue for me... yet :) Thanks, Evan -Original Message- From: Jason Benway [mailto:benw...@jsjcorp.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:15 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Archiving (again) With Exchange archive mailboxes aren't they accessed online so the clients being always connected put an extra resource strain on the exchange server. Isn't cache mode one of the ways Microsoft got the server requirements so low on 2010? If I setup everyone with an archive mailbox won't I be back to ~2003-2007 server requirements because of all the online mailboxes? jb -Original Message- From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 10:19 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Archiving (again) Hi Dave, I'd like to get it off the Exchange server so that I can free up resources and essentially keep my email server fast while people are searching archives. Again, since speed is my concern far more so than storage, I'm figuring throwing twice the hardware at a problem will help :) Thanks, Evan -Original Message- From: Dave Wade [mailto:dave.w...@stockport.gov.uk] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 5:27 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Archiving (again) Why do you want to get the data off the Exchange server? Exchange now has fairly minimal requirements for i/o so you no longer need high performance storage. Since SP1 whilst the archives MUST be on AN Exchange server it does not need to be the same server that the primary database is on. Even if it is on the same server you can have some slower storage for the archives. Sadly I did find that the OWA search only searches a single datastore so you need to select the archive to search, but at least its accessible from OWA by default without having to add extra's in. Dave Wade -Original Message- From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: 13 March 2012 19:10 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Archiving (again) I think I may have asked this a year or two ago, but, here I am again. A while back I bought the Exchange Archiver from Sunbelt, and found out that they didn't recommend putting it on a DC. So, it went on the backburner for a little over a year, and a few weeks ago, I freed up a server and reinstalled it as a member server. I was now ready to install the archiver. Found out that the product was sold off to Metalogix. So, I talked to them and they told me a tech wouldn't be available to do the install (over the phone) for two weeks. I made the appointment and waited. As it turns out, Metalogix support is horrible. I've been put off four times now about doing the install... each time they say they can do it, then they either never call me, or email me and say they're too busy. So, I'd like to give up on this product, but I'd like to know what current products you guys are having good luck with? Essentially I've got an Exchange 2010 Enterprise Server with just a few (less than 25) mailboxes and a total store of 155 GB. My reason for archiving is to get the mail off the Exchange server and onto a separate server, and have it be indexed so that people can search large mailboxes very quickly. I don't think Exchange's native archiving would work for me because from what I've read it has to be done on the same server as the Exchange server, so I don't think that's going to speed up searches. Any other products I could look at? Thanks, as always, Evan --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist ** The Council has launched its Streets Ahead initiative to show how we can keep Stockport moving during the winter months. For all the latest news visit the new web pages at www.stockport.gov.uk/streetsahead This email, and any files transmitted with it, is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. As a public body, the Council may be required to disclose this email, or any response to it, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, unless the information in it is covered by one of the exemptions in the Act. If you receive this email in error please notify Stockport ICT, Corporate Support Services via email.qu...@stockport.gov.uk and then permanently remove it from your system. Thank you. http://www.stockport.gov.uk ** --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com
RE: Archiving (again)
Hmm... didn't think I was beating a dead horse... that's the first time I asked that question :) I was only asking the list to see if people had had any experience that was similar to this tech's. Thought it might be a prudent thing to do when someone tells you something that could be quite disturbing to your business should it happen. Evan -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:25 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Archiving (again) My bigger issue is a concern about something else he told me - that he has seen many times where updating to SP2 rollup 1 completely bombs the server and it has to be restored from backups. Yeah, sure... And MS has not seen it, but he has? Don't you think it would be pulled if it were possibly bad? I'd also hazard to suggest that MS may have installed it one or three times more than he has? Are there some things I could do before running SP2 R1 that would minimize the chances of this happening!? Turn the page, I think you have beat that dead horse enough? --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
RE: Archiving (again)
Thanks Michael... exactly what I needed! Evan -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:38 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Archiving (again) Malarkey. Tell him he's fully of it. And that I said so. :-) But yes, I have a process/procedure of the proper way to prepare for installing service packs and update rollups to minimize ANY risk: http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2011/12/07/installing-exchange-2010-service-pack-2.aspx Regards, Michael B. -Original Message- From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 10:22 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Archiving (again) My current issue is that although the install was supposed to be done by a level 2 tech this morning, it was postponed because he forgot to mention last night that the Exchange 2010 server needed to be at SP2 rollup 1, which mine is not. My bigger issue is a concern about something else he told me - that he has seen many times where updating to SP2 rollup 1 completely bombs the server and it has to be restored from backups. Are there some things I could do before running SP2 R1 that would minimize the chances of this happening!? Thanks, Evan -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 9:11 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Archiving (again) Our biggest issue with Sunbelt is that they were totally wrong in the estimate of how much storage was required. What was supposed to handle 5 years filled in just over a year. -Paul -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 4:57 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Archiving (again) I concur on their less than ideal support but once set up the software is pretty much set and forget. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families - Original Message - From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 02:39 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Archiving (again) I think I may have asked this a year or two ago, but, here I am again. A while back I bought the Exchange Archiver from Sunbelt, and found out that they didn't recommend putting it on a DC. So, it went on the backburner for a little over a year, and a few weeks ago, I freed up a server and reinstalled it as a member server. I was now ready to install the archiver. Found out that the product was sold off to Metalogix. So, I talked to them and they told me a tech wouldn't be available to do the install (over the phone) for two weeks. I made the appointment and waited. As it turns out, Metalogix support is horrible. I've been put off four times now about doing the install... each time they say they can do it, then they either never call me, or email me and say they're too busy. So, I'd like to give up on this product, but I'd like to know what current products you guys are having good luck with? Essentially I've got an Exchange 2010 Enterprise Server with just a few (less than 25) mailboxes and a total store of 155 GB. My reason for archiving is to get the mail off the Exchange server and onto a separate server, and have it be indexed so that people can search large mailboxes very quickly. I don't think Exchange's native archiving would work for me because from what I've read it has to be done on the same server as the Exchange server, so I don't think that's going to speed up searches. Any other products I could look at? Thanks, as always, Evan --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal penalties. Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions
RE: Archiving (again)
Hi Joseph, No problem at all, my friend. I wasn't offended... merely bewildered... lol Thanks, Evan -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 3:10 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Archiving (again) Hmm... didn't think I was beating a dead horse... that's the first time I asked that question :) I was only asking the list to see if people had had any experience that was similar to this tech's. Thought it might be a prudent thing to do when someone tells you something that could be quite disturbing to your business should it happen. Sorry Evan, I didn't mean to offend you, you misunderstood me. I meant drop the software, you have been chasing them long enough and to add to that, they don't appear to know that much about exchange. jlc --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
Archiving (again)
I think I may have asked this a year or two ago, but, here I am again. A while back I bought the Exchange Archiver from Sunbelt, and found out that they didn't recommend putting it on a DC. So, it went on the backburner for a little over a year, and a few weeks ago, I freed up a server and reinstalled it as a member server. I was now ready to install the archiver. Found out that the product was sold off to Metalogix. So, I talked to them and they told me a tech wouldn't be available to do the install (over the phone) for two weeks. I made the appointment and waited. As it turns out, Metalogix support is horrible. I've been put off four times now about doing the install... each time they say they can do it, then they either never call me, or email me and say they're too busy. So, I'd like to give up on this product, but I'd like to know what current products you guys are having good luck with? Essentially I've got an Exchange 2010 Enterprise Server with just a few (less than 25) mailboxes and a total store of 155 GB. My reason for archiving is to get the mail off the Exchange server and onto a separate server, and have it be indexed so that people can search large mailboxes very quickly. I don't think Exchange's native archiving would work for me because from what I've read it has to be done on the same server as the Exchange server, so I don't think that's going to speed up searches. Any other products I could look at? Thanks, as always, Evan --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
Archiving (again)
I think I may have asked this a year or two ago, but, here I am again. A while back I bought the Exchange Archiver from Sunbelt, and found out that they didn't recommend putting it on a DC. So, it went on the backburner for a little over a year, and a few weeks ago, I freed up a server and reinstalled it as a member server. I was now ready to install the archiver. Found out that the product was sold off to Metalogix. So, I talked to them and they told me a tech wouldn't be available to do the install (over the phone) for two weeks. I made the appointment and waited. As it turns out, Metalogix support is horrible. I've been put off four times now about doing the install... each time they say they can do it, then they either never call me, or email me and say they're too busy. So, I'd like to give up on this product, but I'd like to know what current products you guys are having good luck with? Essentially I've got an Exchange 2010 Enterprise Server with just a few (less than 25) mailboxes and a total store of 155 GB. My reason for archiving is to get the mail off the Exchange server and onto a separate server, and have it be indexed so that people can search large mailboxes very quickly. I don't think Exchange's native archiving would work for me because from what I've read it has to be done on the same server as the Exchange server, so I don't think that's going to speed up searches. Any other products I could look at? Thanks, as always, Evan --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
RE: Backup
That's what he's talking about :) Windows Server Backup will backup your Exchange databases. Many people use it to backup Exchange. Evan From: Lynden A. Philadelphia [mailto:lphiladelp...@philadelphiagroup.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 7:44 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup Thanks, but I just want to backup Exchange not the entire server. Lynden P THINK GREEN before you PRINT SCREEN From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: June-15-11 7:22 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backup Windows Server Backup. It's built in. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Lynden A. Philadelphia [mailto:lphiladelp...@philadelphiagroup.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 6:32 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Backup Is there a relatively inexpensive (or even free) backup solution for Exchange 2010? Lynden P THINK GREEN before you PRINT SCREEN This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message in not the intended recipient or the employer or agent responsible for delivering the message to the recipient, you are hereby notified that dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify me immediately by email or telephone, and delete this message and all of its attachments. Thank You. --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message in not the intended recipient or the employer or agent responsible for delivering the message to the recipient, you are hereby notified that dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify me immediately by email or telephone, and delete this message and all of its attachments. Thank You. --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
RE: Is there an Outlook tool for this?
From: Matt Moore [mailto:mattmoore...@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 10:02 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Is there an Outlook tool for this? I was thinking of responding but then I said to myself, If you can't say something nice, don't say anything Oooops was that my outside voice? Perhaps a new customer service rep M From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 9:30 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Is there an Outlook tool for this? Hi guys, I have a customer service employee that is having some issues lately. Twice in the past month, she has accidentally put an address in the To: field of her emails that shouldn't be there. In other words, she sent an email to customer A, and accidentally put an address from customer B in there as well. Customer B received the email meant for customer A and was quite upset (because their pricing is different - long story.) Anyway. I looked at MAPILab but didn't see anything for this, but what I'm hoping for is that there might be an tool that could analyze an email before sending, and if there are two different domains in the To; or Cc: fields, it will alert the sender. Anyone know of anything like that? Thanks, Evan --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelistinline: image001.jpginline: image002.jpg
RE: 2010 Practical mailbox size limitations?
Michael, Thanks vey much for your reply. I do appreciate it. When you say mainline folders should have fewer than 100k items, I guess my two follow up questions are: 1) Is that due to speed concerns, or, again, stability? and 2) What about non-mainline folders? For example, a user-created customer x folder that, over, 10 years may accumulate hundreds of thousands of emails? I'm going to be upgrading my main customer service reps' computers shortly, and 8GB of RAM and SSD's are not out the question if it means they can better service customers :) Thanks, Evan From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 3:59 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: 2010 Practical mailbox size limitations? Stability? No. Speed? Perhaps. The mainline folders should have 100K or fewer items in them (e.g., Inbox, Sent Items, Deleted Items, etc.). Also, without getting into too much detail on the structure of an OST (you can find it on Microsoft's technet if you are really interested), there is a folder of folders. Basically a folder that contains pointers to every other folder. You don't want that to approach 100K items either. Also, once you get above the 10-15 GB mark, you should be looking at least at 7200 RPM disk; and above 30 GB you might want to look at SSD. Plus assume that Outlook is going to use 2 GB RAM. Now, that's all client side. On the server side, Exchange doesn't care one bit. Validation was done up to 100 GB and the published maximum size is 16 TB (although not a validated size). In fact, you can logically assume that a Public Folder database is a single mailbox. There are people with PF databases that are many hundreds of GB in size. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 3:41 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: 2010 Practical mailbox size limitations? Hi guys, Happy New Year :) Thanks to everyone that's helped throughout this year and so many others! Quick question. In Exchange 2010, is there a recommended size limit for mailboxes? I'm trying to figure out, from a database perspective, why there would be. Whether 10 mailboxes combine to make 10GB, or one mailbox is 10GB, I wouldn't think it would make much difference. We're using Exchange 2010 Enterprise, and using Outlook 2007 clients that are used online with Exchange (not cached.) My reason for asking is that I would like to get mail items out of PST's for one of our mailboxes, and this could cause the mailbox to grow to about 20-40GB in size. I'm trying to figure out of this poses a stability risk. Thoughts? Thanks, Evan --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
2010 Practical mailbox size limitations?
Hi guys, Happy New Year :) Thanks to everyone that's helped throughout this year and so many others! Quick question. In Exchange 2010, is there a recommended size limit for mailboxes? I'm trying to figure out, from a database perspective, why there would be. Whether 10 mailboxes combine to make 10GB, or one mailbox is 10GB, I wouldn't think it would make much difference. We're using Exchange 2010 Enterprise, and using Outlook 2007 clients that are used online with Exchange (not cached.) My reason for asking is that I would like to get mail items out of PST's for one of our mailboxes, and this could cause the mailbox to grow to about 20-40GB in size. I'm trying to figure out of this poses a stability risk. Thoughts? Thanks, Evan --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
RE: Anyone using Quest Exchange Archiver?
Thanks Michael. Comforting to know that I won't be done evaluating these until mid 2014. :-/ Evan From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 11:39 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone using Quest Exchange Archiver? 80-ish from the small to the large. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 10:15 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone using Quest Exchange Archiver? Thanks. I haven't even looked at the Barracuda Message Archiver. Geez there are a lot of solutions for this out there! :) Thanks again, Evan From: Ray [mailto:rz...@qwest.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 5:12 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone using Quest Exchange Archiver? We use Barracuda. I'd be leery of anything from Quest. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 1:59 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Anyone using Quest Exchange Archiver? Just looking for opinions on it. We're a small installation, but have some very large mailboxes that I'd like to archive. I've not had great luck getting a lot of info from Sunbelt, so I'm continuing research into other solutions. Quest seems to look pretty good to me. Thoughts? Thanks, Evan --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
RE: Anyone using Quest Exchange Archiver?
Thanks Stefan. I may contact you off list with a couple of more specific questions if that's okay... Evan From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 9:03 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone using Quest Exchange Archiver? I'm using the SEA Archiver 250 users, about 6 mil e-mails archived in 18 months, what do you need to know? I'm very happy with it. SJ On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Evan Brastow ebras...@automatedemblem.commailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com wrote: Just looking for opinions on it. We're a small installation, but have some very large mailboxes that I'd like to archive. I've not had great luck getting a lot of info from Sunbelt, so I'm continuing research into other solutions. Quest seems to look pretty good to me. Thoughts? Thanks, Evan --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist -- Stefan Jafs --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
RE: Rules firing only once... any thoughts?
Hmm... thanks John. Trying to find that setting... No luck so far. From: John C Owen [mailto:jo...@efotobooth.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 5:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Rules firing only once... any thoughts? I believe, like in the OOO, that you can set the rule to reply to every message versus only one message per sender per day From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 5:14 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Rules firing only once... any thoughts? Me again. A while back I had inquired about a problem I had where I set up an Outlook 2007 rule on a mailbox whose purpose was to reply to each and every email that comes in to that Inbox with a We have received your mail kind of template mail. My problem was that it would only fire once for each unique sender. So, here I am a while later, and I'm trying to fix that issue. My approach was to take all of the customer email domains and set up a rule that says: --- Apply this rule after the message arrives with customerdomain1.com or customerdomain2.com orcustomerdomain3.com orcustomerdomain4.com orcustomerdomain5.com in the sender's address reply using c:\users\username\appdata\roaming\microsoft\templates\Thank you for your email.oft --- There will actually be a little over 100 domain names in this rule. My problem remains the same, though... it's treating it as if it's an OOO it only fires once for every domain name. What am I doing wrong? It would be ideal if I didn't even have to specify the domain name and could just make a rule that said, when an email arrives, reply using this template. But, as I said above, I tried that, and it only sent the reply once for each email sender. I thought this approach would fix it, but it didn't. Thanks for any nuggets of wisdom. Google has failed me thus far. Evan --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
FW: Rules firing only once... any thoughts?
Okay... cancel this question. I bought a 3rd part plugin that seems to do the trick. Thanks, Evan From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 5:14 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Rules firing only once... any thoughts? Me again. A while back I had inquired about a problem I had where I set up an Outlook 2007 rule on a mailbox whose purpose was to reply to each and every email that comes in to that Inbox with a We have received your mail kind of template mail. My problem was that it would only fire once for each unique sender. So, here I am a while later, and I'm trying to fix that issue. My approach was to take all of the customer email domains and set up a rule that says: --- Apply this rule after the message arrives with customerdomain1.com or customerdomain2.com orcustomerdomain3.com orcustomerdomain4.com orcustomerdomain5.com in the sender's address reply using c:\users\username\appdata\roaming\microsoft\templates\Thank you for your email.oft --- There will actually be a little over 100 domain names in this rule. My problem remains the same, though... it's treating it as if it's an OOO it only fires once for every domain name. What am I doing wrong? It would be ideal if I didn't even have to specify the domain name and could just make a rule that said, when an email arrives, reply using this template. But, as I said above, I tried that, and it only sent the reply once for each email sender. I thought this approach would fix it, but it didn't. Thanks for any nuggets of wisdom. Google has failed me thus far. Evan --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
Anyone using Quest Exchange Archiver?
Just looking for opinions on it. We're a small installation, but have some very large mailboxes that I'd like to archive. I've not had great luck getting a lot of info from Sunbelt, so I'm continuing research into other solutions. Quest seems to look pretty good to me. Thoughts? Thanks, Evan --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
RE: Anyone using Quest Exchange Archiver?
Thanks. I haven't even looked at the Barracuda Message Archiver. Geez there are a lot of solutions for this out there! :) Thanks again, Evan From: Ray [mailto:rz...@qwest.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 5:12 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone using Quest Exchange Archiver? We use Barracuda. I'd be leery of anything from Quest. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 1:59 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Anyone using Quest Exchange Archiver? Just looking for opinions on it. We're a small installation, but have some very large mailboxes that I'd like to archive. I've not had great luck getting a lot of info from Sunbelt, so I'm continuing research into other solutions. Quest seems to look pretty good to me. Thoughts? Thanks, Evan --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
RE: Exchange fails Windows 2008 Server Backup consistency check...
Thanks Michael. It looks like all is going well with the VSS writer until this
message (which appears as informational, not an error) shows up:
Log Name: Application
Source:wsbexchange
Date: 10/10/2010 12:01:49 PM
Event ID: 0
Task Category: None
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: (servername).(domainname).com
Description:
The description for Event ID 0 from source wsbexchange cannot be found. Either
the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or
the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the
local computer.
If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be
saved with the event.
The following information was included with the event:
Service started
Then, about 17 minutes later, I get four messages like this:
Log Name: Application
Source:MSExchange ADAccess
Date: 10/10/2010 12:18:32 PM
Event ID: 2159
Task Category: Validation
Level: Warning
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: (servername).(domainname).com
Description:
Process Microsoft.Exchange.RpcClientAccess.Service.exe (PID=2000).
Configuration object CN=SMTP
((oldemailservername)-{8D797B77-4399-4CC8-A6AD-FDF51AD812DC}),CN=Connections,CN=(removed),CN=Microsoft
Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=(removed),DC=com read from
(domaincontrollername).(domainname).com failed validation and will be excluded
from the result set. Set event logging level for Validation category to Expert
to get additional events about each failure.
Of note is that in the second message, it looks like it's talking about our old
email server, which we moved mailboxes from a while ago but have not yet
decommisioned.The section, Configuration object CN=SMTP
((oldemailservername)-{8D797B77-4399-4CC8-A6AD-FDF51AD812DC}) has in it the
name of our old email server, not the new one.
I have increased logging and will try to re-run the backup tonight to see what
happens.
Thanks,
Evan
-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 7:02 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange fails Windows 2008 Server Backup consistency check...
Where/how/when does it fail the consistency check?
The Application event log is your friend.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com]
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 10:50 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange fails Windows 2008 Server Backup consistency check...
Hrmmm... okay, I've been trying to use Windows 2008 Server Backup to make an
Exchange 2010 Enterprise backup, but it *always* fails the consistency check.
I can Google and find out what my options are, but I wanted to maybe get some
opinions from the brilliant minds on this list first (and Shook, even) about
what my first step SHOULD be.
(Don't hurt me)
Thanks!
Evan
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Exchange fails Windows 2008 Server Backup consistency check...
Hrmmm... okay, I've been trying to use Windows 2008 Server Backup to make an Exchange 2010 Enterprise backup, but it *always* fails the consistency check. I can Google and find out what my options are, but I wanted to maybe get some opinions from the brilliant minds on this list first (and Shook, even) about what my first step SHOULD be. (Don't hurt me) Thanks! Evan --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
RE: Can I change the from to a group?
I went through this with an orders address. I eventually ended up creating a separate mailbox with the orders address, then having our customer service people open that mailbox within Outlook. Not only does this mean that when they reply to or compose a message, it comes from the orders address, but it also keeps all the mail in one place and not being delivered to everyone's mailboxes separately, like a DL does. I also have every Cc orders when they email, so we see outgoing mail as well as incoming in the Inbox. Works for us :) Evan From: Steve Hart [mailto:sh...@wrightbg.com] Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 6:48 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Can I change the from to a group? I've created a new distribution group called quotes. Now I've been asked that when a user replies to an email originally sent to the group, the from address would be the group address. Otherwise, the from would be the user's address. I've come up with can only be considered an ugly hack. When our quoters reply to an email, the group display name should be in the text. My idea is a transport rule scanning outbounds for that text and prepending something to the subject. Then a second transport rule watches for RE:prepend in the subject of inbound mail and routes that to the group. This configuration doesn't specifically meet the request, but it fits the desired outcome of getting further replies going to the group. Anyone know a better way? (I'm thinking there has to be one) :) Steve
FW: Lyris humor
Kinda funny... the first time I tried to send that reply to Steve, I got a rejection notice from Lyris. Apparently I'd forgotten I was in the message journaling folder, and replied form that, and it included a Lyris header. This is the rejection message I got: Your message posting was rejected because the (lyris) header was detected in the body of the message you sent. This header is usually only included by automated email programs, such as vacation programs. For this reason, Lyris ListManager does not accept messages which contain this header, because it is highly likely that they are automated messages, and not appropriate for a mailing list. So I fixed it by replying from my own account. I then received 22 OoO replies... (and counting) lol :) Evan
Outlook 2007 rules issue
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
Exchange 2010 on Win Server 2008
Hi guys, Quick question. Is there a benefit to running Exchange 2010 Enterprise on Windows 2008 Server Enterprise instead of Windows Server 2008 Standard? Thanks, Evan
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 * on this list, anyway. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Barracuda question
Good morning peoples and peopettes, I'm seeing something with my Barracuda that doesn't seem to make sense to me. Wouldn't it seem like if you have attachment blocking set up (in this case, blocking all zip files,) that that should take priority over a whitelist? In other words, I'm seeing zip file get through from whitelisted addresses, but I would think that it would and should still block the attachment even if the sender is whitelisted, no? Thanks for your thoughts, Evan ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Rules for a mailbox that's not your own?
Hi, We have a mailbox that exists only for people to connect to as a secondary mailbox. It's basically used instead of a public folder. There are about 7 people that open it within Outlook in addition to their own account. I'm just wondering if there is an easy way to set up rules for that mailbox since no one logs into the actual account it's associated with, and I'm wondering if there is a way to get the rules to run even if there is no computer open with that account up and running in Outlook? I'm using Outlook 2007. The server is E2K3 Enterprise. Thanks, Evan ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Question about BCC
Well, using that rule in Outlook 2007 that Jim mentioned, he could have a copy of every email he sends sent to a folder, just make that folder the Inbox. Then he'll get a copy of the email he sent in his Inbox, and it's the same as if he Bcc'd himself. From: Kelli Sterley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 9:52 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Question about BCC He has about 100 sub folders in his outlook and he likes to keep the message he sent in the corresponding folder. So each week, he goes into his sent items and sorts them into his subfolders. If he could set it to bcc himself on all emails, he has rules set up to sort them into the subfolders by specific subject line words and it would move them for him. From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 9:24 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Question about BCC Outlook 2007 has a rule that lets you put a copy of every message you send into a specific folder. There are other actions available and you can fine tune it a bit. I am unsure if that option is available in earlier version. That might help, although it would just be another sent items folder in essence. I guess I am also unclear on his current method. What the difference is between having all his sent items in his inbox to sort through vs. having them all in his sent items. J From: Kelli Sterley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 9:16 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Question about BCC I have a user who likes to bcc himself on emails so he can retain a copy without having to go thru all his sent items. Is there a way to make a default template where his email is in the bcc line? Having a draft and constantly forwarding that is a nice work-around but not the best option if there are others. Thanks for any help - Kelli Sterley ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Stopping an email user from sending to anyone outside of the organization?
Hi, I'm wondering if someone could point me to a way to allow a user to send email within the company, but not to any external addresses? We only have one domain and one server (Exchange 2003 Enterprise), so it shouldn't be too complicated, I would think... Thank you, Evan ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP
Hrmm... no, they don't really know how to create their own lists, and the addresses they're being sent to just append themselves to the address they actually wanted to send to. It's just so weird. I'm slowly rolling Outlook 2007 out, and perhaps that will fix this issue Not sure Evan From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:10 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP You could also look for personal distribution list that the user has created. On 8/25/08, Evan Brastow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I could try that, but I'd rather not because the users really like to use that feature for easy addressing of emails. It seems like it may or may not be related to that, as we used the autofill option for several years without these issues. It just seems to weird that they can send an email without the extra address showing up in the To: field, and then it's somehow added when the email is sent. Evan From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 7:42 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP Have you tried clearing the .nk2 files on the PC? (the autofill for Outlook) Close Outlook and delete the .nk2 file on the PC. See if the issue persists afterwards. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 5:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP Okay, I used to think my users were crazy. Scratch that.. I still think they're crazy, but some weird things are going on with multiple people, so I don't think it's just a simple user screwed up issue. For the past few months, several users have been having issues in Outlook (2003) where they either start a new email, or hit reply, and it ADDS an address to the To: field at random. It seems to be an address that an email was previously sent to from that account. What's bad is that it happens with customers. So, for example: 1. I send an email to, say, Joe, talking about how we're having trouble with a job for customer A. 2. Joe replies to my email, yet somehow, a random email address (typically another customer, like customer B) is magically added to the To field. 3. Customer B replies with a WTH??? email. 4. People look at me with extreme frustration Any ideas what could be causing this? I don't think it's that they're accidentally hitting a key and it's using autocomplete to put a name in. The user that it happened to twice today swore that she checked the To field several times before sending the second email where this occurred (because obviously she was very nervous after it happened the first time.) Thanks, Evan -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Old FaxMaker connector won't go away
I have a problem that GFI didn't seem to be able to help me with. Here's the quick summary. I had an old mail server E2K) that ran FaxMaker. I set up a new server (E2K3 Enterprise) a while back and transferred all mail stores to it, and installed FaxMaker on it. The problem is that I get the message below in the new server's event logs dozens of times a day. There's no string that matches OLDSERVERNAME in the registry of the new mail server, or even in the registry of the GC server. I can't seem to find any reference to it in IIS, either. If I look in the System Manager under Routing Groups/Connectors/FAXMaker SMTP Connector, only the new mail server name appears, as it should. Anyone know where it might be looking for this old server name, and how I can stop these messages? Thanks, Evan Event Type: Error Event Source: MSExchangeTransport Event Category: Routing Engine/Service Event ID:929 Date: 8/14/2008 Time: 11:11:39 AM User:N/A Computer: NEWSERVERNAME Description: Failed in reading Connector's DS Info Process Id: 684 Process location: C:\WINNT\System32\inetsrv\inetinfo.exe ConnectorDN: CN=FAXmaker Connector (OLDSERVERNAME),CN=Connections,CN=DOMAIN,CN=Routing Groups,CN=DOMAIN,CN=Administrative Groups,CN=Company Name,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=automatedemblem,DC=com Hr:c004038a Attribute:[homeMTA] ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Old FaxMaker connector won't go away
Thanks for the reply, Rob, but I don't see anything in there. I've done a search for everything I can think of, and can't seem to find anything. Weird... Evan From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 1:18 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Old FaxMaker connector won't go away I'll bet there's still an AD object for that connector, referencing OLDSERVERNAME. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 12:14 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Old FaxMaker connector won't go away I have a problem that GFI didn't seem to be able to help me with. Here's the quick summary. I had an old mail server E2K) that ran FaxMaker. I set up a new server (E2K3 Enterprise) a while back and transferred all mail stores to it, and installed FaxMaker on it. The problem is that I get the message below in the new server's event logs dozens of times a day. There's no string that matches OLDSERVERNAME in the registry of the new mail server, or even in the registry of the GC server. I can't seem to find any reference to it in IIS, either. If I look in the System Manager under Routing Groups/Connectors/FAXMaker SMTP Connector, only the new mail server name appears, as it should. Anyone know where it might be looking for this old server name, and how I can stop these messages? Thanks, Evan Event Type: Error Event Source: MSExchangeTransport Event Category: Routing Engine/Service Event ID:929 Date: 8/14/2008 Time: 11:11:39 AM User:N/A Computer: NEWSERVERNAME Description: Failed in reading Connector's DS Info Process Id: 684 Process location: C:\WINNT\System32\inetsrv\inetinfo.exe ConnectorDN: CN=FAXmaker Connector (OLDSERVERNAME),CN=Connections,CN=DOMAIN,CN=Routing Groups,CN=DOMAIN,CN=Administrative Groups,CN=Company Name,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=automatedemblem,DC=com Hr:c004038a Attribute:[homeMTA] ** Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. ** ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Corrupted files attached to emails
Well, the three serve different purposes :) 1. The Barracuda is set to a low threshold, where it allows more spam than most would allow. In essence, it still stops 95% of the spam that was previously actually hitting our Exchange server from ever reaching it (about 4,000/day), but rarely if ever triggers a false positive. We also block attachments with the Barracuda. 2. Ninja is set to kind of fine-tune the sorting of the remaining spam that gets through the Barracuda. It gives users Spam folders that they can easily look through from within Outlook, and they're used to it. 3. ScanMail is what actually does any virus scanning on the IS. So, it SOUNDS like a bunch of filtering, but probably isn't, in reality :) Evan From: HELP_PC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 7/29/2008 12:17 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: R: Corrupted files attached to emails Not a bit much filtering ? GuidoElia HELPPC Da: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: lunedì 28 luglio 2008 23.22 A: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Corrupted files attached to emails Hi Martin, Good point. We do have a Barracuda in front of the email server, We also have Trend Micro ScanMail on the server, as well as Ninja. I suppose there could be some issues there... Thank you, Evan From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 5:01 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corrupted files attached to emails Evan, What do you have in front of the Exchange server? Any kind of AV or antispam gateways? AV running on the Exchange server? Exchange actually corrupting attachments itself is rare if ever. Other components in route are more often the culprit. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 1:54 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Corrupted files attached to emails Hi folks, Got a weird problem that's been going on all month. I've talked to my ISP about this, and I'm not sure they're going to come through with anything, so I wanted to bounce it off you guys as well. My company works with a lot of art files... AI files (Adobe Illustrator) and TIFF files are the main ones. The problem is that a high percentage of them lately seem to be unopenable when they arrive. The companies that are sending them are saying they can open them on their end, but they seem corrupted when we go to open them here. Over the weekend, I did an offline defrag, just to clear out any gunk (that's a technical term, I know) that might be causing it. Anyone know how to go about troubleshooting something like this? Exchange 2003 SP2, clients are Outlook 2003 and 2007. Thanks very much J Evan ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Corrupted files attached to emails
I agree that this could be a big help. My only problem is that there are quite a few customers, and getting them all to take this extra step is going to be a challenge. I would really like to figure out why for years beforehand (still running all three products on and around our server) we had no issues, and then suddenly... boink... issues. Well, not boink issues, but... issues. Oh nevermind. This may turn into another Shook thread... From: Jason Gurtz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 7/29/2008 8:59 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corrupted files attached to emails My company works with a lot of art files... AI files (Adobe Illustrator) and TIFF files are the main ones. The problem is that a high percentage of them lately seem to be unopenable when they arrive. Although it will be nice to figure out where the corruption is happening a stop gap may be too ask them to zip or preferably rar the files before sending (most AV products look inside zip files). You may have to try and get the original files on optical media and test sending them from various other places to see if they are still corrupted. In these ways you can probably rule out your infrastructure. And ya, what's with the million [sic] layers of scanning hehe? I thought we were fairly paranoid here but... ~JasonG -- ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Corrupted files attached to emails
I do, too. I think I'll ask our biggest customer to start doing that, and see what the results are. I'm also looking into replacing our slightly aging (maybe 6 years old) Cisco router. Thanks, Evan From: Senter, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 7/29/2008 10:59 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corrupted files attached to emails I like the suggestion from one of the others to have them send the attachment to the company address and CC a external mail source like gmail or hotmail. If the one to the company address is corrupt, check the external source to see if it is corrupt. That should show you if it is your systems or one of their outbound gateways. Check the message headers for both messages to see if they used the same outbound gateways on their end. -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:56 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corrupted files attached to emails Hmm...I have a client that has both a Barracuda on the front and Trend Micro on the back end, no issues. Blame Ninja (he says on the list hosted by Ninja's vendor, lol). Dave -Original Message- From: Jason Gurtz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 5:59 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corrupted files attached to emails My company works with a lot of art files... AI files (Adobe Illustrator) and TIFF files are the main ones. The problem is that a high percentage of them lately seem to be unopenable when they arrive. Although it will be nice to figure out where the corruption is happening a stop gap may be too ask them to zip or preferably rar the files before sending (most AV products look inside zip files). You may have to try and get the original files on optical media and test sending them from various other places to see if they are still corrupted. In these ways you can probably rule out your infrastructure. And ya, what's with the million [sic] layers of scanning hehe? I thought we were fairly paranoid here but... ~JasonG -- ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Corrupted files attached to emails
Hi folks, Got a weird problem that's been going on all month. I've talked to my ISP about this, and I'm not sure they're going to come through with anything, so I wanted to bounce it off you guys as well. My company works with a lot of art files... AI files (Adobe Illustrator) and TIFF files are the main ones. The problem is that a high percentage of them lately seem to be unopenable when they arrive. The companies that are sending them are saying they can open them on their end, but they seem corrupted when we go to open them here. Over the weekend, I did an offline defrag, just to clear out any gunk (that's a technical term, I know) that might be causing it. Anyone know how to go about troubleshooting something like this? Exchange 2003 SP2, clients are Outlook 2003 and 2007. Thanks very much J Evan ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Corrupted files attached to emails
Hi Martin, Good point. We do have a Barracuda in front of the email server, We also have Trend Micro ScanMail on the server, as well as Ninja. I suppose there could be some issues there... Thank you, Evan From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 5:01 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Corrupted files attached to emails Evan, What do you have in front of the Exchange server? Any kind of AV or antispam gateways? AV running on the Exchange server? Exchange actually corrupting attachments itself is rare if ever. Other components in route are more often the culprit. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 1:54 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Corrupted files attached to emails Hi folks, Got a weird problem that's been going on all month. I've talked to my ISP about this, and I'm not sure they're going to come through with anything, so I wanted to bounce it off you guys as well. My company works with a lot of art files... AI files (Adobe Illustrator) and TIFF files are the main ones. The problem is that a high percentage of them lately seem to be unopenable when they arrive. The companies that are sending them are saying they can open them on their end, but they seem corrupted when we go to open them here. Over the weekend, I did an offline defrag, just to clear out any gunk (that's a technical term, I know) that might be causing it. Anyone know how to go about troubleshooting something like this? Exchange 2003 SP2, clients are Outlook 2003 and 2007. Thanks very much J Evan ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Mail alert?
Hi guys, You know the little desktop alert thingy that pops up on the bottom right of the screen when new mail arrives in the Inbox? Is there any Outlook (2003) add-on that can pop up an alert when an email arrives in an Inbox of another user, whose mailbox you have open within Outlook? I haven't found any that can actually do it. I'm using Exchange 2003. Thanks, Evan ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Issues with users using an additional mailbox
Hi, Been a crazy weekend/week for me. Ever have a great idea that you KNOW will make everyone happy, and then you end up practically being burned in effigy? I created a new mailbox to replace a distribution group. The DL was getting about 300 emails a day, and so all of our CS people were getting their own copy of the email, filing it in their own folders, etc... It wasn't fun. So, Ev The Superhero steps in and decides it would be a good thing to create a mailbox with the address of the DL (and change the address of the DL to something that wouldn't be used.) So that's what I did. I created a mailbox, gave everyone permission to the mailbox, went around to their computers Monday morning and opened the mailbox within Outlook. I even created search folders so that different customers' emails would be automatically filed in the appropriate company folder. I didn't do this with a public folder, because 1) I couldn't find a way to create search folders within a public folder, and 2) I know public folders have been removed from E2K7, should I ever go in that direction from my current E2K3. I even found a utility that auto-fills the From field with the name of the account, so they don't have to type it when they make a new email or reply to one. So I'm great, right? No, I'm on the verge of having my tires slashed, re-inflated, and slashed yet again. The first complaint was that they don't get pop-up notifications when an email shows up in an inbox that is not their own. I'm onto a couple of third party utility things that may help this. But the really big issue is that there is no per-user read or unread information on this mailbox. People are used to their unread mail being in bold. Now, whenever someone, somewhere opens a piece of mail, it looks like it's been read to everyone, and people are losing track of what they have read and what they haven't. Any suggestions on this last item? Do I deserve to have my tires slashed, or is my heart in the right place? Okay, forget the heart... is my BRAIN in the right place? I'm not trying to push this down anyone's throat... I'm looking for something that would HELP :) Thanks, Evan ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Outlook 2003 auto-fill
Hi, Quick question for you fine folks. Is there a way to selectively delete entries from the auto-complete list that Outlook 2003 generates as you type in an address in the To: or Cc: boxes? I don't want to clear the whole list, but I'd like to remove one or two that are invalid and come up before some valid ones. Thanks, Evan ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Outlook 2003 auto-fill
Oh... gosh... that's embarrassing :) Thanks Jim. Evan From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 9:53 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook 2003 auto-fill As you type, it shows up in the drop down box.arrow down to it and hit the delete key. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 9:51 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Outlook 2003 auto-fill Hi, Quick question for you fine folks. Is there a way to selectively delete entries from the auto-complete list that Outlook 2003 generates as you type in an address in the To: or Cc: boxes? I don't want to clear the whole list, but I'd like to remove one or two that are invalid and come up before some valid ones. Thanks, Evan ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Search folder limit?
I'm hoping this is not as dumb a question as my previous one (though in some ways I'm hoping it is.) Is there any way to increase the maximum number of Search Folders in Outlook 2003? It seems like 20 is the limit. I need more than that. Any tweaks or workarounds? I'm using Exchange 2003 Enterprise. Thanks, Evan ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Flags in Public Folders
Hi folks, My company is a small company and we're beginning to get inundated with emails from customers. It's getting to be too much and things like orders, requests for quotes, requests for shipping info, etc.. are getting missed sometimes by Customer Service just because of the sheer volume of emails. I'm trying to think of a way to have one member of the CS team be responsible for triage and basically send emails to subsets of a public folder according to what kind of attention the email needs (i.e. Quotes, Orders, etc...) My plan was to then have each memeber of the CS team set a flag depending on what they have done to satisfy the request (so, maybe Complete means the order has been entered, but Red means there is a problem, or Green means it's been accepted as someone's responsibility and they're working on it.) Only problem is, Public Folders do not seem, by default, to share flag info from user to user. Each user has their own flag data. Is there a way for items in a PF to have flags that are visible to all users? On a side note, anyone know of existing software that integrates with Exchange/Outlook that makes these kinds of situations easier? Exchange 2003, Outlook 2003. Thanks, Evan ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Troubling view issue
Hi, I have a user (and I may possibly now have a second user with this issue as well, I just found out) that is having the following problem: When he opens Outlook (version 2003 SP3 on XP,) his Inbox view is not how he left it. He arranges it with the columns he wants in the order he wants (and the order it's been in for years and years,) and now, suddenly, whenever he opens Outlook, the folder view changes to just the following columns: Importance, Icon, Attachment, Sensitivity, From, Subject, Received, Flag. The problem is that he has never added Sensitivity as a field, but it's always there, and the sort order is by Sensitivity, which is bizarre. He wants it to stay sorted by date received, descending. Any idea what might cause this behavior? I've rebooted his machine, rebooted the Exchange box. No luck. Exchange 2003 SP2 on Windows 2003. Thank you, Evan ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Troubling view issue
Thomas and Kathleen, Thanks so much for the /cleanview tip. It worked beautifully. Thanks again, Evan From: Orland, Kathleen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 9:15 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Troubling view issue Start Run outlook.exe /cleanviews. If that doesn't resolve the issue, close Outlook and delete the outcmd.dat, extend.dat, frmcache.dat, and .srs files. Have the user reset his views to see if they remain after that. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12-Jan-08 2:42 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Troubling view issue Hi, I have a user (and I may possibly now have a second user with this issue as well, I just found out) that is having the following problem: When he opens Outlook (version 2003 SP3 on XP,) his Inbox view is not how he left it. He arranges it with the columns he wants in the order he wants (and the order it's been in for years and years,) and now, suddenly, whenever he opens Outlook, the folder view changes to just the following columns: Importance, Icon, Attachment, Sensitivity, From, Subject, Received, Flag. The problem is that he has never added Sensitivity as a field, but it's always there, and the sort order is by Sensitivity, which is bizarre. He wants it to stay sorted by date received, descending. Any idea what might cause this behavior? I've rebooted his machine, rebooted the Exchange box. No luck. Exchange 2003 SP2 on Windows 2003. Thank you, Evan ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
