RE: Exchange 5.5 Problems

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Title: RE: Exchange 5.5 Problems









Here, here, well spoken, Bruce!

 

 

-Original Message-
From: Jones Matt
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001
2:40 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange 5.5 Problems

 

If you do not have a backup system, in the event of a
disaster you cannot recover anything. Only restore from CD. I do not believe
any company values its data so little. 

Your PRIME job as a sys adm is to insist on a backup
strategy. It's obviously a small company, so for god's sake, we're not talking
megabucks. A cheap DAT drive is only £350. A jaz drive is less than £200. If
they refuse to pay for it, tell them that it's fine. Then re-install exchange
from scratch, re-setting up all the users. If the business makes a decision not
to invest in this area, that is their job. Yours is to make sure they are fully
aware of the consequences of that decision. Direct anyone who complains at the
idiot who refused you the money.

Matt 

-Original Message- 
From: Paul Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: 07 November 2001 21:26 
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues 
Subject: FW: Exchange 5.5 Problems 

 

The problem is that the company is too cheap to buy a
backup system. Not 
knowing that it will cost them more in the long run for the system
to be 
down and to bring someone in to restore or recover it. they are so
cheap 
that the servers don't even have CD drives, so i have to copy CD
over 
the network to the server. Go Figure. 
  
Anyway, i am going to uninstall Exchange then re-install with the
new 
service account. My plan is to then stop the services and either
replace 
the whole exchsvr folder or just the priv & pub .edb files.
What would 
be easier, it has been years since I have had to restore an
Exchange 
server and I don't remember the procedure. If possible I would
like to 
restore both the accounts & the data but i would happy with
just the 
data. I know the Org & site names so the re-install shouldn't
be the 
problem. After I copy the folder or files back over all I should
have to 
do is run the consistency checker, correct? Am I missing anything?
What 
is the best resource to follow for a restore procedure such as
this? 

    -Original Message-

    From: Lefkovics, William

    Sent: Wed 11/7/2001 3:47
PM 
    To: MS-Exchange Admin
Issues 
    Cc: 
    Subject: RE: Exchange
5.5 Problems 
    
    

    Don't forget the
person(s) responsible for not having a complete 
disaster

    recovery plan in place. 
    
    William 
    
    -Original
Message- 
    From: Paul Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
    Sent: Wednesday,
November 07, 2001 12:09 PM 
    To: MS-Exchange Admin
Issues 
    Subject: FW: Exchange
5.5 Problems 
    
    
    I wish I could fire that
person! I wouldnt even think of having 
the 
    person rebuild Exchange
for fear of what other problems might 
arise! 
    
       
-Original Message- 
       
From: Martin Blackstone

       
Sent: Wed 11/7/2001 1:40 PM 
       
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues 
       
Cc: 
       
Subject: RE: Exchange 5.5 Problems 
      

      

    
       
PS on my last post. 
       
This is nasty. Fire the ass who did this, after 
you make

    him fix the Exch server. 
      

       
-Original Message- 
       
From: Paul Armstrong 
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
       
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 10:04 AM 
       
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues 
       
Subject: Exchange 5.5 Problems 
      

      

       
Hello All, 
      

       
I need some major help in repairing or 
rebuilding an 
    Exchange server. The
server is running Win2K SP2 with Exchange 
5.5 SP4.

    Someone in the company
tried removing old accounts and wound up 
removing

    the account that the
Exchange services were using. Now I don't 
have all

    the details but it was
mentioned at one point that the PDC was 
rebuilt.

    Now all of the Exchange
services wont start except for the SA & 
DS. When

    trying to start the IS I
get the following messages: Event Type: 
Error 
    Event Source:
MSExchangeIS Event Category: General 
       
Event ID: 5000 
       
Date:  11/6/2001

       
Time:  3:42:26 PM

       
User:  N/A 
       
Computer: MAIL 
       
Description: 
       
Unable to initialize the Microsoft Exchange 
Information 
    Store service. Error
0xfb5. 
      

     

RE: Calculate "cost" of email signature

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

It's possible that people will have pictures or logos in their signature files.  You 
will have to take into account the space taken up by these pictures.

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 When cryptography is outlawed,
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 -Original Message-
From:   Robin Lawrie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Wednesday, November 07, 2001 6:03 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:RE: Calculate "cost" of email signature

I would of thought the email signature wouldn't take up that much space
in your IS. If you talking about a basic text only signature, that would
be about 500-750 bytes, less than 1K. HTML signatures could be much
larger depending on the code in them, the graphics etc etc.

What you could to do to estimate the space taken up by the sigs is to
assume signatures are 1K, work out how many emails are in your IS (don't
know the details on this one, someone else might have an idea), guess
how many are likely to have signatures (i.e. all of them, 50% of them,
75% of them) and then do the maths.

It would be very difficult to get an exact figure because how would a
bit of software or code differentiate between someone's signature and a
normal sign off?

Hope my thoughts/ramblings help :-)

-Original Message-
From: Musab Qureshi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 07 November 2001 12:57
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Calculate "cost" of email signature


Hi,

Does anyone know how to see how much space is taken up by an email
signature.  Our email database is c.40Gb & one wonders how much of that
is
signatures.

How can one work this out?

Pls. Cc replies to me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thanks,

m.q.

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RE: Exchange SMTP Routing

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Are you sure you want to put NT machines on the firewall?  Shouldn't there be UNIX 
machines there for better security?

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 -Original Message-
From:   Leblanc, Shawn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Friday, November 09, 2001 10:53 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:Exchange SMTP Routing

Currently we run;

Exchange 5.5 SP4 
WinNT4.0 Sp 6A

We also currently have our mail routed to us and scanned\filtered  by an
outside company which costs $$.  We are looking at building a server that
just does SMTP relay\filtering\scanning and put it in our DMZ.  We are also
looking at putting Trend virus scanning on the box so that our mail is
scanned by two different AntiVirus companies before delivered to the users
desktops.  Our logic behind this is sometimes Trend comes out with a pattern
a little quicker than Symantec, so we do both.  We also do attachment
filtering with Norton For Exchange.

I guess I have a couple of questions about this;

1. What is everyone else using for SMTP relay.  What software, location of
server, etc.

2. What is the best SMTP relay software\hardware?  Should I just use another
install of Exchange on a regular server`?

Any suggestions or relevant web sites will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Shawn

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RE: Exchange SMTP Routing

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

If this is true, then why does Microsoft themselves use UNIX for their SMTP firewalls? 
 But we digress away from the charter of this list.

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 When cryptography is outlawed,
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 -Original Message-
From:   Leblanc, Shawn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Friday, November 09, 2001 3:08 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:RE: Exchange SMTP Routing

I agree - without exception.

-Original Message-
From: Drewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 1:44 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange SMTP Routing


NT Servers can be just as secure as Unix servers, if you apply the proper
patches.  You do apply the proper patches, don't you?

-- Drew

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-Original Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 3:37 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange SMTP Routing


Are you sure you want to put NT machines on the firewall?  Shouldn't there
be
UNIX machines there for better security?

--
Matt Lathrum
General Dynamics Decision Systems
 When cryptography is outlawed,
 bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 -Original Message-
From:   Leblanc, Shawn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Friday, November 09, 2001 10:53 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:Exchange SMTP Routing

Currently we run;

Exchange 5.5 SP4
WinNT4.0 Sp 6A

We also currently have our mail routed to us and scanned\filtered  by an
outside company which costs $$.  We are looking at building a server that
just does SMTP relay\filtering\scanning and put it in our DMZ.  We are also
looking at putting Trend virus scanning on the box so that our mail is
scanned by two different AntiVirus companies before delivered to the users
desktops.  Our logic behind this is sometimes Trend comes out with a pattern
a little quicker than Symantec, so we do both.  We also do attachment
filtering with Norton For Exchange.

I guess I have a couple of questions about this;

1. What is everyone else using for SMTP relay.  What software, location of
server, etc.

2. What is the best SMTP relay software\hardware?  Should I just use another
install of Exchange on a regular server`?

Any suggestions or relevant web sites will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Shawn

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Problem with Exchange 5.5 calendaring

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Greetings everyone,

A user of mine is having problems seeing some meetings in her calendar.  She uses 
Outlook 2000 pointing to an Exchange server 5.5 SP4.  In the upper right month 
preview, days with meetings show up as bold, but when she clicks on one of those days, 
her calendar shows empty.  She says her machine was reimaged but I can't see how that 
would change anything, since this doesn't appear to be a profile issue. 

I tried using Technet but their search function isn't working right now.  In part of 
my troubleshooting process, I did a mailbox move to a different server, but that 
didn't help.  Anyone have any ideas?

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Hardening E2k/W2k on the firewall

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Here is a loaded question, but I would seriously like an answer.  Is it possible to 
sufficiently harden Windows 2000 / Exchange 2000 to be a viable candidate at the 
firewall/DMZ level?  We are currently looking at using Sun boxes at the firewall level 
to pass mail in and out of the DMZ to our Exchange infrastructure.  I wanted to 
investigate whether it was possible to make the whole infrastructure Exchange and what 
risks are involved.  Can someone point me to specific articles discussing this topic?  
TIA 

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RE: Hardening E2k/W2k on the firewall

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

I think that the SMTP virtual server would probably be safer, combined with Trend's 
anti-virus and anti-spam software.  I don't want my AD accessible from the outside.

Do you have any tips for hardening?

Personally, I remember the SMTP virtual server as a clunky easy-to-hang service a year 
ago.  I hope it has changed!

-- 
Matt Lathrum
General Dynamics Decision Systems
 When cryptography is outlawed,
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 -Original Message-
From:   Neil Hobson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Tuesday, January 08, 2002 9:55 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:RE: Hardening E2k/W2k on the firewall

You might like to check out this whitepaper as a starting point:

http://www.microsoft.com/Exchange/techinfo/deployment/2000/E2KFrontBack.
asp

Good for HTTP, POP, IMAP, etc.  But if you're looking at SMTP in a DMZ,
a FE server is probably not the best idea - the IIS SMTP service would
probably fit better here.

Neil

-Original Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Posted At: 08 January 2002 16:45
Posted To: Sunbelt Exchange List
Conversation: Hardening E2k/W2k on the firewall
Subject: Hardening E2k/W2k on the firewall


Here is a loaded question, but I would seriously like an answer.  Is it
possible to sufficiently harden Windows 2000 / Exchange 2000 to be a
viable candidate at the firewall/DMZ level?  We are currently looking at
using Sun boxes at the firewall level to pass mail in and out of the DMZ
to our Exchange infrastructure.  I wanted to investigate whether it was
possible to make the whole infrastructure Exchange and what risks are
involved.  Can someone point me to specific articles discussing this
topic?  TIA 

-- 
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migrating PF to a new org

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Our division was recently purchased and we are doing migrations to move off our old 
network.  We are currently on Exchange 5.5 and we will be moving to E2k during the 
migration.  The E2k org will have the name of our new company.  What's the best way to 
migrate the public folder data we have in our E5.5 org?  I'm under the impression you 
can't normally replicate PF data between orgs.

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RE: BLOCKING SPAM AT THE SERVER

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

A suggested product is Trend's InterScan eManager.

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 -Original Message-
From:   Murray Freeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Monday, January 14, 2002 2:43 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:BLOCKING SPAM AT THE SERVER

I t seems to me I saw a discussion of the ways of blocking spam at the
server level without it ever getting to the workstation. I have need of
being able to block some spam type email at the server, how is that done.

Murray

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RE: exporting gal

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Title: RE: exporting gal









I went to the charter for
this maillist to see if I could point this person to some archives. It mentions
archives but doesn’t say how to get to them.  Are they available? 

 

-- 

Matt Lathrum

General Dynamics
Decision Systems    


When cryptography is outlawed,


bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 

-Original
Message-
From: Rick Ward - HQ
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002
3:48 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: exporting gal

 

Start ADMIN in RAW mode (-r) and look at
the Raw properties of the Email Address screen. The headers you need should
show up there. Just add that to the top(header row) of your source spreadsheet
.CSV file you're using to export the data with.

-Original Message- 
From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 2:24 PM 
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues 
Subject: exporting gal 

 

I am trying to export the gal so that i
can add an additional internet email address for everyone. We are changing from
a .com to a .org. When i export the list i only get one smtp address listed. I
have 4 alias that i use. I don't want to get rid of the old .com just yet. How
can i get all of them to show? Is there an easier way to add a new address for
all of my users?

thanks in advance 

dave 

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RE: Clustering Exchange

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Title: Message









Be careful – Active/Active
clustering with automatic fail over has known memory fragmentation issues that
could cause a failure of your IS to start.  Our Microsoft resident suggests manual fail over.

 

-- 

Matt Lathrum

General Dynamics
Decision Systems    


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-Original
Message-
From: Arnold, Jamie
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002
11:54 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Clustering Exchange

 

H

How about being
able to test a service pack without effecting users at any time day or
night?  Is that not an advantage?

How about very
high availability?

How about
redundant hardware (ya, I know it's redundant to the HA thing)

 

I will agree
that the 2000AS cluster is much better than 4.0EE, but 4.0EE works great in my
book.

-Original Message-
From: Rick Ward - HQ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002
12:52 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Clustering Exchange

For 5.5 I say NIYET - Is it doable but you
gain no real advantages in doing it, as 5.5 isn't truly "cluster
aware". 

For XCHG2000 I say DAH - "IF"
you have a solid cluster solution with known HCL Server hardware. I recommend
Compaq's cluster solutions as I have the most/best experiences with it overall
and the FIBRE channel connectivity is SWEET.

XCHG2000 is cluster aware. 

Plan to spend lotsomoney on your hardware
however.. it ain't cheap. 

-Rick 
-Original Message- 
From: Callan, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 9:33 AM 
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues 
Subject: Clustering Exchange 

My immediate supervisor mentioned that
when we finally get new Exchange 
Servers that we should have them clustered.  Now I have never clustered 
servers before and wouldn't know how to start, but I just wanted to get 
everyone's opinions on the subject to begin with.  How hard is it to do,
and 
how is it to maintain.  What are the pro's and con's.  Any help would
be 
appreciated. 

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RE: Outlook Question BCC

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

To clarify, the BCC is never saved in the message;  It's only saved in the envelope.   
When the message is split up to each recipient, each envelope only includes the actual 
single receiver of the mail.  This is how a person can get it BCC'ed to them without 
it showing in the To: or Cc:.  Since the envelope of your message only has your 
address in it, there's no way of seeing who could have been BCC'ed.

Hope that helps.

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 -Original Message-
From:   Mathews, James E. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Friday, January 18, 2002 2:49 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:RE: Outlook Question BCC

Thanks for everyone's help.  I thought maybe it would be saved in the email
makes since that after  it leaves the exchange box it does not keep a record
on the email would make it to easy to know.  I know this was not an
important question just wanted to know.  Thanks again for the great
responses.

James 

-Original Message-
From: Lefkovics, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 4:40 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook Question BCC


You can not go backwards to see if there was a BCC on a message.  That
information is no longer with the message.
I am terribly sorry for not being clear.

As email is received inbound, there are ways to check, but not
retroactively, to my knowledge.

William

-Original Message-
From: Mathews, James E. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 1:14 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook Question BCC


and your point is what?

-Original Message-
From: Lefkovics, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 3:57 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook Question BCC


Of course that would defeat the intent of BCC wouldn't it?


-Original Message-
From: Mathews, James E. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 12:54 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Outlook Question BCC



Is there a way to tell if an email you received had someone bcc'ed on it.
Just wondering checked out the sites that people sent but did not find
anything.

James

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RE: Clustering Exchange

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Title: Message









After looking on
Microsoft’s web site for a while I couldn’t find a Q article.  All I know is that we were told that by
Microsoft.  Perhaps you could check
with them…

 

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-Original
Message-
From: Gerald BAI (NCS)
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002
2:02 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Clustering Exchange

 

Hi,
may I have the article no, if possible?

 

thanks!

 

 

-Original
Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 2002年1月19日 9:37
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Clustering Exchange

Be
careful - Active/Active clustering with automatic fail over has known memory
fragmentation issues that could cause a failure of your IS to start.  Our Microsoft resident suggests manual
fail over.

 

-- 

Matt Lathrum

General Dynamics Decision Systems    


When cryptography is outlawed,


bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 

-Original
Message-
From: Arnold, Jamie
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002
11:54 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Clustering Exchange

 

H

How about being
able to test a service pack without effecting users at any time day or
night?  Is that not an advantage?

How about very
high availability?

How about
redundant hardware (ya, I know it's redundant to the HA thing)

 

I will agree
that the 2000AS cluster is much better than 4.0EE, but 4.0EE works great in my
book.

-Original
Message-
From: Rick Ward - HQ
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002
12:52 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Clustering Exchange

For 5.5 I say
NIYET - Is it doable but you gain no real advantages in doing it, as 5.5 isn't
truly "cluster aware". 

For XCHG2000 I
say DAH - "IF" you have a solid cluster solution with known HCL
Server hardware. I recommend Compaq's cluster solutions as I have the most/best
experiences with it overall and the FIBRE channel connectivity is SWEET.

XCHG2000 is
cluster aware. 

Plan to spend
lotsomoney on your hardware however.. it ain't cheap. 

-Rick 
-Original Message- 
From: Callan, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 9:33 AM 
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues 
Subject: Clustering Exchange 

My immediate
supervisor mentioned that when we finally get new Exchange 
Servers that we should have them clustered.  Now I have never clustered 
servers before and wouldn't know how to start, but I just wanted to get 
everyone's opinions on the subject to begin with.  How hard is it to do,
and 
how is it to maintain.  What are the pro's and con's.  Any help would
be 
appreciated. 

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List Charter
and FAQ at:
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RE: Requesting Data from Exchange Server

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

That's a feature of Outlook 2002.  It can be turned off in Options.

-- 
Matt Lathrum
General Dynamics Decision Systems
 When cryptography is outlawed,
 bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 -Original Message-
From:   Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Monday, January 21, 2002 11:03 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:Requesting Data from Exchange Server

Once in a while, people are getting the little pop-up box in Outlook when
they are opening mail with attachments: "Requesting data from Exchange
server".   Is this normal, or is there something odd ocurring?  It only
started happening after I did an exmerge.  Thanks for the replies.
Steve

Steve 

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RE: Requesting Data from Exchange Server

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Ack, I don't remember, sorry.  I only use Outlook 2002 at home.  Check the help files?

-- 
Matt Lathrum
General Dynamics Decision Systems
 When cryptography is outlawed,
 bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 -Original Message-
From:   Benjamin Winzenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Monday, January 21, 2002 1:10 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:RE: Requesting Data from Exchange Server

Where in the options did you find it?  I haven't yet.

Ben Winzenz, MCSE
Network/Systems Administrator
Peregrine Systems


-Original Message-----
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 1:53 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Requesting Data from Exchange Server

That's a feature of Outlook 2002.  It can be turned off in Options.

-- 
Matt Lathrum
General Dynamics Decision Systems
 When cryptography is outlawed,
 bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 -Original Message-
From:   Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Monday, January 21, 2002 11:03 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:Requesting Data from Exchange Server

Once in a while, people are getting the little pop-up box in Outlook when
they are opening mail with attachments: "Requesting data from Exchange
server".   Is this normal, or is there something odd ocurring?  It only
started happening after I did an exmerge.  Thanks for the replies.
Steve

Steve 

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List Charter and FAQ at:
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List Charter and FAQ at:
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RE: Requesting Data from Exchange Server

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

They put it there so people didn't think their Outlook client wasn't hung while it was 
waiting for MAPI calls or data to return.  It's supposed to be a "feature" :)

-- 
Matt Lathrum
General Dynamics Decision Systems
 When cryptography is outlawed,
 bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 -Original Message-
From:   Lefkovics, William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Monday, January 21, 2002 1:04 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:RE: Requesting Data from Exchange Server

I learn something new here every day.

-Original Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 10:53 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Requesting Data from Exchange Server


That's a feature of Outlook 2002.  It can be turned off in Options.

-- 
Matt Lathrum
General Dynamics Decision Systems
 When cryptography is outlawed,
 bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 -Original Message-
From:   Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Monday, January 21, 2002 11:03 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:Requesting Data from Exchange Server

Once in a while, people are getting the little pop-up box in Outlook when
they are opening mail with attachments: "Requesting data from Exchange
server".   Is this normal, or is there something odd ocurring?  It only
started happening after I did an exmerge.  Thanks for the replies.
Steve

Steve 

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http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

List Charter and FAQ at:
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Nav for Gateways vs Trend InterScan

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

What are your opinions of Nav for Gateways as an AntiVirus product on the firewall?  
How do you think it compares to Trend's InterScan MSS product?

-- 
Matt Lathrum
General Dynamics Decision Systems
 When cryptography is outlawed,
 bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.


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http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

E2K mb size limit notice

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Is there a way to change the text of the mailbox size limit notice sent out by 
Exchange 2000?

-- 
Matt Lathrum
General Dynamics Decision Systems
 When cryptography is outlawed,
 bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.


List Charter and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Our environment has Trend running on the firewall for anti-virus and content 
filtering.  We have NAV running on the desktops.  We are currently evaluating Antigen 
and SAVF (Symantec) to put on our E2K Exchange servers (including an E2K cluster on a 
Compaq SAN).  However, our Microsoft resident is suggesting to us that AV on the 
servers themselves is not necessary and will only introduce problems and instability 
(particularly Symantec's product).  He said that when a virus outbreak occurs that 
actually gets inside, a quick ExMerge on the server is just as effective as pushing 
out virus defs using the AV product.

With AV software on the firewall and on the desktops, what do people think about not 
putting AV on the Exchange servers themselves?

-- 
Matt Lathrum
General Dynamics Decision Systems
 When cryptography is outlawed,
 bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.


List Charter and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

RE: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Title: RE: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?









Do you have anything more
to add to back up your statement?

 

Matt

 

-Original
Message-
From: Micciche, Robert
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
10:13 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

I think it's ridiculous.  

-Original Message- 
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 1:10 PM 
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues 
Subject: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary? 

 

Our environment has Trend running on the
firewall for anti-virus and content filtering.  We have NAV running on the
desktops.  We are currently evaluating Antigen and SAVF (Symantec) to put
on our E2K Exchange servers (including an E2K cluster on a Compaq SAN). 
However, our Microsoft resident is suggesting to us that AV on the servers
themselves is not necessary and will only introduce problems and instability
(particularly Symantec's product).  He said that when a virus outbreak
occurs that actually gets inside, a quick ExMerge on the server is just as
effective as pushing out virus defs using the AV product.

With AV software on the firewall and on
the desktops, what do people think about not putting AV on the Exchange servers
themselves?

-- 
Matt Lathrum 
General Dynamics Decision Systems    
 When
cryptography is outlawed, 
 bayl
bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. 

 

List Charter and FAQ at: 
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm 

List Charter
and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm




List Charter and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

RE: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

I have considered the use of external web mailboxes.  Even if they would pull it down, 
the AV on their desktop should clean it. Even if it doesn't clean it and it spreads 
internally, a simple ExMerge against the offending attachment would take care of the 
problem.  I take some stock in what our Microsoft resident has to say and I'm trying 
to get my ducks in a row before proposing it to our security department.  Is my logic 
above flawed?  Is it not as simple as that?  Are there other issues I'm not 
considering?

-- 
Matt Lathrum
General Dynamics Decision Systems
 When cryptography is outlawed,
 bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 -Original Message-
From:   Steven Peck DNET [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:36 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:RE: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?

No anti-virus on Exchange?  Ick.

Years ago, during the 'Iloveyou' virus, we had .vbs attachment blocking on
the Exchange gateway.  We also had McAffee on the server(so it was fairly
useless anyway).  On to the story.  We weathered the first few hours of the
global outbreak just fine, THEN, one of the developers who was downloading
his Hotmail account into his Outlook through POP3 'opened' an attachment
from the CEO of a client.  BAM, our poor server was infected.  (No, I do not
know why he would think that the CEO of a client company would send him a
message that said he loved you, we did ask him and he was unable to answer
).

This doesn't even account for the few folks who bring in files from home on
floppies or CD's.

I would not run without anti-virus on the Exchange server.  Even one I
consider as slow as McAfee.  McAfee's main problem seems to be that it
cannot keep up with an infection once it starts replicating.  

Of course, we disabled POP and IMAP through the firewall and discovered that
the developers thought the INCONVIENIENCE of renaming vbs and js files to
txt tooo onerous so they had done an end run with the hotmail accounts.
Needless to say, a number of attachments became imposible to mail internally
as well, and several people had to explain to managers WHY they had bypassed
normal proceedures which cost the company money in downtime, etc, etc. 

There are a number of entry points for virii, so you jut kind of have to go
with a layered defense and protect everything as well as posible.

Hope this helps.

-sp



-----Original Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:10 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?


Our environment has Trend running on the firewall for anti-virus and content
filtering.  We have NAV running on the desktops.  We are currently
evaluating Antigen and SAVF (Symantec) to put on our E2K Exchange servers
(including an E2K cluster on a Compaq SAN).  However, our Microsoft resident
is suggesting to us that AV on the servers themselves is not necessary and
will only introduce problems and instability (particularly Symantec's
product).  He said that when a virus outbreak occurs that actually gets
inside, a quick ExMerge on the server is just as effective as pushing out
virus defs using the AV product.

With AV software on the firewall and on the desktops, what do people think
about not putting AV on the Exchange servers themselves?

-- 
Matt Lathrum
General Dynamics Decision Systems
 When cryptography is outlawed,
 bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.


List Charter and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

List Charter and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

List Charter and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

RE: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Title: RE: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?









This is not
being helpful.  It is a serious
question.  Any viruses that
actually get through Trend on the firewall will most likely get cleaned by NAV
on the desktop.  This seems to make
AV on the server itself not necessary.

 

Matt

 

-Original
Message-
From: Clayton
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
10:17 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

Hi, here is a target on my head, beat me, beat me. DOH!

-Original
Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: April 10, 2002 1:16 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

Do you
have anything more to add to back up your statement?

 

Matt

 

-Original
Message-
From: Micciche, Robert
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
10:13 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

I think it's
ridiculous.  

-Original
Message- 
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 1:10 PM 
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues 
Subject: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary? 

 

Our environment
has Trend running on the firewall for anti-virus and content filtering. 
We have NAV running on the desktops.  We are currently evaluating Antigen
and SAVF (Symantec) to put on our E2K Exchange servers (including an E2K
cluster on a Compaq SAN).  However, our Microsoft resident is suggesting
to us that AV on the servers themselves is not necessary and will only
introduce problems and instability (particularly Symantec's product).  He
said that when a virus outbreak occurs that actually gets inside, a quick
ExMerge on the server is just as effective as pushing out virus defs using the
AV product.

With AV
software on the firewall and on the desktops, what do people think about not
putting AV on the Exchange servers themselves?

-- 
Matt Lathrum 
General Dynamics Decision Systems    
 When
cryptography is outlawed, 
 bayl
bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. 

 

List Charter
and FAQ at: 
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm 

List Charter
and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

List Charter and FAQ at:
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List Charter
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RE: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Title: RE: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?









That’s what SMS or
Live Update is for :)

 

-- 

Matt Lathrum

General Dynamics
Decision Systems    


When cryptography is outlawed,


bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 

-Original
Message-
From: Ray Zorz
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
10:55 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

In theory that should be
correct.  But at least with the servers you absolutely know the
definitions are up to date.  Little harder to make sure the desktops
(including laptops) are up to date.   

-Original
Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
10:21 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

This is not being helpful. 
It is a serious question. 
Any viruses that actually get through Trend on the firewall will most
likely get cleaned by NAV on the desktop. 
This seems to make AV on the server itself not necessary.

 

Matt

 

-Original
Message-
From: Clayton
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
10:17 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

Hi, here is a target on my head, beat me, beat me. DOH!

-Original
Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: April 10, 2002 1:16 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

Do you
have anything more to add to back up your statement?

 

Matt

 

-Original
Message-
From: Micciche, Robert
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
10:13 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

I think it's
ridiculous.  

-Original
Message- 
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 1:10 PM 
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues 
Subject: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary? 

 

Our environment
has Trend running on the firewall for anti-virus and content filtering. 
We have NAV running on the desktops.  We are currently evaluating Antigen
and SAVF (Symantec) to put on our E2K Exchange servers (including an E2K
cluster on a Compaq SAN).  However, our Microsoft resident is suggesting
to us that AV on the servers themselves is not necessary and will only
introduce problems and instability (particularly Symantec's product).  He
said that when a virus outbreak occurs that actually gets inside, a quick
ExMerge on the server is just as effective as pushing out virus defs using the
AV product.

With AV
software on the firewall and on the desktops, what do people think about not
putting AV on the Exchange servers themselves?

-- 
Matt Lathrum 
General Dynamics Decision Systems    
 When
cryptography is outlawed, 
 bayl
bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. 

 

List Charter
and FAQ at: 
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm 

List Charter
and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

List Charter
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List Charter
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RE: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Title: RE: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?









If the target is IIS, then
NAV running LiveUpdate on the server can handle that.

 

-- 

Matt Lathrum

General Dynamics
Decision Systems    


When cryptography is outlawed,


bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 

-Original
Message-
From: Matthew Carpenter
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
10:58 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

What
if the target of the virus is not a desktop? What if the target is IIS? How
will a desktop handle that. You need AV on the servers. It does not degrade
functionality or stability so much as to let that slide.

 

-Original
Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
12:21 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

This is not being helpful.  It is a serious question. 
Any viruses that actually get through Trend on the firewall will most likely
get cleaned by NAV on the desktop.  This seems to make AV on the server
itself not necessary.

 

Matt

 

-Original
Message-
From: Clayton
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
10:17 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

Hi, here is a target on my head, beat me, beat me. DOH!

-Original
Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: April 10, 2002 1:16 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

Do you
have anything more to add to back up your statement?

 

Matt

 

-Original
Message-
From: Micciche, Robert
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
10:13 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection on
the Exchange server necessary?

 

I think it's ridiculous.  

-Original Message- 
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 1:10 PM 
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues 
Subject: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary? 

 

Our environment has Trend running on the firewall for anti-virus
and content filtering.  We have NAV running on the desktops.  We are currently
evaluating Antigen and SAVF (Symantec) to put on our E2K Exchange servers
(including an E2K cluster on a Compaq SAN).  However, our Microsoft
resident is suggesting to us that AV on the servers themselves is not necessary
and will only introduce problems and instability (particularly Symantec's
product).  He said that when a virus outbreak occurs that actually gets
inside, a quick ExMerge on the server is just as effective as pushing out virus
defs using the AV product.

With AV software on the firewall and on the desktops, what do
people think about not putting AV on the Exchange servers themselves?

-- 
Matt Lathrum 
General Dynamics Decision Systems    
 When
cryptography is outlawed, 
 bayl
bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. 

 

List Charter and FAQ at: 
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm 

List Charter
and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

List Charter
and FAQ at:
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List Charter
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RE: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

This is a very good point.  This would be a big reason to have AV on the Exchange 
server.

-- 
Matt Lathrum
General Dynamics Decision Systems
 When cryptography is outlawed,
 bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 -Original Message-
From:   Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Wednesday, April 10, 2002 11:11 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:RE: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?

A simple Exmerge?
OK, consider this.  You get a virus, it has replicated like mad on your
server. CPU is at 100%, logs are growing like crazy and the box is on its
knees. You tell everyone to get out of email. Now you cant stop the server,
cause then you cant exmerge. You get 70% of the data out, and its still
chugging away 10 hours later when suddenly Sally in marketing comes into the
office. She hasn't been there to hear there is a virus outbreak, so she sits
down and opens OL, and sees and email from Bob in accounting that says
ILOVEYOU. She opens it, and suddenly it hammers every email box in the GAL
with the virus. Well, that's just great. Now you have to Exmerge the whole
server againOh, but wait, this time while you are doing it, Marge the
CEO's admin JUST HAS TO CHECK his email. "Oops, I didn't mean to open
that!!"

Think again

-----Original Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:42 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?


I have considered the use of external web mailboxes.  Even if they would
pull it down, the AV on their desktop should clean it. Even if it doesn't
clean it and it spreads internally, a simple ExMerge against the offending
attachment would take care of the problem.  I take some stock in what our
Microsoft resident has to say and I'm trying to get my ducks in a row before
proposing it to our security department.  Is my logic above flawed?  Is it
not as simple as that?  Are there other issues I'm not considering?

-- 
Matt Lathrum
General Dynamics Decision Systems
 When cryptography is outlawed,
 bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 -Original Message-
From:   Steven Peck DNET [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:36 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:RE: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?

No anti-virus on Exchange?  Ick.

Years ago, during the 'Iloveyou' virus, we had .vbs attachment blocking on
the Exchange gateway.  We also had McAffee on the server(so it was fairly
useless anyway).  On to the story.  We weathered the first few hours of the
global outbreak just fine, THEN, one of the developers who was downloading
his Hotmail account into his Outlook through POP3 'opened' an attachment
from the CEO of a client.  BAM, our poor server was infected.  (No, I do not
know why he would think that the CEO of a client company would send him a
message that said he loved you, we did ask him and he was unable to answer
).

This doesn't even account for the few folks who bring in files from home on
floppies or CD's.

I would not run without anti-virus on the Exchange server.  Even one I
consider as slow as McAfee.  McAfee's main problem seems to be that it
cannot keep up with an infection once it starts replicating.  

Of course, we disabled POP and IMAP through the firewall and discovered that
the developers thought the INCONVIENIENCE of renaming vbs and js files to
txt tooo onerous so they had done an end run with the hotmail accounts.
Needless to say, a number of attachments became imposible to mail internally
as well, and several people had to explain to managers WHY they had bypassed
normal proceedures which cost the company money in downtime, etc, etc. 

There are a number of entry points for virii, so you jut kind of have to go
with a layered defense and protect everything as well as posible.

Hope this helps.

-sp



-Original Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:10 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?


Our environment has Trend running on the firewall for anti-virus and content
filtering.  We have NAV running on the desktops.  We are currently
evaluating Antigen and SAVF (Symantec) to put on our E2K Exchange servers
(including an E2K cluster on a Compaq SAN).  However, our Microsoft resident
is suggesting to us that AV on the servers themselves is not necessary and
will only introduce problems and instability (particularly Symantec's
product).  He said that when a virus outbreak occurs that actually gets
inside, a quick ExMerge on the server is just as effective as pushing out
virus defs using the AV product.

With AV software on the firewall and on the desktops, what do pe

RE: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Title: RE: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?









Well, IIS is
required on Exchange.

 

-- 

Matt Lathrum

General Dynamics
Decision Systems    


When cryptography is outlawed,


bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 

-Original
Message-
From: Scot Parsons
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
11:28 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

Is IIS/OWA running on the
Exchange box?

 

 

-Original
Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
2:24 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

If the
target is IIS, then NAV running LiveUpdate on the server can handle that.

 

-- 

Matt Lathrum

General Dynamics Decision Systems    


When cryptography is outlawed,


bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 

-Original
Message-
From: Matthew Carpenter
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
10:58 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

What
if the target of the virus is not a desktop? What if the target is IIS? How
will a desktop handle that. You need AV on the servers. It does not degrade
functionality or stability so much as to let that slide.

 

-Original
Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
12:21 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

This is not being helpful.  It is a serious question. 
Any viruses that actually get through Trend on the firewall will most likely
get cleaned by NAV on the desktop.  This seems to make AV on the server
itself not necessary.

 

Matt

 

-Original
Message-
From: Clayton
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
10:17 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

Hi, here is a target on my head, beat me, beat me. DOH!

-Original Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: April 10, 2002 1:16 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

Do you
have anything more to add to back up your statement?

 

Matt

 

-Original
Message-
From: Micciche, Robert
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
10:13 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

I think it's ridiculous.  

-Original Message- 
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 1:10 PM 
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues 
Subject: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary? 

 

Our environment has Trend running on the firewall for anti-virus
and content filtering.  We have NAV running on the desktops.  We are
currently evaluating Antigen and SAVF (Symantec) to put on our E2K Exchange
servers (including an E2K cluster on a Compaq SAN).  However, our
Microsoft resident is suggesting to us that AV on the servers themselves is not
necessary and will only introduce problems and instability (particularly
Symantec's product).  He said that when a virus outbreak occurs that
actually gets inside, a quick ExMerge on the server is just as effective as
pushing out virus defs using the AV product.

With AV software on the firewall and on the desktops, what do
people think about not putting AV on the Exchange servers themselves?

-- 
Matt Lathrum 
General Dynamics Decision Systems    
 When
cryptography is outlawed, 
 bayl
bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. 

 

List Charter and FAQ at: 
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm 

List Charter
and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

List Charter
and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

List Charter
and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

List Charter and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

List Charter
and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

List Charter
and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm




List Charter and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm





List Charter and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm


List Charter and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

RE: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Title: RE: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?









Actually, I was talking
about the NAV client piece, not NAV for Exchange server.

 

And I was on the fence
about it.  That’s why I posted here
trying to get feedback.  There have
been some very good points to use AV filtering on Exchange and I am going to
suggest that to my management that it is worth the money.  I do appreciate everyone’s responses.

 

The next question – Has anyone
been able to compare SAVF and Antigen? 
Yes, lots of people compare NAVfE with Antigen and love Sybari’s product
much more.

 

However, SAVF appears to be
a lot better.  Has anyone played with
it?

 

-- 

Matt Lathrum

General Dynamics
Decision Systems    


When cryptography is outlawed,


bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 

-Original
Message-
From: Matthew Carpenter
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
11:31 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

You
are confusing. Then why did you state this "This seems to make
AV on the server itself not necessary."

 

If you agree with us?

 

-Original
Message-----
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
1:24 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

If the
target is IIS, then NAV running LiveUpdate on the server can handle that.

 

-- 

Matt Lathrum

General Dynamics Decision
Systems    


When cryptography is outlawed,


bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 

-Original
Message-
From: Matthew Carpenter
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
10:58 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

What
if the target of the virus is not a desktop? What if the target is IIS? How will
a desktop handle that. You need AV on the servers. It does not degrade
functionality or stability so much as to let that slide.

 

-Original
Message-----
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
12:21 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

This is not being helpful.  It is a serious question. 
Any viruses that actually get through Trend on the firewall will most likely
get cleaned by NAV on the desktop.  This seems to make AV on the server
itself not necessary.

 

Matt

 

-Original
Message-
From: Clayton
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
10:17 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

Hi, here is a target on my head, beat me, beat me. DOH!

-Original
Message-----
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: April 10, 2002 1:16 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

Do you
have anything more to add to back up your statement?

 

Matt

 

-Original
Message-
From: Micciche, Robert
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
10:13 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

I think it's ridiculous.  

-Original Message- 
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 1:10 PM 
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues 
Subject: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary? 

 

Our environment has Trend running on the firewall for anti-virus
and content filtering.  We have NAV running on the desktops.  We are
currently evaluating Antigen and SAVF (Symantec) to put on our E2K Exchange
servers (including an E2K cluster on a Compaq SAN).  However, our
Microsoft resident is suggesting to us that AV on the servers themselves is not
necessary and will only introduce problems and instability (particularly
Symantec's product).  He said that when a virus outbreak occurs that actually
gets inside, a quick ExMerge on the server is just as effective as pushing out
virus defs using the AV product.

With AV software on the firewall and on the desktops, what do
people think about not putting AV on the Exchange servers themselves?

-- 
Matt Lathrum 
General Dynamics Decision Systems    
 When
cryptography is outlawed, 
 bayl
bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. 

 

List Charter and FAQ at: 
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm 

List Charter
and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

List Charter
and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

List Charter
and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

List Charter and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

List Charter
and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

List Char

RE: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Title: Message









My original
message stated E2K.

 

-- 

Matt Lathrum

General Dynamics
Decision Systems    


When cryptography is outlawed,


bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 

-Original
Message-
From: Ely, Don
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
11:33 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

E2K, but not Exch 5.5...

 

Speakin of, we haven't
heard any version info from you...

 

 


Don Ely
Network Engineer
Tripath Imaging, Inc.
(336) 290-8293 - Direct
(336) 516-4519 - Mobile
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - email
http://www.tripathimaging.com



-Original Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
2:31 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

Well, IIS is required on Exchange.

 

-- 

Matt Lathrum

General Dynamics Decision Systems    


When cryptography is outlawed,


bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 

-Original
Message-
From: Scot Parsons
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
11:28 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

Is
IIS/OWA running on the Exchange box?

 

 

-Original
Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
2:24 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

If the
target is IIS, then NAV running LiveUpdate on the server can handle that.

 

-- 

Matt Lathrum

General Dynamics Decision Systems    


When cryptography is outlawed,


bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 

-Original
Message-
From: Matthew Carpenter
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
10:58 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

What
if the target of the virus is not a desktop? What if the target is IIS? How
will a desktop handle that. You need AV on the servers. It does not degrade
functionality or stability so much as to let that slide.

 

-Original
Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
12:21 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

This is not being helpful.  It is a serious question. 
Any viruses that actually get through Trend on the firewall will most likely
get cleaned by NAV on the desktop.  This seems to make AV on the server
itself not necessary.

 

Matt

 

-Original
Message-
From: Clayton
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
10:17 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

Hi, here is a target on my head, beat me, beat me. DOH!

-Original
Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: April 10, 2002 1:16 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

Do you
have anything more to add to back up your statement?

 

Matt

 

-Original
Message-
From: Micciche, Robert
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
10:13 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

I think it's ridiculous.  

-Original Message----- 
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 1:10 PM 
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues 
Subject: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary? 

 

Our environment has Trend running on the firewall for anti-virus
and content filtering.  We have NAV running on the desktops.  We are
currently evaluating Antigen and SAVF (Symantec) to put on our E2K Exchange
servers (including an E2K cluster on a Compaq SAN).  However, our
Microsoft resident is suggesting to us that AV on the servers themselves is not
necessary and will only introduce problems and instability (particularly
Symantec's product).  He said that when a virus outbreak occurs that
actually gets inside, a quick ExMerge on the server is just as effective as
pushing out virus defs using the AV product.

With AV software on the firewall and on the desktops, what do
people think about not putting AV on the Exchange servers themselves?

-- 
Matt Lathrum 
General Dynamics Decision Systems    
 When
cryptography is outlawed, 
 bayl
bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. 

 

List Charter and FAQ at: 
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm 

List Charter
and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

List Charter
and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

List Charter
and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbe

RE: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Title: Message









SAVF is Symantec
Anti-Virus and Filtering for Exchange:

 

http://enterprisesecurity.symantec.com/products/products.cfm?ProductID=66&PID=10300065&EID=0

 

It’s pretty new…   

 

-- 

Matt Lathrum

General Dynamics
Decision Systems    


When cryptography is outlawed,


bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 

-Original
Message-
From: Ely, Don
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
11:39 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

What's SAVF?

 

Trend Micro and Sybari
make the best AV for Exchange period...

 

 


Don Ely
Network Engineer
Tripath Imaging, Inc.
(336) 290-8293 - Direct
(336) 516-4519 - Mobile
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - email
http://www.tripathimaging.com



-Original Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
2:39 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

Actually,
I was talking about the NAV client piece, not NAV for Exchange server.

 

And I was
on the fence about it.  That's why
I posted here trying to get feedback. 
There have been some very good points to use AV filtering on Exchange
and I am going to suggest that to my management that it is worth the
money.  I do appreciate everyone's
responses.

 

The next
question - Has anyone been able to compare SAVF and Antigen?  Yes, lots of people compare NAVfE with
Antigen and love Sybari's product much more.

 

However,
SAVF appears to be a lot better. 
Has anyone played with it?

 

-- 

Matt Lathrum

General Dynamics Decision Systems    


When cryptography is outlawed,


bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 

-Original
Message-
From: Matthew Carpenter
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
11:31 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

You
are confusing. Then why did you state this "This seems to make
AV on the server itself not necessary."

 

If you agree with us?

 

-----Original
Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
1:24 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

If the
target is IIS, then NAV running LiveUpdate on the server can handle that.

 

-- 

Matt Lathrum

General Dynamics Decision
Systems    


When cryptography is outlawed,


bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 

-Original
Message-
From: Matthew Carpenter
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
10:58 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

What
if the target of the virus is not a desktop? What if the target is IIS? How
will a desktop handle that. You need AV on the servers. It does not degrade
functionality or stability so much as to let that slide.

 

-----Original
Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
12:21 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

This is not being helpful.  It is a serious question. 
Any viruses that actually get through Trend on the firewall will most likely
get cleaned by NAV on the desktop.  This seems to make AV on the server
itself not necessary.

 

Matt

 

-Original
Message-
From: Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
10:17 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

Hi, here is a target on my head, beat me, beat me. DOH!

-----Original
Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: April 10, 2002 1:16 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

Do you
have anything more to add to back up your statement?

 

Matt

 

-Original
Message-
From: Micciche, Robert
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
10:13 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Is virus protection
on the Exchange server necessary?

 

I think it's ridiculous.  

-----Original Message- 
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 1:10 PM 
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues 
Subject: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary? 

 

Our environment has Trend running on the firewall for anti-virus
and content filtering.  We have NAV running on the desktops.  We are
currently evaluating Antigen and SAVF (Symantec) to put on our E2K Exchange
servers (including an E2K cluster on a Compaq SAN).  However, our
Microsoft resident is suggesting to us that AV on the servers themselves is not
necessary and will only introduce problems and i

RE: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Ok! Ok! I got it! I agree! :)

-- 
Matt Lathrum
General Dynamics Decision Systems
 When cryptography is outlawed,
 bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 -Original Message-
From:   Toni, Randy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Wednesday, April 10, 2002 12:50 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:RE: Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?

I have a copy of InouclateIT Exchange Option you can have if you really want
to give your Microsoft resident some ammo to support their argument ;-)

Why would you knowingly let a virus in just because it's "easy" to clean up?
How many PC's/servers/etc will be melting down while you're shutting down
Exchange to do the exmerge?  How much of your sensitive data (passwords,
whatever) could be floating out to wherever by that time?  AV is not
foolproof by itself.  Not by a longshot.  His comment is "...when a virus
outbreak occurs that actually gets inside...".  H... I would personally
want to be a bit more proactive.

By the time you discover the virus even exists, it's may not just the
Exchange server that's toast.  We had a recent incident with an exe file
(virus) that snuck by the SMTP proxy service (firewall) and got into the
Exchange box before the latest AV signatures made it here.  It made it into
41 mailboxes, oh joy  Fortunately we hammered it with a trial version of
a content filtering gateway (a test relay) that used a policy-based ruleset
to strip it as it blew past the broken proxy on it's towards the
not-yet-updated Exchange server (and ultimately a whole network of
potentially-not-yet-updated PC's).  We got the AV sig's a couple hours
later, and even at that point it took some time (not much - but how much
does a worm need?) for the sigs to roll out to every PC.  But the test relay
system rendered it useless.  We were lucky.  AV (clients, agents. etc.) and
the SMTP proxy both failed us.  A trial system saved out butts.  Yeah, I
know, having AV agent on the Exchange box did not help in this specific
instance, but that's just the point - AV updates (even automated, on the
Exchange server, or the desktops, wherever) always have the potential to
leave little windows of opportunity for a brand-new and aggressive worm to
get in.  You have to plug every hole.  You should be trying to kill it at
the gateway, on any relay servers, on the Exchange box, on the desktops, at
the servers, wherever you can.  

Defense in depth.  Be proactive.  Don't knowingly turn your back on any
potential threats.


> -Original Message-
> From: Lathrum Matt-P55173 [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 1:10 PM
> To:   MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject:  Is virus protection on the Exchange server necessary?
> 
> Our environment has Trend running on the firewall for anti-virus and
> content filtering.  We have NAV running on the desktops.  We are currently
> evaluating Antigen and SAVF (Symantec) to put on our E2K Exchange servers
> (including an E2K cluster on a Compaq SAN).  However, our Microsoft
> resident is suggesting to us that AV on the servers themselves is not
> necessary and will only introduce problems and instability (particularly
> Symantec's product).  He said that when a virus outbreak occurs that
> actually gets inside, a quick ExMerge on the server is just as effective
> as pushing out virus defs using the AV product.
> 
> With AV software on the firewall and on the desktops, what do people think
> about not putting AV on the Exchange servers themselves?
> 
> -- 
> Matt Lathrum
> General Dynamics Decision Systems
>  When cryptography is outlawed,
>  bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.
> 
> 
> List Charter and FAQ at:
> http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

List Charter and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

List Charter and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

RE: Moving users from server A to Server B

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

What about moving people between orgs (for
instance, after using the Fastlane migratory tool)?  What can you do to stop from telling each user to do a ‘check
names’ on their profile?

 

-- 

Matt Lathrum

General Dynamics
Decision Systems    


When cryptography is outlawed,


bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 

 




List Charter and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

RE: Moving users from server A to Server B

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Title: Message









Well, we don’t want to create a new
profile for them.  We are copying
SID history from the old org so they retain all their settings.

 

-- 

Matt Lathrum

General Dynamics
Decision Systems    


When cryptography is outlawed,


bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 

-Original
Message-
From: Ely, Don
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002
1:11 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Moving users from
server A to Server B

 

Profgen.exe

 

 


Don Ely
Network Engineer
Tripath Imaging, Inc.
(336) 290-8293 - Direct
(336) 516-4519 - Mobile
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - email
http://www.tripathimaging.com



-Original
Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002
4:01 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Moving users from
server A to Server B

What about moving people
between orgs (for instance, after using the Fastlane migratory tool)?  What can you do to stop from telling
each user to do a 'check names' on their profile?

 

-- 

Matt Lathrum

General Dynamics Decision Systems    


When cryptography is outlawed,


bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 

 

List Charter and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

List Charter and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm




List Charter and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

RE: all minus one

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Never even thought of that - cool!  Plus, you could add them as bcc's so that people 
wouldn't see the other recipients, if required.

-- 
Matt Lathrum
General Dynamics Decision Systems
 When cryptography is outlawed,
 bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 -Original Message-
From:   Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Tuesday, April 16, 2002 10:38 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:RE: all minus one

Wow! Cool!!!

-Original Message-
From: Cebuly, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 10:36 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: all minus one


New Message. Click To: button. Highlight DL. Click Properties. Select names,
minus exceptions. Click on 'To' under Add to (lower left).

-Original Message-
From: Mal Sasalu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 12:26 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: all minus one


Thank you sirs. I got it. 

-Original Message-
From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 10:24 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: all minus one


If it is a one time thing, quickly remove the folks from the DL, send the
mail, then put em back...

-Original Message-
From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 9:20 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: all minus one


That would be a neat feature, but I've never seen it on Exchange.  :o|


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Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 9:01 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: all minus one




Hello everybody,

Is there a way to send mail to distribution list "all" but excluding one or
two people? I checked in the rule wizard, but couldn't find anything
appropriate.

Thanks
Mal

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RE: Message Size

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Title: RE: Message Size









I would suggest three
things:

 


 Make them zip the files.  An Excel spreadsheet can shrink to
 a quarter the size or more when zipped.
 For large files, make a file system area
 available to store them.  If
 they’re all on Windows, make it a publicly sharable drive.  If they use different OSs, then
 create an ftp drop box.
 Depending on the circumstances, it may be
 worthwhile for them to have their files available on a web page.  This way they just send the web
 page link in their email.


 

Using these three methods,
you should be able to enforce file size restrictions.  These workarounds are simple and not time-consuming if they
are set up correctly.  It will also
keep unnecessary bandwidth from saturating your lines when large files are sent
to multitudes of people not on the same Exchange server.

 

 

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-Original
Message-
From: Thompson, Elizabeth
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Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 11:33
AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Message Size

 

I wish i could do that..

 

However the state want lots of documentation from us on a regular
basis and docs on student enrollement per class for the past 10 years, not
matter what format, is LARGE

 

Also student projects tend to get rather large around here... When
you include visio drawings, cadd files, all sorts of programming files all from
students, and about 20 students per class, 4 classes, thats 80 student projects
within a week??

 

 

Like I said, as a college things are a bit weird..

 

 

Yes, they do tend to abuse it with vids and pics, but I know those
who are at the upper limit are ligit. I have see some of the files. 

 

you want weird 

 

one admin account recieves termination reports from HR. it holds
those reports for 1 year in the mail account PLUS 1 month sent items and 1
month recieved items as it also deals with changes to the system and increase
requests. ALL of that is a CYA and is kept in the mailbox so that it can be
access (via web) from any station on any campus to deal with "issues"
like why did you dsiable my account. (people don't believe us when we say HR
believes they have left...") 

 

Oddly enough, even though it has no checking on it, it averages
around 15-20 megs in size. it nevers hits the "standard" limit.

 

Oh, BTW, when I evelaute a mailbox it is not allowed to have more
then 1 months messages in it. 

 

 

-Original
Message-
From: Abercrombie, Sherry
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Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 2:19
PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Message Size

Messages that
size could not be business related.  I have the size limit on send set to
1MB, if it is legitimately business related and over 1MB, they can submit a
HelpDesk all to have it "opened" up for them to send at a specific
time, usually we do it right after 5pm.  Reasoning, when we had an ISDN
internet connection, if people tried sending messages with large attachments it
would bring internet traffic and Outlook to a virtual halt.  Since we've
upgraded to a T1, I haven't bothered to tell management that we could probably
up the outbound size message limitation as well.  

-Original
Message- 
From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 1:06 PM 
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues 
Subject: RE: Message Size 

 

Wow those are
awfully big messages coming and going...are they mpeg movies or what?  I
have my user limited to 5MB...and even that is big for attachments.

-Original
Message- 
From: Thompson, Elizabeth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 1:06 PM 
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues 
Subject: RE: Message Size 

 

since we are a
college things a bit weird for us 

Our standard
for exchange (which is the admin/faculty system) is 28,29,30 megs (warning,
prohibit send, prohibit send/receive respectively) with the upper most limit
(Director of IT or Vice Chancellor approval needed) is 38,39,40. In fact our
limit was just increase to 30 from 20 due to the "cry-babies". 

Most of the
complaints I receive deal with people not knowing about deleting/moving sent
items or cleaning out the deleted items folder. (we had to fight to get some of
these off of the mainframe...) Most complainers (including 1 dba)  are on
every list of the day and fill up there mailbox with junk. Even with the
increase we have 85 of 925 mailboxes disabled due to exceeding their limits.
The biggest complain I get is from the secretaries to the "higher"
ups, with the "I am so important that I don't have time to manage my
mailbox and because of this you should give me unlimited space" attitude. 

I consider
myself very fortunate in that I have the backing of my boss (Dir. of IT) when
it comes to enforcing the limit. If I didn't have his supp

RE: Messages Reappearing in Inbox

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Is there a pattern to the messages received?  Are they from any particular person or 
any particular mail server from a group of people?  Perhaps the sending mail daemon 
has a problem thinking it never delivered it properly and they're stuck in a queue.

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 -Original Message-
From:   Bob P. Antonietti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Tuesday, April 23, 2002 12:13 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:Messages Reappearing in Inbox

Hello.

I have a user who continually receives email messages in her Inbox, which
are messages which she has received months ago, had read, deleted and
removed from the email retention area (Recover Deleted Items).

She "re-deletes" these emails agaom, and they magically re-appear in her
Inbox in a few days, a week, a month...there seems to be no consistency.

I have watched the user delete email messages this morning, and have seen
these same messages return to her mailbox this afternoon.

Has anyone else experienced this?  If so, any suggestions on how to get
these messages permanently deleted?

The user is using Outlook97 on Exchange 5.5 SP4

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RE: 'On/Off' when booking a resources in O2k

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

It's funny what they say about the registry editor.  I thought I'd add a sentence on 
the end:

WARNING : If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that 
may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that 
you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use 
Registry Editor at your own risk.  Do not taunt the Registry Editor.

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Sent:   Friday, July 12, 2002 8:15 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:RE: 'On/Off' when booking a resources in O2k

Thanks for that!
I'll take a look

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Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 12:59 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: 'On/Off' when booking a resources in O2k


Q244392


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Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 7:55 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: 'On/Off' when booking a resources in O2k


> When you book a resource in O2k you can get a reply to say that 
> "The resources for this meeting were successfully booked"
> There is also a check box to say "Please do not show me this dialog again"
> 
> So here is my problem; a user has ticked the box but now says they want to
see this reply for future bookings.
> We have scoured the Tools > Options but can not find an option to untick
> Any ideas please?
> 
> Kind regards
> Nick
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RE: Add all Contacts to Messenger Automatically

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

I hear you two are going to be in a movie together soon.  

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 -Original Message-
From:   Tom Meunier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Monday, July 15, 2002 1:55 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:RE: Add all Contacts to Messenger Automatically

IM Batman from Gotham.  Pleased to meet you.

> -Original Message-
> From: Siegfried Weber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 03:50 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Add all Contacts to Messenger Automatically
> 
> 
> IM Superman from the Exchange 2000 Resource Kit. Not a 
> download, tough. Either on TechNet or buy the kit.
> 
> 
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 8:01 PM
> > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> > Subject: RE: Add all Contacts to Messenger Automatically
> > 
> > I remember the help file talking about a util or script to do this??
> But
> > I have been known to be wrong.
> > 
> > --Kevinm KMAP-SR, M, WLKMMAS, UCC+WCA, And Beyond 
> > http://www.daughtry.ca/ For Graphics and WebDesign, GO here!
> > 
> > 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Ren Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 10:59 AM
> > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> > Subject: Add all Contacts to Messenger Automatically
> > 
> > 
> > I just deployed Exchange Instant Messenger and was 
> wondering if there
> is
> > a way to include everyone in the company on the contact list for 
> > everyone's messenger client?  Basically what I'm looking 
> for is a new 
> > user installing messenger and not having to add each person 
> > individually.
> > 
> > I tried to pull the info from the registry and add the key file
> through
> > a script, but the key "folder" name is the user's name and 
> %username% 
> > doesn't work for a key.  Can someone help?
> > 
> > I guess the only other way I know of would be to create a VB script 
> > which would rewrite the .reg file for each person as they 
> are logging
> on
> > pulling the user's name through %username% (by batch script) and
> adding
> > it to the new .reg file in the appropriate place.  Anyone 
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RE: IT staff behavior

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

> Which brings up the point of, if they don't want to help people with their
> issues, why did they get into this business in the first place?

You can get sick of help desk after a few years.  If that's your skill set and you're 
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RE: Spam Software for Exch 5.5 & NT4.0

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

They probably should add to
the bottom of the emails a direct link to the archives and state “go here first
for FAQs and problems”

 

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-Original
Message-
From: Missy Koslosky
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002
11:50 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Spam Software for
Exch 5.5 & NT4.0

 

Archives? 
FAQ?



-
Original Message - 



From: Joe
Friess 



To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues 

Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 2:49 PM

Subject: Spam Software for Exch 5.5 & NT4.0

 

Any
recommendations for Spam blocking software for Exch 5.5 & NT4.0

Regards, 

Joseph
Friess, MCSE 
Allied Construction Products, LLC
3900 Kelley Ave 
Cleveland, OH 44114 

Phone:
216-373-0234 
FAX: 216-431-2603 
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Web Site: www.alliedcp.com

 

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RE: Security Operations Guide for Exchange 2000 Server

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Title: Message









Wow, this is great
info.  Thanks for the link.

 

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-Original
Message-
From: William Lefkovics
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 12:35
AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Security Operations Guide
for Exchange 2000 Server

 

Some
updated fun for Monday morning:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/prodtech/mailexch/opsguide/default.asp

 

It's
available for download as a 130 page .pdf file as well.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=40807

 

William
Lefkovics, MCSE, A+, ExchangeMVP

 

 

 

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RE: OT - Outlook signature anomaly

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You need to edit the signature for both Rich Text and Plain Text entries.  They are 
stored separately, from what I can tell.  I had that same problem.

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From:   Alston, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Tuesday, July 30, 2002 8:51 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:OT - Outlook signature anomaly

I have a user who changed her signature in Outlook 2000 (Tools --> Options
--> Mail Format --> Signature).  When she responds to an internal email the
message includes the new (revised) signature.  When she reponds to a message
from outside our organization, Outlook uses the old signature.  

Within the signatue picker, there is only one signature -- the new revised
signature.

The desktop OS is W98 and the Exchange Server is 5.5 (SP4)

Any ideas why Outlook behaves this way and where its keeping the other copy
of the old?

TIA,
Steve



Steve Alston
Manager, Technical Services
the woolf group, inc.
5315 Highgate Drive, Suite 102
Durham, NC  27713

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Updating contact lists after migration & upgrade (invalid X400 addresses)

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Exchange 2000 SP2
Outlook 98, 2000

In May, we did a migration from E5.5 to E2K including changing org names.  One of the 
by-products of the migration was the copying of a slew of old email aliases for 
everyone that were piled up during our time with the old company.  Stuff with type 
SMTP, X400, X500, RFAX, etc.

Recently, we finally got around to removing all those extra aliases.  However, since 
people created contacts and local distribution lists with the old E5.5 x.400 
addresses, they now show as invalid.  For instance, when looking at them, you see an 
x.400 address: "/O=company/OU=blah/CN=location/cn=userid".  Obviously, when sending to 
this address, the user gets an NDN.

We have many people who have large contact lists who now can't use them for internal 
names without fixing each one of them individually.  Does anyone have an idea as to 
how to convert these to resolve to our new AD GAL?  The cn=userid is the commonality.

I would appreciate any ideas.

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RE: Domain/UserID for OWA Logon question

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Does this work for Exchange 2000 as well?  It says Exchange 5.5.

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 -Original Message-
From:   Mike Newell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Friday, August 02, 2002 9:16 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:RE: Domain/UserID for OWA Logon question

Hello,
This is to solve a multi-domain environment but I'd be interested to see if
this would work for you. I wonder if the reg hack would do what you're
looking for. What do you think?


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q166635&;

 -Original Message-
From:   Kevin Fricke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Friday, August 02, 2002 8:40 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:Domain/UserID for OWA Logon question

In a single domain/single Exchange site with OWA in the same domain but
set up as a front end server on it's own box, users must enter
domain/userID to get into OWA.

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RE: Report tool?

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

That looks pretty nifty.  Gonna download the eval now...

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From:   William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Friday, August 02, 2002 3:52 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:RE: Report tool?

The scaled down Crystal Reports version is not too userfriendly.
Promodag on the other hand...
www.promodag.com


-Original Message-
From: Schwartz, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 2:38 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Report tool?


Because it fsking annoys me. I'd rather spend my day watching grass grow
or Andy trying to pick up Martin.

Really, I'm just not the personality type that likes building reports,
and scripting.

-Original Message-
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Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 5:35 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Report tool?


Interesting, why do you shudder over crys reports?
jlc

-Original Message-
From: Schwartz, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 4:44 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Report tool?

If you use journaling you have a copy of every e-mail. If you use
message tracking then you have the activity of the user. The logs are
purged based on what you've set on the SA.

Crystal Reports (shudder) is available on the BORK. It can get that
information off of the tracking logs if you want.

-Original Message-
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Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 4:40 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Report tool?


::cleaning mailbox::

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 1:21 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Report tool?


Management has just hot me with a request for a user's email activity
for the past 60 days due to decreased productivity over that period. 

They would like a report that shows the date, time, sender/recipient
names and length (words or KB) of each email he's sent and received over
this period. We run journaling, so we do have this info, but are there
any tools that could extract this info out of that mailbox (or even his
mailbox) and display it either as a proprietary report or in an Excel
file?

Thanks,

Evan

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RE: Additional Email Addresses

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Perhaps I'm overlooking something, but why not just add an email alias with a 
shortened nickname?

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From:   William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:19 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:RE: Additional Email Addresses

I have a friend from Sri Lanka, Sivarajah Sivaguranathar.  We call him
Siva-Siva.

You could create some event sink that would do this for you, but it is not
inherent in basic SMTP itself to allow wildcards. 

William

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Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:21 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Additional Email Addresses


D^mn.  Oh well, we only have 75 lusers so it's pretty easy to reroute or
DELETE misaddressed emails.  Just checking for alternatives.  Thanks
William.

> That would be in violation of RFC2822.
> 
> William
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Patrick Rouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:10 AM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: Additional Email Addresses
> 
> 
> Using Exchange 2000SP2, everone's email addresses are
> %firstinitial%Lastname.  For users with long or commonly mispelled names I
> add the alterations of the correct spellings as additional SMTP Addresses
> on their account. i.e.
> 
> dfleming - dflemming
> rmlodzik - rmoldzik
> gsmith - gsmit
> 
> you get the idea
> 
> I have some Thai employees with extremely long names that I've seen
> mispelled every which way, even though I usually truncate for their
> business cards & published email addresses and add their full names as
> additional addresses.
> 
> example wingkapattanakul  (first initial & last name)
> achaovakitjaroen (first initial & last name)
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RE: OWA

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

However, if more than two users connect via TS at one time, you need to buy an 
expensive TS license.

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 -Original Message-
From:   Patrick Rouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Thursday, April 25, 2002 2:35 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:Re: OWA

Terminal Services & Outlook, faster, fully functional...

> Hello All, 
> 
> I have a couple of questions about OWA.  
> 
> 1) When will spell check be available?
>
> 2) Is there a way to create a rule on the server side to block certain
> people from sending mail to my users.  ie.  spam and other mail to be
> blocked.
> 
> 3) How does one create a signature in owa?
> 
> 4) In present our present use of Outlook, if you type the name of the
> person you are sending email to, their email address pops up in the To
> box.  Possible in web version?
> 
> TIA, any information is greatly appreciated.

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RE: Spam filters

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Title: Message









I think the BOFH already did :)

 

(BOFH = B*stard Operator From Hell: http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html) 

 

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-Original
Message-
From: Matthew Carpenter
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002
2:06 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Spam filters

 

Can I use that in our
handbook or did you copyright that?

 

-Original
Message-
From: Abercrombie, Sherry
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002
3:25 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Spam filters

 

Wow,
somebody has a fast connection.I got your post Kevin before the original
posting.

-Original
Message-
From: Kevin Miller
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002
3:11 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Spam filters

This is
how I rely to those users.

 



Dear
whinny user;

 

Stop
your whining and complaining, I am sorry there is no effective way to combat
spam, you think you are special and the only one who gets it?? I get a good 200
pieces of spam mail daily. If you get more then I do, then you can complain.
Other wise Piss off.

 

Thanks
have a nice day

~Kevinm

Email
Nazi and guy who hates having his time wasted



 

Spam
changes form way to quickly and often. You can never tell how it is going to
show up or where it is going to come from. There for you can never filter it
effectively.

 

--Kevinm
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-Original
Message-
From: Bruce Fyfe
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Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002
12:54 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Spam filters

Anybody
have a recommendation for spam filter out there?  

 

Bruce

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RE: Exchange newbie

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Title: Message









Hmm, well maybe we should respond the
same way you responded to Michael Leone:

 

RTFM

 

-Original
Message-
From: Ely, Don
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 9:39
AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange newbie

 

What is DNS?  I am a
newbie too!  :o)

 

Please thanks for all
your halp...

-Original Message-
From: Purviance, Chad
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 4:11 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange newbie

Nick,

    Not
necessarily "no real purpose" many external IE not owned by you. Mail
servers will use your MX record to find the Mail eXchanger for your domain,
this is its purpose. I have found it is ALWAYS better to properly define the
host (A) record for your mail server, and the mail exchanger (MX) correctly
pointing to the host. This is DNS 101 rules IMHO.

 

Chad
Purviance

 

-Original
Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday,
May 06, 2002 2:52 PM
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Exchange newbie

 

So for
my single server setup it doesn't really serve a purpose?  Thanks for the
help.

 

Nick

-Original
Message-
From: William Lefkovics
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday,
May 06, 2002 3:55 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin
Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange newbie

Obviously,
it is a special record that points to your mail server, but what it really represents,
I think, is a route for SMTP traffic.  If you have multiple servers
accepting email for an SMTP domain, MX records can be assigned costs with a
relative relationship to assign priorities to certain mail routes.

 

In a
single server environment it may not seem to make much sense to have a separate
DNS resource record to indicate where the Mail Exchange Server is.  But
some companies have multiple routes, some companies have email hosted
elsewhere.  

 

 

William

 

 -Original
Message-
From: William Lefkovics
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 12:46
PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange newbie

Are you
serious?

 

-Original
Message-
From: Nickolaos Fotopoulos
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 12:35
PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange newbie

Sorry to
hijack again, but what purpose does the MX record serve.  It seems to just
be another level of abstraction between a domain name and its IP.  Can
anyone enlighten me please?

 

Nick

-Original
Message-
From: John R. Clark III
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:18 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange newbie

Moving
the mailboxes and everything off the old server to the new one.

 

I was
just wondering if there was a way to keep the 2 server syncronized durring the
transition.

-Original
Message-
From: Garland Mac Neill
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 4:53 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Exchange newbie

Woohh.

 

Are you
moving mailboxes to a new server? Or upgrading an existing server?

 

-Original
Message-
From: John R. Clark III
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 5:41
PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange newbie

 

I am
trying to upgrade an NT4.0 Exchange 5.5 sp6 server that is in use full time to
a Windows 2000 Exchange 2000 machine.

The
exchange 5.5 server has been used for some 5 years with no problems. The old
server was misconfigured to with a different netbios name from mx record, with
aliases in the user mailboxes.

I ran
the exchange server migration wizard and migrated the messages to the new
mailboxes without errors or warnings. 

What I
have and would like to know... 

oldserver 
 
netbios = some_name 
dns = another_name.subnet.domain.edu 
mx = mail.subnet.domain.edu 

newserver 
 
netbios = newname 
dns = newname.subnet.domain.edu 

 

I would
like to move the mx record and start getting the mail delievered to the new
server...am I going to have problems?

Is
there a way to syncronize the 2 servers so that mail is delievered between to 2
servers to the old and new mailboxes?

I am
afraid that I might miss some messages durring the mx record changeover and
will need to syncronize them. 

I am
also worried about the mailbox rules people have defined. 

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RE: Exchange move....was...RE: Exchange newbie

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Title: Message









We just did a cross-org migration from
5.5 to 2000 this weekend and came up with the same situation.  Go in and remove the Outlook Address
Book and read it.  Your contacts
should work now.

 

We wrote a send key script that is
going to automatically update everyone’s MAPI profile and remove/read their OAB
tomorrow.

 

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Decision Systems    


When cryptography is outlawed,


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-Original
Message-
From: John Clark
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 9:33 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange
movewas...RE: Exchange newbie

 

So my
exchange move is done…almost… I went from 5.5 to 2000 with a hop, skip and a
thump.  I guess that’s what happens
when you work for a department at a University that doesn’t want to pay for
training or testing!

 

I have
a couple of problems I was hoping that someone could easily answer.

 

First
the contact lists from the Outlook Address book do not work.  Global address list does work.  When you go to the address book and
select Address book there are no entries, and when you select Contacts it says
the list could not be displayed. 
The contacts folder associated with the address list could not be
opened; it may have been moved or deleted, or you do not have permissions….

 

Any
help would be appreciated,  TIA

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Tools for AD directory manipulation

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Title: Message









We just did a migration from E5.5 and
E2k and I’m surprised at the lack of easy tools that are given to us to do bulk
changes to the AD directory.  In
Exchange 5.5 it was relatively simple to do CSV imports and exports with the
GAL.  Are there any similar tools
for AD?

 

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RE: Availability of OWA - is it 24x7?

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

For 24x7 availability, you could load balance
between two servers and bring them down at different intervals to do
maintenance.

 

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-Original
Message-
From: ONG Liang Bu (CSC)
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 10:45
PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Availability of OWA - is
it 24x7?

 

Hi,

 

Some
users have been complaining that our OWA is down on certain hours during the
night.

We have
only one OWA server.  At nite when the IS do auto-defrag, read from this
list

somewhere
it is twice a day, will the OWA lost connections?

 

If
there is a downtime, how do I find out the time slots and inform the users?

Platform

NT 4.0
SP6 plus security patches.

Exchange
5.5 SP4 plus security patches

 

Appreciate
any help.

 

Ong LB

System
Consultant

Computer
Services Centre

Natioanl
Institute of Education

Nanyang
Technological University

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RE: Tools for AD directory manipulation

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Title: Message









Thanks a lot.  I’ll check out those links.

 

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-Original
Message-
From: William Lefkovics
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 11:07
PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Tools for AD
directory manipulation

 

The directory in
Exchange5.5 was a closed, preset directory and not really
extendible.  Active Directory can vary greatly from one forest to another
and simple import/export has greater issues.

 

The primary free
Microsoft tools for viewing AD I would say are ADSIEdit and the more granular
lpd.exe.  Tools for manipulating AD content are ADSI(using your
favourite language), ldifde.exe, and csvde.exe.

 

Step-by-step Guide to
Bulk Import and Export of Active Directory

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/planning/activedirectory/bulksteps.asp

 

Importing and Exporting
Directory Information

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/server/help/default.asp?url=/WINDOWS2000/en/server/help/sag_ad_ldif_csv.htm

 

Yes, there is a learning curve. 
Yes, it is worth it.  :o)

 

William Lefkovics.

 

 -Original
Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 9:30
PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Tools for AD directory manipulation

We just did a
migration from E5.5 and E2k and I’m surprised at the lack of easy tools that
are given to us to do bulk changes to the AD directory.  In Exchange 5.5 it was relatively
simple to do CSV imports and exports with the GAL.  Are there any similar tools for AD?

 

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RE: Anyone using TrendMicro Scanmail in an clustered environment?

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The 'isalive' failure is by design per this Q article (if it's the same situation that 
you're in):

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q301507

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From:   Sabo, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Friday, May 17, 2002 11:49 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:RE: Anyone using TrendMicro Scanmail in an clustered environment?

This is on an active/active cluster.  

What we are seeing is the IS and SMTP resources fail an isalive check.  in the cluster 
logs we are also seeing EXRESSOCK [unkown resource].

Eric Sabo
NT Administrator
Computing Services Center
California University of Pennsylvania


-Original Message-
From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 2:45 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Anyone using TrendMicro Scanmail in an clustered
environment?


6.0 is for E2K

-Original Message-
From: Cross, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 11:42 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Anyone using TrendMicro Scanmail in an clustered environment?


The 6.0 threw me off, I just got all of our boxes to 3.8.

-Original Message-
From:   Sabo, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Friday, May 17, 2002 2:39 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:RE: Anyone using TrendMicro Scanmail in an clustered
environment?

Tom,
Not from what trendmicro is telling me.   They have no seperate
product for an exchange cluster environment.   They will not open a PSS call
with Microsoft about this problem.

Eric Sabo
NT Administrator
Computing Services Center
California University of Pennsylvania


-Original Message-
From: Cross, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 2:37 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Anyone using TrendMicro Scanmail in an clustered environment?


H, is there a special Trend ScanMail for clusters because I thought the
latest version was 3.8?

Tom

-Original Message-
From:   Sabo, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Friday, May 17, 2002 2:33 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:RE: Anyone using TrendMicro Scanmail in an clustered
environment?

Tom,
We are at the following level for Scanmail version 6.0.
283 pattern 
6.150-1001 engine



Eric Sabo
NT Administrator
Computing Services Center
California University of Pennsylvania


-Original Message-
From: Cross, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 2:29 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Anyone using TrendMicro Scanmail in an clustered environment?


What version of Trend?  If you are not at 3.8, I would recommending moving
to it, it doesn't mug the store!

Tom

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Sent:   Friday, May 17, 2002 2:25 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:Anyone using TrendMicro Scanmail in an clustered
environment?

I'm having some problems with my cluster and we think that it is
trendmicro that is cause the problem.   It cause the cluster not to failover
cause the trendmicro is holding the IS resource.  



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Computing Services Center
California University of Pennsylvania

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RE: [Exchange2000] Black listed

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Title: Message









Because he wanted an
answer?

 

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PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: [Exchange2000] Black
listed

 

Was there a reason you
posted this in so many places?? 



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RE: Mailbox size misreported

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Title: Message









Isn’t there mailbox cleanup
that happens nightly that will clear that up?

 

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Message-
From: Dahl, Peter
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 8:23
AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Mailbox size
misreported

 

Ok, I found that but I'm
not following.  To my knowledge, deleted item retention is not counted
toward an individual's account.  Here is what I see in System Manager:

 

Mailbox size about 43 MB 

Deleted items about 52 MB

 

Peter Dahl.

-Original Message-
From: Kevin Miller
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 10:48
AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Mailbox size
misreported

 

Deleted items retention. you can view that
as a column when you view folder sizes in Exchange admin.



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AM
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Subject: Mailbox size misreported

Environment: 

Exchange 2000 SP2 on
Clustered Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP2 
Outlook XP on Windows 2000 Professional SP2 

We have a client whose
mailbox size according to the Exchange System Manager is about 43 MB, however
when the account is opened with Outlook the mailbox size is about 22 MB. 
I have never seen a discrepancy like this before and am wondering if anyone can
give me any pointers to resolve this.  I opened the account from a new
Outlook profile and got the same results as the user.

I searched TechNet but
can't find anything related to this issue.  Any help is greatly appreciated. 

Peter Dahl. 

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RE: 2000 server sizing.

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We are running E2K SP2 on a Compaq Active/Active
cluster with two Compaq 8500s (4GB RAM with 4 PIII 700MHz Xeon w/2mb cache) and
a SAN configuration of over a terabyte. 
We just went live with it a month ago.  We have had two instances where the cluster had mail queuing
problems and we had to play with failing it over and getting the SMTP service
stable.  We have about 3800 users
connected in total.  We also have
Symantec Anti-Virus and Filtering for Exchange installed.  No problems with CPU load.

 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 4:45
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To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: 2000 server sizing.

 

We have
finally implemented AD and are now looking into migrating to E2K. Currently I
have 7 boxes set up to handle Exchange 5.5.

 

5 for
user mailboxes (about 500 users each)

1 for
Public Folders

1 for
IMS

 

I have
posted before asking if anyone was using Exchange 2000 in a clustering or SAN
configuration. I seem to remember that some had said that they found a benefit
to connecting to the SAN but that there seemed to be a consensus that Exchange
did not really do well in a clustering environment for a site of 2500 users. Is
this correct?

 

That
being the case I am looking at bringing E2k up on a Dell 4600 2GHz/512k XEON
with 2GB memory and 4x74GB RAID drives. Has anyone had any experience running
Exchange on that type of hardware and size? Also, when I first brought up my
5.5 site we were told to keep it at about 500 mailboxes per server. Do I still
need to follow that with 2000?

 

I know
that there are a lot of variables and that there is no one right setup for
everyone, but I am going in the right direction?

 

 

Ken Powell
Systems Administrator
Clark County Office of Budget and Information Services (OBIS)
Vancouver, Washington
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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RE: 2000 server sizing.

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

I forgot to mention that we also have
two front end servers (DL380 G2’s) that service OWA, Public Folders, IMAP4, and
POP3.

 

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-Original
Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173 
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 5:28
PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: 2000 server sizing.

 

We are running E2K SP2
on a Compaq Active/Active cluster with two Compaq 8500s (4GB RAM with 4 PIII
700MHz Xeon w/2mb cache) and a SAN configuration of over a terabyte.  We just went live with it a month ago.  We have had two instances where the cluster
had mail queuing problems and we had to play with failing it over and getting
the SMTP service stable.  We have
about 3800 users connected in total. 
We also have Symantec Anti-Virus and Filtering for Exchange
installed.  No problems with CPU
load.

 

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-Original
Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 4:45
PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: 2000 server sizing.

 

We have
finally implemented AD and are now looking into migrating to E2K. Currently I
have 7 boxes set up to handle Exchange 5.5.

 

5 for
user mailboxes (about 500 users each)

1 for
Public Folders

1 for
IMS

 

I have
posted before asking if anyone was using Exchange 2000 in a clustering or SAN
configuration. I seem to remember that some had said that they found a benefit
to connecting to the SAN but that there seemed to be a consensus that Exchange
did not really do well in a clustering environment for a site of 2500 users. Is
this correct?

 

That
being the case I am looking at bringing E2k up on a Dell 4600 2GHz/512k XEON
with 2GB memory and 4x74GB RAID drives. Has anyone had any experience running
Exchange on that type of hardware and size? Also, when I first brought up my
5.5 site we were told to keep it at about 500 mailboxes per server. Do I still
need to follow that with 2000?

 

I know
that there are a lot of variables and that there is no one right setup for
everyone, but I am going in the right direction?

 

 

Ken Powell
Systems Administrator
Clark County Office of Budget and Information Services (OBIS)
Vancouver, Washington
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RE: 2000 server sizing.

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Title: Message









4000 is the recommended maximum (I
believe the biggest reason was I/O usage from MAPI users).  We had a specific circumstance where we
had the hardware already available so we took it.  I haven’t set myself up for detailed reporting yet, but the
CPUs were running nicely at around 20% last week.

 

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-Original
Message-
From: William Lefkovics
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 5:31
PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: 2000 server sizing.

 

3800 users is the
supported maximum for that config, right?  And the CPU musn't go over
40%...

 

-Original Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 5:28
PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: 2000 server sizing.

We are running E2K SP2
on a Compaq Active/Active cluster with two Compaq 8500s (4GB RAM with 4 PIII
700MHz Xeon w/2mb cache) and a SAN configuration of over a terabyte.  We just went live with it a month
ago.  We have had two instances
where the cluster had mail queuing problems and we had to play with failing it
over and getting the SMTP service stable. 
We have about 3800 users connected in total.  We also have Symantec Anti-Virus and Filtering for Exchange
installed.  No problems with CPU
load.

 

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-Original
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 4:45
PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: 2000 server sizing.

 

We have
finally implemented AD and are now looking into migrating to E2K. Currently I
have 7 boxes set up to handle Exchange 5.5.

 

5 for
user mailboxes (about 500 users each)

1 for
Public Folders

1 for
IMS

 

I have
posted before asking if anyone was using Exchange 2000 in a clustering or SAN
configuration. I seem to remember that some had said that they found a benefit
to connecting to the SAN but that there seemed to be a consensus that Exchange
did not really do well in a clustering environment for a site of 2500 users. Is
this correct?

 

That
being the case I am looking at bringing E2k up on a Dell 4600 2GHz/512k XEON
with 2GB memory and 4x74GB RAID drives. Has anyone had any experience running
Exchange on that type of hardware and size? Also, when I first brought up my
5.5 site we were told to keep it at about 500 mailboxes per server. Do I still
need to follow that with 2000?

 

I know
that there are a lot of variables and that there is no one right setup for
everyone, but I am going in the right direction?

 

 

Ken Powell
Systems Administrator
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Vancouver, Washington
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RE: Move Mailbox from 5.5 to ex2000 (22GB Priv.edb) Time ???

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Here's something that may help.  When we did our migration of 85 gigs over one 
weekend, we had 12 machines set up to do mailmig at the same time.  It clearly helped 
speed up the length of time it took to do our migration.  It took us about 14 hours to 
move the bulk of the data.

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 -Original Message-
From:   Jean-Francois Bourdeau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Tuesday, June 04, 2002 3:47 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:Move Mailbox from 5.5 to ex2000 (22GB Priv.edb) Time ???

Hi everyone

How long it could take to do a move mailbox(migration from ex 5.5 to ex2000)
of an Ex 5.5. server   to an ex 2000 server on a Switched Network ?

Does the time needed to do it, is about the same as moving 22GB ?  or a lot
longer ? Anyway to predict the time ?

Thanks

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RE: Remote Mail users

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Title: Message









If
they want to be online, make sure the preview pane is off so they don’t get
delays from downloading a message just for single-clicking an email.  

 

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-Original
Message-
From: Ely, Don
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 12:14
PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Remote Mail users

 

There is no particualr
document I know of.  Knowing what I know about Offline folders and dial
up, I educate my users on how I avoid the long delays.  I don't think when
I logon to Outlook nor when I exit.  I choose to synch when I want to
synch.  Leave that part to the users.  Show them how to synch single
folders instead of all of them, etc...

-Original Message-
From: Matthew Carpenter
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 3:17
PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Remote Mail users

Using a
VPN, my users complain all the time that getting their mail in Outlook takes
too long. Can someone point me to a doc on setting up syncing? I know that psts
suck, but what do you do? What is the best option for these remote people? A
pointer to a doc would be great. I searched a little bit, but figured someone
has a pointer to one put in use. TIA

 

 

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RE: For Kevin Miller

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Title: Message









I think you meant
certifiable.

 

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-Original
Message-
From: Matthew Carpenter
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002
11:11 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: For Kevin Miller

 

It
never matters HOW you get certified, as long as you ARE certified. Sheesh

-Original Message-
From: Ely, Don
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002
12:56 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: For Kevin Miller

We, unlike you, didn't/don't use CRAM
sites.  We actually use real world knowledge that we've learned over the
years...

-Original Message-
From: Precht, David
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002
1:58 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: For Kevin Miller

what cram site did you guys use ;) ?

-Original Message-
From: Paul Green
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002
13:09
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: For Kevin Miller

I got him certified in UCC+WCA.

-Original Message-
From: Matthew Carpenter
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Posted At: Wednesday, June 05,
2002 10:08 AM
Posted To: Exchange 2000 Server
Conversation: For Kevin Miller
Subject: For Kevin Miller

Would you mind enlightening
us on what all that crap is after your name? Is that just a jab at the
"certified" world, or are those real? I can not find anything on them
in Google. (I had 2 minutes to spare to look)

TIA 

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RE: For Kevin Miller

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Title: Message









AFLAK!!!

 

-Original Message-
From: Andy David
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Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002
3:29 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: For Kevin Miller

quack

 

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Message-
From: Schwartz, Jim
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002
2:10 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: For Kevin Miller

And those of us with
hiring authority do make it a practice to look into these lists and decide who
is an idiot, who is new and trying to learn and who knows how to fix broke a$$
sh!t.

-Original
Message-
From: Ely, Don
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002
2:42 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: For Kevin Miller

I have a great sense of
humour provided someone works for a cert instead of this cramming crap, taking
a test, and calling yourself certified.  Too many paper MCSE's out there
and those paper MCSE's don't know their a$$ from a hole in the ground.

-Original
Message-
From: Bunting, Jeff
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002
2:39 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: For Kevin Miller

someone leave their sense
of humor at home today?

-Original
Message-
From: Ely, Don
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002
2:29 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: For Kevin Miller

You can
keep thinking that...  Just pray you never apply for a job that I'm hiring
for. 

Don Ely
- NMBOTWBAS and then some
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Message-
From: Matthew Carpenter
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002
2:11 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: For Kevin Miller

It
never matters HOW you get certified, as long as you ARE certified. Sheesh

-Original
Message-
From: Ely, Don
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002
12:56 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: For Kevin Miller

We,
unlike you, didn't/don't use CRAM sites.  We actually use real world knowledge
that we've learned over the years...

-Original
Message-
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002
1:58 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: For Kevin Miller

what
cram site did you guys use ;) ?

-Original
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Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002
13:09
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Subject: RE: For Kevin Miller

I got
him certified in UCC+WCA.

-Original Message-
From: Matthew Carpenter
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Posted At: Wednesday, June 05,
2002 10:08 AM
Posted To: Exchange 2000 Server
Conversation: For Kevin Miller
Subject: For Kevin Miller

Would
you mind enlightening us on what all that crap is after your name? Is that just
a jab at the "certified" world, or are those real? I can not find
anything on them in Google. (I had 2 minutes to spare to look)

TIA 

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SMTPSvc logging

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Is it just me, or is the available logging of the SMTP service with E2k severely 
lacking?  Is there any way to get the From, To, Subject, and delivery status of 
messages like any normal SMTP logging would provide? I'm talking about the logging 
provided at:  Exchange System Manager/Server/Protocols/SMTP/SMTP Virtual Server 
(properties)/Enable Logging checkbox.

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RE: Server Move...Quickie

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Well at least it wasn't a food semicolon.

Ba-dum CHHH.

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 -Original Message-
From:   Clark, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Friday, June 07, 2002 2:46 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:RE: Server Move...Quickie

FOOD COMMA

 

Steve Clark 
Clark Systems Support, LLC 
AVIEN Charter Member 
"Who's watching your network?" 
www.clarksupport.com 
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The data furnished in connection with this document is deemed by Clark
Systems Support, LLC., to contain proprietary and privileged information and
shall not be disclosed or used for the benefit of others without the prior
written permission of Clark Systems Support, LLC.

-Original Message-
From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 5:41 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Server Move...Quickie

 

We went out for all you can eat Indian food. I have been shot since then

-Original Message-
From: Matthew Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 2:37 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Server Move...Quickie

I have been in "drone" mode since lunch. Typical, especially when have the
users are gone and the room is quiet. I here my yoga calling. Or is that my
head hitting the desk?

-Original Message-
From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 4:30 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Server Move...Quickie

Pretty much. I'm about asleep at my desk and pulling out of here in 30.

But the answer is yes. I don't think you have to do anything with the DL's

-Original Message-
From: Matthew Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 2:28 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Server Move...Quickie

I know. It is Friday. I guess that is why no one is enlightening me with the
answer too.

-Original Message-
From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 3:48 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Server Move...Quickie

Drowley.LOL

-Original Message-
From: Matthew Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 1:29 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Server Move...Quickie

Just to verify: 

Drowley has no mention of "moving" DLs. 

Those are just pointers in the DS right? You don't actually move them right?


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RE: The Martin Blackstone Content Filtering List AKA "smut list"

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

That's DOCTOR Smut to you.

 -Original Message-
From:   Erik Sojka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Wednesday, June 12, 2002 10:51 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:RE: The Martin Blackstone Content Filtering List AKA "smut list"

Mr. Smut, the Baron of Ass?

> -Original Message-
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> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 10:33 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: The Martin Blackstone Content Filtering List AKA 
> "smut list"
> 
> 
> I think we should change his name to Mr. Smut.
> 
> Steve Clark
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> 
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> Systems Support, LLC., to contain proprietary and privileged 
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> without the prior
> written permission of Clark Systems Support, LLC.
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 10:30 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: The Martin Blackstone Content Filtering List AKA 
> "smut list"
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Clark, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 6:51 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: The Martin Blackstone Content Filtering List AKA "smut list"
> 
> 
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> Blackstone such as the "Martin Blackstone List of Danger"
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> 
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RE: Clustering

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

We have also had good luck with our E2k SP2 cluster so far using Compaq hardware.  It 
screams.  We've been in the situation where we've had to fail it over and no one 
really noticed.

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 -Original Message-
From:   Sabo, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Thursday, June 13, 2002 6:15 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:RE: Clustering

I would recommend it,  buy good hardware.   We had very little problems with our 
exchange cluster so far.   Just only one issue with Scanmail but with all new 
technologies we are working through that problem.

Eric Sabo
NT Administrator
Computing Services Center
California University of Pennsylvania


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Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 9:09 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Clustering


We would not recommend it. More issues and you still have a single point
of failure. 

What are you wanting to achieve?

--Kevinm KMAP-SR, M, WLKMMAS, UCC+WCA, And Beyond
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-Original Message-
From: Bill Beckett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
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To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
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Would the list recommend clustering of exchange servers or too many
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RE: Clustering

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You forgot another single point of failure - there is one quorum drive.

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 -Original Message-
From:   William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Thursday, June 13, 2002 12:22 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:RE: Clustering

As Kevin mentioned, there is still a single point of failure - there is
only one information store.  No matter how many cluster nodes,
corruption in the store is not fault tolerant. 

-Original Message-
From: Bill Beckett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 6:08 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Clustering


Exchange fault tolerance basically


-Original Message-
From:   Kevin Miller [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Thursday, June 13, 2002 9:09 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:RE: Clustering

We would not recommend it. More issues and you still have a
single point
of failure. 

What are you wanting to achieve?

--Kevinm KMAP-SR, M, WLKMMAS, UCC+WCA, And Beyond
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-Original Message-
From: Bill Beckett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 6:02 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Clustering


Would the list recommend clustering of exchange servers or too
many
issues with this? Too difficult to setup?


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Free/Busy time extension

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Title: Message









Exchange 2000 SP2

Outlook 98, 2000, and a few
XP users.  Mostly Outlook 2000.

 

Is there an automated way
to increase the free/busy client publish setting from 2 months to 12 months in
an automated way for 4000 users?

 

-- 

Matt Lathrum

General Dynamics
Decision Systems    


When cryptography is outlawed,


bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 




List Charter and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

RE: Free/Busy time extension

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Title: Message









All,

 

I found a
registry entry that can be changed:

 

HKCU\Software\Office\9.0\Outlook\Preferences\FBPublishRange
= 12

 

 

-- 

Matt Lathrum

General Dynamics
Decision Systems    


When cryptography is outlawed,


bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 

-Original
Message-
From: Lathrum Matt-P55173 
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 1:09
PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Free/Busy time extension

 

Exchange
2000 SP2

Outlook
98, 2000, and a few XP users. 
Mostly Outlook 2000.

 

Is there
an automated way to increase the free/busy client publish setting from 2 months
to 12 months in an automated way for 4000 users?

 

-- 

Matt Lathrum

General Dynamics Decision Systems    


When cryptography is outlawed,


bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 

List Charter
and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm




List Charter and FAQ at:
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Reoccurring meetings broken after migration?

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Background:
We recently split off as a new company.  The old company used Exchange 5.5.  We 
created a new Exchange 2000 org (different org name) and migrated everyone over a 
weekend using MailMig and Exmerge when necessary.

Problem:
People with reoccurring meetings do not have access as meeting organizers to change or 
delete them.  The organizer shows as their old X400 address (/o=org...) from before 
the migration.

How do I give them access to their meetings?

-- 
Matt Lathrum
General Dynamics Decision Systems
 When cryptography is outlawed,
 bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.




List Charter and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

RE: "Trail" for mail popped and routed

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Apologies for the thread hijack - I forgot to rename the subject.



List Charter and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

RE: "Trail" for mail popped and routed

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Background:
We recently split off as a new company.  The old company used Exchange 5.5.  We 
created a new Exchange 2000 org (different org name) and migrated everyone over a 
weekend using MailMig and Exmerge when necessary.

Problem:
People with reoccurring meetings do not have access as meeting organizers to change or 
delete them.  The organizer shows as their old X400 address (/o=org...) from before 
the migration.

How do I give them access to their meetings?

-- 
Matt Lathrum
General Dynamics Decision Systems
 When cryptography is outlawed,
 bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.




List Charter and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

RE: Reoccurring meetings broken after migration?

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Anyone have any ideas on the below, or any questions to help troubleshoot?

-- 
Matt Lathrum
General Dynamics Decision Systems
 When cryptography is outlawed,
 bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 -Original Message-
From:   Lathrum Matt-P55173  
Sent:   Monday, July 01, 2002 1:56 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject:Reoccurring meetings broken after migration?

Background:
We recently split off as a new company.  The old company used Exchange 5.5.  We 
created a new Exchange 2000 org (different org name) and migrated everyone over a 
weekend using MailMig and Exmerge when necessary.

Problem:
People with reoccurring meetings do not have access as meeting organizers to change or 
delete them.  The organizer shows as their old X400 address (/o=org...) from before 
the migration.

How do I give them access to their meetings?

-- 
Matt Lathrum
General Dynamics Decision Systems
 When cryptography is outlawed,
 bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.




List Charter and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm




List Charter and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

Toggling the RUS through scripting?

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

Is there a way to toggle the RUS on multiple accounts through scripting?

-- 
Matt Lathrum
General Dynamics Decision Systems
 When cryptography is outlawed,
 bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.




List Charter and FAQ at:
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

RE: exchangelist digest: July 04, 2002

[Lathrum Matt-P55173]

He probably couldn't tell how to do so, since the charter web page is listed at the 
bottom of EVERY EMAIL.

:)

-- 
Matt Lathrum
General Dynamics Decision Systems
 When cryptography is outlawed,
 bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

 -Original Message-
From:   David N. Precht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Friday, July 05, 2002 5:48 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Sunbelt Software Webmaster'
Subject:RE: exchangelist digest: July 04, 2002

Do it yourself !
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

-Original Message-
From: Geoff Londt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 02:19
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: exchangelist digest: July 04, 2002



Hi Please can you take me off this list for the time being.

Thanks
Geoff

-Original Message-
From: MS-Exchange Admin Issues digest
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 05 July 2002 06:00
To: exchangelist digest recipients
Subject: exchangelist digest: July 04, 2002

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