Trend OfficeScan 5.02
Just got the new license for 5.02, and was wondering if anyone has had any problems with this version? John -Original Message- From: David N. Precht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 8:47 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Recall: exchangelist digest: July 04, 2002 Try again. -Original Message- From: Geoff Londt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 02:21 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Recall: exchangelist digest: July 04, 2002 Geoff Londt would like to recall the message, exchangelist digest: July 04, 2002. 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
Trend Tech Support AKA I Love It.
Well I just had my first support issue with Trend OfficeScan. I had one computer that it would not install right on one machine. Looking through their knowledge base I found a solution that seems to fit the bill exactly, except it was for a slightly older version than I have. At 4:58 PM Wednesday I sent off a message to their email support team asking if this would work for my version, figuring I might get something Monday because of the holiday weekend. Much to my surprise there was a reply waiting for me this morning. The person not only answered my question but also made several other suggestions, one of which ended up fixing the problem. What great service I thought and then I looked and realized that this message was sent at 3:23 AM July 4th! Plus I didn't have to sign up and pay money to be supported like Mcafee. With McAfee I was lucky to get an answer by the end of a normal working week, even though I was paying support. Just another reason to go with Trend. John Majetic List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: McAfee The final Results.
Yes. It was set to scan all files on all computers.It was also supposed to scan all attachments as well. John -Original Message- From: Clark, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 5:16 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: McAfee The final Results. Was McAfee set to scan all files on the PC originally before the move? Steve Clark Clark Systems Support, LLC AVIEN Charter Member Who's watching your network? www.clarksupport.com 301-610-9584 voice 240-465-0323 Efax 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: Majetic, John RAME [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 5:07 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: McAfee The final Results. Well I just got done replacing McAfee VirusScan with Trend OfficeScan on all my desktops, and I thought I would post the results here. Trend found 22 out of 84 computers had a virus on them despite having VirusScan with up to date (4209) data files installed on them. They were all set up to check for new dats automatically. Most had multiple infections, with one even having 6 different viruses on it. 90 percent of the viruses were Outlook based email viruses that somehow got through GroupShield, and VirusScan! I even saw several infections from KLEZ, and supposedly you didn't even have to be up to date on your DAT fields for VirusScan to clean that one. I just thought that this info was worth putting out there for those using or thinking of using VirusScan. John Majetic 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: McAfee The final Results.
I priced it out at CDW before my parent company bought it for all subsidiaries worldwide. The Trend Neat Suite, which includes, Client, Server, and Exchange versions, along with some other goodies, was about $7887 Plus $2000 a year for maintenance for 250 users through CDW. I think we paid about $8k for two years of McAfee last time we paid, by comparison. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 5:32 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: McAfee The final Results. can you buy trend from any software var (insight,cdw)? what sort of pricing structure can you get. I have about 600 mailboxes. I like stirring up this nest because it makes my job easier to go upwards and get the ok to change from groupshield. dave -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 3:40 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: McAfee The final Results. Personally I use Trend. I have always had excellent experiences with it. I demo'd anitgen and while it is a great program, I found the interface to be kludgy. Also the fact that I have to enter the file extensions one at a time did not please me. Frankly, both are excellent products and you cant go wrong with eihter. -Original Message- From: Clark, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 2:35 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: McAfee The final Results. Antigen. No comments from AB on this. Steve Clark Clark Systems Support, LLC AVIEN Charter Member Who's watching your network? www.clarksupport.com 301-610-9584 voice 240-465-0323 Efax 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: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 5:07 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: McAfee The final Results. Yea I have to ask that question too just cause. I know the default is programs only. But hopefully this fall I am moveing away from mcafee to one of the two that most people mention for exchange. BWT which is better trend or antigen? dave -Original Message- From: Clark, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 3:16 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: McAfee The final Results. Was McAfee set to scan all files on the PC originally before the move? Steve Clark Clark Systems Support, LLC AVIEN Charter Member Who's watching your network? www.clarksupport.com 301-610-9584 voice 240-465-0323 Efax 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: Majetic, John RAME [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 5:07 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: McAfee The final Results. Well I just got done replacing McAfee VirusScan with Trend OfficeScan on all my desktops, and I thought I would post the results here. Trend found 22 out of 84 computers had a virus on them despite having VirusScan with up to date (4209) data files installed on them. They were all set up to check for new dats automatically. Most had multiple infections, with one even having 6 different viruses on it. 90 percent of the viruses were Outlook based email viruses that somehow got through GroupShield, and VirusScan! I even saw several infections from KLEZ, and supposedly you didn't even have to be up to date on your DAT fields for VirusScan to clean that one. I just thought that this info was worth putting out there for those using or thinking of using VirusScan. John Majetic 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: McAfee The final Results.
Well as I have stated before, when we first bought McAfee we did exactly that, we bought it, with three years of upgrade, and support options. I think we paid about 8K total for 19 servers, and 300 users. In three years McAfee called, and said we had to pay up, or take all the software off of our PCs. They said we only leased the software, not bought it. I faxed them the original contract, and no where in it was the word lease. They said it didn't matter. I told them to put it where the sun don't shine, and started looking for other vendors. The called both my boss, and the president, and basically said if we did not pay up in two weeks, the would report us a software pirates. My boss caved, and officially put us in a leasing arrangement. It was 7K for 8 servers, and 180 users, and it only covered us for 2 years. We had sold off a division, so our user and server base went down to those numbers. Seriously half the users, and half the servers, for 1/3 less time, and it's only 1K cheaper! Can you say bend over? When they called this time I didn't even ask the price I just told them to stuff it. They tried to do the same thing, and say they would report us a pirates. I would not do business with them if they were the last anti-virus company in the world. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Bunting, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 9:04 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: McAfee The final Results. I think the key phrase is last time we paid. We have about the same number of users and they wanted something like $15k to renew our licensing. Our original pricing was comparable to yours. -Original Message- From: Majetic, John RAME [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 8:52 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: McAfee The final Results. I priced it out at CDW before my parent company bought it for all subsidiaries worldwide. The Trend Neat Suite, which includes, Client, Server, and Exchange versions, along with some other goodies, was about $7887 Plus $2000 a year for maintenance for 250 users through CDW. I think we paid about $8k for two years of McAfee last time we paid, by comparison. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 5:32 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: McAfee The final Results. can you buy trend from any software var (insight,cdw)? what sort of pricing structure can you get. I have about 600 mailboxes. I like stirring up this nest because it makes my job easier to go upwards and get the ok to change from groupshield. dave -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 3:40 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: McAfee The final Results. Personally I use Trend. I have always had excellent experiences with it. I demo'd anitgen and while it is a great program, I found the interface to be kludgy. Also the fact that I have to enter the file extensions one at a time did not please me. Frankly, both are excellent products and you cant go wrong with eihter. -Original Message- From: Clark, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 2:35 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: McAfee The final Results. Antigen. No comments from AB on this. Steve Clark Clark Systems Support, LLC AVIEN Charter Member Who's watching your network? www.clarksupport.com 301-610-9584 voice 240-465-0323 Efax 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: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 5:07 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: McAfee The final Results. Yea I have to ask that question too just cause. I know the default is programs only. But hopefully this fall I am moveing away from mcafee to one of the two that most people mention for exchange. BWT which is better trend or antigen? dave -Original Message- From: Clark, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 3:16 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: McAfee The final Results. Was McAfee set to scan all files on the PC originally before the move? Steve Clark Clark Systems Support, LLC AVIEN Charter Member Who's watching your network? www.clarksupport.com 301-610-9584 voice 240-465-0323 Efax 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: Majetic
RE: McAfee The final Results.
You may be right William. All I know is I asked my sales rep if I would have to pay again after three years, or did we own the software? He told me I wouldn't be able to upgrade to a new version after the software upgrade options ran out, but yes we would be licensed for whatever the most current version was at the end of the three years, and could continue using that version indefinitely. So they lied either when they sold it to me, or lied to me when they tried to resell it to me. Either way it is a bad way to do business, and therefore I suggest everyone to steer clear of them. John -Original Message- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 10:18 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: McAfee The final Results. If they were the last antivirus software company on earth, you wouldn't even be allowed in line. This is standard. You do not own the software. It is not only in the contract, it is in the EULA. This is the same with the other antivirus vendors. You buy a usage term if you will. Yes, you should remove McAfee off all yor computers if you do not enter into a renewed term. Otherwise it is called stealing. A basic concept seemingly foreign to software users. You don't own Antigen either. You enter into a usage contract for 2 years at a time. -Original Message- From: Majetic, John RAME [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 7:10 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: McAfee The final Results. Well as I have stated before, when we first bought McAfee we did exactly that, we bought it, with three years of upgrade, and support options. I think we paid about 8K total for 19 servers, and 300 users. In three years McAfee called, and said we had to pay up, or take all the software off of our PCs. They said we only leased the software, not bought it. I faxed them the original contract, and no where in it was the word lease. They said it didn't matter. I told them to put it where the sun don't shine, and started looking for other vendors. The called both my boss, and the president, and basically said if we did not pay up in two weeks, the would report us a software pirates. My boss caved, and officially put us in a leasing arrangement. It was 7K for 8 servers, and 180 users, and it only covered us for 2 years. We had sold off a division, so our user and server base went down to those numbers. Seriously half the users, and half the servers, for 1/3 less time, and it's only 1K cheaper! Can you say bend over? When they called this time I didn't even ask the price I just told them to stuff it. They tried to do the same thing, and say they would report us a pirates. I would not do business with them if they were the last anti-virus company in the world. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Bunting, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 9:04 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: McAfee The final Results. I think the key phrase is last time we paid. We have about the same number of users and they wanted something like $15k to renew our licensing. Our original pricing was comparable to yours. -Original Message- From: Majetic, John RAME [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 8:52 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: McAfee The final Results. I priced it out at CDW before my parent company bought it for all subsidiaries worldwide. The Trend Neat Suite, which includes, Client, Server, and Exchange versions, along with some other goodies, was about $7887 Plus $2000 a year for maintenance for 250 users through CDW. I think we paid about $8k for two years of McAfee last time we paid, by comparison. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 5:32 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: McAfee The final Results. can you buy trend from any software var (insight,cdw)? what sort of pricing structure can you get. I have about 600 mailboxes. I like stirring up this nest because it makes my job easier to go upwards and get the ok to change from groupshield. dave -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 3:40 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: McAfee The final Results. Personally I use Trend. I have always had excellent experiences with it. I demo'd anitgen and while it is a great program, I found the interface to be kludgy. Also the fact that I have to enter the file extensions one at a time did not please me. Frankly, both are excellent products and you cant go wrong with eihter. -Original Message- From: Clark, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 2:35 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: McAfee The final Results. Antigen. No comments from AB on this. Steve Clark Clark Systems Support, LLC AVIEN Charter Member Who's
McAfee The final Results.
Well I just got done replacing McAfee VirusScan with Trend OfficeScan on all my desktops, and I thought I would post the results here. Trend found 22 out of 84 computers had a virus on them despite having VirusScan with up to date (4209) data files installed on them. They were all set up to check for new dats automatically. Most had multiple infections, with one even having 6 different viruses on it. 90 percent of the viruses were Outlook based email viruses that somehow got through GroupShield, and VirusScan! I even saw several infections from KLEZ, and supposedly you didn't even have to be up to date on your DAT fields for VirusScan to clean that one. I just thought that this info was worth putting out there for those using or thinking of using VirusScan. John Majetic List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: testing for failure
Correct me if I am wrong, but if your firewall is down, then your ISP can no longer forward the email to your exchange server? So wouldn't their server just try to deliver it every so often until their delivery timeout expired? I have had my server down from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM one day for server room maintenance, and when I brought it back up, most of the mail sent earlier in the day flood right in. I think if you are thinking this would be only be down for an hour or so, you shouldn't have to do anything, depending on what you ISP's delivery time out is. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Clark, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 2:08 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: testing for failure Not quite sure if this is OT or not - regardless, here it goes. I have an Exchange mail server in an office with an internal address 192.x.x.x. All mail is handled by the Netscreen firewall and routed to the Exchange server. That all works well. I have requested the hosting company to set up a 2nd rule in the zone file such that if the firewall from above is down or gone, forward the mail to this single mailbox and I can pull when the server comes back on-line. My testing process is to disable the IP address that corresponds to the mail.domainname.com in the firewall. I then send a test message to the administrator account and start monitoring the mailbox at ISP to see if email is arriving. No mail ever arrives. After 15 to 30 minutes, I re-enable the config in the firewall and watch mail start to flow shortly thereafter. So here are my questions: 1. How long *should* it take for this failover process to take affect 2. Is my testing process flawed as I am disabling the IP rather than unplugging the entire firewall Any thoughts or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Steve Clark Clark Systems Support, LLC AVIEN Charter Member Who's watching your network? www.clarksupport.com 301-610-9584 voice 240-465-0323 Efax 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. 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: Poll time
I think I have beat you all. Exchange 5.5 Standard, on NT4.0 SP6A 198 MB Memory 2 GB mirrored system Partition 6GB raid for IS 2GB drive for the Logs 1 Pentium Pro 100Mhz CPU 184 users all using PSTs When I got here the box was PDC, DHCP, Primary Wins, a RAS server with 8 VPN Ports on it, ran Mail Essentials, and had several print queues on it! CPU was about 30% to 60%, but memory got to be a real issue. After several weeks of constant use it would be using 220MB, and things would really slow down. I am replacing this box one service at a time as we speak. It is now only the RAS server, and will go away entirely with the installation of Windows 2000. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Sabo, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 9:02 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Poll time Exchange 2000 SP2 Native Mode 2 NODE cluster Windows Advanced Server SP2 (active/active) 8000+ users Proliant DL580, Quad Pentium III XEON - 700 MHZ - 2 MB cache each processor 3 GB Physical Memory 60 GB RAID on each server Each server is attached through a HBA to an MA6000 SAN One store is 22 GB and the other store is 13 GB Eric Sabo NT Administrator Computing Services Center California University of Pennsylvania -Original Message- From: Chris Norris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 8:57 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Poll time Exchange 2000 25 users Dell Poweredge 2450 Dual 733 P3 1 Gb RAM 2 (two) Gb IS (they hate me but I don't allow packrats... :) Also web server and MS Project Central server -Original Message- From: Mark Kelsay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 8:35 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Poll time Exchange 5.5 ent. 90 users Dell Poweredge 4500 Quad 700 Xeon (1 meg cache) 1 gig of RAM 24 gig IS (Major Packrats here) -Original Message- From: Preston Jeffares [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 1:10 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Poll time Don't ask me why I'm in Polling mode today... but I was just curious and thought it might serve some positive purpose to see what kind of environments everyone is running in. See who has the most people on the smallest boxes and who has the largest org. I used to take pride on my little single proc 200mhz w/mmx Compaq server that acted as the PDC, File Server, Exchange Server, Fax Server, SQL Server for 110 people. So what ya got out there? Exchange 2000 2 sites 700 users Quad 1ghz XEON 3 gigs of RAM at each site 12 gig store at one site and 8 gig store at the other Dell Shop (we've been having ALOT of RAID card failures... anyone else?) 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: Backups
I was doing brick level backups for quite a while. Never had a problem with them, Never really had to use them, but I had the tape space, so figured what the hell? Well about two weeks ago after doing them for three years with out a hitch, suddenly they stopped working. Couldn't back up a one of them. Just for grins, I tried to restore a mailbox from a recently fired employee, and guess what it didn't work. I have done this on a regualar basis as part of my DR planning, and never had a problem. I made no changes to the server in weeks if not months, but suddenly nothing works. Before subscribing to this list I would have been in a big panic, but now I just turned them off. I think this shows just how unreliable a BLB backup is. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Bill Beckett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 2:02 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Backups Why do brick level backups = BAD? 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: Backups
Just backing up the IS, and not the mailboxes as well. John -Original Message- From: Bill Beckett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 2:45 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backups So how are you doing your backups now? -Original Message- From: Majetic, John RAME [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 2:42 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject:RE: Backups I was doing brick level backups for quite a while. Never had a problem with them, Never really had to use them, but I had the tape space, so figured what the hell? Well about two weeks ago after doing them for three years with out a hitch, suddenly they stopped working. Couldn't back up a one of them. Just for grins, I tried to restore a mailbox from a recently fired employee, and guess what it didn't work. I have done this on a regualar basis as part of my DR planning, and never had a problem. I made no changes to the server in weeks if not months, but suddenly nothing works. Before subscribing to this list I would have been in a big panic, but now I just turned them off. I think this shows just how unreliable a BLB backup is. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Bill Beckett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 2:02 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Backups Why do brick level backups = BAD? 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: Backups
As I said I have never really had to, if I did I would recover the IS to my backup machine. I took an old 500 PC put one big IDE drive in it, and ghosted the drives on my exchnage box over to different partitions to the one big IDE drive. It justs sits in the corner doing nothing. One day If I ever get the guts, I want to put in place of the server just to see if it would fuction well emough to get us through a real disaster. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Bill Beckett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 3:18 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backups Hmmm, well how do you recover a mailbox? -Original Message- From: Majetic, John RAME [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 3:11 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject:RE: Backups Just backing up the IS, and not the mailboxes as well. John -Original Message- From: Bill Beckett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 2:45 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backups So how are you doing your backups now? -Original Message- From: Majetic, John RAME [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 2:42 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject:RE: Backups I was doing brick level backups for quite a while. Never had a problem with them, Never really had to use them, but I had the tape space, so figured what the hell? Well about two weeks ago after doing them for three years with out a hitch, suddenly they stopped working. Couldn't back up a one of them. Just for grins, I tried to restore a mailbox from a recently fired employee, and guess what it didn't work. I have done this on a regualar basis as part of my DR planning, and never had a problem. I made no changes to the server in weeks if not months, but suddenly nothing works. Before subscribing to this list I would have been in a big panic, but now I just turned them off. I think this shows just how unreliable a BLB backup is. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Bill Beckett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 2:02 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Backups Why do brick level backups = BAD? 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: Backups
Like sending out this email without doing the sppelling check. DOH!!! John -Original Message- From: Majetic, John RAME [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 3:35 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backups As I said I have never really had to, if I did I would recover the IS to my backup machine. I took an old 500 PC put one big IDE drive in it, and ghosted the drives on my exchnage box over to different partitions to the one big IDE drive. It justs sits in the corner doing nothing. One day If I ever get the guts, I want to put in place of the server just to see if it would fuction well emough to get us through a real disaster. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Bill Beckett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 3:18 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backups Hmmm, well how do you recover a mailbox? -Original Message- From: Majetic, John RAME [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 3:11 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject:RE: Backups Just backing up the IS, and not the mailboxes as well. John -Original Message- From: Bill Beckett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 2:45 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Backups So how are you doing your backups now? -Original Message- From: Majetic, John RAME [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 2:42 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject:RE: Backups I was doing brick level backups for quite a while. Never had a problem with them, Never really had to use them, but I had the tape space, so figured what the hell? Well about two weeks ago after doing them for three years with out a hitch, suddenly they stopped working. Couldn't back up a one of them. Just for grins, I tried to restore a mailbox from a recently fired employee, and guess what it didn't work. I have done this on a regualar basis as part of my DR planning, and never had a problem. I made no changes to the server in weeks if not months, but suddenly nothing works. Before subscribing to this list I would have been in a big panic, but now I just turned them off. I think this shows just how unreliable a BLB backup is. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Bill Beckett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 2:02 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Backups Why do brick level backups = BAD? 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: OT- Outlook will not start
If it will start in safe mode, and everything else is running great in regular mode it sounds like it might be a registry setting. Go to Microsoft's download site and do a search for eraser. Eraser is a program that does a really aggressive cleanup of Office after you uninstall it, and gets rid of plenty of left over registry settings. I have used the 97 version a lot, and gotten around what otherwise probably would have been a complete reload. I have yet to use the 2000 version, but the Office 97 version has never caused me any problems, except getting rid of one file that something else needed. Can't remember which one it was, but as soon as I put office back on the PC everything was fine. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Thompson, Elizabeth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 12:36 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: OT- Outlook will not start I am brain dead and am hoping for some pointers. WIN98 machine. Standard (for our company) office 2000 install (run alll from my cpu). The rest of the office suite is fine. When you start outlook is hangs at the outlook splash screen. It doesn't give any errors. just stays there forever. if you do a ctrl-alt-del - it seems to be fine. If you switch to it, then it will come up not responding. Outlook will run in safe mode (when started with the /safe switch) The office suite has been un-installed, the registry keys removed. Office was re-installed under a new user (me) and setup a profile setup for me. when i clicked on outlook for the 1st time - it did give the configuration choice sreen then locked up. I have re-started the system in dos mode and deleted win386.swp... No matter what I do or who is logged in it hangs, except when started in safe mode IS there anything I can do in safe mode to affect the standard mode? Is there something I am not seeing THanks for your input. Elizabeth Thompson Service and Support Technician CCBC - Catonsville 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: 16 GB Limit?
Sorry for highjacking the thread, but is there any maintenance other than backups, event log, and IS size monitoring that really needs to be done on a regular basis? John Majetic -Original Message- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 4:35 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: 16 GB Limit? Mgmt is real big on my being able to run off-line defrag regularly Yes, we've already discussed at length the complete waste of time this is. -Original Message- From: Abercrombie, Sherry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 12:17 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: 16 GB Limit? He he. I'm actually going to enjoy this meeting.I'm going to enjoy saying I been telling you this was going to happen, na na na na na. Okay, I probably won't say it exactly like that, but I will enjoy it! My off-line defrag this past weekend gained me nada, zippo, zilch, zero. The stripe set it's on is a total of 25 GB, the IS is @ 12.6 growing, if I can get drives for this server is a big IF, so far I've found none (Compaq 1850R), Exchange Enterprise 5.5 is unavailable that I've found for purchase. Looks like I get a new/second Exchange server out of this deal. Mgmt is real big on my being able to run off-line defrag regularly and/or isinteg if there is database corruption, I'm at the point that I can't do that easily or quickly, of course that's the other part of what they want, it must be quick. Sooo, I've configured a nice little Compaq ML530 with dual processors, 2 GB ram 6 18 GB drives.I'm going to enjoy playing with my new server :) -Original Message- From: William Lefkovics [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 1:29 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: 16 GB Limit? Yes. Absolutely. From Paul Robichaux's Managing Exchange Server 5.5: If you're running the Standard Edition of Exchange, and your public or private IS is very close to the 16GB limit, the IS will shut down instead of growing beyond that limit. If this happens, do an off-line defragmentation of the database (see Chapter 17 for details) to reclaim the database whitespace, then restart the IS. If the database is already compacted, then you may have to consider upgrading to Enterprise Edition to get the store to start. -Original Message- From: Sherry Abercrombie [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 11:21 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: 16 GB Limit? Sorry to bring this up again, but this is to make sure I understand before a 3 PM meeting today with my CTO about Exchange, if the priv.edb on Exchange 5.5 Standard edition hits 16GB, Exchange will come to a screeching halt? Yes or no? Thanks, Sherry I'm not sure what you are asking, Dan. There is a hardcoded 16GB database limit to each of the private information store and public information store in the Exchange Standard version. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 8:20 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: 16 GB Limit? MSExchangeIS Private? Storage Limits? Dan Munley -Original Message- From: William Lefkovics [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 10:45 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: 16 GB Limit? GB, not MB. There is a separate 16GB limit on each of the priv.edb and pub.edb. The online maintenance that runs each night will report the database information to the application event log. William -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 7:34 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: 16 GB Limit? It is agreed that the limit is 16MB. How is that determined? Through the aggregate size of the mailboxes and private folders? Or the size of the Priv and Pub? Dan Munley -Original Message- From: Majetic, John RAME [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 3:56 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: 16 GB Limit? Ok everyone here is talking about the 16GB limit on regular 5.5, but all the docs I can find from Microsoft don't seem to differencate between 5.5 and 5.5 enterprise. I was always under the impression that regualar 5.5 had the 16GB limit, and Eneterprise got rid of it. Am I right? If not what is the limit in regualr 5.5? John Majetic List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com
RE: How much Bandwidth?
I know that problems between servers can occur if the bandwidth between them falls below a certain number. But if you are talking about clients, sending, receiving, and syncing, then I really don't know that there is a minimum. I have a salesman who routinely connects at 9600. His Modem is broken, and he refuses to send it in, he enjoys bitching at me to much. He doesn't seem to have any problems at all, except it takes him forever to do anything. When Northpoint went under, and we lost our DSL, we had a Webramp combining three 56K dialup lines, and everyone was using that, including the field people to dial in, and they never had any problems, and I saw some of them connect at 2400! But seriously it will use as much as it can, some people who use Broadband to VPN in have hooked up at 10,000,000! That's was RAS admin says any way, but I have seen them download large 10 Mb files in less than 3 minutes. So I would say get as much as your budget will let you get. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Ambrose, Joseph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 10:49 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: How much Bandwidth? OK. How about a minimum number then? Joseph Ambrose System and Network Manager The Conference Board P: 001-212-339-0443 F: 001-212-836-3802 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit our Award Winning Web Site: www.conference-board.org -Original Message- From: Ambrose, Joseph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 9:44 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject:How much Bandwidth? Hello Exchange Experts! Can you tell me how much bandwidth the Outlook - Exchange RPC connections uses? Exch 5.5 sp4 Outlook 97 sr-2 / Outlook 2000 Joseph Ambrose System and Network Manager The Conference Board P: 001-212-339-0443 F: 001-212-836-3802 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit our Award Winning Web Site: www.conference-board.org 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: Mailbox Tools
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/groupware/story/0,10801 ,60685,00.html http://www.wickett.net/WNMailKeeper/ -Original Message- From: Cross, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 11:25 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Mailbox Tools Hey, I'm looking for some good Exchange 5.5 tools for offline storage. We have some info stores overseas that are getting out of control. Anyone out there archiving mail using 3rd party tools? I need something cheap, cheap, borderline free Thanks, Tom Cross Viasystems 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: Exchange 5.5 Incorrect Mailbox Size Reported
I have the same problem, and it's definitely not deleted Item retention. I have never gotten a good answer as to why it happens. We use PST files, and always have. To give an example I have one user who has no emails in any of the folders of his server box, no calendar entries, not tasks, no journal entries, and no contacts. Nothing, his server box is entirely empty, but when I look in the Exchange Admin program under mailbox resources it says he has 2,179 items, his mailbox is 17K, and his Deleted Items are 589K. Anyone know why this is, or if it's normal? John Majetic -Original Message- From: Bryan Robison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 1:53 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 5.5 Incorrect Mailbox Size Reported Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, we do not keep deleted items, i.e., the user cannot recover deleted items. -Original Message- From: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 1:35 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 5.5 Incorrect Mailbox Size Reported View deleted items retention... --Kevinm KMAP-SR, M, WLKMMAS, UCC+WCA, And Beyond http://www.daughtry.ca/ For Graphics and WebDesign, GO here! -Original Message- From: Bryan Robison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 10:33 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 5.5 Incorrect Mailbox Size Reported Good afternoon, I am having a problem with Microsoft Exchange (5.5 - SP3) reporting a different mailbox size than what Outlook is reporting. If I go to properties on the user's mailbox, it reports a size of @ 133MEGS. If I go through the list of the individual objects in the mailbox and add them up, I come up with @ 37MEGS. Has anyone experienced this type of problem? Any solutions, besides recreating the mailbox? Bryan Robison Network Administrator Landrum Brown 11279 Cornell Park Drive Cincinnati, Ohio 45242 513.530.1228 513.530.1278 - fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. Thank you. 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: Exchange 5.5 Incorrect Mailbox Size Reported
His mail delivery point is a PST. I have installed the DumpsterAlwaysOn tweak and opened several mailboxes. I have removed the items in the Deleted Item Retention in the Sent Items, Outbox, Inbox, and deleted Items folders. This has gotten rid of the Deleted Item Retention number, but the mailbox in question still shows 2178 items, and 17K. PS Late replying because of fighting a weird Excel problem. Anyone know of a list like this for Excel? John Majetic -Original Message- From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 2:14 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 5.5 Incorrect Mailbox Size Reported Is his mail delivery point a pst? Add the DumpsterAlwaysOn reg tweak to your Outlook client and look under Recover Deleted Items under his inbox. I bet you'll find something there. -Original Message- From: Majetic, John RAME [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 1:55 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 5.5 Incorrect Mailbox Size Reported I have the same problem, and it's definitely not deleted Item retention. I have never gotten a good answer as to why it happens. We use PST files, and always have. To give an example I have one user who has no emails in any of the folders of his server box, no calendar entries, not tasks, no journal entries, and no contacts. Nothing, his server box is entirely empty, but when I look in the Exchange Admin program under mailbox resources it says he has 2,179 items, his mailbox is 17K, and his Deleted Items are 589K. Anyone know why this is, or if it's normal? John Majetic -Original Message- From: Bryan Robison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 1:53 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 5.5 Incorrect Mailbox Size Reported Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, we do not keep deleted items, i.e., the user cannot recover deleted items. -Original Message- From: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 1:35 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 5.5 Incorrect Mailbox Size Reported View deleted items retention... --Kevinm KMAP-SR, M, WLKMMAS, UCC+WCA, And Beyond http://www.daughtry.ca/ For Graphics and WebDesign, GO here! -Original Message- From: Bryan Robison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 10:33 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 5.5 Incorrect Mailbox Size Reported Good afternoon, I am having a problem with Microsoft Exchange (5.5 - SP3) reporting a different mailbox size than what Outlook is reporting. If I go to properties on the user's mailbox, it reports a size of @ 133MEGS. If I go through the list of the individual objects in the mailbox and add them up, I come up with @ 37MEGS. Has anyone experienced this type of problem? Any solutions, besides recreating the mailbox? Bryan Robison Network Administrator Landrum Brown 11279 Cornell Park Drive Cincinnati, Ohio 45242 513.530.1228 513.530.1278 - fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. Thank you. 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 -- The information contained in this email message is privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copy of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify Veronis Suhler Stevenson by telephone (212)935-4990, fax (212)381-8168, or email ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and delete the message. Thank you. == 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: Email sitting in the queues and NDR's being generated
Well doing a telnet helix.mgh.harvard.edu 25 at the dos prompt, does return a 220 message from a sendmail box. However it takes about 30 seconds for that message to come up. It seems way to long to me. I think your server may be timing out waiting for their server to respond with the 220 message. I have looked but cannot see if there is such a time out. Does anyone else know? You could also telnet to there server, and test the connection using the directions in Q153119 to see if the are receiving correctly. Just put something in the message asking the person to respond to your test message. I think it is a problem with their server as well, but will reserve judgment, until after you follow the Q153119 directions to see if you can even send to that box. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Dave Vantine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 1:26 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Email sitting in the queues and NDR's being generated That consultant also happens to be one of the owners and Oh Well does not cut it -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 1:11 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Email sitting in the queues and NDR's being generated I think my reply to the consultant would be Oh well. Sounds like you have put more than enough work into getting just one mail addy to work. -Original Message- From: Dave Vantine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 10:09 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Email sitting in the queues and NDR's being generated Exchange 5.5 Sp4 W2k Sp2. One of our consultants is trying to send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This just sits in the queue and throws back NDR's at the specified intervals until it finally gives up trying. I used the interactive DNS MX-verify CGI available at zmailer.org. The first portion returns the following: Doing resolver lookup for T=MX domain=``helix.mgh.harvard.edu'' Questionable: NO MX DATA: domain=``helix.mgh.harvard.edu'' We SIMULATE! Do have at least one MX entry added! It does however connect and returns an 'OK'. When I run the Exchange utility restest.exe I get and error, an error occurred while trying to resolve IP address for helix.mgh.harvard.edu. This message would have been queued for another delivery attempt later. Check your DNS configuration and make sure your DNS servers are running. The DNS server is running on a different W2K server on my network and it has forwarders set to my external DNS servers. My Exchange server is setup to use this W2K internal DNS server. If I run nslookup from my Exchange server it correctly connects to that server and if I lookup helix.mgh.harvard.edu. and returns the same IP address that is returned by the Interactive DNS test connection. It is only email address sitting in the outbound queue at present so it is unclear whether other addresses are failing. I do not believe the problem is on my end but wanted see if any of the Exchange experts had any ideas. Thanks -Dave Vantine 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: Mail Gateway requres Windows 2000 Server on the Internet?
Putting the mail essentials box in the DMZ kind of goes against everything I have read. I am not going to claim I am an expert, but why would you put the filtering machine in the DMZ? I set my firewall up to route all incoming mail to only my mail essentials box, and then that sends to my Exchange server. Out going mail just takes a reverse path. Is their something wrong with this? Should my box be in the DMZ? Am I wrong? John Majetic -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 8:00 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Mail Gateway requres Windows 2000 Server on the Internet? I'm currently in the process of trying to find a replacement for our current mail gateway/attachment filtering software. We use a product called Kinisphere, which is installed on NT Workstation that receives email, scans for attachment type and sends it onto an Exchange 5.5 Server that is sitting on the inside of our network. The process is reversed for outgoing mail. In looking at two of the most recommended products, Mail Marshall and Mail Essentials, I've noted that both require that they be installed on Windows 2000 Server (for the current versions). Now I'll admit to a healthy level of paranoia in my day to day work life, however the idea of having a Windows 2000 server out on the internet, scares me silly! Am I really being way too paranoid about this or is there really a safe way to put a Windows 2000 server out in the DMZ? How much care and feeding have ya'll been faced with? The company I work for tends to be quite conservative when trying to bring in new software (the idea of using Windows 2000 at all has management feeling quite uncomfortable). --Lisa 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: Weird Attachment problem
I did see this once, on our only XP box, and it was a permissions problem. The person was a user on the box. When I made her a power user, everything worked ok. You may want to try that, to see if it's the same thing. If it is the same user permissions problem, I think the thing that ended up solving it was giving the person modify privileges to the winnt\forms directory, and everything in it. Don't know for sure if this will solve yours, but it couldn't hurt. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Chris Peden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 10:27 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Weird Attachment problem oh yeah, her client is winxp pro with office 2k, and I am winxp pro with office xp Thanks, -Chris- IT Director Sundowner Interiors -Original Message- From: Purviance, Chad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 9:20 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Weird Attachment problem What OS ? What version of Antigen ? More details ... Guessing as we really do need more Info. From your description I will assume the following: The attachment is an imbedded OLE object like a picture or spreadsheet and not a file. The reply address is sending as RTF which would include the object. When sending, the address is listed as basic text or Outlook decide and Outlook chooses basic text. Now, if she is attaching an actual file from the attach file option ... I am stumped. ;-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 9:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Weird Attachment problem Hey all, I have run into a weird problem, I have a user that when she sends an attachment to a particular person, the person will get the email with NO attachment, but if my user replies to this person's previous email and attachs a file, the person will get it.im stumped. Thanks, Chris Peden Information Technology Director Sundowner Interiors 1110 CR6 West Elkhart, IN 46514 P: 574-262-1523 F: 574-264-0022 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.sundownerinteriors.com http://www.sundownerinteriors.com/ 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 +++The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and destroy any copies of this document.+++ The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and destroy any copies of this document. 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: Cant upgrade Standard 5.5 to Enterprise 5.5 - ?
And as it says in Q240152, don't forget to reinstall your SPs for Exchange after this. PS Saw that article the other day, and thought for once I could beat Martin to the answer. Should have known better. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 3:48 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cant upgrade Standard 5.5 to Enterprise 5.5 - ? Your license guy is just a salesman. Are you doing as in Q170280? -Original Message- From: Beahm, Keith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 12:42 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Cant upgrade Standard 5.5 to Enterprise 5.5 - ? We have purchased the Enterprise license for Exchange 5.5, but I cant figure out how to upgrade from the standard 5.5 version. It appears as though we have been using the Enterprise media with a standard activation key code all along (the CD we've been using is identical to the new Enterprise CD). I tried rerunning the installation but it never asked be for a key code at all and when the IS service starts I still get event id 1216 for standard version. I called our select licensing representative and he is clueless. Keith Beahm, Network Engineer Stinson Morrison Hecker, LLP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 816.691.3374 Desk 816.918.0988 Cell 140*73*707 Nextel 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: NDRs due to Recipent Problem
No, As I said Everyone in this message was here or in our Parent comapny in Denmark. The emails never went out the IMC, so balcklisting would have nothing to do with it. John -Original Message- From: Precht, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 12:58 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: NDRs due to Recipent Problem are they/you blacklisted? -Original Message- From: Majetic, John RAME [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 14:43 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: NDRs due to Recipent Problem Hey there everyone. In the past week I am getting more and more NDRs when people try to send either a large attachment, or a small attachment to a large number of people. Here is a sample NDR. From: System Administrator Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 10:31 AM To: Durk, Sharon RAME; Lars Secher-Knudsen LSK RMED; Søren Ernstsen SER RMED; Kenneth Francke KKF RMED; Mads Haugaard HAU RMED Subject:Undeliverable: Marketing Monthly Report Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients. Subject: Marketing Monthly Report Sent: 5/8/2002 10:27 AM The following recipient(s) could not be reached: Durk, Sharon RAME on 5/8/2002 10:31 AM Unable to deliver the message due to a recipient problem MSEXCH:MSExchangeIS:RAME:HP(u)NETSVR I have chopped off the rest of the NDR since everyone on the list had the Recipient Problem. In the case of this email the attachment was a 24 Kb Word Doc. The people with RMED after their names are in Denmark on a different server connected via an x.400 connector. the person with RAME next to her name is here in the US on the same server as the sender. I found Q176455 on the technet which describes this exact problem, but it says it's only a problem on Exchange 5.0, and I am on Exchange 5.5 SP3. I see nothing in the exent viewer when this happens. Any one have any ideas. John Majetic List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm 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
Basic DNS Stuff
I know this is slightly off topic, but someone was just asking about MX Records, and this was just sent to me, and I thought that it might be useful to that person. It's an online glossary of DNS terms. Haven't really looked at it to much, but it seems like something we all could use at one time or another. http://www.menandmice.com/online_docs_and_faq/glossary/glossarytoc.htm John Majetic List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
Email Retention Times
Speaking of deletion retention times. Is there a good default time, or best practices time to start with and then modify as needed? What does everyone out there have it set to? Thanks John Majetic List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
domains and sites
I have to move our servers over to Windows 2000 Server from NT 4.0 server which they are now, and I am trying to plan this out as painlessly as possible. I have to create a new domain for Windows 2000 as per the parent company. I have read the Ed Crowley server move method, and the Method to move a server from one Domain to another in the Exchange 5.5 FAQ at swinc.com. Am I correct in assuming that I cannot follow Ed's method since I am moving from one domain to another? John Majetic List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: domains and sites
Yes it will be a child domain off the parent companies active directory tree. John -Original Message- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:03 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: domains and sites I cannot follow Ed's method Correct. Is the destination an Active Directory domain? William -Original Message- From: Majetic, John RAME [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 11:26 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: domains and sites I have to move our servers over to Windows 2000 Server from NT 4.0 server which they are now, and I am trying to plan this out as painlessly as possible. I have to create a new domain for Windows 2000 as per the parent company. I have read the Ed Crowley server move method, and the Method to move a server from one Domain to another in the Exchange 5.5 FAQ at swinc.com. Am I correct in assuming that since I am moving from one domain to another? John Majetic 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: SMTP Error 550.5.7.1
We never got that particular message, but we did have a problem whit our PIX. For about 3 months to a year it worked fine, than all of a sudden we started getting corrupted attachments when someone would pick up their email via POP3. Everyone was using POP3 then. At first it was only large attachments, 2MB or above, and 1 out of say 50 attachments corrupted. Then as time wore on it got worse, to the point of anything over 20K was corrupted 3 times out of 5. We put in the no fixup protocol smtp 25 line in the config of our PIX, and have never had another problem. Worth a shot. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Tom Teater [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 11:36 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: SMTP Error 550.5.7.1 I have seen this occur when a remote IMAP user access the exchange server through a PIX firewall. The PIX (by default) is configured to use MailGuard, and this will prevent the remote user from sending email. (The error refers to relaying denied issue, as I recall.) Microsoft has posted a Q article on their Knowledge Base regarding this, but I cannot remember the particular article number. We resolved this issue by using the following command on our PIX: no fixup protocol smtp 25 There may be other issues at play here - I'm only relating what we discovered on our system. Cheers... Tom -Original Message- From: Garland Mac Neill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 1:57 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: SMTP Error 550.5.7.1 Does anyone know what error 550.5.7.1 is when sending an email? Garland Mac Neill Systems Administrator Solbourne Office 303-402-2704 Cell 303-641-7574 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
Mailbox Limits
I am getting ready to implement mailbox limts on our server, and have been playing around with them to figure out just how they work, so I can explain it to my users and I have one question. If a user ignores the limits, and gets to the point where his/her box will no longer send or recieve, and someone sends them an email from within the exchange server, the sender gets a message saying The recipiant is unable to recive the email or something to that effect. If someone for outside the company sends an email to that person's interent email address do they get a message by default? If not is there any way they can get one? Thanks John Majetic List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Mailbox Limits
I didn't know you could not set that limit. I guess I just never thought of leaving it blank. So If I leave it blank, then they can continue to receive emails, even though they can't send? I can see some of my users abusing even this. So long as they get their jokes, they will just keep insisting that I am keeping them from doing their jobs. Had one lady who would not answer any email. When asked why she did this, she claimed she needed a sound card, because without sound she never knew when her email came in. She had turned of the beep that outlook made when new mail came in. When asked why she did this she claimed the beeps, on her new windows 2000 machine sounded hurtful, and insulting to her. She almost got her way too. John -Original Message- From: Neil Hobson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 9:43 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mailbox Limits IMO setting a receive limit is not a good idea. The only use I've seen for it is when you set a really high limit to prevent message loops from getting seriously out of hand. Neil -Original Message- From: Majetic, John RAME [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: 03 May 2002 14:24 Posted To: Sunbelt Exchange List Conversation: Mailbox Limits Subject: Mailbox Limits I am getting ready to implement mailbox limts on our server, and have been playing around with them to figure out just how they work, so I can explain it to my users and I have one question. If a user ignores the limits, and gets to the point where his/her box will no longer send or recieve, and someone sends them an email from within the exchange server, the sender gets a message saying The recipiant is unable to recive the email or something to that effect. If someone for outside the company sends an email to that person's interent email address do they get a message by default? If not is there any way they can get one? Thanks John Majetic List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any view or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Silversands, or any of its subsidiary companies. If you have received this email in error, please contact our Support Desk immediately by telephone on 01202-36 or via email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** 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: 16 GB Limit?
Ok take back my cookie from Friday, but what does LOL mean? Sorry to be such an inDUHvidual, but I have to know. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Abercrombie, Sherry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 9:01 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: 16 GB Limit? LOL. -Original Message- From: Ropiak Steve - NAO Florence Office IT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 6:54 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: 16 GB Limit? We could hold Weight Watcher meetings there after hours, too. mit freundlichen Grüßen,(Best Regards), Steve Ropiak ZF Group NAO CERT, Exchange Administrator (207) 989-9115 voice (207) 989-8722 fax (513) 314-0197 cell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Abercrombie, Sherry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 12:44 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: 16 GB Limit? We think a great franchise combo that would make lots of $$$ would be a StarBucks/Krispy Kreme Donuts -Original Message- From: Precht, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 4:15 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: 16 GB Limit? You had to mention that... I could really go for a KKreme right about now... B*tch of a week. Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. -Original Message- From: Abercrombie, Sherry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 16:25 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: 16 GB Limit? Actually, I'm going to eat the last Krispy Kreme donut hit the road. -Original Message- From: Kevin Miller [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 3:10 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: 16 GB Limit? You are correct.. Have a cookie and take the rest of the day off. That is where I am headed. --Kevinm TSSSBE, M, WLKMMAS, UCC+WCA, And Beyond http://www.daughtry.ca/ http://www.daughtry.ca/ For Graphics and WebDesign, GO here! -Original Message- From: Majetic, John RAME [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 12:56 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: 16 GB Limit? Ok everyone here is talking about the 16GB limit on regular 5.5, but all the docs I can find from Microsoft don't seem to differencate between 5.5 and 5.5 enterprise. I was always under the impression that regualar 5.5 had the 16GB limit, and Eneterprise got rid of it. Am I right? If not what is the limit in regualr 5.5? John Majetic List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm 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: Word as your E-mail editor (OL98)
Check out http://www.woodyswatch.com/office/archtemplate.asp?v6-n20 What he says about Office XP pretty much goes for any version of word and outlook working together. I am sure if you search the archives you can find the same thing about Outlook 98. John Majetic -Original Message- From: McCready, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 7:53 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Word as your E-mail editor (OL98) Exchange 5.5 SP4, NT 4.0 SP6a, OL98. Has anybody had problems using Word as your E-mail editor? I've got a user that frequently has Word freeze up when she has one document open, and then tries to open another one via an attachment through E-mail. I'm pretty sure I had documentation on this at one time, but I can't seem to find it in Technet. Thanks. Robert 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: 16 GB Limit?
Opps forgot to ask if the same 16GB limit is present in Exchange Server 2000, and not in exchange server 2000 enterprise? John Majetic -Original Message- From: Precht, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 10:17 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: 16 GB Limit? you are correct. Standard has the 16gig limit. Enterprise does not Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. -Original Message- From: Majetic, John RAME [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 15:56 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: 16 GB Limit? Ok everyone here is talking about the 16GB limit on regular 5.5, but all the docs I can find from Microsoft don't seem to differencate between 5.5 and 5.5 enterprise. I was always under the impression that regualar 5.5 had the 16GB limit, and Eneterprise got rid of it. Am I right? If not what is the limit in regualr 5.5? John Majetic List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm 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: Notification:
When a person leaves I delete his NT account. I remove his mailbox on the server from any DSs it's in, and then hide the mailbox from the GAL. I will check the box every week, and unsubscribe him/her from any emails group/ lists that I can. After a month I will delete the box, and assign the internet email address to a dead letter box which is also hidden from the GAL. I check that box every week also, deleting whatever mail comes in, and unsubcribing from any other lists I can. As you say some spammers never quit, and then sell their lists to others, so this wouldn't get all the spam for old people, but it should cut down on it. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Chris Norris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 11:03 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Notification: Depending on the source, some of these junk mail senders never clean out their lists. So, unless you can unsubscribe the non existent mail box they will continue to send mail until they decide to update the list or forever, which ever comes first. Also, the junk mailers also sell their lists to each other so I have seen old mailboxes start receiving new junk mail over a year after they were removed. -Original Message- From: Mike Channon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 10:54 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Notification: Notification: Inbound Mail Failure Out of curiosity on my Exchange 5.5 sp3 running on NT4 server, in IMS I turned on Always send notification when Non delivery reports are generated and boy I am amazed how much rubbish mail is bouncing around. All the mailboxes of people who have departed the company from way back when still receive email, or should I say email is still trying to be delivered to these non existent mail boxes. What I want to know is how long do these emails hang around and do they have an impact on server performance ?. Being the Administrator (no formal training in Exchange so please forgive me where the obvious is not obvious for me in Exchange) I get all these notifications and obviously have access to the email and attachments ( Its amazing what some of these senior managers who have left had sent to there works email accounts ) so I need to know what impact this has on my server. Regards Mike Channon MCP - CNA -CCSA. Senior Server Engineer, Systems and Infrastructure Support. 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
Brick Level Backups on Exchange.
Someone was just asking for more info on this. I put this when I would know where it was, so of course couldn't find it, but then stumbled across it today. Covers the topic's pluses and minus's pretty good. http://mail.tekscan.com/nomailboxes.htm http://mail.tekscan.com/nomailboxes.htm John Majetic List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
16 GB Limit?
Ok everyone here is talking about the 16GB limit on regular 5.5, but all the docs I can find from Microsoft don't seem to differencate between 5.5 and 5.5 enterprise. I was always under the impression that regualar 5.5 had the 16GB limit, and Eneterprise got rid of it. Am I right? If not what is the limit in regualr 5.5? John Majetic List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: McAfee GroupShield 5.0 and Exchange 5.5 SP4
I have spent at least 40 hours trying to figure out various problems with McAfee, both online and on the phone, and I am no closer to solving them at all. First time I installed Trend Neat Suite it took me 3 hours, 1 hour to read the manuals and two to set everything up, and make sure it tested right. You tell me which wins? Sorry but I will never go back, or have anything good to say about McAfee, and I would feel like a world class A**hole if I didn't try to stop someone from putting their leg in the same pile of steaming goodness. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Kent, Larry SYNETICS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:45 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: McAfee GroupShield 5.0 and Exchange 5.5 SP4 If you now how to configure it, it works fine. Stop blaming the software. We run Webshield, Netshield, Groupshield and VirusScan here and NEVER get infected. Outbreak Manager works well also. We have premier support and it works well for us. We've never had any of the problems you describe. We are DoD so we have to use NAI products (or Norton - no thanks.) but it works for us. If I was starting from scratch however I would probably go with Trend. -Original Message- From: Majetic, John RAME [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 4:41 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: McAfee GroupShield 5.0 and Exchange 5.5 SP4 McCrappie it the nick name it's gotten at my place since it has let through almost every virus conceivable in. Outbreak protection is next to useless, support site sucks. Major virus warnings are announced on their site, with the added info that an update will be ready in a few days. Will tell you it cleaned a virus when it didn't. When it Quarantines a message it just quarantines the attachment, but sends a message on to the recipient, So I still get numerous calls from the users. Since it sends out a message to the intended recipient, and to the admin for each virus received it is almost worse than having nothing, because your server is twice as busy. Never has crashed the system, but that's about all I can say good about it. Go with Trend or Antigen, and go home early. Go with McAfee, and go with God. You'll need him. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Richardson, Roy [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 4:27 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: McAfee GroupShield 5.0 and Exchange 5.5 SP4 Any gotchas anyone one had with running McAfee GroupShield 5.0 on Exchange 5.5 SP4? Management has backed me into the corner and I am forced to finally install some type of anti-virus on the Email server. Any tips, tricks, hints, or allegations would be appreciated. Roy Richardson Webmaster/System Administrator Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm 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: unable to disable relaying in Exchange 2000
Have you restarted the IMC service? I know in 5.5 if you make changes to the routing you have to restart the IMC. I would maybe also restart the MTA just in case. http://www.ntsecurity.net/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=7696 covers turning of relaying in 5.5 really well. Got it from someone on the list. Does anyone know if there is a similar one for 2000? John Majetic -Original Message- From: Matt Vance [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:47 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: unable to disable relaying in Exchange 2000 I am having a problem shutting off relaying on a Exchange 2000 server. I had it turned off (confirmed by being removed from the ORBS list). In trying to fix some problems that one user was having sending mail from his Mac, I turned it back on (and tried turning off Anonymous access, which stopped all incoming mail, oops!). Now I can't seem to turn it off again for the life of me. I have the relay restrictions set to Only the list below and the list is blank. That is how I had it set when I had us removed from the ORBS list, but right now I'm still able to telnet into port 25 on our server and relay to an outside account that I have. Any ideas? I have Allow all computers which successfully authenticated to relay, regardless of the list above unchecked. I only have an SMTP Virtual Server configured, not an SMTP internet connector. Am I missing anything? This is beginning to be a big problem because we've been added back to some of the RBL and ORBs lists. From everything I've read, I have things set correctly to disable relaying, but it's still allowing relaying. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Matt 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
Virus List
Hey does anyone out there know of a virus List or Library that would let you search for a mail virus bye the subject line, uuch as I LoveYou, Pictures or your Naked Wife, etc? Thanks John Majetic List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Virus List
Well maybe I wasn't specific enough. All the big AV sorces seem to have these, and they all seem to work with varing levels of success. For instance if you search on the phrase I love You at NAI or Trend they find nothing. If you search on Naked Wife they find said virus. At CompAss, at William calls it, it's reversed, I can find I Love You, but not Naked Wife. The reason I want this is sometimes we get messages from people in Denamark at the parent company, or form outside the building that contain exe files, com files, and such with suspious subject lines like Hi! How are you? Right now I look them up in the various libraries, and delete them. Several times these have been real files from Denmark and because of the spotty results from these libraries, I didn't feel that just because I couldn't find them in one of the libraries, that they weren't really viruses, and deleted messages. I was just wondering if there is a better library out there, or I am just doing something stupid at the search sites? John -Original Message- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:29 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Virus List Don't most Antivirus vendors have searchable virus libraries? I think you can search: Trend - www.antivirus.com and CompAss - www.cai.com Using text from the body or subject of a suspected infected email. William -Original Message- From: Majetic, John RAME [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 9:10 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Virus List Hey does anyone out there know of a virus List or Library that would let you search for a mail virus bye the subject line, uuch as I LoveYou, Pictures or your Naked Wife, etc? Thanks John Majetic 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: Virus List
In a perfect world yes, but in my company all someone has to do is claim I am causing them to lose a sale, and all rules, and most common sense goes out the window. Sad but true. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Matthew Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 3:12 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Virus List Why are your users sending each other exe and com files? I never allow such files in through email. I return them to sender. Users who exchange such files really should zip or rar them -Original Message- From: Majetic, John RAME [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 1:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Virus List Well maybe I wasn't specific enough. All the big AV sorces seem to have these, and they all seem to work with varing levels of success. For instance if you search on the phrase I love You at NAI or Trend they find nothing. If you search on Naked Wife they find said virus. At CompAss, at William calls it, it's reversed, I can find I Love You, but not Naked Wife. The reason I want this is sometimes we get messages from people in Denamark at the parent company, or form outside the building that contain exe files, com files, and such with suspious subject lines like Hi! How are you? Right now I look them up in the various libraries, and delete them. Several times these have been real files from Denmark and because of the spotty results from these libraries, I didn't feel that just because I couldn't find them in one of the libraries, that they weren't really viruses, and deleted messages. I was just wondering if there is a better library out there, or I am just doing something stupid at the search sites? John -Original Message- From: William Lefkovics [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:29 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Virus List Don't most Antivirus vendors have searchable virus libraries? I think you can search: Trend - www.antivirus.com and CompAss - www.cai.com Using text from the body or subject of a suspected infected email. William -Original Message- From: Majetic, John RAME [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 9:10 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Virus List Hey does anyone out there know of a virus List or Library that would let you search for a mail virus bye the subject line, uuch as I LoveYou, Pictures or your Naked Wife, etc? Thanks John Majetic List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm 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: Web redirects - virus/CSS/Email based?
Well I fired up an old usless laptop and went to the site to specified, and got the Domain sale site, and it tryed to install Gator, but I was able to browse normally after that. I would just close IE, and repopen it, and I could browse just like normal. No redirects, no more domain for sale thing, nothing. I think there is more to this than the web page. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Brad Metzler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 4:03 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Web redirects - virus/CSS/Email based? Sophos, pulled every hour, all clients updated every hour, mail gateways every 5 minutes, NAI groupshield onboard exchange servers updated once a week (yeah, groupsuck, but it's a different vendor just as a double check). We've run active scans on all web servers and all victim clients with sophos, nothing. The issue has been reported to Sophos tech support, we're waiting on a reply presently. It is hitting a new person on our campus at the rate of about 1 every 15-20 minutes. We are seeing it on everything from secured admin workstations to 'very' unsecured student computers. No common denominator yet for a possible delivery application, except they are all Win2k running IE6 or IE5.5SP2 so far. Several of the clients don't even have outlook, but could be accessing through OWA, so mail-based starting point isn't out of the picture yet. We are getting nervous that noone else outside our campus seems to be reporting this yet. Brad -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 12:33 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Web redirects - virus/CSS/Email based? Do you have the latest and greats dat files for it? Also, try the free AV scanner from Trend -Original Message- From: Brad Metzler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 12:31 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Web redirects - virus/CSS/Email based? Done, on two victim machines so far, returned nothing. -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 12:13 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Web redirects - virus/CSS/Email based? Do it anyways -Original Message- From: Brad Metzler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 12:13 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Web redirects - virus/CSS/Email based? Dennis, This is happening to clean system with no messaging agents or anything on them. No new installs, no modifications, secured access computers. There is nothing to indicate that the problem is being started by an adware or spyware agent. The problem is that it is trying to install one obviously, we are trying to find out where this chain is starting. Somehow that first site is getting called that starts the redirect and the install attempts, but where is the first call coming from? We are trying to determine if it is embedded in a popular web site like msn or yahoo or something or if it is embedded in an E-mail. If we're the only ones having this problem then I'll know to start looking for the source internally, but right now I have really no leads on the source. Brad -Original Message- From: Dennis Atherton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 12:06 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Web redirects - virus/CSS/Email based? Go to www.lavasoftusa.com, and download the latest version of Ad-Aware. It will scan your systems and kill the sh*t. -Original Message- From: Brad Metzler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 12:01 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Web redirects - virus/CSS/Email based? Is anyone else having this problem? We are suddenly having dozens of reports from users who find that anywhere they web-browse to is being redirected to a domain for sale page with pop-ups and other windows for places like reunion.com and in some cases it attempted to start an install of Gator. Once you pick it up, it appears you have to reboot to be able to browse normally again. It doesn't affect all sites you browse to afterward however(?). Smells like a virus, but feels like a javascript dropper from a CSS attack or something. We have been unable to isolate which site is dropping the file or if maybe it is embedded in an email. All three levels of our virus scanning on E-mail and on the network have detected nothing. The source address of the redirect file is 161.58.178.209 and if you visit that address you will see the domain for sale page and the popups, and in my case it again tried to install gator, so USE CAUTION. I'm posting this here hoping someone else may recognize the symptoms and also curious is there is an E-mail going around that might be carrying the starting point for this. Thanks Brad Metzler Director of ITS Infrastructure Concordia University - Portland List Charter
RE: McAfee GroupShield 5.0 and Exchange 5.5 SP4
McCrappie it the nick name it's gotten at my place since it has let through almost every virus conceivable in. Outbreak protection is next to useless, support site sucks. Major virus warnings are announced on their site, with the added info that an update will be ready in a few days. Will tell you it cleaned a virus when it didn't. When it Quarantines a message it just quarantines the attachment, but sends a message on to the recipient, So I still get numerous calls from the users. Since it sends out a message to the intended recipient, and to the admin for each virus received it is almost worse than having nothing, because your server is twice as busy. Never has crashed the system, but that's about all I can say good about it. Go with Trend or Antigen, and go home early. Go with McAfee, and go with God. You'll need him. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Richardson, Roy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 4:27 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: McAfee GroupShield 5.0 and Exchange 5.5 SP4 Any gotchas anyone one had with running McAfee GroupShield 5.0 on Exchange 5.5 SP4? Management has backed me into the corner and I am forced to finally install some type of anti-virus on the Email server. Any tips, tricks, hints, or allegations would be appreciated. Roy Richardson Webmaster/System Administrator Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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: Annoying outlook Problem
I would never use Word as my email editor, I have read to much about how unstable it is, and how much it crashes your system. My secrateries also like to use it, and they also wonder why there machines crash. Another good one is But I have 100MB of free space why do I need more?. John -Original Message- From: Wayne Hanks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 9:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Annoying outlook Problem Possibly you have Word97 enabled as your email editor? I have had this and other strange behaviour in ol98 caused by using Word. I've tried convincing our secretaries that they should use one of the built in editors ( HTML or RTF) but they like Word because they know all the keyboard shortcuts off by heart. Then they complain when their machine runs really slowly or crashes for no known reason!!! -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 19 April 2002 21:11 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Annoying outlook Problem I hate to say it, but have you considered moving to OL2K? Since you are an Exchange user, you have automatic free licence upgrades all the way to O2K for 5.5, or OL 10 for E2K. Outlook98 is probably one of the worst versions of all. -Original Message- From: Majetic, John RAME [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 5:52 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Annoying outlook Problem I have just moved my personal box up to Windows 2000, SP2, and I am using Outlook 98. I am in the administrators group for both the domain, and this box. Everything works OK except for one little annoying glitch. I usually leave my box on 24 hours a day, so the network backup will back it up. When the box is first booted, and I open up outlook it asks me what profile I want to load. This is how I have it set up, so I can look at several boxes, testbox, mine, people who have left the company, etc. The thing is that after I close out and reopen outlook an indeterminate amount of times, Outlook won't close. What I mean by this, is I close out the Outlook, and the Outlook window goes away, but I never see the small Please Wait while Outlook closes window that usually comes up. If I have a task that goes off during the night then when I come in the morning it's up on the screen. If mail comes in over night the little envelop icon is down in the systray. When I open Outlook it does not ask which profile I want, but just boots into the last profile I had open. If I look in task manager, the Mapisp32.exe and Outlook.exe processes are still running, even though Outlook itself does not show up in applications widow of Task Manager. If I do an end Process on these two processes then Outlook starts normally. Otherwise the only way to start Outlook normally is to do a log off, or restart the box. Any ideas what's causing this? John Majetic 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: How Many Exchange Admins Does It Take....
My experience indicates that the majority of calls about the email system come from field users. Either they call because they cannot sign on to the VPN, or someone has sent them a large attachment, and they are seeing data coming down, but do not see any emails. We have about 200 people altogether with about 110 in the feild, and about 50% of all calls to both myself, ans our PC Tech are calls about field email or connectivity to the email system from the field. So I would say to figure in a large increase in field connectivity calls if you are going to a VPN, and have a large percentage of field people. John Majetic -Original Message- From: SunBelt Exchange List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 10:36 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: How Many Exchange Admins Does It Take Rick, Great article, but now my boss comes back with, I need something newer than 1998... Maybe we can do this a different way. I set up a simple little web-based survey to find out Exchange Admin staffing at different organizations. I would appreciate any input readers would like to offer. The results are also viewable. I am not selling this information, writing a book or anything of the sort. I have told my boss that we need more staff and he say's prove it. The survey is at: http://66.92.148.177 http://66.92.148.177 Brian From: Rick Ward - HQ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 11:32 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: How Many Exchange Admins Does It Take http://www.sytel.com/services/benchmark_tco.asp http://www.sytel.com/services/benchmark_tco.asp This is an EXCHANGE/NOTES comparison. About half way down the page under the heading General Staffing you'll find your answer. Looks like 882 is the number but I've seen higher user numbers. This is good chart of Exchange costs based on hardware/# of processors/memory as well. It's a good clue as to how best to setup your hardware for the number of users you plan to support per server. If you show this to Mgmt. (who always like pretty pictures) you'll make your point. Also Compaq has some great items on TCO and Config of Exchange servers for those that are Compaq shops at: http://www.compaq.com/inform/issues/issue27/sr01-higher-roi.html http://www.compaq.com/inform/issues/issue27/sr01-higher-roi.html Hope this is helpful -R -Original Message- From: SunBelt Exchange List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 6:36 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: How Many Exchange Admins Does It Take No, it's not a joke - sorry... I had seen an article numerous years ago that defined an industry average of how many Exchange Admins it took to provide care and feeding to how many Exchange/Outlook users. That article said one Exchange Admin per 1000 users was a pretty good guideline. I am desperate for some sort of opinion or credible source to either validate that number or state a new number. Obviously, everything is relative, blah, blah, blah... but there should be some kind of guideline/baseline out there to work with. Any ideas? Brian 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
Annoying outlook Problem
I have just moved my personal box up to Windows 2000, SP2, and I am using Outlook 98. I am in the administrators group for both the domain, and this box. Everything works OK except for one little annoying glitch. I usually leave my box on 24 hours a day, so the network backup will back it up. When the box is first booted, and I open up outlook it asks me what profile I want to load. This is how I have it set up, so I can look at several boxes, testbox, mine, people who have left the company, etc. The thing is that after I close out and reopen outlook an indeterminate amount of times, Outlook won't close. What I mean by this, is I close out the Outlook, and the Outlook window goes away, but I never see the small Please Wait while Outlook closes window that usually comes up. If I have a task that goes off during the night then when I come in the morning it's up on the screen. If mail comes in over night the little envelop icon is down in the systray. When I open Outlook it does not ask which profile I want, but just boots into the last profile I had open. If I look in task manager, the Mapisp32.exe and Outlook.exe processes are still running, even though Outlook itself does not show up in applications widow of Task Manager. If I do an end Process on these two processes then Outlook starts normally. Otherwise the only way to start Outlook normally is to do a log off, or restart the box. Any ideas what's causing this? John Majetic List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Annoying outlook Problem
Well we will be moving to Office 2k including outlook 2k soon. I have to wait for the parent companies OK. John -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 9:11 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Annoying outlook Problem I hate to say it, but have you considered moving to OL2K? Since you are an Exchange user, you have automatic free licence upgrades all the way to O2K for 5.5, or OL 10 for E2K. Outlook98 is probably one of the worst versions of all. -Original Message- From: Majetic, John RAME [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 5:52 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Annoying outlook Problem I have just moved my personal box up to Windows 2000, SP2, and I am using Outlook 98. I am in the administrators group for both the domain, and this box. Everything works OK except for one little annoying glitch. I usually leave my box on 24 hours a day, so the network backup will back it up. When the box is first booted, and I open up outlook it asks me what profile I want to load. This is how I have it set up, so I can look at several boxes, testbox, mine, people who have left the company, etc. The thing is that after I close out and reopen outlook an indeterminate amount of times, Outlook won't close. What I mean by this, is I close out the Outlook, and the Outlook window goes away, but I never see the small Please Wait while Outlook closes window that usually comes up. If I have a task that goes off during the night then when I come in the morning it's up on the screen. If mail comes in over night the little envelop icon is down in the systray. When I open Outlook it does not ask which profile I want, but just boots into the last profile I had open. If I look in task manager, the Mapisp32.exe and Outlook.exe processes are still running, even though Outlook itself does not show up in applications widow of Task Manager. If I do an end Process on these two processes then Outlook starts normally. Otherwise the only way to start Outlook normally is to do a log off, or restart the box. Any ideas what's causing this? John Majetic 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: PPoE with Bell Sympatico (dim wits)
I think your defiantly dealing with some dimwits. I ran into the same thing with earthlink. They have designed the border router(s) so port 25 is closed to any outgoing traffic except from their mail servers. When I asked if they had done this, I was told repeatedly that they had done no such thing. I then went out to their web site and found a page saying they did exactly that as an antispam measure. I have run into several ISPs who do this as an antispam measure, after all if the only mail server you can get to is eathlink's, and it's closed then you can't use open relays to Spam people. This is the only thing I can think of that would cause this behavior. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Joe L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 7:51 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: PPoE with Bell Sympatico (dim wits) Anyone put a exchange box behind this service? The techies tell me there is absolutely no firewall, or port restrictions, but I cant connect to ANY smtp server on the net except theirs! I just spoke with a tier two tech who knew less then tha fricken list of Q A's he has on his sheet of paper. This is killing me, I cant even get passed on further to a tech with half a brain. I can connect to their smtp server no prob! jlc 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: Annoying outlook Problem
No offense taken. We are a fairly small company, but the parent is about 2000 people, and about 3000 PCs. They have some goofy thing were they actually have to have the permission form each department to upgrade their PCs, before they can upgrade them. As you can imagine, that takes quite a bit of time with the usual politics. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 10:22 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Annoying outlook Problem No offense to you, but it always cracks me up. Companies are just preparing to roll out a program that is 2 years old. You will probably just get it rolled out right around the time that Office 2004 comes out. One more reason I like working for small companies -Original Message- From: Majetic, John RAME [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 6:19 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Annoying outlook Problem Well we will be moving to Office 2k including outlook 2k soon. I have to wait for the parent companies OK. John -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 9:11 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Annoying outlook Problem I hate to say it, but have you considered moving to OL2K? Since you are an Exchange user, you have automatic free licence upgrades all the way to O2K for 5.5, or OL 10 for E2K. Outlook98 is probably one of the worst versions of all. -Original Message- From: Majetic, John RAME [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 5:52 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Annoying outlook Problem I have just moved my personal box up to Windows 2000, SP2, and I am using Outlook 98. I am in the administrators group for both the domain, and this box. Everything works OK except for one little annoying glitch. I usually leave my box on 24 hours a day, so the network backup will back it up. When the box is first booted, and I open up outlook it asks me what profile I want to load. This is how I have it set up, so I can look at several boxes, testbox, mine, people who have left the company, etc. The thing is that after I close out and reopen outlook an indeterminate amount of times, Outlook won't close. What I mean by this, is I close out the Outlook, and the Outlook window goes away, but I never see the small Please Wait while Outlook closes window that usually comes up. If I have a task that goes off during the night then when I come in the morning it's up on the screen. If mail comes in over night the little envelop icon is down in the systray. When I open Outlook it does not ask which profile I want, but just boots into the last profile I had open. If I look in task manager, the Mapisp32.exe and Outlook.exe processes are still running, even though Outlook itself does not show up in applications widow of Task Manager. If I do an end Process on these two processes then Outlook starts normally. Otherwise the only way to start Outlook normally is to do a log off, or restart the box. Any ideas what's causing this? John Majetic 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: Please Help (Error message found after tracking email that di dn't send)
Try telneting to their mail server as shown below. telnet mail.frontiernet.net 25 Do this from a command prompt on the exchange server. If everything works then you should see a 220 reply from their one of their servers that reads something like the one below: 220 relay02.roc.frontiernet.net ESTMP If you do get this line, that would mean you were able to resolve the name via your dns server(s), and that you can create a connection from your mail server to theirs, in which case the problem would reside in your mail server somewhere. Unfortunately I do not know where. If you do not get the 220 reply line try: telnet 66.133.130.5 25 66.133.130.5 is the address of one of their mail servers. If you get the 220 reply line that way, and not the first way then your problem is because your DNS is not resolving the name correctly. If that is the case try adding 129.250.35.251 to your list of DNS servers, as it should be able to resolve the name. If anyone is interested I found a great troubleshooting article on the TechNet CD entitled troubleshooting Guide: Microsoft Exchange Protocols. It has no Q number that I can see, but it is written by Peter Baggiolini. I tried to search for it on Microsoft's site but gave up. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Barr, Christopher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 11:29 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Please Help (Error message found after tracking email that di dn't send) Peter, you may be on to something however, this user isn't a custom recipient in my GAL, should they be if this is not an address from our domain. Also when I ping frontiernet.net from the exchange server I get the ip back then request timed out, like the firewall is blocking it from pinging which may very well be the case. -Original Message- From: Dahl, Peter [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 10:08 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Please Help (Error message found after tracking email that di dn't send) Is this user possibly a custom recipient in your GAL? It looks to me like it is trying to use an X400 address rather than the actual SMTP address. Make sure that the primary address for the custom recipient is set correctly. Peter Dahl. -Original Message- From: Christopher Barr [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 11:07 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Please Help (Error message found after tracking email that didn't send) I'm new to exchange and after trying to send an email to a known good email address. The message is being sent from an Exchange 5.5 sp4, running NT4 sp6 as OS, and the error message is as follows: The recipient 'C=US;A= ;P=Communitech,Inc;O=Communitech;DDA:SMTP=mryu(a)frontiernet.net;'is not found in the directory, and may be a Personal Address Book entry. I'm not quite sure where to start especially since i'm not even sure what directory the error message is pertaining to. This error message also apears while trying to send some international email as well as other .net addresses. Any insight would be appreciated. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm 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?
If your firewall av protection keeps the virus getting in through normal mail operations that's fine, but there are many other ways for it to get in. If your company is like mine many remote users will connect in with their remote PCs, and do so without updating their virus definitions. They Also connect in with their home PCs over a VPN, which I believe would bypass the firewall, since the info is encrypted. Also doing an exmerge on the server will work, but you have to take the server down to do it, plus clean the various connector queues. Trust me if you have to do this everytime a new virus comes out you will look pretty silly, and the upper management types will start asking why your are spending money on AV software if it doesn't work. My parent company has had just about every AV product on their exchange servers, McAfee, NAV, F-secure, and Trend, and have reported no stability problems with any of them. Bottom line get something on the Exchange server. I would recommend Trend, if you have any X.400 connectors as it has been the only one to block all viruses coming over the x.400 connector from out parent company, and our other worldwide distributors. Also the company we rent space to has trend, and never got I Love you, Anna Kornacova, Naked Wife or any of the other recent viruses, and we got them all with McAfee. I would definitely recommend against McAfee. Never worked as advertised. John Majetic Radiometer America -Original Message- From: Steven Peck DNET [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 1:36 PM 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 shrug). 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: OOOA problem
Don't know if this is your problem or not, but I once had a laptop, that Outlook was loaded as Coroorpate,versus interent only, but when I actually tried to do an add new features, I found that although the exchange client was there, that the Corporate files were not all loaded. I had to add the corporate email to get the OOOA to work properly. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Jamison, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 2:09 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: OOOA problem I am running Windows XP, Office XP and I have an Exchange 2000 server with Active Directory. Every time I try and start OOOA I get this error: OOO assistant could not be displayed. A required action was not successful due an unspecified error Any suggestions? Chris 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: Exchange 5.5 Question....
Does anyone know of a bouncer mailbox on the internet that I can use to test my sending and recieving. I used to know of one, but now it seems as if it takes hours to reply to my test message, not really a good thing. Thanks John Majetic List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
RE: Exchange 5.5 Question....
Much Much Faster. Thanks a lot. John -Original Message- From: Charles Whitby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 10:55 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 5.5 Question [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Majetic, John RAME [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 10:45 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 5.5 Question Does anyone know of a bouncer mailbox on the internet that I can use to test my sending and recieving. I used to know of one, but now it seems as if it takes hours to reply to my test message, not really a good thing. Thanks John Majetic 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: Connection Terminated after 9nth message
It does indeed work that way with POP3 boxes on exchange. If you have 10 messages waiting, and you download 9, and then get interrupted, then Exchange will not delete the first 9 ,and you will get them all over again the next time you log on. You say this is happening with some people so I am assuming that not everyone is having this problem. first thing I would do is check to see what the 10th message in each box is. If it is the same in each box then remove it from one box, and see if the problem goes away. If it does simply delete it out of all the boxes. Are all of these people in house, or are they getting the mail from remote locations? If they are remote then set up a computer to download from one of the POP accounts, but use it on the network. That way if you get all the mail, you can figure there is something between your server, and their box on the internet that is causing the problem. If the same error happens, then at least you have ruled out that option. We had a problem with our PIX firewall corrupting attachments, and when outlook got to that attachment, it would choke, and quit downloading. I would have to delete the message, and then they could get the resst of their mail. I finally figured out the PIX box had a Mail Fixup protocol installed, and it was corrupting the messages. Turned in off, and no more problem. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Neil Raggett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 1:19 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Connection Terminated after 9nth message If the email client fails to get the messages correctly, it won't delete any messages off the server (I think). So next time you do a send and receive you get the same messages again. But why your getting the problem of not downloading all the messages - could be anything. -Original Message- From: Adil Hindistan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 March 2002 14:59 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Connection Terminated after 9nth message Hi All, We are having a strange problem. Some of our POP3 client users are reporting the same problem: We are receiving an error message after exactly 9 messages are downloaded and when we try again, it downloads the same 9 messages Error message is: Some messages couldn't be retrieved from the server Socket Error:10054 Error Number:0x800CCC0F Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. We're using E2K+SP2 Any comments please ? TIA Adil Hindistan, CE-93, MCP Yahoo: sc0ri0n ICQ: 26477783 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: Content Filtering and User Statistics
I am very happy with Mail Essentials from GFI, and bought through Sunbelt. Just keep in mind it will not filter in-house messages, just what goes out through you Internet mail connector. It logs the mail as two CSV files, one for incoming, and one of outgoing, and I just import them in to Access or Excel, and then you can sort the data anyway you like. John Majetic -Original Message- From: AdminLists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 1:03 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Content Filtering and User Statistics To All: I have been asked to begin filtering messages based on the content of the email or the content of the attachment. I also need to be able to call up statistics on who sends the most mail, who gets the most mail, etc. I am currently running Exchange 5.5. And have Antigen for Antivirus. Thanks for any suggestions, Vince 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: BackupExec 8.6 rev. 3878
I have see this message all the time thanks to a crappy app written by our parent company. What this means is that BackupExec cannot connect to the resource its trying to backup, in this case the exchange directory on that server. In may case the problem is hard ware related, the crappy app somehow hardware locks the server every so often. The one time I had this happen on my exchange box it was due to a bad hard drive in my raid 5. In your case I would look at the event log to see if there are any errors before this happened that could account for it. I would also crank up the logging on the directory service on that box if possible. Did Backup exec backup anything else on that server, OS, File system, mailboxes ETC? If it did I would definitely think that there is something wrong with the directory service, and crack up the logging there. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Allen Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 5:47 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: BackupExec 8.6 rev. 3878 Ok, has anyone that uses BENT 8.6 with the Exchange Server agent received the following error? Unable to attach to \\NOELANI\Microsoft Exchange Directory. The device cannot be found. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Unable to attach to \\NOELANI\Microsoft Exchange Directory. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Unable to attach to \\NOELANI\Microsoft Exchange Information Store. The device cannot be found. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Unable to attach to \\NOELANI\Microsoft Exchange Information Store. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ It seems to happen to me about 50% of the time (nightly full backups). I started with BENT 8.5, upgraded to 8.6 when we decided to get the Exchange Agent (since they wouldn't sell it for 8.5 at that time) and then later upgraded to 8.6 rev. 3878 to correct the stupid time zone issue (it would show completed jobs with a start time of 9pm when the job really started at 8pm and it only affected Indiana, Arizona and probably Hawaii users). Anyway, I had this issue prior to the new rev, so I don't think that is related. I can't find any good answers on Veritas support site, although I plan on just calling them next or checking out their newsgroup. Thought I'd check here first though. Thanks, Allen FYI, I've also upgraded the remote server agent on the Exchange Server, I exclude the EDB and log file directories from file-based backups and I've reinstalled the Exchange Agent with the new rev. 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: spam question
If you open up the Internet Mail Service connector, go to the Internet mail tab, and click on the advanced options button, there is a check box to disable Automatic Replies to the internet. If you unchecked this wouldn't your server send out a delivery, read, and deleted with out being read message to the internet just as if the message came in through your own Domain? John Majetic -Original Message- From: Allen Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 10:54 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: spam question I wouldn't think so, unless the spammers are coming from your own Exchange Server. All I know is that whenever someone from the outside world requests a read receipt, I'm usually asked if I want to send it or not. Of course, that is with Outlook (Internet Mail Only) and Outlook Express at home. I'm not so sure I've ever seen it with the Corporate/Workgroup setting... -Original Message- From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 9:45 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject:spam question I try to lecture my lusers all the time about not unscribing to spam mail that they are sending their legitimate address back to whomever. I tell them to just delete it. Now internally when I send a read receipt to someone it will tell me that it was not read. Is this what happens when you delete spam? Are they (spammers) still getting a notification that it's a real address? dave 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: Exchange 5.5 Question....
I will have to agree with Sherry here. We all had Sexual harassment training here at our company, and the two main things that were stressed is that the company is responsible for what happens over it's equipment, and how offenses are handled by their employees. If someone is receiving say porno emails on the company email server, and someone sees it, and reports it, the company is required to take whatever action they have to to stop the infractions. Once the company has been notified then if the company does not take action it is most definitely responsible, as is any company employee who did not directly take some action to correct the problem. An example would be a manager who just told the employee Don't read those emails when she is around. That employee is now directly responceable, and can be sued along with the company. I would think if you know this is happening, you should at least report it to someone in you management team, maybe the HR dept head, just so you can get you butt out of the Laywer target zone. Also I agree with Sherry the one thing our lawyers stressed was that every employee has to know they are being monitored. IF THEY ARE NOT TOLD THEY HAVE NO PRIVACY, THEN THEY HAVE AN EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY! What this means is if the PHB in question fires somebody because of emails found during his unannounced snooping then it will not hold up in court. One thing no body has talked about in this discussion is bandwidth. I really could care less about what our employees do on the system, so long as they don't screw it up, but when someone here was using our T-1 as his own private music download source, and everyone else was complaining that the Internet was slow, and it was, it's was time to crack the whip on that person. He was eventually fired, and if he did not want to work here, then I could care less, because at 17 hours a week of web surfing he was worth employing. One more example would be the chain letters so many lusers are fond of. I monitored this, and found that on average the pattern of these looks somewhat like this. Step 1 Single chain letter comes in. Step 2 Original user sends letter to 5 others in house and 13 out of house. Step 3 Secondary in-house people send to 1 to 3 others in house and 5 to 15 people out of house. Step 4 Ten percent of the out of house People who were sent the email send it back in often to the people who sent it to them. Step 5 One or two complete lusers see the thing they sent out yesterday come back from the people they send it to, and go Duh I haven't seen this before, and send it around again. I have seen on chain mail circulate for 10 days. Now think about how many jokes come in, and figure they multiply on the same schedule. Multiply this by an easy 5 to 19 emails a week coming in, and that's some number of emails chewing up your bandwidth. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Abercrombie, Sherry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 12:22 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 5.5 Question Well I just have to jump in here on this interesting discussion. I have just finished researching and writing a report on the legal issues of monitoring/not monitoring email and web surfing. What it boils down to is that a company IS legally responsible for what is contained in their email and the content of what they are surfing on the internet. If there are complaints about the content of what a person has on their computer (either in email or on the internet) that is perceived to be offensive to someone else and a lawsuit ensues, the company will be liable. The flip side to that is that a company MUST publish their internet/email acceptable use/monitoring policy for their employees so there is NO question about what is ok. Very interesting research and information, it is not a waste of company resources or finances if it prevents a costly lawsuit. My .02 cents worth! Sherry -Original Message- From: Drewski [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 3:18 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 5.5 Question Depends on your business model. :P Certainly, there are instances when a manager would need to monitor email. -- Drew Visit http://www.drewncapris.net http://www.drewncapris.net ! Go! Go there now! Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.- T.S. Eliot -Original Message- From: Cross, Tom [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 3:10 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 5.5 Question I just get really frustrated with people that want to monitor e-mail. Throw a disclaimer out there and some scare tactics, but don't actually dig around. No one will want to work in that environment. And who wants a bunch of unhappy people
RE: E2k in need?
I use Mail Esstenials, and am very happy with it with one execption. Lately it seems to let certain emails leak though even though it is setup to stop them. Management is to cheap to pay the maintence fee, so I guess I will have to live with it. Haven't seen the ;atest version yet, so can't really tell you that much about it, but I am very happy with the version I have. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Neil Hobson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 7:56 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: E2k in need? Depends on what features you want. I see GFI Mail Essentials mentioned a lot, and although we don't offer it as a product, I hear it is good. You could use the eManager add-on for Trend products like ScanMail or VirusWall, but if you want a more complex product that offers macro-like functionality, then look at MailSweeper (we always recommend the SMTP version, but I admit I've not yet looked at the Exchange 2000 version). Neil Hobson Silversands http://www.silversands.co.uk Microsoft Gold Certified Partner For Enterprise Systems For Collaborative Solutions -Original Message- From: Jamison, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: 25 February 2002 12:29 Posted To: Sunbelt Exchange List Conversation: E2k in need? Subject: E2k in need? I am on the search for a GOOD anti-spam and content filtering tool (software) for my Exchange 2K mail server and possibly for internet filtering. Any suggestions? Chris Jamison Network Systems Manager Penn-America Group, Inc. ph: 215-773-7736 fax:215-443-3667 [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any view or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Silversands, or any of its subsidiary companies. If you have received this email in error, please contact our Support Desk immediately by telephone on 01202-36 or via email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** 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: Why would anyone install Exchange on a PDC?
I had our exchange server on an Pentium Pro 100 HP net sever with 196 MB of ram for about the first year we used exchange. It was the PDC, DHCP Server, Primary WINS, Ras server with 8 VPN ports and the exchange server with 180 boxes on it. Processor utilization rarely got above 50 percent. Lack of Hard Drive space, and memory, 196 MB was max for that box, were the reasons I took exchange off of it. Microsoft says you should have one domain controller for each 1 accounts if I remember correctly, and this was written in the days of Pentium Pro 100s being a kick butt machine. Unless you have thousands of users I really don't see the domain controller resource drain a bar to putting an exchange box on a PDC. However I would not recommend putting it on a box with anything else. It was a real bitch having to take down the DHCP for a day when I had to clean out the I Love you virus. John Majetic -Original Message- From: Allen Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 9:31 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Why would anyone install Exchange on a PDC? Wow, I thought my PDC (P133 with 128MB of RAM) was bad... -Original Message- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 6:07 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject:RE: Why would anyone install Exchange on a PDC? Dude... I upgraded our PDC from a P75 to a P133 32MB RAM that's still in production. IF you can afford Exchange, you can afford a cheap BDC. I applaud your dedication to those companies. -Original Message- From: Clark, Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 1:25 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Why would anyone install Exchange on a PDC? In the majority of shops I manage - there is no choice. Single server shops where the cost to have a BDC or even MS is over the budget. Keep in mind - the hardware is only a SMALL part of the cost. Most of the shops don't do Exchange - they go for POP mail. However, when the problem of shared contacts and calendars rears it's ugly head - Exchange is the solution. Steve Clark Clark Systems Support, LLC AVIEN Charter Member Who's watching your network? www.clarksupport.com 301-610-9584 voice 240-465-0323 Efax 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: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 4:22 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Why would anyone install Exchange on a PDC? I will always advise not to, but it works fine. The reasons not to: performance - not as big an issue today due to beefier machines recoverability - you better have a good BDC somewhere or tears are gonna fall. William -Original Message- From: Kevin Kennedy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 1:18 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Why would anyone install Exchange on a PDC? Cost? Whenever possible install Exchange on a stand alone server. Kevin Kennedy (K2) Network Administrator Mahi Networks, Inc. 707-283-1336 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: Counting mailboxes
I just have to ask why? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 11:46 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Counting mailboxes One user to One mailbox... must be nice... 250 users, 1000 mailboxes... :) -Original Message- From: Leone, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 08:45 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Counting mailboxes -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 11:27 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Counting mailboxes Exchange is not licensed by mailbox. It is licenesed by the number of users that will connect to the Exchange server. Yes, but - usually - you have 1 user, with 1 mailbox. And a number of other accounts - NAV, etc. So it's a good ballpark figure. So, since there's no user for System Attendent (as an example), I don't need a license for it? 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: ScanMail 3.8 for Exchange 5.5 bug
You could get some mail monitoring software like mail essentials. The majority of my files blocking, vbs, vbe, mpg, avi etc is done by my antivirus software. Since we have departments that do send out, and receive exes, zips, and jpgs, I set mail essentials to send all incoming and outgoing files to me, and I decide on a case by case basis whether it comes and goes. This won't help for internal mail, but I have found if I can keep the new elf bowling from coming into the system, then I really don't have to worry about it be passed around internally. Just as a mention for those of us anti-elf bowling time and resource wasting file blockers, I have just added .PPS files to those I examine. I noticed a large amount of the same file going in and out, looked at it and it was a fancy Christmas card thing that was about 1.2MB. John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 12:11 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: ScanMail 3.8 for Exchange 5.5 bug Basically, yes... we have no reason to allow a free flow of EXE files back and forth. If on the rare occasion, we did need one, I'd disable the filter for that time. I can't block all ZIP files, as we do get a lot of wok related things in that are, say, a 15MB non-exe file, but I do want to cut down on the, Hey dude, check out this cool elf bowling game! What? You can't get .exe files? Wait... I'll zip it for you Evan -Original Message- From: Allen Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 9:38 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject:RE: ScanMail 3.8 for Exchange 5.5 bug I read that it couldn't do that, but I'm wondering why anyone cares to do that? If you are worried about viruses being transmitted via ZIP files, it seems that you should just block ZIP. I mean, are you just trying to prevent the users from sending ANY EXE files back and forth? Basically the only reason I'm letting ZIPs through are so people CAN actually transmit legitimate files through and a good way to force them to use some form of compression. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 5:27 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject:RE: ScanMail 3.8 for Exchange 5.5 bug One thing I still kinda wish 3.8 could do is block an .EXE in a Zip. I tried it, and it lets it through. I know I could block all Zip files, but that's not quite what I was looking for. Evan -Original Message- From: Allen Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 5:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject:RE: ScanMail 3.8 for Exchange 5.5 bug By the way, if anyone else uses Martin's list and ScanMail 3.8 and has this same problem, this should save you some time. Don't forget I've added *.REG to the list. File extensions to block: eml;vb;asx;ade;adp;bas;bat;bin;chm;cmd;com;cpl;crt;dll;exe;hiv;hlp;hta;inf;i ns;isp;js;jse;jtd;msc;msi;msp;mst;ocx;oft;ovl;pcd;pif;pl;plx;scr;sct;sh;shb; shs;sys;vbe;vbs;vss;vst;vxd;wsc;wsf;wsh;lnk;reg; File names to block: *.eml;*.vb;*.asx;*.ade;*.adp;*.bas;*.bat;*.bin;*.chm;*.cmd;*.com;*.cpl;*.crt ;*.dll;*.exe;*.hiv;*.hlp;*.hta;*.inf;*.ins;*.isp;*.js;*.jse;*.jtd;*.msc;*.ms i;*.msp;*.mst;*.ocx;*.oft;*.ovl;*.pcd;*.pif;*.pl;*.plx;*.scr;*.sct;*.sh;*.sh b;*.shs;*.sys;*.vbe;*.vbs;*.vss;*.vst;*.vxd;*.wsc;*.wsf;*.wsh;*.lnk;*.reg; -Original Message- From: Allen Crawford Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 5:14 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject:ScanMail 3.8 for Exchange 5.5 bug OK, since everyone has been talking about this and Antigen lately, I'll add this. I just got off the phone with Trend's tech support and apparently there is an issue with blocking file extensions. I noticed that SYS and VBS files were not being blocked, even though they were on my list (or Martin's list I should say, although I don't think he had REG on his list and I do have it). Anyway, the reason is because it is now performing the true file type scanning. I've already tested this and it does work. For example, I'm not blocking ZIP, so renaming a ZIP to EXE, which I am blocking, will let it through just fine because it knows it is a ZIP. So, in turn, it registers VBS, BAT, my SYS (which was really a text file renamed) as TXT files, which aren't being blocked. The fix is to list them in the file name box (the box right below the blocked extension list) as *.vbs;*.bat;*.sys, etc. Seems to work so far. So I guess to be safe, I'm going to add all of Martin's extensions to both boxes. Hope this helps someone else. 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:
RE: outlook
While searching for something totally un-realted I just found article #Q182112, that covers the Outlook command line switches such as cleanreminders. John Majetic -Original Message- From: JFadigan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 2:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: outlook Problem: in outlook 2000 I keep receiving old calendar appointments from weeks ago. I dismissed these over and over. did a complete reinstall of office and outlook with no success. any thoughts 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
