RE: monitoring tips? (UNCLASSIFIED)

2009-08-06 Thread Mike French
Not using Backup Exec's Exchange License? 

-Original Message-
From: Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT) 
[mailto:john.matte...@afghan.swa.army.mil] 
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 1:35 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: monitoring tips? (UNCLASSIFIED)

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: FOUO

If you're running Backup Exec already, why are you running NT BACKUP on the 
Exchange server?


John H. Matteson, Jr.
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Afghanistan
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Molōn labe!

-Original Message-
From: Jeff Brown [mailto:2jbr...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 8:40 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: monitoring tips?

using NT Backup on the Ex boxes to disk, then BackupExec puts them to tape.


On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.com wrote:


What backup software are you using?


On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Jeff Brown 2jbr...@gmail.com wrote:


That probably IS what I'm looking for, but Nagios is linux only 
tool, is it not?  I'm not currently running any linux boxes.  :(  


On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Andrew Greene 
agre...@cityofanderson.com wrote:


I use Nagios for this (in a roundabout way) – logs are 
on a separate drive from system and the information stores, so what I do is 
using NSClient, run checks to make sure that I’m not using more than 2% of the 
drive. If I’m using more than that on a drive, it means that the backup hasn’t 
run and the logs haven’t been removed. Do that for each of your servers. Not 
sure if this is will help or is what you’re looking for, but it’s what I use. 

 

Andrew Greene

IS Technician / Webmaster

City of Anderson

 

From: Jeff Brown [mailto:2jbr...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 11:45 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: monitoring tips?

 

Anyone have something they are proud of that confirms 
backup/log file removal for multiple exchange servers?  FE/BE setup with 3 
mailbox servers, all running E2k3, W2K3 servers.  All standard versions.  
(probably has to be free for me to be able to use it).  Thanks for any 
help/suggestions. 





-- 
Sherry Abercrombie

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. 
Arthur C. Clarke



Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: FOUO








RE: Where's Sarah Conner?

2009-07-15 Thread Mike French
Could use one as a poop scooper if you have dogs in the back yard?

 



From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 1:55 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Where's Sarah Conner?

 

The off topic and creepy thought for today...

http://foxnews.mobi/content.html?contentId=43146
http://foxnews.mobi/content.html?contentId=43146  

-Paul 



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2009-04-23 Thread Mike French
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Restricting outbound mail

2009-04-23 Thread Mike French
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This may have been discussed before, but I'm in a pinch. I have a user
who is a developer and I want to restrict his e-mail to only send mail
to internal users, no external mail. I'm ok with him receiving external
e-mail; he just won't be able to reply. This is exchange 2003 in a W2k3
functional domain. I'm going to walk Google, but I'm betting someone has
a faster answer here Thanks!

MIKE FRENCH
NETWORK ENGINEER
~EQUITY BANK
Office: 214.231.4565
mike.fre...@theequitybank.com
Doing IT Right!


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RE: Restricting outbound mail

2009-04-23 Thread Mike French
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I think I might have found the answer:
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/MF009.html

If anybody has any comments on this process, please chime in...

- -Original Message-
From: Mike French [mailto:mike.fre...@theequitybank.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 10:57 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Restricting outbound mail

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This may have been discussed before, but I'm in a pinch. I have a user
who is a developer and I want to restrict his e-mail to only send mail
to internal users, no external mail. I'm ok with him receiving external
e-mail; he just won't be able to reply. This is exchange 2003 in a W2k3
functional domain. I'm going to walk Google, but I'm betting someone has
a faster answer here Thanks!

MIKE FRENCH
NETWORK ENGINEER
~EQUITY BANK
Office: 214.231.4565
mike.fre...@theequitybank.com
Doing IT Right!


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RE: [LIST ADMIN MESSAGE] RE: Make sure you look better by losing weight

2009-03-24 Thread Mike French
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RE: Anti-SPAM Appliances

2009-03-13 Thread Mike French
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RE: DNS tools

2008-09-05 Thread Mike French
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Here's one: http://www.dnscolos.com/free-dns-report.html



From: Glen Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 2:32 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: DNS tools

Anyone know of a free site that performs tests similar to what dnsstuff used to 
do for free?
Thanks.


 

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RE: Don't you just hate it when...

2008-06-24 Thread Mike French
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LOL!


From: Webster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 12:21 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Don't you just hate it when...


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Subject: Don't you just hate it when...

You're searching in various web forums for the solution to an (apparently) 
undocumented issue and the original poster ends the thread by letting you know 
that he solved the problem, but he doesn't include any info or links to 
indicate how.  Gosh, that makes me so mad!!!  :-)

I came up with just a solution for people who do that.


Webster

 

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