Global Calendar / Private Calendar
Hi guys - Got a question here that doesn't seem to have an easy answer - at least to me. We're a school, running Exchange 2007 with Outlook. Employees use the Outlook calendar for their business meetings/etc. Each summer, we create a csv file of all the then school events/meetings/etc. Each employee is free to then import this into their personal calendar if they want. Most school admins do. The school calendar is also available to view in the Public Folders. Some school admin sync their smart phones/blackberrys as well, to have the information available wherever they are. Now, a couple months down the road - meeting dates/times change. Is there a way reflect those changes on everyone's calendar automatically? Thinking outside of the box, is there a completely different way that we could do this? I thought of a calendar in sharepoint, but I don't know enough to know that it would work... Google Calendar allows multiple calendars with sharing and can merge the calendars to look like one calendar - but not sure I want to go there yet. Any thoughts, suggestions? The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Global Update Personal Calendars?
We're a school. For the last 9 years, we have had a shared school calendar in public folders showing all the events and at the beginning of every school year, we have a csv file of all school events for employees to import into their Outlook calendar - if they want. Now I'm being asked if there's a way to make meeting changes on everyone's calendar that has that meeting on their calendar. Short of a person designated to invite all employees to every meeting - I don't know of a way to do what they would like. Thinking outside of the box - is this something that SharePoint would be good for or is there an entirely different/better way to do what they would like? Not all employees import the calendar. Not all of the events are applicable to all employees. Those that do import, realize they have a lot to cleanup/delete afterwards. The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Parsing error in HTML?
Anyone know why we receive a bunch of emails like this from time to time? I assume it's a coding issue, but that doesn't satisfy users who want to know more. The footer (Epstein school is a ...) is inserted by Exchange 2007 on all emails automatically. From: xxx, yyy [mailto:some...@somewhere.com] Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 9:41 AM To: z Subject: rsvp for Nov. 4th open house html> head> meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-16"> /head> body> hr> font face="Verdana" color="Black" size="2">The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.br> /font> /body> /html> The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.
RE: csvde question
Import into excel as a text column - not a # column. Also, you could open in notepad. -Original Message- From: Ara Avvali [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 11:29 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: csvde question Hello everyone, I just ran a csvde from our AD to get a report of last logged on time. Numbers are in 1.2856E+17 and I can't figure out how to convert it to "human" readable format. Do you have the formula on top of your mind? Appreciated ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ Anthony Shields Systems Administrator The Epstein School 404-250-5659 [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Resetting PF Permissions
Just updated to Exchange 2k7 on W2k8 and the PF folders we've dragged over came with their old permission settings and new permissions aren't being inherited. Is there a way to reset the permissions on the whole PF store to remove all permissions and add one for management and turn on inheritance? I looked at PFDavAdmin - but it looks like there's a whole slew of stuff to install and configure on Win 2k8 before I can use it. Any cmdlets? Thanks The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Resetting PF Permissions
Thanks I'll look into that. Have had some issues getting PFDavAdmin to connect on my workstation. Anthony Shields The Epstein School 404-250-5659 From: Bingham, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:03 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Resetting PF Permissions Alternatively, there are a number of public folder management scripts installed with SP1, in the \Exchange Server\Scripts folder. I think ReplaceUserPermissionOnPFRecursive.ps1 is the appropriate one in this case. Run it with the parameter "help". From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:29 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Resetting PF Permissions Pfdavadmin is the tool. You don't have to run it ON the Exchange 2007 server. Run it on the old 2003 server. Or your desktop. Whatever. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Shields, Anthony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 9:16 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Resetting PF Permissions Just updated to Exchange 2k7 on W2k8 and the PF folders we've dragged over came with their old permission settings and new permissions aren't being inherited. Is there a way to reset the permissions on the whole PF store to remove all permissions and add one for management and turn on inheritance? I looked at PFDavAdmin - but it looks like there's a whole slew of stuff to install and configure on Win 2k8 before I can use it. Any cmdlets? Thanks The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. This e-mail is intended for the use of the addressee(s) only and may contain privileged, confidential, or proprietary information that is exempt from disclosure under law. If you have received this message in error, please inform us promptly by reply e-mail, then delete the e-mail and destroy any printed copy. Thank you. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Message Recalls
When you recall a message to an internal client, doesn't it sorta automatically get deleted from their inboxes? Or am I imagining it? Having an issue where the offending email and the recall message are just sitting in the inbox - unread - untouched. I found the following but, seem to recall it working differently. Anyways - Outlook 2007 with Exchange 2007 SP1. As you probably know, Outlook 2003 offers a mail recall feature (assuming that it is configured as an Exchange client). However, I think this feature gives a false sense of security because it has limitations. Go into the Sent Items container and select the message and then choose the Recall This Message command from the message's Action menu. Exchange will then give you the choice of either deleting the message or replacing it with a different message. This sounds like exactly what the doctor ordered, but there are some serious limitations in recalling messages. For one thing, you can only recall messages that were sent to Exchange recipients. Messages sent to SMTP mailboxes can't be recalled because they do not exist in the Exchange Information Store. Second, you can't recall a message that has already been read. Third, and this is the biggie, the recalled message is not actually removed from the user's inbox. Instead, a second message is sent to the recipient with the word RECALL appended to the subject line. If the recipient opens the recall message, then the offending message will be deleted and a confirmation will be sent to the person who performed the recall. On the other hand, if the recipient opens the original message rather than the recall message, they will see the actual message that was sent by mistake." Anthony Shields The Epstein School 404-250-5659 The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Message Recall
When you recall a message to an internal client, doesn't it sorta automatically get deleted from their inboxes? Or am I imagining it? Having an issue where the offending email and the recall message are just sitting in the inbox - unread - untouched. I found the following but, seem to recall it working differently. Anyways - Outlook 2007 with Exchange 2007 SP1. As you probably know, Outlook 2003 offers a mail recall feature (assuming that it is configured as an Exchange client). However, I think this feature gives a false sense of security because it has limitations. Go into the Sent Items container and select the message and then choose the Recall This Message command from the message's Action menu. Exchange will then give you the choice of either deleting the message or replacing it with a different message. This sounds like exactly what the doctor ordered, but there are some serious limitations in recalling messages. For one thing, you can only recall messages that were sent to Exchange recipients. Messages sent to SMTP mailboxes can't be recalled because they do not exist in the Exchange Information Store. Second, you can't recall a message that has already been read. Third, and this is the biggie, the recalled message is not actually removed from the user's inbox. Instead, a second message is sent to the recipient with the word RECALL appended to the subject line. If the recipient opens the recall message, then the offending message will be deleted and a confirmation will be sent to the person who performed the recall. On the other hand, if the recipient opens the original message rather than the recall message, they will see the actual message that was sent by mistake." Anthony Shields The Epstein School 404-250-5659 The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Message Recall
Thanks all. Anthony Shields The Epstein School 404-250-5659 -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 11:40 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Message Recall http://www.espinola.net/wiki/Message_recall_in_Microsoft_Outlook On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Shields, Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you recall a message to an internal client, doesn't it sorta > automatically get deleted from their inboxes? Or am I imagining it? > > > > Having an issue where the offending email and the recall message are just > sitting in the inbox - unread - untouched. > > > > I found the following but, seem to recall it working differently. > > > > Anyways - Outlook 2007 with Exchange 2007 SP1. > > > > As you probably know, Outlook 2003 offers a mail recall feature (assuming > that it is configured as an Exchange client). However, I think this feature > gives a false sense of security because it has limitations. > > Go into the Sent Items container and select the message and then choose the > Recall This Message command from the message's Action menu. Exchange will > then give you the choice of either deleting the message or replacing it with > a different message. > > This sounds like exactly what the doctor ordered, but there are some serious > limitations in recalling messages. For one thing, you can only recall > messages that were sent to Exchange recipients. Messages sent to SMTP > mailboxes can't be recalled because they do not exist in the Exchange > Information Store. Second, you can't recall a message that has already been > read. Third, and this is the biggie, the recalled message is not actually > removed from the user's inbox. Instead, a second message is sent to the > recipient with the word RECALL appended to the subject line. If the > recipient opens the recall message, then the offending message will be > deleted and a confirmation will be sent to the person who performed the > recall. On the other hand, if the recipient opens the original message > rather than the recall message, they will see the actual message that was > sent by mistake." > > > > > > Anthony Shields > > The Epstein School > > 404-250-5659 > > > > > The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of > Greater Atlanta. > > -- ME2 ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
External SMTP Domain
We have 300 students that we've setup with google based webmail using one of our domain names. The students have individual logins into our windows domain. What would be the proper way to add them into our system for teachers to be able to easily email them? Add them as contacts? Can we add the non-receiving domain to exchange and add the email address to the login accounts? The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: External SMTP Domain
Sorry, E2k7 on Win2k8. Anthony Shields Systems Administrator The Epstein School 404-250-5659 -Original Message- From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 10:15 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: External SMTP Domain Exchange version? -Original Message- From: Shields, Anthony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:11 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: External SMTP Domain We have 300 students that we've setup with google based webmail using one of our domain names. The students have individual logins into our windows domain. What would be the proper way to add them into our system for teachers to be able to easily email them? Add them as contacts? Can we add the non-receiving domain to exchange and add the email address to the login accounts? The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ** Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. ** ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
OT: BES & Exchange 2007
Doing my first BES Express install and ran into a common snag I haven't found a working answer to yet. I got BES Express 4.1.4 installed on a separate box from our Exchange 2007 server. I have one user that I added. He's stuck at initializing. Event logs show: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAPIMailbox::CreateSearchFolder - Open folder failed (0x80070005) failed So I researched and found KB 12483 on the Blackberry site. Followed that. However, when I get to the 2nd part - step 3 - I get a blank list. So I redo step 2 (the send as/receive as/admin info store). I get: Appropriate ACE is already present on object "CN=EPS-EXCHANGE,CN=Servers,CN=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT),CN=Administrative Groups,CN=epstei natlanta,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=epsteinatlanta,DC=org" for account "EPSTEINATLANTA\BESAdmin". At line:1 char:1+ g et-mailboxserver eps-exchange | add-adpermission -user BESADMIN -accessrights GenericRead, GenericWrite -extendedrights Send-As, Receive-As, ms-exch- Store-Admin Any thoughts or pointers appreciated. Anthony Shields Systems Administrator The Epstein School 404-250-5659 [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: BES & Exchange 2007
Nope - regular user as far as network perms go. I've got RIM on the phone - they seem just as lost. :-( -Original Message- From: Jason Gurtz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 12:10 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: BES & Exchange 2007 > He's stuck at initializing. Event logs show: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAPIMailbox::CreateSearchFolder - Open > folder failed (0x80070005) failed Does SBeiner belong to any admin groups (domain admins, DNS Administrator, etc...)? ~JasonG -- ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ Anthony Shields Systems Administrator The Epstein School 404-250-5659 [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: BES & Exchange 2007
Yup -Original Message- From: Bingham, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 2:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: BES & Exchange 2007 Has SBeiner actually been logged into before and used mail? -Original Message- From: Shields, Anthony [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 11:43 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: BES & Exchange 2007 Nope - regular user as far as network perms go. I've got RIM on the phone - they seem just as lost. :-( -Original Message- From: Jason Gurtz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 12:10 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: BES & Exchange 2007 > He's stuck at initializing. Event logs show: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] MAPIMailbox::CreateSearchFolder - Open > folder failed (0x80070005) failed Does SBeiner belong to any admin groups (domain admins, DNS Administrator, etc...)? ~JasonG -- ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ Anthony Shields Systems Administrator The Epstein School 404-250-5659 [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ This e-mail is intended for the use of the addressee(s) only and may contain privileged, confidential, or proprietary information that is exempt from disclosure under law. If you have received this message in error, please inform us promptly by reply e-mail, then delete the e-mail and destroy any printed copy. Thank you. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ Anthony Shields Systems Administrator The Epstein School 404-250-5659 [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Distro List Usage?
Some of our parents are complaining that we're sending too many emails to them, so I've been asked if there's a way to determine how many emails have been sent previously and/or is there a way to monitor for a week or so now? Short of the message logs, I haven't a clue. We send to the parents via BCC, so the logs don't show the group (as it explodes into the members) and short of knowing the subject of each email sent (which would give you the numbers right there), I don't see a way to provide the requested info. ie a typical distro group is #ALL 5th Grade Is there another way to see how many emails went out via a specific group? Thanks, Anthony Shields Systems Administrator The Epstein School 404-250-5659 [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Outlook Calendar
I've just noticed that on my phone (active sync / Treo 700w) that my scheduled appointments are an hour off. My Outlook calendar is correct. Anthony Shields Systems Administrator The Epstein School 404-250-5659 [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Hanging Email in Outbox
Exchange 2k7 / Outlook 2007 / No cache Several users have noticed on occasion that an email or two will hang out in their outbox for while. They've tried clicking send/receive, send another email (which goes out immediately BTW), exiting Outlook, etc...eventually it does go. I'm now experiencing it myself and quite puzzled. Any thoughts as to what's going on? It's a reply to an internal address, so I know the address is valid. Thanks, Anthony Shields Systems Administrator The Epstein School 404-250-5659 [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Missing Sent Items
Hi everyone, have an issue that was noticed back at the end of November that I still haven't been able to resolve. Hoping y'all can help. I have a user, who is missing their sent items from 10/16 - 11/25. All their other emails are there. User does not use OST or PST files. We are an Exchange 2007 / Outlook 2007 shop. I have rebooted the client and server several times since, with no effect. No other users are known to be affected. Have checked here and there. Thoughts? Pointers? The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.
RE: Missing Sent Items
Yes - save a copy to sent items is checked (was presumably). Yes - there are emails prior to and since then - just none from that time in the sent items. No - Archive is group policied off. -Original Message- From: Shields, Anthony [mailto:ashie...@epsteinatlanta.org] Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 11:09 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Missing Sent Items Hi everyone, have an issue that was noticed back at the end of November that I still haven't been able to resolve. Hoping y'all can help. I have a user, who is missing their sent items from 10/16 - 11/25. All their other emails are there. User does not use OST or PST files. We are an Exchange 2007 / Outlook 2007 shop. I have rebooted the client and server several times since, with no effect. No other users are known to be affected. Have checked here and there. Thoughts? Pointers? The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.
RE: Missing Sent Items
14 days - early on I checked and saw no evidence of them being deleted. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 11:18 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Missing Sent Items Is deleted item retention turned on, and if so, for how long? -Original Message- From: Shields, Anthony [mailto:ashie...@epsteinatlanta.org] Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 11:15 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Missing Sent Items Yes - save a copy to sent items is checked (was presumably). Yes - there are emails prior to and since then - just none from that time in the sent items. No - Archive is group policied off. -Original Message- From: Shields, Anthony [mailto:ashie...@epsteinatlanta.org] Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 11:09 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Missing Sent Items Hi everyone, have an issue that was noticed back at the end of November that I still haven't been able to resolve. Hoping y'all can help. I have a user, who is missing their sent items from 10/16 - 11/25. All their other emails are there. User does not use OST or PST files. We are an Exchange 2007 / Outlook 2007 shop. I have rebooted the client and server several times since, with no effect. No other users are known to be affected. Have checked here and there. Thoughts? Pointers? The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.
Upgrade to 2010 first?
Nearly every summer we rebuild our domain from scratch, including Exchange. This year, we will be upgrading several things including Win2k8 R2 and E2k10 server. Typically when we do this, we exmerge the existing store - in this case a E2k7 - to PST files, which are then exmerged into the new store. We currently have many users with mailboxes near or over 2gigs. I have had issues previously trying to import large PST files and am hoping to avoid them if possible. I believe E2k10 has brought back the ease of export/import PST files and was wondering if it would make sense to upgrade the E2k7 server to 2010 and then export the PST files - Wipe the equipment clean and reinstall 2010, importing those PST files? Any thoughts or suggestions? Anthony Shields Systems Administrator The Epstein School (404) 250-5659 The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.
RE: Upgrade to 2010 first?
It's what we do in the school to maintain and improve our technology. We rebuild, recreate and improve on what we had, deploy new hardware/software, improve infrastructure. Instead of tacking things on down the road-during the year, we rebuild -incorporating all of those things during the summer. We repurpose servers. What once was high volume, no longer needs the super server. What once was a physical server, is now a virtual server. Unlike corporate world, we attempt to leave our stuff untouched during the school year. For the summer break, we get to start fresh when downtime is near irrelevant. Anthony Shields Systems Administrator The Epstein School (404) 250-5659 From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 11:31 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Upgrade to 2010 first? My suggestion would be to not rebuild the domain. What are the reasons behind this? On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Shields, Anthony mailto:ashie...@epsteinatlanta.org>> wrote: Nearly every summer we rebuild our domain from scratch, including Exchange. This year, we will be upgrading several things including Win2k8 R2 and E2k10 server. Typically when we do this, we exmerge the existing store - in this case a E2k7 - to PST files, which are then exmerged into the new store. We currently have many users with mailboxes near or over 2gigs. I have had issues previously trying to import large PST files and am hoping to avoid them if possible. I believe E2k10 has brought back the ease of export/import PST files and was wondering if it would make sense to upgrade the E2k7 server to 2010 and then export the PST files - Wipe the equipment clean and reinstall 2010, importing those PST files? Any thoughts or suggestions? Anthony Shields Systems Administrator The Epstein School (404) 250-5659 The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.
RE: Upgrade to 2010 first?
The article does ring some truth and we are moving away from redoing the servers every year - as we didn't do them last year, because we knew R2 and E2k10 would be out this year - along with Office 2k10. All of which we're upgrading to in July. Hopefully after this, I can go for a few years without redoing. Anthony Shields Systems Administrator The Epstein School (404) 250-5659 On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Jason Gurtz mailto:jasongu...@npumail.com>> wrote: Schools are a unique I.T. environment to be sure, but wow they sure don't use this rebuild-from-scratch approach at the schools around here! I've found software development to be amazingly similar to the practice of I.T. There's a guy out there (used to work in the Excel bus. unit at MS) who has blogged extensively on best practices, etc... and this post from almost exactly 10 years and a month ago seems remarkably apropos: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog69.html Just substitute: users for customers... applications for functions/APIs... fixing something for reading code starting over for writing code etc... ~JasonG > -Original Message- > From: Shields, Anthony > [mailto:ashie...@epsteinatlanta.org<mailto:ashie...@epsteinatlanta.org>] > Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 11:37 > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: [M] [MARKETING] RE: Upgrade to 2010 first? > > It's what we do in the school to maintain and improve our technology. We > rebuild, recreate and improve on what we had, deploy new > hardware/software, improve infrastructure. > > > > Instead of tacking things on down the road-during the year, we rebuild - > incorporating all of those things during the summer. > > > > We repurpose servers. What once was high volume, no longer needs the > super server. What once was a physical server, is now a virtual server. > > > > Unlike corporate world, we attempt to leave our stuff untouched during > the school year. For the summer break, we get to start fresh when > downtime is near irrelevant. > > > > > > Anthony Shields > > Systems Administrator > > The Epstein School > > (404) 250-5659 > > > > From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com<mailto:stevey...@gmail.com>] > Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 11:31 AM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Upgrade to 2010 first? > > > > My suggestion would be to not rebuild the domain. What are the reasons > behind this? > > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Shields, Anthony > mailto:ashie...@epsteinatlanta.org>> wrote: > > Nearly every summer we rebuild our domain from scratch, including > Exchange. This year, we will be upgrading several things including > Win2k8 R2 and E2k10 server. > > > > Typically when we do this, we exmerge the existing store - in this case a > E2k7 - to PST files, which are then exmerged into the new store. > > > > We currently have many users with mailboxes near or over 2gigs. I have > had issues previously trying to import large PST files and am hoping to > avoid them if possible. > > > > I believe E2k10 has brought back the ease of export/import PST files and > was wondering if it would make sense to upgrade the E2k7 server to 2010 > and then export the PST files - Wipe the equipment clean and reinstall > 2010, importing those PST files? > > > > Any thoughts or suggestions? > > > > > > Anthony Shields > > Systems Administrator > > The Epstein School > > (404) 250-5659 > > > > > > The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of > Greater Atlanta. > > The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.
RE: Exporting to PST
Mailbox over 2gigs? Try a different folder path? Anthony Shields Systems Administrator The Epstein School (404) 250-5659 From: Chris Blair [mailto:chris_bl...@identisys.com] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 4:04 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exporting to PST I am trying to export a mailbox in Exchange 2007, sp2 using Powershell. The command-let is "Export-Mailbox -Identity username -PSTFolderPath c:\username.pst." StatusCode : -1056749164 StatusMessage: Error occurred in the step: Moving messages. Failed to copy messages to the destinat ion mailbox store with error: MAPI or an unspecified service provider. ID no: -- I have added/removed, added again, full rights to the mailbox for myself, and another user. I still get the same error. I have done this numerous times in the past without issue. Any ideas? Thanks! The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.
Outlook 2010 and Exchange 2007 Public folders showing Webpages
Have strange problem with public folders. We have a few folders created where there homepage is a webpage form. As a user with outlook 2k7, I see the webpage and can submit the form. When I review the properties, I see that the homepage is checked and it has the valid address. As the same user with Outlook 2010, I get the item listing view - not the designated homepage. When I review the properties, I see that the homepage is not checked - and as owner - I'm not able to check it and enter the address. Any suggestions? Am I missing something? Anthony Shields Systems Administrator The Epstein School (404) 250-5659 The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.
OT: Ultra320 running under Windows 2008 R2?
Is anyone using a ultra320 SCSI card that is supported in Windows 2008 R2? We have a Powervault 220 that we want to keep in operation, while updating our servers to R2. Is it hopeless? The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.
RE: Letter from Sunbelt CEO: GFI Acquires Sunbelt Software
I hope they're still on target for the NinjaBlade 2.0 product. I've been waitingwaiting -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:02 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Letter from Sunbelt CEO: GFI Acquires Sunbelt Software Well, I wish them the best; but can't help but feel "that's too bad". It'll be interesting to see how the competing product lines shake out. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 7:26 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: FW: Letter from Sunbelt CEO: GFI Acquires Sunbelt Software > Today, it was announced that Sunbelt Software has been acquired by GFI > Software. The new combined entity will provide a wide range of > security and > infrastructure software solutions, both on-premise and in the cloud. > View the press release here: > http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Press/Releases/?id=362 > > This Wednesday, July 14th, GFI's CEO, Walter Scott and I will be > holding a webinar to discuss the transaction, which we invite you to > attend. The details > of the webinar are as follows: > > CEO webinar for Partners: GFI's new acquisition > Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 > Time: 11:30am Eastern Time > Register here to attend > https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/294875025 > > First, let me say that we're thrilled to be part of the GFI team. Throughout > our discussions and interactions with GFI, we have been continually > impressed with their dedication to quality, customer service and > superior performance throughout the company. Both companies are > similar in their attitudes and practices with regard to customer > service, product quality, strategic vision, organizational styles and culture. > > On the technology side, the acquisition allows us to expand into > several areas, which we believe are essential for us to grow as a > company and continue to provide leading-edge technologies to our > partners. These areas include vulnerability assessment, patch > management, data leakage prevention, hosted/cloud-based technologies, and MSP > solutions. > > No specific plans have been made yet in terms of product integration > strategies, but we are working with the GFI team to identify areas > where their technologies would complement our offerings. > > In addition to the technology side, GFI provides additional resources > in terms > of capital, management expertise, systems and new markets that will > continue to propel our products and our teams to the highest level of > achievement possible. > > For the time being, both companies are hard at work, integrating the various > sales, marketing, finance, and technology teams. Our goal is to make > the combination of the companies as seamless as possible to you, and > we will continue to provide you with updates and information as we > work to combine the organizations. For now, nothing changes in how you > do business with Sunbelt. > > We appreciate your trust in us as a partner and will continue to work > hard to > keep your loyalty and support. Please don't hesitate to reach out to > your Sunbelt representative or me personally if you have any questions > or comments. > > Kind regards, > > Alex Eckelberry > CEO Anthony Shields Systems Administrator The Epstein School 335 Colewood Way, NW Sandy Springs, Ga 30328 404-250-5659 ashie...@epsteinatlanta.org The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.
RE: Attachments - Name that tool
??? http://www.slipstick.com/addins/attachments.asp Anthony Shields Systems Administrator The Epstein School 335 Colewood Way, NW Sandy Springs, GA 30328 404-250-5659 ashie...@epsteinatlanta.org The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.
Outlook 2010
Hi guys, I know that running Outlook 2007 standalone, you don't have the word editor options (http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/standalone.htm) and thus the same for Outlook 2010. What if you have the full Office 2007 installed and replace Outlook 2007 with Outlook 2010 version? Will you regain the autocorrect features or will Outlook 2010 not recognize Word 2007 for spelling/grammar? Does it matter which version of 2010 I use? ie Outlook 2010 or the Office 2010 suite and install only Outlook 2010, not upgrading Office 2007 programs)? I know, why can't we just upgrade to 2010 and be done with it? Politics. Thanks 3rd time is the charm in getting a rejected post. The Epstein School is a proud beneficiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta.
