RE: Departmental distribution lists - or shared contact - how to let the department or user manage?
I will mention that we do something similar but we add in the notes section on the General tabTicket # (if exists)List owner: NameCo-Owner/Backup: Name Our support center will refer all membership queries to those people. We have a co-owner on every list mainly as a point of contact in case the owner disappears. It's easy to add the name up front but hard to track down a willing owner later. We also go through every once in a while and send an email to list owners asking if the list is still in use.From: joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov To: exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Departmental distribution lists - or shared contact - how to let the department or user manage? Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:50:58 + Well, would you look at that. None of the checkboxes are checked to allow the manager to actually manage the group. No wonder it’s not working for me. Thanks Don! Joe Heaton Enterprise Server Support CA Department of Fish and Wildlife 1807 13th Street, Suite 201 Sacramento, CA 95811 Desk: (916) 323-1284 From: Don Guyer [mailto:dgu...@che.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 8:14 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Departmental distribution lists - or shared contact - how to let the department or user manage? In ADUC. Regards, Don Guyer Catholic Health East - Information Technology Enterprise Directory Messaging Services 3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073 email: dgu...@che.org Office: 610.550.3595 | Cell: 610.955.6528 | Fax: 610.271.9440 For immediate assistance, please open a Service Desk ticket or call the helpdesk @ 610-492-3839. From: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife [mailto:joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 10:26 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Departmental distribution lists - or shared contact - how to let the department or user manage? Don, Where is that Managed By tab? I’m not seeing it anywhere. I have a General tab, Member of tab, and e-mail addresses tab. OL2010 Exch 2010 SP2 RU5v2 I’ve been creating Distribution Groups, assigning a Manager, and hearing back that the manager can’t edit group membership. Joe Heaton Enterprise Server Support CA Department of Fish and Wildlife 1807 13th Street, Suite 201 Sacramento, CA 95811 Desk: (916) 323-1284 From: Don Guyer [mailto:dgu...@che.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 5:02 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Departmental distribution lists - or shared contact - how to let the department or user manage? We usually create these and then assign someone (designated by the requestor) to be the manager of the DL from that point on, leaving our group free from the burden: Regards, Don Guyer Catholic Health East - Information Technology Enterprise Directory Messaging Services 3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073 email: dgu...@che.org Office: 610.5503595 | Cell: 610.955.6528 | Fax: 610.271.9440 For immediate assistance, please open a Service Desk ticket or call the helpdesk @ 610-492-3839. From: xyz [mailto:x...@minneapolis.edu] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 8:41 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Departmental distribution lists - or shared contact - how to let the department or user manage? Greetings, EXCHANGE 2010 SP2 UR3 Outlook 2010 clients Please bear with me, as I have not had to deal with this since my Groupwise days so my terminology may not be correct regarding Exchange 2010. When we migrated from Groupwise to Exchange, we “grandfathered in” a small number of DLs that my operations group continues to manage through service tickets to add and remove users. Currently we have several requests to create and manage new Distribution Lists for specific departments as well as various projects. My thinking is there should be a way in OUTLOOK 20101 for each requestor to create a contact or DL, share this with others, and manage themselves without sending in service tickets to my group. I have done a lot of google on this, but find the terminology is not consistent. In summary, my goal is to provide documentation to each new requestor to manage/maintain themselves using their OUTLOOK client and then sharing a DL or CONTACTS with all the others they want involved. Again, sorry that I am not clear, but I am sure others have already figured this out and have suggestions I can test. Please let me know with any questions. Thank you Dana --- To manage subscriptions click here: or send an email to with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Catholic Health East and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized
RE: Android Active Sync Policy
You know, it might be the result of the Android upgrade and Google adding this little bit of 'Warning/Marketing' scare bit for ActiveSync clients. As to personal phones on a 'business mail system' I strongly urge you to make someone write a policy on it. Ours currently is you get fired unless you have sign off from executive management. Guess who has sign off from executive management? If you guessed some group mentioned in the previous sentence you guessed right. However, for them to play that they had to sign a release from our Security team that they were aware that we could wipe their devices. Our policy includes who can tell us to wipe the device as well. Steven Peckhttp://www.blkmtn.org From: pramatow...@mediageneral.com To: exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Android Active Sync Policy Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:08:21 + What we do. the only time we’ve wiped a device is at user request when it’s been “misplaced”. Some people just don’t understand though so we’ve had a few opt-outs after the fact. Literally 3 out of thousands, From: Guyer, Don [mailto:dgu...@che.org] Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 2:09 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Android Active Sync Policy Sounds like it’s time to write a policy and draft a form they have to sign prior to the device being added to the system. Regards, Don Guyer Catholic Health East - Information Technology Enterprise Directory Messaging Services 3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073 email: dgu...@che.org Office: 610.550.3595 | Cell: 610.955.6528 | Fax: 610.271.9440 For immediate assistance, please open a Service Desk ticket or call the helpdesk @ 610-492-3839. From: Pfefferkorn, Pete (pfeffepe) [mailto:pfeff...@ucmail.uc.edu] Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 2:03 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Android Active Sync Policy We also have gotten a couple of inquiries. One was a little irate asking who setup this policy and where is it published that we can do this to his phone. Its opened up a can of worms for us even though we use the default policy and don’t place any restrictions on the users. I guess we are going to have to publish something on our site explaining that although we have these capabilities...we don’t use them. We also don’t wipe phones unless requested by our security department of which we have had maybe 2 for 15,000 accounts in the last 5 years. Pete Pfefferkorn University of Cincinnati Information Technology Services Operating Systems Analyst/Messaging Administrator Phone: (513) 556-9076 Fax: (513) 556-2042 Email: pete.pfefferk...@uc.edu From: Steve Hart [mailto:sh...@wrightbg.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 12:28 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Android Active Sync Policy I’ve just received a call from an Exec who has just upgraded his Android. When he attempts to connect to our Exchange 2007 server, he’s getting a security policy screen that says we can disable the camera, wipe the unit, etc. Although we haven’t updated anything on the server recently, this is the first time we’ve seen this message at our company. I’ve done a bit of googling and I found the screen where these settings are set up. We have a default policy that is set to Microsoft’s defaults. Everything is set to “Allow”. I note that we would need “Exchange Enterprise CALs” to make changes to the settings and I don’t think we have any of those. I’m not sure what to tell the Exec. Is this policy acceptance screen just a catch all? How can we be assured that it’s not going to hose his phone? Steve --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attachments is the property of Catholic Health East and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). It may contain information that is privileged and confidential. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message, and reply to the sender regarding the error in a separate email. --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage
Re: Working a script
Well, that's somewhat unfortunate as I don't get a vote in the manner at
this time. Wasn't planning to ask I know how to spell NDA :)
I suppose once I get started on getting things going I should take notes
and post them on my site.
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote:
I am so sorry.
** **
Honestly (and I said this on a private forum today), I have been so
negative about Exchange 2013 and I have received so much crap from
Microsoft internal personnel about my negativity to Exchange 2013, I do not
expect to be re-awarded my Microsoft MVP on July 1.
** **
Exchange 2013, even including CU1, is a piece of crap. (I cannot go into
any details about CU1 at this time, so don’t ask.)
** **
If you have any choice, any say, don’t do it. You will regret it.
** **
*From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 19, 2013 7:18 PM
*To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
*Subject:* Re: Working a script
** **
On the bright side I just got moved back into the messaging group
(Exchange, Lync) after 2 years and out of a group where one off
scripts were the norm. I also just got told to prep our test environment
for Exchange 2013 and I get to lead it. Yay me.
Steven
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Campbell, Rob
rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net wrote:
And just when you think you have all the possible errors trapped and
reported, you get an email from someone asking for them to be reported in
his native language……..
*From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 19, 2013 5:52 PM
*To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: Working a script
Taking a basic script and turning it into an enterprise-quality script
with operational support is a serious exercise.
I could write a small book on that process. I do not think it has been
adequately covered.
Ask Webster. I’ve beat him roundly about the head-and-shoulders on some of
his scripts and error conditions.
*From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com sep...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 19, 2013 6:30 PM
*To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
*Subject:* Re: Working a script
Oh , that won't go away for a while, I've been stumbling around poking at
PowerShell for years now but there are lots on this list that do way more
neat looking things. :)
The TechEd video's will really help by the way as will the ones by Ed
Wilson on the bottom of that earlier link. Also the TechNet wiki if you
were unaware has a lot of stuff. Not just on PowerShell but here's the
main PowerShell jump off point.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/183.windows-powershell-survival-guide-en-us.aspx
The 'Scripting Guys' also have the Winter Scripting games coming up in
another month that generally have some fun challenges for both beginners
and experts.
Steven
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov wrote:
Yes, that was it. Thanks Steve J Still learning Powershell here. I am
going to a class at the end of March though, so hopefully I won’t be so
helpless afterwards.
*From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 19, 2013 2:14 PM
*To:* Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; MS-Exchange Admin Issues
*Subject:* Re: Working a script
GAH! No FT. Format-Table is for screen output and making your life hard
in situations like this.
Select-Object
PS:\ $mbx | Where-Object { ($_.WhenCreated).Month -eq 12 -and ($_.
WhenCreated).year -eq 2012 } | Select-Object Name, WhenCreated |
Export-Csv ./testNow.csv -NoTypeInformation
I tested this and the output was good.
http://www.blkmtn.org/TechEd-2012-Videos
Turn PowerShell Commands into Reusable CLI and GUI
Toolshttp://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/WCL404
- that video. although the first is funny enough to watch anyway.
Steven Peck
http://www.blkmtn.org
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov wrote:
Ok,
So this is what I’m using:
[PS] C:\Windows\system32$mbx | Where-Object
{($_.WhenMailboxCreated).Month -eq 12 -and($_.WhenMailboxCreated).year -eq
2012} | ft Name,WhenMailboxCreated | Export-CSV -NoTypeInformation
c:\Dec_2012_boxes.csv
I already did the $mbx = to set that variable.
When I do this without the | Export-CSV, the display is perfect. But,
when I pipe it to the csv, the csv turns out like the following:
ClassId2e4f51ef21dd47e99d3c952918aff9cd,pageHeaderEntry,pageFooterEntry,autosizeInfo,shapeInfo,groupingEntry
Re: Working a script
$mbx = Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited
$mbx | Where-Object { ($_.WhenCreated).Month -eq 12 -and
($_.WhenCreated).year -eq 2012 }
I tend to stick things in variables to play with afterwards so I don't have
to go back and get the data all over again. Plus it helps me play with
stuff without beating on sources.
The above gets you Month 12, Year 2012.
Add an | Export-CSV -NoTypeInformation c:\reports\exchange_dec_2012.csv and
you get a nice file out of it.
Oh, hey, Sacramento eh? That's local to me :)
Steven Peck
http://www.blkmtn.org
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Damien Solodow
damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote:
Correct. You’d need to amend the where-object to add a
($_.whencreated).year –eq 2012)
** **
DAMIEN SOLODOW
Systems Engineer
317.447.6033 (office)
317.447.6014 (fax)
HARRISON COLLEGE
** **
*From:* Rick Berry [mailto:rbe...@elevativenetworks.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 19, 2013 1:58 PM
*To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: Working a script
** **
I believe that returns all years, if I’m not mistaken. So not just Dec
2012, but 2011 etc etc?
** **
** **
*From:* Campbell, Rob
[mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.netrob_campb...@centraltechnology.net]
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 19, 2013 1:38 PM
*To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: Working a script
** **
** **
** **
Get-Mailbox –Resultsize unlimited | Where-Object {($_.WhenCreated).Month
–eq 8}
** **
By default, Get-Mailbox only returns the first 1000 results. Change the 8
to 12 should return the mailboxes created in December.
** **
*From:* Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
[mailto:joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.govjoseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov]
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 19, 2013 12:27 PM
*To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
*Subject:* Working a script
** **
I’m trying to get a list of mailboxes that were created during a certain
month. The following is all I could find so far through Google:
** **
Get-Mailbox | Where-Object {($_.WhenCreated).Month –eq 8}
** **
What does the 8 in the above command mean? Is it the 8th month? I tried
it by replacing that with 12, since I want to get a list of mailboxes
created in December, but the list that came back was way short of actual
boxes created in December.
** **
Thanks for any help,
** **
Joe Heaton
Enterprise Server Support
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife
1807 13th Street, Suite 201
Sacramento, CA 95811
Desk: (916) 557-3422
** **
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Re: Working a script
GAH! No FT. Format-Table is for screen output and making your life hard
in situations like this.
Select-Object
PS:\ $mbx | Where-Object { ($_.WhenCreated).Month -eq 12 -and ($_.
WhenCreated).year -eq 2012 } | Select-Object Name, WhenCreated | Export-Csv
./testNow.csv -NoTypeInformation
I tested this and the output was good.
http://www.blkmtn.org/TechEd-2012-Videos
Turn PowerShell Commands into Reusable CLI and GUI
Toolshttp://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/WCL404
- that video. although the first is funny enough to watch anyway.
Steven Peck
http://www.blkmtn.org
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov wrote:
Ok,
** **
So this is what I’m using:
** **
[PS] C:\Windows\system32$mbx | Where-Object
{($_.WhenMailboxCreated).Month -eq 12 -and($_.WhenMailboxCreated).year -eq
2012} | ft Name,WhenMailboxCreated | Export-CSV -NoTypeInformation
c:\Dec_2012_boxes.csv
** **
I already did the $mbx = to set that variable.
** **
When I do this without the | Export-CSV, the display is perfect. But,
when I pipe it to the csv, the csv turns out like the following:
** **
ClassId2e4f51ef21dd47e99d3c952918aff9cd,pageHeaderEntry,pageFooterEntry,autosizeInfo,shapeInfo,groupingEntry
033ecb2bc07a4d43b5ef94ed5a35d280Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.TableHeaderInfo,
9e210fe47d09416682b841769c78b8a3,
27c87ef9bbda4f709f6b4002fa4af63c,
27c87ef9bbda4f709f6b4002fa4af63c,
27c87ef9bbda4f709f6b4002fa4af63c,
** **
But with lots more lines. When I ran it without the | ft
Name,WhenMailboxCreated, it ran perfectly, but it dumped all information
for the box into the csv, so I’m trying to limit the data I actually get.*
***
** **
I’ve tried a space after the comma (Name, WhenMailboxCreated), and I’ve
also tried fl, instead of ft, but same results.
** **
** **
*From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 19, 2013 11:21 AM
*To:* Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; MS-Exchange Admin Issues
*Subject:* Re: Working a script
** **
$mbx = Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited
$mbx | Where-Object { ($_.WhenCreated).Month -eq 12 -and
($_.WhenCreated).year -eq 2012 }
I tend to stick things in variables to play with afterwards so I don't
have to go back and get the data all over again. Plus it helps me play
with stuff without beating on sources.
The above gets you Month 12, Year 2012.
Add an | Export-CSV -NoTypeInformation c:\reports\exchange_dec_2012.csv
and you get a nice file out of it.
Oh, hey, Sacramento eh? That's local to me :)
Steven Peck
http://www.blkmtn.org
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Damien Solodow
damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote:
Correct. You’d need to amend the where-object to add a
($_.whencreated).year –eq 2012)
DAMIEN SOLODOW
Systems Engineer
317.447.6033 (office)
317.447.6014 (fax)
HARRISON COLLEGE
*From:* Rick Berry [mailto:rbe...@elevativenetworks.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 19, 2013 1:58 PM
*To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: Working a script
I believe that returns all years, if I’m not mistaken. So not just Dec
2012, but 2011 etc etc?
*From:* Campbell, Rob
[mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.netrob_campb...@centraltechnology.net]
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 19, 2013 1:38 PM
*To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: Working a script
Get-Mailbox –Resultsize unlimited | Where-Object {($_.WhenCreated).Month
–eq 8}
By default, Get-Mailbox only returns the first 1000 results. Change the 8
to 12 should return the mailboxes created in December.
*From:* Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
[mailto:joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.govjoseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov]
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 19, 2013 12:27 PM
*To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
*Subject:* Working a script
I’m trying to get a list of mailboxes that were created during a certain
month. The following is all I could find so far through Google:
Get-Mailbox | Where-Object {($_.WhenCreated).Month –eq 8}
What does the 8 in the above command mean? Is it the 8th month? I tried
it by replacing that with 12, since I want to get a list of mailboxes
created in December, but the list that came back was way short of actual
boxes created in December.
Thanks for any help,
Joe Heaton
Enterprise Server Support
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife
1807 13th Street, Suite 201
Sacramento, CA 95811
Desk: (916) 557-3422
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Re: Working a script
Oh , that won't go away for a while, I've been stumbling around poking at
PowerShell for years now but there are lots on this list that do way more
neat looking things. :)
The TechEd video's will really help by the way as will the ones by Ed
Wilson on the bottom of that earlier link. Also the TechNet wiki if you
were unaware has a lot of stuff. Not just on PowerShell but here's the
main PowerShell jump off point.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/183.windows-powershell-survival-guide-en-us.aspx
The 'Scripting Guys' also have the Winter Scripting games coming up in
another month that generally have some fun challenges for both beginners
and experts.
Steven
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov wrote:
Yes, that was it. Thanks Steve J Still learning Powershell here. I am
going to a class at the end of March though, so hopefully I won’t be so
helpless afterwards.
** **
*From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 19, 2013 2:14 PM
*To:* Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; MS-Exchange Admin Issues
*Subject:* Re: Working a script
** **
GAH! No FT. Format-Table is for screen output and making your life hard
in situations like this.
Select-Object
PS:\ $mbx | Where-Object { ($_.WhenCreated).Month -eq 12 -and ($_.
WhenCreated).year -eq 2012 } | Select-Object Name, WhenCreated |
Export-Csv ./testNow.csv -NoTypeInformation
I tested this and the output was good.
http://www.blkmtn.org/TechEd-2012-Videos
Turn PowerShell Commands into Reusable CLI and GUI
Toolshttp://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/WCL404
- that video. although the first is funny enough to watch anyway.
Steven Peck
http://www.blkmtn.org
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov wrote:
Ok,
So this is what I’m using:
[PS] C:\Windows\system32$mbx | Where-Object
{($_.WhenMailboxCreated).Month -eq 12 -and($_.WhenMailboxCreated).year -eq
2012} | ft Name,WhenMailboxCreated | Export-CSV -NoTypeInformation
c:\Dec_2012_boxes.csv
I already did the $mbx = to set that variable.
When I do this without the | Export-CSV, the display is perfect. But,
when I pipe it to the csv, the csv turns out like the following:
ClassId2e4f51ef21dd47e99d3c952918aff9cd,pageHeaderEntry,pageFooterEntry,autosizeInfo,shapeInfo,groupingEntry
033ecb2bc07a4d43b5ef94ed5a35d280Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.TableHeaderInfo,
9e210fe47d09416682b841769c78b8a3,
27c87ef9bbda4f709f6b4002fa4af63c,
27c87ef9bbda4f709f6b4002fa4af63c,
27c87ef9bbda4f709f6b4002fa4af63c,
But with lots more lines. When I ran it without the | ft
Name,WhenMailboxCreated, it ran perfectly, but it dumped all information
for the box into the csv, so I’m trying to limit the data I actually get.*
***
I’ve tried a space after the comma (Name, WhenMailboxCreated), and I’ve
also tried fl, instead of ft, but same results.
*From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 19, 2013 11:21 AM
*To:* Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; MS-Exchange Admin Issues
*Subject:* Re: Working a script
$mbx = Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited
$mbx | Where-Object { ($_.WhenCreated).Month -eq 12 -and
($_.WhenCreated).year -eq 2012 }
I tend to stick things in variables to play with afterwards so I don't
have to go back and get the data all over again. Plus it helps me play
with stuff without beating on sources.
The above gets you Month 12, Year 2012.
Add an | Export-CSV -NoTypeInformation c:\reports\exchange_dec_2012.csv
and you get a nice file out of it.
Oh, hey, Sacramento eh? That's local to me :)
Steven Peck
http://www.blkmtn.org
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Damien Solodow
damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote:
Correct. You’d need to amend the where-object to add a
($_.whencreated).year –eq 2012)
DAMIEN SOLODOW
Systems Engineer
317.447.6033 (office)
317.447.6014 (fax)
HARRISON COLLEGE
*From:* Rick Berry [mailto:rbe...@elevativenetworks.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 19, 2013 1:58 PM
*To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: Working a script
I believe that returns all years, if I’m not mistaken. So not just Dec
2012, but 2011 etc etc?
*From:* Campbell, Rob
[mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.netrob_campb...@centraltechnology.net]
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 19, 2013 1:38 PM
*To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: Working a script
Get-Mailbox –Resultsize unlimited
Re: Working a script
On the bright side I just got moved back into the messaging group
(Exchange, Lync) after 2 years and out of a group where one off
scripts were the norm. I also just got told to prep our test environment
for Exchange 2013 and I get to lead it. Yay me.
Steven
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Campbell, Rob
rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net wrote:
And just when you think you have all the possible errors trapped and
reported, you get an email from someone asking for them to be reported in
his native language……..
** **
*From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 19, 2013 5:52 PM
*To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
*Subject:* RE: Working a script
** **
Taking a basic script and turning it into an enterprise-quality script
with operational support is a serious exercise.
** **
I could write a small book on that process. I do not think it has been
adequately covered.
** **
Ask Webster. I’ve beat him roundly about the head-and-shoulders on some of
his scripts and error conditions.
** **
*From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com sep...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 19, 2013 6:30 PM
*To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues
*Subject:* Re: Working a script
** **
Oh , that won't go away for a while, I've been stumbling around poking at
PowerShell for years now but there are lots on this list that do way more
neat looking things. :)
The TechEd video's will really help by the way as will the ones by Ed
Wilson on the bottom of that earlier link. Also the TechNet wiki if you
were unaware has a lot of stuff. Not just on PowerShell but here's the
main PowerShell jump off point.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/183.windows-powershell-survival-guide-en-us.aspx
The 'Scripting Guys' also have the Winter Scripting games coming up in
another month that generally have some fun challenges for both beginners
and experts.
Steven
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov wrote:
Yes, that was it. Thanks Steve J Still learning Powershell here. I am
going to a class at the end of March though, so hopefully I won’t be so
helpless afterwards.
*From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 19, 2013 2:14 PM
*To:* Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; MS-Exchange Admin Issues
*Subject:* Re: Working a script
GAH! No FT. Format-Table is for screen output and making your life hard
in situations like this.
Select-Object
PS:\ $mbx | Where-Object { ($_.WhenCreated).Month -eq 12 -and ($_.
WhenCreated).year -eq 2012 } | Select-Object Name, WhenCreated |
Export-Csv ./testNow.csv -NoTypeInformation
I tested this and the output was good.
http://www.blkmtn.org/TechEd-2012-Videos
Turn PowerShell Commands into Reusable CLI and GUI
Toolshttp://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/WCL404
- that video. although the first is funny enough to watch anyway.
Steven Peck
http://www.blkmtn.org
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife
joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov wrote:
Ok,
So this is what I’m using:
[PS] C:\Windows\system32$mbx | Where-Object
{($_.WhenMailboxCreated).Month -eq 12 -and($_.WhenMailboxCreated).year -eq
2012} | ft Name,WhenMailboxCreated | Export-CSV -NoTypeInformation
c:\Dec_2012_boxes.csv
I already did the $mbx = to set that variable.
When I do this without the | Export-CSV, the display is perfect. But,
when I pipe it to the csv, the csv turns out like the following:
ClassId2e4f51ef21dd47e99d3c952918aff9cd,pageHeaderEntry,pageFooterEntry,autosizeInfo,shapeInfo,groupingEntry
033ecb2bc07a4d43b5ef94ed5a35d280Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.TableHeaderInfo,
9e210fe47d09416682b841769c78b8a3,
27c87ef9bbda4f709f6b4002fa4af63c,
27c87ef9bbda4f709f6b4002fa4af63c,
27c87ef9bbda4f709f6b4002fa4af63c,
But with lots more lines. When I ran it without the | ft
Name,WhenMailboxCreated, it ran perfectly, but it dumped all information
for the box into the csv, so I’m trying to limit the data I actually get.*
***
I’ve tried a space after the comma (Name, WhenMailboxCreated), and I’ve
also tried fl, instead of ft, but same results.
*From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 19, 2013 11:21 AM
*To:* Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; MS-Exchange Admin Issues
*Subject:* Re: Working a script
$mbx = Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited
$mbx | Where-Object { ($_.WhenCreated).Month -eq 12 -and
($_.WhenCreated).year -eq 2012 }
I tend to stick things in variables to play with afterwards so
Re: OT: Dropbox
We just block 'mass storage' sites with web sense. SkyDrive, DropBox, etc. Not sure how effective that actually is but it's something we block. On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I worry a lot, but I can't get a corporate policy against it yet, and it's tough arguing with the executives about it. Kurt On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife joseph.hea...@wildlife.ca.gov wrote: Does anyone worry about allowing corporate users access to a system that allows them to share possible corporate confidential data to the public? -Original Message- From: kz2...@googlemail.com [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 7:39 AM To: Heaton, Joseph@Wildlife; MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: message size limit With the advent of stuff like DropBox I find that this stuff isn't so much of an issue anymore. Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY -Original Message- From: Overly, Gregg gr...@txstate.edu Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:14:30 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issuesexchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Reply-To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.comSubject: RE: message size limit 30MB :-) Gregg Overly Technology Resources - Core Systems Texas State University 1-512-245-6861 gr...@txstate.edu -Original Message- From: Peter Johnson [mailto:johnson.pet...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 8:59 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: message size limit Oddly enough IIRC Microsoft FOPE's limit is 250MB. Sent on the run! On 15 Feb 2013, at 16:40, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.com wrote: 20MB here - but under protest... -Paul -Original Message- From: Steven Alfano [mailto:salf...@mail.rockefeller.edu] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 8:15 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: message size limit We have a request to raise our message size limit to 50 MB for external addresses. I am wondering how may others are able to receive messages of this size? Please consider replying directly to salf...@rockefeller.edu if you do not wish to post a message size limit. I thank you for your feedback. Steven Alfano The Rockefeller University --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
Re: PowerShell?
The Quest AD Cmdlets are a bit more friendly then the MS AD cmdlets. Mostly I suppose cause I am used to them. On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: The ActiveDirectory module was introduced in Server 2008 R2. However, if you do not want a dependency on Server 2008 R2, then that functionality is available via ADSI on Server 2003 and above (and somewhat more trivially on Server 2003 and above using the Quest AD cmdlets – however, those are not suitable for many secure environments). ** ** Lync 2010, as far as I have experienced, is not *completely* exposed via PowerShell. But it is darned close. ** ** There are some things (such as the Topology Builder) that you may execute only once (or very rarely) that are (as far as I know) only exposed via the Lync GUI. ** ** Regards, ** ** Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com ** ** *From:* Ryan Finnesey [mailto:ryan.finne...@harrierinvestments.com] *Sent:* Monday, June 27, 2011 8:16 PM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: PowerShell? ** ** Thank you for the quick reply. Is it the same for AD and things you may run alongside Exchange such as Lync? ** ** Cheers Ryan ** ** ** ** *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] *Sent:* Monday, June 27, 2011 8:10 PM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: PowerShell? ** ** As of exchange 2007 and above. ** ** Regards, ** ** Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com ** ** *From:* Ryan Finnesey [mailto:ryan.finne...@harrierinvestments.com] *Sent:* Monday, June 27, 2011 8:08 PM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* PowerShell? ** ** Quick question to the PowerShell experts on the list. Is it true that I can now do anything I can do within the Exchange Management Tools via PowerShell? ** ** Cheers Ryan ** ** This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
Re: Hotmail?
The random pockets were from when it was ExchangeLabs and volunteers/test subjects got lucky to be included. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 5:28 AM, KevinM kev...@wlkmmas.org wrote: Live@edu also hosts my email along with a hand full of other Microsoft Employees, and all of the email for Exchange team - among some other random pockets. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 7:02 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hotmail? The specific product by that name? Yes. It is the same platform as Office 365 though. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Ryan Finnesey [mailto:ryan.finne...@harrierinvestments.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 12:39 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hotmail? Is Live@EDU just universities? Sent from my Windows Phone -Original Message- From: KevinM Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 12:14 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hotmail? It is getting closer to Exchange.. Live@EDU is up to something like 60,000,000+ mailboxes and it is Exchange, so they can support it finally.. Now it is just a matter of time.. From: messagel...@gmail.com [mailto:messagel...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 10:31 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Cc: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hotmail? Nope it is home grown (says the former Hotmail Operations PM). Kat Aylward On Jun 7, 2011, at 7:12 PM, Ryan Finnesey ryan.finne...@harrierinvestments.commailto: ryan.finne...@harrierinvestments.com wrote: Does anyone happen to know what Microsoft is using to deliver the Hotmail service? Is it Exchange? Cheers Ryan This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto: listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.commailto: listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
Re: Exchange 2003 Powershell help
Depending on how you link it a modification to one I made for our help desk may also give you some ideas. http://www.blkmtn.org/PowerShell-Check-Mailbox Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Todd Lemmiksoo tlemmik...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, I will work on it tonight. On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: I don’t think you can get everything you want from a single source. First, I’ll refer you to a script I wrote: http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/a-script-for-getting-mailbox-sizes-using-wmi-in-powershell.aspx Then a scriptcenter article that displays everything you can get from Exchange_Mailbox: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/fcf4fe8b-2260-4382-aee5-d737f6cb6627 Between the two you should be able to get everything you want. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com *From:* Todd Lemmiksoo [mailto:tlemmik...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, June 08, 2011 5:23 PM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* Exchange 2003 Powershell help I need to produce a report listing all mailboxes with display name, storage group, Mailstore, size, last logged on time, sam account and last logged on by. I can not get the sam account or last logged on by account to be selected for the report. Any help is greatly appreciated. Get-Wmiobject -Namespace root\MicrosoftExchangeV2 -Class Exchange_Mailbox -ComputerName $computer | Sort-Object -Descending MailboxDisplayName | Select-Object MailboxDisplayName,StorageGroupName,StoreName,Size,LastLogonAcount,LastLogonTime | Export-Csv -Path d:\scripts\browning08.csv } -- T. Todd Lemmiksoo --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist -- T. Todd Lemmiksoo --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
Re: Standardizing Signatures
Our company created a document with some rules and templates. They then created some instructions on an internal website and and emailed the instructions and links to everyone. It is now a managment problem. The links are on the 'employee resource' site for future reference. On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Steve Hart sh...@wrightbg.com wrote: We’ve had that same nightmare and I lost the battle. Ugh. *Steve Hart*** Network Administrator 503.491.4343 -Direct | 503.492.8160 - Fax -- *From:* Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] *Sent:* Thursday, June 02, 2011 1:08 PM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* Standardizing Signatures So, A new QA person has decided we need to standardize on sigs. I don’t like using a sig at all, some people here have their own, etc. Any opinions on this? My personal pref would be not to micro manage and leave it alone, but… jlc --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
Re: Recurring meetings
We chose a year because we figured all the people involved in 98% of setting up such meetings would be gone or irritated by them so would make them go away by that point. On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: At one point, the off the record guidance was a year. I honestly don't know if that still holds true or not. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 6:09 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Recurring meetings Is there a maximum recommended amount of time (length of recurrence) to allow for recurring meetings? I know it's recommended to set an end date but is there a recommendation on how far out to allow an end date to be? David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 503.548.5229 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
Re: PS Script to notify when a queue exceeds limit
There is a wealth of PowerShell knowledge out there in the community Free ebook http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/ebook/ http://www.ravichaganti.com/blog/?p=1780utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+RavikanthChaganti+%28Ravikanth+Chaganti%29 Yahoo or Kiffets collection of active community blogs http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=uAmYy9xq3BGHcV361fC6Jw http://kiffets.com/i/PowerShell/d/w/ Virtual user group http://powershellgroup.org/ Code repo - great place to find code samples http://poshcode.org/ IRC - #PowerShell on Freenode Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Campbell, Rob rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net wrote: There’s also the MS Scripting Guy. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter/dd742419.aspx *From:* Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, January 10, 2011 8:47 AM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: PS Script to notify when a queue exceeds limit MBS should write a quick blog entry on his recommendations for learning PowerShell. I bought Don Jones’ PowerShell 2.0 TFM and subscribed to Bruce Payette’s Windows PowerShell in Action book in progress. Both, I believe, on MBS’ recommendation. Webster *From:* Liby Philip Mathew [mailto:lmat...@path-solutions.com] *Subject:* RE: PS Script to notify when a queue exceeds limit Thanks Mike. Got it done. I need to learn power shellL --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist ** Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. ** --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
Re: IE9 beta
Eh? I am on Windows 7 Ultimate and haven't seen that behavior. I do see issues with some javascript heavy sites failing to run properly. Trying to log in to Network Solutions to manage domains for instance will not work. Steven On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Jean-Paul natola jnat...@hotmail.comwrote: It doesnt work accros multiple screens, when i try to drag it to my second screen it gets distorted half screen/ qurter screen, sometimes only the window frame moves but not the content :( -- From: gol...@markettools.com To: exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: IE9 beta Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:47:37 + Seems to work fine with Bes 5 *From:* Eric Woodford [mailto:ericwoodf...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, September 15, 2010 4:06 PM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: IE9 beta Does it work with BES 5.0? I use the web console on my workstation and would hate to lose that functionality. On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Less. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 6:27 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: IE9 beta Does it launch in 1 second like Chrome? -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 2:37 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: IE9 beta Am I the only one that has installed the IE-9 beta? I like the minimalism. Even more minimal than Chrome...it seems to work pretty well with most sites. FB can crash it, though, when not in compatibility mode... Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
Re: Legalities of Unified Messaging
Ask your companies lawyer. This is not something new. There are several companies who have to maintain voicemail / phone records for specific individuals. If it exists, it can be discoverable. Make sure you have an appropriate records retention policy and follow it. If it says you keep something 7 days, then make sure it's gone on day 8. However the one simple answer is, if it's in your users mailbox, then it's most likely discoverable. On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 7:36 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr michealespin...@gmail.com wrote: I dont like to cross-post, but this is something that should be of interest to both lists: From what I am currently being advised about, unified messaging opens a hole of sorts into a subpoena for email being synonymous with voice mail when running a unified messaging platform. Make sense, but is it really a risk? I would *think* that if you are under suspicion enough for a judge to sign-off on a subpoena for email, that voice mail would be just as easy to subpoena too - or something that is included (in terms of electronically stored communications). But, I am being told by members of the local legal community that voice mail is still something that flies under the radar. Whatever the hell that is supposed to mean. Of course, there are no specific offered with this advise, other than multiple lawyers are strongly advising against it. Anyone have any thoughts/comments/experience in this realm? -- ME2 http://www.santeriasys.net/ ~ CounterSpy Enterprise: Editor's Choice WindowsIT Pro Magazine! ~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/CounterSpyEnterprise.cfm ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
Re: l...@edu on SP1; but is it really?
Maybe in process on some? I get a We're upgrading your mailbox on some admin screens on my setup. On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Jason Gurtz jasongu...@npumail.com wrote: My school switched over this summer so I've now got a l...@edu account. That's great of course, compared to the Ex2k3 OWA we were blessed with before. So, it's been said l...@edu is/has been running 2010 w/sp1 for a bit. I'm still not seeing a reading-pane on the bottom option though and I had thought this was a fix that was supposed to be in SP1. So is it not SP1, or did the regression fix not make the cut? ~JasonG --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
Re: iPhone Management
So that PDF, that is Apple's business level support program. Now you've gone and shared it with everyone on the list and they'll be getting the same support we get. Apple doesn't implement enough of the ActiveSync spec to make a usefully managed device. We're using the 'Good' technology, but I am hoping our management will be drawn in by the upcoming Windows Phone 7 and drop the iPones on the ground where I think they belong. Steven On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Knoch, James W james.kn...@intergraph.comwrote: There is some functionality built into iOS4. It does require a device policy that has a URL configured for the device to report back to a “management” server. However, Apple does not build one and it will require a third party or homespun service. I don’t think you’ll see any of these third party servers available that support these extensions until sometime in the fall. Here is a little more information about it: http://images.apple.com/iphone/business/docs/iPhone_MDM.pdf Here are a few products/companies coming out with support: http://www.sybase.com/mobilize/personal-mobile-devices/iphone http://www.zenprise.com/products/mobile-device-management.aspx http://www.mobileiron.com/ As someone else mentioned, Good is another possibility. *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, August 04, 2010 3:54 PM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: iPhone Management HAHAHAHAHAHHA And then: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Finally: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA The iPhone is not a corporate good-citizen. If you want strictly enforced policies and management, you’ll use Blackberry, Windows Mobile, or Good. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Exchange_ActiveSync_Clients Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com *From:* Theochares, George [mailto:gtheocha...@campbell-trial-lawyers.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, August 04, 2010 4:50 PM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* iPhone Management Is it possible to manage an iPhone similar to a Blackberry on a BES?
Re: Server install checklist
And for Install Exchange, maybe note: Install Exchange with slipstreamed sp2 or 3. Then no issues with PowerShell v2 at all. On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Exchange 2007 sp2 and Exchange 2007 sp3 both support PowerShell 2.0. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 8:55 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Server install checklist Because 2007 is built on 1.0. -- Sent using BlackBerry - Original Message - From: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Fri Jul 09 20:41:26 2010 Subject: Re: Server install checklist Why powershell 1.0? Why not 2.0? I have not touched Exchange past 2003, so this is an ignorant question... On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 13:01, Steve Hart sh...@wrightbg.com wrote: I'm going to be installing a new Exchange 2007 server into an existing E2007 org. In the process of refreshing my plan (I haven't done this in a couple of years), I was struck by the absence of a real checklist. I'm not talking the basics that are available on Microsoft's site; I'm thinking of all of the little changes necessary to make an Exchange install function the way we want it. Since many members of the list do this often, I thought maybe we could waste a little Friday afternoon time creating a list of things to do and check. The list I have here is driven by my project, but spinning the thing out more generic is fine too; then it will be more useful to the community at large. Nothing here should be taken as gospel by anyone. I'm a network admin that has Exchange as a small part of my job. Corrections are welcome. Here's my starter for discussion purposes (This is assuming adding an E2007 server to an E2007 org, so the AD prep is done. We're a small company with 60 mailboxes on one server): Install Windows server (64 bit) Patch windows Configure networking w/ Static IP Add server to the domain Configure Page file on C Drive to total RAM + 10MB Install .net 2.0 Install MMC 3.0 Install Powershell 1.0 Install IIS Install Exchange Enter Exchange key Patch Exchange Change IS Store cache time to 15 minutes (to shorten send as change delays) Install RPC over HTTP Proxy for Outlook Anywhere Enable Exchange Powershell scripting Copy all scripts from any existing servers to the local drive for handy use Increase max mailbox size Increase max attachment size Enable deleted item retention Move Exchange logs Move Exchange database Create 2nd database for Spam Quarantine Get 3rd party certs for OWA, OA Install certs Set up certs for CAS Set up ActiveSync Configure additional email domains Create/Modify outside send and receive connectors Create test mailbox in new database, verify mail flow Test Outlook, OWA, Outlook Anywhere, Mac Connectivity... Configure backups Rehome public folders, if used Move Outlook Address Book generation Create inside specialized receive connectors for anything that sends email Multifunction Printers/Scanners Monitoring computers Backup devices Homegrown apps Commercial packages Repoint all internal devices to new email server (see above list) Move mailboxes Redirect NAT rules to point to new box Repoint internal DNS record for mail and autodiscover Stop all services on old server Test for one week Remove public folders from old server Remove mailbox stores from old server Uninstall Exchange from old server Remove old server from the domain Jack and Coke~
Re: Tracking Down Spam Source
Things to do after a successful 'incident'. Reduce attack surface. Make sure your IIS logs are on for your OWA server. Check who uses the services (OWA/ActiveSync) disable for those who are not. User education (be persistent,, while we will all have those special people in our support lives, there are a lot of people that can be educated and will share with their friends and family). Have a reminder email sent out quarterly that no one at your company will ever ask for user name password. Make sure no support or management personal is asking for user name password as sometimes you find out that some people 'claim' it is necessary to not inconvenience people. If so fire them. (dream at least). Add various links to current articles (_cough_ facebook privacy fiasco, etc) as there are always some somewhere. Not everyone will pay attention but enough should to make it worth the few hours a quarter it takes to write it up. Use this incident as a 'teachable moment' for your company. Without identifying who (everyone will know) do a write up about the incident and how and why it worked. If your internal support ask for this information indicate that it stops now. (If we needed access to an account we just change the password and give them a new one, the circumstances for that are so rare that it doesn't matter the user has to reset their password). Re-assure your user community that there was no lost data (no lost data right) merely an unfortunate use as a spam relay. Again stress user and account security. Stress that NO responsible company would ask for this information in any context. Good luck Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Eric Woodford ericwoodf...@gmail.com wrote: With a compromised user account, it is possible that they used active-sync functionality if you have it enabled and open. You may want to check to see what services are effectively open to the Internet and lock down those not specifically used by your clients. Then go a step further and disable the services to those that do not need OWA, ActiveSync, etc.. Do you have IMAP or POP available from the Internet? www.testexchangeconnectivity.com is great for seeing what's available outside. On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 7:58 AM, John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote: Postini did catch the outbound spam. Not at first—apparently a number of messages did get out. But at some point Postini saw that the messages looked fishy, and it started blocking mail from my server. So at that point, we couldn’t get mail to the outside world at all. I think we’re okay for client AV, but in this case that was moot because the spam didn’t originate from a client on our network. As for the firewall… I’ve e-mailed our Cisco guy to talk to him about that—to see if it could/should be doing more. From: Chris [mailto:cmu...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 10:53 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Tracking Down Spam Source 1. How come Postini didn't catch this? That would be my very first question. 2. If it got by Postini, what do you have for unified threat management at the firewall? Might be time to re-evaluate what you are using or how you are using it. 3. Between Postini, your firewall, and a good client side AV package, you should be set. I am against running any AV software on the exchange server as it has a tendency to slow things down. But I am very locked down. Chris On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Eric seag...@gmail.com wrote: We don't have our roles split up, but I am wondering if you have any AV or Anti-Spam software installed on the Exchange servers themselves. We use Exchange AV software on the server itself and then filter incoming and outbound spam at the gateway level. I don't know of any way that Exchange by itself would notice any spam like email being sent with out additional software. On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 7:37 AM, John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote: Mostly we were relying on Postini, which has previously worked fine. But obviously I need to reconsider. :-) Help me flesh this out... The Edge server is the one that would normally catch this, right? The spam in this case was apparently sent to the Client Access server, which runs OWA, using my user's compromised password. I'm thinking that since the Edge server was receiving the mail from the CA server (which it trusts) and from an authenticated user, it would be inclined not to think the messages were spam even though they were. Or is my logic off? Would the Edge server analyze the messages the same way they would messages from unauthenticated users from the outside world, giving no weight to the fact that they come from an authenticated internal user by way of the CA server? -Original Message- From: Oz Casey Dedeal [mailto:telne...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 9:35 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin
Re: Non Email ?
Used PointSec. Piece of garbage. Doing a PoC on Bitlocker for Windows 7. Seriously nicer performance. On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Don Andrews don.andr...@safeway.com wrote: Yep, using Credant Mobile Guardian – and yep, a bit slow at first. I am a user, not implementer so have very few details. From: David.Ricci [mailto:david.ri...@hwinstitute.com] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 1:06 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Non Email ? Since this is the best forum. I could not find a good encryption forum to ask. Has anyone been doing hard drive and media encryption on their laptops? I was trying out GuardianEdge but it seem a little slow. If anyone has any info please send it along David This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or taking any action in reliance on the information contained in this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify our e-mail administrator at supp...@hwinstitute.com.
Re: Auto accept agent on Exchange 2003 failing
Just every month :) On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Damien Solodow damien.solo...@harrison.edu wrote: I did that last night as well as adding a pair of hotfixes (970103, 932182) and it seems to be working ok now. I just wish I knew why it wigged because rebooting the Exchange back-end isn’t something I want to do frequently. J From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 12:02 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Auto accept agent on Exchange 2003 failing Reboot? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Damien Solodow [mailto:damien.solo...@harrison.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 3:32 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Auto accept agent on Exchange 2003 failing Environment is Exchange 2003 SP2 Enterprise on Windows 2003 SP2 Enterprise. I’ve been running the auto-accept agent for a number of months without issue, but the last day or two it’s started throwing errors. I’ve reinstalled it, and reregistered a couple of the mailboxes to no avail. I also tried registering a new mailbox and it behaved the same as the existing ones. Here’s the error in the agent log: AutoAccept:2010-05-13T14:59:00:Thread 178: Exception occurred while processing item file://./backofficestorage/harrison.edu/MBX/6036thconfrmsmall/Inbox/Canceled%3A Test.EML. This item will not be processed. The exception information is: System.OutOfMemoryException: Not enough storage is available to complete this operation. at Private.Interop.Cdoex.ICalendarPart.GetAssociatedItem(String CalendarLocation, String UserName, String Password) at Microsoft.Exchange.Agents.AutoAccept.EventSink.GetAssociatedItem(CalendarMessage calMsg, String calendarLocation) at Microsoft.Exchange.Agents.AutoAccept.EventSink.BindToCalMsg(String msgURL, String calendarLocation, IAppointment inStoreAppt, String calMethod, DateTime deliveryTime) at Microsoft.Exchange.Agents.AutoAccept.EventSink.ProcessOnSaveEvent(String itemUrl, DateTime deliveryTime) at Microsoft.Exchange.Agents.AutoAccept.EventSink.OnSave(IExStoreEventInfo pEventInfo, String bstrURLItem, Int32 lFlags) I’m not seeing anything unusual in the event logs on the Exchange server and nothing new has been installed for at least several days before this problem manifested. Ideas? DAMIEN SOLODOW Systems Engineer 317.217.6881 (office) 317.217.6851 (fax) HARRISON COLLEGE 603 East Washington Street Suite 600 Indianapolis, IN 46204-2646 www.harrison.edu
Re: Meeting appointments in Outlook do not get synchronized on mobile devices
Tell them to pick ONE delegate and only that delegate manages things. The rest are merely there in case that one goes on vacation. There is a KB article on the problems that can occur but the only method we've found is eduction and more education until it sticks. On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Daniele Bartoli danielebart...@gmail.com wrote: We are on Exchange 2003. Anyone found a solution? On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Robert Peterson robert.peter...@prin.edu wrote: I think we have seen this issue too. Occurs with a mailbox with multiple delegates… usually a reoccurring event is changed, an “invitee” sees the change within their Outlook client and OWA, but the change is never seen on their PDA. We are currently on Exchange 2003 Enterprise… hoping Exchange 2010 may clear this issue. What version of Exchange are other’s using that are seeing this problem? Thanks, Robert From: Dan Cooper [mailto:d...@180amsterdam.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 9:02 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Meeting appointments in Outlook do not get synchronized on mobile devices We have, Multiple Delegates using Outlook, managing multiple Bosses most of whom most are on Entourage! and have a mix of smart phones and Iphones. It's a COMPLETE joy to keep on top of! We have huge issues with entourage Database Corruption, Calendar, contact and Email duplication. Its AWSOME! Keeping the last of my hair for Outlook for mac due this year. From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: woensdag 28 april 2010 15:37 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Meeting appointments in Outlook do not get synchronized on mobile devices Yes, good point Dave, I concur with you on that. Delegates on calendars can wreck havoc for your users. On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:44 AM, David Lum david@nwea.org wrote: We see similar meeting request weirdness, in our case 100% of the time it's exec's who 1) have delegates handle their meetings requests AND 2) use one machine in the office, another laptop to travel with, and at least one smartphone. Most of the time it's recurring appointments, but not always. It seems the other times it's a meetign that is alter modified by somebody. We have 300-ish users, the only ones seeing calednar weirdness are execs and their assistants who manage their meetings, etc. Dave From: Sherry Abercrombie [saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 3:54 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Meeting appointments in Outlook do not get synchronized on mobile devices What kind of meeting is it? Recurring? There is an issue with recurring appointments on mobile devices, especially iPhones, with recurring appts that have no ending date. Give it an end date of less than 2yrs. But in my experience, appointments and mobile devices don't always sync and generally are flaky. On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Daniele Bartoli danielebart...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone seen this? User Bob goes and creates a meeting request on their desktop in Microsoft Outlook. The recipient receives and accepts the meeting request. The recipient later decides to look for this meeting on their mobile device; it is not there. Further, if the recipient logs onto OWA to review this meeting in question, it is corrupted and can't be viewed. This is a random problem. A first we suspected it was an Apple iPhone issue, however this is also happening with Microsoft mobile devices. Any suggestions? -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke DISCLAIMER 4/28/2010 This communication is intended only for use by MS-Exchange Admin Issues. It may contain confidential or privileged information. If you receive this communication unintentionally, please inform us immediately. Thank you. 180 has registered companies in the United States and in the Netherlands. 180 Los Angeles LLC . (180) 1424 Second Street, Suite 200 and 300, Santa Monica, California 90401, is registered with the trade register in the US in Delaware under file number 4260284 and the corporation's FEIN is 20-5982098. 180 Amsterdam BV (180) Herengracht 506, 1017 CB, Amsterdam is registered with the trade register in the Netherlands under number 34253037 and VAT number NL8161.54.673.B.01. The content of this communications is not legally binding unless confirmed by letter or telefax. Please note that 180 is neither liable for the proper transmission nor for the complete transmission of the information contained in this communication or for any delay in its receipt. Also please note that the confidentiality of email communication is not warranted. All services and other work provided by 180 are subject to
Re: Anyone know of hosted remote support
http://showmypc.com/ -- pretty much win. My dad and sister can do it right when they need my assitance. Haven't tried it but looks intriguing http://connect.microsoft.com/content/content.aspx?ContentID=6415SiteID=94 Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:33 PM, justino garcia jgarciaitl...@gmail.com wrote: will do On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:55 PM, josh.t...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I misunderstood the question..have you checked out teamviewer? I would consider it pretty cheap for what you get. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: jgarciaitl...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 01:51:44 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issuesexchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: Anyone know of hosted remote support How did you deploy over nat? --Original Message-- From: josh.t...@sbcglobal.net To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues ReplyTo: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone know of hosted remote support Sent: Apr 16, 2010 9:48 PM Tightvnc or ultravnc worked ok for us. --Original Message-- From: jgarciaitl...@gmail.com To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues ReplyTo: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Anyone know of hosted remote support Sent: Apr 16, 2010 8:46 PM We would like something like remote desktop and logmein but cheap and would allow us to remote to clients pc or offer support. Maybe something opensource ?? Any ideas Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -- Justin IT-TECH
Re: powershell/.NET question
Just an aside.
Brandon Shell (PowerShell MVP)has a nice PowerShell module that has a
test-port cmdlet in it that works nicely. He indicated it was meant
to fill the gaps for Systems Engineers between Quests AD cmlets and
the build in PowerShell cmdlets.
http://bsonposh.com/
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/bsonposh
Steven Peck.
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote:
Close.
Foreach($comp in get-qadcomputer){
$srvname = $comp.name
if((test-port $srvname -verbose)){
$key =
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\windowsupdate
blah, blah, blah
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Bill Egan [mailto:william.e...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 4:53 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: powershell/.NET question
ok, further showing my ignorance, how do I call that function. I'm trying:
Foreach($comp in get-qadcomputer){
$srvname = $comp.name
if(test-port $srvname=$true){
$key =
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\windowsupdate
blah, blah, blah
and it does not seem to be working, though i am not getting errors...
thanks,
bill
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Campbell, Rob
rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net wrote:
This may help with testing for RPC availability.
function Test-Port{
Param([string]$srv,$port=135,$timeout=1000,[switch]$verbose)
$ErrorActionPreference = SilentlyContinue
$tcpclient = new-Object system.Net.Sockets.TcpClient
$iar = $tcpclient.BeginConnect($srv,$port,$null,$null)
$wait = $iar.AsyncWaitHandle.WaitOne($timeout,$false)
if(!$wait)
{
$tcpclient.Close()
if($verbose){Write-Host Connection Timeout}
Return $false
}
else
{
$error.Clear()
$tcpclient.EndConnect($iar) | out-Null
if($error[0]){if($verbose){write-host $error[0]};$failed =
$true}
$tcpclient.Close()
}
if($failed){return $false}else{return $true} }
-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 2:51 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: powershell/.NET question
WellI don't think you can actually do that. But there are actually two
potential issues. One you've identified and I'll give you a script to help
with that. The other is that a firewall is running and blocking RPC. I can't
much help you with that one, except to tell you that it can be controlled
via group policy. Here is how you execute a ping in PowerShell to alleviate
the first issue. (You'll need to remove the log statements or substitute
your own logging infrastructure.) This works in v1 or v2 of PowerShell.
function test-ping ([string]$server)
{
[string]$routine = test-ping:
trap
{
# we should only get here if the New-Object fails.
log $routine Cannot create
System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping for $server.
return $false
}
$ping = New-Object System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping
if ($ping)
{
trap
[System.Management.Automation.MethodInvocationException]
{
log $routine Invalid hostname specified (cannot
resolve $server).
return $false
}
for ($i = 0; $i -lt 5; $i++)
{
$rslt = $ping.Send($server)
if ($rslt -and ($rslt.Status -eq
[System.Net.NetworkInformation.IPStatus]::Success))
{
log $routine Can ping $server. $routine
successful on attempt $i.
$ping = $null
return $true
}
sleep -seconds 1
}
$ping = $null
}
log $routine Cannot ping $server. $routine failed after 5 attempts.
return $false
}
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Bill Egan [mailto:william.e...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 3:30 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: OT: powershell/.NET question
Sorry for the off topic post, but since many of you are powershell whizzes,
I thought I'd give it a try. And forgive my inefficient code...
So I am trying to put together a script to get the value of a registry
key for every computer in the domain - this case the WSUS susclientid
- and have come up with this (after plagiarizing the connection to remote
registry with the .NET object):
++
$erroractionpreference = SilentlyContinue
Write-Host Server
Re: powershell/.NET question
I just steal snippets. His module is all v2 compatible and not
compiled so swiping out code is easy.
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote:
I know Brandon and he does lots of good stuff.
The problem is that many (but not most) of my clients don't allow me to
import third party products onto their servers. This is a common issue.
Therefore, individual freeware is most handy.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 6:17 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: powershell/.NET question
Just an aside.
Brandon Shell (PowerShell MVP)has a nice PowerShell module that has a
test-port cmdlet in it that works nicely. He indicated it was meant to fill
the gaps for Systems Engineers between Quests AD cmlets and the build in
PowerShell cmdlets.
http://bsonposh.com/
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/bsonposh
Steven Peck.
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com
wrote:
Close.
Foreach($comp in get-qadcomputer){
$srvname = $comp.name
if((test-port $srvname -verbose)){
$key =
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\windowsupdate
blah, blah, blah
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Bill Egan [mailto:william.e...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 4:53 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: powershell/.NET question
ok, further showing my ignorance, how do I call that function. I'm trying:
Foreach($comp in get-qadcomputer){
$srvname = $comp.name
if(test-port $srvname=$true){
$key =
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\windowsupdate
blah, blah, blah
and it does not seem to be working, though i am not getting errors...
thanks,
bill
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Campbell, Rob
rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net wrote:
This may help with testing for RPC availability.
function Test-Port{
Param([string]$srv,$port=135,$timeout=1000,[switch]$verbose)
$ErrorActionPreference = SilentlyContinue
$tcpclient = new-Object system.Net.Sockets.TcpClient
$iar = $tcpclient.BeginConnect($srv,$port,$null,$null)
$wait = $iar.AsyncWaitHandle.WaitOne($timeout,$false)
if(!$wait)
{
$tcpclient.Close()
if($verbose){Write-Host Connection Timeout}
Return $false
}
else
{
$error.Clear()
$tcpclient.EndConnect($iar) | out-Null
if($error[0]){if($verbose){write-host $error[0]};$failed =
$true}
$tcpclient.Close()
}
if($failed){return $false}else{return $true} }
-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 2:51 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: powershell/.NET question
WellI don't think you can actually do that. But there are actually two
potential issues. One you've identified and I'll give you a script to help
with that. The other is that a firewall is running and blocking RPC. I
can't much help you with that one, except to tell you that it can be
controlled via group policy. Here is how you execute a ping in PowerShell
to alleviate the first issue. (You'll need to remove the log statements
or substitute your own logging infrastructure.) This works in v1 or v2 of
PowerShell.
function test-ping ([string]$server)
{
[string]$routine = test-ping:
trap
{
# we should only get here if the New-Object fails.
log $routine Cannot create
System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping for $server.
return $false
}
$ping = New-Object System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping
if ($ping)
{
trap
[System.Management.Automation.MethodInvocationException]
{
log $routine Invalid hostname specified (cannot
resolve $server).
return $false
}
for ($i = 0; $i -lt 5; $i++)
{
$rslt = $ping.Send($server)
if ($rslt -and ($rslt.Status -eq
[System.Net.NetworkInformation.IPStatus]::Success))
{
log $routine Can ping $server. $routine
successful on attempt $i.
$ping = $null
return $true
}
sleep -seconds 1
}
$ping = $null
}
log $routine Cannot ping $server. $routine failed after 5 attempts.
return $false
}
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
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Re: Power Shell/Exchange Management Shell 2007 Book - Learn start to finish
For free and a good overview to PowerShell is http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/ebook/default.aspx On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Carol Fee c...@massbar.org wrote: Thank you MSB and all. *CFee* *From:* Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] *Sent:* Wednesday, April 14, 2010 12:34 PM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Power Shell/Exchange Management Shell 2007 Book - Learn start to finish I wouldn’t say that there is one. Ilse’s book (which was otherwise recommended) is good – but it’s not a basic PowerShell introduction. And while I recommend it too – it’s got some holes in it (notably, it doesn’t cover the *-ExchangeCertificate cmdlets). But it’s a good book. You should also look at “Active Directory Cookbook, 3rd Edition” by Laura Hunter and “Active Directory, 4th Edition” by Brian Desmond. They both have sections on PowerShell and Exchange (obligatory comment: I tech-reviewed them, so I’m a little biased). For in-depth PowerShell, I’m recommending “PowerShell in Action, 2ndEdition” (Payette), but it isn’t a basic text. For introductory stuff, probably “PowerShell TFM” (Jones/Hicks). Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com *From:* Carol Fee [mailto:c...@massbar.org] *Sent:* Wednesday, April 14, 2010 11:57 AM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* Power Shell/Exchange Management Shell 2007 Book - Learn start to finish It seems to me this has been asked and answered, but I can’t find anything in the archives. TIA * -- * *Carol Fee* Network Administrator 617-338-0623 c...@massbar.org * Massachusetts Bar Association* 20 West Street Boston, MA 02111-1204 (617) 338-0500 image001.gif
Functional Domain level and migrations
So I seem to remember seeing an email touch on this(or a maybe domain functional) in the last few weeks but my list search fu is failing me and I am rebuilding my work system as well. We have an existing Exchange 2003 to Exchnage 2007 migration starting and the AD guys want to change the forest functional level to 2008. I have recently read about OCS ahs some caveats I need to go review (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982020) but don't remember clearly the discussion on the Exchange side Thanks, Steven
Re: Functional Domain level and migrations
That's what I figured. Unfortunatly we have a horible disconnect with our AD guys. I will look for some documentation on it. Thanks On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Easy: don't do it. Stabilize at Server 2003 (for DFL and FFL) until your migration is finished. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 5:07 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Functional Domain level and migrations So I seem to remember seeing an email touch on this(or a maybe domain functional) in the last few weeks but my list search fu is failing me and I am rebuilding my work system as well. We have an existing Exchange 2003 to Exchnage 2007 migration starting and the AD guys want to change the forest functional level to 2008. I have recently read about OCS ahs some caveats I need to go review (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982020) but don't remember clearly the discussion on the Exchange side Thanks, Steven
Re: Anybody heard of these guys?
The 3cx system has a link to voip to phone line products on their web pages. THey will even let you on their forums for tfree community support in getting it running. It was recommended to me as a nice way to test PBX/OCS2007 integration testing in my home lab as well and it was nice for that. It's a pretty nice looking little product in that it also runs on Windows and I don't need to go pay attention to a linux box. Just normal Windows stuff. I seriously considered getting one of those hardware boxes and just running it as my main home setup for fun. :) Been a while since I fired up my test environment though. On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Chris Drobny cdro...@lmsintellibound.com wrote: I love my shoretel system. Very easy to use. Chris Drobny Network/Systems Administrator LMS Intellibound, Inc. cdro...@lmsintellibound.com 770.724.0562 office 404.797.9710 cell -Original Message- From: Patti Cavlovic [mailto:pcavlo...@qwestcenter.com] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 10:40 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anybody heard of these guys? I am doing the same thing right now - shopping for an VoIP system. Have seen the Shoretel and worked with Cisco a few years back. I am also getting a lot of calls from the Alcatel-Lucent guys. Would love to hear feedback on any of these. -Original Message- From: Dennis Melahn [mailto:den...@advancedav.com] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 8:20 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anybody heard of these guys? I'm currently shopping for an IP solution. ShoreTel may be the way I go eventually but I have a local fellow trying to sell me Asterisk PBX on Linux. Asterisk also sells every flavor of digium telephony interface card to connect your home grown PBX server to the public switched network. Dennis Melahn IT Director Advanced Audio Visual
Re: OUTLOOK IS RETREIVING DATA MESSAGE
How many of your users recently downloaded a cool indexing program or plugin (Xnobi) and are now indexing on their non-cached mode mailboxes? There is a user profile tool you can use to collect stats on the Exchange server and hunt these people down. If you have not deliberately changed anything recently then you are looking at a user behavior change. Most likely search tools beating your server to death. Your biggest 'free' bang for your buck will be cached mode (remembering not to allow PSTs or OSTs on afile share). Something I wrote up a few years ago on mitigation (not solutions, just mitigation). Note: This was written a few years ago and may not apply to Outlook 2007. http://www.blkmtn.org/outlook-settings-and-considerations On a wild guess I would look at Disk I/O first though. Steven On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Jason Gurtz jasongu...@npumail.com wrote: I've only ever seen this myself in three cases from cached mode OL2k3, 2k7, and 2k10 against Ex2k3: 1.) [Over a VPN] While the client is catching up 2.) [On the LAN] Briefly, after rebooting Exchange and everyone is re-attaching 3.) [On the LAN] Migrating a user from PST storage to Mailbox on the server while OL is creating the OST. This points to two root causes: 1.) Network connection with high latency and low bandwidth 2.) Overloaded Exchange server (Disk I/O request latency) Yea, our server is sucking wind. I can only assume that non-cached mode would worsen those situations. That's my bet, ~JasonG -Original Message- From: Murray Freeman [mailto:mfree...@alanet.org] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 14:59 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: [MARKETING] OUTLOOK IS RETREIVING DATA MESSAGE First, we're running Exchange Server 2K3 on Windows Server 2K3 and using Outlook 2K3 as the client. Several of my users are getting the Outlook is retreiving data message along with slowness and occassionally a white screen. Any ideas as to the cause? It hasn't happened to me, but it has happened to another administrator. The rest of our users are restricted users. Murray Freeman IT Manager Association of Legal Administrators 75 Tri-State International Suite 222 Lincolnshire, IL 60069-4435 847.267.1252 TEL 847.267.1329 FAX 847.267.1367 DIRECT mfree...@alanet.org www.alanet.org Your connection to knowledge, resources and networking
Re: OUTLOOK IS RETREIVING DATA MESSAGE
It's ExMon and it's the ones who are using the most memory on your servers. Particularly if their spikes in memory usage appear on a schedule. Granted this is a few years ago, but BlackBerry shows up as a different client. But every high memory usage user I had listed was discovered to be using the then new Google Desktop Search. Switch to cached mode and it localizes their impact to their own system. Remember we are talking about user behavior and people like 'neat stuff' and they like to encourage others to also use 'neat stuff'. I don't know if that's your issue but if you've made no changes, haven't grown suddenly then it's most likely a user behavior change or your systems were at the edge already and some component just went over it. In our case, we knew it was our SAN and they way it was laid out. We mitigated on user stuff until there was no other option but for Storage to own it and finally give us real dedicated space. Steven On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Harry Singh hbo...@gmail.com wrote: Is the user profile tool Exmon? In case it's not, would love to know what you use.. And if it turns out to be Exmon, which setting/metric/colummn screams user-plugin/search toolbar installed? Harry. On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: How many of your users recently downloaded a cool indexing program or plugin (Xnobi) and are now indexing on their non-cached mode mailboxes? There is a user profile tool you can use to collect stats on the Exchange server and hunt these people down. If you have not deliberately changed anything recently then you are looking at a user behavior change. Most likely search tools beating your server to death. Your biggest 'free' bang for your buck will be cached mode (remembering not to allow PSTs or OSTs on afile share). Something I wrote up a few years ago on mitigation (not solutions, just mitigation). Note: This was written a few years ago and may not apply to Outlook 2007. http://www.blkmtn.org/outlook-settings-and-considerations On a wild guess I would look at Disk I/O first though. Steven On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Jason Gurtz jasongu...@npumail.com wrote: I've only ever seen this myself in three cases from cached mode OL2k3, 2k7, and 2k10 against Ex2k3: 1.) [Over a VPN] While the client is catching up 2.) [On the LAN] Briefly, after rebooting Exchange and everyone is re-attaching 3.) [On the LAN] Migrating a user from PST storage to Mailbox on the server while OL is creating the OST. This points to two root causes: 1.) Network connection with high latency and low bandwidth 2.) Overloaded Exchange server (Disk I/O request latency) Yea, our server is sucking wind. I can only assume that non-cached mode would worsen those situations. That's my bet, ~JasonG -Original Message- From: Murray Freeman [mailto:mfree...@alanet.org] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 14:59 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: [MARKETING] OUTLOOK IS RETREIVING DATA MESSAGE First, we're running Exchange Server 2K3 on Windows Server 2K3 and using Outlook 2K3 as the client. Several of my users are getting the Outlook is retreiving data message along with slowness and occassionally a white screen. Any ideas as to the cause? It hasn't happened to me, but it has happened to another administrator. The rest of our users are restricted users. Murray Freeman IT Manager Association of Legal Administrators 75 Tri-State International Suite 222 Lincolnshire, IL 60069-4435 847.267.1252 TEL 847.267.1329 FAX 847.267.1367 DIRECT mfree...@alanet.org www.alanet.org Your connection to knowledge, resources and networking
Re: Mobile Smart Phones/Exchange 2003
We evaluated the iPhone last year. The security sucked and our security guy hacked it over wireless. With Exchange 2003 you cannot enforce device level encryption (mandatory for our environment). The newest update for the iPhone is supposed to enhance device security. Still cannot mandate device encryption with Exchange 2003 (2007 migration on track). Good came out with a package that provides a 'manageable' secured area in the iPhone that meets our 'security' requirements. PoC testing had a lot of crashes. Didn't matter. It met the 'letter' of our policy and the next week the software licenses were ordered for the select who now have their iPhones getting their Exchange mail. Steven On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Barsodi.John john.bars...@igt.com wrote: While I completely agree with the view of the iPhone. Reality is that users and “the business” want the iPhone to be used. That’s where companies like GOOD and Sybase come into play. I just went through all this myself, evaluating iPhone + EAS vs. iPhone + 3rd party vendor, etc. Identifying security issues, etc. Our Security team did a complete risk assessment. If it’s the will and direction of business, you have to state the risks, allow management/”the business” to evaluate and potentially accept the risk and mitigate what you can. Needless to say, we’re a BB shop, allowing WinMo via EAS, looking at bringing a 3rd party vendor for iPhone and potentially Android and webOS. I’m pushing to get our WinMo moved over to the 3rd party solution as well. To the OP question, we are looking at GOOD Messaging for our 3rd party product solution to manage everything besides BB. I can’t comment on pricing because every company’s scenario is unique and deals are tailored as such. If you run a BB shop, the pricing won’t be surprising at all. Thanks, JB *From:* Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] *Sent:* Thursday, February 18, 2010 11:46 AM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Mobile Smart Phones/Exchange 2003 Can I get an Amen? AMEN! *From:* Don Andrews [mailto:don.andr...@safeway.com] *Sent:* Thursday, February 18, 2010 1:02 PM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Mobile Smart Phones/Exchange 2003 ‘zactly – [ picturing a guy with an iPhone in one hand and a BlackBerry in the other – looks at the iPhone, says this is a toy – looks at the BlackBerry says this is a tool ] – we don’t want toys in the toolbox ;). -- *From:* Jon D [mailto:rekcahp...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, February 18, 2010 10:58 AM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: Mobile Smart Phones/Exchange 2003 I've started researching allowing iphones for my network. Currently we're a blackberry shop. Based on my current research, iPhone security is a complete, 110%, joke. Encryption, password, etc are apparently easily bypassed. It seems that for places like our military, congress, etc, they only allow blackberrys and iphones running 'good' software. On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Don Andrews don.andr...@safeway.com wrote: We ran an extended test of Good several years ago with “good” results – eventually it was decided to limit company smart phones to Blackberry – partly due to the cost of additional server required to gain intranet access with Good – subsequently a policy was implemented that NO personally owned communications devices would be allowed to connect in any way. -- *From:* Bill Lambert [mailto:blamb...@concuity.com] *Sent:* Thursday, February 18, 2010 7:29 AM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* Mobile Smart Phones/Exchange 2003 Do any of you use a 3rd party solution to manage smart phones connecting to your exchange 2003 server (other than Blackberry Enterprise server)? If so, can you comment on your success with it and what pricing was like? Thanks! *Bill Lambert* *Windows System Administrator* *Concuity* *A healthcare division of Trintech, Inc. * *Phone 847-941-9206* *Fax 847-465-9147* *[image: clip_image001]* *NASDAQ: TTPA* *The information contained in this e-mail message, including any attached files, is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the recipient) you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. Thank you. * image001.gif
Re: DL Creation Requirements/policy
If it's a legitimate business unit or cross unit team that needs to communicate then they can have a list. We chat with them first. We tend to use a specified format. The use of # as the first character indicates distribution list. Most are set to not accept email from outside the internal exchange system. No personal names in distribution list titles. We also have three types, location, business unit and systems management based. Not actual names but examples would be; Location: #CA - Building A Used primarily for location specific announcements Business '#Claims - All', '#Claims - Management' '#Sales - East Coast' Notification '#SM - groupname' (used for notification and automation products, can contain contacts/pagers, not generally used fo regular email communications) We tend to minimize the location based one where possible for a business unit based one. We also 'help' guide the requester to a name in line but it's to help with consistency more then anything else. Lists are not created for personal use, they are groupings that will be used by the company. While not always possible we try and nest lists. '#Sales - All' has '#Sales - East Coast' and '#Sales - West Coast' in it. We do not manage the majority of the lists memberships. We are not that group. We do not generally know who should or should not be on it, so our support center will help you request membership from an owner. It's there for a business reason. So every list has an owner. Generally it's the requesting person. It also has in the General tab Notes field a backup owner name. We used to send an email to list owners once a year requesting assurance that it was still in use and needed and pruned accordingly. I am not so sure that is done anymore as I am not involved in day to day operations right now. We have about 1000 distribution lists. The email system predates me so we do have some sprawl which we try and contain, mitigate or 'make go away' when opportunity presents itself. We have several thousand people in multiple locations across the US. We have absorbed various separate companies and have had to accommodate various local business cultures into the overall enterprise structure. It's not always as pretty and logical as we would like but so far it seems to work for our business customers. Steven On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Barsodi.John john.bars...@igt.com wrote: Curious what other groups out there have as guidelines and boundaries for DL creation and controlling DL sprawl? Do you have standards for naming conventions? For Example – if a manager wants a DL for his staff of 10, and wants it named “John’s Staff” do you accommodate or recommend they use a local contact DL? Mind you we have thousands of Employees worldwide, so “John’s Staff” existing in the GAL seems a bit odd to me. Thanks, JB
Re: DL Creation Requirements/policy
(Trying again because Lryis rejected me) If it's a legitimate business unit or cross unit team that needs to communicate then they can have a list. We chat with them first. We tend to use a specified format. The use of # as the first character indicates distribution list. Most are set to not accept email from outside the internal exchange system. No personal names in distribution list titles. We also have three types, location, business unit and systems management based. Not actual names but examples would be; Location: #CA - Building A Used primarily for location specific announcements Business '#Claims - All', '#Claims - Management' '#Sales - East Coast' Notification '#SM - groupname' (used for notification and automation products, can contain contacts/pagers, not generally used fo regular email communications) We tend to minimize the location based one where possible for a business unit based one. We also 'help' guide the requester to a name in line but it's to help with consistency more then anything else. Lists are not created for personal use, they are groupings that will be used by the company. While not always possible we try and nest lists. '#Sales - All' has '#Sales - East Coast' and '#Sales - West Coast' in it. We do not manage the majority of the lists memberships. We are not that group. We do not generally know who should or should not be on it, so our support center will help you request membership from an owner. It's there for a business reason. So every list has an owner. Generally it's the requesting person. It also has in the General tab Notes field a backup owner name. We used to send an email to list owners once a year requesting assurance that it was still in use and needed and pruned accordingly. I am not so sure that is done anymore as I am not involved in day to day operations right now. We have about 1000 distribution lists. The email system predates me so we do have some sprawl which we try and contain, mitigate or 'make go away' when opportunity presents itself. We have several thousand people in multiple locations across the US. We have absorbed various separate companies and have had to accommodate various local business cultures into the overall enterprise structure. It's not always as pretty and logical as we would like but so far it seems to work for our business customers. Steven On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Barsodi.John john.bars...@igt.com wrote: Curious what other groups out there have as guidelines and boundaries for DL creation and controlling DL sprawl? Do you have standards for naming conventions? For Example – if a manager wants a DL for his staff of 10, and wants it named “John’s Staff” do you accommodate or recommend they use a local contact DL? Mind you we have thousands of Employees worldwide, so “John’s Staff” existing in the GAL seems a bit odd to me. Thanks, JB
Re: Good Messaging App for iPhone
We disallow iPhones because we cannot control device encryption. Someone found the Good stuff so now we have to build out a test server. On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Barsodi.John john.bars...@igt.com wrote: Sweet found it. They might be getting a call from me after our risk analysis of smartphone meeting in 3 hours. J “ Over-the-air data transmissions and enterprise data at rest on the iPhone are secured with industry-standard AES encryption.” Thanks, JB From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 7:54 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Good Messaging App for iPhone Check out the link called Good for Enterprise™ Architecture and Security http://www.good.com/resources#tabs-2 From: Barsodi.John [mailto:john.bars...@igt.com] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 9:51 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Good Messaging App for iPhone Their approach to the iPhone sounds very similar to Sybase’s. Basically a sandbox of corporate data, which, IMHO, is the way to go when blending personal devices into Enterprise environments. I checked the data sheet, I don’t see anything talking about the data at rest encryption. Do you have any stats on that? Thanks, JB From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 7:33 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Good Messaging App for iPhone I know Good Messaging by Motorola is often left in the dark compared to EAS and BES, but I have been using their product for about 5 years and I have nothing bad to say about them. There has been complaints of the security of the iPhone on this list. This should help alleviate many, if not all of them. http://www.good.com/iphone/ http://www.good.com/enterprise/mobile-messaging I have no affiliation to Good or Motorola. Sam Cayze Information Technology Administrator ROLLOUTS ONSITE • ON DEMAND LinkedIn Profile Facebook Profile
Re: Good Messaging App for iPhone
Nope. Though shall not allow the possibility of PHI data to enter the cloud as it may not be in our control. Ever. We are large enough that we will be hosting it ourselves. No cloud here. The main reason senior management hasn't just arbitrarily told us to allow their specific iPhones already is that tenuous bit about unsecured data. Our security team was so annoyed by one of the advocates yipping, that they live hacked his iPhone over it's wireless connection as part of their 'evaluation' of it's security. Management decided to 'wait' until a suitable solution presented itself. On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Sam Cayze sam.ca...@rollouts.com wrote: I think a good way to test it is with a hosted provider... -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 11:01 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Good Messaging App for iPhone We disallow iPhones because we cannot control device encryption. Someone found the Good stuff so now we have to build out a test server. On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Barsodi.John john.bars...@igt.com wrote: Sweet found it. They might be getting a call from me after our risk analysis of smartphone meeting in 3 hours. J Over-the-air data transmissions and enterprise data at rest on the iPhone are secured with industry-standard AES encryption. Thanks, JB From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 7:54 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Good Messaging App for iPhone Check out the link called Good for Enterprise(tm) Architecture and Security http://www.good.com/resources#tabs-2 From: Barsodi.John [mailto:john.bars...@igt.com] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 9:51 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Good Messaging App for iPhone Their approach to the iPhone sounds very similar to Sybase's. Basically a sandbox of corporate data, which, IMHO, is the way to go when blending personal devices into Enterprise environments. I checked the data sheet, I don't see anything talking about the data at rest encryption. Do you have any stats on that? Thanks, JB From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 7:33 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Good Messaging App for iPhone I know Good Messaging by Motorola is often left in the dark compared to EAS and BES, but I have been using their product for about 5 years and I have nothing bad to say about them. There has been complaints of the security of the iPhone on this list. This should help alleviate many, if not all of them. http://www.good.com/iphone/ http://www.good.com/enterprise/mobile-messaging I have no affiliation to Good or Motorola. Sam Cayze Information Technology Administrator ROLLOUTS ONSITE * ON DEMAND LinkedIn Profile Facebook Profile
Re: Insert company logo in email?
If your environment is more then a hundred or so users, I would strongly suggest staying as far as possible from Policy Patrol. Unless they have managed to come up with support engineers that actually know what they are doing in the last few years. They managed to get themselves on my 'do not even consider list'. On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Axcess Administrator ad...@axcess.us wrote: Steve: We use Policy Patrol from Red Earth Software, not too expensive, and has some great features, including configuring both a HTML/RTF and TXT format disclaimer. Not to mention all the built in rules for compliancy, attorney client communications, etc... Works with Exchange 2003/2007 and I believe they are testing 2010 right now. http://www.redearthsoftware.com Regards, Jim Restucci Axcess Internet® From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 06:38 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Insert company logo in email? I'll be using the Vipre email security to do this (formerly known as Ninja). Not free, but it definitely is value added antispam. On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:35 AM, David Mazzaccaro david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com wrote: Exchange 2003 / Outlook 2003 I have been asked to find out what is involved in inserting our company logo at the bottom of all outgoing emails. We use Outlook w/ Rich Text (we do not allow HTML email per a GPO) IIRC, there was a free program… GF something… that could do this? Or maybe it only did disclosures (text)? Obviously, I could send out instructions to have everyone manually edit their signatures to add the logo… but I'd rather have it automated. Thx
Re: Exchange and Yahoo Desktop
See what happens if you force them to cached mode. The CRM app may or may not work at that point. If it does and it hammers the locally cached data, then you reduce IO n the Exchange server. On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks. That is what I used to identify the suspect users causing abnormal MAPI operations. I don't have the details in front of me, but a large majority of them were flagged as failed MAPI Find Row operations. I have a feeling CRM may have something to do with it as that is the only commonality between the users identified. - Sean On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote: exmon can help with user identification. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb508855(EXCHG.65).aspx http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Microsoft-Exchange-Server-User-Monitor.html Xobni should be ok as long as the user is in cached mode. On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: I tracked down a similar issue to users that had installed Xobni without permission. Those instances were causing MAPI session errors ( exceeded the maximum of 500 objects of type objtFolder ). Didn't take long to get that app uninstalled. Still trying to track down the cause of other users with unusual RPC activity. It's a never ending battle! - Sean On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:58 AM, mqcarp mqcarpen...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone allow this tool on their network? I have some serious RPC latency going on and I think it is from these users. I am running Exmon now to review it but wanted to see if anyone has seen this before. EXCH03
Re: Exchange and Yahoo Desktop
exmon can help with user identification. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb508855(EXCHG.65).aspx http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Microsoft-Exchange-Server-User-Monitor.html Xobni should be ok as long as the user is in cached mode. On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote: I tracked down a similar issue to users that had installed Xobni without permission. Those instances were causing MAPI session errors ( exceeded the maximum of 500 objects of type objtFolder ). Didn't take long to get that app uninstalled. Still trying to track down the cause of other users with unusual RPC activity. It's a never ending battle! - Sean On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 8:58 AM, mqcarp mqcarpen...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone allow this tool on their network? I have some serious RPC latency going on and I think it is from these users. I am running Exmon now to review it but wanted to see if anyone has seen this before. EXCH03
Re: Outsourcing Discussion
Outsourcing is done for a lot of reasons. I have seen it done as a result of battles between executives because internal IT was not competent (or did not have good management to give them the tools the needed) and the outsource was to provide competent people. After a while the management tide turned and the stuff was all insourced again. I tend to believe that insouring is a good thing when you reach a certain size and that outsourcing is a risk but it's also not my money and there are many different strategies around. Outsourcing isn't just to 'them foreners' as the tone of someprevious threads have seemed to center on. Outsourcing can be to IBM glbal services, SAIC, temp agencies, all sorts of things. However onto a more specific example. My first full time IT job was part of a large scale (outsouced) effort to migrate desktops from DOS/Banyon Vines to WIndows NT3.51. This transitioned into desktop support. The way the contract was written was to essentially eliminate most of us over several years. I worked for a company called Entex and we worked onsite at Intel. Every desktop ticket was required (supposed) to have detailed remediation steps and the TAC (Call center) would roll this into knowledge base articles. TACs goal was to reduce dispatch to desktop calls. TAC would meet under a VP and they would go through the largest volume category tickets and do whatthey could to eliminate dispatches and make improvements to their processes. This took many years as the kb was built and the remote tools improved. Eventually a large portion of people were transistioned to laptops and system ivnetory tools were such that if you lost your system, one could drop off a new one and visit a website which would then automatically load all youur licensed applications back on in a few hours. I left before this was finished but I understand it worked well. So, this was a case of a targeted outsource to achieve a long term business goal with less human resource risk to the company. As the goals were met, they were able to pay the outsourced company less and let them deal with who to get rid of (ahem, let go). Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.com wrote: Guys and gals, I've returned to college this fall after about 15 years to finally finish up a degree I started on about 25 years ago. One of my classes this semester is Macro Economics. Last night my professor gave us an essay question for a test next Monday that is potentially 50% or more of our test grade. The topic is on outsourcing and I wanted to toss this out for discussion, input, personal experiences etc etc. The questions I have to answer are: What is the economic justification given for outsourcing? Where is the outsourcing taking place? (Obviously, I'm focusing on the IT field, specifically technical support) What types of jobs are these workers performing? What is the benefit to the business? To foreign workers? I talked with my professor and told her what approach I wanted to take, from the end user perspective, and that I had experienced the tech support being outsourced. She liked that idea a lot. Obviously, I will be looking for other news articles to support my essay. What I'm looking for is thoughts, opinions, personal experiences from an end user perspective, has anyone here been outsourced? What was that like? I'm just taking an informal poll from a group of my peers that I know has had personal experience in some way with this subject. Try to keep it on topic, I did get Stu's OK before sending this, so a big Thanks Stu for the use of these lists to help with my exam. -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke Sent from Haltom City, TX, United States
Re: [OT] I'm back...
Crap, that site fell of my list when I migrated systems. Thanks for the reminder. What software? That would be cool. On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Michael B. Smithmich...@owa.smithcons.com wrote: Microsoft. The Scripting Guys forum. I use a piece of beta software that makes it work like a mailing list. From: Campbell, Rob [rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 12:04 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] I'm back... Who’s running a powershell list? From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 11:01 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] I'm back... Pfft. I'm not omnipotent, not by far. In fact, I got major egg on my face on a powershell list on Monday. But I like how you are thinking. From: John Cook [john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 11:49 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] I'm back... Everyone is instructed to repost their unanswered questions so Mikey can prove his omnipotence. As opposed to impotence which I’m sure Shookie or SC will allude to. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I, A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 11:38 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] I'm back... Hah. So which ones are those? :-) From: John Cook [john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 11:24 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: [OT] I'm back... I figured you were just really busy…..now please respond to the backlog of unanswered questions so we can get some work done! ;-) John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I, A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 11:24 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: [OT] I'm back... On July 7th, I disappeared from this list and NTSysAdmin and ADAdmin... And no-one checked in on me! sniff Anyway, I've been reading messages and replying, and finally last week I noticed that no-one was replying to my responses! Lyris was dropping me on the floor... I contacted our friends at Sunbelt and apparently they pushed a button or turned a knob and now I'm back. Wheee! Let the games return!
Re: how to get rid of phantom exchange server in ESM ?
Call Microsoft and have them help you with deleting it out of ADSIEdit. That was the end solution for me a few years ago. I REALLY suggest you do this with MS PSS on the phone. ADSIEdit Configuration container Services Microsoft Exchange At a guess, from dim, hazy memory, you want to look at the Connections container, but I think there is another spot or two you need to validate as well. Spend the ~$300 on the PSS call. Steven On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Kat Collinsmessagel...@gmail.com wrote: Similar problem, removed the ghost user but I still have this server listed as a member of the routing group in System Manager. It will not delete, so I cannot remove the server... any other bright ideas? On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Erik Goldoff egold...@gmail.com wrote: Hell, if that were any more obvious, it would bite me in the a$$ ! Thanks for the tip ... Found one user in an obscure container ... This client is a law firm with about 6 variations of partnership containers ... THANKS Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 1:23 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: how to get rid of phantom exchange server in ESM ? Fire up ADUC and add collums to the view and add 'Exchange Mailbox Store'. Then look around, you will find user or two that are assigned to that server. Happens with service accounts or other accounts that are copied and someone assigns them a mailbox but they never get email and never log into it. So you don't see the mailbox in ESM...but AD thinks it is there. Right click the offending account and remove Exchange Attributes. -Original Message- From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 1:15 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: how to get rid of phantom exchange server in ESM ? The server serverold cannot be removed because: -One or more users currently use a mailbox store on this server. These users must be moved to a mailbox store on a different serve or be mail disabled before uninstallting this server Doesn't say which user(s) ... And to everyone's best recollection at this client, this old server never was an exchange server, only had the exchange administrator installed on it. -- Kat Collins - Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift - that's why they call it the present. I enjoy the massacre of ads. This sentence will slaughter ads without a messy bloodbath. The Email of the species is more powerful than the Mail!
Re: Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Mobile Administration Web Tool install
I wish. We are not. On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Maglinger, Paulpmaglin...@scvl.com wrote: Are you using an ISA server? -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 6:49 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Mobile Administration Web Tool install We just turned on the ActiveSync. Enabled the user (We disable ActiveSync on all users in our environment) and they plugged in our owa server. This is for Exchange 2003. No special setup needed. Steven On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Sherry Abercrombiesaber...@gmail.com wrote: Check out Daniel Petri's site, he's got some great step by step how to setup ActiveSync stuff that should get you going on this. Sorry, I'm at home and don't have the link saved on this computer. I used the information from his site to finally get my Exchange 2003 server setup for OWA/Active Sync. It's the IIS stuff needing to be separate sites IIRC. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.com wrote: I appreciate the input and will pass it on, but more than likely it will be ignored. Bottom line is that I still need to set this up. Can anyone give me their thoughts on the original post. -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 4:49 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Mobile Administration Web Tool install We tested them because we 'had to'. The chief proponent of this was bragging about how he was going to get it approved. Because his iPhone was part of the test, our security guy had his iPhone hacked when it connected to the wireless LAN. They added this example/demo as part of their commentary on iPhone suitability and security in our environment. End result: We do not allow iPhones Caveat: We have to answer to HIPAA. As there is limited/no real case law on violations, no one wants to be the case that is quoted as a foundation decision for the next 25 years. Steven Peck On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Maglinger, Paulpmaglin...@scvl.com wrote: Yeah, like that's going to work. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 4:32 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Mobile Administration Web Tool install The following is not terribly helpful, but I just can't help myself. I'm working on banning iPhones in my environment: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/07/iphone-encryption/ http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/07/new-iphone-hardware-encryption-not-even-close-to-hack-proof.ars http://wikee.iphwn.org/howto:iphones_at_defcon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wS3AMbXRLs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHdNoKIZUCw If you value your org's data, don't allow iPhones to connect.They might be great personal tools, but given the current state of their security, I would not put any data on them that I wanted to keep private. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 14:09, Maglinger, Paulpmaglin...@scvl.com wrote: We're struggling with implementing iPhones into our environment. We have set up an ISA server and when we try testing from https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/ for ActiveSync using SSL authentication, we get this: Testing Exchange Activesync for host https://telstar.scvl.com/Microsoft-Server-Activesync/ Exchange Activesync test Failed Test Steps Attempting to Resolve the host name telstar.scvl.com in DNS. Host successfully Resolved Additional Details IP(s) returned: 12.156.139.141 Testing TCP Port 443 on host telstar.scvl.com to ensure it is listening/open. The port was opened successfully. Testing SSL Certificate for validity. The SSL Certificate failed one or more certificate validation checks. Test Steps Validating certificate name Successfully validated the certificate name Additional Details Found hostname telstar.scvl.com in Certificate Subject Common name Validating certificate trust for Windows Mobile Devices Certificate trust validation failed Tell me more about this issue and how to resolve it Additional Details The certificate chain did not end in a trusted root. Root = CN=StartCom Certification Authority, OU=Secure Digital Certificate Signing, O=StartCom Ltd., C=IL Okay, so I understand the SSL portion of this is failing. This free certificate was obtained from Startcom Ltd., which was mentioned in this article http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/SSL-Enabling-OWA-2003-Using-Free-3rd Party-Certificate.html . Okay now... Let me write this out and see if I've gotten this right. We have our Exchange server on the inside of our firewall. We have our ISA server between the Exchange server and the iPhone. We need two
Re: Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Mobile Administration Web Tool install
We tested them because we 'had to'. The chief proponent of this was bragging about how he was going to get it approved. Because his iPhone was part of the test, our security guy had his iPhone hacked when it connected to the wireless LAN. They added this example/demo as part of their commentary on iPhone suitability and security in our environment. End result: We do not allow iPhones Caveat: We have to answer to HIPAA. As there is limited/no real case law on violations, no one wants to be the case that is quoted as a foundation decision for the next 25 years. Steven Peck On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Maglinger, Paulpmaglin...@scvl.com wrote: Yeah, like that's going to work. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 4:32 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Mobile Administration Web Tool install The following is not terribly helpful, but I just can't help myself. I'm working on banning iPhones in my environment: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/07/iphone-encryption/ http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/07/new-iphone-hardware-encryption-not-even-close-to-hack-proof.ars http://wikee.iphwn.org/howto:iphones_at_defcon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wS3AMbXRLs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHdNoKIZUCw If you value your org's data, don't allow iPhones to connect.They might be great personal tools, but given the current state of their security, I would not put any data on them that I wanted to keep private. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 14:09, Maglinger, Paulpmaglin...@scvl.com wrote: We're struggling with implementing iPhones into our environment. We have set up an ISA server and when we try testing from https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/ for ActiveSync using SSL authentication, we get this: Testing Exchange Activesync for host https://telstar.scvl.com/Microsoft-Server-Activesync/ Exchange Activesync test Failed Test Steps Attempting to Resolve the host name telstar.scvl.com in DNS. Host successfully Resolved Additional Details IP(s) returned: 12.156.139.141 Testing TCP Port 443 on host telstar.scvl.com to ensure it is listening/open. The port was opened successfully. Testing SSL Certificate for validity. The SSL Certificate failed one or more certificate validation checks. Test Steps Validating certificate name Successfully validated the certificate name Additional Details Found hostname telstar.scvl.com in Certificate Subject Common name Validating certificate trust for Windows Mobile Devices Certificate trust validation failed Tell me more about this issue and how to resolve it Additional Details The certificate chain did not end in a trusted root. Root = CN=StartCom Certification Authority, OU=Secure Digital Certificate Signing, O=StartCom Ltd., C=IL Okay, so I understand the SSL portion of this is failing. This free certificate was obtained from Startcom Ltd., which was mentioned in this article http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/SSL-Enabling-OWA-2003-Using-Free-3rd Party-Certificate.html . Okay now... Let me write this out and see if I've gotten this right. We have our Exchange server on the inside of our firewall. We have our ISA server between the Exchange server and the iPhone. We need two certificates. One certificate will be generated by our internal CA and will used between the Exchange server and the ISA server. The other certificate is public and goes between the ISA server and the iPhone. Now... Is it necessary for the ISA server to mimic the FQDN of our internal mail server? If so, then we generate a certificate from our mail server and use it to obtain the SSL certificate from the provider, then import that certificate on the ISA server. If it is not necessary and we generate the certificate from the ISA server itself and use it, as long as the the name of the ISA server and the name the client points to is the same as what's in DNS, that's all that matters, right? And ActiveSync should be part of the ISA server because that is what the client is going to hit rather than be installed on the internal Exchange server. - Paul
Re: Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Mobile Administration Web Tool install
We just turned on the ActiveSync. Enabled the user (We disable ActiveSync on all users in our environment) and they plugged in our owa server. This is for Exchange 2003. No special setup needed. Steven On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Sherry Abercrombiesaber...@gmail.com wrote: Check out Daniel Petri's site, he's got some great step by step how to setup ActiveSync stuff that should get you going on this. Sorry, I'm at home and don't have the link saved on this computer. I used the information from his site to finally get my Exchange 2003 server setup for OWA/Active Sync. It's the IIS stuff needing to be separate sites IIRC. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.com wrote: I appreciate the input and will pass it on, but more than likely it will be ignored. Bottom line is that I still need to set this up. Can anyone give me their thoughts on the original post. -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 4:49 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Mobile Administration Web Tool install We tested them because we 'had to'. The chief proponent of this was bragging about how he was going to get it approved. Because his iPhone was part of the test, our security guy had his iPhone hacked when it connected to the wireless LAN. They added this example/demo as part of their commentary on iPhone suitability and security in our environment. End result: We do not allow iPhones Caveat: We have to answer to HIPAA. As there is limited/no real case law on violations, no one wants to be the case that is quoted as a foundation decision for the next 25 years. Steven Peck On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Maglinger, Paulpmaglin...@scvl.com wrote: Yeah, like that's going to work. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 4:32 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Mobile Administration Web Tool install The following is not terribly helpful, but I just can't help myself. I'm working on banning iPhones in my environment: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/07/iphone-encryption/ http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/07/new-iphone-hardware-encryption-not-even-close-to-hack-proof.ars http://wikee.iphwn.org/howto:iphones_at_defcon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wS3AMbXRLs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHdNoKIZUCw If you value your org's data, don't allow iPhones to connect.They might be great personal tools, but given the current state of their security, I would not put any data on them that I wanted to keep private. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 14:09, Maglinger, Paulpmaglin...@scvl.com wrote: We're struggling with implementing iPhones into our environment. We have set up an ISA server and when we try testing from https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/ for ActiveSync using SSL authentication, we get this: Testing Exchange Activesync for host https://telstar.scvl.com/Microsoft-Server-Activesync/ Exchange Activesync test Failed Test Steps Attempting to Resolve the host name telstar.scvl.com in DNS. Host successfully Resolved Additional Details IP(s) returned: 12.156.139.141 Testing TCP Port 443 on host telstar.scvl.com to ensure it is listening/open. The port was opened successfully. Testing SSL Certificate for validity. The SSL Certificate failed one or more certificate validation checks. Test Steps Validating certificate name Successfully validated the certificate name Additional Details Found hostname telstar.scvl.com in Certificate Subject Common name Validating certificate trust for Windows Mobile Devices Certificate trust validation failed Tell me more about this issue and how to resolve it Additional Details The certificate chain did not end in a trusted root. Root = CN=StartCom Certification Authority, OU=Secure Digital Certificate Signing, O=StartCom Ltd., C=IL Okay, so I understand the SSL portion of this is failing. This free certificate was obtained from Startcom Ltd., which was mentioned in this article http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/SSL-Enabling-OWA-2003-Using-Free-3rd Party-Certificate.html . Okay now... Let me write this out and see if I've gotten this right. We have our Exchange server on the inside of our firewall. We have our ISA server between the Exchange server and the iPhone. We need two certificates. One certificate will be generated by our internal CA and will used between the Exchange server and the ISA server. The other certificate is public and goes between the ISA server and the iPhone. Now... Is it necessary for the ISA server to mimic the FQDN of our internal mail server? If so, then we generate a certificate from our mail
Re: Microsoft Supporting VMWare Exchange Servers Work Around
We still have premier support. However, we have many products that are 'not supported' running in VMware. Generally when this comes up, they say that, I point out best effort support, they go ok and we work it out. Now, we have one issue which has been identified as a vmware driver issue but other then that they always try and resolve the issue. As to 'getting out of' being discovered? Good luck with that. Any troubleshooting dump will show you are running on vmware just with the drivers alone. Steven On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Mayo, Shayshay.m...@absg.com wrote: Hey, Exchange 2007 on Windows 2003 SP2 in VMWARE. Long story short, our company decided to save a few bucks and not renew our premier support with Microsoft. We now have professional support and have recently found that Microsoft will no longer support our 12 Exchange 2007 servers because we are running them on Windows 2003 in VMWARE. They said they would support us if we were running Windows 2008 in VMWARE, which is frustrating but anyway…. The way they always have busted us is about an hour into the call, they say lets run the Best Practice Analyzer which then pops up and says Exchange 2007 on Windows 2003 in VMWARE is not supported and then the tech is like “Sorry wish I could help you”… My question is, does anyone have a trick to getting around this? Maybe some way to disable this in BPA….? Thanks Shay CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE. This electronic mail transmission may contain privileged and/or confidential information and is intended only for the review of the party to whom it is addressed. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately return it to the sender, delete it and destroy it without reading it. Unintended transmission shall not constitute the waiver of the attorney-client or any other privilege.
Re: Anyone remember Exchange 5.5...???
If you used an account migration tool and it kept SID History on accounts, and someone recently removed SID History from various accounts poof. Just a random thought. And I am so so sorry to hear about your Exchange 5.5 still working.. sort of. Steven On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Michael Tellsonmicha...@colonialsavings.com wrote: If an account on an ACL is listed by the SID and not the Domain\Username format, that doesn’t necessarily indicate a trust relationship is broken. It could also indicate that an account from the same domain was added to the ACL then later deleted from the domain. One way to determine this is to compare the SID of the object in question with the SID of another object in the domain. All objects in the same domain will have the same SID up to the last hyphen. From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gor...@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 9:23 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone remember Exchange 5.5...??? My first thought is that even if you can look at the ACL on the recipients container object, - which you may well be able to do in Raw Mode – if the trust to the remote domain is broken, you likely won’t be able to enumerate the account you’re interested in to a domain\username format – you may well only be able to list it out as SID reference... – I will add though, that it’s been quite a few years since I last played with EX5.5 so my recollection of administering it has faded somewhat! HTH Paul G. From: Cardwell, Dick (IT Solutions UK) [mailto:dick.cardw...@siemens.com] Sent: 10 August 2009 14:41 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Anyone remember Exchange 5.5...??? Hi Folks, I have a legacy Exchange 5.5 system ( long story don't ask..!!) which at some point in time has had additional permissions set on the Recipients container. Looks like at least one of the accounts used is through a trust, which is now broken. Unfortunately Exchange Admin will not let me see to which domain the trust is broken and therefore I'm stuck. Anyone have any bight ideas how I can list out the permissions on the Recipients container either from a directory export or the command line? TIA, Dick Cardwell No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.45/2284 - Release Date: 08/09/09 18:10:00
Re: A good Powershell IDE and/or addons?
I have to second PowerShell Plus the awesomest editors around. Wish they would get it for me at work. I use PrimalScript 2007 from Sapien. It's ok. Notepad++ with PowerShell syntax highlighting added in for quick edits. I find the built in editor in PowerGUI to be painfully slow. I also find the GUI logic behind PowerGUI to not suit the way I use PowerShell. Your mileage and experience may certainly be different. I use Quest AD Cmdlets and the VMware ones. CodePlex is a solid resource. Whether a set of cmdlets is of use to you is what will really determine it's value, that said I've often wished for the PowerGadgets one. To follow some various blogs you can hit up this Yahoo Pipe maintained by the guy who wrote PowerBoots and many other high level obscure PowerShell usage posts http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=uAmYy9xq3BGHcV361fC6Jw Also, don't forget about the Scripting Games this year http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/funzone/games/games09/announcement.mspx Steven On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Eric Woodford ericwoodf...@gmail.com wrote: Personally I love PowerShellPlus (@$145/user). http://www.idera.com/Products/PowerShell/PowerShell-Plus/ for add-on's, I use this for Exchange '07 and have the 'free!' Quest http://www.quest.com/powershell/activeroles-server.aspx as it has several AD cmdlets. On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Leedy, Andy ale...@butlerahs.com wrote: I use Powershell pretty extensively with Exchange 2007, monitoring and email alerts. I’m looking for some beneficial tools or addons to Powershell. I’m not sure what others are using but I mainly have just been using notepad to write scripts. I’m sure a good IDE would save some time. I’ve tried PowerGUI and it’s ok, but I would like to someone a little better. 1) What’s the best Powershell IDE (free or payware)? 2) Is there any addons worthy of use? I’m considering purchasing “Power Gadgets”. Thanks, Andy Leedy ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Exchange Migration
Not sure on the ultimate issue but you should turn the stupid smtp fix-up off anyway. One 'posible' factor (long shot, probably not) is that you may have had an issue disguised by time. In other words, something in the rules or routing was done to solve the issue but when you moved the ip address it broke the fix. Cisco's smtp-fixup is based off the older rfc821 and not the newer 2821 (or whatever the newer one is 5321(?)). It only has rules for HELO and not the EHLO command set. This will have a negative effect on your mail flow if you have size restrictions on mail and people try and send your organization large attachments. Steven On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Fancher, William wfanc...@invention-machine.com wrote: This past weekend we successfully moved our Exchange 2K3 on Win2K to a new more robust Win2K3 box. We used the swing method as recommended by forum members and the movement went very well. A few minor hiccups but all in all very smooth. One thing confuses me however. After the migration we were forced to turn off SMTP fixup on the Pix firewall in order to stabilize the connection to our child domain. The confusion on my part exists because the fixup was set on port 25 prior to the migration and Exchange version did not change. Can anyone shed some light on why now? I understand what issues the fixup might create but again what triggered the issue? Thanks Bill William S. Fancher IT Specialist Invention Machine Corporation 800 Boylston Street Suite 3900E Boston, MA 02199 617-305-9250 ext 3306 voice 617-305-9255 fax wfanc...@invention-machine.com ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: patching exchange 2003
Also, if you are using BES or any other applications that interface with Exchange, make sure you patch those as well. If your BES server cdo.dll (?) are not the same version or higher you will have issues. Make sure anyone running the admin tools are also patches. Steven On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Eldridge, Dave d...@parkviewmc.com wrote: The 2003 R2 server OS is sp1 and looks like it hasn’t had any patches done in a year. Ouch! Patching the server OS is a no brainer but I am looking for any Exchange rollups patches that I can find. If permitted by your situation, Microsoft Update[1] can be used to identify needed patches, and optionally install them. [1] http://update.microsoft.com Otherwise, go to the TechNet bulletin list[2], pick your product and version, and you'll get a list of bulletins. Click through to each bulletin and get the download. [2] http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspx -- Ben ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: mailbox login auditing
Enabling more logging will put it in the event log. It will also circle your event logs faster then anything. They 'make us' do that here which we find hilarious because we don't have the means to ship event logs off the Exchange servers. If I run one of my data gathering scripts it will cycle the event log in 2-4 hours too. If you want to save log files then you will need to ship your logs off the server with a log manager product or script setup. Even then those logs will be fairly useless unless you manually build quires to mine the data you gathered. Even then I am betting it will not tell you what they want to know for the most part (this is a guess). Before you do any of that though, what does your company think it will accomplish by enabling logging? What does it actually want to accomplish? A lot of the things you enable aren't related to security but performance. How many TB of space is your company will to spend on storage for this? Is this so important that they need you to halt Exchange services if the log system fails? I'd get them to define the actual thing they want more specifically upfront. Steven On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Chad Spurley chad.spur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, I have somewhat large (around 1500 active users) Exchange 2003 environment where the company wants to enable maximum logging for all mailbox logins and public folder access. Throwing this in a testlab, it's putting between 4 and 5 entries into the event log everytime Outlook, OWA, Active-Sync, etc are logged into. I don't think that's viable, just from a volume standpoint. Has anyone used any other products to accomplish the logging without putting it into the event log? Thanks, Chad ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Out of Touch for Next week
Yes congratulations and welcome to the wonderful of baby gas medicine (more important then you will ever know) and teething tablets. Steven On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 5:44 AM, Cameron Cooper ccoo...@aurico.com wrote: Congrats an on the addition to your family! _ Cameron Cooper IT Director - CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021 Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com From: gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 12:00 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Out of Touch for Next week Just thought I would reach out and let you know that I am not ignoring anyone intentionally but you will not be able to reach me for the next week or so. For those that are not aware, Aprile and I experienced the birth of our first son, Shepherd Alan Sweers, at 7 lbs 6 ozs, and 21.5 inches. Mommy is doing great, and both of us are near exhaustion; her more so than me but loving all of it. If there are any issues that need attention please contact our support line at 813-657-0849. I will not be returning voicemails or emails until the end of next week. We thank you for your prayers, support and understanding. If you want to see pictures, I have posted them on Yes..facebook. Since we block that at most of your sites, you will just need to be productive at work and thank me that you will not spend an hour wasting time looking at all of the photos that I am taking.. J Greg Sweers ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: OT: Happy Birthday Wishes to Michael B. Smith
Teach me to take a few days off work. Happy Belated wishes Micheal. I suppose I should dig up my facebook account since it seems all the range and the economy sucks so much :) On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: OT: Happy Birthday Wishes to Michael B. Smith Gasp! What happens on Facebook, stays on Facebook! Leave it to Sherry to break the rules. Man, those Texans think they can get away with anything. Webster ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: favorite phone
Two things on the iPhone. Some people need as much as 2 months before the typing becomes 'intuitive'. Those friends I know who have and love it agree with that time frame for their transition. If I were looking for a new phone, I would seriously consider it for my personal phone and am considering it for when my wife's phone is up for renewal. Our internal corporate advocate who tried to get our security to sign off on approving it despite the lack of device encryption got really pushy and irritated the security department. They then proceeded to live hack the iPhone through it's ip address on our network. Currently the iPhone remains on the 'not approved' list for our environment. Steven On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:01 AM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: I kind of like to just record meetings and file them away. My BB does an excellent job and at about 8 min to 1Mb space it's simple enough to email them to myself or anyone else that missed the meeting. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+ -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 11:31 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: favorite phone I have used an iPhone also, and I have tons of friends who use them. They all brag on them until they see my Fuze and then they suddenly get jealous. It is thicker due to the real keyboard, but if you use it for business purposes (RDP, email, document reading/editing/creating) having that real keyboard is a must. Trying to take notes in a business meeting on an iPhone's keyboard really doesn't work. TVK -Original Message- From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 7:34 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: favorite phone I've already made a few iPhone users jealous with my Touch Pro (same thing as a fuze). Keyboard too small? Smaller then the keyboard on an iPhone? Doesnt the fuze have the slide out keyboard? I like the slide out keyboard but I find the touch screen one to be the same as the one on the iPhone. Also the touch screen is the same as the iPhones. I used both but for work purposes I need Win Mobile. On 3/5/09, Gene Giannamore gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com wrote: User already has the htc fuze from att. Keyboard is too small, too many pop-ups while typing, touch screen is flakey (does not work consistently). Probably just give him one of the extra 1st gen iphones we have to play with for now, until I find something better. Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577 Office (707) 935-9387 Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abidein ternational.com From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 3:03 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: favorite phone As something to use instead of an iPhone go with the Fuze. Awesome phone with a touch-screen and slide out keyboard. Does everything the OP asks and much more. TVK From: Don Andrews [mailto:don.andr...@safeway.com] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 4:59 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: favorite phone BB 9000 (aka Bold) - on BES - BB browser slowly getting better but still not IE - yes to voice dialing though I don't use it. (this is for work of course) From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 2:45 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: OT: favorite phone We are looking at iphone alternatives. I was just wondering what your favorite phone is, especially for accessing exchange email, contacts, calendar, and browsing the web. Also does the phone have voice dialing? Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577 Office (707) 935-9387 Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell gene.giannam...@abideinternational.commailto:gene.giannam...@abidein ternational.com ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ -- Sent from my mobile device ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam
Re: OOF's was RE: Can some one remove me from this list?
In outlook, I used to have a rule. When receive message from [whatever list] move to folder and Stop Processing more rules. This seemed to have prevented me from sending out corporate required OOOs. Steven On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:47 AM, John Cook john.c...@pfsf.org wrote: Don't think it works on 2007. If it's 2003 here's a nice little add-on that helps http://www.ivasoft.biz/selectiveoof.shtml John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell�� (352) 215-6944 Fa� (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+ -Original Message- From: Steve Moffat [mailto:st...@optimum.bm] On Behalf Of Exchange (Sunbelt) Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 1:43 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: OOF's was RE: Can some one remove me from this list? http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=825370 That works with 2003, nfi if it works with 2007 S -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 2:28 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: OOF's was RE: Can some one remove me from this list? I don't know who's defining this particular best practice, but I can tell you that the overwhelming majority of companies I do business with do it the way I do it. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 1:07 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: OOF's was RE: Can some one remove me from this list? The blame falls on you, for not following best business practices. On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 09:01, John Hornbuckle john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us wrote: I don't want a second mailbox, but OOOs need to go to people who send me messages regardless of whether they're in my contact list. I know this issue has come up before... Where exactly does the fault lie with this issue? Is Exchange doing things wrong? Or is Lyris? Or is this just how SMTP is designed, and there really is no blame? -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 11:45 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: OOF's was RE: Can some one remove me from this list? Second mailbox for yourself, subscribe to lists with that. Or Outlook 2007 and have the out of organization messages sent only to those in your contact list if that works for you..it is in the OOO setup area of Outlook 2007. -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 11:32 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Can some one remove me from this list? But I don't want to do that; external users need to know when I'm out of the office. -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 10:30 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Can some one remove me from this list? Exchange 2007 with Outlook 2007 makes it very easy. There are separate Out Of Office settings for internal vs. external. Just don't turn on OOO for external users. TVK -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 5:54 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Can some one remove me from this list? Guilty! But in all fairness, doesn't Exchange 2007 make it a bit tougher to prevent this than 2003 did? I seem to recall that 2003 had a registry hack for minimizing this, but 2007 doesn't have this. Plus, this distribution list could be configured such that those notices don't get sent to the list. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 9:35 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Can some one remove me from this list? On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Sobey, Richard A r.so...@imperial.ac.uk wrote: And looking at the title of this list, you'd probably need a modicum of knowledge about email + mailing lists before subscribing :) ��½ You'd think so, but then you'd look at the flurry of out-of-office notices one gets when posting around the holidays. -- Ben ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ��
Re: Size of email displayed incorrectly within Outlook
Embedded graphics? Encoding? I've never seen a size inaccuracy of that discrepancy. On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:32 AM, chipsh...@comcast.net wrote: Exchange 2003 SP2 with Outlook 2003 SP2. Within Outlook, an email is displayed as having a size of 47 MB. Opening the email reveals an attachment of 11 MB and 9 MB and six lines of HTML text. This is obviously wildly inaccurate ... Possibly not. Outlook sometimes has wildly bloated email storage requirements. I've seen supposedly short HTML messages contain several hundred lines of crap, especially when using Word as editor. You've got to worry about BASE64 encoding overhead for your attachments: 20 MB of binary attachments will encode to about 26 MB in ASCII BASE64. If this is within your Exchange org, Exchange may be storing a copy of the message in both the MAPI and streaming files; I'm not sure how that effects size tracking/limits. And from other traffic on this list, it sounds like Outlook 2007 might have brought back Microsoft's odd-ball WIN.DAT attachments. All this speculation on my part might not apply or be outright wrong, but the moral is, message size can be more than what you think. -- Ben ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: iPhone
We are a health care insurance company covered by HIPAA. One of our policies is that any and all mobile computing devices that have the potential to covered information on it have full device encryption. We have 'some people' pushing to allow the iPhone in the organization. Those 'some people' had enough pull to get a proof of concept going. At the end, it had many short comings for a company covered by HIPAA. Lack of device encryption was the most glaring and why our security department said no. When 'some people' insisted, our security department hacked (on the network) the test phone used during the proof of concept. I am not sure what the end use decision will be but so far, it remains on the not approved list. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Kevin Lundy klu...@gmail.com wrote: Seeing as you are a health care org, don't forget to address any HIPAA requirements (which applies whether it's an iPhone, Blackberry, or Windows Mobile device) On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Paul Everett evere...@leementalhealth.org wrote: We have Exchange 2003 and our CEO is getting an iPhone. Do I need an SSL Certificate to use Active Sync? I understand that there are some connectivity issues using an iPhone with Exchange, but are there any issues that can't be overcome, or that I should be aware of that could be a major pain? Thanks, Paul Everett IS Dept. Lee Mental Health Center 239-791-1551 Lee Mental Health Center, Inc. providing services through Ruth Cooper Center for Behavioral Health Care and VISTA Behavioral Crisis Services. Visit our website at www.leementalhealth.org to learn more. 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, including attachments. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: iPhone
Yep. I understand the newer Windows Mobile devices have this as well depending on how much of the ActiveSync specification, in conjunction with Exchange 2007sp1, they have implemented but we didn't get to test those. The iPhone has one implemented about 6(?) of the full specification. From a support perspective on standardization and policies, I am very happy they are not making the supported list here. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Paul Everett evere...@leementalhealth.org wrote: Can you list some phones that have full device encryption? Pretty much any BlackBerry made within the past five years. Along with the ability to remotely manage, upgrade, restrict, disable, and/or wipe the device. -- Ben ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: iPhone
The iPhone implementation doesn't have full device encryption. As it doesn't implement that part of the ActiveSync specification, you can apply all the policies you want, the device will not be encrypted. http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid40_gci1324084,00.html On using the Apple policy tool. Still no device encryption and it is user based for the most part. You must rely on your users to actively participate and even then it looked to be a significant non-integrated additional administrative overhead. Steven On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:29 AM, May, Jeff j...@bbandt.com wrote: I would recommend looking at the apple configuration utility for some added security options for the iPhone. Nice feature that will add on to the little bit of built in Exchange security available with Exchange…. From: Eric Woodford [mailto:ericwoodf...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 2:15 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: iPhone Steven, you might check into pushing for Exch 2007. We've setup the encryption policy on our Exch 2007 via activesync policy. I am not sure it encrypted the device, but it did force down a password policy to the iPhone. I know the one user who got the policy hated it and decided to take himself off activesync. One time, he maxed out on the # of password attempts, it wiped his device, OS and all. On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Paul Everett evere...@leementalhealth.org wrote: Can you list some phones that have full device encryption? -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 11:39 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: iPhone We are a health care insurance company covered by HIPAA. One of our policies is that any and all mobile computing devices that have the potential to covered information on it have full device encryption. We have 'some people' pushing to allow the iPhone in the organization. Those 'some people' had enough pull to get a proof of concept going. At the end, it had many short comings for a company covered by HIPAA. Lack of device encryption was the most glaring and why our security department said no. When 'some people' insisted, our security department hacked (on the network) the test phone used during the proof of concept. I am not sure what the end use decision will be but so far, it remains on the not approved list. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Kevin Lundy klu...@gmail.com wrote: Seeing as you are a health care org, don't forget to address any HIPAA requirements (which applies whether it's an iPhone, Blackberry, or Windows Mobile device) On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Paul Everett evere...@leementalhealth.org wrote: We have Exchange 2003 and our CEO is getting an iPhone. Do I need an SSL Certificate to use Active Sync? I understand that there are some connectivity issues using an iPhone with Exchange, but are there any issues that can't be overcome, or that I should be aware of that could be a major pain? Thanks, Paul Everett IS Dept. Lee Mental Health Center 239-791-1551 Lee Mental Health Center, Inc. providing services through Ruth Cooper Center for Behavioral Health Care and VISTA Behavioral Crisis Services. Visit our website at www.leementalhealth.org to learn more. 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, including attachments. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Moved mailbox to new server problem.
Where does message tracking say the messages are going? Are the users getting any bounce backs? If yes, what are the errors? On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Rick rcorg...@techworksnet.com wrote: Greetings, I am in the process of trying to migrate mailboxes from an old Win2003 / Exch 2003 server that needs to be retired to an new installation on newer hardware. The new server is running Win 2003 and Exch 2003. It is completely patched up with the latest from Microsoft. We also have CRM 4.0 in the our environment with CRM Router installed on the old server. I have been able to move mailboxes to the new server using the Exchange Task Wizard. I see the mailboxes in Exchange System Manager under Mailboxes and also see under Logons that the users have access them. The touble is that the migrated users can send and receive external mail but not internal mail. The two servers are at different locations - the old server is at a datacenter that is being phased out, and the new server is at our office location. I suspect that CRM might be causing the issue but I don't know much about that stuff. Any ideas where I should start looking? Thanks, Rick ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Adding Exchange Server
Failing that, run an audit of all your servers service accounts looking for one matching the name of your exchange account. On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@theessentialexchange.com wrote: Your DC's security logs will tell you what is trying to auth and failing. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -Original Message- From: John Bowles [mailto:john_bow...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 4:11 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Adding Exchange Server If it was only that simple :) The reason I want to be able to use a different account is because there is something on our network that keeps locking that account out. What i'm thinking is this account is being used to run a service and the password was never updated and it keeps hitting this account and locking it out. That's where my dilemma is.. Thank you for your suggestion though. _ John Bowles - Original Message From: Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 3:57:20 PM Subject: RE: Adding Exchange Server -Original Message- From: John Bowles [mailto:john_bow...@yahoo.com] Subject: Re: Adding Exchange Server OK, I removed all the CA's, uninstalled ADC, and removed SRS's from ESM. Now when I go to install the new server it's still prompting me to use the username password that was used to setup Excahnge apparently here in the first place. Is there anyway I can prevent that field from being ghosted out so I can choose another account? Nobody seems to know what the password is for this account. Find the account in AD and reset the password. Webster ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Adding Exchange Server
This is ugly and a very early script I did but it worked then and I
don't have time to play with it and make it any prettier.
We needed to find old service account names from a resource domain
that we were retiring and I found stuff with this that a different
script we were using didn't.
The commented out lines were just for making sure some elements worked.
-- start --
###
#name: find-serviceAccount.ps1
# author: Steven Peck
# source:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/msh/os/default.mspx?mfr=true
# description: Find a specific service account used to run a service.
$strComputer = Get-Content c:\servers.txt
$colItems = get-wmiobject -class Win32_Service -namespace
root\CIMV2 -computername $strComputer
foreach ($objItem in $colItems) {
# write-host Name: $objItem.Name
# write-host Start Name: $objItem.StartName
if ( $objItem.StartName -eq domain\ServiceAccount) {
Write-Host Service: $objItem.Name
Write-Host }
}
-- end --
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Steven Peck sep...@gmail.com wrote:
Failing that, run an audit of all your servers service accounts
looking for one matching the name of your exchange account.
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Michael B. Smith
mich...@theessentialexchange.com wrote:
Your DC's security logs will tell you what is trying to auth and failing.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP
My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael
I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php
-Original Message-
From: John Bowles [mailto:john_bow...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 4:11 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Adding Exchange Server
If it was only that simple :) The reason I want to be able to use a
different account is because there is something on our network that keeps
locking that account out. What i'm thinking is this account is being used
to run a service and the password was never updated and it keeps hitting
this account and locking it out. That's where my dilemma is.. Thank you
for your suggestion though.
_
John Bowles
- Original Message
From: Webster carlwebs...@gmail.com
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 3:57:20 PM
Subject: RE: Adding Exchange Server
-Original Message-
From: John Bowles [mailto:john_bow...@yahoo.com]
Subject: Re: Adding Exchange Server
OK, I removed all the CA's, uninstalled ADC, and removed SRS's from
ESM.
Now when I go to install the new server it's still prompting me to use
the username password that was used to setup Excahnge apparently here
in the first place. Is there anyway I can prevent that field from
being ghosted out so I can choose another account? Nobody seems to
know what the password is for this account.
Find the account in AD and reset the password.
Webster
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Re: Easy Wednesday Question: TLS
We have TLS connections with two external clients and rules on our gateways for them specifically. (HIPAA) Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Troy Meyer troy.me...@monacocoach.com wrote: TLS for what? All of our servers encrypt their internal communications with TLS is that what you mean? Our external traffic is all encrypted with SSL (OWA, EAS, OA). If I was relaying external SMTP traffic (which you would REALLY have to sell me on as to why you need it) I would definitely be using TLS to secure it. Reasons people might not use TLS: 1) Don't want to buy a certificate 2) Requires more client setup (though this is trivial) 3) Legacy MTA doesn't support it ? (not applicable for recent exchange versions) Is that what you are looking for? -troy -Original Message- From: mqcarp [mailto:mqcarpen...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 9:05 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Easy Wednesday Question: TLS Do you use TLS on your Exchange server? If not, why? ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Adding Exchange Server
I just came across an old print out at home that had the steps. I will look for. If I did not throw it in the trash bin, I will send it to you when I get home. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@theessentialexchange.com wrote: Is the server where ADC used to be installed gone? If not, I'd recommend using ADC Utility (which name escapes me) to remove the CAs. Otherwise, yes, I guess you'll have to. (It's been a couple of years since I manually removed ADC - I used to could do that in my sleep. But I've forgotten the details...) Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -Original Message- From: John Bowles [mailto:john_bow...@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:31 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Adding Exchange Server I tried, but it's telling me I have to remove the CA's first. _ John Bowles - Original Message From: Michael B. Smith mich...@theessentialexchange.com To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:27:30 PM Subject: RE: Adding Exchange Server You should try to remove the service first, using the link I posted earlier. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009..com/vegas/index.php -Original Message- From: John Bowles [mailto:john_bow...@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:22 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Adding Exchange Server Quick question, if I have no more Exchange 5.5 servers left in the Organization can I remove the CA's via ADSIEdit with effecting anything? Thank you, _ John Bowles - Original Message From: John Bowles john_bow...@yahoo.com To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 2:38:48 PM Subject: Re: Adding Exchange Server That is correct btw. There are still lingering 5.5 connectors in the Org.. . It seems that I have to go into ADSIedit and remove the CA's in there before I can remove the connectors since I can't connect to any of them trough the 5.5 admin console. Thanks for your help Michael _ John Bowles - Original Message From: Michael B. Smith mich...@theessentialexchange.com To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 2:12:45 PM Subject: RE: Adding Exchange Server No need. This means that ADC (the Active Directory Connector) is still in the environment from when you upgraded from 5.5. The RIGHT answer here is to fully remove the remnants of ADC from the environment. To work around it - does that account still exist? If so, just change the password to one you do know... Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -Original Message- From: John Bowles [mailto:john_bow...@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 1:43 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Adding Exchange Server It has the title Service Account And below that it says, Assign Service account information. In the box that says Username it's greyed out with the account (That i'm told) is the account that was used to install the first Exchange server. I have plenty of users that I could use to do this, but it defaults to just one and it's greyed out. Can I send you a screen shot? Thank you, _ John Bowles - Original Message From: Michael B. Smith mich...@theessentialexchange.com To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 1:36:01 PM Subject: RE: Adding Exchange Server You mean in the setup dialog titled Microsoft Exchange Installation Wizard with the heading of Microsoft Exchange Server Administrator Account - Enter the account to which you want to grant the Exchange Full Administrator role ?? No, you can't change it there - after you've installed the first Exchange Server in the organization. That is by design. You have to use the Delegate Permissions window, as I suggested - it will show you who currently has that permission and if necessary, you can add someone new (preferably a group you have created for the purpose, not an individual). Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -Original Message- From: John Bowles [mailto:john_bow...@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 1:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Re: Any way to display distribution list structure as a diagram/viso?
This isn't a direct answer because what you are asking is complicated. A co-worker, in his copious spare time, is trying to get something similiar working. He doesn't have it working yet, but also hasn't sepnt much time on it. There may be a way for you to show relationships though. Here's the article he is looking at trying. http://www.mindofroot.com/2008/11/19/mapping-ad-group-relationships-with-powershell/ Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Kat Collins messagel...@gmail.com wrote: please share if possible... On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@theessentialexchange.com wrote: Well, define diagram. If you mean graphic, then no. But I know a text tool that illustrates hierarchy via indentation. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php From: Don Guyer [mailto:don.gu...@prufoxroach.com] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 3:30 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Any way to display distribution list structure as a diagram/viso? I know the AD Topology Diagrammer will do A/D and OU structure, some Exchange, but not sure about DLs. Don Guyer Systems Engineer Information Services Prudential Fox Roach/ Trident 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Ph: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 www.prufoxroach.com don.gu...@prufoxroach.com From: Raymond Brighenti [mailto:raymond.brighe...@actix.com] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 10:01 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Any way to display distribution list structure as a diagram/viso? Hi, Does anyone know of a tool/add in/etc that can go through a distribution list recursively and then output the results as a diagram (Visio would be nice but any diagram would suffice) Sort of like an Org chart but for distribution lists. Cheers Ray --- Actix is the trading name of Actix Limited, with registered offices at: 200 Hammersmith Road, London, W6 7DL, United Kingdom. Actix Limited is registered in England and Wales with company no. 02660615 and VAT no. GB 858742087. Actix GmbH is registered in (Sitz der Gesellschaft): Dresden, Germany with company no. Handelsregister Amtsgericht Dresden HR B 19204 and VAT no. (Ust-IDNr.) DE 813 115 475. Managing Director of Actix GmbH (Geschaeftsfuehrer): Alex Hawker. Information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender, and please delete the message from your system immediately. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Actix. Whilst Actix takes every effort to ensure this message is virus free it cannot guarantee that this is the case. It is the recipient's responsibility to carry out such virus checks as it deems necessary. Actix company details: www.actix.com. -- Kat Collins - The Email of the species is more powerful than the Mail! ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Message headers
A picture is worth a lot http://www.blkmtn.org/files/outlook_ribbon.jpg Oh, and holy smokes, I have been looking for that damn window forever! Steven On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Eric Wittersheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, when you have the email open look at the top ribbon. There is Respond, Actions, Junk E-mail, Options, and Find. See the little icon next to Options? Click on that. -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 11:58 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Message headers Ok, maybe I've gone blind, but I'm not seeing what you're talking about. I am using Outlook 2k7. Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel -Original Message- From: Trimmel-Wyss Doris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 5:58 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Message headers It's much simpler in Outlook 2007 Click on the arrow next to Options in the ribbon . Doris -Original Message- From: Jason Gurtz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 2:28 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Message headers Open it and go to view options. This works up till 2003. Sadly, in 2007, it's bit tougher (since it's now right-click-message options). Using a preview pane, there's two solutions I've found. The easiest thing is drag the attachment to the desktop and open in my favorite text editor. Yea, you have to ignore the binary cruft. The other way is to drag the attachment up to the message list where it is now just another message. But watch out, when you drag a message to the message list your rules apply. This is why I call the text editor easier I guess it's better than nothing. Anyone know if this issue will be addressed in office 13 ...erm 14? Would be great if the view headers toggle actually did what it said. ~JasonG -- ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: User not getting external email
Is it possible that the user had logged onto another computer,
terminal session/Citrix recently? If so, perhaps that outlook client
was configured for local delivery instead of their Exchange mailbox.
This would have the effect of stealing the messages out of the inbox
tot hat local system.
If someone timed out, disconnect, rebooted that other session, then
that would certainly explain the behavior you are seeing.
This is often an 'Oh yea!' moment for your user.
Steven
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Peter van Houten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Update.
Out of the blue, the user starts receiving messages now. Unfortunately,
there is a huge block of messages missing between when the trouble
started this morning and now. They are, however, visible in a search
under the Message Tracking Centre on the server...
Any idea how I can get the missing messages (in)to Outlook?
Original Message
Subject: Re: User not getting external email
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:42:17 +0200
From: Peter van Houten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Thanks guys but there are no rules set. No restrictions on the server.
Same messages show up in OWA as in Outlook {sans the messages that I
have been sending to the mailbox for the last 8 hours).
Very odd. All other users are OK. Is there any chance of corruption in
part of the store?
On the 10/12/2008 20:26, Kennedy, Jim wrote the following:
Beware the server side rules.
-Original Message-
From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 1:27 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: User not getting external email
Or just shut down his Outlook, send him an external email and see if it
shows up in OWA.
-Original Message-
From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 12:23 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: User not getting external email
Check the users outlook rules. That is my bet, it is being auto deleted
or moved to a folder where they are not seeing it.
-Original Message-
From: Peter van Houten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 1:26 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: User not getting external email
SBS2003 / Outlook 2003 / XP SP3
---
I have copied the text below from a Google search of this problem
[unfortunately it appears to have no resolution] which is identical
to
my situation:
I have an Exchange server (2003 Small Business w/Outlook 2003
clients)
where one user does not receive email from external domains. He does
receive email from inside the company domain. All other users can
receive email from external and internal domains. I've examined the
Receive from Authenticated Users in Users and Computers and the box
is
not checked. This just started a few days ago. Before that, his
account
seemed to work fine. All size limits are set to default policy and he
has few messages and space utilization than some other users who are
working fine. Can you think of anything I have missed? Oh yes - there
are no error messages. No NDR messages are sent back to the external
originator and no messages in the event log. It looks like the
message
went through - only it never shows up.
In addition, I have checked the Message Tracking Centre and all the
messages are there and confirm Message Delivered Locally to Store to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have deleted and recreated the user's SMTP addresses on the server.
I have deleted and allowed the .ost to rebuild.
I have emptied, archived and compressed the .ost
Looked at spam filtering in Outlook
It's probably something simple for you guys but I'm no Exchange
boffin...
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Re: smtp logging
You don't have a Cisco PIX running their stupid SMTP 'fix up' between your boxes do you? On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope, it's something lower level, it's between the MTA (postfix) after ASSP is through with it, on route to the exchange server. I had *some* issues with mail w/ attatchements from certain domains sitting in a backup mx that would undergo transmission errors on route to the primary. Its like a network issue with the esx server and switch that the MTA runs in. Its killing me J! jlc From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 8:00 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: smtp logging You're not running anything like OpenDNS that could be blocking the domains, are you? From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 7:49 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: smtp logging What is Postfix saying in the logs? What kind of interaction? Nothing useful, it looks like the specific messages from only these two domains get dumped in a queue and released out to exchange. What is the SMTP security config on exchange? Is exchange set to allow the connection from ASSP? Yup, all but these few domains work. Are the messages queuing up or does it look like they are getting handed off to exchange (and into a blackhole?) Is there any anti-spam or anti-virus on the exchange server? Not yet. What version of exchange? E2003sp2 Is the exchange server working for internal clients? Can you telnet at a command line on the ASSP to exchange and initiate a manual mail drop? http://www.google.com/search?source=ighl=enrlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS282q=telnet+mail+commandsaq=f Yup, only problem for a few domains! I think I am going to create a local user on the MTA an BCC all mail while a test gets sent again, see if it makes it that far, I have the daemons in master.cf in Postfix all set to –v. Thank! jlc Thanks, Jake Gardner TTC Network Administrator Ext. 246 From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 6:52 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: smtp logging I have a bizarre issue with mail not getting delivered. Topology is as follows: Internet - PIX - logical interface / vlan - HP switch (interface tagged into applicable vlan) - ESXi server - vm (ASSP/Redhat Postfix MTA) - HP switch (out of vlan) - physical HP server with E2003. ASSP logs show mail from certain domains arrive, postfix MTA shows interaction with exchange, exchange smtp logs enabled, shows nothing and mail is not delivered? I'm stumped J Any ideas? Thanks! jlc ***Teletronics Technology Corporation*** This e-mail is confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the addressee or authorized by the addressee to receive this e-mail, you may not disclose, copy, distribute, or use this e-mail. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail or by telephone at 267-352-2020 and destroy this message and any copies. Thank you. *** ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Report spam
As do we. It works great once they set the process o not blacklist our domain when an end user sent an internal email to them. :D On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Don Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, we do the same thing with our Tumbleweed products – with good success. From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 7:09 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Report spam I'm sure they have some kind of submission service. My Mailfrontier used to have a submission email I could setup. Users could forward their spam to it then it would do something with it. I didn't use it because once you let them complain about something once, they complain forever. J From: David McSpadden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 7:01 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Report spam I am getting an Ironport. I should talk with their support on how to report any spam getting through their box and how to blacklist it in their device? From: Bob Fronk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 10:02 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Report spam Run an appliance and/or software to handle your SPAM. I use a barracuda on the edge, and Ninja on Exchange. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: David McSpadden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 9:57 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Report spam Right now I pay someone to host my Internet email for my company. I am looking to take it in house to my Exchange box that is being mostly unused. Right now when a spam makes it through I file save it and sent it to the company that hosts my email and they get it on an RBL or some other such list. How would I have my users report spam that makes it through to me so I can block it for all users. I see the sender block list in my Outlook but I feel like that is only for that one user and all the other users could still be getting it. How do I blacklist in Exchange 2003??? Data Security is everyone's responsibility. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
BES Monitoring with SCOM2007
Greetings, We are starting to look at SCOM2007 again (yay) and replace an aging out of warranty NetIQ AppManager system. While SCOM has Exchange 2003 management packs, it looks like management packs for BES are 3rd party cost from Boxton. Is anyone using something to monitor their BES environment or did you just create a custom management pack? Thanks, Steven ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: SCR options question
I thought it quite sensible and look forward to the time when we get to migrate to E2k7 here. Steven On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Ehren Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: …Seriously though, they serve different purposes. DPM works well for doing quick restores of individuals mailboxes if they screw something up. SCR works well for getting all the mailboxes back online quickly in the event of a server failure or complete database corruption etc. Ehren J. Benson, MCSE Windows Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] 517-884-5469 From: Ehren Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 12:26 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: SCR options question Is there such a thing as too much? I like my job…and big raises J Ehren J. Benson, MCSE Windows Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] 517-884-5469 From: KevinM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 10:37 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: SCR options question That's a heap of data protection… why so much? From: Ehren Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 6:51 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: SCR options question Hi, I am using EX2007 SP1. I have set up a second mailbox server in a Hyper-V VM and am about to enable SCR for all of our databases to be replicated to that second server. I use MS Data Protection Manager 2007 to back up our entire exchange data system with a retention of 2 and a half weeks with recovery points every 30 minutes. What I am wondering is if the Truncation of the logs on the source server with SCR will affect DPM at all, or if I need to configure SCR in a special way so that it does not interfere with the backups of DPM. Thanks! Ehren J. Benson, MCSE Windows Systems Administrator Department of Physics and Astronomy Michigan State University 1209 A Biomed Phys Sci [EMAIL PROTECTED] 517-884-5469 ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Second of two questions
Are you using a script? Something built in? Depending on how you are doing it there are a few things that can break it. If you are using an auto-reply script there is something that will definitely break it. Steven On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dang. Never enough time. Too many problems at once. OK. I'll focus on ADC removal for now. Thanks, Kurt On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the question? Regardless, you need to get SRS and ADC out of the picture before you begin debugging this one. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 11:30 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Second of two questions Anyone? On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) The reason I found the problem in the first question is because I was trying to dig into another problem - resource booking. I've got numerous people who are, at various times and for various resources, unable to book conference rooms. It's intermittent, I think - there have been conflicting reports. Some folks seem to be able to book resources that others can't, and vice versa. I'm not seeing anything in the logs, either application or security, that looks even vaguely related. Exchange 2003, all patched, on Win2k3, in a Win2k3 domain, mixed mode. I'm about to pull the plug on the ADC - just have to work my way through a few things, and may be asking some questions about that later... Kurt ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Active Sync Admin Tool
If you hadn't seen it then check out this post on compiling usage stats. http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/02/14/419562.aspx We have a POC for ActiveSync right now. So far I find the available tools for Exchange 2003 somewhat limited. On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:19 AM, James Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There appears to be a work around. I am going to give it a try. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817379 - Original Message - From: Bob Fronk To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 11:56 AM Subject: RE: Active Sync Admin Tool Yep.. I have seen this with the 2.1 iPhone software. Supposedly it is supposed to be fixed in the next update. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 11:49 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Active Sync Admin Tool Argh my mistake. Its the remote devices (iPhones) that cant connect when the forms based auth is turned on. - Original Message - From: James Kerr To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 11:40 AM Subject: Active Sync Admin Tool We just started using active sync here with Exchange 2003. I installed this tool in order to do remote wipes, however it seems in order for it to work I have to turn off forms based auth for the exchange virtual server. When I do that though my OWA stops working. Can any guide me a little as to how I can set this up for both to work? We have a single Exchange server, if that helps any. TIA James ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Small Fopah
The alternative is the engineers say things, report it, ask/beg/plead but because the cause is partially other groups realms, managers dance, duck, weave and avoid letting you do anything until you give up. My favorite was after 3 years and 4 open MS tickets, management blew some of our remaining support stuff to have an engineer flown out to evaluate performance for a week on our Exchange cluster. In researching all the tickets they found mine (the first one) where I had, on the initial call, sent a document outlining my conclusions with data and technical links (management didn't like them) and the FTE on site asked why was he here, his conclusions were the same. We now are going to have dedicated storage for our Exchange. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find, in more and more companies that I go into, that their daily operations are governed by fear. The technicians/administrators/engineers are afraid to make changes – because they don't know what will happen. They are afraid to bring a problem to the eyes of management – because they are afraid that they will get fired. They were brought in after someone else and they don't understand the why of something and they don't ask – because they are afraid they will look stupid. I spend a lot of time going in and calming people down and saying no problem. Or yes you have an issue, but it's easy to fix. That's probably 90%+ of my engagements. The others – well, they can be challenging. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:56 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Small Fopah How did you refrain from hysterics? From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 9:50 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Small Fopah How did you refrain from hysterical laughter when you saw the file size? On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The largest exchange store I've ever seen was 3.5 TB. It was never backed up. The project was – you guessed – to make it manageable. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 10:19 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Small Fopah Anyone ever seen a 600GB database? How about 2 of them? On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:09 AM, Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Microsoft guidance says that if you are doing streaming backups, you should target 35 GB per store as an opti-max value, never exceeding 50 GB. If you are doing VSS backups, never exceed 100 GB. If you are doing continuous replication backups (that is, backing up the passive copy), never exceed 200 GB. These are recommendations, not we won't support you if you exceed these values. The right answer for a given company for the maximum size of a store is: whatever you can backup and restore within your SLA. MSFT recommends that you ignore SIS when planning for the size of your mailbox stores. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange -Original Message- From: Michelle Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 1:05 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Small Fopah One large store in Exchange 2003 isn't a good thing. I know in Exchange 2000, one giant store worked fine, but in 2003, it changed. We had a gigantic store, 163 GB (or some ridiculous number like that). We never could have recovered it, and it wasn't backing up properly because one backup wouldn't be finished when the next one wanted to start. No matter how we tried to tweak the timing, it never seemed to work. Log files never purged, hard drives filled up, Exchange went offline. It was ugliness all around. We broke the one store into 4 information stores with several databases in each one, trying to keep the database files smaller than 30 GB. I can't remember where I found that magic number, very well could have been some random thing I dreamed up, but we didn't have problems with Exchange going offline after that. We had no mailbox quotas and no limit to attachments either. A silly, silly way to run Exchange, but the very importants didn't seem to care much for the finer points of the technology. They just wanted complete freedom. I spent a month moving mailboxes into the other stores, after hours, then ran
Re: Admins in Email
Add the Deny permission to the Domain Admins group On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Travis Krampy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to restrict someone with Domain Admin access from viewing other people's email? Thanks Travis ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Take ownership of calendar items
Not that I've ever encountered. On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 11:19 AM, David L Herrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IS it possible to Take ownership of calendar items where the organizer no longer exists? Exchange 2003 Tx David This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not represent those of the Names in the News company. Warning: Although precautions have been taken to make sure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage that arise from the use of this email or attachments. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: OT - Windows Server 2003 R2 POP Server
Mail Enable http://www.mailenable.com/ On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Xmailserver, hmailserver, and smartermail all have free versions of their packages that support pop3. I can't remember the user counts that come into play though. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Jason Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 4:11 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: OT - Windows Server 2003 R2 POP Server Sorry for the OT. I have a small client that has SBS 2003 R2. They have the need to host about 200 POP mailboxes for their members, but this would obviously violate the SBS licensing agreement. So, my thought is the built in Windows Server 2003 POP Server (they have another server on their LAN). Does anyone know how many users this service supports? Also, does using this in a Local File authentication method require CALs? Any other suggestions for low cost/no cost POP3 server solutions that run on Windows? Jason Tierney, MCSE Vice President, Consulting Services tel: 240.425.4441 fax: 301.349.2518 ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: User complains that Exchange internal e-mail has huge delay
and the second is they have a corrupt OST file. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:09 AM, Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most common reason in my experience: someone's Outlook was offline. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Markko Meriniit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 5:28 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: User complains that Exchange internal e-mail has huge delay We have Exchange 2007 SP1. E-mail(organization internal mail) was sent yesterday 16:31 and user said that it actually appeared in his mailbox today morning around 9 o'clock. I guess I have only user word for it, because Exchange shows in it's tracking logs the event RECEIVE at 16:31 and right after that event DELIVER where recipient is complaining user. I can't dig any more debug info out from anywhere. We also have Symanteg Mail security 6 but it doesn't show also any errors or events about it. This also doesn't happen regurally so researching it is difficult and I can't make analogical situations happen at will. Any experiences from other people or ideas why this may happen? Thanks, Markko Meriniit ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Exchange 07 on VMware
We don't know that they didn't say HyperV or Physical either. And since when has a support call anywhere not been an excuse for a sales opportunity for someone? :) On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Martin Blackstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's not the point. I understand that ESX isn't supported yet. If they were running unsupported and the suspicion was that it was VMWare, they should have said go V2P and leave it there. Not switch to our product. A support call shouldn't be a sales opportunity. -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 5:45 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange 07 on VMware But officer, I don't understand why you think I broke the law. I know that the stop sign was there and I ignored it because I hear the city council is considering removing it. I don't understand why you are giving me a ticket because I broke clearly established rules that are going to change at some indeterminate point in the future ... maybe. Also, you might want to read the virtualization guidelines to ensure you at least are running somewhat close to recommendations. Steven On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Martin Blackstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's not a solution, Just a worthless answer. By the same logic, if CRM isn't working, maybe Salesforce would! J From: James Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 11:18 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange 07 on VMware True - it's not a certification. But they did join, which wasn't public info until this week...but according to the article Steve mentioned, the SVVP program is just as good, from the application standpoint, as Hyper-V. I'm still surprised that any PSS engineer thought it was a good idea to tell you to try Hyper-V as a solution... --James On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Martin Blackstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think VMware has been certified yet. It's in the program though which is great news. From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Exchange (Sunbelt) Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 6:16 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 07 on VMware Seen this? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957006 From: James Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 10:00 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange 07 on VMware Well, specific to VMWare and Microsoft...the certification for Server (OS only) was inked this week. There certainly isn't one for CRM yet. But I would scream very loudly for my TAM to here, if that happened with any of our apps. Most customer-facing folks at Microsoft are understanding that Hyper-V is still basically beta software, when compared to VMWare. But no one else at Microsoft wants to admit that, it seems. --James On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Damian Myles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry, Sorry about the digression.. must be a Friday thing :-).. as James said I'd look at your storage requirements primarily.. unless you have explicit HA requirements James.. that was a premier agreement also with the customer .. maybe the good news hasn't filtered thru.. for me it's just a bit vernacular :-) Cheers, Mylo On 8/23/08, James Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The answer is, it depends. I would certainly want ESX Enterprise features (mostly for HA). Mailbox roles of any kind - be careful on storage requirements. It could get tricky identifying bottlenecks if you are pushing your storage throughput limits, for example. Certainly don't take snapshots of DB or Log disks :) --James On 8/22/08, TechInfo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have any info on my original question?? :) -Original Message- From: James Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Aug 22, 2008 4:00 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange 07 on VMware If you have a Premier agreement, then that should change. VMWare is now supported as a platform for Windows Server (it wasn't as of last week). I would expect those trends to start to reverse somewhat, or Microsoft will start to get itself into trouble... --James On 8/22/08, Damian Myles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, VMWare.. oh.. what a life :-) Just had a call with Microsoft support today concerning CRM 4.0... whilst you may be scratching your head thinking what bearing this may have on Exchange, the gravitas towards Hyper-V (at least in a support sense) is a tad annoying.. I am an advocate of virtualization particularly in certain spheres.. in Exchange terms that relates to the web tier (CAS / ActiveSync et al) so I was mildly put out with the response I had today . VMWare, I recognize, has been historically a best effort approach for support from Microsoft .. V2P has been a requisite in the past
Re: Exchange 07 on VMware
But officer, I don't understand why you think I broke the law. I know that the stop sign was there and I ignored it because I hear the city council is considering removing it. I don't understand why you are giving me a ticket because I broke clearly established rules that are going to change at some indeterminate point in the future ... maybe. Also, you might want to read the virtualization guidelines to ensure you at least are running somewhat close to recommendations. Steven On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Martin Blackstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's not a solution, Just a worthless answer. By the same logic, if CRM isn't working, maybe Salesforce would! J From: James Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 11:18 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange 07 on VMware True - it's not a certification. But they did join, which wasn't public info until this week...but according to the article Steve mentioned, the SVVP program is just as good, from the application standpoint, as Hyper-V. I'm still surprised that any PSS engineer thought it was a good idea to tell you to try Hyper-V as a solution... --James On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Martin Blackstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think VMware has been certified yet. It's in the program though which is great news. From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Exchange (Sunbelt) Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 6:16 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 07 on VMware Seen this? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957006 From: James Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 10:00 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange 07 on VMware Well, specific to VMWare and Microsoft...the certification for Server (OS only) was inked this week. There certainly isn't one for CRM yet. But I would scream very loudly for my TAM to here, if that happened with any of our apps. Most customer-facing folks at Microsoft are understanding that Hyper-V is still basically beta software, when compared to VMWare. But no one else at Microsoft wants to admit that, it seems. --James On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Damian Myles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry, Sorry about the digression.. must be a Friday thing :-).. as James said I'd look at your storage requirements primarily.. unless you have explicit HA requirements James.. that was a premier agreement also with the customer .. maybe the good news hasn't filtered thru.. for me it's just a bit vernacular :-) Cheers, Mylo On 8/23/08, James Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The answer is, it depends. I would certainly want ESX Enterprise features (mostly for HA). Mailbox roles of any kind - be careful on storage requirements. It could get tricky identifying bottlenecks if you are pushing your storage throughput limits, for example. Certainly don't take snapshots of DB or Log disks :) --James On 8/22/08, TechInfo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have any info on my original question?? :) -Original Message- From: James Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Aug 22, 2008 4:00 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Exchange 07 on VMware If you have a Premier agreement, then that should change. VMWare is now supported as a platform for Windows Server (it wasn't as of last week). I would expect those trends to start to reverse somewhat, or Microsoft will start to get itself into trouble... --James On 8/22/08, Damian Myles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, VMWare.. oh.. what a life :-) Just had a call with Microsoft support today concerning CRM 4.0... whilst you may be scratching your head thinking what bearing this may have on Exchange, the gravitas towards Hyper-V (at least in a support sense) is a tad annoying.. I am an advocate of virtualization particularly in certain spheres.. in Exchange terms that relates to the web tier (CAS / ActiveSync et al) so I was mildly put out with the response I had today . VMWare, I recognize, has been historically a best effort approach for support from Microsoft .. V2P has been a requisite in the past for Microsoft support for VMWare users to demonstrably prove that the problem didn't lie in the virtual layer. Today, we were asked today to move our test platforms to Hyper-V, to prove that the problems did not relate to VMWare... for the most part this is either a cop-out or at least a form of nepotism ... anyone else had similar experiences? Cheers, Mylo On 8/22/08, TechInfo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My bad, you are correct. From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Aug 22, 2008 1:15 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 07 on VMware Sounds like you have 2950s then, not 2850s? From: TechInfo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SMTP generated by virus
Requiring authentication is often not practical, but it's not that hard, no client machine should ever need to send out bound SMTP mail. Various server may, but workstations? Nope. On the server application side, we allow relay by IP Address and track the source server/requester and validate it is still needed twice a year. Steven On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Peter Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also make sure that any machines that are allowed to relay through the exchange server are, if possible, authenticating and keep very tight control on this list. -Original Message- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 August 2008 03:24 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: SMTP generated by virus Everyone should do this, before there is a problem. But just to nitpick the solution wordingAdd a rule to allow your exchange server, then add a default deny after that. :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 9:08 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: SMTP generated by virus Do it at your firewall. Block anything on 25 outbound by default and then add a rule for your exchange server to allow only it outbound. That will solve the blacklisting issue while you can get the machines under wraps. -Original Message- From: JP [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 9:01 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: SMTP generated by virus We are being affected by viruses on workstations that send mail thru an SMTP generated by the virus, bypassing our exchange server. As a result, we get blacklisted before we know it. I can remove the entire server where exchange is from the network and mail is still flowing out. My question is this: is there a method of blocking E-Mail sent thru port 25 by anyone but exchange? How can we stop these situations? Thank you in advance for your assistance. J.P. Lacasse ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ Disclaimer: The Development Bank of Southern Africa exercises no control over information contained in any e-mail message originating from within the organisation. The Bank makes no representation relating to the completeness or accuracy and accepts no responsibility for any loss, damage or liability that is incurred by reliance on the content hereof by the recipient or any other party. Each page attached hereto must also be read in conjunction with any disclaimer, which forms part of it. Confidentiality: The e-mail is privileged and confidential and for use of the addressee only. Should you have received this e-mail in error, please return it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dissemination, disclosure, copying or any similar actions of the content of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: E2K7 / Outlook calendar
New outlook setup and the profile was screwed up and instead of going to Exchange is now 'local' PST. On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any PDAs that are sync'd to the mailbox. I have had users delete their calendars, address books and email by not paying attention on their PDA. Bob Fronk [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: David Lum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:06 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: E2K7 / Outlook calendar This morning I got a call from my boss saying she's missing about 75% of what was on her calendar. Looking at her calendar myself, I see a lot of appts up to the weeks prior to this week, but only a very light smattering this week and later. Has anyone ever heard of such a thing? I can't even hypothesize on how some but not all appoints would disappear. What methods does E2K7 have to restore a mailbox? I am not the normal Exchange admin (no comments EZ), but our Exchange admin is away at training this week so I'm lookin' for options. Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 ..remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside - JFK ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Inbound/Outbound Mail Stats
They started with the BASH specification and mixed/matched added from
there. Nothing like benefiting from the years of accumulated
knowledge of language when starting over. There was a great interview
on this on channel 9 a while ago.
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Windows-PowerShell-Origin-and-Future/#309510
Flat out Michael's scripts better then my stuff but mine may be
helpful if you are starting out. I wrote a post for my co-workers I
am trying to convert over which they've found helpful. I understand I
will have to update my VMWare scripts when they release that plug in
as there are some changes from the beta's.
http://www.blkmtn.org/setting-up-a-PowerShell-environment
And I try and keep a list of updated links to some free training
material on the web
http://www.blkmtn.org/powershell-tutorial-series
Steven Peck
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Michael B. Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's much like Perl, with some PHP extensions, plus a LOT of Windows
extensions (all of .NET) plus the object oriented pipeline.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 4:34 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Inbound/Outbound Mail Stats
Looks a lot like Kixtart with added functions.
- Original Message -
From: Campbell, Rob
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 2:50 PM
Subject: RE: Inbound/Outbound Mail Stats
Powershell is good stuff!
One more change you can add if you want to accumulate the stats monthly.
These two lines replace setting the $outfile variable.
$lrundate = $today.adddays(-1)
$outfile = internet_email_stats_ + $lrundate.month + _ + $lrundate.year
+ .csv
This results in an output file name with the month and year embedded. The
result is that the script will start a new csv file for each month. You can
change the internet_email_stats_ to whatever you want, but leave the rest
if you want to accumulate the stats montly.
$today = get-date
$ht = server name here
$headings = 'Date,Sent,Send MB,Received,Receive MB'
$rundate = $($today.adddays(-1)).toshortdatestring()
$lrundate = $today.adddays(-1)
$outfile = internet_email_stats_ + $lrundate.month + _ + $lrundate.year
+ .csv
if (!(test-path $outfile)){ac $outfile $headings}
$recv_recs = get-messagetrackinglog -Server $ht -EventID RECEIVE -Start
$rundate 12:01:00 AM -End $rundate 11:59:59 PM -resultsize unlimited
$smtp_recvs = $recv_recs |? {$_.source -eq SMTP}
$send_recs = get-messagetrackinglog -Server $ht -EventID SEND -Start
$rundate 12:01:00 AM -End $rundate 11:59:59 PM -resultsize unlimited
$smtp_sends = $send_recs |? {$_.source -eq SMTP}
foreach ($smtp_recv in $smtp_recvs){$bytes_recv += $smtp_recv.totalbytes}
foreach ($smtp_send in $smtp_sends){$bytes_sent += $smtp_send.totalbytes}
$mbytes_recv = {0:F2} -f $($bytes_recv/1mb)
$mbytes_sent = {0:F2} -f $($bytes_sent/1mb)
$outstr = $rundate + , + $smtp_sends.count + , + $mbytes_sent + , +
$smtp_recvs.count + , + $mbytes_recv
ac $outfile $outstr
From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 1:19 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Inbound/Outbound Mail Stats
Okay, that is even cooler than I had imagined. Looks like it adds a line
for stats for each day. This is awesome!
=)
-Bonnie
From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:01 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Inbound/Outbound Mail Stats
Here's the script with that change, and formatting added to round the MB
counts to 2 decimals.
$today = get-date
$ht = server name here
$headings = 'Date,Sent,Send MB,Received,Receive MB'
$rundate = $($today.adddays(-1)).toshortdatestring()
$outfile = internet_email_stats.csv
if (!(test-path $outfile)){ac $outfile $headings}
$recv_recs = get-messagetrackinglog -Server $ht -EventID RECEIVE -Start
$rundate 12:01:00 AM -End $rundate 11:59:59 PM -resultsize unlimited
$smtp_recvs = $recv_recs |? {$_.source -eq SMTP}
$send_recs = get-messagetrackinglog -Server $ht -EventID SEND -Start
$rundate 12:01:00 AM -End $rundate 11:59:59 PM -resultsize unlimited
$smtp_sends = $send_recs |? {$_.source -eq SMTP}
foreach ($smtp_recv in $smtp_recvs){$bytes_recv += $smtp_recv.totalbytes}
foreach ($smtp_send in $smtp_sends){$bytes_sent += $smtp_send.totalbytes}
$mbytes_recv = {0:F2} -f $($bytes_recv/1mb)
$mbytes_sent = {0:F2} -f $($bytes_sent/1mb)
$outstr = $rundate + , + $smtp_sends.count + , + $mbytes_sent + , +
$smtp_recvs.count + , + $mbytes_recv
ac $outfile $outstr
From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 24
Re: Relaying with E2K7
Isn't this one of those things you have to run a powershell command to allow for? On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:19 AM, John Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The send or recv logs? I'm not sure where to look for this info. John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+ -Original Message- From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 12:10 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Relaying with E2K7 What do the protocol logs say? -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 11:06 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Relaying with E2K7 Originally had that checked, still failed. John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+ -Original Message- From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 12:02 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Relaying with E2K7 Add externally secured to your auth settings. -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 11:01 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Relaying with E2K7 Auth is TLS and Perms are Anon and Exchange Server John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+ -Original Message- From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 11:54 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Relaying with E2K7 What are the authentication and permission group settings on the receive connector? -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 10:51 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Relaying with E2K7 I have an issue with a 3rd party, non AD app (Oracle) that sends out messages that I can't seem to get working since our migration to 2007. I have created a new receive connector with all the necessary settings (so I thought) but still no messages going through, any thoughts? John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families ~ 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~ ~ 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~ ~ 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
Re: Ok it's starting BB to iPone
With Clients maybe a Meeting where we can pick an official Communicator for this conversation. This would have to be Live but could be Virtual. At the least we could form a Workgroup to cover the Domain we would License. On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whatever WORKS. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 7:45 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ok it's starting BB to iPone That is an amusing Expression. From: Kim Longenbaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:00 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Ok it's starting BB to iPone I can just see the FrontPage: Punning attack breaks out in mailing list From: Damien Solodow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 3:11 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ok it's starting BB to iPone I think this has lost the Groove. From: Kevin Lundy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 4:09 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Ok it's starting BB to iPone 2000 would be a Cluster On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Andrew Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Surely by now there have been 95 or 98 of these. Feels like 2000 though. Andrew Greene IS Technician / Webmaster City of Anderson From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 3:59 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Ok it's starting BB to iPone Whatever Bob, I mean Paul. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Ok it's starting BB to iPone
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/07/11/449196.aspx First answer to the user is, not this week. Second, check with your boss. Third, TEST that you can enforce the existing policies you do on your BB environment with the activeSync. (Well, test that you can actually get it to work and that it will not negatively impact your work week with additional maintenance and overhead you can't absorbe with the present workload. Fourth, get a device to test with. Not necessarily an iPhone Fifth, get a support model for it. As in SLA = Service Level Agreement, not Service Level Assumption (you are assumed to support anything we bring in and support our effort to move company data on to personal, privatly owned devices with no confidentiality agreement in place). Then put it on the support list. Steven On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Barsodi.John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here you go – Things not included. Ya, you can't create a meeting invite? WTF. http://support.apple.com/manuals/en_US/Enterprise_Deployment_Guide.pdf Exchange ActiveSync Features Not Supported - Not all Exchange features are supported, including, for example: · Folder management · Opening links in email to documents stored on Sharepoint servers · Task synchronization · Setting an out of office autoreply message · Creating meeting invitations · Flagging messages for follow-up - John Barsodi From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 8:28 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ok it's starting BB to iPone Negative no notes or tasks L Only Email, Calendar and Contacts. Also there's a downside, It will only sync Either Exchange or Personal Items, so If you have more than one place for Contacts you can only choose one, same for the rest. From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 11:25 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ok it's starting BB to iPone Will it sync Outlook notes? From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 8:18 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ok it's starting BB to iPone It works pretty well, if you already have OWA and OMA on the outside of your Firewall. Otherwise you will need to expose those in order for your Iphones to work. We got some here working already and Id have to say it beats my BB hands down in function, plus the extra features are killer. You can download the erase program as well to control the Iphones remotely and to a remote wipe. Setup is very simple and Apple has a config program that you can setup an XML file and email it to the Iphones so the connect back to Exchange. From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 11:07 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ok it's starting BB to iPone Yep. My son has one, he is the admin type for his company. Active sync is working great for them, they deployed 7 of them the first day. I played a bit with it yesterday, it is an awesome unit. Best feature on it I think is Mario Kart. It works like a wireless wii steering wheel….you just drive along by tilting and turning the whole Iphone. From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 11:01 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ok it's starting BB to iPone Will = does. It was released last week. From: Bingham, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 7:57 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ok it's starting BB to iPone Current production release does not. Version 2 will have ActiveSynch. From: Clayton Doige [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 7:52 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Ok it's starting BB to iPone I don't think iPhones do Active Sync do they? I thought you had to do IMAP? 2008/7/14 Stefan Jafs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have 1 users asking what happens if he replaces his BB with an iPhone? I'm on the BES server and I assume I delete him on the BES server but what do I need to do on the E2K3? Simply turn on Active Sync? __ Stefan Jafs This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not represent those of Amico Corporation . Warning: Although precautions have been taken to make sure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage that arise from the use of this email or attachments. -- Regards, Clayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://alsipius.com This
Re: Why not?
I didn't say it did. At the time of our compliance implementation there was much confusion about what was and was not allowed, not allowed. Much mis-information and confusion. As a result, any out sourced option was dismissed. I don't think it was the wrong thing to do for our environment, just done for the not quite right reasons. Moderate site size Steven Peck On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Matt Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HIPAA doesn't say anywhere you can't outsource AV and AS. In fact it doesn't really say much in 600 and some odd pages except you have to be able to show intent to protect your data. Sort of like an ISO plan. Make the plan and follow the plan. Too many HIPAA consultants and freaked out Mangers spent way too much time reading the regs and reading way too much into them. Then in turn shove way too many non existent rules on hapless fools. It's just not that hard. M -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 6:31 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Why not? Well Eric, there was also HIPAA regulation and confusion about what/how that would impact it that helped take an outsourced solution off the table. As the product that we installed for HIPAA complaicne also had SPAM / AV gateway software there seemed no point to outsourcing. At least that was managements partial reason. Steven On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Eric Woodford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paranoia. Last place I worked, the philosophy was if you let it go, you may never see it again. We didn't want to outsource AV, thinking that it would turn into all email after the first (perceived) disaster. Plus, we were already looking at bringing an solution inhouse for encryption, which also did AV/AS. On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Matt Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because google is a giant data miner. I'd rather not have my mail go through them at any cost. Not to mention most other third party AV and Spam solutions use mulitple spam and AV engines to clean and sanitize the mail before delivery to the exchange. Postini is just postini. Our corp boys are running the corp mail through it and it doesn't do a very good job. Bumps the people you want and lets the ones you don't in. M - Original Message - From: Michael B. Smith To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 3:12 PM Subject: Why not? I'm really interested in knowing why most folks (that aren't using in-house AS/AV solutions) haven't moved to Google/Postini for your AS/AV? At 0.25 USD per month per address, it's almost an order of magnitude cheaper than any other enterprise solution available. Comments requested! Thanks. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:EM/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Why not?
Well Eric, there was also HIPAA regulation and confusion about what/how that would impact it that helped take an outsourced solution off the table. As the product that we installed for HIPAA complaicne also had SPAM / AV gateway software there seemed no point to outsourcing. At least that was managements partial reason. Steven On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Eric Woodford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paranoia. Last place I worked, the philosophy was if you let it go, you may never see it again. We didn't want to outsource AV, thinking that it would turn into all email after the first (perceived) disaster. Plus, we were already looking at bringing an solution inhouse for encryption, which also did AV/AS. On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Matt Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because google is a giant data miner. I'd rather not have my mail go through them at any cost. Not to mention most other third party AV and Spam solutions use mulitple spam and AV engines to clean and sanitize the mail before delivery to the exchange. Postini is just postini. Our corp boys are running the corp mail through it and it doesn't do a very good job. Bumps the people you want and lets the ones you don't in. M - Original Message - From: Michael B. Smith To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 3:12 PM Subject: Why not? I'm really interested in knowing why most folks (that aren't using in-house AS/AV solutions) haven't moved to Google/Postini for your AS/AV? At 0.25 USD per month per address, it's almost an order of magnitude cheaper than any other enterprise solution available. Comments requested! Thanks. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:EM/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Give him props! (was RE: Super fun question)
Evidently it was 1954 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(soft_drink) On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Eldridge, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really? I thought it was an early 70's thing. Didn't Twiggy advertise it? From: Webster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 10:26 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Give him props! (was RE: Super fun question) Nah, I remember drinking Tab in the late 50s/early 60s. Webster From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 10:07 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Give him props! (was RE: Super fun question) No, it didn't taste like Pepsi, which is ok in my opinion. Tab came out in the 70's, it was awful On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Ellis, John P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thats what tab is - Cheers Sherry. A bit like Pepsi Max in its taste? (Yuck) From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 July 2008 15:47 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Give him props! (was RE: Super fun question) LOL, ME2, yes, indeed, I haven't seen a Tab in 20+ years I think. John, Tab, the original, first diet cola drink available on the market, 1 calorie.Sheesh, I can still remember the advertising for that. On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Micheal Espinola Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That one word and question mark suddenly makes me feel really old! On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Ellis, John P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tab? -- ME2 ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.clearswift.com ** -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke This e-mail contains the thoughts and opinions of the sender and does not represent official Parkview Medical Center policy. This communication is intended only for the recipient(s) named above, may be confidential and/or legally privileged: and, must be treated as such in accordance with state and federal laws. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use of this communication, or any of its contents, is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please return to sender and delete the message from your computer system. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Give him props! (was RE: Super fun question)
Congratulations. On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way everyone - congratulate Mr. Blackstone! He has (re)joined the ranks of Exchange MVPs. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:EM/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 7:15 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Super fun question superdopespectacular -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 4:09 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Super fun question +agazillion On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Durf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two words: Constant Contact. They do exactly this - legitimate mass emails - and that's all they do, and they are very good at it. Strongly recommend you look in to outsourcing the email. If it works once and you pull it off, then you own it forever. -- Durf On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Troy Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok our BRILLIANT marketing team just called and said they have a list of 290K email addresses they want to send a mass email to (supposedly these are 'lds'). I said fat chance as I don't want to deal with the fallout of landing on a BL. Management kickback is, How many email do you think we can send at once without risking any type of negative backlash? From their mouths, these are opt-in people who submitted their email to our company requesting more info (yeah right, 290k people want to know more about a $700,000 motorhome.) What do you all think? I say that our corporate mail systems are not designed for this type of behavior and don't really feel comfortable with any large amounts of mass email (but using a 3rd party marketing company costs money...) Anyone else deal with this? -Troy ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ -- -- Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! -- ME2 ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Power shell scripting
There are a lot of tutorials out there and a out of PowerShell blogs as well. Here are links to two of them that should help get you started. http://www.blkmtn.org/powershell-tutorial-series and how I setup my environment http://www.blkmtn.org/setting-up-a-PowerShell-environment The main PowerShell site itself with a ton of links. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/default.mspx They also have a Virtual Labs series on PowerShell http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb512930.aspx Jaykul set up a Yahoo Pipes collection of some of the PowerShell related blogs he follows http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=uAmYy9xq3BGHcV361fC6Jw Marco Shaw runs a Virtual PowerShell User group with monthly presentations. I finally attended one last night and learned some nice things http://marcoshaw.blogspot.com/ PowerScripting podcast http://powerscripting.libsyn.com/ And finally, there is PowerShell, ver1. That's the release with Server 2008. There is also a CTP for 2.0. (Community Technical Preview) which will be about the next version, you should just skip that initially as it will only confuse your learning experience. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Maglinger, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great list of resoures. Thanks! From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:32 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Power shell scripting Basic Powershell for Exchange consists of cmdlets and parameters. Technet has lost of resources on the basics. Here is a basic introductory article from Technet magazine (it's not very good, but it covers the basics… ignore the spelling mistake or two) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc160866.aspx Thankfully, they fixed and focused the article and put it here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb245704.aspx The Exchange Management Shell whitepaper is helpful. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb266977.aspx If you are looking to learn Powershell beyond the Exchange Management Shell, then the Scripting portal is home base: https://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx An Exchange Management Shell Quick Reference guide: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=01A441B9-4099-4C0F-B8E0-0831D4A2CA86displaylang=en In the Exchange Management Shell, the cmdlet Get-ExCommand will return all of the EMS cmdlets. If you like the feel of a real book, I recommend Windows PowerShell for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 by Wrox Press. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470226447/104-0110334-2555953?ie=UTF8tag=mojmedgroblo-20linkCode=xm2camp=1789creativeASIN=0470226447 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 6:50 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Power shell scripting Dear Friends I want to learn power shell scripting from the basic. can any one guide me from were i can start? Thanks Regards Nirav Doshi System Administrator Bitscape IT solution ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Group Mailboxes
We have a large number of resource mailboxes. Each resource mailbox gets a security group with the same name and MCL_ tacked in front. The mcl_mailbox group gets the permissions needed on the mailbox. Each resource mailbox gets two owners in the notes section and once a year we contact the owners to validate the mailbox is still needed and they are the correct business contact to manage the resource. They also get a list of currently authorized members and can true it up. Individuals are never given rights to the mailbox directly, it's all through dedicated security groups. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Nikki Peterson - OETX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, but you are not having to mess with permissions and setup for mailbox for multiple folks using one mailbox. If you have one guy leave, and another take their place, just make them a member of the DL, then they just go to the PF and administer it, no special setup or training involved. Just much easier for all. Nikki From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 11:02 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Mailboxes Yes, but you're still forwarding (or copying) the message. You almost might as well have sent it to the distribution list to begin with. It would be nice if rules contained a way to send a notification. From: Nikki Peterson - OETX [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 12:47 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Mailboxes It's not an ALERT (per sé) but it does let your folks know something came into the PF. Pretty easy to implement without a lot of hastle. Nikki From: Nikki Peterson - OETX [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:43 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Mailboxes Right click on the public folder Select Properties Select the ADMINISTRATION tab Click FOLDER ASSISTANT… ADD RULE… Then just Forward them to the group (in whatever format works best) Nikki From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:35 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Group Mailboxes How would I setup such a rule using Exchange 2003? I don't see the option to notify a group in the folder assistant. James - Original Message - From: Nikki Peterson - OETX To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:21 AM Subject: RE: Group Mailboxes I would use an email-enabled public folder with an administrative rule that alerts the group to incoming. Nikki From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:51 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Mailboxes That's pretty much the way we handle that kind of situation. You can either add the mailbox to their profile so it stays open all the time, or they can use Open Other User's Folder to do it on an ad-hoc basis. We have seen issues if you start getting too many people having the same mailbox open concurrently. Depending on circumstances, you can also set a server-side rule that will send a notification email to the group that's monitor that mailbox when new mail arrives. From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 8:45 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Group Mailboxes We need to have an email address that patients can send an email to, that will be checked by certain staff on a rotating schedule. I was wondering what the best way to do this was. I was thinking about creating a user account with a mailbox and giving certain users permission to access it and have it opened with their Outlook all the time and they can monitor the mailbox when it their turn to do so. I would like to hear how some of you would do this. One things as well, I believe the staff are all members of the same AD security group, if that helps me in any way. James ** Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. ** ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Outbound Email Filtering
Oh yes, we also prevent outbound relay except by authorized systems. This has prevented infected systems from sending outbound infected emails through our systems. We have an internal DNS CNAME for our org, mail.sample.com that points to the Exchange bridgehead. As a CNAME it allows us to move the relay should we need to in a way that reduces/mitigates disruption that would occur for hard coded ip addresses. On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Steven Peck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We do. We have to comply with HIPAA regulations and sending PHI (personal health information) unsecured outside our company would be a bad thing for us. As a result we scan for a number of message criteria such as SSN, Birth date, various other key terms to prevent calls to our PHI compliance officer. We use some products from Tumbleweed. Very expensive. At this point we bounce back to the sender any message that trigger the filter and kick a copy of the message to the compliance group. We have a manual keyword trigger that's supposed to be there to encrypt messages and we have one to 'bypass' the filters but that also kicks a copy of the message to the compliance team. This has occasionally resulted in discussions with people who 'should know better' and they then find out that they 'will not do this again' in an uncomfortable meeting. Steven Peck - http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Don Ely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We do On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 5:05 PM, JB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All- Question I have, more like a survey.. How many people filter outbound email to the internet? Thanks, _ John Bowles ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: BES newbie question
It's not really a problem if your CDO on the BES is a higher version then the one on your Exchange. If Exchange CDO is higher version then you will have problems. However, it does bring up why your Exchange version is less then your BES version. :) Treat your BES server and client like you would your admin install. If you patch your Exchange sever, patch your BES server. On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 8:35 AM, David Mazzaccaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every Exchange patch you put on the Exchange server, you need to put on the BES. This will be done automatically w/ Microsoft Update - IF - you install Exchange System Manager on the BES. - Or - I *think* you can just copy the CDO.DLL and MAPI32.DLL files from Exchange to BES and register them /w regsvr32. But I have ESM on my BES - and I believe it is a requirement. From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 11:21 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: BES newbie question ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Outbound Email Filtering
We do. We have to comply with HIPAA regulations and sending PHI (personal health information) unsecured outside our company would be a bad thing for us. As a result we scan for a number of message criteria such as SSN, Birth date, various other key terms to prevent calls to our PHI compliance officer. We use some products from Tumbleweed. Very expensive. At this point we bounce back to the sender any message that trigger the filter and kick a copy of the message to the compliance group. We have a manual keyword trigger that's supposed to be there to encrypt messages and we have one to 'bypass' the filters but that also kicks a copy of the message to the compliance team. This has occasionally resulted in discussions with people who 'should know better' and they then find out that they 'will not do this again' in an uncomfortable meeting. Steven Peck - http://www.blkmtn.org On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Don Ely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We do On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 5:05 PM, JB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All- Question I have, more like a survey.. How many people filter outbound email to the internet? Thanks, _ John Bowles ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: memory upgrade on EX2K3
And sometimes you have to go down from 3030 to 2800 or 2900 depending on your setup and the memory used. Check out the best practices analyzer for more info Steven Peck http:www.blkmtn.org On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Thomas Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did read that earlier and I just finished printing all the documents out for some bedtime reading. I'm off for the day, you all have a good 3 day weekend. Thomas From: Sean Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 12:45 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: memory upgrade on EX2K3 I'm no expert by any means, but based on the article, if you're running Exchange 2003 on any version of Windows 2003 and have more than 1GB physical memory installed, then Microsoft recommends setting the /3GB and /USERVA switches. (specifically, /3GB /USERVA=3030). This simply enables more PTEs on the server. Make sure to read through the rest of the article because it's equally important to set the HeapDeCommitFreeBlockThreshold registry value. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager Value name: HeapDeCommitFreeBlockThreshold Value type: REG_DWORD Value data: 0x0004 (recommended) Value default: not present In addition, if you're supporting more than 500 mailboxes on your server, you'll want to configure the msExchESEParamLogBuffers attribute in AD using ADSIEdit. 1) Open the Configuration Container. 2) Navigate to CN=Services, CN=Microsoft Exchange, CN=Your Organization Name 3) Expand CN=Administrative Groups, CN=Administrative Group Name, CN=Servers 4) Expand CN=Your Server Name, CN=Information Store 5) Right click on CN=your storage group and select properties. (If you have multiple storage groups, you'll want to perform the following steps for both) 6) find the msExchESEParamLogBuffers attribute and change the value to 9000. - Sean On 5/23/08, Thomas Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sean, that was another article I was reading as well. So I jumped ahead to fast and after reading a few other docs; correct me if I am wrong. But the /userva switch, should I monitor the memory performance after implementing the /3GB and then determine if the PTEs drop then implement? The reason I ask this (may sound dumb) but our EX2K3 is our only server and everything is hosted on it, priv and pub. Our organization is limited on funds and cannot follow MS' best practices. TIA Thomas From: Sean Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 11:57 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: memory upgrade on EX2K3 I found this article to be helpful: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=815372 - Sean On 5/23/08, Thomas Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm upgrading our exchange 2003 memory from 2 gig to 4 gig this weekend. I've been reading the documents on utilizing the /3GB switch. However, when reading 325044, there is a /userva in the doc. But I read 316739 which explains how to use the /userva and I'm a little confused as to why you would use that switch. Could some clarify for me as to why the /userva would benefit or would not? TIA Thomas Gonzalez Technology Manager Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas 210.349.2404 phone 210.403.1586 DID 210.349.2666 fax www.girlscouts-swtx.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not represent those of the Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas. Warning: Although precautions have been taken to make sure no viruses are present in this email, Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage that arise from the use of this email or attachments. This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not represent those of the Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas. Warning: Although precautions have been taken to make sure no viruses are present in this email, Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage that arise from the use of this email or attachments. This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not represent those of the Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas. Warning: Although precautions have been taken to make sure no viruses are present in this email
Re: Hump day story (or how NOT to do Exchg/Outlk)
It's not always the current admins, it can be the horribly insidious corporate culture. MS has a very nice technet article about PSTs on network shares that I can sum up for the list. Don't, it's not supported'. Oh, and the answer when your manager forces you to call PSS is oddly enough, See article, Don't, it's not supported, you will have problem. Corporate culture can prevent change because 'no one who can wants to rock the boat'. They just want to re-open tickets from 6 months ago and yell about why something wasn't solved when the final answer at the time was to shut the hell up about it if that one user accepts the explanation. And yes, I too have seen PSTs corrupted. Exchange/Outlook blamed for 'network slow issues', file server slow issues, etc, etc. In general, we don't have network slow, we have 'Outlook is broken' when there is a network issue. Why? Because Outlook is the one major (Citrix being the other) network aware application that has a feedback mechanism built in for network health (not allowed to turn it off). And should anything go wrong, it will freeze, be it name resolution(DNS blow up), file server (where PSTs are), network connection, 40 GB file dropped across the wire (yes, happens). Finally we are seeing a glacially slow change as we are converting people over to cached mode which helps to mitigate some of the other issues. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not the users I'm fussing about. They're mostly innocent bystanders. It's the stupid admins. Deeper than that, it's the stupid managers, who don't get training for their admins, and don't understand that IT needs care and feeding. On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Andy Shook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As Daddy always reminds me when I'm fussin' about users, Be thankful for the idiots in your life, there the reason your where you are. Shook -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 1:56 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hump day story (or how NOT to do Exchg/Outlk) Laugh, cry, go blind - I don't know which to choose. Wow. On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Jason Gurtz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup, there are more people that need to come here and find out how it's supposed to be done ;) The OP of the thread (a portion of which you see below) was trying to figure out a way to prove to I.T. staff how the network was not at fault for the CEO's slow email. ~JasonG -- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Shore Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 01:42 [Yea I'm a bit behind ;)] To: Nathan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Prove it's not the network! Nathan wrote: Proceed by elimination. If there is someone else in the office (I suppose the T1 is not just for one person) whose Outlook is *not* slow, and especially if someone else can be extended to everybody else then the problem is not the network. Outlook can have severe speed/response problems when not kept healthy; most notably there's something called PST files that have to be kept at a reasonable size, or re-indexed or something, and people who like to keep all their mail tend to run into that. Here's a long account of a similar battle over PSTs that I fought. I fought a 'blame-the-network' battle at a customer's site a couple years ago. We built a brand-new GigE greenfield network in a new building and help the customer move into their new digs. Shortly thereafter a certain group of users started complaining that their computers were horribly slow, most especially Outlook. This reached upper management before it came back down to us contractors so it was a huge deal when it landed at our feet. First thing we did was narrow down exactly who had the problem and who didn't. 95% of the complaints were me too! complaints and weren't legitimate. The remaining 5% were isolated to one group of users in one specific area of the new building. Their IT staff that was working on this problem with us immediately blamed us again because it had to be the network's fault because all the users are in the same physical vicinity. I showed them graph after graph of the network I/O from the Exchange servers through the core and down through the uplinks to distribution. In the end we ended up graphing every affected users' port. The graphs did not help; we were still to blame. Finally one day I sat down with the squeakiest user and had her show me exactly what was slow and the steps she took to make that happen from minute 1 of her walking into her office. I had her shut down and start from a cold boot. She commented that the login process was faster than normal and asked what I'd done to fix it (grrr). She fired up Outlook and I noticed that it was very slow. She said that it was faster than normal. Finally
Re: Update: Exchange on VM
PSS in general will give you the lecture, then help you anyway. Up to the point where they want to point to 'hardware' issue. I am running LCS2005sp1 in pure VMware (labeled on the diagram I send for the call too) and get it every time I call. Fortunately we never get to the 'put it on real hardware' point before we solve the issue. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Barsodi.John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Until they are on an Easy Assist Session(live meeting for PSS) and they notice the VMWare tools installed. :P From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Exchange (Sunbelt) Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 10:34 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Update: Exchange on VM Or you could neglect to tell them...:) From: Thomas Vito [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 1:32 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Update: Exchange on VM Then you could look at at a tool called Powerconvert from platespin http://www.platespin.com/products/powerconvert/ you can spend 200$ for a virtual to physical conversion. Let say you need PSS, with a spare server you could migrate the VM to physical for troubleshooting. VMware also has a support page for V2P conversion http://www.vmware.com/support/v2p/ 2008/5/16 John Hornbuckle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yeah, I interpret it that way. Especially since Microsoft themselves makes Exchange available on a VHD for download into a test/lab environment. But I've got to run a config that's supported, just in case I ever have a problem that requires MS's help. -Original Message- From: Rick Berry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 11:06 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Update: Exchange on VM I'm going to infer that means support you can get from a PSS call versus it'll actually run on it. 8^) -Original Message- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 10:12 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Update: Exchange on VM Well, here's a kink in my plans... Microsoft tells me that they don't support running Exchange 2007 on a virtual server now, and will only support it for certain roles in the future. They wrote: Right now we don't support virtualization of Exchange 2007. After Hyper-V ships we will have different messaging. I'm sure it will be around virtualization with Hyper-V. That said only some roles will have support. I believe we are leaning toward CAS, HUB, and Edge Transport that will be supported and Mailbox and UM Server Roles will not be supported for virtualization. Again this isn't official but expected. My problem is that all of my roles are handled by a single server. I'm not looking to change that. John On 5/9/08 10:41 AM, John Hornbuckle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have pretty much no experience running VMs on servers, other than a 1-day VMWare training session I attended this past winter. As I migrate us to Windows Server 2008 this summer, I'll be playing more with virtualization. I'm hoping to consolidate a few servers into one bigger server, and am looking at running Exchange 2007 on a virtual Server 2008 machine. Is anyone doing this successfully? Any caveats? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ - Salvador Manzo [ 620 W. 35th St - Los Angeles, CA 90089 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Auxiliary Services IT, Datacenter University of Southern California 818-612-5112 --- Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. -- Thomas Jefferson (First Inaugural Address, 3/4 1801) ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Re: Do you still need archiving in 2007?
Add HR business process for disputes, etc. If you have delegated read rights to a different department then you will again assume ownership of that drudge work. Steven On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Sean Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It sounds like only you can really answer that question. If you don't have any regulatory compliance issues to consider in regards to e-mail retention, than you can probably get by without an archiving solution. Sounds like you might be starting a bit of a battle with your end-users though. If you plan on using quotas with no means of archiving, is their only option to delete messages? If they have don't have to worry about storage limitations now because you are using Enterprise Vault, I'd be willing to bet your users won't want to give that up. -Sean On 5/15/08, Michael Pears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi we have Exchange 2003 and Enterprise Vault 6. About 700 mailboxes. Our EV is installed on a backup server and due to increasing capacity issues needs to be moved, and upgraded to 2007. It has been suggested that if we upgrade to Exhange 2007 and do away with online message archive which will simplify our environment. Reasoning: We implemented EV to archive messages out of the database for DB size and performance, backup time etc. However with Exchange 2007 x64, the DB size issue goes away, we would still have quotes :-), X64 performance is much better and the much quicker backups under Exch2007 are very attractive. Has anyone looked or gone down this path? Is my logic flawed? Cheers Michael ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
