RE: Outlook Web Access cannot open mail attachments in ".msg" for mat. ..

[Tom.Gray]

We are also looking for that workaround.  I've been told
that OWA 2000 will handle it, but haven't seen the proof.
Microsoft has basically said "that would be a new feature, and
we are not adding features to 5.5"

Let me know if you can find something that works around this!

Tom Gray, Network Engineer
All Kinds of Minds & The Center for Development and Learning
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Internet:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AT&T Net: (919)960-



-Original Message-
From: Ratini Heidi - IL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 11:39 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook Web Access cannot open mail attachments in ".msg"
for mat. ..


Sorry, I should have been more specific.  The Exchange Server is on SP4, and
the NT side is on SP6a.  The MSKB article only lists up to SP3 for Exchange
so I was hoping there was something new that could be done under SP4 for
Exchange...

-Original Message-
From: Baker, Marc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 7:58 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Outlook Web Access cannot open mail attachments in ".msg" for
mat. ..


What Service Pack do you have on Exch?

-Original Message-
From: Ratini Heidi - IL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 2:31 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Outlook Web Access cannot open mail attachments in ".msg" format.
..


http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q172/9/02.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=g
n&FR=0&qry=outlook%20web%20access%20.msg&rnk=1&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=EC
H

I found the above article that describes the problem we are having exactly.
We are on SP4 and I wanted to ask if anyone here has found any workaround
for this?

Maybe a way to tell the Exchange server to map .msg to .txt and have the
message open on the client side? (just an idea).

Any input is appreciated...

Thank you,

Heidi

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RE: looking for hardware

[Tom.Gray]

Compaq also has great tech support (in my opinion).   Back in my banyan
vines days i had the occaision to call for help on Christmas and on
Thanksgiving -- they had people on the other end of the phone that were very
experienced.

Since our (forced) switch to NT I've only called a couple of times, but
after getting past the obvious questions (yes I checked the cables, no I
haven't installed anything, yes I  tried rebooting) I have gotten answers
promptly.

Compaq has a strange system for hardware replacement.  Three years they
fix/replace it, even onsite!  BUT, they contract out with local folks to do
that work and I have certainly NOT been impressed with their local
contractors.  (after watching one technician try to force a SIMM in
backwards for 5 minutes, I now make them stand in a corner and watch me
replace whatever components were necessary)

But their servers have been rock solid for us (1 motherboard, 1 memory, 1
hard drive but probably 15 DAT/DLT drive replacements over 10 years)

YMMV

Tom Gray, Network Engineer
All Kinds of Minds & The Center for Development and Learning
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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-Original Message-
From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 10:16 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: looking for hardware


I will agree with Clayton. Compaq offers the best tools for setting up
and administering your servers.

-Original Message-
From: Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 6:54 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: looking for hardware


Me likes Compaq, easy to build up the RAID configs using their smart
start disks

-Original Message-
From: Arnold, Jamie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 9:50 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: looking for hardware


Dell, IBM, Compaq..not necessarily in that order.

-Original Message-
From: Kim Schotanus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 9:52 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: looking for hardware


I'm shopping for a new server for exch2000. 
Any best bets?

Kim

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Email that isn't decoded

[Tom.Gray]

Exchange 5.5 sp4
NT 4.0 sp6a

System has been running for 2 years without this problem.  

99.9% of users can receive email attachments from outside users
with no problem.  Word documents, Excel Spreadsheets, Zip Files, etc.

However, mail sent from one specific outside address arrives with
an attachment, attachment has name  "minutes.doc"  but it 
is not a word document.   It is all text, looks like a mime or
uuencoded document.   Here are the first few lines:

0M8R4KGxGuEAPgADAP7/CQAGAAABLgAA
EAAAMAEAAAD+AC0AAAD/






///s
pcEAayAJBAAA8BK/EAAABAAADxEAAA4AYmpiah+uH64A


If that same outside user send the same file to my America Online address
it works just fine.

Outside user claims they are using Outlook.  Header from AOL says:
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0)
Importance: Normal
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.


Any ideas?



Tom Gray, Network Engineer
All Kinds of Minds & The Center for Development and Learning
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Internet:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AT&T Net: (919)960-


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RE: Email that isn't decoded

[Tom.Gray]

It WAS a word doc when recieved at AOL,  it was NOT a word doc
when recieved at my exchange mailbox (even though it had a "doc"
extension)

tom

-Original Message-
From: Dahl, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 12:20 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Email that isn't decoded


If it was not a Word doc, what kind of file was it when you received it
in AOL?  

-Original Message-
From: Tom.Gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 11:58 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Email that isn't decoded


Exchange 5.5 sp4
NT 4.0 sp6a

System has been running for 2 years without this problem.  

99.9% of users can receive email attachments from outside users with no
problem.  Word documents, Excel Spreadsheets, Zip Files, etc.

However, mail sent from one specific outside address arrives with an
attachment, attachment has name  "minutes.doc"  but it 
is not a word document.   It is all text, looks like a mime or
uuencoded document.   Here are the first few lines:

0M8R4KGxGuEAPgADAP7/CQAGAAABLgAA

EAAAMAEAAAD+AC0AAAD/
EAAAMAEAAAD+













///s
pcEAayAJBAAA8BK/EAAABAAADxEAAA4AYmpiah+uH64A



If that same outside user send the same file to my America Online
address it works just fine.

Outside user claims they are using Outlook.  Header from AOL says:
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0)
Importance: Normal
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.


Any ideas?



Tom Gray, Network Engineer
All Kinds of Minds & The Center for Development and Learning University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Internet:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AT&T Net: (919)960-


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This communication is confidential and may be legally privileged.  If you
are not the intended recipient, (i) please do not read or disclose to
others, (ii) please notify the sender by reply mail, and (iii) please delete
this communication from your system.  Failure to follow this process may be
unlawful.  Thank you for your cooperation. 
 

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RE: Exchange 2k on NT4?? possible or not??

[Tom.Gray]

Lots of people will tell you it won't work.
Most won't tell you why.

Here is an overly simplified explaination.

 Exchange 5.5 and lower has basically 3 components:
1. Message store.  Think of this as the big database where all the mail
is
2. Connectors.   This is how mail gets in and out.  Like SMTP, CCMail,
MSmail etc)
 AND this is how the directory gets to and from other exchange
servers
3. Directory.  This is the list of users and global address list, and
the permissions, properties and such.  

  Well, along comes Win2k.  The directory (Active Directory) is basically
  and enhanced (stolen) version of the directory in exchange 5.5.  In order
  for active directory to work, the directory has to be distributed/shared
with
  other Win2k servers so the connectors are also built into win2k.
  So Exchange 2k is left with only the message store.  It should be cheaper
but
  it ain't!   If you somehow managed to install E2k on NT4, you would have
no
  mailbox names and no mail transports!

Once again, overly simplified to save bandwidth.


Tom Gray, Network Engineer
All Kinds of Minds & The Center for Development and Learning
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Internet:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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-Original Message-
From: John Sparrow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 8:47 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange 2k on NT4?? possible or not??


hi all

sorry to be a pain, think i may be a little dumb here :D

what sort of problems would be likely to occur if i install ex2k on an NT
box??

currently running a straight NT4 domain with the exception of 2 win2k pro
workstations, all servers running nt4 sp6a

probably talking out my ass again, sorry people,..its friday

John Sparrow
IT Support Assistant
Computer Department
Travco Ltd, London



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RE: Retrieval of deleted item from the recycle bin

[Tom.Gray]

Hopefully your exchange server has "deleted item retention time" set to a
number greater than zero.  

Lots of folks set it to 30, which means you can recover deleted mail for 30
days without using a backup tape!

If you have it, all the user needs to do (in outlook 2k) is go to the
deleted items folder and then click TOOLS / Recover deleted items

(BTW, this is a good way to avoid doing Individual Mailbox Backups -- known
as Brick Level Backups)

Good luck.

Tom Gray, Network Engineer
All Kinds of Minds & The Center for Development and Learning
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Internet:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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-Original Message-
From: Mathews, James E. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 11:19 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Retrieval of deleted item from the recycle bin


One of the users at our firm deleted an email and then immediately emptied
their deleted items folder (and before you ask have no idea why they would
do this).  is there anyway to get this back.  We are running exchange 5.5
with outlook 2k client.  I don't know of anyway to get it back but he claims
that it has happened before and he got them back.  I know we can restore
messages from backup but he deleted it the same day so would not be on the
nightly back up.  

Thanks
James

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RE: The case of the vanishing email

[Tom.Gray]

I'll bet you a virtual 6-pack the receiver has some rule moving that message
to another folder.  Typically it is moving to the "deleted items" folder and
when the (receiver) user shuts down outlook it will empty that folder.  The
(receiver) user will swear that isn't true, then when you show them they
will swear they didn't do it.

Then you get to tell the sender all about it and let them wonder why
"receiver" does that to them


This happens a couple of times a year at my site.  Very humorous.

Tom Gray, Network Engineer
All Kinds of Minds & The Center for Development and Learning
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Internet:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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-Original Message-
From: Stuart Pittwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 11:24 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: The case of the vanishing email


Does anyone have their dearstalker & pipe with them today?

I have a user who cannot send mail to a particular mailbox, or to be more
accurate he can send the mail and it goes it even seems to arrive at the
client (lil envelope in the system tray) but there is nothing in the users
folders.  The message tracking tells me it's been delivered, there don't
seem to be any rules setup on the client to dump mail from this user.

Every other user can send to this person and receive from the guy whose mail
is getting lost.

Any Ideas?

Stu

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RE: WLKMMAS

[Tom.Gray]

Hmmm.  Certs are just that -- Certifications for a specific
item/entity/product.
Certs are great if you want to focus on that particular part/parts of IT.
They
are not necessary, but every cert course I've taken I've learned at least
one
nugget from the course, and probably 10 from the folks taking the course
with me.

But, a college degree can do many things for you:
1) Lots of jobs (not just IT) want that BA, BS, etc  "or equivalent
experience"
   Proving that experience may be easy, but many a hiring person doesn't
want
   to take that time to prove to the HR folks this was good.
   Basically, it makes it easier to hire you.  (certs help here also)
2) Having a degree in Computer Science can be very helpful.  Sure, you
didn't
   learn how to install Win2k, Exchange or configure a router, but you
probably
   (hopefully) learned the theory behind routing, programming, operating
systems
   and such.  Database theory, probability, etc.  Heck, even ethernet
protocols
   and such.  When you have to troubleshoot a large problem, having some
background
   in all those areas can come in handy.
3) Getting thru college proves you can deal with "the system".  They have to
manage
   your time, follow the rules, get the forms done correctly, take the
classes, deal
   with all the good (and not so good) instructors/professors etc.  In the
real world
   the skills you obtained doing all these come in handy.
4) College, unlike the workplace, is a great place to "co-mingle".  This is
usually
   frowned upon in the workplace!  (grin)


But in the end, real world experience and your own personality/work ethic
should
provide you the vehicle to travel down your career path!  The rest is just a
bunch of options that might make the journey easier!


Good Luck
Tom Gray, Network Engineer  (CCNA, CBE, BS-LSU)
All Kinds of Minds & The Center for Development and Learning
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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-Original Message-
From: Ray Zorz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 9:21 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: WLKMMAS


Wow. I unfortunately put a lot of my time and energy into a company and
product line that, after 10 years, pretty much disappeared.  I've had a
tough time getting motivated to keep up with the latest I guess.

-Original Message-
From: Snook, Kevin S (ITD) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 1:58 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: WLKMMAS


Ray,

Like you, I never planned any of this!

I guess the only thing a degree has helped me with is having a formalised
approach to problem-solving and project work. For my last degree, I worked
on network security algorithms but whilst I was at the college I helped in
the college's labs with the networking and admin. Since I've left college,
I've never touched a network security job again. So even with a relevant
research degree, there's no such thing as a "projected career path".

I'm quite happy with what I've achieved and know that I've worked hard to
earn something. That's the satisfaction of degrees to me. But I'm also as
satisfied with the fact that I've built up a small company (which is being
sold) and hopefully helped a few people along the way.

The thing that means the most to me though is that I've gained freedom of
choice through my hard work. I'm retiring from computing at the end of this
year. I crave new challenges now.

Kevin

-Original Message-
From: Ray Zorz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 05 April 2002 18:42
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: WLKMMAS


Well, of course, YMMV. And I wouldn't trade my college years for anything
primarily because of the social aspect.  But career-wise, unless you
consider that the guy that gave me my first real job ($4/hr. fixing
printers) gave me a shot because I had a degree (Business) and was therefore
trainable, it hasn't helped much.  Of course, I could've tried to find
something else. Getting into IT wasn't a dream of mine at the time (1978).
It was the first job that I could find.

-Original Message-
From: Paul Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 10:25 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: WLKMMAS


If someone asked me, I would tell them to go to college.  Personally, I
think a college degree is a nice thing to have no matter what field you
go into.  I'm 21 and like many, my experience was gained through not
having a social life when I was a teenager ;)  (Though things have
changed now), I am still gaining tons of experience.  I left as an
assistant here to work for Microsoft as a contractor when I was 19.
After a year there,  and loving it, I decided I just wanted to go back
to school and finish up a 4 year degree- in whatever it may be, and
probably return back to the Redmond area.  In the meantime I landed a
position back at where I was an assistant, as their admin and have
gained even more experience, while attending coll

RE: Please Help (Error message found after tracking email that di dn't send)

[Tom.Gray]

It sounds like maybe your DNS provider doesn't have those entries?
Just a thought.

Go to a dos prompt at the exchange server and try:
  ping  frontiernet.net

It should respond with 4 replies from 66.133.130.13


Just a quick guess.


Tom Gray, Network Engineer
All Kinds of Minds & The Center for Development and Learning
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Internet:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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-Original Message-
From: Christopher Barr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 11:07 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Please Help (Error message found after tracking email that
didn't send)


I'm new to exchange and after trying to send an email to a known good
email address. The message is being sent from an Exchange 5.5 sp4, running
NT4 sp6 as OS, and the error message is as follows:
The recipient 'C=US;A=
;P=Communitech,Inc;O=Communitech;DDA:SMTP=mryu(a)frontiernet.net;'is not
found in the directory, and may be a Personal Address Book entry.
I'm not quite sure where to start especially since i'm not even sure what
directory the error message is pertaining to.
This error message also apears while trying to send some international
email as well as other .net addresses.
Any insight would be appreciated.

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Exchange 5.5 to 2000 Upgrade horror story

[Tom.Gray]

This is just an informational post, you're welcome to comment on it but I'm
not really asking any questions.  Just thought folks out there getting ready
to upgrade might want to hear the story.  I just spent the night upgrading
(or trying to upgrade) my exchange 5.5 server.

We have a very simple network.  1 domain.   200 users.  1 exchange server.
2 domain controllers (not the exchange server).


Started about 2 weeks ago prepping for upgrade.  Armed with:
  White Paper  "in-place upgrade from msoft exchange 5.5 to msoft exchange
2000" 
  Q316886  "How To:  Migrate from exchange server 5.5 to exchange 2000
server
  Q282309  "upgrading exchange server 5.5 service pack 4 to exchange 2000
server"
  Q295922  "considerations when you upgrade to exchange 2000 server"
  Q296260  "how to configure a two-way recipient connection agreement for
exchange server 5.5 users"
  Q253829  "description of the active directory connector deletion
mechanism"

And, of course, monitored this list (and the sun-exchange) one for upgrade
ideas!


Now some of the documents have conflicting information.  If you weed thru
the dates and such you can usually figure out what is really true.  For
example, the white paper states you MUST have at least one domain running in
native mode, but the HOW TO describes a scenario where all domains are in
mixed mode.

  With the domain controllers upgraded to win2k active directory (mixed
mode) last month I tackled the exchange upgrade this month.  Went thru the
white paper and how to, updating the schema  (forestprep and domainprep) and
ran all the tests listed in those docs to verify it was working.  Got
exactly the results they told me!

  First time I ran the actual upgrade got my first rude surprise.  My vendor
had shipped me the Exchange 2000 standard edition media (which doesn't
really say standard on it, just Exchange 2000) and the upgrade process
stopped immediately with "You can't go from enterprise to standard you
idiot"   
  Two days later I have the correct media.  Take the server off the network
and run an online backup (Veritas backup exec with exchange option).  Verify
the backup worked.
  With exchange services down get back on the network and run domain tests
again.  Everything ok!
  Run the upgrade!   The upgrade goes thru several processes but hangs at
"Setup failed while installing sub-component "Site Replication Service with
error code 0xC007041D" -- retry or cancel"  search MS knowledge base and
looks like a permissions issue  (Q278254 and Q273730).  Hmm, make sure the
exchange service account has all the permissions and click retry.  Still no
work.  Rats.  Getting late so time to make the $250 call to PSS!
   PSS steps me thru lots of stuff, nothing works.  They have me change the
service account user permissions at the ORG container from CUSTOM to SERVICE
ACCOUNT (i'm probably not saying this exactly correct).  Still no joy.  Try
to cancel out of that error message.  Nada.  Have to task manager/shut down
process.  They then refer me to the ultimate nightmare:  Q264309 - How to
Roll Back A failed Upgraded from Exchange Server 5.5. to Exchange 2000.
   Yuck.  Go into registry and delete the stuff, rename the exchsrvr
folders, uninstall IIS, restart server, install IIS, re-apply all service
packs and hotfixes (that really sucks), delete the renamed exchsrvr folders,
setup /r exchange 5.5, restore directory and info store.
   Restoring directory service doesn't work.  Call PSS back.  Directory
service was trying to start and got hung, can't restore to hung service.
Change to manual start and reboot. Directory restores!!!
   Restore info store.  (8 gigs).  2 hours later ready to go!  (almost)  Now
the internet mail connector isn't working.  Dawn is breaking and panic
begins to creep in.   Users will be screaming in about 2 hours.  Call PSS
again.  End up deleting the IMC and creating a new one.  They very patiently
step me through lots of good stuff, including making sure I'm not an
internet relay and that I'm not doing circular logs.  They even stand by
while I reinstall my Anti-virus for exchange.  Everything is working.  It's
now 7am and I'm back to my original pre-upgrade status from 7pm the night
before.

  Problem summary:  PSS thinks that the problem was caused by the mail
service account user not having complete permissions at the org container.
By the time this was corrected by PSS (and me) the upgrade was stuck.  They
are "pretty sure" and "reasonably confident" the upgrade will work next
time.

  Moral:  MAKE BACKUPS.  PLAN FOR EXTRA TIME.  PSS is your friend (I was on
the phone with them for about 4 hours)

This was so much fun we're planning another attempt.  This will be on a
Saturday morning so I'll have lots of time to recover (or celebrate).



Tom Gray, Network Engineer
All Kinds of Minds & The Center for Development and Learning
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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How to anti-spoof in exchange 5.5????

[Tom.Gray]

This may be impossible or very easy.  I'm not an expert in Exchange so
please be gentle!

Problem --
Klez is killing us.  Not the actual virus, but the spoofed emails.
People on my network receive mail that LOOKS like it is from someone on my
network (the basic KLEZ spoof) but they just won't accept the the
explaination that it is a faked return address.

   I KNOW this is a user education issue.

   But, can I configure my exchange server so that the smtp connector
rejects any email from the outside world that has a FROM address of one of
my inside folks?   Hmm, how about an example:

assume my smtp domain is: mydomain.com
  So [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a user on my network.  He uses my exchange server
to send messages.  Now, somebody outside my network gets the KLEZ virus and
sends a message (from outside my network) to somebody on my network, but the
message has the FROM field filled with [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Can I make the smtp connector reject those messages?

Thanks for helping

Tom Gray, Network Engineer
All Kinds of Minds & The Center for Development and Learning
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Internet:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Blocking a specific internet address?

[Tom.Gray]

This is probably very simple, hope I'm not just brain dead this morning.

I want to block a specific internet address from sending email to anyone on
my exchange server.  
Let's just say that   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  is bothering all my users with
junk mail.

I want my exchange server to ignore (or reject) any messages from
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

However, there are probably some other people at  domain.org   that we don't
want to block.

How can I do this?

Tom Gray, Network Engineer
All Kinds of Minds & The Center for Development and Learning
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Internet:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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RE: Blocking a specific internet address? (SOLVED!)

[Tom.Gray]

I knew it was there, just couldn't remember exactly where.
Your instructions were perfect.

Thank you very much.

tom
-Original Message-
From: NeoNexus Support [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 10:31 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Blocking a specific internet address?


In Exchange 5.5:

1) MS Exchange Administrator
2a) In CONNECTIONS, or
2b) In PRIVATE INFORMATION STORE - MAILBOX RESOURCES
3) open INTERNET MAIL SERVICE
4) CONNECTIONS tab
5) MESSAGE FILTERING

Hope this helps.
:-)

- Mark W. Harrison
System Manager
NeoNexus Systems, subdivision of
Genesistems, Inc. - Computer and Telephone Systems
Celebrating Our 25th Year of Custom Systems Integration
   (585) 475-9180 x 221
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- Original Message -
From: "Tom.Gray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 10:21 AM
Subject: Blocking a specific internet address?


This is probably very simple, hope I'm not just brain dead this morning.

I want to block a specific internet address from sending email to anyone on
my exchange server.
Let's just say that   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  is bothering all my users with
junk mail.

I want my exchange server to ignore (or reject) any messages from
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

However, there are probably some other people at  domain.org   that we don't
want to block.

How can I do this?

Tom Gray, Network Engineer
All Kinds of Minds & The Center for Development and Learning
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Internet:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AT&T Net: (919)960-


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



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

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

RE: OWA on the same box

[Tom.Gray]

Might also want to consider security issues.  OWA on a separate box on your
DMZ instead of opening up port 80 (or 443) on your exchange box to the
entire world...


Tom Gray, Network Engineer
All Kinds of Minds & The Center for Development and Learning
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Internet:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AT&T Net: (919)960-



-Original Message-
From: Brian Politis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 3:59 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: OWA on the same box


In my experience it can lead to instabilities, and weekly reboots.  IIS
can run away with the processor hitting 99% of the processor time, and
slowing other exchange functions to a crawl.  MS has some hotfixes for
this problem but they don't seem to work in my environment.  Stick OWA
on another box if you have one handy, in the long run you will be much
happier...

-Original Message-
From: Matthew Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 2:42 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: OWA on the same box


I heard someone tell me that it is a big no no to run OWA on the same
machine as Exchange.

Is that true, or an opinion?

Exch 5.5 SP4


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


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

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