RE: Exchange 2003 Crisis
Are you unbinding the sink? If you unbind do your problems go away? Don't forget to unbind the smtp and AV scanner. Do you have any IS store errors? Do you have Deleted Item Retention turned on? Go to his folder that the files were missing and see if you can do a Deleted Item Recovery on it. Greg Sweers CEO ACTS360.comhttp://www.acts360.com/ P.O. Box 1193 Brandon, FL 33509 813-657-0849 Office 813-758-6850 Cell 813-341-1270 Fax From: Jim Dandy [mailto:jda...@asmail.ucdavis.edu] Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 2:14 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 2003 Crisis Thursday morning I came to work and my exchange server was not receiving mail. The antivirus engine had stopped and after that the event log registered thousands of entries that the Ninja VSAPI had refused Microsoft Exchange InfoStore request to scan a message because the Ninja Store Scanner is down. (I'm using Vipre E-mail Security for antivirus/antispam). No other unusual entries were found in the event log. I rebooted the server and it took a really long time to shut down. When it came back up the Ninja Store scanner service was not started but I was able to start it manually. Without going into a lot more detail I'll just say the info store wasn't working right. Subsequent attempts to stop the IS service failed. I disabled Vipre, rebooted again and everything resumed normal function (except no antivirus/antispam). I updated Vipre and reenabled its services. The following morning the server had crashed in the same way. When it crashes messages are not delivered to inboxes and the sender does not get an NDR. Since then I've had a user claim that he tried to move some messages from one folder to another and they disappeared. Later he told me that he had an important message in his inbox and when he tried to open it, it disappeared. So, the questions I have are 1) Could a corrupt info store cause the av scanner to fail like this? If so, how can I check for/repair the store? 2) Does this guy's claims seem possible that messages are just disappearing? Details Exchange Server 2003 with both front and backend servers. Vipre E-mail security latest version. Thanks for your help. --- 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
RE: Am I in a corner?
I am trying to understand as well. Are you saying that you have all your Databases on the same LUN mapped via ISCSI to a single partition on the Exchange server, that's what it looks like by your diagram and description. The partition is what would be available per your LUN configuration from your SAN, size, type, etc to create volumes on. If you only have drive e and no other partitions after that then you should have no issue expanding the LUN, and then expanding the volume on the partition. (Multiple datastores on one partition/volume.) If when you open up Disk Manager you have multiple volumes on that partition then yes in that case when you add more space and try and expand Windows will only add to the last drive on that partition and not to the specific volume needing space. (One datastore per volume, multiple volumes on one partition) Just trying to get a picture here.. Greg Sweers CEO ACTS360.comhttp://www.acts360.com/ P.O. Box 1193 Brandon, FL 33509 813-657-0849 Office 813-758-6850 Cell 813-341-1270 Fax From: Robert Peterson [mailto:robert.peter...@prin.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 3:57 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Am I in a corner? No, they don't all see the same slice But every server has a slice similarly setup on its own SAN. Some servers have the Active copy of a particular DB. Others, using a different slice (in a different location), are maintaining a passive copy. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 2:42 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Am I in a corner? So every server sees every other server's partition on the slice? Yeah, that's not the way I would do it. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Robert Peterson [mailto:robert.peter...@prin.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 3:39 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Am I in a corner? The steps as you mention is exactly what we have been attempting... the gotcha I think, is there are other partitions already on the slice, that fall between the piece we want to grow and the unallocated space. It is the data in the middle, I think that causes the need to convert to dynamic. I'd love to be wrong, but that is what we are seeing. If there was only ONE partition, and it next to the unallocated space, I think I could grow it just fine. Our example: We want to grow DB02 Basic DISK 3 = |ExDBMount|DB01|DB02|DB03|DB03|DB04 |DB05 |Unallocated Space| Again, I'm feeling we just need to get these DBs onto their own disks. Thank you all, Robert From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 2:22 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Am I in a corner? Dude, then you are doing it wrong. :) First, you increase the size of the slice on the SAN - how you do that on the SAN is dependent on the SAN. Once you've done that, viewing the disk from Computer Management - Disk Management should show you the volume with Unallocated Space. Then, you can extend the partition WITHOUT a conversion to dynamic disk. The switch to dynamic disk actually means you are creating a software RAID-0. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Robert Peterson [mailto:robert.peter...@prin.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 3:16 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Am I in a corner? RE: What method are you wanting to use to grow the partition? If I grow the volume we are presenting from the SAN, The MB server (Server 2008 Data Center) is allowing me to Extend the particular partition, but it warns it will convert the entire Basic disk to a Dynamic disk. We did this in a test instance and visually it looks like the partition has two separate non-contiguous partitions on the disk. The whole disk is then considered Dynamic. Looks like it's taking two partitions and virtually treating them as one. Not sure what this would do to a large single file database. -Robert P.S. I think I am leaning towards presenting a new disk and keeping the logs on the same path. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 1:58 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Am I in a corner? Members of a DAG require that databases protected by the DAG must be consistently deployed. Sothey all must be on E: once you Add-MailboxDatabaseCopy (or perform the similar activity in the GUI). What method are you wanting to use to grow the partition? Regardless, the easiest thing would be to present a new mount point as G: (or something) and put the new DB there. In Exchange 2010 there is rarely reason to separate log and database volumes. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Robert Peterson [mailto:robert.peter...@prin.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 1:49 PM To:
RE: Android and Exchange 2007
Except that in 2010 you have a limit of 10 device associations. I am guessing that you would just do a powershell to wipe the associations if you have the page disabled from view in OWA? Testing one too many handhelds on my account. Greg Sweers CEO ACTS360.com P.O. Box 1193 Brandon, FL 33509 813-657-0849 Office 813-758-6850 Cell 813-341-1270 Fax -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 5:42 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Android and Exchange 2007 You can configure Exchange to not allow the removal of device associations. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Don Andrews [mailto:don.andr...@safeway.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 5:40 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Android and Exchange 2007 Sounds like a security loophole to me. -Original Message- From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 2:34 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Android and Exchange 2007 I figured as much, but I just wanted to make sure that an Exchange Admin couldn't go behind me and wipe from EMC even though I had removed it from within OWA. Thanks! Jonathan On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: You can't do a wipe/reset without a device association being present. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Jonathan [mailto:ncm...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 5:28 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Android and Exchange 2007 Quick question - I know that I can do a remote wipe/reset of a device (in my case, an android phone) from either the Exchange Management Console or from my own inbox within OWA. I also know that I can Remove the device from within OWA. If I were to remove the device (rather than wipe/reset it), would that prevent an admin from remotely wiping/resetting it? Thanks, Jonathan, A+, MCSA, MCSE --- 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 -- Jonathan, A+, MCSA, MCSE --- 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: Blackberry Professional Software
Yeah, although I was told by a RIM rep that they were dumping BPS, but renewing
the SMB pricing under the next version, similar to what BES had prior to
releasing BPS. We have dozens of clients on BPS currently, I really hope they
have something for the SMB space that equals what they did with BPS but with
regular updates.. J
From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 11:10 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Blackberry Professional Software
You mean BES 5.0?
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:56 AM, gswe...@actsconsulting.net wrote:
Yeah BPS has been poorly supported, and with the new release of BES coming out,
no one really knows what the new offering is going to look like/price point
etc. Maybe there is some new info out there, but I called RIM about 2 weeks
ago and there was nothing from them yet.
Its pretty lame since BES has had HTML email since early last year.
From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com]
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 10:55 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Blackberry Professional Software
An associate here researched that very issue last week, and ended up having to
call them to get an answer. As of last Thursday, the answer is no, it
doesn't support HTML and Advanced policy settings.
From: Sean Rector [mailto:sean.rec...@vaopera.org]
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 9:50 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Blackberry Professional Software
Does the latest version of Blackberry Professional Software (not the Express
version) support HTML Advanced policy settings? I can't find that
information on their website.
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RE: Blackberry Professional Software
Yeah BPS has been poorly supported, and with the new release of BES coming out,
no one really knows what the new offering is going to look like/price point
etc. Maybe there is some new info out there, but I called RIM about 2 weeks
ago and there was nothing from them yet.
Its pretty lame since BES has had HTML email since early last year.
From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com]
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 10:55 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Blackberry Professional Software
An associate here researched that very issue last week, and ended up having to
call them to get an answer. As of last Thursday, the answer is no, it
doesn't support HTML and Advanced policy settings.
From: Sean Rector [mailto:sean.rec...@vaopera.org]
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 9:50 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Blackberry Professional Software
Does the latest version of Blackberry Professional Software (not the Express
version) support HTML Advanced policy settings? I can't find that
information on their website.
Sean Rector, MCSE
Information Technology Manager
Virginia Opera Association
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RE: BLOCING PORN SITES
+10 From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:david.mazzacc...@hudsonhhc.com] Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 10:58 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: BLOCING PORN SITES I use St. Bernard iPrism. Love it. From: Murray Freeman [mailto:mfree...@alanet.org] Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 10:51 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: BLOCING PORN SITES My boss has asked me to look into software that will block porn sites. The concern is a legal one, and I fully understand. So, is there software that wil just block porn sites in general? Is there software to monitor our staff workstations that access porn sites and report it to the administrator (me)? Also, is there software that monitors email for porn content? Murray ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: BLOCING PORN SITES
Websense is good, but when we looked at it, it required 2 dedicated boxes, one DB engine and one proxy, and then reporting if it was heavy enough...Plus it was pricey.. From: Rob Bonfiglio [mailto:robbonfig...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 11:07 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: BLOCING PORN SITES We used Websense at a past job. We integrated it with ISA so we could get proper reporting on Terminal Services users. I don't know if they do e-mail content or not. Are you looking attachment filtering? Or are you looking to block HTML content in an e-mail that originates from a porn site? Websense worked well for us, but I haven't used it in almost 5 years now. I'm sure others on the list can give you their current experience as well. On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Murray Freeman mfree...@alanet.org wrote: My boss has asked me to look into software that will block porn sites. The concern is a legal one, and I fully understand. So, is there software that wil just block porn sites in general? Is there software to monitor our staff workstations that access porn sites and report it to the administrator (me)? Also, is there software that monitors email for porn content? Murray ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: BLOCING PORN SITES
Yeah the Watchguard is nice, they recently expanded to being able to block 40 sites..The downsides for me are. 1.You have to install an SSO agent on the server (Single Signon) to integrate with AD, or you use a java applet you have to keep open to authenticate if you wish to apply different policies to users. 2. I don't like having an all in one appliance perform all functions.. 3. Iprism is much easier to manage, more configurable, flexible, etc.. Filtering is best in the industry in my opinion.. 4. Reporting in IPRISM is easy, also interactive and customizable reports within the application. Then save off to HTML, PDF, etc.. 5. Watchguard while good, requires a dedicated management machine with logging to pull all the reports. Greg From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 11:21 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: BLOCING PORN SITES My watchguard firewalls can handle all of that, though we don't block porn sites due to the nature of our work.(no, it doesn't involve porn). We block other stuff though. James - Original Message - From: Murray Freeman mailto:mfree...@alanet.org To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues mailto:exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 10:50 AM Subject: BLOCING PORN SITES My boss has asked me to look into software that will block porn sites. The concern is a legal one, and I fully understand. So, is there software that wil just block porn sites in general? Is there software to monitor our staff workstations that access porn sites and report it to the administrator (me)? Also, is there software that monitors email for porn content? Murray ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Inconsistent Meeting Times...off by one hour?
We reapplied the Exchange 2003 DST Fix not the Windows one since that worked fine its only calendar appts. Since any calendar appointment shows up fine in the OLD DST time frames. All of the Storms have the DST already updated in them so it should be something on the Exchange box. If you use OWA and see the same time shift you know it's the server at that point. -Original Message- From: Mousa Hamad [mailto:mha...@zetron.com] Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 3:09 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Inconsistent Meeting Times...off by one hour? I think in Paul's case they aren't, if I remember correctly. However I am experiencing this issue as well. Curious what measures you have taken to try and fix this. The next thing I am looking at is running traittool.exe on our BES (still doing some background research on it). We are running Exchange 2003 with BES 4.1.4.17 and have Blackberry Storm's deployed. Mousa Hamad Zetron, Inc. IT Department (425) 820-6363 x624 -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 1:58 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Inconsistent Meeting Times...off by one hour? Are they using Blackberries? To date, I'm still having issues with this. -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:paul...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:31 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Inconsistent Meeting Times...off by one hour? I am helping out a company that is having a problem with some meeting invitations they receive being off by one hour. I would assume this is a DST issue, but it isn't consistent. If they send out a meeting request it is correct and most of the ones they receive are correct however a handful are coming in with the time one hour late. I thought it was the person sending the requests since the ones they receive incorrectly are always from the same people so I had the person send a request to an account on the clients server and to an account on a separate Exchange server and that request was incorrect for the client, but correct on the separate server. I'm stumped. How can they be seeing the correct time for 90% of their meeting invites and incorrectly for the remaining 10% yet also be able to send a meeting request to the same people who are sending the bad ones and those people see it correctly? The client is running Outlook 2007 on Windows XP with an Exchange 2003 server. Are there any known issues or settings that could cause this type of inconsistent behavior? Also the meeting invitations are not for recurring meetings. Thanks Paul ~ 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~
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: Recovering store to different server
RSG will only work for existing storage groups in the organization. I don't believe it will work to recover a store from a nonexistent server or storage group.If the exchange backup that was done is part of the same domain that are restoring too then I would setup an additional server in the org using the same name as before and restore to that server. If not then do a full restore of the system state and store to a completely separate server and treat it as a DR restore to new hardware. I admit my knowledge on RSG is limited but I may be wrong. PSS may be your best bet in this case depending on your need. Greg From: Adam Meixler [mailto:ad...@interlink1.com] Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 10:28 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Recovering store to different server hi All, I need to recover some mail last backed up in 2006. I have the tape and an RSG created to restore to but the server and storage group for which this backup was made no longer exist. I was hoping it was as easy as setting a few Exchange redirect parameters in BackupExec and running the job but I receive the error below. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated, thanks! Failed to find a database to restore to from the Microsoft Active Directory. Storage Group specified on the backup media is 680416c8-ce41-4fc2-a1ee-46bead5107f8. Database specified on backup media is Mailbox Store (MAIL-BE), error is 0xc7fe1f42. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Recovering store to different server
Sorry, had to go out to clients and do some employee reviews.. If you restore the store, it will just restore the DB, it should not link the AD account to the mailboxes, they are already linked with your current server. I would do a system state and Exchange restore to physically separate boxes if you can and not mess with your production environment. 2nd idea. You could build up a DC into the existing structure, make it a GC, etc..Install Exchange and then orphan the box from your prod. Network and then seize roles essentially giving you a copy of your AD and Domain SID. This would mean cleaning up AD in your prod network.. Then restore Exchange DB from before and link mailboxes to AD accounts,.several steps here especially if there is a problem mounting the recovered DB.. then PST out and import as necessary in your production network. PSS support call may have a simpler way and less costly by the time you go through all that. From: Adam Meixler [mailto:ad...@interlink1.com] Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 11:53 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Recovering store to different server If I setup a new server with the same name or do a full restore of the original system how would this impact users that have since been moved to other servers. i.e. will users try and connect to the DR restore? (old and new servers have different server names) thanks! The RSG was created using the existing storage group. I was assuming BackupExec/Exchange was just going to magically move the backed up group into the new RSG. A bit of reading has shown how poor an assumption that was. From: gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 11:02 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Recovering store to different server RSG will only work for existing storage groups in the organization. I don't believe it will work to recover a store from a nonexistent server or storage group.If the exchange backup that was done is part of the same domain that are restoring too then I would setup an additional server in the org using the same name as before and restore to that server. If not then do a full restore of the system state and store to a completely separate server and treat it as a DR restore to new hardware. I admit my knowledge on RSG is limited but I may be wrong. PSS may be your best bet in this case depending on your need. Greg From: Adam Meixler [mailto:ad...@interlink1.com] Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 10:28 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Recovering store to different server hi All, I need to recover some mail last backed up in 2006. I have the tape and an RSG created to restore to but the server and storage group for which this backup was made no longer exist. I was hoping it was as easy as setting a few Exchange redirect parameters in BackupExec and running the job but I receive the error below. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated, thanks! Failed to find a database to restore to from the Microsoft Active Directory. Storage Group specified on the backup media is 680416c8-ce41-4fc2-a1ee-46bead5107f8. Database specified on backup media is Mailbox Store (MAIL-BE), error is 0xc7fe1f42. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RIM BPS being axed in July
Read a few reports that Rim is discontinuing BPS and Unite in July of this year and ending support in 2010. This is a bad move for Rim, we have at least 25 deployments of BPS to SMB's with 10 and under Blackberry's. I am guessing that it did not financially take off for them, but this has the undertone to move the entire SMB away from Blackberry to WM or Iphones, especially if Apple starts utilizing more of the EAS functions and gets encryption on par. Hopefully they will just license a under 25 user version for SMB pricing.. http://www.blackberrynews.com/2009/02/26/unite-and-bps-on-the-rim-choppi ng-block/ http://www.blackberryforums.com/blackberrynews-com-feed/178410-unite-bps -rim-chopping-block.html Anyone else have a take on this? Greg ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Can some one remove me from this list?
Bob Barker has some spay and neuter our dogs to protect the population. I think it applies here. From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 5:00 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Can some one remove me from this list? When you are THAT broke, the fixin' takes a while... From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 3:17 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Can some one remove me from this list? I can't believe that Shook hasn't been fixed yet. On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.com wrote: Hmmm, let's see, you're the one that got her in that condition, so maybe you should have timed it a little better ;);) On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Andy Shook andy.sh...@peak10.com wrote: I had to cancel a trip last year b\c my wife had to have a baby three weeks before opening dayI couldn't believe how selfish she was being. I mean she can crank out a kid any old time. Turkey season is only for 30 days once a freakin' year. Am I the only one being unreasonable here??? Shook From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 2:18 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Can some one remove me from this list? That will make Shook curl up in the fetal position and whimper like a little baby. On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:14 PM, James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com wrote: Spring turkey season is cancelled! - Original Message - From: Andy Shook mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues mailto:exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 2:00 PM Subject: RE: Can some one remove me from this list? I've never gotten an email that made me cry until now. Shook From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 1:36 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Can some one remove me from this list? I can!!! From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 12:32 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Can some one remove me from this list? It is the nature of the list that once you join you cannot leave. Well, you can't leave without great sacrafice. You'll miss out on Shook's banter, and who can live without that? On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Alex Rodriguez a...@ontimecomputing.com wrote: Alex Rodriguez, President On Time Technology Solutions, Inc. PO BOX 3285* 1206 S. Cedar St. Borger, TX 79007 * Office 806-274-9912* Fax 806-274-9596 www.ontimecomputing.com http://www.ontimecomputing.com/ www.ontimebdr.com http://www.borgerhasslefreeit.com/ Why is a trusted IT Partner better than Just a Guy? - Read More at http://www.wevegottaguy.com/ On Time Technology Solutions, Inc. will be your trusted IT Partner, we pride ourselves in providing the Texas Panhandle market with proven and best of breed technology solutions. This message (and any associated files) is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, subject to copyright or constitutes a trade secret. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, copying or distribution of this message, or files associated with this message, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Messages sent to and from us may be monitored. Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. Therefore, we do not accept responsibility for any errors or omissions that are present in this message, or any attachment, that have arisen as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required, please request a hard-copy version. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not
RE: Help in Moving over MX record from one provider to another
R U changing your DNS provider for the zone? If that is the case, then you can have 24 to 48 hours of downtime. Move to your new DNS provider before moving locations... if you are just changing the records then it usually happens in 24 to 48 hours. I always just go in 24 hours before and put the new IP as the MX 10 and leave the current as MX 20 When the cutover happens email should transparently flow without issues, and then I just go remove the secondary(Old location) Changing hostnames is usually the most problematic as there is no way for those to rollover seamlessly and usually only take a few hours...the TTL suggestion will help with this tremendously. Greg From: Debashish Basak [mailto:dba...@pycon.com] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:25 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Help in Moving over MX record from one provider to another Hello All, We are in the process of moving to a new location. The present internet provider is being changed to a new provider. Can someone who has gone through this advice as the best way to change the following: DNS Addresses MX record Will there be a downtime when this change happens? Any advice will be helpful. Thanking you and with Best Wishes, Debashish ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Transaction logs
It may be a bit late, but I would just do a NTbackup of the Exchange Store. It will flush any log files and give you a good backup before doing anything else.. From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:r.so...@imperial.ac.uk] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 4:45 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Transaction logs The method I would use - that gets the same results really - is to run eseutil /mh on the database (it needs to be dismounted first). From: bounce-8435332-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto:bounce-8435332-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of Phil Thompson Sent: 20 February 2009 13:30 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Transaction logs Yes I do, it's a long story. I just want to make sure that it is a valid work around before I do something that could cause more problems. Especially on a 'Friday'!! Thank you again. From: Jake Gardner [mailto:jgard...@ttcdas.com] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 8:25 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Transaction logs Do you have a backup solution like Backup Exec? I use BE to flush my commited logs. I've never had to use the steps you mention, but I know they are the ones to use when you need to manually flush the logs. Thanks, Jake Gardner TTC Network Administrator Ext. 246 From: Phil Thompson [mailto:ph...@wpiinc.com] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 8:07 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Transaction logs I have 30 some GB of transaction logs that are no longer used. (for what ever reasons).. I read this article that gave instructions on how to tell where the last log that was committed. The instructions are below. I want to run this by you'll before I do this. It is a valid thing to do? * How to manually (and safely) purge Exchange Server transaction logs To do this from a command line, go to the \Program Files\Exchsvr\bin directory on the server and run the following command: eseutil /mk C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA\E00.chk (The quotes are important, as they delimit the full pathname for the file.) In the results returned you'll see these lines: LastFullBackupCheckpoint: (0x0,0,0) Checkpoint: (0x2,EC2,1C7) The first number in the Checkpoint entry -- 0x2 -- is a hexadecimal number that refers to the last checkpoint log. Therefore, any logs numbered E01.log or earlier could be removed. If the checkpoint was 0x14C8, then logs numbered E0014C7.log or earlier could be removed. Thank you, Phil ***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: Incoming spoofed e-mail issue
We use Sunbelt's Ninja, product sold by the list host. Besides having great success with Spam, it filters for viruses, encrypted docs, attachment filtering, disclaimers, handles spoofing emails, gives policy controls for filtering levels and give the end users to manage their own lists (Or not, your choice). You could manually block the IP ranges for these countries, but that would be quite tedious to maintain I would imagine over the long term. Greg From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 1:30 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Incoming spoofed e-mail issue I'm getting users who are getting lots of mail in their inbox every morning that looks like it is coming from themselves. Looking at the headers, I see various actual senders, many coming from domains ending in .ru, or .pl, etc. Is there a way of blocking e-mails from these foreign domains? None of my users have legitimate business with anyone in Russia, or Poland, or any other foreign country. I tried setting this up under Sender Filtering, by putting the following in, for example: *...@*.pl Is there a different way of putting this in? I notice that the instructions for Sender Filtering says to block messages claiming to be from the following:, but these messages are actually claiming to be from the user, not what is actually in the header. Is there a different way of filtering these messages? There's nothing in the subject line that is keying the IMF, or my Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange. Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 jhea...@etp.ca.gov ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: BB Curve 8320, BES 4.1, and Exchange 2003
Start here: http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/professional/toolkit.jsp Lots of reading and don't skip a step unless it completely does not apply. One missed permission or step could make it not work. Also with Blackberry Pro you get free installation support. Good luck From: Don Ely [mailto:don@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 6:32 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: BB Curve 8320, BES 4.1, and Exchange 2003 ::waves magic wand:: POOF!!! Your crackberry is now working... On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Shih, Henry hms...@ci.livermore.ca.us wrote: New to BB, Please help me to make those three work together. Thanks. Henry Shih ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: WAY OT:RE: Blackberry Internet Service
Where is home John? -Original Message- From: Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT) [mailto:john.matte...@afghan.swa.army.mil] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 2:19 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: WAY OT:RE: Blackberry Internet Service I should be home 3 weeks, give or take a day or so. Just enough to get at taste of the States under our new Dear Leader before coming back out here to the relative simplicity of the middle of nowhere. John H. Matteson, Jr. Systems Administrator/ITT Systems Forward Operating Base Orgun-E Afghanistan DSN - 318 431 8001 VoSIP - (308) 431 - Iridium SatPhone - 717.633.3823 Roshain Mobile - 079 - 736 - 3832 M��n labe! -Original Message- From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 7:28 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: WAY OT:RE: Blackberry Internet Service That's awesome John. I know that you're looking forward to that. How long will you be home? On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT) john.matte...@afghan.swa.army.mil wrote: You are probably right Sherry. Anything besides this fresh frozen, production kitchen, low-bid KBR supplied food we have out here. I'll be home in 10 weeks for leave. John H. Matteson, Jr. Systems Administrator/ITT Systems Forward Operating Base Orgun-E Afghanistan DSN - 318 431 8001 VoSIP - (308) 431 - Iridium SatPhone - 717.633.3823 Roshain Mobile - 079 - 736 - 3832 Mo n labe! -Original Message- From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 5:47 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: WAY OT:RE: Blackberry Internet Service You must be hungry for some blackberry cobbler or something with blackberries on it ;) On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT) john.matte...@afghan.swa.army.mil wrote: Why is it that when I read the subject line, I tend to see Blackberry Sauce? John H. Matteson, Jr. Systems Administrator/ITT Systems Forward Operating Base Orgun-E Afghanistan DSN - 318 431 8001 VoSIP - (308) 431 - Iridium SatPhone - 717.633.3823 Roshain Mobile - 079 - 736 - 3832 Mo n labe! ~ 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 ~ 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 ~ 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: Incremental backups
I agree, especially if it will help Shook. Did you write it in small enough words? J From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:r.so...@imperial.ac.uk] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 9:19 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Incremental backups Thanks Michael. Seems like it will be a good purchase. From: bounce-8371736-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto:bounce-8371736-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: 12 January 2009 14:17 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Incremental backups I cover Exchange backups in detail in Chapter 12 of my upcoming book which should be available any minute now. Please buy it. J Here is an excerpt that answers your question. Backup Types As you might expect, there are a number of kinds of Exchange database backups. They all map directly to standard filesystem types of backups and thus share similar names. However, there are only two database backup types that you can use without another backup: normal and copy. All of the other backups will require a normal backup to be useful. type=note The backup types discussed in the following sections apply both to streaming backups and to VSS backups. Generally speaking, the easiest mechanism for recovery is daily normal backups. The mechanism that uses the least media is a weekly normal backup plus daily incremental backups, at the expense of a much more complicated recovery. The standard compromise is a normal backup each weekend with differential backups during the week. When it comes time to recover-as almost everyone has to do eventually-you will thank yourself if you have made daily normal backups. You absolutely should do daily backups and retain them until at least the next successful backup has been done. OpsMgr generates a warning alert if transaction logs are not flushed within a period of three days and generates an error alert if transaction logs are not flushed within a week. Transaction logs are flushed only by normal (full) backups and by incremental backups. Normal Backups A normal backup is also known as a full backup. This is the backup type that most people probably think of when they think of a backup. A normal backup copies the entire database, and the backup can be restored on its own. A normal backup will remove (flush) all current transaction logs if the normal backup is successful and update the database header indicating that a full backup occurred with a particular time stamp (signature). To think of it in terms of a filesystem backup, a normal backup backs up everything and clears the archive bit; that is, it indicates that the file has been backed up. Copy Backups A copy backup is similar to a normal backup. However, a copy backup does not flush transaction logs, and it doesn't update the database header. You can use the copy backup to fully restore to the point of a backup and roll forward from there. Generally speaking, if a support person asks you to make a backup of your database(s) outside of your normal backup rotation, you should be doing a copy backup and not a normal (full) backup. This preserves your options in the case of requiring any reload or restore. Executing a normal (full) backup outside your normal rotation can possibly complicate a recovery scenario if transaction logs need to be replayed. To consider it in terms of a filesystem backup, a copy backup backs up everything but does not clear the archive bit. Daily Backups A daily backup bears some resemblance to differential and incremental backups. A daily backup will back up the transaction logs that were generated today. This is not a recommended way to back up an Exchange database since it can potentially have missing transaction logs (consider that a transaction log was in use and not available for backup at midnight). To consider it in terms of a filesystem backup, a daily backup backs up everything modified or created today but does not clear the archive bit. Incremental Backups An incremental backup will back up all created transaction logs since the last normal backup or incremental backup, and then it flushes the transaction logs. This is a mechanism to keep your transaction log volume clean, at the expense of complicating your restore/recovery process. To consider it in terms of a filesystem backup, an incremental backup backs up everything created or modified since the last normal or incremental backup and then clears the archive bit. Differential Backups A differential backup will back up all created transaction logs since the last normal or incremental backup. It does not flush the transaction logs. To consider it in terms of a filesystem backup, a differential backup backs up everything created or modified since the last normal or incremental backup. 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
RE: Incremental backups
Graduating from elementary school and watching, R U smarter than a 5th Grader doesn't mean you have an impressive vocabulary. J From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 9:30 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Incremental backups I've already got the book on pre-order and I've got quite an impressive vocabulary; I just like the redneck versions of the fancy words better. J Shook From: gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 9:23 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Incremental backups I agree, especially if it will help Shook. Did you write it in small enough words? J From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:r.so...@imperial.ac.uk] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 9:19 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Incremental backups Thanks Michael. Seems like it will be a good purchase. From: bounce-8371736-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto:bounce-8371736-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: 12 January 2009 14:17 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Incremental backups I cover Exchange backups in detail in Chapter 12 of my upcoming book which should be available any minute now. Please buy it. J Here is an excerpt that answers your question. Backup Types As you might expect, there are a number of kinds of Exchange database backups. They all map directly to standard filesystem types of backups and thus share similar names. However, there are only two database backup types that you can use without another backup: normal and copy. All of the other backups will require a normal backup to be useful. type=note The backup types discussed in the following sections apply both to streaming backups and to VSS backups. Generally speaking, the easiest mechanism for recovery is daily normal backups. The mechanism that uses the least media is a weekly normal backup plus daily incremental backups, at the expense of a much more complicated recovery. The standard compromise is a normal backup each weekend with differential backups during the week. When it comes time to recover-as almost everyone has to do eventually-you will thank yourself if you have made daily normal backups. You absolutely should do daily backups and retain them until at least the next successful backup has been done. OpsMgr generates a warning alert if transaction logs are not flushed within a period of three days and generates an error alert if transaction logs are not flushed within a week. Transaction logs are flushed only by normal (full) backups and by incremental backups. Normal Backups A normal backup is also known as a full backup. This is the backup type that most people probably think of when they think of a backup. A normal backup copies the entire database, and the backup can be restored on its own. A normal backup will remove (flush) all current transaction logs if the normal backup is successful and update the database header indicating that a full backup occurred with a particular time stamp (signature). To think of it in terms of a filesystem backup, a normal backup backs up everything and clears the archive bit; that is, it indicates that the file has been backed up. Copy Backups A copy backup is similar to a normal backup. However, a copy backup does not flush transaction logs, and it doesn't update the database header. You can use the copy backup to fully restore to the point of a backup and roll forward from there. Generally speaking, if a support person asks you to make a backup of your database(s) outside of your normal backup rotation, you should be doing a copy backup and not a normal (full) backup. This preserves your options in the case of requiring any reload or restore. Executing a normal (full) backup outside your normal rotation can possibly complicate a recovery scenario if transaction logs need to be replayed. To consider it in terms of a filesystem backup, a copy backup backs up everything but does not clear the archive bit. Daily Backups A daily backup bears some resemblance to differential and incremental backups. A daily backup will back up the transaction logs that were generated today. This is not a recommended way to back up an Exchange database since it can potentially have missing transaction logs (consider that a transaction log was in use and not available for backup at midnight). To consider it in terms of a filesystem backup, a daily backup backs up everything modified or created today but does not clear the archive bit. Incremental Backups An incremental backup will back up all created transaction logs since the last normal backup or incremental backup, and then it flushes the transaction logs. This is a mechanism to keep your transaction log volume clean, at the expense of complicating your restore/recovery process. To consider it in terms of a filesystem backup, an incremental backup backs
Exchange Monitoring
Hey all, Clients wants to track what domain admins or users with sufficient rights to view mailboxes are actually viewing. Problem is that I can see that x user connected to y mailbox via the event viewer, but I cannot tell them what x user viewed in y mailbox. Is their any 3rd party or tool by MS that will log what is actually being accessed in an exchange mailbox? Contacts, Calendars, Tasks, Inbox, etc.. The issues is that most of the staff allow their calendar to be viewed via delegated rights, so all the event viewer logging is essentially useless for those accounts. Thanks Greg ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Exchange Monitoring
Thanks Michael, I will see the cost on it and if they want to implement that. Greg From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 8:30 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange Monitoring ChangeAuditor for Exchange by NetPro can do most of what you want. 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 8:20 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange Monitoring Hey all, Clients wants to track what domain admins or users with sufficient rights to view mailboxes are actually viewing. Problem is that I can see that x user connected to y mailbox via the event viewer, but I cannot tell them what x user viewed in y mailbox. Is their any 3rd party or tool by MS that will log what is actually being accessed in an exchange mailbox? Contacts, Calendars, Tasks, Inbox, etc.. The issues is that most of the staff allow their calendar to be viewed via delegated rights, so all the event viewer logging is essentially useless for those accounts. Thanks Greg ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Small Fopah
Oh magic genies of Exchange, (Rubbing furiously) Well I believe about a year ago I made a Exchange Fopah with my Stores. Exch 2003 Sp2, Enterprise The thinking was that data in the main Store is growing quite large and the recovery time with our current backup tape drive would have taken 12 to 14 hours..So Veritas estimated.. verified with a tech on the line..yadda yadda.. Mgmt was not happy with that wanted it to be lower without spending money and wanted the stores broken up by Groups.. Admin Staff, Finance, Sales, etc.. The desire was to be able to recover someone's folder or data more quickly than having to do an entire IS recovery of all mailboxes and just recover the depts. Store data.. So I broke it up knowing that SIS would be lost if Email went across stores.. It was brought up to mgmt but they said the majority of email was dept localized. I didn't think so and did not fight hard enough, but.. Now fast forward a year and we are sitting with 5 stores but oh look they all have grown at about the same rate because they send email to everyone regardless so I now make a copy 5 times for every email and attachment.. Did I mention that they refused to set store limits and mandated 20gig file transfers allowed via SMTP..Oh I lost that one hard... CEO had to be able to send videos to his other buddies and the dept heads as well.. So now the question...I am 99.% sure that moving all of the mailboxes back into the same store will result in one store being the size of the sum of all 5 stores combined... Am I right there?? Any suggestions now that they are separated and essentially is just taking up more space... Thanks Greg ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Upgrade 2000 to 2003 server
Wow, where to begin... You have two migrations there. AD and Exchange. R U using a new box and moving over to it and retiring the old? Do you have any temporary hardware to get a good online AD server running. How much experience do you have on managing servers in an AD environment? Anyone here will tell you that every migration has it glitches and you must plan and analyze your environment, research potential issues (AV Software, backup software, Exchange Migration research) I doubt you will find anyone that will do a step by step for you without you coming to us with a migration plan and then the group will comment and make suggestions, help you avoid potential pitfalls, and be there as you do the migration itself. Depending on your level of knowledge find a local IT guy with migration experience and have the contract with you to either develop the plan or do it and allow you to be there while they do it. Good luck Greg -Original Message- From: Nirav Doshi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 11:10 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Upgrade 2000 to 2003 server Dear All we have a 2000 server box. application installed; 1.main DC 2.Exchange 2000 server we want to upgarde from 2000 to win2003 server. So please guide me how to do upgrade. ~ 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~
Parse Exchange log files
I need to parse the log files and present a decent looking report of anyone logging into a mailbox who is not the owner. Specifically one username. Is their any free software out there that will do this. I can get the eventID's and then export it, manipulate into excel and spend awhile doing that, but this is something they want to start doing as part of an ongoing monthly checklist. Apparently several people are convinced that this one guy is looking in their mailboxes. We don't manage this particular server directly and have been asked to get this info. I have confirmed that the server is logging the information so it's just a matter of formatting and reporting it. Any free or REALLY cheap software that can do this. Exchange 2003 Sp2. Thx Greg ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
Missing Public Folder tree
Hey guys, We have a new client that we are pulling our hair out with. Whenever we view the Public Folder tree in ESM 2003, Sp2 there is nothing there, although current Public folders..(Created eons ago) are still there in Outlook and usable. If we try to create any public folders within ESM there disappear in about 10 secs. We can create them from within Outlook, but we cannot mail enable. Any attempts to edit the properties on the Public Folder from within ESM gives us two errors. The mail proxy for this folder can not be found after we attempt to mail enable. And when we goto the permissions of the folder before it deletes we get unexpected error, 8000 I have looked at the guid which is clear using PFDEVAdmin, I have looked in ADSIedit and the msexchpftreeowner both are correct. Any other ideas before I call PSS? Thanks Greg ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Admins in Email
By default 2003 and 2007 deny access to other email mailboxes unless you specifically have removed the Deny permissions at the organization, server, or mailbox store level. -Original Message- From: Travis Krampy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 2:54 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Admins in Email 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: Outlook Issue?
Wow.. Mine did too. Didn't really have many problems just kinda slow and hanging more often than I would like. Interesting..I have another location that the excel bar just fades to blank randomly. Gotta try this there. Thanks for the tip. From: David L Herrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 11:30 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook Issue? Son of a gun - IT found something Thanks Hopefully it fixed the issue as well J David From: Dahl, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 6:43 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook Issue? I would start by using the Office Diagnostics... option from the Help menu of Outlook 2007. From: David L Herrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:31 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Outlook Issue? Often when sending an email from within Excel or Word 2007 everything works except the email never leaves the screen, after hitting the send button. I can go to sent folders and it was emailed but I have to close the Outlook form manually. Ideas? Thanks 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 Names in the News. 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. DISCLAIMER: 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. 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 Names in the News. 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~
RE: Outlook Issue?
Well it took me to a link to download an MS update that said would help resolve the problem. When I ran it, it says its already installed. It did say it fixed one other problem but have not seen where that is listed. Logs anywhere?? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:54 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook Issue? Wow.. Mine did too. Didn't really have many problems just kinda slow and hanging more often than I would like. Interesting..I have another location that the excel bar just fades to blank randomly. Gotta try this there. Thanks for the tip. From: David L Herrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 11:30 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook Issue? Son of a gun - IT found something Thanks Hopefully it fixed the issue as well J David From: Dahl, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 6:43 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook Issue? I would start by using the Office Diagnostics... option from the Help menu of Outlook 2007. From: David L Herrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:31 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Outlook Issue? Often when sending an email from within Excel or Word 2007 everything works except the email never leaves the screen, after hitting the send button. I can go to sent folders and it was emailed but I have to close the Outlook form manually. Ideas? Thanks 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 Names in the News. 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. DISCLAIMER: 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. 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 Names in the News. 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~
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~
RE: MS licensing???
Exchange is tied to AD, so regardless you have to authenticate with a username and pw at the server level hence a Windows CAL + Exchange Cal. From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:42 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: MS licensing??? Is that still true if you use local accounts instead of AD? On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Michael B. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The PUR - Product Use Rights - document discusses a very similar situation. As Simon says (HAHAHAHAHAHAHA), the most expensive option is the correct one. Any time you authenticate a user against Windows, you must have a CAL. Doesn't matter if it is POP, HTTP, or filesharing. Or whatever else. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Simon Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:28 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: MS licensing??? Remember the licensing rules... 1. Get three opinions, at least one must be from Microsoft. 2. Get it in writing. 3. The most expensive option will be the correct one. What I tell clients is that in most respects, the number of machines = number of CALs. You cannot have Exchange CALs only as the users are accessing the server - which means they need a Windows CAL. Therefore you will need to have both Windows and Exchange CALs for all of those users. Although if you are deploying Exchange 2007 why are you using POP3? Use Outlook Anywhere/RPC over HTTPS! POP3 is an awful protocol. Simon. -- Simon Butler MVP: Exchange, MCSE Amset IT Solutions Ltd. e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: www.amset.co.uk w: www.amset.info Need cheap certificates for Exchange, compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0? http://CertificatesForExchange.com/ for certificates from just $23.99. Need a domain for your certificate? http://DomainsForExchange.net/ From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 August 2008 15:06 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: MS licensing??? I have called Microsoft twice and both people I have talked to were clueless about the licensing scenario I'm going to ask you guys. One of the licensing guys I talked to said that he could not answer my question and that I should talk to my lawyer to get clarification on how to interpret Their license.. Redoing my company's network. Moving from sbs 2003 to Server 2008 with exchange 2007. I have about 75 internal users that need the typical access to 2008 AD and Exchange 2007. I have about 50 users that are field users that have laptops. Each laptop user ONLY needs email access and is currently not on the domain. They all belong to a workgroup. These laptops will stay in workgroups. I would like each of these 50 Users to pull POP3 from my exchange server. So what kind of license do i need to buy? CORE CAL and Exchange CAL or can I get away with just an Exchange CAL since their computers will not belong to the domain? My guess is that we will have to buy both but was hopeing that we could only purchase the exchange CAL. Anyone have an awnwer? Is there an easier way to licnese this? Management does not want to pay the 5k for these users just so that they can get pop3 on the new exchange box. Thanks Matt ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Ok it's starting BB to iPone
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
Priceless... A CEO hands me an Iphone 15 mins ago, I hand him a printed version of the page with the lack of features. Ask him to read it, and tell me if any of these lacking features as compared to the Blackberry will cause him problems. He takes the Iphone back with him and says, I'll go return it. He knew exactly what I would say and kinda gave me the sarcastic grin, that's says, You were right, I was wrong and thanks for not beating me up. Thanks for the link Kevin and the writeup Paul. Perfect timing. From: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:22 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ok it's starting BB to iPone Paul did a brilliant write up on the iphone and how well it plays with activesnyc. http://www.robichaux.net/blog/2008/07/the-iphone-as-a-mail-device.php ~Kevinm WLKMMAS powered by 3Sharp http://www.3sharp.com/ , Always WLKMMAS http://www.wlkmmas.org/ What is your Zombie Plan? From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 7:51 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Ok it's starting BB to iPone 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. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Ok it's starting BB to iPone
Don't make me call MOM to check up on you guys. -Original Message- From: Barsodi.John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 4:15 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ok it's starting BB to iPone Only after you get your Groove on. - John Barsodi -Original Message- From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 1:14 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ok it's starting BB to iPone Word -Original Message- From: Matt Lathrum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 1:09 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ok it's starting BB to iPone Yeah, they have a great Outlook on life. -Original Message- From: wjh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 1:01 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Ok it's starting BB to iPone I really love these Exchanges in the group. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bet there is a nice Vista from that height. *From:* Doige, Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:32 AM *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Ok it's starting BB to iPone I noticed from your auto sig that you are on the 12^th floor of your building. Do the Windows open far enough to fit an iPhone through? *Clayton Doige* IT Project Manager *C**M**E** Development Corporation* T: 020 7430 5355 M: 07949 255062 E:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] W:www.cetv-net.com http://www.cetv-net.com *From:* Dennis Rogov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* 15 July 2008 17:29 *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: Ok it's starting BB to iPone I just received an IP phone from the IT director requesting that I setup email on it. Based on the documentation it looks like a simple job yah right I have been fumbling with the device for about 2 hours now. On my firewall I have port 443 open as we allow Outlook Web Access I also enabled IMAP not sure what else to do. I have a feeling it has something to do with SSL encryption. Any assistance would be great Dr ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ This message is private and confidential. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. ~ 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: Ok it's starting BB to iPhone
For most people I would agree that it will be a cool device. Here are my hang-ups and until they are resolved most of my business execs will not move to it. Even though they want it. No real security. With BB I can rest assured with a good pw that the data on it is secure. I can wipe it quickly and those little things like corporate contacts, confidential emails, secure data is well still secure.. The battery life on an Iphone is what a 10th of a BB, in fact I can talk several hours and still have it uncharged for the next day and be good. Now, I will say the nice browsing, multimedia capabilities and cool apps are nice, but they cannot make up for the 2 above issues. Close..at least it will give BB to pause and release some truly stellar products or continue to lose some margin. Once Apple makes it secure and I mean DOD secure, then the revolution will begin. Greg -Original Message- From: Andrew Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 4:45 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ok it's starting BB to iPhone Don't get me wrong, I wasn't trying to dog the iPhone 2.0 software or the device as a whole - even though I was a little frustrated with it at the time. After testing it a little bit more I found that I would get messages around 10 seconds after the message hitting my Outlook, which is phenomenal compared to IMAP and nearly a wash when comparing it to the BB (what's the difference of 11 seconds). Calendar also works great. I guess my biggest issue was that I personally have a lot of folders and a lot of server-side rules (I'm sure I'm not the only one) and I'm not getting any love from ActiveSync. One of the nice things is that at this point with the iPhone, the only significant upgrades I can see being made are to storage, the camera, and the battery. All of the other issues that are around can be made in the software. There's nothing preventing someone or some company from writing a better mail app or suite of apps that handle these things more gracefully (and allow us to type an e-mail in horizontal mode, come on Apple). It's right there and I want to see it succeed. Andrew Greene IS Technician / Webmaster City of Anderson -Original Message- From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 4:20 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ok it's starting BB to iPhone I'd have to say I differ in your opinion :) I have a 8 GB 1G phone with the 2.0 software loaded. I am able to get my emails in a push format, albeit not as fast as my blackberry, but nonetheless the mails do flow in without, I only have 1 main outlook folder and use manual fire rules after I process all my email. I haven't tested folders yet, Contacts work flawlessly and so does the Calendar. I can live without Notes and Tasks for now, since I don't use them much. Overall I'm very impressed with what apple has done the apps that can run on the Iphone are very good, I'm a big windows/Intel/blackberry fan, but since I got my Iphone I'm leaning towards all things apple. Is it perfect?, by no means but Blackberry has had quite lot of time to perfect their stuff. Overall as a techie I love it, but perhaps as an Exchange/BES Admin I can see where it would give me headaches with user support -Original Message- From: Don Andrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 3:53 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ok it's starting BB to iPhone Very well said! -Original Message- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 12:29 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ok it's starting BB to iPhone All reasons that in spite of the new ActiveSync capabilities of the iPhone, it is still not a real business-class device. The remaining lack of Exchange capabilities coupled with the lack of interoperability with most business apps cause the iPhone to fall far short of what would be required for me to add it to my Supported Devices list. While being able to use my phone to pass virtual b33r and drive virtual karts might be Neat or Fun, it doesn't get me far in the business world. Tim -Original Message- From: Andrew Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 12:16 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ok it's starting BB to iPone As an iPhone user (both the 1st gen and the new 3G model), I'm very underwhelmed by the ActiveSync functions in the 2.0 software. Push is a bit of a misnomer, unless I've completely configured it wrong, plus it doesn't automatically go out and grab subfolders, nor does it give you the option to select certain folders to do that with - so if you've got server-side rules, it doesn't work well. The wireless calendar function does work well and I'm not currently syncing my contacts (since you can only keep one list of contacts at a time). I'm going to (as always) stick with it and hope for some of these changes to be
RE: Give him props! (was RE: Super fun question)
Congrats good sir!! -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 7:30 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Give him props! (was RE: Super fun question) 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: memory upgrade on EX2K3
Thomas, You said this is your only server. DC as well. We tried this on a DC and it came crashing down around us. Didn't take long, about 15 minutes after being up it just crashed. When looking around I believe it was said not to do this if the Exchange Server was also a DC. It was several years ago, so the details are fuzzy. We rebooted, changed the registry entries back and cycled again, all was well. I tried it again and made sure I did the numbers properly and had the same result. Greg -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 5:38 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: 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.
RE: Sync BB to Public Calendar
Thanks guys, now I have to goto translate.google.com and figure out what is being said on an English List Greg -Original Message- From: Kent, Larry CTR USA IMCOM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 12:59 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sync BB to Public Calendar Ta mere suce des ours dans la foret! -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 12:49 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sync BB to Public Calendar Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries! -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 11:12 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Sync BB to Public Calendar Tete de merde! - Original Message - From: Micheal Espinola Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Mon May 19 12:09:58 2008 Subject: Re: Sync BB to Public Calendar Oui, monsieur fantaisie pantalons! On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:58 AM, John Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI that's oui oui. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 3:56 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sync BB to Public Calendar We We, Add2Exchange will solve your problème. Sorry in Paris with wife and wishing I knew French. From: Davies,Matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 7:12 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sync BB to Public Calendar Add2exchange will solve that problem. Cheers Matt From: Joe Herrmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 May 2008 04:58 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Sync BB to Public Calendar I have a client running BES 4.1. I can't find in the documentation the instructions to sync a public calendar to the device wirelessly. Searching the BES web support site hasn't given me the answers either. It looks like it can be done with the unit in the cradle, but not wirelessly. Have any of you had any success syncing a public folder wirelessly? TIA, Joe This e-mail (including all attachments) is confidential and may be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please erase all copies of the message and its attachments and notify us immediately at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank You. -- 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~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Sync BB to Public Calendar
My response. Desoles, jene parla par Frances, Parle vu Anglais Don't be critical of my spelling. I had to practice that for an hour before I dared go into restraunts From: John Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 8:59 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sync BB to Public Calendar FYI that's oui oui. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 3:56 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sync BB to Public Calendar We We, Add2Exchange will solve your problème. Sorry in Paris with wife and wishing I knew French. From: Davies,Matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 7:12 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sync BB to Public Calendar Add2exchange will solve that problem. Cheers Matt From: Joe Herrmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 May 2008 04:58 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Sync BB to Public Calendar I have a client running BES 4.1. I can't find in the documentation the instructions to sync a public calendar to the device wirelessly. Searching the BES web support site hasn't given me the answers either. It looks like it can be done with the unit in the cradle, but not wirelessly. Have any of you had any success syncing a public folder wirelessly? TIA, Joe This e-mail (including all attachments) is confidential and may be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please erase all copies of the message and its attachments and notify us immediately at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank You. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Sync BB to Public Calendar
We We, Add2Exchange will solve your problème. Sorry in Paris with wife and wishing I knew French. From: Davies,Matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 7:12 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sync BB to Public Calendar Add2exchange will solve that problem. Cheers Matt From: Joe Herrmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 May 2008 04:58 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Sync BB to Public Calendar I have a client running BES 4.1. I can't find in the documentation the instructions to sync a public calendar to the device wirelessly. Searching the BES web support site hasn't given me the answers either. It looks like it can be done with the unit in the cradle, but not wirelessly. Have any of you had any success syncing a public folder wirelessly? TIA, Joe This e-mail (including all attachments) is confidential and may be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please erase all copies of the message and its attachments and notify us immediately at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank You. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: CALs
It recalculates each time the server is rebooted, that is it shows 0 used licenses after restart and then as users log in ticks each one. I have never watched if its any authentication use, OWA, RPC, etc or if the sbs app that runs really does it. If you reboot and you are still getting up there than there us actual authentication happening. Greg -Original Message- From: Miguel Gonzalez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 1:40 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: CALs Hi, I have a SBS 2003 server. The licensing information says that We have 55 CALs. However, I'm getting recently a warning that we are 1 CAL away to reach our limit of licenses installed. We had 60 people in our company but now We are diminishing the number of employees (people that left). We are now under 55 employees but We are hiring. So It is really difficult to me to figure out how this counting is being done by the server. We have Mac (Entourage) and PC (Outlook) users, if that matters. Miguel __ Enviado desde Correo Yahoo! La bandeja de entrada más inteligente. ~ 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: Utility for searching an Exchange backup
Just restore it to the Recovery Storage Group and exmerge it out. No need for another server. Don't know about a tool that does that though. Would be cool if it existed. From: David Florea, SysAdmin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 1:08 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Utility for searching an Exchange backup Seems like I read awhile back on the list about a utility that could search an Exchange backup for items...to avoid having to restore a whole store in order to do an Exmerge out of it. This question arises from a friend with a client who has lost a portion of his contact list, and which could not be recovered completely from the dumpster. Worse, it's on an SBS server. The admin would like to avoid having to restore to another recovery server just to recover a complete contact folder. Anyone remember this tool? Thanks, David __ The information contained in this E-mail message, including any attached files transmitted, is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended only for the sole use of the individual(s) named above. If you are the intended recipient, be aware that your use of any confidential or personal information may be restricted by state and federal privacy laws. If you, the reader of this message, are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you should not further disseminate, distribute or forward this E-mail message. If you have received this E-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete the material from your computer system. This message is provided for information purposes and should not be construed as a solicitation or offer to buy or sell any securities or related financial instruments in any jurisdiction. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Message Tracking Funniness
DST?? -Original Message- From: Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 12:07 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Message Tracking Funniness Maybe you've fallen into the Twilight Zone? John H. Matteson, Jr. Systems Administrator/ITT Systems FOB Orgun-E Afghanistan DSN - 318 431 8001 VoSIP - (308) 431 - Iridium - 717.633.3823 Roshain - 079 - 736 - 3832 A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes. Woodrow Wilson -Original Message- From: Andrew Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 12:15 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Message Tracking Funniness List, Just happened to be tracking a message and noticed that it says that the message came in at 3:33pm, which is about an hour ahead of right now. When I checked the clock on the Exchange server, it showed 2:40pm. Is this happening to anyone else? It's not a deal-breaking problem at the moment. Andrew Greene Webmaster City of Anderson 120 E Main St., Anderson, IN 46018 765-648-5947 ~ 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: Questions regarding SBS2003 POP 3 connector.
The official answer about the 15 mins on the pop3 is no. Here is a link to bypass it. The main reason to leave it at 15 minutes is to allow the server to download all the mail before it tries again to process downloading mail. If you have a high level of mail flow you may not want to lower it. If its just a few and not large attachments then you could do this. http://sbits.blogspot.com/2007/09/pop3-connector-downloadthread-less-tha n.html From: Joe Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 11:33 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Questions regarding SBS2003 POP 3 connector. Graeme: You're in luck - I just finished setting up my POP3 connector this morning. Is the POP3 connector set up for Global Mailbox? If it isn't you need to set it up for Global Mailbox and make sure that you have Exchange Mailboxes for all the users. Example - I have a mailbox called [EMAIL PROTECTED] at my mail host. All undeliverable mail goes to that account. Then the POP3 connnector connects to that drop box, pulls in all the mail, and then looks at the To: and CC: fields to put it in the appropriate mailboxes on the SBS server. My problem with it not working, is that I spelled the POP3 account name wrong! DOH! On a similiar note - does anyone know if there is a way to change the POP3 Connector's schedule. As it stands, the shortest time between checks is 15 minutes, and I'd like to get it down to 5 minutes between checks. Can that be changed in the registry maybe? HTH. On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Graeme Carstairs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just been to visit someone, who having fallen for the hype purchased a DELL Server with SBS 2003 R2 preinstalled and thought they could go about setting it up themselves using the wizzards etc. I was called in today to try and fix the issues that they have created. All in all they have done a not too bad a job, but maid a bit of a boo boo with the e-mail setup. They currently have pop 3 of the following format [EMAIL PROTECTED], but are planning to move to an smtp feed with their own domain, i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] They ran the Internet wizard and setup the Exchange domain as domain.co.uk, with the AD domain as domain.local all well and good i hear you say. But of course when they configured the POP connector, it appears to initially have just vanished any incoming mail into thin air, and since yesterday after installing Exchange 2003 SP2, it now reposrts in the event viewer that any mail retrieved by the pop connector was not delivered to the mail box due to relay restrictions. Added domain.co.uk to the recipient policy and mail is working fine. The question of course is where did the mail that vanished go??? I am not familiar with the process of the pop3 connector, mainly with how it handles the mail flow. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Graeme -- Good News Everyone, you just received an e-mail from me. -- Joe Fox Systems/Network Administrator Mobile# (716) 846-9308 http://www.linkedin.com/in/josephfoxjr 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 be advised that any unauthorized use, disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender via telephone at 716-846-9308 or by return e-mail. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Troubleshooting POP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/873438 Might want to reapply sp? Says it resolved with latest SP. Dated Oct 07. From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 12:05 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Troubleshooting POP My pop3 connector which we use for a handful of remote users seems to be locking up every day or so. It says its running but if I goto logon to it manually it just hangs after I put the password in. I can stop it, and restart it in exchange mgr and it will work again for some period of time. Nothing in event logs shows me anything. Occassionally, when I do stop it I will get a timeout error but even then the logs don't show anything reporting. You think the easiest thing is to simply drop the latest SP on there again? Or is there something else I can look for? Small environment @ 50 users, they pull their mail from corporate via pop3 (don't get me started) with a pop3 connector so maybe that's causing the issue but I use popcon in a few places and never seen any problems with it. Then they have a small subset of about 6 users who need pop mail to their phones when they are out of the office. Thx ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Exchange 2007 SP 1 and Blackberry Enterprise Server 4.2
We have two sites doing it currently and no problems since. Nothing advanced just syncing the folders, no MDS, no Wireless pushing of software etc. Greg From: Rausch, Michael D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 4:36 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 SP 1 and Blackberry Enterprise Server 4.2 We have done it and haven't seen any issues (admittedly only a few blackberry users on 2007 at the moment). But no, no issues seen. Mike From: Brown, Larry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 3:34 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 2007 SP 1 and Blackberry Enterprise Server 4.2 I believe I've seen a posting or two from Admins that have gone ahead and upgraded to Exchange 2007 SP1 in spite of RIM's warning that they have not signed off on compatibility between BES and E2k7 SP1. We are considering upgrading to SP 1...but we'd like to get feedback from anyone else that might have already done it... Larry C. Brown LAN/WAN CS Support Dayton Power Light (937)-331-4922 ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Vista Home and Pro using RPC over HTTPS
R U using a self signed cert? If so simply clicking and saying install doesn't work, you have to install it to a specific store. From: Cesare' A. Ramos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:01 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Vista Home and Pro using RPC over HTTPS Hello to all. We had numerous successful configurations of MS Exchange servers (2003 and 2007), along with successful configurations of MS XP Pro SP2 with Outlook 2003 and 2007 accessing host MS Exchange system via RPC over HTTPs. We now have attempted to configure such access to MS Exchange 2007 via MS Outlook 2007 and connection cannot be established. We have tried both Vista Home and Vista Pro as os. We have performed some research online and all we find is circles and no success. Anyone hitting this issue? Any suggestions? CAR ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Windows Vista
Michael, Thank you very much for the info. I was about to rebuild my laptop to Vista x64 and I use Office Accounting 07 right now, has not released 08 to Action Pack and its integral. I really don't feel like booting a 2nd machine just to do invoicing so I will wait for a Service pack hopefully soon that will resolve the problem. Thanks. Greg From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 4:01 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows Vista http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2008/01/31/moving- to-64-bit-vista.aspx http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2008/02/12/More-on -64_2D00_bit-Vista.aspx Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Joe Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 3:07 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows Vista If I use one of those upgrades can I go from 32 to 64 bit? My notebook came pre-installed with 32, and I'd like to go 64. Thanks Joe On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:19 PM, John Hornbuckle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like you can go straight from Home Basic to Ultimate, too... From: John Hornbuckle Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:19 PM To: 'MS-Exchange Admin Issues' Subject: RE: Windows Vista Check it out: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/buyorupgrade/wind owsanytimeupgrade/overview.mspx You can go from Home Basic to Home Premium, then from Home Premium to Ultimate. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us From: Victor Rodriguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:09 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Windows Vista Does anyone know if you can upgrade from Vista home basic to any other version of vista Victor Rodriguez Inter America Data Florida LLC 1987 NW 88 Court Suite 201 Doral, Fl 33172 Office # (305)443-0331 x1201 Cell # (786)282-4838 -- Joe Fox Systems/Network Administrator Mobile# (716) 846-9308 http://www.linkedin.com/in/josephfoxjr 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 be advised that any unauthorized use, disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender via telephone at 716-846-9308 or by return e-mail. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Windows Vista
Genious.. Hoping MS doesn't audit me because I have to get around their bad installer. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:20 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows Vista The PROBLEM is with the SQL Express 2005 install. It fails and does not properly clean up after itself. I've been working this issue with MSFT. If you have access to SQL 2005 Standard x64, and you install it BEFORE you install MOA and tell MOA to use that instance of SQL (i.e., an Advanced install) - you'll be fine. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:11 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows Vista Michael, Thank you very much for the info. I was about to rebuild my laptop to Vista x64 and I use Office Accounting 07 right now, has not released 08 to Action Pack and its integral. I really don't feel like booting a 2nd machine just to do invoicing so I will wait for a Service pack hopefully soon that will resolve the problem. Thanks. Greg From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 4:01 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows Vista http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2008/01/31/moving- to-64-bit-vista.aspx http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2008/02/12/More-on -64_2D00_bit-Vista.aspx Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Joe Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 3:07 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows Vista If I use one of those upgrades can I go from 32 to 64 bit? My notebook came pre-installed with 32, and I'd like to go 64. Thanks Joe On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:19 PM, John Hornbuckle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like you can go straight from Home Basic to Ultimate, too... From: John Hornbuckle Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:19 PM To: 'MS-Exchange Admin Issues' Subject: RE: Windows Vista Check it out: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/buyorupgrade/wind owsanytimeupgrade/overview.mspx You can go from Home Basic to Home Premium, then from Home Premium to Ultimate. John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us From: Victor Rodriguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:09 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Windows Vista Does anyone know if you can upgrade from Vista home basic to any other version of vista Victor Rodriguez Inter America Data Florida LLC 1987 NW 88 Court Suite 201 Doral, Fl 33172 Office # (305)443-0331 x1201 Cell # (786)282-4838 -- Joe Fox Systems/Network Administrator Mobile# (716) 846-9308 http://www.linkedin.com/in/josephfoxjr 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 be advised that any unauthorized use, disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender via telephone at 716-846-9308 or by return e-mail. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: step 1
What I don't understand is how you plan to fail over Outlook to Site2's Exchange. Outlook is setup to connect to a specific server and AD links that user to that Mailbox. There is not a way for Exchange/AD to failover a user to another mailbox store automatically when its primary server is offline. To do this manually you would have to disconnect the user from their mailbox on Site1 and reconnect a mailbox on site2 in order for this to work, and I have never seen anyone do such a thing except when recovering from a DB failure, not as part of a multi-site DR model Your response, We need site2 to be usable as a back-up / disaster recovery site, even though it is already up and running production (not my design); the idea was to have a second set of mailboxes there with alternate email addresses and a second smtp outgoing channel. E2k7 can do standby continous replication to handle this specific requirement. Here is something from the ExchangeTeam http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/06/28/445538.aspx Greg M.S, Andy throw in here if I am missing something but I just done see how this scenario could work without a lot of manual disconnecting/reconnecting etc.. From: G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 3:54 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: step 1 I am not looking for automatic failover. I know that will take 3rd party software to do with e2k3.* * All I want is to be able to notify a few key clients: hey, hurricane! Per plan A please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] (and yes we have both our domains registered) While a hurricane is NOT in town I need site2 to be able to send via site2's e2k3, and site1 via site1's. MOST of the time both sites are up just fine, running production, no problem. But up thru a month ago site2 needed site1 to do email (including automatic emails), and as of my little oops BOTH sites' need to be up. Replicating the GC *may* have fixed that. I will know soon. * It seems e2k7 can do failover though. Is this correct? On Feb 18, 2008 2:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you have envisioned is not a designed way for Exchange 03 to function. A second set of mailboxes and emails is another database. Outlook doesn't fail over to another database in the event of server1 failure. To do what you are thinking about takes a secondary software like Doubletake to create a replication/fail over scenario. b. Is the new Exchange server in site 2, a DC/GC or is it just a member server? B1. Did you create 2 sites in AD or is it just one Domain and AD doesn't see one site different from the other(Just one big cloud) Greg From: G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 2:47 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: step 1 a) We need site2 to be usable as a back-up / disaster recovery site, even though it is already up and running production (not my design); the idea was to have a second set of mailboxes there with alternate email addresses and a second smtp outgoing channel. b) at site2 I simply installed E2k3 and checked this is an additional server. c) GC was likely most of my problem, so you were far less clueless that I Thanks On Feb 18, 2008 12:09 PM, Carl Houseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are clueless here because you've said nothing about: a) why and for whom you thought a second E2K3 would create reliability b) the steps you took in bringing up the E2K3 at site 2 b) what the topology of DCs and GC's happens to be, before and after Generally speaking, when you document the history and configuration to the extent that those who know nothing about it will understand it, you will end up understanding it better yourself, and in so doing you might even figure out the problem. Carl From: G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 12:46 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: step 1 OK, I admit I am powerless over Exchange and my life has become unmanageable. My dumbest move of 2008 (and it's only February)... We have Ex 2K3 running at Site1 and are connected to Site2 via a 3mb MPLS connection. One domain over both. I brought up a second Ex 2k3 server at Site2, thinking I was creating some reliability. RIGHT...! Now, when the Site2 Ex 2k3 server is down, Site1 users get Exchange is off-line messages. 1. Where did I go wrong (aside from not testing this under virtualization we don't have)? 2. And is there a path out of the quicksand? Thanks in advance G. Waleed Kavalec -- -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec - In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about
RE: step 1
Ahh info makes more sense. There are a number of other variables, but as long as users at site1 can talk to site2(assuming GC, DNS, etc) then they can login and connect to that mailbox. Exchange on that side will handle flowing mail out its local SMTP connector. If you are using RPC/HTTP then that has to be reconfigured to connect to the new server. As to DR/Backup site, this will not allow you access to your old mail or other mailbox if the server is down. You can do a backup of the store on site1 and then copy the backed up file down to site2. DFS Replication in R2 or robocopy etc during off hours would do this nicely(Assuming the bandwidth is there) Even then you will have to perform a recovery of the IS to a recovery storage group and exmerge the files out to pst manually. As to the specific errors about exchange offline, did you move any replicas of system or public folders to siteb? If you just added it as a member and didn't move any mailboxes over or setup replicas then there should be nothing on the server at site2 that would cause users at site1, homed to that server in site1 for that error to occur. From: G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 8:48 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: step 1 Nothing complicated: I *don't* expect to failover. 1. If site1 is down due to hurricane/disaster site2 has separate mailboxes, site1 outlooks won't be in the picture. 2. If ONLY site1's e2k3 is down, a few operators will need to log on with alternate ID's to connect to site2 Please note that - in terms of staff - we are a very small shop so that part is very manageable. But the data load is very large. MOST of the time the two sites are expected to act as one domain (which they are) and the two e2k3 servers are only intended to replicate some public folders and operate almost independently. On Feb 19, 2008 7:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I don't understand is how you plan to fail over Outlook to Site2's Exchange. Outlook is setup to connect to a specific server and AD links that user to that Mailbox. There is not a way for Exchange/AD to failover a user to another mailbox store automatically when its primary server is offline. To do this manually you would have to disconnect the user from their mailbox on Site1 and reconnect a mailbox on site2 in order for this to work, and I have never seen anyone do such a thing except when recovering from a DB failure, not as part of a multi-site DR model Your response, We need site2 to be usable as a back-up / disaster recovery site, even though it is already up and running production (not my design); the idea was to have a second set of mailboxes there with alternate email addresses and a second smtp outgoing channel. E2k7 can do standby continous replication to handle this specific requirement. Here is something from the ExchangeTeam http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/06/28/445538.aspx Greg M.S, Andy throw in here if I am missing something but I just done see how this scenario could work without a lot of manual disconnecting/reconnecting etc.. From: G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 3:54 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: step 1 I am not looking for automatic failover. I know that will take 3rd party software to do with e2k3.* * All I want is to be able to notify a few key clients: hey, hurricane! Per plan A please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] (and yes we have both our domains registered) While a hurricane is NOT in town I need site2 to be able to send via site2's e2k3, and site1 via site1's. MOST of the time both sites are up just fine, running production, no problem. But up thru a month ago site2 needed site1 to do email (including automatic emails), and as of my little oops BOTH sites' need to be up. Replicating the GC *may* have fixed that. I will know soon. * It seems e2k7 can do failover though. Is this correct? On Feb 18, 2008 2:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you have envisioned is not a designed way for Exchange 03 to function. A second set of mailboxes and emails is another database. Outlook doesn't fail over to another database in the event of server1 failure. To do what you are thinking about takes a secondary software like Doubletake to create a replication/fail over scenario. b. Is the new Exchange server in site 2, a DC/GC or is it just a member server? B1. Did you create 2 sites in AD or is it just one Domain and AD doesn't see one site different from the other(Just one big cloud) Greg From: G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 2:47 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: step 1 a) We need site2 to be usable as a back-up / disaster recovery site, even though it is already up and running production (not my design); the idea was to have a second set of mailboxes there with
RE: step 1
What you have envisioned is not a designed way for Exchange 03 to function. A second set of mailboxes and emails is another database. Outlook doesn't fail over to another database in the event of server1 failure. To do what you are thinking about takes a secondary software like Doubletake to create a replication/fail over scenario. b. Is the new Exchange server in site 2, a DC/GC or is it just a member server? B1. Did you create 2 sites in AD or is it just one Domain and AD doesn't see one site different from the other(Just one big cloud) Greg From: G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 2:47 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: step 1 a) We need site2 to be usable as a back-up / disaster recovery site, even though it is already up and running production (not my design); the idea was to have a second set of mailboxes there with alternate email addresses and a second smtp outgoing channel. b) at site2 I simply installed E2k3 and checked this is an additional server. c) GC was likely most of my problem, so you were far less clueless that I Thanks On Feb 18, 2008 12:09 PM, Carl Houseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are clueless here because you've said nothing about: a) why and for whom you thought a second E2K3 would create reliability b) the steps you took in bringing up the E2K3 at site 2 b) what the topology of DCs and GC's happens to be, before and after Generally speaking, when you document the history and configuration to the extent that those who know nothing about it will understand it, you will end up understanding it better yourself, and in so doing you might even figure out the problem. Carl From: G.Waleed Kavalec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 12:46 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: step 1 OK, I admit I am powerless over Exchange and my life has become unmanageable. My dumbest move of 2008 (and it's only February)... We have Ex 2K3 running at Site1 and are connected to Site2 via a 3mb MPLS connection. One domain over both. I brought up a second Ex 2k3 server at Site2, thinking I was creating some reliability. RIGHT...! Now, when the Site2 Ex 2k3 server is down, Site1 users get Exchange is off-line messages. 1. Where did I go wrong (aside from not testing this under virtualization we don't have)? 2. And is there a path out of the quicksand? Thanks in advance G. Waleed Kavalec -- -- -- -- G. Waleed Kavalec - In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. -- Mark Twain ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: OT: Computer Haikus
Thank you Andrew, but I think that has been substantiated at this point, we are now at how to gain revenge on him by computer pranks and deviousness. -Original Message- From: Andrew McLaren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:02 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Computer Haikus Your friend didn't write them... http://archive.salon.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal2.html Andrew McLaren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend of mine wrote this and he wanted the opinions of Computer dudes and dudettes I promised him I would post it, I find it quite good. Your file was so big. It might be very useful But now it is gone. The web site you seek Cannot be located but Countless more exist. Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent and reboot. Order shall return. Windows XP crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. Program aborting: Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too much. First snow, then silence. The thousand-dollar screen dies So beautifully. Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is down. A crash reduces Your expensive computer To a simple stone. Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has occurred. You step in the stream But the water has moved on. This page is not here. Out of memory. We wish to hold the whole sky But we never will. Having been erased, The document you're seeking Must now be retyped. Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen. Mind. Both are blank. Grant W. Coleman ~ 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: The messages are being deleted immediately instead of going to Deleted Items...
Yes you can delete bypassing the folder by holding shift+del, but if you have deleted item retention on in Exchange, you can restore those deleted items from the folder deleted by going to Deleted Item Recovery. Search Outlook dumpster on google and you will find the registry to add to enable it in Outlook. -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 11:27 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: The messages are being deleted immediately instead of going to Deleted Items... That was it. Stupid @[EMAIL PROTECTED] views. I thought Outlook had an option to bypass the Deleted Items folder (besides holding down shift). Wasn't that in an earlier version? -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 10:11 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: The messages are being deleted immediately instead of going to Deleted Items... Could it be a simple View issue, and not a deleting issue? Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 8:08 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: The messages are being deleted immediately instead of going to Deleted Items... One of our users somehow has his Outlook set up to delete messages immediately (bypassing the deleted items box). I'm sure this is a setting somewhere, but I can't find it. Outlook help is less than helpful. I am not one with the Google-fu today either. Does someone have an answer? If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. - Doug Larson Paul Maglinger, A+, CA, CCA, CET, MCSE Systems Administrator Shoe Carnival Inc. (812)867-4674 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 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~
OT: Computer Haikus
A friend of mine wrote this and he wanted the opinions of Computer dudes and dudettes I promised him I would post it, I find it quite good. Your file was so big. It might be very useful But now it is gone. The web site you seek Cannot be located but Countless more exist. Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent and reboot. Order shall return. Windows XP crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. Program aborting: Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too much. First snow, then silence. The thousand-dollar screen dies So beautifully. Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is down. A crash reduces Your expensive computer To a simple stone. Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has occurred. You step in the stream But the water has moved on. This page is not here. Out of memory. We wish to hold the whole sky But we never will. Having been erased, The document you're seeking Must now be retyped. Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen. Mind. Both are blank. Grant W. Coleman ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
OT: Computer Haikus
A friend of mine wrote this and he wanted the opinions of Computer dudes and dudettes I promised him I would post it, I find it quite good. Your file was so big. It might be very useful But now it is gone. The web site you seek Cannot be located but Countless more exist. Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent and reboot. Order shall return. Windows XP crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. Program aborting: Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too much. First snow, then silence. The thousand-dollar screen dies So beautifully. Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is down. A crash reduces Your expensive computer To a simple stone. Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has occurred. You step in the stream But the water has moved on. This page is not here. Out of memory. We wish to hold the whole sky But we never will. Having been erased, The document you're seeking Must now be retyped. Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared. Screen. Mind. Both are blank. Grant W. Coleman ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja!~ ~ http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm ~
RE: Setting up RPC-HTTPS
Sorry Kurt, I was not suggesting that you were incapable of following, merely validating that they have worked for me just following those..with a slight hint of..check for fat fingering. Also did you add the blank line at the end of the registry file when you copied and pasted the reg keys? On all of mine I have the default website selected for require ssl, but I do know many situations where that is not the case. And they force a redirection to https://fqdn.com/exchange Let us know what the event logs turn up. Greg -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 1:35 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Setting up RPC-HTTPS On 1/24/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kurt, I have followed the amset dozens of times and petri at least that many. Works perfectly each time unless I fat finger something. That's something I'm perfectly capable of, and do many times a day. Heh. I assume on the DC you selected in the name you have the RPC Proxy installed. You have confirmed the perms on the IIS for it. Have you confirmed the ssl cert is enabled for the rpc in iis under the site you have the ssl cert installed on. No, the RPC Proxy is on the Exchange server. I've selected Properties for the RPC virtual directory, and under Directory Security/Secure Communications, both Require secure channel (SSL) and the sub-checkbox Require 128-bit enryption are selected. However, in review, I note that the same is not true for the web site itself. Should that be selected? I don't think so, but am not expert in that. If the RPC server you specify in Outlook is not matching the certificate name you installed then it will not connect over RPC. IF you ping the external name of the cert does it resolve internally to your Exch server. If not fix that with DNS then try it. DNS is fine - it resolves both internally and externally, with split DNS. Are there any event logs in the DC or the Exchange server when you attempt to connect? Gad - that's something I'll have to check tomorrow. BY chance do you have Sharepoint Services or Server running on the Exchange server or the DC? If so have you excluded the rpc virtual directory path from SP. If not SP takes over and ruins your life.. A common issue with the error from RPCping, Client is not authorized to ping RPC proxy None of that in our environment. However, we do still have ADC running, for our old Exchange 5.5 servers. 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~
RE: Setting up RPC-HTTPS
Kurt, I have followed the amset dozens of times and petri at least that many. Works perfectly each time unless I fat finger something. I assume on the DC you selected in the name you have the RPC Proxy installed. You have confirmed the perms on the IIS for it. Have you confirmed the ssl cert is enabled for the rpc in iis under the site you have the ssl cert installed on. If the RPC server you specify in Outlook is not matching the certificate name you installed then it will not connect over RPC. IF you ping the external name of the cert does it resolve internally to your Exch server. If not fix that with DNS then try it. Are there any event logs in the DC or the Exchange server when you attempt to connect? BY chance do you have Sharepoint Services or Server running on the Exchange server or the DC? If so have you excluded the rpc virtual directory path from SP. If not SP takes over and ruins your life.. A common issue with the error from RPCping, Client is not authorized to ping RPC proxy Greg -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:54 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Setting up RPC-HTTPS All, The usual story, I suppose. Exchange 2003 SP2 on Win2k3 R2 SP2, in a Win2k3 R2 SP2 domain. Can't configure my OL2k3 client to connect via RPC-HTTPS - I've only tried over the LAN so far, but from a different subnet than the Exchange server. I've got a GeoTrust cert for the web site, and OWA works just fine, inside and outside of our company network. (I've got two domain controllers, but am only setting up one for now, until I achieve success with the first. If anyone can point to further diagnostics I should perform after reading the material below, I'd appreciate it. I'm following these links: http://amset.info/exchange/rpc-http.asp http://www.petri.co.il/configure_rpc_over_https_on_a_single_server.htm and I believe I've followed all of the steps, and rebooted both my Exchange server and my domain controllers. I've added the following to both of my domain controllers: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NTDS\Parameters] NSPI Interface protocol sequences=hex(7):6e,00,63,00,61,00,63,00,6e,00,5f,00,68,00,74,00,74,00, 70,00,3a,00,36,00,30,00,30,00,34,00,00,00,00,00 I've added this to my Exchange server (wrapped for readability!): Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Rpc\RpcProxy] ValidPorts= exchange:593; exchange.mycompany.com:593; exchange:100-5000; exchange.mycompany.com:100-5000; dc:6001-6002; dc.mycompany.com:6001-6002; dc:6004; dc.mycompany.com:6004; dc:593; dc.mycompany.com:593; dc:6001-6002; dc.mycompany.com:6001-6002; dc:6004; dc.mycompany.com:6004; When I start OL2k3 with the /rpcdiag switch, I get nothing even close to what I expect. The login prompt comes up, and the output in the dialog box looks like the following - I'm not going to try to attach a screenshot, so this is the manual ASCII version: Activity Server name Type Interface Conn Status Reg/Fail Avg Resp --- Directory--- Connecting exchange Referral --- Connecting --- Directory--- Connecting exchange Referral --- Connecting It never gets any further. I have used rpcping to test from an XP SP2 machine on another subnet - trying to connect with OL2k3 on that box was successful for all of the listed tests in http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=831051, except for the following: C:\Utilsrpcping -t ncacn_http -s exchange -o RpcProxy=exchange -P kbuff,mycompany,* -I kbuff,mycompany,* -H 2 -u 10 -a connect -F 3 -v 3 -E -R none RPCPing v2.12. Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation, 2002 OS Version is: 5.1, Service Pack 2 Enter password for server: Enter password for RPC/HTTP proxy: RPCPinging proxy server exchange with Echo Request Packet Sending ping to server Response from server received: 401 Client is not authorized to ping RPC proxy Ping failed. I've changed the RPC-HTTPS tab back and forth under ESM/Administrative Groups/Site/Servers/server/Properties, from Not part... to ... back-end server and rebooted, with no joy. Thoughts? 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~
RE: monitoring software
Just what I found with a quick google seach. No experience with it. http://www.nemx.com/solutions/scenarios.html Issue You want to guarantee that you are providing all employees a safe and healthy work environment free of inappropriate or discriminatory message content. Solution Enforce email acceptable use policies with SecurExchange Corporate http://www.nemx.com/products/SecurExchangeCorporate/index.html Edition. Monitor all incoming, outgoing and internally circulated email for any content that could be discriminatory (sex, racial, religion, etc.), offensive (pornographic, abusive language, swearing, etc.) or otherwise inappropriate. SecurExchange will block all such messages from being delivered and instantly and automatically alert your corporate security officer of any attempted breach. From: Michael Tellson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 5:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: monitoring software HR has made a request and I am not sure how I should go about fulfilling it. They want me to monitor all internal mail for attachments that may contain offensive pictures. They would like the ability to scan through a folder of thumbnails and correlate the picture back to the internal user that sent it. Does anyone have any ideas on how to accomplish something like this? Michael Tellson Network Engineer, Colonial Savings, F.A. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Delivery reciepts in Chinese
Purchase Rosetta stone, Chinese edition and sit in on their desks. Sorry had to follow. -Original Message- From: Don Andrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 8:32 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Delivery reciepts in Chinese Upgrade the client? (Yes, I'm a smart-a$$) - Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld - Original Message - From: Steve Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thu Jan 24 18:01:49 2008 Subject: Delivery reciepts in Chinese I figure I'll hit every possible snag in an Exchange 2007 migration and then we'll have all of the answers in the archives. :-) With all the big fires out, I'm working on a few minor things. I have at least two users that are getting delivery reciepts presented in Chinese by Outlook. They're in English in OWA. I found one other case of this through Google and that person had the same software, Exchange 2007 and Outlook 2002. Ideas? Steve ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Delivery reciepts in Chinese
Ok, so I was sarcastic..Now I hope this helps you. All over the MS forums. Googlefoo for the win, query, delivery receipts in chinese but owa displays English, first link. http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1793976SiteID=17 Greg -Original Message- From: Don Andrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 8:32 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Delivery reciepts in Chinese Upgrade the client? (Yes, I'm a smart-a$$) - Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld - Original Message - From: Steve Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Thu Jan 24 18:01:49 2008 Subject: Delivery reciepts in Chinese I figure I'll hit every possible snag in an Exchange 2007 migration and then we'll have all of the answers in the archives. :-) With all the big fires out, I'm working on a few minor things. I have at least two users that are getting delivery reciepts presented in Chinese by Outlook. They're in English in OWA. I found one other case of this through Google and that person had the same software, Exchange 2007 and Outlook 2002. Ideas? Steve ~ 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: HELP! Corrupt attachments again
We ran into this where small attachments never had a problem. Start sending large attachments and it was reproducible. Ended up being a bad NIC at some level. Put a new NIC and the problem went away. Dell came out and swapped the system board and that fixed it permanently. From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:14 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: HELP! Corrupt attachments again Hi chaps, We are still getting ongoing problems with attachments being corrupt. In a group of about 15 people we see maybe two or three a day that get corrupted. As I've said before, im 100% certain it's not exchange as I can't find a thing wrong, no error logs, no proof of corruption, no errors when running isinteg etc, and nothing NOTHING is reproducible. At the moment I'm sending two emails every 10 mins to a test account on the server, each email has two attachments (pdf and jpg). So far I've opened and viewed the same attachments 60 times and haven't found a thing wrong. My believe is that the attachments are getting corrupt before it hits their network. Their .co.uk name goes through an ISPs mail sevrer where it's filtering for spam and virus before being forward on. Their .COM goes through a full email-store-and-forward type filtering service with another provider. I've suggested that they get the ISPs to dump their mail in a pop box, and have the exchange box collect them from there. Once done, if a user has a problem, we can check the copy in the pop box and, if the attachment is corrupt there as well, we know it's not their server. If it isn't corrupt in the pop box, then, well, then I'm back to square one. Their connection is supplied by the serviced office company they lease from, but while it's very well used, it doesn't show any packet loss indicative of connections being dropped, so I'm inclined to rule this out. Has anyone got any other suggestions on how to bug hunt this ? Olly ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Questions about RPC/HTTPS
1. Not sure about. But it looks like 2 is just missing the external from 1, which I have never put into any of my configs, some are split DNS others are not. Single servers running as both DC/Exchange and separate DC/Exchange. 2. Exactly. But RPC functionality must be installed on the DC you are pointing too and you must configure the NTDS parameters on whatever DC you are point too. Greg -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 7:56 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Questions about RPC/HTTPS I am setting this up, and am following the directions on Simon Butler's web page - http://amset.info/exchange/rpc-http.asp - and while I've read the Questions section at the end, I'm still a little unclear on this. 1) We're (at the moment) in situation 2 WRT DC and Exchange (DC and Exchange separate, single Exchange server (well, sort of - we still have Exchange 5.5 running our Rightfax integration, but that should go away soon!) no FE/BE arrangement), so the reg entry in the sample looks as follows: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Rpc\RpcProxy] ValidPorts=exchange-server:100-5000; exchange-server:6001-6002; exchange-server.domain.local:6001-6002; dc:6001-6002; dc.domain.local:6001-6002; exchange-server:6004; exchange-server.domain.local:6004; dc:6004; dc.domain.local:6004; mail.external.com:6001-6002; mail.external.com:6004; dc:593; dc.domain.local:593; exchange-server:593; exchange-server.domain.local:593; mail.external.com:593; Can this be condensed down (we use split DNS, and FQDNs inside are the same as FQDNs outside) to: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Rpc\RpcProxy] ValidPorts= exchange-server:100-5000; exchange-server:6001-6002; exchange-server.example.com:6001-6002; dc:6001-6002; dc.example.com:6001-6002; exchange-server:6004; exchange-server.example.com:6004; dc:6004; dc.example.com:6004; dc:593; dc.example.com:593; exchange-server:593; exchange-server.example.com:593; 2) WRT 1) - what will I need to do for the new Exchange servers in our overseas offices, when that time comes? Same thing, but change the names to local DCs and Exchange servers, or something else? Thanks, 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~
RE: Sunbelt Announces Ninja Blade - The Barracuda Killer
Hmmm.. Lets see..The goal of marketing is to generate lots of interest and discussion in a product Hmmm.. I think the tagline did a good job of that wouldn't you say... And its only Misleading if that product doesn't do what they say its going to do. Like I said before, We'll see If it works, we have another option in the fight against Spam, if it doesn't it won't be around long and Barracuda will solidify its position in the marketplace. Greg From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 12:59 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sunbelt Announces Ninja Blade - The Barracuda Killer Oh why the crap are you taking issue with people taking issue with Sunbelt's marketing tactics? It's a market that customers like to throw money at. I'm sure Sunbelt has a decent entry. But this is a pretty impressive customer list: http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/customers/customer_list.php Does it intercept cookies? http://www.hello-cthulhu.com/?date=2003-11-30 On an unrelated note... is the interface skinnable? http://www.kittyhell.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/hello-kitty-assault- rifle.jpg From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 11:28 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sunbelt Announces Ninja Blade - The Barracuda Killer Why the crap are you taking issue with Sunbelt's marketing tactics? It's their product, dude and they certainly don't have to justify themselves to the list. I don't care if they called it the Mac daddy wonder-box of spam boogers Let's see what it can do and how is it going to help me in the ongoing battle against spam. Shook http://www.linkedin.com/in/andyshook From: Don Andrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 2:12 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sunbelt Announces Ninja Blade - The Barracuda Killer Wouldn't have taken too many words to say something like A friendlier, faster, more cost effective alternative to Barracuda, would it? (assuming all those were true of course) From: Alex Eckelberry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 10:56 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sunbelt Announces Ninja Blade - The Barracuda Killer Whatever, it's marketing. Many may hate the tagline, but everyone will immediately understand what Sunbelt just released. Alex From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 11:44 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sunbelt Announces Ninja Blade - The Barracuda Killer Be wary of any product that claims to be a 'killer' of other products. It reeks of mediocrity or an inferiority complex. From: Alex Eckelberry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 2:35 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Sunbelt Announces Ninja Blade - The Barracuda Killer good point, thanks, keep it all coming. -Original Message- From: Jason Gurtz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 4:49 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sunbelt Announces Ninja Blade - The Barracuda Killer Yes there are three preconfigured levels, but you can add or delete any attachment rule within any of those levels. Excellent, maybe a UI improvement is in order for a future release, this should be an obvious and easy to change feature (like right there on that page with the three levels as a 4th option with a customize... button). Thanks for the quick replies, that's a good sign. :) ~JasonG -- ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Sunbelt Announces Ninja Blade - The Barracuda Killer
Time will tell William, if it works as well as Ninja and removes it off the servers for larger installs than by jove...its good enough.. If there support is as good as they are with everything else than I am not worried about getting issues resolved. Will it be as refined as Ironport in rev 1...nah... but for the price am I willing to deal with functionality over form...yes. I do remember some reviews saying that the Motorola Q would be the BB killer...We all know how that turned out. I think Sunbelt will have a better turn out here by far than that. Greg From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 11:44 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sunbelt Announces Ninja Blade - The Barracuda Killer Be wary of any product that claims to be a 'killer' of other products. It reeks of mediocrity or an inferiority complex. From: Alex Eckelberry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 2:35 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Sunbelt Announces Ninja Blade - The Barracuda Killer good point, thanks, keep it all coming. -Original Message- From: Jason Gurtz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 4:49 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Sunbelt Announces Ninja Blade - The Barracuda Killer Yes there are three preconfigured levels, but you can add or delete any attachment rule within any of those levels. Excellent, maybe a UI improvement is in order for a future release, this should be an obvious and easy to change feature (like right there on that page with the three levels as a 4th option with a customize... button). Thanks for the quick replies, that's a good sign. :) ~JasonG -- ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Synching PF calendars
Ditto. Works great. From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:46 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Synching PF calendars I did this with Add2Exchange and it works very well. Shook http://www.linkedin.com/in/andyshook From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:39 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Synching PF calendars That's what I thought. Thanks Michael. I did find a 3rd party software that claims to be able to do this, but I don't know how reliable/good it is. It's called PocketMirror, by Chapura Software. Anyone have any experience with it? Joe Heaton From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 7:11 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Synching PF calendars It's not a capability built into the product. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:01 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Synching PF calendars Is it possible to sync a public folder calendar to a WM5 device? We currently use Activesync to access Exchange, but now they want to sync the unit's shared calendar. Posting this before I try out my google-fu, but if anyone has an answer, please post it. Thanks, Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Do Not Deliver Before
Regular function for all management. I know one of them, sneaky devil wants to leave the office early and still deliver emails after he has left. Shhh... Seriously I know a lot of them want to send reminders or updates to team members or staff and most of the time it would not be a problem, but some are really A. retentive and want it to look like it sent when they schedule it to send. Thanks, any suggestions on how to script that for easy use. Perhaps a Outlook plugin that they could use instead? Not sure how to accomplish this for wide scale use. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 11:13 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: re: Do Not Deliver Before Write a script to deliver the message at the time desired and do not use the Do Not Deliver Before option. Is it a one time thing, just curious, or to be a regular occurrence? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 8:04 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Do Not Deliver Before I have been asked if there is a way to make the actual delivery time show to be the time set, Do not Deliver Before. The sent time is when a person clicks Send, not when it actually sends. Exchange 2003 Sp2 and Exchange 2007 SP1(Two completely separate setups.) I have not done any research yet, just thought someone would have a quick answer. Thanks Greg ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: Email de-duplicator?
Michael, I am 100% with you on this one. In a critical support issue, I have had 2 guys rotate including myself to handle a critical Exchange Server 2003 failure that took 14 hours to diagnose and repair. Restored database to a backup that was over 2 weeks old, and the server had a corrupt log file from a and the raid blip due to a power failure ... and no recent backups existed. Never lost connection with a tech and as they rotated off, the next tech had a handle on the whole situation. I then had 3 different MSFT techs over 2 days after call in to check the health and verify backups, performance, and Integrity. 250.00 bucks. Client praised our name until they got my after hours billhehe.. Running on proper hardware, having power and data backups would have mitigated, but MS is always there when the clients are stupi...err. I mean... common sense lacking, financially puckered, and unaware of their own ignorance. Greg From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:46 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Email de-duplicator? You can run isinteg on a dismounted database - pretty much ANY dismounted database - and it will give you warnings. This is because isinteg is a utility and not a database engine itself. You can tell isinteg to fix those warnings, and run it multiple times until there aren't any more warnings, and you've just detuned your indexes. I expect (but admit that I do not know it for sure) that those warnings are what are being reported by GoExchange. Db integrity is checked 100% with every single online backup that you take. 100%. You can't back up a corrupted database with online backup. It aborts. And in Exchange 2007 sp1, it's regularly checked on an ongoing basis. In my Exchange 5.0 to 5.5 migration, I had a call that lasted for 32 hours with Microsoft. They stuck with me all the way. When I had a RAID-5 failure with a bad backup tape on SBS-2000 (and Exchange 5.5 had a custom version in SBS 2000), I had as many as eight engineers working with me to make that right. It took 3 days. And cost me - you guessed it - about $250. Yes, sometimes frontline support can be idiots - but I've never had MSFT fail me in a critical support situation. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Tom Strader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 5:24 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Email de-duplicator? According to the logs it creates, it is still finding errors and fixing them. If someone can show me why we shouldn't use the program and still maintain DB integrity, I'm open to any suggestions for saving money and downtime. The article Webster sent was eye-opening to say the least. ..and they say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 5:16 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Email de-duplicator? I have never heard of Microsoft failing so badly. They would work with you until the problem was solved. Even the notion of GoExchange solving something that Microsoft couldn't is completely ludicrous. it works for us, that's all I know. Really? What is the ongoing need it is filling, besides creating unnecessary downtime? From: Tom Strader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 1:38 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Email de-duplicator? Good comments there and it makes sense, but when I took over at the PAC, their Exchange 5.5 server was getting corrupted at least once a week. We called Mickeysoft and they couldn't figure out the problem. Everything was setup properly, up to date etc. GoExchange was purchased and installed. It fixed the problems and the databases have never had a problem since. We are at Exchange 2K3 SP2 now and still use the program. It made a difference for us where Microsoft couldn't. Their response was restore from backup. At that time, the PAC was using demo backup software to backup about 200 Gigs of data. Needless to say, I insisted on better software and hardware to take care of this. Knowing what I know now, after having to restore the DB several times using the Eseutil and Isinteg utils for several weeks prior to upgrading the backup situation and reading this article, I probably would not renew the software. However, for what it's worth, it works for us, that's all I know. Tom From: Webster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 4:03 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Email de-duplicator? From: Tom Strader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Email de-duplicator? Whatcha got against GoExchange? http://www.themssforum.com/ExchangeAdmin/GoExchange/ Read
Do Not Deliver Before
I have been asked if there is a way to make the actual delivery time show to be the time set, Do not Deliver Before. The sent time is when a person clicks Send, not when it actually sends. Exchange 2003 Sp2 and Exchange 2007 SP1(Two completely separate setups.) I have not done any research yet, just thought someone would have a quick answer. Thanks Greg ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~
RE: EAS vs. BB - new thread for less confusion
Definetly check out the new VX6800. I have a few friends who picked one up and its hands down better than the 6700. I am very tempted to drop my BB and go back to WM. Miss the touchscreen and HTML Email. I will say that the email functionality of the BB is much better than the WM. Greg From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 10:31 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: EAS vs. BB - new thread for less confusion I definitely will. So, as I understand it, the recommended devices are: WM - Treo 700wx BB - Curve (if available), and 8830 if the Curve is not available. I've spoken with my manager, and she agrees with me that we should pursue getting one of each device, for me to trial, so I may end up walking around with 3 phones on my belt soon...lol. Joe Heaton From: Don Andrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 1:19 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: EAS vs. BB - new thread for less confusion Cook - well, there ya go Joe - test out your rep ;) From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 12:43 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: EAS vs. BB - new thread for less confusion I saw that too, but we have a couple here... On Dec 27, 2007 10:45 AM, Don Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really? - even the blackberry.com http://blackberry.com/ site does not show a Verizon Curve. From: exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 10:15 AM To: exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: EAS vs. BB - new thread for less confusion Talk to your Verizon rep, I don't see them listed but I know they have them because we have users who have them... On Dec 27, 2007 10:11 AM, exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com wrote: Well, unfortunately, the Curve is not listed on Verizon's website for BB devices. Joe Heaton From: exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto: exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com mailto:exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com ] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 10:10 AM To: exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: EAS vs. BB - new thread for less confusion You're missing the curve off of your list which has a full qwerty keyboard. The 8830 would be my other choice. I don't like the pearl because it's not full qwerty... On Dec 27, 2007 10:06 AM, exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com wrote: Any BB model that people would recommend over others? Our provider lists the following on their site: 7130e Pearl 8130 8703e 8830 World Edition Thanks, Joe Heaton From: exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto: exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com mailto:exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com ] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 9:34 AM To: exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: EAS vs. BB - new thread for less confusion 1. Yes 2. Yes, excedt BB doesn't do so hot on PDF's yet 3. BB User proof, WM not so much On Dec 27, 2007 9:27 AM, exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com wrote: I've started a new thread, because my manager is now asking me to create a proposal document for our Director, in order to recommend the best solution. I have a few specific questions that may or may not have been covered in the last thread. 1) Does the BB, if I have BES installed in my server room, allow sync of contacts/tasks/calendar etc. Also, just to be fair and complete, does the WM device have this capability? 2) Does the BB have the same ability to open the same types of attachments as the WM device? 3) Are there any other functionalities that one device has over the other, from an end-user perspective, that would be something I need to know about? I'm sorry if the last question is a bit vague, but this is really my first endeavor in these waters, and I'd just like to have as many real world experiences as possible to draw from to make this decision. I do understand that it's not difficult to support both, but I just need to make sure the endusers are going to be satisfied with the chosen solution. Thanks, Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.11/1200 - Release Date: 12/27/2007 1:34 PM No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.11/1200 - Release Date: 12/27/2007 1:34 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database:
RE: EAS vs. BB - new thread for less confusion
Its just easier. Its not bad on a WM device at all, just better on a BB. From: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 11:16 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: EAS vs. BB - new thread for less confusion Why must you say email is better on the BB? My wife has the 6800, loves it. ( I wish I would have waited for it to come out and get it instead of my Samsung i780) My son got her old 6700, and keeps trying to scheme ways to steal the 6800. ~Kevinm WLKMMAS Formerly of Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/ , now powered by 3Sharp http://www.3sharp.com/ , Always WLK http://pics.wlkmmas.org/ MMAS http://www.hedonists.ca/ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 8:14 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: EAS vs. BB - new thread for less confusion Definetly check out the new VX6800. I have a few friends who picked one up and its hands down better than the 6700. I am very tempted to drop my BB and go back to WM. Miss the touchscreen and HTML Email. I will say that the email functionality of the BB is much better than the WM. Greg From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 10:31 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: EAS vs. BB - new thread for less confusion I definitely will. So, as I understand it, the recommended devices are: WM - Treo 700wx BB - Curve (if available), and 8830 if the Curve is not available. I've spoken with my manager, and she agrees with me that we should pursue getting one of each device, for me to trial, so I may end up walking around with 3 phones on my belt soon...lol. Joe Heaton From: Don Andrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 1:19 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: EAS vs. BB - new thread for less confusion Cook - well, there ya go Joe - test out your rep ;) From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 12:43 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: EAS vs. BB - new thread for less confusion I saw that too, but we have a couple here... On Dec 27, 2007 10:45 AM, Don Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really? - even the blackberry.com http://blackberry.com/ site does not show a Verizon Curve. From: exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 10:15 AM To: exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: EAS vs. BB - new thread for less confusion Talk to your Verizon rep, I don't see them listed but I know they have them because we have users who have them... On Dec 27, 2007 10:11 AM, exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com wrote: Well, unfortunately, the Curve is not listed on Verizon's website for BB devices. Joe Heaton From: exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto: exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com mailto:exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com ] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 10:10 AM To: exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: EAS vs. BB - new thread for less confusion You're missing the curve off of your list which has a full qwerty keyboard. The 8830 would be my other choice. I don't like the pearl because it's not full qwerty... On Dec 27, 2007 10:06 AM, exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com wrote: Any BB model that people would recommend over others? Our provider lists the following on their site: 7130e Pearl 8130 8703e 8830 World Edition Thanks, Joe Heaton From: exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto: exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com mailto:exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com ] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 9:34 AM To: exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Re: EAS vs. BB - new thread for less confusion 1. Yes 2. Yes, excedt BB doesn't do so hot on PDF's yet 3. BB User proof, WM not so much On Dec 27, 2007 9:27 AM, exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com wrote: I've started a new thread, because my manager is now asking me to create a proposal document for our Director, in order to recommend the best solution. I have a few specific questions that may or may not have been covered in the last thread. 1) Does the BB, if I have BES installed in my server room, allow sync of contacts/tasks/calendar etc. Also, just to be fair and complete, does the WM device have this capability? 2) Does the BB have the same ability to open the same types of attachments as the WM device? 3) Are there any other functionalities that one device has over the other, from an end-user perspective, that would be something I need to know about? I'm sorry if the last question is a bit vague, but this is really my first endeavor
