RE: Exchange 2000 GAL: Hosting two floors

2002-07-05 Thread Julian Stone
This should point you in the right direction http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/whitepapers/exchange_asp_deplo y.doc Yours, Julian Stone Exchange 2000 Consultant and Webmaster This message sent from Exchange 2000 SP3 build 6249.1 Netstore - Europe's Leading Application Service Provider

RE: Really need help with 5.5 to 2000 upgrade

2002-07-05 Thread Woodrick, Ed
Spend a few days researching how to solve the problem. Then tell them that it shouldn't be done and then charge them what the extra server would have cost in the first place. -Original Message- From: James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Thursday, July 04, 2002 12:40 PM Posted To:

RE: Unlimited Quotas

2002-07-05 Thread Woodrick, Ed
Why is recovery so difficult? If you've got the dumpster turned on, then recovery is something the user can do without fairly easily. Never a need for brick backup. -Original Message- From: King, Arron S. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Friday, July 05, 2002 9:33 AM Posted To: Mi

RE: Unlimited Quotas

2002-07-05 Thread Woodrick, Ed
Wrong, Wrong, Wrong, You are absolutely right that IT is presented with the two cases. That's the way business should work. (Of course many big enterprises forget this). But it's basic supply and demand. Users need storage, they need to pay for it. Users need IT support, the management pays for

RE: Unlimited Quotas

2002-07-05 Thread Woodrick, Ed
And the whole idea is that as a support shop, your job is to support. Has management told you to put limits? When the email or file system was presented to them, did you say that there were going to be limits. Your job is to keep people from doing really stupid (not what you think is stupid, I me

RE: Shared Mailbox

2002-07-05 Thread Darren Ash
They are all on the same segment and the same office ! > -Original Message- > From: Sander Van Butzelaar [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 05 July 2002 10:41 > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Shared Mailbox > > Are all users on the same segment on your LAN? ie could it be t

Shared Mailbox

2002-07-05 Thread Darren Ash
All Scenario : 10 Users all sharing one 1 mailbox. Outlook 96 SP2, Ex 5.5 Sp4a, NT4 Sp6a When one user sets a reminder in the calender it only appears on certain users screens ??? Any ideas ??? Coolchain LtdCoolchain Ltd London Road Henley Road Teyn

Re: Really need help with 5.5 to 2000 upgrade

2002-07-05 Thread John Q Jr.
James - I would pay close attention to what Kim has said here. I am not sure how large your environment is, but you could run into some very big issues here. Testing is another key point, and roll-back another, this sounds like a deployment primed for failure. What you have listed can be don

RE: Unlimited Quotas

2002-07-05 Thread James Liddil
I agree as long as there is money to support it. But keep in mind that having a large IS means that there is that much more stuff for lawyers or the FDA (we do drug development) to go after. And if you are going to have an unlimited store it ahs to be managed. Those tools are not free. I man I

RE: Unlimited Quotas

2002-07-05 Thread James Liddil
We are a small venture capital based biotech firm. You would be amazed at the number of files we have on the server and in e-mail. People routinely send large PowerPoint shows and then they end up on the server and on the exchange users sent box. I really don't want to get into numbers but I was

RE: Packed Pages

2002-07-05 Thread Dale Geoffrey Edwards
I remember using CHKDS a while ago. Not one of those utilities you should run without MS PSS on the phone with you. They will then give you another version of it (CHKDSRO), which is for Read Only mode, which is how you should run it first to gather the information you need and is not as risky as

Exchange 2000 GAL: Hosting two floors

2002-07-05 Thread Nikolaj Friis Larsen
I need to host two floors, two different company's. I want to do it with a Exc Standard edition. Is it possible to have two GAL's with users/groups... From the two company's? I am abble to split the users in GAL's if I use permissions, but there is still users from both company's in both of them

RE: Unlimited Quotas

2002-07-05 Thread Mark Arnold
When asked this question I've always gone with what Ed has said only less blunt, the business must decide what it wants to or can afford to fork out for and then the business must be told what it will get for its money. The Exchange designer must present all the available options to the busines

RE: Exchange Security Logging

2002-07-05 Thread East, Bill
Check your Event Viewer, Application Log for Event 1016s. You will need to do some research to see which of these are false alarms, however. -- be - MOS If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, h

RE: Unlimited Quotas

2002-07-05 Thread John Steniger
Not to get into a war of words (as this appears to be something near and dear to your heart), often IT is put in the position to have to: A) Save money by not spending any, period (on Exchange or any other type of upgrades, or disk, or what have you..) B) Provide virtually unlimited service (unl

RE: Really need help with 5.5 to 2000 upgrade

2002-07-05 Thread Kim Cameron
this is where that lovely Patsy Cline quote comes in so handy: "People in hell want ice water". your client may want a lot of things, but they can't really have them all at once, can they? If they don't want to upgrade their domain to 2000 yet, and only want to buy one new server, and can't

Exchange Security Logging

2002-07-05 Thread Andrew Stewart
Hi, I require to configure an Exchange 5.5 server to record unsuccessful mailbox logon attempts, i.e. when a user tries to access through Webmail and uses the wrong password. How do I set up this sort of logging? Thanks in advance, Andy

Really need help with 5.5 to 2000 upgrade

2002-07-05 Thread James
My client has an NT 4.0 domain, running Exchange 5.5, and they want to upgrade to 2000. The problem I'm having is that they're using SBS Server 4.5 (so trusts can't be used), and they don't want to upgrade their domain to 2000 yet. To top things off, some of their proprietary software for tele

RE: Unlimited Quotas

2002-07-05 Thread King, Arron S.
One I have used with some success is the use of Exchange as a file server. The larger their quota is, the more "important" things tend to wind up there. If they start using it as a file server, and want something restored they are hosed. (unless you are doing a brick-level backup, or can tak

Packed Pages

2002-07-05 Thread Steve Goodman
I have a problem with an exchange server that will not sync with other exchange servers in our site. We have the problem and a possible resolution to the problem. We have found that we need to run CHKDS on the exchange server and this will flush out packed pages, but we are unable to find the comm

RE: Unlimited Quotas

2002-07-05 Thread Couch, Nate
Dear God save us from lawyers > -- > From: Woodrick, Ed > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 5, 2002 13:32 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Unlimited Quotas > > > Why do you pretend to be arrogant enough to be able to dictate the needs

RE: Unlimited Quotas

2002-07-05 Thread Woodrick, Ed
Why do you pretend to be arrogant enough to be able to dictate the needs of others? You don't seem to have any business drivers to justify your actions. And who is to say that getting additional disk drives for the user email storage isn't out of the question? And as to storage, it has nothing t

RE: Shared Mailbox

2002-07-05 Thread Andrew Hitchcock
In O2K2 Tools | Options | Other | Advanced Options | Reminder Options | Probably slightly different in O97 but you get the idea For those that do and those that don't the check boxes will probably be different -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bounce-ex [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: Please tell me where to go

2002-07-05 Thread David Florea
Just released by equiinet.com, pretty good reasoning too. So Bob, you can add this link to your justifications... http://www.equiinet.com/press/pressReleases/24_06_2002.htm -Original Message- From: Tom Meunier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 10:00 AM To: Exc

Re: Unlimited Quotas

2002-07-05 Thread missy koslosky
For 25 users? How much disk space do you have? 9 GB? Really... if there's no absolute need for quotas, bag the idea. Missy - Original Message - From: "James Liddil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 9:18 AM Subject: Unlimite

RE: Unlimited Quotas

2002-07-05 Thread Martin Blackstone
Don't forget the backup and restore window as well. Obviously a large IS is going to take a lot longer to restore than a small one. -Original Message- From: James Liddil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 6:18 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Unlimited Quotas I

RE: Unlimited Quotas

2002-07-05 Thread John Steniger
I agree - the situation we had here was that limits were never established when Exchange was installed - people will convince themselves they need everything they've ever received if they're given the chance (this applies to file storage, as well). In our case, it was mostly a training issue - on

Re: Unlimited Quotas

2002-07-05 Thread bscott
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, at 9:18am, James Liddil wrote: > I am being asked to justify why I have set quotas for users on our E2K server > with 25 users. [...snip...] > So besides these reasons are there any other reasons that I should be > thinking about? Also, keep in mind, that while your existing

RE: Unlimited Quotas

2002-07-05 Thread Couch, Nate
MTC -- I would start asking your users why do they need unlimited space to store emails? Depending on your quotas/limits I could see where this might be a problem if they get large files (CAD drawings, spreadsheets, powerpoint presentations, etc.). In that case they should just save the large f

RE: Scripting account creation

2002-07-05 Thread Siegfried Weber
You'd better off asking this at a development related list like http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mscollaboration/ instead of an Exchange admin list. For now, remove " LDAP://ADMINT/"; from the CreateMailbox call and it might work. > -Original Message- > From: Kretche, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Unlimited Quotas

2002-07-05 Thread James Liddil
I see the same situation here. I have a few users with one folder (the inbox), with thousands of messages and large numbers of attachments. Users are only warned about being over limit. Jim > -Original Message- > From: John Steniger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, July 05

Scripting account creation

2002-07-05 Thread Kretche, Peter
I'm trying to edit our user creation script to build Exchange 2000 accounts and I'm having some difficulty with CDOEXM. I keep getting the error "There is no such object on the server." when I use the following code: set objmailbox = usr objmailbox.createmailbox "LDAP://ADMINT/CN=Mailbox Store (

RE: Unlimited Quotas

2002-07-05 Thread Greg Heywood
Also keep in mind the limit on folder size in the Outlook client... You will probably reach that before the server storage limit. Cheers Greg -Original Message- From: John Steniger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 July 2002 14:51 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Unlimited Quota

RE: Unlimited Quotas

2002-07-05 Thread John Steniger
Good point =). But we never had limits before - and this led to us hiting the 16g limit with essentially 10 main users having 1-3g of email a piece. 'Twas very ugly trying to convince people to let go ;). John J. Steniger > -Original Message- > From: Sander Van Butzelaar [mailto:[EM

RE: Unlimited Quotas

2002-07-05 Thread Sander Van Butzelaar
Fair enough, he did however say he had 25 users:-) He would need to keep the 16 GB limit in mind. Curbing the attachments will help to stretch the amount of actual mail you can have. Sander -Original Message- From: John Steniger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 July 2002 03:40 To: