Use the Autoaccept script?
You might find this month's Exchange Administrator to be helpful.
Joseph Newbauer wrote an article on direct booking. Just because you
such an old friend, Greg, if you send me an 8-1/2x11 SASE I'll send you
the free copy I got here at MEC!
Ed Crowley MCSE+I MVP
Techni
You can say it on Friday.
Ed Crowley MCSE+I MVP
Technical Consultant
hp Services
"There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Microsoft
Exchange List Server
Sent: Wednesday, Oct
Lately, our School District has been getting more and more SMAM e-mails. We
are currently using Scan Mail for Exchange 5.5 and the e-manager part to
filter out SMAM which leaves a lot to be desired because when a user gets a
SMAM e-mail, it is deleted (about 50%) of the time, however the user, in
Simpler-Webb has a product called Exchange Resource Manager. (Also has
a really cool hat!)
Denny
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Edwards, Aaron
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 1:51 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Auto Accept Util
5.5? No. 2000, event sink.
In 5.5 you could set up archiving and write a perl script to scan the
\archive directory for the specific string. But nothing native, no.
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From: "Davinder Gupta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednes
yes, apologies, you are correct, asnd there is nothing wrong with practising
disaster recovery on your live system.
done it myself.
-Original Message-
From: Ely, Don [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 10 October 2002 3:45 p.m.
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: DAT FILES IN
Actually Leann, the correct answer would be yes, provided he wanted to
practice disaster recovery. ;o)
-Original Message-
From: Leeann McCallum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 8:16 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: DAT FILES IN EXCHANGE 5.5.
yes. I
Add about 448MB more RAM and you'll be happier at least...
Beyond that, you're lacking some details... How many users are you talking
about putting on said server? How much traffic will be flowing in and out
of this server? Any other servers than the one in the organization?
-Original M
64 meg of RAM, is that right?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Microsoft
Exchange List Server
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 16:57
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: load in MSX5.5
MSX5.5+SP4 1CPU pentiumIII/500MHZ , 64MB RAM
Greeting
yes. If you want to rebuild your exchange server.
-Original Message-
From: Smith Thomas Contr 911 SPTG/SC
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 10 October 2002 1:08 p.m.
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: DAT FILES IN EXCHANGE 5.5.
Hi
Can the .dat files in the MTA folder be del
I don't have any direct personal experience with RAV, but I know that is
what SpamCop is using for their filtered email service and a virus has
never gotten through it to my inbox. I get a message like the one below
every time a virus is sent to my email address. -Greg
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You are right, I am beginning to see the lightthanks
Thank You,
Robert Williams
Senior Network Administrator
Raypak, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone - 805-278-5363
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From: Greg Deckler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 11:42 AM
To: Exchange
Hi
Can the .dat files in the MTA folder be deleted?
Thanks
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FYI,
Once this hotfix is applied, users will loose the ability to browse the
GAL. See Technet article Q309622 for more details. Just a heads up
folks.
Bryon
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Arc
Get the new version and run it on a 2000 machine that is on the same
network. Works fine. The new version has better logging among other things.
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From: "Allan Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002
Hi,
Is it possible to raise some flag whenever my smtp server receives a message
from a particular sender? I am using Exchange 5.5SP3/ NT4 SP6a for SMTP.
Thanks
Davinder
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I'd be pessimistic that anyone could give you any kind of even a SWAG to
that. But you can build in a whole bunch of wiggle room by just
spending a few bucks on much, much more RAM. Put in all your box will
hold, it's very cheap.
David
-Original Message-
From: Microsoft Exchange List S
Hi,
Is it possible to raise some flag whenever my smtp server receives a message
from a particular sender? I am using Exchange 5.5SP3/ NT4 SP6a for SMTP.
Thanks
Davinder
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But it does not work as nicely as an AutoAccept script.
The AutoAccept script sends you back a confirmation of booking or cancellation. Plus
one can make changes to the script (for example I added a bit to the script that will
send a note to IT people who are responsible for setting up the conf
That's hard to tell. I have no idea what these customers have on their end. But whener
something is not working for them - it is our fault :)
-Original Message-
From: Jason Rader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 3:57 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: TC
I have been
Since I rebooted yesterday and cleared the logs, I have not had it happen.
Will post the event id once I have it again.
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Dustin
-Original Message-
From: Tony Hlabse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: October 8, 2002 12:11 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Re: M
Plenty of room. Over 40GB and on the "d" drive.
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Dustin
-Original Message-
From: Garrish, Robert B. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: October 8, 2002 12:22 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: MTA service just quits...
Dear Dustin,
On what Drive does your MTA exist?
I am running Norton Corp Edition. We have been running it for um 3 years
(latest version about 1 1/2 years). No changes, and no issues before...
Scanning both...
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Dustin
-Original Message-
From: Aaron Brasslett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: October 8, 2002 11:57 AM
To: Exchan
I have been told about an anti virus product called RAV. They have a lot
of different mail server products (incl. Exch5.5 and 2K) as well as
desktop products etc, and I have been told that they are very good. The
pricing is unbelievably low compared with the big names. I was wondering
if anyone ha
I am trying to exmerge a dozen users on an Ex 5.5 (sp4) NT 4 (sp6a) and
having trouble. The exmerge log is reporting many of the following items:
Error copying message with subject 'Whatever subject is"' in folder '\Inbox'
(Whatever folder is). (MAPI_W_PARTIAL_COMPLETION)
I have looked at Q1741
No need.
But you will have to use Outlook 2000 or newer.
D.
-Original Message-
From: Edwards, Aaron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 10:51 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Auto Accept Utility for Exchange 2000
Hi,
Does anyone know of an auto accept ut
AutoAccept works on 2000
-Original Message-
From: Edwards, Aaron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 1:51 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Auto Accept Utility for Exchange 2000
Hi,
Does anyone know of an auto accept utility for conference room mailboxes for
Our Antigen didn't detect that message (in the Bugbear thread, right?) as a virus. I
wonder if a particular one of the scan engines made that identification. Did the
alerts you received include the scan engine vendor name in the name of the virus?
You'll have to admit though that it's not a bad
I have a user who has got 15 mail delivery receipts for an email which
she sent out yesterday.
Even though this delivery notification is sent by my exchange server, I
am assuming that this is triggered by a mail loop in the recipient side.
Am I right or is this being triggered on our side? Th
MSX5.5+SP4 1CPU pentiumIII/500MHZ , 64MB RAM
Greetings,
Do you know when (because of load) can I say that the server will stop
serving users requests?
how many concurrent users?
how many concurrent owa sessions?
rgds,
-er
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I haven't done it, but as I understand it, the script will work in
Exchange 2000.
This month's Exchange Administrator newsletter has an article on direct
booking using the native Outlook techniques. You might want to try
using that. It's not quite as elegant as Robert Strong's script,
though.
I have a user who has got 15 mail delivery receipts for an email which
she sent out yesterday.
Even though this delivery notification is sent by my exchange server, I
am assuming that this is triggered by a mail loop in the recipient side.
Am I right or is this being triggered on our side? The r
You are correct. I've had similar issues in the past, however I doubt that
Sendmail 3.52 is to blame.
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Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity
Atlanta, GA
> -Original Message-
> F
How is their network setup? Are they trying to connect through multiple
layers of hubs are do they have a switch. I saw this once before and the
client had hub after hub stringed together.
Jason
>From: "Andrey Fyodorov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED
Prior to my last migration, I was seeing an SIS of 5-6 for most servers in a
similar configuration, as well.
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Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity
Atlanta, GA
> -Original Message--
Maybe my eyesight is going bad, but it looks like your client is trying to
use a UUNET SMTP server to send email and UUNET does not want them to do
use this particular server or your client has been using this UUNET server
to spam people and they have blocked him/her.
I cannot imagine what this h
I have a system that is not functioning correctly for resource mailboxes
set up to automatically accept meeting requests. These are mailboxes that
have been as follows:
They have accounts and Exchange 2000 Mailboxes created for each resource.
These resources are configured to only accept email fr
You shouldn't need a utility for this. This is a standard feature of
Exchange and Outlook. Here's a link.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/exchange2000/maintain/featusability/cfsetup.asp
There is also information out on Technet regarding ho
One of my users said that they can't receive any mail from a client.
I asked the client to send me the error message. It came from
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
And said the following:
553 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... unauthorized relay traffic prohibited 554
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Service unavailable
If I have
Hi,
Does anyone know of an auto accept utility for conference room mailboxes for
Exchange 2000? We're currently using the exchangecode.com utility on
Exchange 5.5. Their latest version isn't support in Exchange 200 yet,
though.
Thanks,
Aaron
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Not running any file based AVjust the ScanMail.. I am leaning that the
problem was a 'bad' incoming message that caused the store to fail. After
restarting, I am guessing that the message was discarded.
-Original Message-
From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: W
Darren,
Altn has a LDAP server for Mdaemon. Check their website for info. Its called
Ldaemon and it is free.
Tom
-Original Message-
From: Darren Ash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 11:51 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: Importing into contact list
The customer with whom I am working at present has a SIS of 6 to 7 on
each of four primary mailbox servers, and they don't even attempt to
collect workgroups onto the same server.
Ed Crowley MCSE+I MVP
Technical Consultant
hp Services
"There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral p
Yep. That's the first thing we tell the customers to change. But it this case it does
not help.
-Original Message-
From: Couch, Nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 9:20 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: TCP tuning
Have you checked the client binding
These users are not on our domain. They are not even on our network. I can't publish
the NetBIOS name in the DNS, and I would not want to do it anyway for the whole world
to see.
HOSTS file works fine for most people.
-Original Message-
From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Past performance != future performance
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From: "Stevens, Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 9:43 AM
Subject: RE: My IMS is having issues!
>
> We are running Trend ScanMail 3.52 The MKBA Q3176
Save them first, if you can, then whack em. You might want to increase the
log file size also.
Geoff...
-Original Message-
From: Chris Levis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 11:36 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: Nt event service won't start, c
Hi
I have a really weird problem, OWA works fine with Netscape 4.7 but not with
IE 5.x. Have checked all securiy and permissions but cant see anything
obvious.
Has any one come across this befopre and how did you get around / solve
it.Any help / suggestions very much appreciated.
Amos.
Tony, thanks for that link. Right off the bat discovered one domain
entry I'd missed, works now. I'll be bookmarking that one for the next
issue...
David
-Original Message-
From: Tony Hlabse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tue 10/8/2002 2:58 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Cc:
Subje
Thanks everyone. I was hoping there would be a better way other than
adding myself or a public folder to that DL, but that will do. Thanks
again
Saul
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From: Daniel Chenault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Posted At: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 4:07 PM
Posted To: Exchange Ne
Can't you just delete them? They live in \system32\config and are called
appevent.evt, sysevent.evt and secevent.evt. You'll obviously need the
necessary privs to delete these files, alternatively fire up event viewer
and clear them out.
As the event log hasn't started I assume these files won't
What file level AV are you running on the machine?
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Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity
Atlanta, GA
> -Original Message-
> From: Stevens, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Se
Save them before killing them.
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From: "Mario Fernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 10:31 AM
Subject: Nt event service won't start, corrupted event log files
>
>
> The event service will not st
Clear the logs?
> -Original Message-
> From: Mario Fernandez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 11:31 AM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: Nt event service won't start, corrupted event log files
>
>
>
>
> The event service will not start due to corrupt
The event service will not start due to corrupted event logs. Does anyone
have a solution or any idea. I am running NT 4.0 SP6a.
Thanks
Mario Fernandez
Network Administrator
DataSynapse
632 Broadway 5th Floor
New York, NY 10012
tel. (212) 842-8849
fax. (212) 842-8843
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <
Just for that one user, or many users?
Try having this user pare down some of their calendar information - most
likely they have a bunch of attachments with their calendar entries.
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Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis -
Yup - try the protocol logging to see when it chokes.
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Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity
Atlanta, GA
> -Original Message-
> From: Stevens, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
Multiple servers or single server? Is there any pattern to who it does and
does not work for?
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Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity
Atlanta, GA
> -Original Message-
> From: Ste
The event service will not start due to corrupted event logs. Does anyone
have a solution or any idea. I am running NT 4.0 SP6a.
Thanks
Mario Fernandez
Network Administrator
DataSynapse
632 Broadway 5th Floor
New York, NY 10012
tel. (212) 842-8849
fax. (212) 842-8843
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <
We are running Trend ScanMail 3.52 The MKBA Q317653 does state that
antivirus software could be causing this problem, but we haven't had any
problems in the past.
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From: Daniel Chenault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 10:08 AM
To
Yep and MS PSS has some tools that will allow you to go in and remove those
bad messages manually. Could be a free call, just tell them you have
corrupted messages in your IMC and they will send you a couple of utils to
get rid of them.
Or Take the rash method and delete.recreate your IMC.
What AV are you running?
-Original Message-
From: Stevens, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 8:11 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: My IMS is having issues!
We have had some intermittent issues with our internet mail server; the
service is stopping it
Specifically the Mac clients.
Tara
-Original Message-
From: Steven A. Christensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 9:45 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Re: Background calendaring agent
Any MAC clients?
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From: "Stephens, T
Any MAC clients?
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From: "Stephens, Tara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 08:32
Subject: Background calendaring agent
I've been getting the following event id 8255 in the app log on our
Exchange serv
I've been getting the following event id 8255 in the app log on our
Exchange server:
The background calendaring agent failed to logon to the MDB, or create a
session object on the MDB:bf35f925-c056-4c54-90e9-9fc08d93102d. The
error code is 0x03ef. The rendering of large calendars with the
thanks for the quick reply. This server is our primary smtp server for all
outbound messages.
-Original Message-
From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 9:15 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: My IMS is having issues!
You're getting
Have you checked the client binding order setup?
Nate Couch
EDS Messaging
> --
> From: Daniel Chenault
> Reply To: Exchange Discussions
> Sent: Tuesday, October 8, 2002 17:45
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: Re: TCP tuning
>
> Slow OL connectivity is alm
The /cleanfreebusy didn't make any difference. Any other ideas?
Tara
-Original Message-
From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 3:51 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: Meeting Request not showing responses
Try /cleanfreebusy on someone
http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=4102&source=
http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=4116&source=
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Stevens, Dave
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 09:11
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: My IMS
You're getting corrupted messages that it can't recover from. Is this public
facing (ie does it receive messages from the outside world) or does it pass
all mail off to a relay box?
You might consider turning up the IMS logging options (probably protocol
logging) and looking at what's happening i
We have had some intermittent issues with our internet mail server; the
service is stopping itself. Below are some of the id's...technet suggests
that the max threads could be too low (id 4094). I have checked the
registry key and it is set to 06xe. Is that setting too low and could be
causing
Prior to a fairly major migration, I subscribed one public folder to every
DL in the company. After a few weeks, it was obvious which DLs got the most
traffic, and which ones weren't used at all.
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Sr. Systems Administ
Actually - I'm doing exactly that, but using Squid proxy rather than Apache
(seeing as Apache is starting to get near IIS in number of security holes!).
Its not fully documented yet, but we're using a squid box (on OpenBSD) as an
SSL accelerator in front of the OWA box, and its working quite well
Actually, it's the average number of references per message in the store,
and therefore you can extrapolate the amount of storage space saved by SIS.
Therefore, stores with an SIS of 3 mean an average of 3 references per
message. I find it rare to see SISs less than 2, unless there is very little
That's a bad idea - fix DNS and don't force them to use the hosts file
crutch.
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Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity
Atlanta, GA
> -Original Message-
> From: Andrey Fyodorov [m
Can't be done.
You can, however, use something like squid proxy
(http://www.squid-cache.org) in front of your OWA box, and use some of its
filtering rules to help protect the server.
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Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis
Yeah - don't look there, since that's not where the IMC stores its logs?
Try \exchsrvr\imcdata\log
Probably will be empty[1], however, since the default logging is none. Set
the IMC "Protocol Logging" to medium, bounce the IMC, then look in the log
after sending to that address. It will show the
Sure looks like the address is incorrect, at least according to the bounce
message.
Can you manually connect to their mail server and send a message to them?
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Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and
Are there multiple servers in the site? It kinda sounds like a replica is
out of sync.
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Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity
Atlanta, GA
> -Original Message-
> From: Albert Cha
Hi,
I have an Exchange 5.5 server that is not part of my organisation and
connects my organisation (running W2K and E2K) with the foreign org. through
and X.400 connector.
I need to add the mailboxes from that Exchange server as contacts into my
Active Directory. I was using the MSADC to replicat
Russell,
That's probably the problem they had (Group + Web)Shield, but they weren't
going to let us know that ;-)
Cheers
Paul
Standards are like toothbrushes,
everyone wants one but not yours
-Original Message-
From: Etts, Russell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 08 October 2002 17:0
Well, I just posted something about non-existent file attachments and every
list member who's running Antigen has sent me a message about my sending out
an infected virus (including someone at the Pentagon :-(). If there'd
actually been an attachment on the message then Trend wouldn't have allow
>Subject:
>From: "Ely, Don" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 09:23:35 -0400
>X-Message-Number: 13
>We use real antivirus software (Trend Micro baby!! Sorry Kelly) so we don't
>have your problem...
I use Trend and I did have something like this problem... The message has
all the signs o
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