Patch 2657.74 Exchange 5.5 Information Store

2003-10-31 Thread Wood, Harriet [CCS]
Does anyone know of any nehatibve effects from Exchange 5.5 Information Store Patch 2657.74? We are still using ex 5.4 sp4 and some users will be connecting via outlook 2003 See Exchange 5.5 hangs when using outlook 2003 client... http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=829418

RE: Just a quick question

2003-10-31 Thread Crista Murphy
DEFINITELY hire a consultant. I've actually been in this situation already and it turned into a 3 day nightmare with Microsoft Tech Support. The most important thing to know is that Microsoft does not recommend an in place upgrade of Exchange 5.5 and it can potentially be the absolute worst

RE: Just a quick question

2003-10-31 Thread Scott Weston
If I read the post right he isn't wanting to do an inplace upgrade of exchange but of the NEW PDC which is NT4. Thus an upgrade from nt4 to win2k server with AD and leaving the ex5 on the nt4 box. His problem is that he wants to know if he can rename the domain to domain.com during this procedure

RE: SPAM filtering on a budget

2003-10-31 Thread Erik Renberg
Hi, I'm using a small free Exchange EventSink program called ORFilter. http://martijnjongen.com/eng/orfilter/default.htm ORFilter only checks the senders IP-adress against DNS-based blacklists but that seems to get rid of most of the spam for us and it's free... The software can be

RE: SPAM filtering on a budget

2003-10-31 Thread Kim Schotanus
Bad experiences with dns based blacklists is that we are frequently refused to send mails because our ISP appears on a number of blacklists. -Original Message- From: Erik Renberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 31 oktober 2003 14:35 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: SPAM

RE: SPAM filtering on a budget

2003-10-31 Thread Scott Weston
I would look into getting a new ISP. Not much you can do about other people's systems if they are using dnsbl's. -Original Message- From: Kim Schotanus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 7:38 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: SPAM filtering on a budget Bad

RE: SPAM filtering on a budget

2003-10-31 Thread Matt Plahtinsky
Thanks for all your help! Matt -Original Message- From: Scott Weston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 9:02 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: SPAM filtering on a budget I would look into getting a new ISP. Not much you can do about other people's systems

RE: Just a quick question

2003-10-31 Thread Kevinm[MVP]
What?? I call BS.. there is nothing at all wrong with an in place upgrade I do them all the time. While you might not like them, they are a great option to upgrade. -- Rev. Kevinm WLKMMAS, Exchange MVP -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: Just a quick question

2003-10-31 Thread Kevinm[MVP]
I blanked out after the second line.. He can made the AD FQDN domain name .com no problem and keep the same short NetBIOS domain name. and be all happy. Other wise a consultant would be a great thing. Or maybe a fresh start with ADMT all kinds of things he can do here. -- Rev. Kevinm WLKMMAS,

RE: Just a quick question

2003-10-31 Thread David
Hi all, Scott is correct, i'm not upgrading the NT4 box with Exchange 5.5 on it. This will remain on the NT4 BDC as is, in a mixed mode situation. I have the new kit as the PCD now and will upgrade it to Win2K. Then install AD with the new domain name. I believe now the netbios domain name will be

RE: Just a quick question

2003-10-31 Thread Kevinm[MVP]
Good luck.. Have fun with the ADC.. the newer the ADC the better.. unless you are going to just Exmerge over night one night? -- Rev. Kevinm WLKMMAS, Exchange MVP -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 6:30

RE: Can anybody help with this ?

2003-10-31 Thread RBHATIA
Could anybody tell me where Exchange puts the logs for the diagnostic monitoring ? I turned on SMTP Interface monitoring and would like to view the logs. -Original Message- From: Mark Nold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 3:54 PM To: Exchange Discussions

RE: Can anybody help with this ?

2003-10-31 Thread RBHATIA
If I'm correct they are logged in the Application log ? -Original Message- From: RBHATIA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 9:40 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Can anybody help with this ? Could anybody tell me where Exchange puts the logs for the

Problem with OWA

2003-10-31 Thread theklunk
I have a problem with OWA on Exchange 2000 Server. Almost client login correctly at OWA, then the page begins to open and internet explorer 6 crashes. All the clients are Win2000 Prof SP4 with IE 6 SP1, and they are updated with the latest patch from WindowsUpdate. The event log gets the

EXMerge EX55 and Outlook 2003

2003-10-31 Thread Walden H. Leverich III
All, Two of us recently upgraded to Outlook 2003. I'm fine, but the other user's mailbox seems to run like a slug. I've personally watched message opens take 40 seconds. We've backed off to Outlook XP and he has the same problem. I've tried to open his account from my machine and I have the same

Bogus Email

2003-10-31 Thread Smith Thomas Contr 911 SPTG/SC
I have Exchange sever 5.5., and our naming convention is first name. last name. There is some one who is emaiing porno to users and is going by [EMAIL PROTECTED] How can he do this with out using our naming convention ie.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] any help would be appreciated.

RE: Patch 2657.74 Exchange 5.5 Information Store

2003-10-31 Thread Ed Crowley [MVP]
Nehatibve? Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wood, Harriet [CCS] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 3:37 AM To: Exchange Discussions

RE: Problem with OWA

2003-10-31 Thread Ed Crowley [MVP]
I would remove and reinstall IE. If that doesn't fix it, you could reimage the machine or call Microsoft PSS. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Bogus Email

2003-10-31 Thread Ed Crowley [MVP]
If he sends by SMTP he can specify any return address he wants. Do you allow relay by SMTP? Even if you have relay disabled, a user can send from that address just by adding it to the headers of the message. You should read and understand Internet RFCs 821 and 822, and their successors 2821 and

RE: Patch 2657.74 Exchange 5.5 Information Store

2003-10-31 Thread Scott Weston
I am assuming negative -Original Message- From: Ed Crowley [MVP] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 10:02 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Patch 2657.74 Exchange 5.5 Information Store Nehatibve? Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher

RE: Bogus Email

2003-10-31 Thread Scott Weston
Whats to stop anyone from puttin in a forged return address? Nothing. Just like postal mail I can send something to someone and place someone elses return address on the package. It's nothing new. -Original Message- From: Smith Thomas Contr 911 SPTG/SC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: Bogus Email

2003-10-31 Thread Blunt, James H (Jim)
U...because he's spoofing the e-mail address and not really sending from your e-mail servers? The RFC's dictate that your mail server accept e-mail from anyone...regardless of who they are or what naming convention they use. -Original Message- From: Smith Thomas Contr 911 SPTG/SC

RE: EXMerge EX55 and Outlook 2003

2003-10-31 Thread Blunt, James H (Jim)
There are several threads dealing with the problems caused by using Outlook 2003 with an Exchange 5.5 system, complete with solutions and links to Q articles...look them up. -Original Message- From: Walden H. Leverich III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 7:45 AM

RE: Problem with OWA

2003-10-31 Thread Scott Weston
You know I had this problem at a previous company. Everything worked great for all IE clients until John Deere updated their firewall. Then after that they could no longer get to OWA via IE, but mozilla worked fine. Everyone else not behind that location's firewall worked great with any browser.

RE: Problem with OWA

2003-10-31 Thread Blunt, James H (Jim)
When you had this problem, did you have your OWA server sitting outside the FW in the DMZ? -Original Message- From: Scott Weston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 8:17 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Problem with OWA You know I had this problem at a

RE: Bogus Email

2003-10-31 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
I think you should contact that person and tell him to use the naming convention like everyone else.:) Sincerely, Andrey Fyodorov Systems Engineer Messaging and Collaboration Spherion -Original Message- From: Smith Thomas Contr 911 SPTG/SC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

Virus Alert from TrendMicro

2003-10-31 Thread bksh
http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_MIMAIL.C _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface:

RE: Problem with OWA

2003-10-31 Thread Scott Weston
My OWA was in a DMZ outside of their org. At that company we did embedded design and programming. I had our OWA in OUR dmz not Deere's. All other clients and facilities we worked with had no problems. Just this one facility of Deere's was the problem. The work around was not to use IE.

RE: Problem with OWA

2003-10-31 Thread Martin Blackstone
The correct work around would be to not put OWA in the DMZ Martin Blackstone Director, Information Technologies Microsoft Windows Server Systems - Exchange MVP Superior Access Insurance Services 949.470.2111 x279 -Original Message- From: Scott Weston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: Problem with OWA

2003-10-31 Thread Scott Weston
It's where we put all our web servers and never had any problems until they updated their firewall. It happened for everyone accessing ANYONE'S OWA not just ours. So the problem wasn't on my end hence nothing I could do to solve the issue. I even setup a test box outside the firewall with

RE: Problem with OWA

2003-10-31 Thread Blunt, James H (Jim)
Scott, The reason I asked was because I thought you worked for John Deere at the time and that it was their OWA sitting outside the FW, that employees inside the FW could not get to. If that had been the case, then it was probably due to a misconfigured FW rule that blocked on a combination of

RE: Problem with OWA

2003-10-31 Thread Ed Crowley [MVP]
They probably closed some of the gazillion holes OWA needs. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Weston Sent: Friday, October

RE: Problem with OWA

2003-10-31 Thread Scott Weston
No and I am sorry for the confusion. We were contractors with onsite offices and needed access to our exchange from behind their firewall. Deere's rulesets were not allowing the transactions with IE and they denied any recent changes. Funny thing is it worked prior to one weekend when they

RE: Problem with OWA

2003-10-31 Thread Scott Weston
Exactly, thus causing problems the problems we and other suppliers were encountering. They wouldn't even allow VPN connections to remote sites either. So we dialed into our network instead to bypass those limitations. -Original Message- From: Ed Crowley [MVP] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: EXMerge EX55 and Outlook 2003

2003-10-31 Thread Walden H. Leverich III
I'd love to see a list of them. The ones I've seen refer to problems on the Server side (store crashes, etc.) which we are not experiencing. Walden H Leverich III President Tech Software (516) 627-3800 x11 (208) 692-3308 eFax [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.TechSoftInc.com Quiquid

ReadAsPlain in OL2K3

2003-10-31 Thread Finch Brett
I can't seem to find a 'Q' article on how to invoke this or if possible. In OL2K and OL2K2(XP) the registry was the same except for versions (9.0 vice 10.0). Registry entries for OL2K3 are no where near what they were for the previous versions.

Move E2K servers between AD containers?

2003-10-31 Thread MS Exchange List
Hello, E2K: 2 Servers, same site/group, SP3+September'03 Rollup+recent critical security patch, Scanmail 6.1, native OS: w2K, SP4 + all critical fixes , native The powers that be would like to move all the Servers into a new OU Servers container in AD. They're trying to deploy some policies

RE: Bogus Email

2003-10-31 Thread Jason Clishe
You are being Joe Jobbed. Jason -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Smith Thomas Contr 911 SPTG/SC Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 10:47 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Bogus Email I have Exchange sever 5.5., and our naming convention

RE: Bogus Email

2003-10-31 Thread East, Bill
Do they still hang people for impersonating military personnel? Can we get tickets to watch? -- be - MOS The older you get, the better you realize you were. -Original Message- From: Jason Clishe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 4:00 PM To: Exchange

RE: Bogus Email

2003-10-31 Thread Ben Schorr
Who is this Joe Job and why won't he leave our man Thomas alone? ;) -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote, CNA, MCPx4 Director of Information Services Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert http://www.hawaiilawyer.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: Move E2K servers between AD containers?

2003-10-31 Thread Leeann McCallum
We've moved all ours to different OU's. No problems at all other than having to restart the services. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of MS Exchange List Sent: Saturday, 1 November 2003 9:05 a.m. To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Move E2K

RE: Patch 2657.74 Exchange 5.5 Information Store

2003-10-31 Thread Russ Payne
We had a semi-lengthy discussion with PSS regarding the reliability of this fix. They told us that, given its availability, they would have known of any problems with it by now, for whatever that's worth. We applied it to a lab server with no problems and then started easing it into production.