RE: Powercontrols

2004-01-07 Thread Woodruff, Michael
It depends on db size. It will take quite a while. Are you running 2.0? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Boyd, Nathan Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 8:31 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Powercontrols Ontracks support is

Re: Internet Mail Issues

2004-01-07 Thread Crista Murphy
I have a client who is migrating away from an ISP hosted POP mail account to a newly created exch 2003 box and we're experiencing 5.5.0 smtp;550 Dynamic IPs/open relays blocked. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED], 5.5.0 smtp;550-68.37.144.103 blocked by blacklist.mail.ops.asp.att.net. and to aol Could

RE: Internet Mail Issues

2004-01-07 Thread Martin Blackstone
Are you using some kind of dynamic DNS? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Crista Murphy Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 5:51 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Internet Mail Issues I have a client who is migrating away from an ISP

RE: Internet Mail Issues

2004-01-07 Thread Eric Fretz
If you are doing your SMTP, you must have a MX record of some sort located on a DNS server somewhere. Are you hosting your own DNS or is your ISP hosting DNS zones for your subnet? Eric Fretz L-3 Communications ComCept Division 2800 Discovery Blvd. Rockwall, TX 75032 tel: 972.772.7501 fax:

RE: Public Folders in Exchange 2003

2004-01-07 Thread Ben Winzenz
Yes and No. You can mail-enable Public Folders (as you could do with Exchange 5.5 and 2000), which will satisfy the first part, and grant Send As rights to individuals, however, keeping track of the Sent Items will be much more difficult. Public Folders do not have a Sent Items folder. Instead,

RE: Internet Mail Issues

2004-01-07 Thread East, Bill
Shirley Comcast will allow you to relay your outbound mail through their MXed, reverse-DNSed mailhost, right? If so, just point your Exchange server to relay all outbound mail through them. If not, ditch Comcast. They're not a business-class ISP in my opinion, at least. -- be - MOS Replace

RE: Powercontrols

2004-01-07 Thread Boyd, Nathan
I am running version 2.0. Server is 2000 SP4 and the backup device is an LT02. Typically the catalog process, on backup exec using an LT01 is a couple of minutes for a 100GB. I have been running Powercontrols for 15 hours and it has managed to catalog 122GB. We were hoping this would reduce

Exchange 2k3 store configs

2004-01-07 Thread Woodruff, Michael
I am setting up a plan to restructure our exchange DB config. Currently we have 3 DBs. 1 with a mix of companies that is very large (65GB). The others are 4 to 5GB a piece and are one Exec DB and one company DB. I started to go the departmental route to separate DBs, but then that idea was soon

RE: Exchange 2k3 store configs

2004-01-07 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
I would first make sure that I am comfortable with backup/restore speeds and base the DB size on that. -Original Message- From: Woodruff, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:23 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Exchange 2k3 store configs I am

RE: Exchange 2k3 store configs

2004-01-07 Thread Woodruff, Michael
That's what my 20GB was set for. I was just wondering as far as how you split up your DBs if you do at all. Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fyodorov, Andrey Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:27 AM To: Exchange Discussions

RE: Exchange 2k3 store configs

2004-01-07 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
At the current place, we have a separate DB for execs. It was not my idea. I am not sure if I would do it this way - put all execs in one basket... that's an easy way to piss off all the execs at once if something happens. -Original Message- From: Woodruff, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: OWA 5.5 - Active Directory

2004-01-07 Thread Miller, Robert
That is a good question We are a Law Firm and we have several attorneys that refuse to give up the Exchange 5.5 OWA - they state Exchange 2000 OWA is too slow and unusable... So, we wanted to offer up both for a period of time - to slowly wean them away from 5.5, while still switching to

RE: OWA 5.5 - Active Directory

2004-01-07 Thread Miller, Robert
Thanks for the reply... I actually confirmed just that last night in the lab. I brought up a separate native mode environment with an OWA 5.5 server.. New users were not able to access their mailboxes, while users created before the switch continued to work Thanks again -Original

RE: Public Folders in Exchange 2003

2004-01-07 Thread CC
Thank you for your response! When the Public Folder was setup and email enabled we were able to receive mail to the public folder, but external mail (outside our domain) is coming into the Public Folder as a post (not a email message). We are then unable to reply to the message since there is no

RE: Exchange 2k3 store configs

2004-01-07 Thread Tony Hlabse
AM I missing something here. Are you saying you want to limit your DB's to a certain size. Maybe I am crazy but you can only limit indvidual mailboxes sizes via property settings or policies, right? From: Fyodorov, Andrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

RE: Exchange 2k3 store configs

2004-01-07 Thread Woodruff, Michael
Not a hard limit, I just want to cut off creating users on that store when I reach that limit to keep the DB size down. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Hlabse Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 11:25 AM To: Exchange Discussions

RE: Exchange 2k3 store configs

2004-01-07 Thread Tony Hlabse
Ok the last place I was at they created multiple DB's based on sizes ranging from 100MB to 500MB for the mailbox limits which were set by policies. If your really worried about DB's getting too big maybe a archiving solution would be a worth look at. From: Woodruff, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Exchange 2k3 store configs

2004-01-07 Thread Chris Scharff
My general design plan (which may not be applicable here) is to worry more about the storage group level. I'd design a SG with 4 private information stores and create those databases at the outset. Then through day to day operations, I distribute users over those storage groups. I'd rather have 4

RE: Exchange 2k3 store configs

2004-01-07 Thread Neil Hobson
Agreed on that. When I give customers the overall choices, i.e. spread users randomly across databases and reduce risks to common groups of users if a database fails, or group certain types of users together on the same database based on the need to collaborate and therefore improve SIS, they

RE: Internet Mail Issues

2004-01-07 Thread Ed Crowley [MVP]
Who is Shirley Comcast? 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 East, Bill Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 6:52 AM To: Exchange

RE: OWA 5.5 - Active Directory

2004-01-07 Thread Ed Crowley [MVP]
OWA 200x dumbs down based on the version of the browser. However, it doesn't look like OWA 5.5. Maybe this is the excuse you need to upgrade to Exchange 2003. OWA 2003 rocks! Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T

RE: Exchange 2k3 store configs

2004-01-07 Thread Chris Scharff
Yep, my experience as well. The other advantage to creating the SGs and databases in advance is that you can make sure they conform to your naming scheme and set up a full set of monitors to make sure everything runs smoothly from the outset. -Original Message- From: Neil Hobson

RE: Internet Mail Issues

2004-01-07 Thread David, Andy
Stop calling me Shirley! -Original Message- From: Ed Crowley [MVP] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 11:54 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Internet Mail Issues Who is Shirley Comcast? Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher

Sharing the GAL

2004-01-07 Thread Marlovits, John [JM1]
We have a few companies that we would like to have all there email users as contacts in our GAL. Is there a way to export / import their GAL into ours? Or if they could be linked somehow over the internet? Also if they add / delete / change users how would that work? We have Exchange 2000 others

RE: Internet Mail Issues

2004-01-07 Thread Bailey, Matthew
It's an ISPand stop calling me Shirley. (Sorry, couldn't resist the Airplane reference) - Matt -Original Message- From: Ed Crowley [MVP] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 9:54 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Internet Mail Issues Who is Shirley

RE: Internet Mail Issues

2004-01-07 Thread Neil Hobson
Shirley you can't be serious? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Crowley [MVP] Posted At: 07 January 2004 16:54 Posted To: Swynk Exchange (30 days) Conversation: Internet Mail Issues Subject: RE: Internet Mail Issues Who is Shirley

RE: Internet Mail Issues

2004-01-07 Thread Eric Fretz
Think back to Airplane the movie. Shirley == Surely Eric Fretz L-3 Communications ComCept Division 2800 Discovery Blvd. Rockwall, TX 75032 tel: 972.772.7501 fax: 972.772.7510 -Original Message- From: Ed Crowley [MVP] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004

RE: Public Folders in Exchange 2003

2004-01-07 Thread Ben Winzenz
That's normal behavior. It has to do with e-mails from the Internet being posted as IPM.Post instead of IPM.Note. It should not affect functionality - you should still be able to reply to them. The buttons may look different, but the functionality is still there. I have this list being

RE: Exchange 2k3 store configs

2004-01-07 Thread Douglas A. Jones
Most of the large companies I've consulted with just keep the DB to a certain size (20GB sounds good) and don't worry about who's on what DBs it's too much a pain in the butt to be shuffling people around. Although I have seen them try to keep important people on different servers / DBs to keep

RE: Calendar Lockups / Blackberry Server

2004-01-07 Thread Jeremy T. Slater
Yes, sorry. We are running Blackberry Server v3.6 on all three servers. We are on the latest service pack. We have done the massaging both in that manner and also via the exchange database level tool, but still have the same issues over time. Thanks! Jeremy -Original Message- From:

RE: Public Folders in Exchange 2003

2004-01-07 Thread Ben Winzenz
Never mind my last post about being able to reply. I see what you are saying now. The links I posted detail workarounds. The first link also is for a hotfix that should correct this problem. Ben Winzenz Network Engineer Gardner White (317) 581-1580 ext 418 -Original Message- From:

RE: Sharing the GAL

2004-01-07 Thread Roger Seielstad
LDAP is the only clean way I can think of doing it. But that could create some potential vulnerabilities for the unwary. -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -Original Message- From:

RE: Internet Mail Issues

2004-01-07 Thread Jeremy T. Slater
I am serious, and don't call me Shirley. http://sounds.wavcentral.com/movies/airplane/shirley.mp3 -Original Message- From: Neil Hobson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 12:03 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Internet Mail Issues Shirley you can't be

RE: Sharing the GAL

2004-01-07 Thread Ed Crowley [MVP]
Answered in the other forum in which you posted this (under a different subject). 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 Marlovits,

RE: Calendar Lockups / Blackberry Server

2004-01-07 Thread Durkee, Peter
Just out of curiosity, are the Blackberry people with the problem using wireless Calendar syncing, or doing it via the old Intellisync? -Peter -Original Message- From: Jeremy T. Slater [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 9:05 To: Exchange Discussions Subject:

RE: Sharing the GAL

2004-01-07 Thread Lalor, Kevin
Hi John: If you develop a custom application via LDAP or use Directory Transformation Manager (DTM) from Imanami and be done in 45 minutes. DTM lets will check for duplicates, automatically create contacts in your GAL, and sets a schedule to keep your changes synchronized. Check it out at

RE: Calendar Lockups / Blackberry Server

2004-01-07 Thread Jeremy T. Slater
Wireless calendar synching. -Original Message- From: Durkee, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 12:45 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Calendar Lockups / Blackberry Server Just out of curiosity, are the Blackberry people with the problem using

RE: Exchange 2k3 store configs

2004-01-07 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
I tried doing that too at my previous place, thinking that when someone wants a larger mailbox we could upgrade that person by moving his/her mailbox to the store with higher mbx size limits. But then, moving 100MB mailbox is going to take some time. Either the user is going to lose 20-30 minutes

RE: OWA 5.5 - Active Directory

2004-01-07 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
It does not look exactly like 5.5 OWA but retains the same feel and probably loads faster. Another way to dumb down 2000 OWA is segmentation. You basically go to ADSI Edit, go to the user's properties, and find the certain field (can't remember its name off the top of my head), and set its value

RE: Public Folders in Exchange 2003

2004-01-07 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
There is a hotfix for that. Search MS support site for IPM.Post Sincerely, Andrey Fyodorov, Exchange MVP Systems Engineer Messaging and Collaboration Spherion -Original Message- From: CC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 11:13 AM To: Exchange Discussions

RE: getting heaps of spams

2004-01-07 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
Are they NDRs going to places like Yahoo? Someone could be using you to generate a reverse relay. Basically they deliberately stuff the messages with From addresses of the actual victims and send those messages to the bogus addresses at your domain. This generates the NDRs that then bounce back to

RE: getting heaps of spams

2004-01-07 Thread Ali Wilkes (IT)
Or vice versa - someone used us (bordersgroupinc.com) as a bogus return address (@, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) to spam another company (again, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) so we got lots of NDRs from this other company. (~40,000/hour) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Public Folders in Exchange 2003

2004-01-07 Thread Erick Thompson
Is it possible to create a rule that will put a copy of the email into the folder on send? I just took a quick look through the rule options and nothing jumped out at me, but that doesn't mean anything Erick PS Is it possible to apply rules to all accounts administratively? -Original

RE: Powercontrols

2004-01-07 Thread Boyd, Nathan
With the help of Compaq we were able to determine that we should be able to write 2:1 compression using the existing hardware at 1GB every 10 seconds. Powercontrols catalogs at 1 GB every 1 hour. What do other people get for a 1GB catalog? -Original Message- From: Woodruff, Michael

RE: Internet Mail Issues

2004-01-07 Thread Crista Murphy
Hahaha... should we all get together and sing Kumbaya now? We are hosting our DNS and there is an MX record for the server, however we cannot do reverse DNS because comcast won't let us. While I agree comcast is not a 'business ISP', for nice little startups and two person home offices (my main

Scheduler/calendar features

2004-01-07 Thread Erick Thompson
I'm working on getting my users to start using the calendar in Outlook, and in public folders. However, I haven't used the calendar a whole lot. Does anyone know of good tutorials/FAQs for the calendar, written for end users? BTW, we're on Outlook 2000, but will soon be moving to Outlook 2003.

Determine active mailboxes

2004-01-07 Thread Pat
Does anyone know of a way to determine when the last time a user(s) accessed their mailbox. The last logoff time from the Exchange admin program will not be sufficient for me. I would like to know when the last message was read and or sent from each mailbox or both. Or at least something to that

5.5 and AutoAccept script

2004-01-07 Thread Finch Brett
For some reason the 'tasks' folder is being renamed (tasks1, tasks2...all the way up to as high as 70) and the only common denominator is these are resources (rooms etc..) which use the 'enhanced' Autoaccept script (from V4 from ExchangeCode). Haven't seen this before (I suppose a clean freebusy

Change Exchange service account in Mixed Mode organization?

2004-01-07 Thread Mary Anthes
I have an Exchange organization in Mixed Mode (2000/5.5). I installed Exchange 2000 in an existing site and moved mailboxes to the new server. The previous server was in another domain, which we now want to bring down. The service account listed for the site is an account in the old domain.

smtp receives but stops sending

2004-01-07 Thread Matthew Joyce
Hi, I found a thread, titled as above, via a google, I'm just curious what the resolution was (if any) I have recently install Exchange 2003 and today, I found a bunch of messages waiting for submission. The SMTP service would not stop. I followed the threads procedure. Disable SMTP service

RE: Internet Mail Issues

2004-01-07 Thread Crista Murphy
Here's a new one on me... Earthlink replied that because the ip block the MX record points to is persistent not static they block the address. The reason that your mail bounced back is because it attempted to pass directly from an IP address range believed to be dynamically assigned (such as

RE: Public Folders in Exchange 2003

2004-01-07 Thread CC
Okay, what is the difference between a IPM post and a IPM note? I now understand what I need to do to make this work properly, but I am not sure I understand the difference between a IPM post and a not. _ List posting FAQ: