We have added another server in our site this evening and moved a couple
of mail boxes. The new server is a win2k with exchange 5.5 on it and the
other server is a win Nt4.0 with exchange 5.5 on it. After moving the mail
boxes authentication for exchange only will no longer work on win2k or XP
We have a client (JI) that has recently changed to a different software
vendor. This vendor uses Groupwise on their end for email. JI can receive
any email that comes from the vendor but can not send to them... mail just
sits in the Queue and retries. JI is running Exchange 2003 on a Win2000
box
Look at a message in your Inbox - that is formatted as IPM.Note. Now
look at a Post in a Public Folder - that is formatted as IPM.Post. The
differences for me seem to be fairly trivial. You don't lose text
formatting, just some of the normal message functionality (such as reply
to sender, and
It's been discussed quite a bit. Earthlink isn't the only one doing
that, I guarantee it. It should only affect you if you are using a
dynamic IP, which normally isn't appropriate for businesses. Are you
using Exchange 5.5 or 2000?
Ben Winzenz
Network Engineer
Gardner White
(317) 581-1580
XP Machines? Outlook 2003? Cached mode on?
Sincerely,
Andrey Fyodorov, Exchange MVP
Systems Engineer
Messaging and Collaboration
Spherion
-Original Message-
From: Jason Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 3:01 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: After
It's a disenheartening thought that for individual broadband access most
people now have a choice between the two worst customer-service
organizations in the universe, the phone company and the cable company.
Crista, you don't want to hear me sing and I didn't mean to criticize
you, just to point
I am the IT guy at a museum in Washington, D.C. We have an e-mail list of
over 5,000 to whom we send weekly HTML e-mails. My old e-mail program,
PostCast Server Pro Server, no longer work as they should. So I am looking
for another program.
Is there anything that works within Exchange? 5.5, 2K,
Do everyone a favour and send out plain text emails with a link to the web
page holding the information.
Cheers,
Phil
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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I had a project some time ago where I had to validate all our custom
recipients (thousands of them) and clean out those that don't exist
anymore. I used Arclab MailList Controller and it worked quite well. It
does not feed directly off Exchange but has a lot of export/import
capabilities. And it
Just hit Google or MS Support site and search for IPM.Post. They explain
it better than I could.
Sincerely,
Andrey Fyodorov, Exchange MVP
Systems Engineer
Messaging and Collaboration
Spherion
-Original Message-
From: CC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 8:54
Yo.
-Original Message-
From: East, Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 9:18 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: Internet Mail Issues
It's a disenheartening thought that for individual broadband
access most
people now have a choice between the
You're probably looking at list serv software then.
Google for ListServ, MajorDomo and other similar products.
-Original Message-
From: Holstrom, Don J. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 9:23 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: multiple mailings
I
Hello!
With this new feature in Ex2k3(RPC over HTTP), if I decided to use it then it's no
need to have OWA, right? Please advice. Thanks!
TP
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Surprisingly, I'm very pleased with my broadband vendor (chartermi, a division of
Charter). After the initial setup (about 1 yr ago), I haven't had a problem. In
fact, last November when high winds brought down my Elm tree which took out my
phone,cable and power cables, it was the cable
You must not have to answer to a Promotion Dept.
Cheers,
Don
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randal, Phil
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 9:31 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: multiple mailings
Do everyone a favour and send out
What kind of database is it? I think if you are pulling from a DB, you would
really want a product that could interface with that DB and do all the
mailings, etc.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Holstrom, Don J.
Sent: Thursday, January
I have user that is unable to view anyone free/busy data.
The user has no other outlook issues, can schedule meetings and read
mail fine. But when creating a meeting and adding recipients, every
recipient that is added, there free/busy shows up as gray lines.
I have tried outlook /cleanfreebusy
Exchange 2003, I just started on this list less than 6 months ago, so I
may have missed the discussion.
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TP,
Do all of your users have Outlook 2003 outside your LAN, and *never*
connect using OWA from machines that don't have Outlook 2003?
~Marty
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pham, Tuan
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 10:01 AM
To:
Is this user in the same storage group as the people she is trying to view? Or are
they in another storage group or both? Or on a seperate server entirely?
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Exchange Engineer
OIG/HHS
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From:
We are using a database that runs over the old FoxPro language, so I just
export into a way the mass mailing can use.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Blackstone
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 10:13 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
What's disheartening is that more reliable (and fast) service to the
internet has not become more affordable to the small business owner in the
9 years I've been doing this. You are forced to pay out the wazoo for a
service you generally need to run your business but cannot always afford.
What
It is still heavier than OWA, in terms of bandwidth consumption.
Sincerely,
Andrey Fyodorov, Exchange MVP
Systems Engineer
Messaging and Collaboration
Spherion
-Original Message-
From: Pham, Tuan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 10:01 AM
To: Exchange
Hi Don:
Are the 5,000 e-mails already in Exchange? If not (and you have to
other reason compelling you to add them) you will probably want to
manage the lists outside Exchange. I know many companies that seem to
be happy running majordomo or LISTSERV.
If you have need to keep them in
Thanks guys! Yor're right, I still need OWA, I forgot all the poor people that are
still using Win9x at home and laptop as well.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marty Gavin
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 9:23 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Both
He cannot view the free busy data regardless of what server the other
users are on (we have 3 other servers)
No one else is having this issue; it is isolated to him alone.
Rob Weatherly
-Original Message-
From:
Crista, Could you please include the message you are replying too? It makes
it quite difficult for the rest of us to know what you are talking about.
Thx!
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Crista Murphy
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004
Oops. TO, not too
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Blackstone
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 7:50 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: Internet Mail Issues
Crista, Could you please include the message you are replying too? It
So I've taken it that you've tested other users to see if they can see him or any
other users as well, correct?
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Exchange Engineer
OIG/HHS
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, I (and others) can see his information fine.
Rob Weatherly
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bowles, John
(OIG/OMP)
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 11:01 AM
To:
Hi Everyone,
In our environment we have 4 Public Folder dedicated servers for each of
our regions in the US. This allows the user quick access to its
information from that region.
Well the problem we have is when a folder is over its size limit, it
generates 4 warnings every night when the
Is his Outlook profile configured to use cached mode?
Sincerely,
Andrey Fyodorov, Exchange MVP
Systems Engineer
Messaging and Collaboration
Spherion
-Original Message-
From: Weatherly, Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 10:21 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
It's a bigger issue than just people with legacy software. OWA provides
anytime, anywhere access to email. If I'm at a buddy's house and I
want to check my email, I don't want to have to create an Outlook
profile on his computer.
Jason
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No, it does not used cached mode
Rob Weatherly
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fyodorov,
Andrey
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 11:15 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject:
Simplest way I can think of is to export to a comma separated file,
import in outlook contacts folder, create distribution list, and mail
away (using the distribution list in the BCC field so that everyone on
the list can't see everyone else).
If you can export the addresses one per line, or can
That symptom would indicate some problem reading the free-busy system
folder. Try deleting and recreating his profile. He might be pointed to a
defunct public folder server.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
Freelance E-Mail Philosopher
Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T
As an addendum to what I just posted, you might first try a simple profile
refresh--delete the last name of his server name in his profile, then add it
back and click Check Names. That should reset all the Exchange server
stuff.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
Freelance E-Mail Philosopher
Do an SMTP protocol trace and see if that gives you any clues.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
Freelance E-Mail Philosopher
Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert
Sent: Thursday, January
The poster, as is often the case, didn't respond with what fixed the
problem.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
Freelance E-Mail Philosopher
Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Joyce
To publish you Exchange 2003 server on the Internet for HTTP, how should
your DNS look to contact it?
I think I have done the pre-install Server 2003 configs and Exchange
2003 configs too.
Eric
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Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL
The only reason I can think that this is happening is that something is
trying to create a new Tasks folder and doesn't see the real one. Does this
profile have a non-primary Tasks folder that isn't named Tasks?
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
Freelance E-Mail Philosopher
Protecting the world from
That is not a directory attribute, so HEADER.EXE will not give you the
information you seek.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
Freelance E-Mail Philosopher
Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
I was wondering if anyone had seen this before:
This is a new 2003 Server with Exchange 2003 - setup with the ADC to an
Exchange 5.5 SP4 - NT 4.0 SP6a server for migration.
When you migrate an account or create one onto the new server (E2003)
outlook complains that the bookmark is not valid when
http://www.nlearnseries.com/site/products/groupware_outlook2003e.html
These are great trifold quick reference guides that are perfect for
deploying Outlook (or other Microsoft tools) to users when you don't have a
big budget for training. They're inexpensive and my experience is that
users love
What do you mean by that? There are no special DNS records that need to
be created other than an A record in your externally-accessible DNS...
Are you referring to something else?
Ben Winzenz
Network Engineer
Gardner White
(317) 581-1580 ext 418
-Original Message-
From: Eric
Regardless of whether it's Internet or intranet users, their DNS server must
have a host (A) or alias (CNAME) record that resolves the name you're using
for the OWA server.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
Freelance E-Mail Philosopher
Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T
I have the same problem using 2003 Server, 2003 Exchange but with no 5.5's
in the mix. Does not appear to have anything to do with Outlook version -
tried 2000 and 2003. I'm using XP as my client machine.
I have the above plus a DC in a test environment and posted the info a while
back.
I did like rpc.mydomain.com
I still can not contact the server.
Eric
-Original Message-
From: Ben Winzenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 8:55 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: RPC over HTTP
What do you mean by that? There are no special DNS records
I have already recreated the users outlook profile on the desktop, is
that what you are referring to?
Rob Weatherly
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Crowley
[MVP]
Sent:
Unfortunately, there will still be on 5.5 server (in another NT domain)
that will be around for awhile.
Thanks
Mary Anthes
Network Engineer
SCL Health System
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Ed Crowley [MVP] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Huh?
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 Eric Holtzclaw
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 9:03 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject:
It is technically possible to change the service account although it isn't
for the faint of heart.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;152808
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
Freelance E-Mail Philosopher
Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T
-Original
Xp and 2000 machines, outlook 2003 and 2000, cached mode I am not sure
about. Can you tell me what that is.
-Original Message-
From: Fyodorov, Andrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 8:15 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: After using Move Mailbox our
Could be caused by some kind of DNS issue.
Or maybe it encounters a message that is so corrupted that it can't pass
it?
Sincerely,
Andrey Fyodorov, Exchange MVP
Systems Engineer
Messaging and Collaboration
Spherion
-Original Message-
From: Mark Dewell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
I never had problems with Sybari.
Sincerely,
Andrey Fyodorov, Exchange MVP
Systems Engineer
Messaging and Collaboration
Spherion
-Original Message-
From: Ed Crowley [MVP] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 8:19 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: smtp
Certain versions of Antigen will cause the server to stop processing mail
and the SMTP queues to back up. I believe this behavior is fixed in current
versions.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
Freelance E-Mail Philosopher
Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T
-Original
Why don't you two post the complete error message, along with the Error
Code?
A quick search of the MSKB turned up this article:
Exstensible Storage Engine 98 Error Codes 0 to -1048
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;266361Product=exch2
003
(although I couldn't get to the
What does double take really do for exchange??
Yeah so I have a bit by bit copy of the store, my dog comes in and pees
on my primary server, now what will double take do for me? will it
change IP and Server for me to fail over? How do my users see that there
is a double take server??
Any one run
Do you like it with eggs?
Do you like it with ham?
-Original Message-
From: Eric Holtzclaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 12:03 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: RPC over HTTP
I did like rpc.mydomain.com
I still can not contact the server.
Eric
Surely you can do better than that. (And I am not calling you Shirley.)
Do you like them in a box?
Do you like them with a fox?
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
Freelance E-Mail Philosopher
Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I wouldn't recommend it. It is great for mirroring normal files, but I
would not let it near my Exchange servers.
Do you have Doubletake literature? They should have a pretty good
explanation as to what it can do for you.
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From: Kevinm [NY] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
That's a huge dog if it can excrete enough wee to flood a beefy mail
server
Eric Fretz
L-3 Communications
ComCept Division
2800 Discovery Blvd.
Rockwall, TX 75032
tel: 972.772.7501
fax: 972.772.7510
-Original Message-
From: Kevinm [NY] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday,
It don't take but a little liquid in just the right place.
Ben Winzenz
Network Engineer
Gardner White
(317) 581-1580 ext 418
-Original Message-
From: Eric Fretz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Posted At: Thursday, January 08, 2004 3:10 PM
Posted To: Exchange (Swynk)
Conversation:
A small one can do it, with time and determination.
-Original Message-
From: Eric Fretz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 3:10 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: doubletake
That's a huge dog if it can excrete enough wee to flood a beefy mail
Maybe it's analogous to 'it's not the size of the dog in the fight, but
rather the size of the fight in the dog'...
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of East, Bill
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 2:22 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject:
The dog is 150 pounds, half wolf, half German Sheppard. About the
dumbest most loveable dog I have ever met. But boy does he smell...
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fretz
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 12:10 PM
To: Exchange
Mine is like that. Half pit bull, half german shepard and the biggest pussy
you will ever meet. He is nothing but love.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevinm [NY]
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 12:39 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject:
Cool. A dog thread.
-Original Message-
From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 4:05 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: doubletake
Mine is like that. Half pit bull, half german shepard and the biggest pussy
you will ever meet. He is
And just to be clear, I said meet
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David, Andy
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 1:09 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: doubletake
Cool. A dog thread.
-Original Message-
From: Martin
David, Andy mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Cool. A dog thread.
Bah.
Steven
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-Original Message-
From: David, Andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 2:09 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: doubletake
Cool. A dog thread.
-Original Message-
From: Martin
lol
-Original Message-
From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 2:12 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: doubletake
And just to be clear, I said meet
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
You know, we probably weren't going to go there Dancing bears, dancing
bears.
Eric Fretz
L-3 Communications
ComCept Division
2800 Discovery Blvd.
Rockwall, TX 75032
tel: 972.772.7501
fax: 972.772.7510
-Original Message-
From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dogs vs Bulls :)
-Original Message-
From: Eric Fretz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 3:10 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: doubletake
That's a huge dog if it can excrete enough wee to flood a beefy mail
server
Eric Fretz
L-3 Communications
Sorry, missed that, nope it doesn't. Just a typical mailbox.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Crowley [MVP]
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 09:45
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: 5.5 and AutoAccept script
The only reason I can
I've got a 95 pound Malamute who plays chase games with my 5 pound cat. (And guess who
chases who.)
Paul Chinnery
Network Administrator
Mem Med Ctr
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From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 4:05 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
I need to block inbound and outbound email to a particular domain on
exchange 5.5. I searched the net and only found an Exchange 2000 way to do
this. For inbound I simply added that domain to the TURF settings and that
works fine. For outbound the only kludge I could come up with is to set up
Running Exchange 5.5 on 2000 Server and upgrading to SBS 2003. I assume
that I will want to upgrade exchange to 2003 first (after running ADC)
then upgrading the OS to 2003. Or in this scenario will I be better off
just creating a new server altogether? (Hardware is not an issue) (This
server will
Hi,
I have just moved from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003.
It is a single server setup.
I used to use BackupExec+Exchange agent to backup to a DLT.
The stores and the individual mailboxes were backed up daily and every
week I would stop the services and do a full backup.
Before I rush out an
PST = Bad.
themolk.
-Original Message-
From: Matthew Joyce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 9 January 2004 9:21 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Exchange 2003 backups
Hi,
I have just moved from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003.
It is a single server setup.
I
Do you want to see pictures of my 257 cats?
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
Freelance E-Mail Philosopher
Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David, Andy
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 1:09
You could route the domain in question to a Windows 2000 SMTP box with a
scheduled job that deleted it all periodically.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
Freelance E-Mail Philosopher
Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This seems to be a popular axiom, buy why are they considered bad ?
How else can I give users access to email from 2 years ago ?
yes, they do need to access these.
What do other organisations do ?
Matt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
I'd recommend a public folder. That way, not only do you have access to email from
years ago, but all users (with correct permissions) have access, instead of only the
user who has it in a PST.
Erick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
If my users needed to access mail that was older than 2 years I'd design an Exchange
setup that gave them the space they needed to store this stuff.
PSTs are unreliable
PSTs are expensive (e.g. cost of supporting them, disk and backup tape space as they
break SIS)
I think this is all covered
Really big hard drives is how we do it.
Our users keep the mail they need and are encouraged to dispose of the
mail they don't need. Occasionally they do.
Of course, we have the luxury of having an abundance of storage space on
our Exchange servers the bigger challenge is the effect those large
Unreliable and inefficient when they get large. Difficult to manage.
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote, CNA, MCPx4
Director of Information Services
Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert
http://www.hawaiilawyer.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
PST's can have passwords put on them by users, and users forget them
(rendering them useless).
PST's do not synchronise (using WinXP's offline files feature), and so
can be forgotten or left behind, or worse, corrupted.
I think that we almost have an FAQ for why PST=bad from this list, don't
we?
yes, this is my concern.
The main part of my question was what to backup and how often.
...and retention setting for mailboxes and deleted items.
I need to figure out a robust policy which won't need tobe changed 6
months because of store bloating.
Import all those PSTs is just not something I'm
Hello,
FWIW:
We just had a situation where some users were complaining that when they
logged into OWA they were getting other users Mailboxes. I'm aware of a
bug like this in 2003, but we're running E2K.
Turned out a WEB Cache had been put on one part of a remote network.
This did not effect
IIRC there is no direct upgrade path from 5.5 to E2K3 and since SBS is a
single server version of Exchange, your upgrade path may be a tad bit
hairy ok, it seems at first blush your upgrade path will be
extremely hairy. See this doc for additional details:
Several of my customers who have users with lots of data (law firms and
financial services companies primarily, who also often have regulatory
reasons for keeping data as well) use products like Enterprise Vault
from KVS for long term archival storage. The cost of discovery against a
network share
Takes about 6 seconds to strip a password from a PST file which renders
them laughably insecure rather than useless. ;)
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From: Steve Molkentin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Posted At: Thursday, January 08, 2004 5:56 PM
Posted To: swynk
Conversation: Exchange 2003 backups
My retention policies and mailbox size limits are based on what I feel
are best for my organization (based on a lot of discussions and my mail
nazi instincts). Ask around, get input and feedback from users and
management and then make a proposal on storage and retention along with
projected growth
Chris,
Granted... They aren't the most secure solution in that regard... I
guess it is more that they are prone or corruption, and have a finite
limit which users then don't find out about until they go OVER that
limit (they they are stuffed!). ;)
themolk.
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I agree ( I was in the middle of drafting a response to this one when
Chris' advice arrived). I think that the easiest solution is good
deleted retention limits, and lots of disk space. The only downside is
the cost, and whatever proposal you then have to write for your new
backup system to cover
While I don't want to sound like a stick in the mud this is at least 20
messages that have passed through the list that have no bearing on the
subject and fill up our inboxes.
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And your point is what? That with your message and this one, the total is
now twelve?
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
Freelance E-Mail Philosopher
Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T
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The correct term is vendor whore. I am not a slut.
Ed Waiting for the Content Filters to Kick In Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP
Freelance E-Mail Philosopher
Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T
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