RE: MS Instant Messaging

2003-10-28 Thread Cook, David A.
It has reappeared in Live Communications Server 2003. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Crowley [MVP] Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 8:37 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: MS Instant Messaging Why bother with it? It's gone from E

RE: Instant Messenger attributes

2002-12-30 Thread Cook, David A.
02 12:18 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Instant Messenger attributes Didn't think of that. Just checked it and reflected the proper host. _rvp._tcp SRVpriority=0, weight=0, port=80, IMServer.domaina.com -Heath -Original Message----- From: Cook, David

RE: Instant Messenger attributes

2002-12-30 Thread Cook, David A.
I believe they are stamped based on the way your _rvp record is setup in DNS. Did anything change in your DNS that coincided with the stamping being different? Dave Cook Exchange Administrator Kutak Rock LLP 402-346-6000 x1356 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Walker, Heath [mai

Windows or Exchange SP3 first?

2002-07-31 Thread Cook, David A.
I am just starting to test these to service packs in my lab and will test both ways. I think it best not to apply both service packs at once so if there is a problem you know which caused it. What is everyone's opinion on which to apply first? Dave Cook Exchange Administrator Kutak Rock, LLP 402-

RE: Error sending Emails to public folders

2002-07-30 Thread Cook, David A.
Sounds like permissions on the folder and it would depend on if the email in question is from internal or external sender. For an external sender to be able to send to a public folder the anonymous account must have contributor rights to the public folder. For internal use either the default or a

RE: Exporting exchange information from Active directory

2002-07-30 Thread Cook, David A.
Assuming that since it is exporting from active directory that this is Exchange 2000. The utility to use is csvde which is installed on a Windows 2000 server in the system32 directory. Dave Cook Exchange Administrator Kutak Rock, LLP 402-231-8352 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Fr

RE: Utility to set random passwords?

2002-07-23 Thread Cook, David A.
user accounts, you can use my code along with addusers.exe (NT4 resource kit, but works with AD too). -Original Message- From: Cook, David A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 10:15 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Utility to set random passwords? Does anyone know

Utility to set random passwords?

2002-07-19 Thread Cook, David A.
Does anyone know of a utility that can set random passwords for a large number of domain accounts at one time? I need to be able to specify complex password and password length in the utility if one exists. The reason: We are setting up a Cisco IP Phone system and the voice mail system uses Excha

RE: gen. AV software(s) Q' int/ext blk/no blk attachments

2002-05-15 Thread Cook, David A.
We are using MailMarshal as a mail gateway to perform this task but we also run Antigen 6.5 on our Exchange servers which also has this ability. >From reading this list I believe there is a Norton product that also has this ability. Dave Cook Exchange Administrator Kutak Rock, LLP 402-231-8352

RE: MDAC on Exchange

2002-03-14 Thread Cook, David A.
Is the push a "there preference" push or a mandatory push? There are monitoring solutions available that do not require agents. Dave Cook Exchange Administrator Kutak Rock, LLP 402-231-8352 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Schwartz, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thurs

RE: The great smtp mystery

2002-03-08 Thread Cook, David A.
I've been dealing with this same thing. I'm with you and trying to figure out the motivation for the emails. They are not advertisements and contain no attachments. We have had at least 20 people receive the exact same email which is: Fred, It was nice to talk to you today I will send the pr

Warnings with isinteg

2002-03-08 Thread Cook, David A.
E2K SP2 and W2K SP2 The server has two storage groups and was backup up without a problem. I just started receiving errors during the backup using Backup Exec saying Access denied to database followed by file corrupt. I ran isinteg just in test mode and it produced 107 warnings. I had a drive

RE: Misconfigured SMTP Connector?

2002-03-01 Thread Cook, David A.
configured mail loop. Dave Cook Exchange Administrator Kutak Rock, LLP 402-231-8352 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Cook, David A. Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 4:23 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Misconfigured SMTP Connector? I need some help because I think I have setup

Misconfigured SMTP Connector?

2002-03-01 Thread Cook, David A.
I need some help because I think I have setup something wrong but I'm not sure how to resolve it. I am running Exchange 2000 SP1 with a MailMarshal gateway. All email inbound through MailMarshal which is configured to forward all mail to kutakrock.com on to the Exchange servers. In the Exchang

RE: Exchange WebMonitor

2002-01-14 Thread Cook, David A.
Just catching up on this list so sorry for the late reply. The account the WebMonitor is using must have access on the Exchange servers to read the information it is wanting from WMI. In my experience you get what you pay for with this tool. Some things get miss reported a lot such as memory and

RE: Envelope Recipients is zero...

2002-01-14 Thread Cook, David A.
ubject: RE: Envelope Recipients is zero... Try Exchange 2000 SP2. (on the server, not the machine running the ESM console) I'm not positive that it will fix the situation you are hitting, but several issues related to counts being off were fixed in SP2. David -Original Message----- From

Envelope Recipients is zero...

2002-01-10 Thread Cook, David A.
Hoping someone can help me with my issue. I seem to recall reading something about this once before and I thought it releted to sending delivery/read reciepts. I can't find anything on it in the archive or on Microsoft though. I may be searching for the wrong thing though. Running E2K SP1 on W2K

RE: Slightly OT: PST policies

2002-01-10 Thread Cook, David A.
tore their games and exes? They prefer to utilize more disk space? They want to provide job security to low level admins who try to recover corrupt PSTs? They are comfortable NOT backing up PSTs for users that don't logoff from Outlook? What is their rationale? S -Original Message

Slightly OT: PST policies

2002-01-10 Thread Cook, David A.
After much complaining about PST usage on our network I have finally been asked to give my recommendation on PST files. My recommendation of not allowing them at all was shot down as not possible. I now turn to you guys to find out what you do about PST usage. I would like to limit the size of t

OT: MailMarshal users?

2001-12-14 Thread Cook, David A.
I'm hoping someone can help me with a MailMarshal issue. I'm running MailMarshal and have been doing so just fine on version 4.0.2. We upgraded to the 4.2 version Wednesday night and have since run into problems in sending and receiving RTF attachments. The problem I have is that all messages with

RE: Mail Gateway antivirus for serveral domains (MX)

2001-12-12 Thread Cook, David A.
MailMarshal is also easily capable of this. Dave -Original Message- From: Jean-Francois Bourdeau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 3:26 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Mail Gateway antivirus for serveral domains (MX) Hi My customer need a antivirus gate

OT: Enhancing voting functionality...

2001-12-10 Thread Cook, David A.
Sorry for the off topic post but I have been asked about this due to the voting functionality in Outlook. I'm running Exchange 2000 and Outlook 2000 and have been asked how we could have advanced voting functionality using Outlook/Exchange. The requirements are listed below. Has anyone ever come a

Export GAL

2001-12-06 Thread Cook, David A.
Exchange 2000 SP1 How can I export the GAL? All I really need is to be able to export a list of users and their smtp addresses. This is probably simple but I can not find anything on how to do this. Probably a matter of searching on the wrong information. Dave Cook Exchange Administrator Kutak

RE: Message Tracking Files - Where?

2001-12-04 Thread Cook, David A.
Should be in a folder called servername.log. -Original Message- From: Mike Putley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 2:46 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Message Tracking Files - Where? Hi, I have been using the message tracking center for some issues, I

RE: Trend - Off Topic - Server Protect

2001-12-01 Thread Cook, David A.
What process was hogging the cpu? -Original Message- From: Hooks, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 12:30 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Trend - Off Topic - Server Protect Microsoft clued me in yesterday as to why one of our domain controllers CPU kept

RE: Exchange Server - Outlook Client Slowdown

2001-11-27 Thread Cook, David A.
Has logging been on full the entire time or is that just for troubleshooting? Full logging = lost resources. -Original Message- From: Paul Bouzan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 5:33 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange Server - Outlook Client Slo

Mail Gateways

2001-11-27 Thread Cook, David A.
I am running MailMarshal as my mail gateway it works fine but is missing a feature that I'm needing. I'm hoping someone knows of a product that can meet my needs. What I'm needing to do is with every received message to my domain I need to pass it on to my Exchange server and also pass it on to an

RE: IM 4.5 for Exchange?

2001-11-17 Thread Cook, David A.
The update for 4.5 posted yesterday. They have not released a full 4.5 version yet but this update will allow XP users to use Exchange IM. -Original Message- From: Webb, Andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 10:50 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: IM 4.

RE: excel attachment could not be found

2001-11-14 Thread Cook, David A.
Does it make any difference if Excel is already open when the user tries to open the Excel attachment? We the issue with Word that a macro was launching with Word that was not coded properly thus there was a timeout issue when opening Word attachments from Outlook if Word was not already open. Mak

Seriously been tasked with this

2001-11-09 Thread Cook, David A.
Happy Friday to all. I should have saved this for a Monday morning as I'm sure it's going to bring many laughs and many people saying that this is absolutely crazy. I've been tasked with this though and I thus have to come up with a solution and pricing for the solution. I doubt it is anything tha

RE: Internet mail problem

2001-11-01 Thread Cook, David A.
heir internet access from our ISP to a different one. Their mail server's IP changed and our ISP hadn't changed their MX record to point to the right IP. So the bottom line is, call your ISP, or whoever is in charge of your DNS, and tell them to look at their MX records. Aaron -----Origin

RE: Internet mail problem

2001-11-01 Thread Cook, David A.
context as your exchange server? Mike -Original Message----- From: Cook, David A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 8:59 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Internet mail problem Hello all, My issue is with sending mail to a specific domain (aboc.com) from my domain

Internet mail problem

2001-11-01 Thread Cook, David A.
Hello all, My issue is with sending mail to a specific domain (aboc.com) from my domain. I can receive from this domain but when I try to send or reply my mail gateway reports that it failed to connect. The troubleshooting I have done is: 1. Use nslookup to get MX record information 2. ping ip a

Event 9582

2001-10-29 Thread Cook, David A.
Hello all, I have run into the event entry below twice in the past month on two different servers. Everything I find on this is specific to clusters and I am not running any clusters. Q296073 states "The event ID 9582 referenced in this article is only a concern for Active/Active cluster configur

RE: Permissions to publish a form

2001-10-24 Thread Cook, David A.
In ISM go to your public folders, right click and choose to show view system folders, expand Eforms Registry and set the permissions on the Organizational Forms folder. -Original Message- From: Saul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 5:41 PM To: Exchange Discussion

SMTP Queue active but mail not moving

2001-10-18 Thread Cook, David A.
E2K sp1, w2k sp2 I am having an sporadic problem in which smtp mail is not being delivered. When this happens I look at the queue on the server that is not sending mail and the smtp connection in question shows active but has messages sitting in it. I can enumerate the messages and the largest me

Perfmon counter...

2001-10-18 Thread Cook, David A.
I'm troubleshooting slow Exchange performance and I found something saying that I should monitor the MSExchnageIS\RPC Requests counter. I do not have a baseline though thus I'm not sure what this counter should look like. It is running at zero 99% of time. Is this reason for concern and if so what

Directory Export and Mailbox size

2001-10-02 Thread Cook, David A.
I'm a new Exchange administrator and need a little help with some functions or tools. I am running Exchange 2000 and have two tasks put before me that I'm having trouble finding any information on how to do them. I believe my problem is that I'm not searching for the proper information but your he

Web Monitor from reskit...

2001-10-01 Thread Cook, David A.
Has anyone setup the web monitor from the Exchange 2000 resource kit. I have it installed on a server but the page does not pull in any servers into the web page. There may be a file that I need to manually add the servers to that I want it to monitor but if there is I can't find that file. If any

Can't delete some emails

2001-10-01 Thread Cook, David A.
I have three messages in my administrator mailbox that I can not delete. When I try to delete these messages the Outlook client (tried on both 2000 and XP) gets an error message that says "Unknown Error". In the event log on the server I receive the following event. Has anyone seen this and know o

Good Exchange sources...

2001-09-26 Thread Cook, David A.
I posted to this list for the first time today but didn't ask one of the most important questions a new admin always has. What are the good sources for Exchange information? I was an SMS administrator and I knew of so many good resources but now I feel lost. I know Microsoft and Swynk but point me

MAD Monitoring thread...

2001-09-26 Thread Cook, David A.
Hello all, I'm relatively new to Exchange 2000 and new to this discussion list. I am receiving the following event entry on multiple Exchange 2000 servers. Does anyone have an idea of what may cause this? Also what is the MAD Monitoring thread responsible for? Event Type: Error Event Source: