RE: Quick Survey; Support vs No. or users/servers

2001-11-29 Thread Sanborn, John
Within our site (1 of ~58 in the Org): 7 Servers 1 Exch Admin (me) - 1 Ex-Exch Admin (my Boss) 4 Helpdesk (all 1st level stuff including account setup) 1400 users Resources adequate (if mis-managed at times) -Original Message- From: Antonietti, Bob P. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thu

RE: Tape Storage

2001-11-29 Thread Sanborn, John
For our blank tapes, we use a 5' high tape rack, nothing fancy. For used tapes, a fire-proof[1] box for local storage and transport to off-site. [1] Make sure that it is rated for tape media. Plastic melts well before paper burns. If you already have a safe you can also get an insert for the t

RE: AV! a full time job?

2001-12-28 Thread Sanborn, John
Just a thought ... isn't anti-virus part of network security? Which makes it EVERYONE's job? Might need a HMFIC to oversee/ upgrade/ promote it, but in the end it's part of every admin's job to one degree or another. John -Original Message- From: John Matteson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: mail count for a domain in exchg 5.5

2001-10-04 Thread Sanborn, John
How much detail do you need? Performance Monitor provides some basic numbers otherwise the FAQ has a list of 3rd party vendors. John -Original Message- From: sai rajesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 1:21 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: mail count for

RE: Automatic Deletion

2001-10-19 Thread Sanborn, John
It's been to long to remember details, but read some propaganda, ... ummm, sorry, sales brochures regarding a system that encrypts messages. On delivery it would provide secure delivery & read receipts, while preventing cut & paste type operations. After a predetermined time or # of reads it wou

RE: Automatic Deletion

2001-10-19 Thread Sanborn, John
239 - 2981 Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious doctrine. Believe it only because you yourself know it to be true. -- Buddha -Original Message- From: Sanborn, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

RE: Quick Pole: How big is your ex5.5 IS?

2001-10-24 Thread Sanborn, John
We're running 13.6GB on the main box with 24GB total for our site[1]. The 279meg box belongs to the HMFIC himself so that ain't changing soon. There's no telling how large the psts's are though[3]. [1] I don't EVEN want to know what the rest of the organization is looking like[2]. [2] Admin is s

RE: Quick Pole: How big is your ex5.5 IS?

2001-10-25 Thread Sanborn, John
Sanborn, John Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 19:40 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Quick Pole: How big is your ex5.5 IS? We're running 13.6GB on the main box with 24GB total for our site[1]. The 279meg box belongs to the HMFIC himself so that ain't changing soon. There's

RE: OFF topic **

2001-10-25 Thread Sanborn, John
Can you get telnet to accept the login/password from a batch file? If so work the Unix logon profile to autorun the script. Might need to do some kind of checking (countdown timer?) if you can't use a dedicated login. -Original Message- From: Romero, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent

How to break Exchange in the Lab [Was: NTBackup]

2001-10-27 Thread Sanborn, John
Thanks to everyone and MSKB[1], I now have backups that I KNOW are good. Next step now, is to learn how to fix Exchange. I know there are a few million ways to break Exchange, but what would be the best for learning the repair tools in a lab environment? The hardware stuff 'should' be strai

RE: How to break Exchange in the Lab [Was: NTBackup]

2001-10-27 Thread Sanborn, John
CTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sanborn, John Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 2:23 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: How to break Exchange in the Lab [Was: NTBackup] Thanks to everyone and MSKB[1], I now have backups that I KNOW are good. Next step now, is to learn how to fix Exchange.

RE: Moving information store to a network drive

2001-10-30 Thread Sanborn, John
May not be the best way, but ... [1]we shutdown Exch services[2], moved the files, recreated the drives, moved them back, ran optimizer[3], started Exch[4]. [1] Online Backup [2] Offline Backup [3] Offline Backup[5] [4] Online Backup [5] a couple of 'Oh Shits' and restores here, but not too bad

RE: Hotfixes for Exchange 5.5

2001-10-31 Thread Sanborn, John
HFnetChk won't check for Exch patches. MSKB Q305385 Q: Why does Hfnetchk not display missing patches for other products, like Microsoft Exchange Server or Microsoft Office? A: Support for these and other products may be included in future releases of Hfnetchk. -Original Message- From: St

Searching by template (i.e. ###-##-####)

2001-10-31 Thread Sanborn, John
Looking for a utility to search the IS for social security numbers. Not any specific ones, just any that fit the pattern. I'm guessing this would be a custom app, but am hoping there is already something out there. Thanks John _ L

RE: To all the Vets on the list

2001-11-15 Thread Sanborn, John
>From our shop full of future Vets ... Thanks SPC John Sanborn Exchange Administrator AZ Army National Guard -Original Message- From: John Matteson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 1:04 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject:To all the Vets on th

C.A. Unicenter

2002-01-25 Thread Sanborn, John
Big boss went to a C.A. briefing for Unicenter [1] and is interested in the management & reporting features [2]. I have not heard a lot of talk on here about Unicenter, either good or bad, and am looking for some opinions one way or another. I've got their propaganda and website, but I'm hopin

RE: Haiku Friday

2002-02-15 Thread Sanborn, John
No day off here Get to rebuild RAID drive Ok though, No boss -Original Message- From: James Winzenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 10:18 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Haiku Friday Three day weekend! Happy for president's day No work on Monday Jam

RE: List of Attachments to Block

2002-02-18 Thread Sanborn, John
from the Archives - 3 days ago. It's not that hard to look things up. And make sure you get Martin his copyright royalites. --- Start Quote --- From: Martin Blackstone Subject:RE: NAV for Exchange: blocked extensions The Martin Blackstone Blocked Files List. Copyright 1999-2002 - Martin Bla

Exch 2k servicing a trusted NT4 network?

2002-02-20 Thread Sanborn, John
Had an interesting question posed to me that I have no clue about. Can a Win 2k/ Exch 2k network be setup that would handle the email for clients on a trusted NT4 network? I don't know much about Win 2k networks & AD, other then bits and pieces. but if my understanding is correct, Exch 2k requir

RE: Exch 2k servicing a trusted NT4 network?

2002-02-20 Thread Sanborn, John
here is no firewall issues to be worked out between domains.) Andrew, MCSE (NT & W2K) + CCNA -Original Message- From: Sanborn, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 2:49 PM Posted To: DiscussionGroup Conversation: Exch 2k servicing a trusted NT4 ne

RE: move mailbox 22 GB priv.edb, how long ?

2002-06-03 Thread Sanborn, John
Shouldn't it be 11,000? Going from 2Meg to 22Gig. Or did you mean a 2Gig file? Bottom line though, is it depends. Machine, Network, time of day, etc all will effect the speed. As Bill suggested try a smaller file and do the math to get an estimate. -Original Message- From: Mellott, B

RE: Where is everyone?

2002-06-03 Thread Sanborn, John
We've just brought our new volunteer fire dept[1] into operation this past weekend. Looks like it's going to busy summer ... [1] outside of Maricopa - south of Phoenix. -Original Message- From: Martin Tuip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 11:23 AM To: Exchange Disc

RE: move mailbox 22 GB priv.edb, how long ?

2002-06-03 Thread Sanborn, John
thNext it'll be my typing then my Spelling... Wait that's ok I think Im from the era of New Math. -Original Message- From: Sanborn, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 1:45 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: move mailbox 22 GB priv.edb, ho

RE: C.A. Unicenter

2002-03-14 Thread Sanborn, John
t the top right here: www.clarksupport.com/whynotca.htm William - Original Message ----- From: "Sanborn, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 5:32 PM Subject: C.A. Unicenter > Big boss went to

RE: C.A. Unicenter (OT)

2002-03-18 Thread Sanborn, John
iscussions Subject: RE: C.A. Unicenter (OT) Why so many different ones? May I ask what they may be? William -Original Message----- From: Sanborn, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 3:27 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: C.A. Unicenter Well, they finally came

RE: C.A. Unicenter (OT)

2002-03-20 Thread Sanborn, John
it?) William -----Original Message- From: Sanborn, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 9:37 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: C.A. Unicenter (OT) Ok, maybe it wouldn't replace six, but with What's Up, MRTG, CiscoWorks, HFNetChk, Stat scanner, Syslog, Exc

RE: Disaster Recovery Center

2002-03-21 Thread Sanborn, John
Since I'm not in our DPI shop anymore, I don't know all the details. But we had[1] a national contract with SunGard which included them rolling up, to any of our sites, with an 18 wheeler, with all the hardware already installed and ready for a restore. Was a cool concept. Our Florida and Guam

Would two UMs play nice together?

2002-04-05 Thread Sanborn, John
We have Octel Unified Messenger 4.00 running on Exch5.5 sp4/ NT4 sp6a. We're testing Cisco UM 3.12 on another Organization in the same NT domain. Before banging our heads on the wall[1], we wanted to find out if Octel and Cisco UMs would even work together in the same Organization for the trans

RE: SMTP message size limits

2002-04-12 Thread Sanborn, John
Just imposed a 20 meg limit (was none) on ours [1]. I wanted to go to 10 meg, but the powers that be said that was too small. At least at 20 meg the system doesn't choke to death, so I couldn't complain too much. [1] After the system came to a virtual halt with the third 50+ meg file that week,

RE: Can I delay sending messages

2002-04-18 Thread Sanborn, John
Are you thinking of be able to hold large messages until after-hours? Or maybe even monitor bandwidth for a drop below ##%? I don't have a clue if some an animal exists, but this would be really great for our sites with low bandwidth connections. -Original Message- From: David Buck

RE: Can I delay sending messages

2002-04-18 Thread Sanborn, John
6:38 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Can I delay sending messages It exists. You can configure the delivery options in an E2k SMTP connector to do just that. -Original Message- From: Sanborn, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 9:26 PM To: Exchange

RE: Haiku Friday

2002-04-26 Thread Sanborn, John
Us 'goopernut' types HAVE to go to a civilian list to get help. You know we ain't finding it within the government. John Run fast when hear the phase, 'We're from the government. We're here to help' -Original Message- From: Muqeem Syed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 26,

RE: Haiku Friday

2002-04-26 Thread Sanborn, John
I thought it was was 'a friend with weed is a friend indeed' ... must be from my younger days. -Original Message- From: Muqeem Syed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 9:08 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Haiku Friday Whine whine.. me is a poor sys admin

RE: 5.5 Server Scripting

2002-05-07 Thread Sanborn, John
Just out of curiosity, what is considered 'reasonable' for something small like this? <$100? <$500? <$1000? <$5000? $5000+? Never have had ANY dealing with contract programming, so I'm totally clueless. -Original Message- From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May