RE: Questions about RPC/HTTPS

2008-01-22 Thread Simon Butler
You must have both the internal and the external name in the registry entries, otherwise it doesn't work. Trying to condense the registry entries will not work, and I don't see much point in it. Do remember to make the change on the domain controllers and ensure that you are pointing the

Diagnostic logging question

2008-01-22 Thread Oliver Marshall
Which diagnostic logging option is the best one to turn on if we want to try to determine whether SMTP sessions to a Windows box are being cut off before the attachments are being received? We are being swamped with corrupt attachments and are struggling to find a thing wrong. Olly ~ Ninja

RE: Error when removing last Exchange 5.5 server

2008-01-22 Thread Palmer, Neal
Er, this might help, finding any weird mailboxes that still seem to be connected to the store http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555147/en-us worked for me (after replication kicked in). -Original Message- From: Jim Dandy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 January 2008 00:50 To:

RE: Exchange 2007 Plain text message problem

2008-01-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb690955.aspx - see the DomainName explanation. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Alex Fontana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 1:07 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues

RE: Anyone using CCR in production?

2008-01-22 Thread Brown, Larry
Thanks for the tip on Issue #1 Regarding Issue #2...I'm just going by what our BES admin has told us. I'm supposed to be become her backup this quarter...so maybe I'll find out what the issue really is... :-) From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 6:13 PM To:

Old 0ut 0f 0ffice Messages

2008-01-22 Thread McCready, Robert
We have a couple of users who deliver two Out Of Office messages when they turn the option on. The first one is a recent Out Of Office from today, the second one is an Old Of Office from the last time they used the feature (December for example). Has anybody else seen this? (Exchange 2007

RE: Event ID 9667

2008-01-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
What's the number? You only get that warning when you are within 20% of the maximum limit. You need to figure out what's creating the named properties. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Alex Alborzfard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anyone using CCR in production?

2008-01-22 Thread Don Ely
Make sure the BES server has all of the same patches that Exchange does... BES makes mapi connections, those are reconnected when the service resumes... On Jan 22, 2008 5:48 AM, Brown, Larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the tip on Issue #1 Regarding Issue #2…I'm just going by what

Event ID 9667

2008-01-22 Thread Alex Alborzfard
I'm getting this logged in Application log of one of our EX2K3 servers. I found a Technet article ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb851495.aspx) that tells you to look for some registry values, which I cannot find. How can I fix this or it's not serious and I should just leave it

Re: RBLs

2008-01-22 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Those are certainly valid concerns. As William pointed out, DNSBLs have grown up. Many that have started out as a particular admins method of protecting his own site from what he considered spam have evolved into reputable public-use minded sites that take more factors into consideration when

Re: Anyone using CCR in production?

2008-01-22 Thread Pete Howard
Ive had a CCR implementation with 10 storage groups and about 200gb of data running on RTM code since last August with no issues. Works great, smooth and reliable failover ..so far. Why is CCR falling out of favor ? I can see where it adds some complexity in setup but the MNS style clustering

Connect Exchange to non-Exchange

2008-01-22 Thread Benjamin Zachary
I have a franchised client who right now gets all pop3 mail via outlook. They have exchange 2003 and use it just for internal mail and pop off their company mail. The parent company uses Lotus or Domino or something other than Exchange Im told. I was thinking I could pop off the mail

Re: Event ID 9667

2008-01-22 Thread Alex Alborzfard
If you're referring to the number after quota limit, it's 8192. There are like 6 or 7 of these events with unique named properties in the APP log. From the named properties, it seems that it has something to do with our spam appliance. Thanks On Jan 22, 2008 9:38 AM, Michael B. Smith [EMAIL

RE: Connect Exchange to non-Exchange

2008-01-22 Thread Tom McCarty
The best bet to retain your sanity is the Lotus Notes connector if they really are using that. But you may not have enough rights to set up the other side Tom McCarty _ From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:17 AM To: MS-Exchange

RE: Connect Exchange to non-Exchange

2008-01-22 Thread Benjamin Zachary
Im told I will have no rights to anything, so I have to treat this as an outside connection. Im looking at under smtp the forward to unresolved recipients. Im thinking this will not work on internal mail of which Im supposed to be the domain. Im testing it now. _ From: Tom McCarty

RE: Connect Exchange to non-Exchange

2008-01-22 Thread Benjamin Zachary
It looks like its working. I did both an SMTP connector and fwd unresolved hosts in SMTP. I'm not sure which one is doing the workhorse, most likely the SMTP. We aren't accepting any mail on SMTP from the outside, although when I get to corporate tomorrow I'm going to see about creating an smtp

RE: Event ID 9667

2008-01-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
This almost certainly means that it is creating a custom X-* header. It shouldn't do that. To eliminate the properties, you can move a mailbox that contains the properties to another store. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Alex

RE: Anyone using CCR in production?

2008-01-22 Thread Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT)
CCR = Credence Clearwater Revival SCR = Me not know. LCR = Me still not know, feeling real dumb about now. SCC = Does anyone have a listing of these TLA's? Geodispersion = Geoclustering? If so, watch out for split brain operations. John H. Matteson, Jr. Systems Administrator/ITT Systems

GoExchange Response

2008-01-22 Thread Tom Strader
List, I have a response from Lucid8 concerning their GoExchange product and the questions that were posted a week or so back. I've tried to post the response here but the Lyris server says its too large so if anyone want to read their response, please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll

Re: Event ID 9667

2008-01-22 Thread Alex Alborzfard
Here are the named properties it's trying to create: X-TM-IMSS-Message-ID X-Content-Filtered-By X-Original-Date X-TFF-CGPSA-Filter X-TFF-CGPSA-Version X-Puresend X-Fantasy-No-Post X-filenames By it do you mean EXCH or the spam appliance? According to the event log, the user attempting to create

Re: GoExchange Response

2008-01-22 Thread Don Ely
I don't recall what page it was, but when I read this product was designed because most IT people don't know what order to run these utilities, etc...; my opinion was quickly formed... That said, if you don't know how to administer Exchange and have no intention of learning, this product is for

RE: GoExchange Response

2008-01-22 Thread Tom Strader
Very constructive comment there Don. Thanks! Tom One of the Stupid People From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 1:03 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: GoExchange Response Summary of the 9 pages... This product

RE: Event ID 9667

2008-01-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
Sorry, I got carried away with the explanation and didn't answer the questions. I would guess that the spam appliance is creating the custom properties, but I don't know that for certain. Using MFCMAPI to examine the properties is likely a good way to identify that. Most Exchange Services

RE: GoExchange Response

2008-01-22 Thread Tom Strader
Don, I can take constructive criticism and welcome it if its done in a positive light, but classifying anyone as stupid just because they use a program you disagree with is very unprofessional. I DO know Exchange and how to use the utilities (manually), learned the hard way. I didn't want to

RE: Anyone using CCR in production?

2008-01-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
I would say that clustering is falling out of favor, not CCR specifically. Clustering adds a lot of cost and a fair bit of maintenance complexity to get a very small up-time improvement. And if your operations folks aren't good - it can lead to worse up-time instead of improved up-time. I'm of

RE: Anyone using CCR in production?

2008-01-22 Thread Tom Strader
If so, watch out for split brain operations. Especially around falling bombs!! ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~

RE: Anyone using CCR in production?

2008-01-22 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
Geoclustering = Shook brain = butt -Original Message- From: Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:57 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone using CCR in production? CCR = Credence Clearwater Revival SCR

Re: GoExchange Response

2008-01-22 Thread Don Ely
Summary of the 9 pages... This product was created for stupid people who don't read the documentation or listen to PSSS... On Jan 22, 2008 9:48 AM, Tom Strader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List, I have a response from Lucid8 concerning their GoExchange product and the questions that were

RE: Event ID 9667

2008-01-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
In general, any message accepted via SMTP (or via drop/pickup folders) is a non-promoted message until it is processed by the store. This means that it gets stored into the STM file in an Exchange 2003 database (this is an optimization for IMAP and POP3, but not for Outlook clients). There is no

RE: GoExchange Response

2008-01-22 Thread Don Andrews
Yes ;) From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:43 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: GoExchange Response To clarify, I did NOT say you were stupid because you used the program... I said This product was

RE: Anyone using CCR in production?

2008-01-22 Thread Maglinger, Paul
CCR = Credence Clearwater Revival SCR - Sheryl Crowe Revival LCR = Lenny Cravitz Revival (no... wait... that's a K) SCC = Sonny and Cher Revival -Original Message- From: Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:57 AM

RE: GoExchange Response

2008-01-22 Thread Tom Strader
HA!! Well, in my 19-20 years in this field, I agree it's been far and few between the number of times I have had to use the so called exchange utilities, however, when I came on board, this company was using DEMO backup software to backup files, but no Exchange backup so ANDY, you are correct, if

Re: GoExchange Response

2008-01-22 Thread Don Ely
I wasn't in an uproar... :P And just for the record, the other day I was talking to myself because I couldn't remember where the config file for NTOP was and I said, self, you fscking idiot, stop being so stupid!. On Jan 22, 2008 10:56 AM, Tom Strader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HA!! Well, in

Re: GoExchange Response

2008-01-22 Thread Don Ely
To clarify, I did NOT say you were stupid because you used the program... I said This product was created for stupid people who don't read the documentation or listen to PSS... So, that wasn't necessarily directed at you. Apparently, it was more appropriately directed at your predecessor and

RE: Anyone using CCR in production?

2008-01-22 Thread Andy David
I think Single Node clusters are falling out of favor. :P From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 1:33 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone using CCR in production? I would say that clustering is falling out of favor, not CCR

RE: Event ID 9667

2008-01-22 Thread Andy David
2007 SP1 will fire events when named properties are created. I think the only option is moving mailboxes to another store as you have stated. Something like: Event Type:Information Event Source:MSExchangeIS Event Category:General Event ID: 9873 Date:

RE: GoExchange Response

2008-01-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
If Dane Cue would like to join this forum (or another that is not vendor controlled) I'll be happy to discuss each and every point. Otherwise, why bother? I've seen much of the material in that response before. I think a number of other MVPs would agree. He can call me crazy or out in left

RE: GoExchange Response

2008-01-22 Thread Tom Strader
I get that way daily sir!! I learned a Lo time back just how little I do know compared to some of the excellent list members here, including our hosts, Sunbelt Software and all their team. NOW, THOSE PEOPLE ROCK Please Don, keep the comments coming, it makes one think and rethink

RE: GoExchange Response

2008-01-22 Thread Barsodi.John
I think you two need to get a room. From: Tom Strader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:30 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: GoExchange Response I get that way daily sir!! I learned a Lo time back just how little I do know compared to

RE: GoExchange Response

2008-01-22 Thread Tim Vander Kooi
Shook would be that tool. From: Jeff Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 1:50 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: GoExchange Response I wondered what tool you were going to use to thicken you skin... On Jan 22, 2008 1:30 PM, Tom Strader [EMAIL

RE: GoExchange Response

2008-01-22 Thread Don Andrews
Continued membership on this list would probably do it ;) From: Jeff Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:50 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: GoExchange Response I wondered what tool you were going to use to

RE: GoExchange Response

2008-01-22 Thread Andy Shook
U...no How do I spell 'gay'? T-V-K Shook http://www.linkedin.com/in/andyshook From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 2:52 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: GoExchange Response Shook

Re: GoExchange Response

2008-01-22 Thread Jeff Brown
I wondered what tool you were going to use to thicken you skin... On Jan 22, 2008 1:30 PM, Tom Strader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *I get that way daily sir!!* ** *I learned a Lo time back just how little I do know compared to some of the excellent list members here, including our

RE: GoExchange Response

2008-01-22 Thread Tom Strader
Ya get the feeling these guys don't get enough of it at home, they gotta get it here. To each his own I guess. From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 2:56 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: GoExchange Response

HELP! Corrupt attachments again

2008-01-22 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi chaps, We are still getting ongoing problems with attachments being corrupt. In a group of about 15 people we see maybe two or three a day that get corrupted. As I've said before, im 100% certain it's not exchange as I can't find a thing wrong, no error logs, no proof of corruption, no

Re: HELP! Corrupt attachments again

2008-01-22 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Can you provide more detail to what corrupt means in these cases? Which client software is being used for sending? Which encoding is being used? On Jan 22, 2008 4:14 PM, Oliver Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi chaps, We are still getting ongoing problems with attachments being

RE: HELP! Corrupt attachments again

2008-01-22 Thread Jason Gurtz
My believe is that the attachments are getting corrupt before it hits their network. Their .co.uk name goes through an ISPs mail sevrer where it’s filtering for spam and virus before being forward on. It's likely virus/attachment filtering software that's mangling things. You'll need the help

RE: HELP! Corrupt attachments again

2008-01-22 Thread Oliver Marshall
Emails come in from too many (too large) sources to have them all rar'd. There's no AV on the exchange server, and having spoken to the ISP it's a typically response (no one else is having problems) and their logs don’t show anything to them outta the norm (their AV logs don’t show any

Re: Event ID 9667

2008-01-22 Thread Alex Alborzfard
No need to apologize...in fact I should thank you for taking the time to educate me...Now I know how much I don't know! As for MFCMAPI, I downloaded the tool, but I'm not sure how to use it. Do I need to install it on EXCH box or on a client and what option would I have to choose to see

Re: HELP! Corrupt attachments again

2008-01-22 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
These messages that get corrupted - what do they look like on your end? Any attachments? Any odd names? On Jan 22, 2008 4:55 PM, Oliver Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emails come in from too many (too large) sources to have them all rar'd. There's no AV on the exchange server, and having

RE: HELP! Corrupt attachments again

2008-01-22 Thread Oliver Marshall
These messages that get corrupted - what do they look like on your end? Any attachments? Any odd names? Nope, nothing. The file sizes are believable (don't know what they were before they were encoded) and aren't out of the realms of what you would expect. We have had the odd report of

HELP! Corrupt attachments again

2008-01-22 Thread Oliver Marshall
Corrupt means, in the case of zip files, they refuse to open in any zip package due to the archive being corrupt. Repairing them often recovers *some* of the info. PDF files refuse to open, though in the latest Adobe Reader you can open them but find that parts of pages are missing. JPG's either

Re: HELP! Corrupt attachments again

2008-01-22 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Have someone do an MD5 checksum on the file before sending it, and see if your receive it the same. On Jan 22, 2008 5:12 PM, Oliver Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Corrupt means, in the case of zip files, they refuse to open in any zip package due to the archive being corrupt. Repairing them

RE: HELP! Corrupt attachments again

2008-01-22 Thread Oliver Marshall
Alas it's not *that* reproducible. I'm on 85 attachments so far tonight, and nothing yet. However, i'll quickly knock up a checksum on the file i'm sending now just incase it happens. Olly -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 January 2008 22:15

RE: GoExchange Response

2008-01-22 Thread William Lefkovics
The very first words of the response summarizes the niche market they have created.. Fear of loss compels us to protect ourselves. The perceived fear has nothing to do with the actual potential or occurrence of loss. I recommend NoExchange. Because messaging is important, you must

RE: HELP! Corrupt attachments again

2008-01-22 Thread gsweers
We ran into this where small attachments never had a problem. Start sending large attachments and it was reproducible. Ended up being a bad NIC at some level. Put a new NIC and the problem went away. Dell came out and swapped the system board and that fixed it permanently. From:

RE: HELP! Corrupt attachments again

2008-01-22 Thread Dflorea
I second the notion on the NIC. If you're using MB NICs, see if there's updated drivers, or put in a good Intel card or similar and try it again. BTDT. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:44 PM To: MS-Exchange

Re: GoExchange Response

2008-01-22 Thread Kurt Buff
Why, that's configured in /etc/rc.conf, if you're doing it in FreeBSD, silly english knigget! Here's the snippet from mine: ntop_enable=YES ntop_flags=-d -u ntop -P /home/ntop/databases -K -L -t 4 -o -i fxp0 -w 192.168.24.239:3000 -W 0 -D mycompany.com -L If you're looking for the script

Re: GoExchange Response

2008-01-22 Thread Don Ely
This was on the Debian install from OSSIM... :P On Jan 22, 2008 5:33 PM, Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why, that's configured in /etc/rc.conf, if you're doing it in FreeBSD, silly english knigget! Here's the snippet from mine: ntop_enable=YES ntop_flags=-d -u ntop -P

Size Error Anomaly

2008-01-22 Thread rcs
This one has me stumped so far. Party A sends a message with a small attachment to party B. Party A receives a NDR with this error message: This message is larger than the current system limit or the recipient's mailbox is full. Create a shorter message body or remove attachments and try

RE: HELP! Corrupt attachments again

2008-01-22 Thread Don Andrews
We had a vaguely similar situation but with http downloads of .exe files through a cisco proxy. Our network folks said it only dropped a few packets during heavy load conditions and the next version might fix it. We started using FTP, external DSL connections etc. - the network folks have lots of

Re: GoExchange Response

2008-01-22 Thread Kurt Buff
Haven't had a chance to touch that yet, dang it. I'm too busy setting the community version of SSL-Explorer, along with learning how to install it in a FreeBSD Jail, if I can make it do that (shouldn't be too hard, but I've never jailed anything before, though the docs make it sound easy),

RE: GoExchange Response

2008-01-22 Thread Tom Strader
Thanks for the response William. I'll definitely look into that. Tom From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 6:35 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: GoExchange Response The very first words of the

Re: GoExchange Response

2008-01-22 Thread Don Ely
U, look into what exactly? On Jan 22, 2008 8:40 PM, Tom Strader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the response William. I'll definitely look into that. Tom -- *From:* William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Tuesday, January 22, 2008

RE: GoExchange Response

2008-01-22 Thread Tom Strader
The imaginary customer responses Don. Can't you read? From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:43 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: GoExchange Response U, look into what exactly? On Jan 22, 2008 8:40 PM,

Re: HELP! Corrupt attachments again

2008-01-22 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
3rd'd considering the file size issue that Gary mentioned. Seen that before too. On Jan 22, 2008 7:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I second the notion on the NIC. If you're using MB NICs, see if there's updated drivers, or put in a good Intel card or similar and try it again. BTDT.

RE: Anyone using CCR in production?

2008-01-22 Thread Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT)
SCC= Sonny and Cher Revival Only if you have an impersonator or a medium. Sonny wrapped himself around a tree several years ago while skiing. John H. Matteson, Jr. Systems Administrator/ITT Systems FOB Orgun-E Afghanistan DSN - 318 431 8000 VoSIP - (308) 431 - Iridium -

RE: Anyone using CCR in production?

2008-01-22 Thread Maglinger, Paul
Disney animatronics... :-) -Original Message- From: Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:53 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone using CCR in production? SCC= Sonny and Cher Revival Only