I have 2 x HP BL680 G5 E7450 2P 8G Servers to use as either -
Clustered mailbox server using CCR
or configure as
ESX virtual hosts to support virtual mail box server/s
Looking for a recommendation on which way to go...
thanks in advance
Brian
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Thats why I quit using NT Backup. Seen it too many times, not enough
hours in the day to chase it.
M
- Original Message -
From: "Kurt Buff"
To: "MS-Exchange Admin Issues"
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: A very odd problem...
Anyone? Bueller?
After lots
Anyone? Bueller?
After lots of fiddling, still no success.
Can do the backups manually, but the batchfile tanks. I've even
regenerated the .bks file.
Kurt
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 19:05, Kurt Buff wrote:
> All,
>
> In my UK office, I've got three servers - a DC, a file server and an
> E2k3 serve
Interesting statement... Depending on the I/O availability from the disk
solution would be a matter of concern in a virtual and physical deployment,
not just in the virtual. In all tests that I've performed I/O has not been
a concern for going physical over virtual.
IMO the only concern for virt
And assp will run on Windows too. :-)
> -Original Message-
> From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 3:31 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Filtering Spam
>
> Untangle is a Linux box .
>
> -Original Message-
> Fro
Clearly I am stupid and have no read up about any of this software yet :-P
Can I ask peoples opinion on using Spam Assassin vs. Ninja (he-ya!)
Daniel
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Joseph L. Casale
wrote:
> Untangle is a Linux box .
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Daniel Hood [mailto:d
Untangle is a Linux box .
-Original Message-
From: Daniel Hood [mailto:dsmh...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 3:58 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Filtering Spam
Whoa seems like Ive got quite a few replies. I think I'll look into
Untangled and Ninja, as they seem
Ok, I'll consider myself suitably chastised for using the word worthless
- oh, that's right, I DID NOT use that word - unless of course worthless
is a synonym for free - in which case, I'm not sure I'd consider using
worthless software.
Seriously, I only meant to indicate that a collection of free
Whoa seems like Ive got quite a few replies. I think I'll look into
Untangled and Ninja, as they seem to be the general vibe of everyone.
If either of those don't wont, im going to have to bite the bullet and
put a linux box in and set up mail scanner and such. I may be the
linux activist at the of
I clustered Exchange 2007 in ESX with two separate physical hosts.
ESX1 = Exchange Node 1
ESX2 = Exchange Node 2
All storage is on a NetApp back end.
-Original Message-
From: Garcia-Moran, Carlos [mailto:cgarciamo...@spragueenergy.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 12:55 PM
To: MS-Exch
Btw All VMware HA gives you is single point of failure protection at the
ESX host level. If the host where the exchange VM lives crashes all the
guests living on that host get booted and powered on in another host in
the cluster.
-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@th
You can either use VMware's HA or Exchange's HA - but not both.
Note that that is the Microsoft support position and not VMware's.
Exchange 2007 works just fine in a virtualized environment. I've got a
number of deployments out there. Depending on I/O requirements and I/O
availability from your d
I am, I virtualized E2k7 and moved about 225 mailboxes from our Physical E2k3
box. I have had no issues whatsoever with the VM portion, E2k7 is another
kettle of fish altogether, I think it's time to go out and purchase a book.
___
Stefan Jafs
-Original Messa
All-
I've been tasked to research E2K7 and VMWare. I know VMWare say's they support
this type of installation.. but what I'm looking for is people that actually
have this type of setup in their environment or have set this up in someone's
environment. Has anyone had success with this design
If an organization large enough to justify remote-site replication and
redundant hardware is down to one novice Exchange admin to handle the recovery,
it's time to pay for the call to PSS.
-Original Message-
From: Troy Meyer [mailto:troy.me...@monacocoach.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 11,
There are plenty of companies out there that have one MBX server and have a DR
site. When you have scenario's like that there are plenty of people who manage
these boxes that are under-qualified to handle E2K7.
I work for a consulting firm that performs this function for these type's of
com
A much nicer way to achieve the point I was looking for.
Guess I need more coffee in the morning.
Thanks Sean
-Original Message-
From: Sean Martin [mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 11:53 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Exchange 2007 SCR -- Har
I guess I would question why a novice admin would be expected to handle a
disaster recovery scenario in that Exchange environment.
I'm not trying to start an arguement, just stating that the recovery
mechanisms built into Exchange, while less user-friendly, can be
pre-architected and documented fo
SCR will work just fine with SBS 2008, which has Exchange 2007 in it. The
company would need to purchase another Windows Server license and another
Exchange Server license (but no additional CALs) to host the SCR target.
The word "enterprise" is a funny word. I provide support from hosted Exchan
Michael - Thanks! - As always, you are an amazing source of knowledge.
Ordered your book "Monitoring Exchange Server 2007 with System Center
Operations Manager "
We'll keep everyone posted on progress.
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Michael B. Smith <
mich...@theessentialexchange.com> wrote:
>
No, you are thinking of small business server, and I d�t believe SCR will
work with that.
Every average Exchange 2007 admin I know has a substantial amount of Powershell
knowledge. Some more than others, but I have a hard time imagining an
enterprise rollout of 2007 without some people ( o
Yea, I can see a novice popping open PS and his documentation on his desk while
the mail system is down and his boss hanging over his shoulder peppering him
with questions why his mail system is down and what went wrong That's
gonna go over really well.
What I'm saying is the "east of us
Because Microsoft doesn’t know how you are going to shake this stick.
Each SCR source can have multiple targets. A SCR source can be a SCC, a CCR, or
a standalone server. A SCR target can be a SCC, CCR, or standalone server. A
given AD account can only be tied to one of them at a time, even i
Ideally, all of the powershell scripts would be created and documented as
part of your disaster recovery plan. Any novice admin should be able to read
your well formatted and detailed instructions for handling a specific type
of failure and execute the appropriate script...right? ;-)
Or you could
This is exactly what it breaks down to. These two lines. You should be able
to execute them manually.
Dsdbutil 'Activate Instance MSExchange' 'SSL Port 1499'
Set-itemproperty
"HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange\v8.0\EdgeTransportRole\AdamSettings\MSExc
hange" -name "SslPort" -value 1499
Fro
Is there any reason that MS hasn't made this more of an automated process
without going into PS and ripping through the command line while you're
Exchange boxes are down? I don't see the benefit in SCR when it comes up time
unless you have some guy on staff making 6 digits that knows a great de
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Sam Cayze wrote:
> I think the point was that the above sounds like a extended nightmare to
> many of us (At least me), compared to something like clicking Next,
> Next, Ok, Finish with something like Ninja.
I haven't used Ninja, but I've never seen *any* non-t
FWIW,
I would never install Perl on my Exchange server either :) I like to
keep critical boxes Vanilla.
But trust me, unless you haven't any Linux experience, it's no different
than low level administering of windows servers and apps. Community help
around Postfix, CentOS and sa is pretty freaking
+1
-
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- Original Message -
From: Sam Cayze
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Sent: Wed Mar 11 10:35:22 2009
Subject: RE: Filtering Spam
"install Perl on the exchange server and proxy smtp with assp, or setup
a Linux ba
No, I didn't mean to imply that. You still have IP addresses, default
gateways, DNS etc. etc.
-
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- Original Message -
From: Joseph L. Casale
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Sent: Wed Mar 11 10:25:29 2009
Subject:
"install Perl on the exchange server and proxy smtp with assp, or setup
a Linux based MTA and install assp on it or something like
postfix/sqlgrey/spamassassin/clamav/amavisd-new"
I think the point was that the above sounds like a extended nightmare to
many of us (At least me), compared to somethi
Because closed source software installs, configures and manages itself?
-Original Message-
From: Don Andrews [mailto:don.andr...@safeway.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:09 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Filtering Spam
All this assumes of course that your time is free.
I can't disagree there Michael - I was merely stating that for those
customers who have wanted standby clusters, these are sometimes single node
clusters.
Yes, using /RecoverCMS can pose additional gotchas, like the CNO permissions
required on the CMS computer account when used on Windows 2008
See, I fall directly into the "database portability" camp. Who wants to do a
/RecoverCMS when you can just do a few "set-storagegroups",
"set-mailboxdatabases", "mount-database", and "move-mailbox
-configurationonly" --- and I can script the entire thing ahead of time! The
only downtime is DNS TTL
Yep, that's been the case with all of my SCR deployments to date.
The only slight difference with some designs is that the standby cluster is
sometimes just a single node cluster (initially, anyway)
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com]
Sent: 11 March 2009 14:54
SCR wasn't possible before SP1, but these types of errors could happen with
CCR as well. I would suspend and re-enable. If that doesn't fix it, I'd
start over.
I'm sorry I don't have any better advice.
From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 10,
I'm not certain that I know of any "best practice" in this case. It depends
on your objective.
SCR is a "poor man's" database copy. It doesn't require a Windows Failover
Cluster or Windows Enterprise or Exchange Enterprise. But you can get a full
copy of your database.
Now, one of the state
When I recommend someone to deploy SCR, I recommend identical hardware.
The general goal of SCR is fault tolerance and site resilience. The SCR
hardware can't take over if it can't handle the load.
IMHO. YMMV.
From: 8400...@gmail.com [mailto:8400...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of jond
Sent: We
For the people here using SCR in Exchange 2007 SP1, what kind of hardware
are you using relative to your production exchange boxes?
Are you finding that as long as you have enough hard drive space, that
processor and ram don't really matter or did you simply decide to run
identical hardware on both
We use a combination of Amavisd, Clamd and PostFix on our mail servers at
our colo facility to scan for virus first, then spam before the mail is
routed to our Exchange server internally. We use Centos as our flavor of
*nix on these servers. As with most *nix solutions, free except for the
time t
+1 on ASSP.
Just try not to deal with the developer directly. Thankfully there are
plenty of other good ppl associated with the project.
--
ME2
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Tim Evans wrote:
> +1
>
> Assp is great, even if the main developer is a bit of an ass.
>
>
> ...Tim
>
>
>> -Ori
*ahem*
"good open-source/free product"
--
ME2
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Steve Ens wrote:
> Ninja rocks!
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Daniel Hood wrote:
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> I'm looking for a good open-source/free product that we can use in
>> conjuction with our exchange server
And, does it have to run on the same box as the Exchange server, or on
another box?
Are non-Windows solutions acceptable?
I heartily recommend MailScanner (http://www.mailscanner.info), which we
have running on a couple of CentOS 5 boxes.
Cheers,
Phil
--
Phil Randal | Networks Engineer
Herefor
Anything that has lots of configurable options is going to take time to learn
how to use, free or not.
���Tim
> -Original Message-
> From: Don Andrews [mailto:don.andr...@safeway.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 9:09 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Filtering Spam
>
+1
Assp is great, even if the main developer is a bit of an ass.
...Tim
> -Original Message-
> From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 8:23 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Filtering Spam
>
> There's lots of good option
First thing first when it comes to questions like this is.. what is the budget
looking like for implementing this product? There are plenty of options out
there, you just need to find which one fits within your budget and addresses
the functionality you're looking for.
_
John Bow
www.untangle.com
The basic setup is free. It does spam filtering, content filtering,
malware protection...
If you opt for the monthly subscription there are add-ons like AD
integration and so on...
It runs on a fairly small PC - depending on the amount of users.
Rick
-Original Message-
F
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Don Andrews wrote:
> All this assumes of course that your time is free.
Having deployed MX Logic within the past year, I can assure you that
payware products and services involve lots of time, too.
-- Ben
~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets
How many users?
Roger Wright
Network Administrator
Evatone, Inc.
727.572.7076 x388
_
-Original Message-
From: Daniel Hood [mailto:dsmh...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:12 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Filtering Spam
Hey,
I'm looking for a good open-
Hi Smith
While deploying SCR, my colleagues had an opinion that in case of a disaster,
priority should be given to bring back the services online rather than protect
against logical corruptions. So I requested the opinion of my boss who is not
much into exchange. He came back asking what the
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