RE: MaxMessagesPerConnection - Exchange 2007

2009-07-01 Thread Sobey, Richard A
Hi Don, It is our smart host. We have discussed several workarounds to resolve the issue (including installing additional HT servers to minimise the frequency at which Exchange sends through 10 messages at once) but ideally we'd like to fix Exchange to the 2003 behaviour. Cheers

Freebusy folder replication

2009-07-01 Thread Peter Johnson
Hi guys I just wanted a quick opinion . Is it worth replicating the free busy folder to the 3 exchange servers public folder stores I have. I assume this would speed up the viewing of the information when people are booking meetings across the servers? Regards Peter Johnson

Exchange 2003 message tracking

2009-07-01 Thread Ellis, John P.
Is it possible to track messages using the message tracking function that have been CC'd to someone? We have a user that says hes not getting emails if hes on the CC line. Clients are Outlook 2003. Thanks John --- John Ellis

RE: OT: American automotive (was: Is Exchange Doomed?)

2009-07-01 Thread Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT)
They may be dirt cheap now, but shortly our Dear Leader in the US is going to institute about a 90% increase in the cost of gas with his cap and trade carbon tax. Some things just make me glad that I'm out here in the sandbox. John H. Matteson, Jr. Systems Administrator/ITT Systems Forward

Removing Exchange Server

2009-07-01 Thread Richard Sice
Quick question...I've got an issue where I'm looking to remove an additional E2003 Server from our Exchange Admin Group. I went through MS's KB on doing this but for some reason when trying to finally remove the server from AD (via Exchange System Manager) I get the error message An invalid

RE: OUTLOOK 2003 VERY SLOW OPENING

2009-07-01 Thread Murray Freeman
Well, my testing over the last 2 days confirms that the problem is caused by users trying to open Outlook following log on and thus the workstations are still busy doing housekeeping. If they wait about 5 minutes or so, the Outlook client opens within 10 seconds. Thanks for all the suggestions.

Server Updates

2009-07-01 Thread mqcarp
How you do you prefer to handle server OS updates? We are debating not using WSUS due to internal policy and reboot issues but could adjust the server policy to not allow the reboot. Does anyone allow the server to get updates directly? The issue I have with that is the administrative rights

Outlook 2k3 Nickname file disappearing

2009-07-01 Thread King's Kid
Hi all, I know that this isn't strickly an Exchange question. I have two clients that their nickname files keep disappearing.  Initially I thought it was user error since one of the users is not very technical.  But it has started happening with another user.  I've checked all the settings on

RE: Server Updates

2009-07-01 Thread Randal, Phil
Just remember that malware doesn't have to ask your boss for permission and doesn't give a hoot about your internal policies or whether it should have administrative rights or not. Too much bureaucracy aids the malware purveyors. Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal | Networks Engineer Herefordshire

Delays on Outlook synchronization of offline address book

2009-07-01 Thread Maglinger, Paul
Running Exchange 2K3 with Outlook 2K3 client. Our laptop users are typically set up to sync their offline folders when Outlook exits. We have one user that during this synchronization Outlook seems to take forever during decompressing offline address book files. I did some Googling and found

RE: Server Updates

2009-07-01 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Not sure how WSUS is the issue here. Set it to download only, then manually install and manually reboot. Or download, auto install and disable automatic reboot and just do the reboot manually. Unless I am reading your question wrong that gets you where you want to be? -Original

Major goof when migrating OAB to E2K7

2009-07-01 Thread Russ Patterson
Hi - I think I just made the biggest mistake I've ever done in Exchange. When I moved OAB generation from E2k3 to E2k7, I pointed to an E2k7 server that did not have a Public Folder store. Geesh. I've since created one, and used PFDAVAdmin to set up replication, but I'm still having lots of

Exchange Cluster

2009-07-01 Thread Paul Cookman
Does anyone know of a good paper/site showing step by step setting up exchange 2007 in a cluster? Paul Cookman * Technical Account Manager [cid:image9c4a65.jpg@777b0ec4.ac29427e] +44(0) 844 874 1000 * [cid:image816c97.jpg@5cb6ba09.8a3b4121] +44(0) 844 874 1001

RE: MaxMessagesPerConnection - Exchange 2007

2009-07-01 Thread Don Andrews
I was just thinking that 10 messages per connection seems a bit low for a threshold - our smarthost (actually an appliance) has 25 connections or 500 messages in a 5 minute window as the thresholds for DOS attacks at which point it implements throttling for an hour - of course, it only applies

RE: Exchange 2003 message tracking

2009-07-01 Thread Don Andrews
I would check for a rule - or have the sender request delivery receipts. -Original Message- From: Ellis, John P. [mailto:johnel...@wirral.gov.uk] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 1:48 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 2003 message tracking Is it possible to track messages

RE: Outlook 2k3 Nickname file disappearing

2009-07-01 Thread Miller Bonnie L .
Are you using roaming profiles? If so, they might not be loading/unloading properly. From: King's Kid [mailto:kingskid1002...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 8:10 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Outlook 2k3 Nickname file disappearing Hi all, I know that this isn't strickly

RE: Server Updates

2009-07-01 Thread Jason Gurtz
How you do you prefer to handle server OS updates? [snip]Lovely Bureaucracy[/snip] We use WSUS...it's just the best free way. You could use Config mgr or shavlik but $ Here's how we do it: There's a scheduled maintenance window after hours (a maintenance window is a must, keep pushing

RE: OUTLOOK 2003 VERY SLOW OPENING

2009-07-01 Thread Jason Gurtz
Hosting said .pst files on a share makes all of the above about 10x worse. and completely unsupported! ~JasonG

RE: OUTLOOK 2003 VERY SLOW OPENING

2009-07-01 Thread Steven M. Caesare
I keep telling the management that here... :( -sc -Original Message- From: Jason Gurtz [mailto:jasongu...@npumail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 12:01 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: OUTLOOK 2003 VERY SLOW OPENING Hosting said .pst files on a share makes all

RE: Exchange Cluster

2009-07-01 Thread Neil Hobson
http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2007/high-avail ability-recovery/deploying-exchange-2007-sp1-ccr-cluster-windows-server-2008 -failover-cluster-part1.html From: Paul Cookman [mailto:paul.cook...@selection.co.uk] Sent: 01 July 2009 16:43 To: MS-Exchange Admin

RE: OUTLOOK 2003 VERY SLOW OPENING

2009-07-01 Thread Jason Gurtz
Well, my testing over the last 2 days confirms that the problem is caused by users trying to open Outlook following log on and thus the workstations are still busy doing housekeeping. It might make the lusers happier if some sleep statements are inserted in the logon scripting, delaying the

RE: OUTLOOK 2003 VERY SLOW OPENING

2009-07-01 Thread Jason Gurtz
Apparently a worst case scenario is when NTFS compression is enabled on that server...yikes! ~JasonG I keep telling the management that here... :( -sc -Original Message- From: Jason Gurtz [mailto:jasongu...@npumail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 12:01 PM To:

Re: Outlook 2k3 Nickname file disappearing

2009-07-01 Thread King's Kid
Bonnie, No, we're not using roaming profiles and I checked to make sure that they weren't in cached mode.  BJ No trees were killed in the sending of this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. From: Miller Bonnie L.

RE: Delays on Outlook synchronization of offline address book

2009-07-01 Thread Maglinger, Paul
On a single user? Possible I guess. I'd hate to turn it off for a day to confirm. From: Eric Woodford [mailto:ericwoodf...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 11:38 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Delays on Outlook synchronization of offline

RE: Listserv on Exchange

2009-07-01 Thread Andy Shook
Why not just setup a distribution group and handle that way. A list-serve for 10 people is overkill, imo... Shook From: Derik Peek [mailto:dp...@sctelcofcu.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 1:38 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Listserv on Exchange Quick Question... We are trying to

RE: Listserv on Exchange

2009-07-01 Thread Kretche, Peter
Why not use a Distribution Group? If you need subscribe functionality you could use Active Subscriber http://www.ikakura.com/. For self service Distribution Group add/drop you'll have to wait for Exchange 2010. (Did I let the cat out of the bag on that one?)

RE: Listserv on Exchange

2009-07-01 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Actual list-serv functionality? No. Options: - List-serv lite from L-Soft, Mailman on Unix, etc... (free), but not exchange integrated - Whore-out a public folder and have it forward to a DL to get the Reply-to re-written (no member self-service, and the messages have

RE: Listserv on Exchange

2009-07-01 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Getting the reply-to to go to the DL is the trick. -sc From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 1:45 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Listserv on Exchange Why not just setup a distribution group and handle that way. A list-serve for

RE: Listserv on Exchange

2009-07-01 Thread Steven M. Caesare
[rant] They really mis-represent that product. I DL'ed a demo and went thru all the installation only to find out that _THE_ significant feature of a list-server: rewriting the reply-to address such that the replies come back to the LIST and not THE SENDER is not part of the product. It's

RE: Listserv on Exchange

2009-07-01 Thread Derik Peek
My same thought but higher ups thought it would be too much to ask the people in the group to hit reply to all and wanted it set up this way. I found ikakura online but the cheapest product I found was $750 and it said it only supported up to Exchange 2003 Derik From: Andy Shook

RE: Listserv on Exchange

2009-07-01 Thread Exchange (Sunbelt)
GFI Mail Security incorporates a free listserv and it keeps working when the demo of ME runs out From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:50 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Listserv on Exchange Actual list-serv functionality? No.

RE: Listserv on Exchange

2009-07-01 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Oh that's right they do: The newest demo (v14) will stop accepting/delivering mail via SMTP when the demo runs out (although MAPI seems to continue to work). Also, it seems to strip attachments. Their support line is almost completely nonresponsive and for them the mail-list functionality

RE: Listserv on Exchange

2009-07-01 Thread Exchange (Sunbelt)
The mail list is a freebie, which is why the support for it in non existent... From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 3:08 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Listserv on Exchange Oh that's right they do: The newest demo (v14) will stop

RE: Listserv on Exchange

2009-07-01 Thread Steven M. Caesare
It is? It's part of the MailEssentials suite which is for-purchase only AFAIK. -sc From: Steve Moffat [mailto:st...@optimum.bm] On Behalf Of Exchange (Sunbelt) Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:19 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Listserv on Exchange The mail list is a

RE: Listserv on Exchange

2009-07-01 Thread Jason Gurtz
My same thought but higher ups thought it would be too much to ask the people in the group to hit “reply to all” and wanted it set up this way. This makes me wonder how hard it would be (if all you wanted was reply-to: munging and no other functionality) to write an event sink that would do

RE: Listserv on Exchange

2009-07-01 Thread Kretche, Peter
If munging is the goal, create a mail-enabled Public Folder with the email address desired. Then have it forward email to the distribution list. All replies will go to the Public Folder which in turn will go back to the list. I did this with Ikakura to achieve listserv functionality.

RE: Listserv on Exchange

2009-07-01 Thread Exchange (Sunbelt)
GFI Mail Security incorporates a free listserv and it keeps working when the demo of ME runs out From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 3:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Listserv on Exchange It is? It's part of the MailEssentials

Re: Listserv on Exchange

2009-07-01 Thread Harry Singh
Is then the forwarding from the PF to the DL done with outlook rules ? On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Kretche, Peter kretc...@uwgb.edu wrote: If munging is the goal, create a mail-enabled Public Folder with the email address desired. Then have it forward email to the distribution list.

RE: Listserv on Exchange

2009-07-01 Thread Steven M. Caesare
It's what I do too... now if only the public folder assistant wouldn’t insert the Forwarded from... header garbage in the body of the message. I asked the list about customizing this form/behavior a while back to no avail... :( -sc -Original Message- From: Kretche, Peter

RE: Listserv on Exchange

2009-07-01 Thread Kretche, Peter
Go into the properties of the Public Folder, Administration tab. There Folder Assistant rules could be set up. These will fire at the server, Outlook does not need to be open for them to work. Another reason why SharePoint does not fill the Public Folder void. IMO.

RE: Listserv on Exchange

2009-07-01 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Public Folder assistant button in the propertied for the PF. -sc From: Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 2:32 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Listserv on Exchange Is then the forwarding from the PF to the DL done with outlook rules ?

Re: Listserv on Exchange

2009-07-01 Thread Harry Singh
Ahh, i see. I never had a request like this come through me before, but it sounds like it will. I thought that PF's were all but dead in exchange 2007 ? I can imagine in 2010 they would be completely done. On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Kretche, Peter kretc...@uwgb.edu wrote: Go into the

Re: Listserv on Exchange

2009-07-01 Thread PRamatowski
Yeah, I played with it for a while with no luck... Sorry I misunderstood your original question, I got it backwards;( Blackberry - Original Message - From: Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wed Jul 01

RE: Listserv on Exchange

2009-07-01 Thread Steven M. Caesare
ve wondered that too, but know nothing about writing them. ve googled for a ���header munge��� event sink doo-dad to no avai. -sc -Original Message- From: Jason Gurtz [mailto:jasongu...@npumail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 1:22 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues

RE: Listserv on Exchange

2009-07-01 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Well that was o� what I had attempted to respond with (and is even present in my Sent Items folder) was: ���ve wondered that too, but know nothing about writing them. ve googled for a ���header munge��� event sink doo-dad to no avai -sc From: Steven M. Caesare

Happy Canada Day

2009-07-01 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
Happy Canada Day to all you Canucks on the lists. Although I hope you're not having to work today!! -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke

RE: Listserv on Exchange

2009-07-01 Thread Kretche, Peter
To get rid of the Forwarded From: garbage set the Method in the rule to Leave Message Intact - Thank you, Pete Kretche MCP, A+, HP APS Senior Network/Systems Administrator E-mail Administrator UW - Green Bay Voice: 920.465.5014 Fax: 920.465.2864

Re: Happy Canada Day

2009-07-01 Thread Steve Ens
Thanks! Not working, but relaxing... On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.comwrote: Happy Canada Day to all you Canucks on the lists. Although I hope you're not having to work today!! -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced technology is

RE: Listserv on Exchange

2009-07-01 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Then it screws up the reply-to. -sc -Original Message- From: Kretche, Peter [mailto:kretc...@uwgb.edu] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 3:00 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Listserv on Exchange To get rid of the Forwarded From: garbage set the Method in the rule to

RE: Listserv on Exchange

2009-07-01 Thread Don Andrews
I think reports of their death were somewhat premature. From: Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 11:43 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Listserv on Exchange Ahh, i see. I never had a request like this come

RE: Listserv on Exchange

2009-07-01 Thread Kretche, Peter
Public Folders are alive and well in Exchange 2010. I was just editorializing on how MS has been more-or-less trying to kill them off. - Thank you, Pete Kretche MCP, A+, HP APS Senior Network/Systems Administrator E-mail Administrator UW - Green

Re: Removing Exchange Server

2009-07-01 Thread Alex Fontana
If its not showing up via ADSI then I gotta ask...did you refresh ESM or restart it? Did you uninstall Exchange 2003 from the box using add/remove, and was that successful? -alex On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Richard Sice rs...@g-h.co.uk wrote: Quick question...I've got an issue where I'm

Free/busy question...

2009-07-01 Thread Alex Fontana
Exchange 2007 SP1, OLK 2003, 2007 and OWA Have an availability address space of sub.domain.com with an access method of public folder. We have a recipient of type mailUser with an external SMTP address of u...@sub.domain.com. The free/busy data for this user is perfectly visible from OLK2007

RE: Listserv on Exchange

2009-07-01 Thread Alex Eckelberry
IMHO, just get a cheap Linux box and run Mailman (free and excellent). Once people see how awesomely useful Listservs can be, you'll get requests for more of them to be setup anyway. Alex From: Derik Peek [mailto:dp...@sctelcofcu.org] Sent: Wednesday, July

Re: Major goof when migrating OAB to E2K7

2009-07-01 Thread Russ Patterson
Hi Alex - thanks for taking this on. BTW, the errors are from the 07 srvr (in that server name in the eventID the 03 is the rack number and the 32 is the row number) We think the replicas were finished today after update-OfflineAddressBook and a Update-FileDistributionService were issued. A few