RE: 2k3 message tracking

2009-07-21 Thread Glen Johnson
Followup. Anyone know anything about a browser called Crazy Browser at www.crazybrowser.com I found this browser listed in the w3svc1 log files referencing one of the accounts that sent out a bunch of the spam. Also, anyone ever hear of a way to send bulk email through owa. We have owa

RE: E2K7/E2K3 Coexistence Question

2009-07-21 Thread John Bowles
I'm not sure how lowering the cost on the RGC on E2K7 would force email to travel through the legacy RGC and out of the SMTP connector for Exchange 2003. Maybe I'm missing the point here. Thank you, _ John Bowles From: Brian Dwyer

Re: 2k3 message tracking

2009-07-21 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Anything is possible when you are talking about a third-party browser rendering pages ala IE. I would ban it. http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,23119-order,4-c,browsersclients/description.html -- ME2 On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Glen Johnsongjohn...@vhcc.edu wrote: Followup.

OWA Coexisting between E2K3 and E2K7

2009-07-21 Thread John Bowles
All- I'm unsure of how to go about doing this so I'm leaning on the list for some guidance. In E2K3 we used an OWA redirect so users would type in webmail.company.com and it would direct them to the OWA server. Now when we are moving to E2K7 and utilizing the CAS server role to handle our

OWA / SSL question

2009-07-21 Thread Joe Heaton
Guys, Due to the budget issues here in California, my agency is down to the wire with renewing our SSL cert for Exchange. I've already told my manager that we can easily go with one of the cheaper alternatives, and have the same security, but she's really wanting to stick with Verisign. Due

RE: OWA Coexisting between E2K3 and E2K7

2009-07-21 Thread Barsodi.John
Just updated the IP's for DNS records and firewalls to point to our external facing NLB'd CAS servers. It was seamless. Thanks, - JB From: John Bowles [mailto:john.bow...@wlkmmas.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 8:06 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: OWA Coexisting between E2K3 and

RE: OWA Coexisting between E2K3 and E2K7

2009-07-21 Thread John Bowles
Now are you still coexisting with E2K3? Or is this solely E2K7? _ John Bowles From: Barsodi.John [john.bars...@igt.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 11:35 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: OWA Coexisting between E2K3 and E2K7 Just

RE: OWA Coexisting between E2K3 and E2K7

2009-07-21 Thread Barsodi.John
Fully migrated. Coexistence lasted from Nov '08 until June '09. I had two 2003 OWA(FE) boxes and those were the first to get decom'd. Everyone ran off the 2k7 CAS boxes for OWA access. Thanks, - JB From: John Bowles [mailto:john.bow...@wlkmmas.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 8:37 AM To:

RE: OWA / SSL question

2009-07-21 Thread David Mazzaccaro
If your cert expires, users will have to either configure their browsers to allow them to go the site, or click through warning/error messages to get there. I would believe depending on your mobile phone setup those users will have similar problems. Have you looked into generating your own

RE: OWA Coexisting between E2K3 and E2K7

2009-07-21 Thread John Bowles
Did you have them all accessing the default URL's (compan.com/exchange or company.com/owa) for their OWA access then created a simpler URL after you guy's were fully moved over? _ John Bowles From: Barsodi.John [john.bars...@igt.com] Sent:

RE: OWA / SSL question

2009-07-21 Thread Joe Heaton
I know about GoDaddy, and recommend it every time any of our 4 SSL certs come up for renewal. But the manager wants to stay with the industry standard Verisign. I'm the kind of guy that buys the Shasta colas, or the Sam's colas, because it's pretty much the same thing at half the price. I

RE: OWA Coexisting between E2K3 and E2K7

2009-07-21 Thread Barsodi.John
Many of our users had the /exchange bookmarked, but our Security team setup all the redirects on the firewalls in case they hit owawhatever.company.com because we moved which datacenter the owa entry point was located at. Thanks, - JB From: John Bowles [mailto:john.bow...@wlkmmas.org] Sent:

RE: OWA / SSL question

2009-07-21 Thread Chris W. Parker
Joe, All the modern browsers strongly warn against continuing to a website that has a self-signed certificate. However, I believe they also allow the user to permanently accept the self-signed certificate which will block future warnings. In the case of the soda, you've probably got a

SP1 RU9

2009-07-21 Thread Barsodi.John
Anyone deploy SP1 RU9 over the weekend? Any feedback? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970162 Thanks, - JB

RE: OWA Coexisting between E2K3 and E2K7

2009-07-21 Thread John Bowles
So If I understand your example... people who were in per say oldowa.company.com(e2k3) and when they are moved to E2K7 their URL they were told to use is newowa.company.com? _ John Bowles From: Barsodi.John [john.bars...@igt.com] Sent:

RE: SP1 RU9

2009-07-21 Thread John Bowles
I haven't installed RU9, but from my last experience installing RU8 it was a nightmare cause it gave me the old OWA white screen and the only way to fix it was to uninstall the CAS role and unistall IIS and then reinstall IIS again with the CAS role installed finally. _ John

RE: SP1 RU9

2009-07-21 Thread Michael B. Smith
i'm running it on several servers. i didn't have any problems. From: Barsodi.John [john.bars...@igt.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:03 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: SP1 RU9 Anyone deploy SP1 RU9 over the weekend? Any feedback?

Re: OWA / SSL question

2009-07-21 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Verisign is not an industry standard. The cert's themselves are standards. Verisign is just a high-profile name. Think of them as the Cadillac of certificate providers if you will. Are they high performance? Not really. Full of bloat and over-priced? Yep. But when the cert is only meant for

RE: OWA / SSL question

2009-07-21 Thread David Mazzaccaro
You can certainly use a homemade cert. Users will get a warning that they will have to click through (annoying and does not enforce best practices). Depending on their browser config they may not be allowed access at all. Additionally, we have found that with some browsers users will get

RE: OWA / SSL question

2009-07-21 Thread Joe Heaton
ME, I've tried educating. But since she's the one paying the bill, if she wants to pay $400, instead of $30, who am I to argue? And I originally intended the high-profile name, versus what I actually said. That's why I brought up the soda analogy. Man, my head is fuzzy today. Joe Heaton

RE: OWA Coexisting between E2K3 and E2K7

2009-07-21 Thread Barsodi.John
Sorry no. We had name1.company.com which referenced Datacenter1. We implemented name2.company.com for Datacenter2. On the firewalls, we redirected name1.company.com/* to name2.company.com/exchange. We also redirected name2.company.com to name2.company.com/exchange Now that we are 100%

RE: SP1 RU9

2009-07-21 Thread KevinM
I'm waiting for SP2 because we already tested patches this month, and SP2 should be out soon. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 9:09 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: SP1 RU9 i'm running it on several servers. i didn't have any

RE: OWA / SSL question

2009-07-21 Thread Peter Johnson
With regards to this issue I believe the following is true with a self signed certificate 1.)On the browsers the users would have to agree to continue to the site everytime until they add the certificate to the machine. This is a pain particularly with mobile users and OWA access from

RE: SP1 RU9

2009-07-21 Thread Michael B. Smith
Since the Exchange team already announced it, I'm not spilling any secrets by saying that the named property handling change that is introduced by SP2 needs to be CAREFULLY EVALUATED by anyone using Archiving software or third party anti-spam filtering software. And by that I mean - don't

RE: SP1 RU9

2009-07-21 Thread KevinM
Is that named properties change different then the change that went into RU8 ?? From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 10:00 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: SP1 RU9 Since the Exchange team already announced it, I'm not spilling any

RE: SP1 RU9

2009-07-21 Thread Michael B. Smith
YES! The change in SP1 RU8 is being rolled out (or enhanced, from a different perspective) and a different solution is added. http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/06/12/451596.aspx This WILL have an impact on POP and IMAP clients and MAY have an impact on other clients that depend on named

RE: OWA / SSL question

2009-07-21 Thread Chris W. Parker
Considering that she's about to have you waste over $350 of taxpayer money I think any citizen of California should be concerned. From: Joe Heaton [jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 9:21 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: OWA /

Re: OWA / SSL question

2009-07-21 Thread Jonathan Link
#2 is not necessarily true. I did not install the self-signed cert into my iPhone. On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Peter Johnson peter.john...@peterstow.com wrote: With regards to this issue I believe the following is true with a self signed certificate 1.)On the browsers the

RE: OWA Coexisting between E2K3 and E2K7

2009-07-21 Thread John Bowles
Sure does! Thanks for clarifying that, much appreciated. _ John Bowles From: Barsodi.John [john.bars...@igt.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:23 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: OWA Coexisting between E2K3 and E2K7 Sorry no. We

RE: SP1 RU9

2009-07-21 Thread KevinM
Learn something new every day!! Thanks again Michael for preemptively saving me.. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 10:00 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: SP1 RU9 Since the Exchange team already announced it, I'm not spilling any

RE: OWA / SSL question

2009-07-21 Thread Peter Johnson
That's interesting Jonathon. Do u happen to have checked if the cert is loaded on the iPhone? I'm wondering if it added it by itself. My statement was based on my experience with Windows Mobile devices. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: 21 July 2009 18:27 To:

Re: OWA / SSL question

2009-07-21 Thread Jonathan Link
No, it's not loaded. On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Peter Johnson peter.john...@peterstow.comwrote: That’s interesting Jonathon. Do u happen to have checked if the cert is loaded on the iPhone? I’m wondering if it added it by itself. My statement was based on my experience with Windows

RE: 2k3 message tracking

2009-07-21 Thread Jason Gurtz
When I reset the password on the two accounts that were sending all the spam, it stopped and hasn’t returned so the only conclusion I’ve come up with is that these two accounts got their password stolen, and then some script or bot accessed their OWA account and sent all the spam. Does that

Re: 2k3 message tracking

2009-07-21 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Jason, What are these +AD4-, etc, codes about? They appear to represent high ascii. They are constantly in your emails, and other than being somewhat annoying when they are interjected into the middle of words (apostrophe use, etc). They are most annoying when they break the links that you

RESEND: RE: 2k3 message tracking

2009-07-21 Thread Jason Gurtz
[Looks like I'll give up on UTF with all the broken clients out theresorry for the inconvenience.] When I reset the password on the two accounts that were sending all the spam, it stopped and hasn't returned so the only conclusion I've come up with is that these two accounts got their

RE: OWA / SSL question

2009-07-21 Thread Greg Wright
This is the best response I have read so far on this subject. Of importance is the issue of mobile clients. Depending upon version, they vary from easy to install an un-trusted Authorities certificate to being impossible to install one. Jonathan Link said #2 is not necessarily true. I did not

RE: OWA / SSL question

2009-07-21 Thread Brad DeHart
I am using a self-signed cert for OWA\Active-Sync and each iPhone pops up a screen once asking if you want to allow the cert. Once you hit allow it happily connects to the site with no more complaints. From: Greg Wright [mailto:greg.wri...@wineselectors.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009

RE: Conference Rooms booked as resource

2009-07-21 Thread Don Andrews
I don't have an answer (seems that in e2k3 you'd just login to the resource as a user and set the calendar options like a user but I could be wrong). opinion on Does every single meeting have to be confidential? We typically feel that employee's calendars as well as resource calendars are for

Re: OWA / SSL question

2009-07-21 Thread Don Ely
Go with Thawte. Owned by Verisign and cheaper... On 7/21/09, Joe Heaton jhea...@etp.ca.gov wrote: I know about GoDaddy, and recommend it every time any of our 4 SSL certs come up for renewal. But the manager wants to stay with the industry standard Verisign. I'm the kind of guy that buys the

Re: OWA / SSL question

2009-07-21 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Its true and not at the same time. Its true because no, you dont install a self-signed cert. Its false that the iPhone works with them, because it doesnt. It ignores the security condition. However, I believe you can put your own certs on an iPhone via the iPhone Configuration Utility.