Re: Supporting Multiple Mobile Devices

2009-12-04 Thread Sean Martin
Sam/James, Thanks for the great information. The affect on Exchange Performance is my top concern. I just recently added another mailbox server to split the load of 2300 mailboxes as well as re-architected the disk subsystems. Each server uses a dedicated RAID 1 for smtp directories, temp, mta qu

Exchange 2003 public folders problem

2009-12-04 Thread Stringham, Steven
I have multiple E2003 servers in my environment. But, one of them contains the lion share of public folders used across the firm. On monday we had a UPS failure, and this exchange server crashed hard. It came back up fine, as far as we can tell, but for this. Outlook users in one office cannot

RE: Supporting Multiple Mobile Devices

2009-12-04 Thread Knoch, James W
BES sizing is something like 3.64 online users to 1 on average (if I am remembering correctly), not including any regular client access. So I just round it up to 4 to be safe. The actual usage can be lower or higher of course, depending on a number of factors (# of user messages, appointments, et

RE: Supporting Multiple Mobile Devices

2009-12-04 Thread Sam Cayze
I've had all three in place before. Wow, BES was intricate. I think I was Spoiled by Good Messaging. But, I never had any conflicts with the three. I doubt I have enough users to accurately gauge load requirements, etc. My Good server with 25 handhelds has purred like a kitten for years.

Supporting Multiple Mobile Devices

2009-12-04 Thread Sean Martin
Exchange 2003 SP2 FE/BE I'm hearing chatter that we may be asked (forced) to provide support for multiple mobile device technologies, from Windows Mobile to iPhones to BlackBerrys. We currently provide Exchange ActiveSync and Good Mobile Messaging, which handles the WM and iPhones. *On a side not

Re: Insert company logo in email?

2009-12-04 Thread James Kerr
Excellent thanks. - Original Message - From: Steve Ens To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 1:17 PM Subject: Re: Insert company logo in email? Yep! On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:14 PM, James Kerr wrote: Is it able to generate signatures by pul

Re: Insert company logo in email?

2009-12-04 Thread Steve Ens
Yep! On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:14 PM, James Kerr wrote: > Is it able to generate signatures by pulling user data from AD? > > - Original Message - > *From:* Steve Ens > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Sent:* Friday, December 04, 2009 1:09 PM > *Subject:* Re: Insert company logo i

RE: Insert company logo in email?

2009-12-04 Thread Campbell, Rob
I haven't gotten my hands on it yet, but E2010 is supposed to be able to do that. From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 12:14 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Insert company logo in email? Is it able to generate signatures by pulling user data

Re: Insert company logo in email?

2009-12-04 Thread Steven Peck
If your environment is more then a hundred or so users, I would strongly suggest staying as far as possible from Policy Patrol. Unless they have managed to come up with support engineers that actually know what they are doing in the last few years. They managed to get themselves on my 'do not even

Re: Insert company logo in email?

2009-12-04 Thread James Kerr
Is it able to generate signatures by pulling user data from AD? - Original Message - From: Steve Ens To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 1:09 PM Subject: Re: Insert company logo in email? Works fine for us, I had a web guy create some HTML to insert

Re: Insert company logo in email?

2009-12-04 Thread Steve Ens
Works fine for us, I had a web guy create some HTML to insert with logos etc... On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:08 PM, James Kerr wrote: > Oh smooth, when I try to edit or create a disclaimer in Vipre I get an > unhandled exception. I guess I will have to open a support ticket in order > to check out

Re: Insert company logo in email?

2009-12-04 Thread James Kerr
Oh smooth, when I try to edit or create a disclaimer in Vipre I get an unhandled exception. I guess I will have to open a support ticket in order to check out this function of Vipre. - Original Message - From: James Kerr To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Sent: Friday, December 04, 2

RE: Good Messaging App for iPhone

2009-12-04 Thread Don Andrews
We did an eval of Good a few years ago and as I recall, it was pretty straightforward to install/configure - certainly no more complex than a BES. The only negatives we found were that it was an additional BES-like environment with a huge raft of devices to support and intranet access required a

Re: Insert company logo in email?

2009-12-04 Thread James Kerr
Vipre can do that? then wtf did I just buy exclaimer for then? let me fire up vipre console. - Original Message - From: Steve Ens To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 9:38 AM Subject: Re: Insert company logo in email? I'll be using the Vipre email

RE: Good Messaging App for iPhone

2009-12-04 Thread Sam Cayze
Dude, you can use the cloud for testing. Just don't put your data on it then... It was just a suggestion, take it or leave it. -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 11:26 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Good Messa

Re: Good Messaging App for iPhone

2009-12-04 Thread Steven Peck
Nope. Though shall not allow the possibility of PHI data to enter the cloud as it may not be in our control. Ever. We are large enough that we will be hosting it ourselves. No cloud here. The main reason senior management hasn't just arbitrarily told us to allow their specific iPhones already

RE: Good Messaging App for iPhone

2009-12-04 Thread Sam Cayze
I think a good way to test it is with a hosted provider... -Original Message- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 11:01 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Good Messaging App for iPhone We disallow iPhones because we cannot control device

Re: Good Messaging App for iPhone

2009-12-04 Thread Steven Peck
We disallow iPhones because we cannot control device encryption. Someone found the Good stuff so now we have to build out a test server. On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Barsodi.John wrote: > Sweet found it.  They might be getting a call from me after our risk > analysis of smartphone meeting in 3

RE: Good Messaging App for iPhone

2009-12-04 Thread Barsodi.John
Sweet found it. They might be getting a call from me after our risk analysis of smartphone meeting in 3 hours. :) " Over-the-air data transmissions and enterprise data at rest on the iPhone are secured with industry-standard AES encryption." Thanks, JB From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollo

Re: Disabling Mobile Access

2009-12-04 Thread Jonathan Link
Thank you, this is exactly what I needed without being able to articulate it. I'll do this as soon as I get everyone onto our BES. On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Barsodi.John wrote: > ..Which is the BIS service > > > > You can block inbound connections from the BIS netblocks to your OWA > dir

RE: OT : Sorry for the Cross Post my sons second gig, trying to drive up the YouTube Views

2009-12-04 Thread Bill Lambert
Hey Neil Hope you have a great show tonight! Bill... From: Neil Hobson [mailto:nhob...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 9:41 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT : Sorry for the Cross Post my sons second gig, trying to drive up the Yo

RE: Disabling Mobile Access

2009-12-04 Thread Barsodi.John
..Which is the BIS service You can block inbound connections from the BIS netblocks to your OWA directory. http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB11036&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_SUPPORTISSUE_1_1&dialogID=231454215&stateId=0%200%20231452369 KB11036 I do this w

Re: Disabling Mobile Access

2009-12-04 Thread Jonathan Link
So you're saying I would have to disable OWA to truly secure the environment? On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Richard Stovall < richard.stov...@researchdata.com> wrote: > The Blackberries I’ve seen that don’t use BES to get Exchange mail > actually use OWA. The account at the cellular servic

RE: Good Messaging App for iPhone

2009-12-04 Thread Sam Cayze
Check out the link called "Good for Enterprise(tm) Architecture and Security" http://www.good.com/resources#tabs-2 From: Barsodi.John [mailto:john.bars...@igt.com] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 9:51 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Good Messaging

RE: Disabling Mobile Access

2009-12-04 Thread Richard Stovall
The Blackberries I've seen that don't use BES to get Exchange mail actually use OWA. The account at the cellular service provider is configured with the OWA address, username and password. These have all been one off setups for individual users and aren't managed directly by the company providing

RE: Good Messaging App for iPhone

2009-12-04 Thread Barsodi.John
Their approach to the iPhone sounds very similar to Sybase's. Basically a sandbox of corporate data, which, IMHO, is the way to go when blending personal devices into Enterprise environments. I checked the data sheet, I don't see anything talking about the data at rest encryption. Do you hav

Disabling Mobile Access

2009-12-04 Thread Jonathan Link
Exchange 2003 running on SBS 2003. I'm currently in the middle of a project to disable mobile access (except OWA) to email for most users. The only users who will continue to have access to email on their cell will be managers and partners with Blackberries. I'm setting up a BES server to servic

Good Messaging App for iPhone

2009-12-04 Thread Sam Cayze
I know Good Messaging by Motorola is often left in the dark compared to EAS and BES, but I have been using their product for about 5 years and I have nothing bad to say about them. There has been complaints of the security of the iPhone on this list. This should help alleviate many, if not all of

RE: 'Missing' public folder

2009-12-04 Thread Richard Stovall
Thanks. I see those as well, but I just never expected for inter...@whatever to be an unusable (reserved) SMTP address in an Exchange organization. No big deal at the end of the day. I'll just tell the folks that requested the distribution group that prompted all this to pick another address.

RE: 'Missing' public folder

2009-12-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
You'll find a few of those in the PF hierarchy. For example, there is also one named "Microsoft" and one named "schema". -Original Message- From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 9:29 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: 'M

RE: 'Missing' public folder

2009-12-04 Thread Richard Stovall
Thanks Kurt. Using PFDAVAdmin here's what I found. The folder with the email address inter...@... Is a named "internal" and is a subfolder of a System Folder named StoreEvents{GUID}. Enumerating the DS:proxyAddresses values of this subfolder with the PFDAVAdmin tool shows the SMTP addresses a

RE: 'Missing' public folder

2009-12-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
Using a tool such as adfind or dsquery, you should be able to use the simple LDAP filter "(proxyAddresses=smtp:inter...@*)" and locate the relevant object. -Original Message- From: Richard Stovall [mailto:richard.stov...@researchdata.com] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 9:50 PM To: MS-

RE: List of spam emails

2009-12-04 Thread Sobey, Richard A
Heh, on the same note, we had a user create a helpdesk ticket complaining that he wasn't getting enough spam, and was there a problem somewhere. Made us laugh :) From: bounce-8754209-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto:bounce-8754209-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of Steve