RE: OT-ish...Blackberry Calendar question

2009-12-15 Thread Glen Johnson
Did you follow the instructions to the letter? I just fixed the same problem cause I didn't follow the instructions. I had used a domain admin account to install the BPS software. Had the exact same problem. Changed all the BB services to use the BESAdmin account. Made BESAdmin a local

Re: Hyena

2009-12-15 Thread mqcarp
Whoah Mark good catch . That is definitely worth knowing prior to purchase. dameware is about $100 higher per license than Hyena and I can not see anything off hand that makes it any better. Both offer pretty much the same feature set. Anyone have a comment on that or what may set them apart? On

Glad not to be the White House Exchange Administration a few years back...

2009-12-15 Thread Maglinger, Paul
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121436112   Paul  

RE: OT-ish...Blackberry Calendar question

2009-12-15 Thread Sean Rector
Installed BES 5 as BESAdmin, the services run as BESAdmin, it's the admin on the box, and I added BESAdmin to AD as per the docs. Sean Rector, MCSE From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 8:50 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE:

RE: OT-ish...Blackberry Calendar question

2009-12-15 Thread Mayo, Bill
Have you given the BES account send as permissions on the user's account? If so, are they a member of any protected group (e.g. domain admins). From: Sean Rector [mailto:sean.rec...@vaopera.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:50 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin

RE: OT-ish...Blackberry Calendar question

2009-12-15 Thread Barsodi.John
mmm... what version of Exchange and what version of CDO.dll do you have installed on your BES server? From: Mayo, Bill [bem...@pittcountync.gov] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 8:04 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT-ish...Blackberry Calendar

RE: OT-ish...Blackberry Calendar question

2009-12-15 Thread May, Jeff
Have you verified his reconcile settings on his device?? Also, you can delete the CICAL service book and recover to allow it to do another calendar activation and see if that helps. From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 11:04 AM To:

RE: OT-ish...Blackberry Calendar question

2009-12-15 Thread Sean Rector
Yes...and no... Sean Rector, MCSE From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:bem...@pittcountync.gov] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 11:04 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT-ish...Blackberry Calendar question Have you given the BES account send as permissions on the user's account? If

RE: OT-ish...Blackberry Calendar question

2009-12-15 Thread Sean Rector
How do I check the reconcile settings and how do I delete the CICAL service book and recover it? Sean Rector, MCSE From: May, Jeff [mailto:j...@bbandt.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 11:07 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT-ish...Blackberry Calendar question Have

RE: OT-ish...Blackberry Calendar question

2009-12-15 Thread Sean Rector
Exchange 2003, current version of CDO.dll. Sean Rector, MCSE From: Barsodi.John [mailto:john.bars...@igt.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 11:06 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT-ish...Blackberry Calendar question mmm... what version of Exchange and what version of

RE: OT-ish...Blackberry Calendar question

2009-12-15 Thread May, Jeff
Have the user go to options within calendar on his device, depending on the device and service provider but the option is in there, just have to look around, if it is not there I would suggest a wipe and reactivation completely of the device. I have seen instances of issues like this where a

Re: OT-ish...Blackberry Calendar question

2009-12-15 Thread Orland, Kathleen
Have you looked at the SELF permissions on the user's account. I had one Blackberry go off the wall two weeks ago with nothing wrong on the Blackberry, nothing wrong on the BES. verified everything on Exchange and BES (versions, patches, etc.). Somehow the SELF account in the user's permissions

Spam blocking and false positives

2009-12-15 Thread Steve Hart
Would anyone be interested in sharing what anti-spam solution you're using and what the rate of false positives is?

Force A Sujbect Line Fill

2009-12-15 Thread Valerie Jergens
Does anybody know of a plug-in or add-on for Exchange/Outlook that would force a subject line fill-in with something like a project number? I know it's a long shot, but.. Thanks, Valerie

Re: Spam blocking and false positives

2009-12-15 Thread Stephan Barr
GFI Mail Essentials 14.1 utilizing the directory harvesting protection feature. After some considerable tweaking we have had no false positives in 4 months. About 10,000 emails per day. Cheers. On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Steve Hart sh...@wrightbg.com wrote: Would anyone be interested

RE: OT-ish...Blackberry Calendar question

2009-12-15 Thread Sean Rector
SELF has Read, Change Password, Receive as, Send as, Read account restrictions, Read Exchange Information, Read Exchange Personal Information, Read general information, Read group membership, Read logon information, Read personal information, Write personal information, Read phone and mail

Re: Spam blocking and false positives

2009-12-15 Thread Roger Wright
VIPRE with RBL blocking using spamhaus will give you 0 false positives. But you'll need to tweak the settings a bit to increase the catch levels, but once done it's pretty much set and forget with rare FP's. Roger Wright ___ On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Steve Hart sh...@wrightbg.com

RE: Spam blocking and false positives

2009-12-15 Thread Sean Rector
Vipre from Sunbelt Software, and 1%. Sean Rector, MCSE From: Steve Hart [mailto:sh...@wrightbg.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 12:57 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Spam blocking and false positives Would anyone be interested in sharing what anti-spam solution you're

Re: Spam blocking and false positives

2009-12-15 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 09:56, Steve Hart sh...@wrightbg.com wrote: Would anyone be interested in sharing what anti-spam solution you're using and what the rate of false positives is? I have put up Maia Mailguard here. Personal Stats: Efficiency 98.94% False Positive 0.10% False Negative 0.96%

RE: Glad not to be the White House Exchange Administration a few years back...

2009-12-15 Thread Martin Tuip
They have an archiving solution in place actually (even during the last administration fully deployed). Martin MVP Exchange -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 7:22 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Glad not to

Office Files being blocked by Forefront

2009-12-15 Thread McCready, Rob
As a general consensus, how many of these options do you gurus usually check in the General Options of Forefront? [cid:image001.png@01CA7D89.9D808E80] We are having a problem with Office files being blocked, with this message :unwritable compressed file I tried to setup a filter to Skip:

RE: Spam blocking and false positives

2009-12-15 Thread Ralph Smith
We use SpamTitan - we get about 4,000 messages a day. About 800 are clean, the rest are blocked. I can't remember the last time we had a false positive, and we get few false negatives - I personally had maybe 3 or 4 false negatives in the past year. Ralph

RE: Force A Sujbect Line Fill

2009-12-15 Thread Sam Cayze
Yep, here is the format of the code to use: mailto:john...@domain.comsubject=Hello%20World%21body=How%20are%20you% 2C%20John%3F blocked::mailto:john...@domain.comsubject=Hello World!body=How are you, John? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287573 Sam Cayze Information Technology

RE: Force A Sujbect Line Fill

2009-12-15 Thread Campbell, Rob
What version of Exchange? From: Valerie Jergens [mailto:valerie_jerg...@live.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 11:59 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Force A Sujbect Line Fill Does anybody know of a plug-in or add-on for Exchange/Outlook that would force a subject line fill-in with

RE: Office Files being blocked by Forefront

2009-12-15 Thread Senter, John
I get these from time to time as well. In most cases it is a message in the Drafts folder. I just assumed it was a issue with the scan happening as the user is doing something to the file. If you find a solution let me know. From: McCready, Rob [mailto:rob.mccrea...@dplinc.com] Sent:

RE: Office Files being blocked by Forefront

2009-12-15 Thread McCready, Rob
I'm not sure if the files have always been blocked for us or not. Until recently, we didn't notify users when a file was blocked. When we turned notification on, we started getting messages that XLSM and XLXS files were being blocked here and there. I'm not sure if one of the boxes below was

Quick Outlook Question

2009-12-15 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
I've got a co-worker trying to setup and executive's Outlook to connect to an additional POP3 account. My dumb question is the outgoing SMTP field, what should that be? My outgoing mail server, or the smtp server where the POP3 mail is at? -- Sherry Abercrombie Any sufficiently advanced

RE: Office Files being blocked by Forefront

2009-12-15 Thread Kennedy, Jim
I can't speak specifically to Forefront but the new office 2007 files are zip files (more or less) and it has been an issue for lots of email scanners. From what I see, read and google I think you need to turn off 'Scan Doc Files as Containers'. From: McCready, Rob

Re: Quick Outlook Question

2009-12-15 Thread Jonathan Link
Your outgoing mail server more than likely, otherwise he could be considered to be relaying. IIRC, if you configure a secure smtp session with the server with his credentials he won't be relaying, but using your outgoing server is probably the simplest option. On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:53 PM,

RE: Quick Outlook Question

2009-12-15 Thread Don Andrews
Normally (I would think) the SMTP server where the POP3 account is. From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 11:54 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Quick Outlook Question I've got a co-worker trying to

Re: Quick Outlook Question

2009-12-15 Thread Jonathan Link
OK after reading some of the other replies and considering my cold is making my head feel fuzzy consider my post recalled. I think it's time to go home. Can't believe I can't remember this stuff right now. On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: Your

RE: Quick Outlook Question

2009-12-15 Thread Campbell, Rob
Does Outlook let you use a different From: address on replies to emails from that POP account? The outgoing mail server needs to be the one for the domain that's going to be in his From: address. From: Don Andrews [mailto:don.andr...@safeway.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 2:03 PM To:

Re: Quick Outlook Question

2009-12-15 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
Good questionthis just got dropped in our laps this morning and we're scrambling to get it done because they needed it like yesterday of course. I 'think' we've gotten the appropriate firewall changes made because yes, we do arbitrarily block port 25 at the firewall unless it's in the approved

RE: Quick Outlook Question

2009-12-15 Thread Don Andrews
Unless the domain at the POP location has SPF records that don't allow your Exchange server to spoof them. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 12:02 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Quick Outlook

RE: Quick Outlook Question

2009-12-15 Thread Jason Gurtz
Does the remote site support the message submission port (SMTP Auth to port 587)? This is really the recommended way, though ISP support is still up and coming. ~JasonG -Original Message- From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 15:12 To:

RE: Quick Outlook Question

2009-12-15 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Going to be sending 'from' the pop3 account? Then the smtp server where the account is. You could send it through yours if you wanted to, and allowed that domain on your server but if the domain for the pop3 account has SPF records set up that would not work well for you. From: Sherry

Re: Quick Outlook Question

2009-12-15 Thread Orland, Kathleen
The SMTP server of the ISP of the additional account, including authentication to that server. - Original Message - From: Sherry Abercrombie To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 2:53 PM Subject: Quick Outlook Question I've got a co-worker trying

Re: [Bulk] Re: Quick Outlook Question

2009-12-15 Thread Orland, Kathleen
Use port 587 for the SMTP server and port 110 for the POP3 server. - Original Message - From: Sherry Abercrombie To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 3:12 PM Subject: [Bulk] Re: Quick Outlook Question Good questionthis just got dropped in our

Re: Quick Outlook Question

2009-12-15 Thread Jonathan Link
Yeah, I thought about that. Then I thought about Nyquill. About the time I saw MBS. Then I posted to the list. Think some more about Nyquill. Wonder if this is swine flu. Reflect that I'm actually feeling better than this weekend. Where am I? On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Don Andrews

Re: Disappearing Calendar items

2009-12-15 Thread Brad J. Peer
OK, so after the reboot, everything is working again. Strange. Brad Neither uninstalling SEP or using one of the switches below make a difference. It now appears to be an organization wide issue with all new appointments since 12/9 going into the Sync issues\server failures folder. I did

RE: Quick Outlook Question

2009-12-15 Thread Kennedy, Jim
The exec's brain is going to explode once you have it working, imho. He/She is going to get real confused what mailbox he/she is working in. Webmail for the other account would have been so much better for him/her. Not your call, I know. Just giving you 'I told you so' ammo. :) From: Sherry

Route all external emails through another Exchange server

2009-12-15 Thread Gary Babb
We have two Exchange 2003 servers; currently all external emails goes through Exchange SERVER01. My question is how to make all outbound emails to go through Exchange SERVER02 and instead of SERVER01, even if the user mailboxes resides on SERVER01. Would making SERVER02 the Routing Group

Re: Quick Outlook Question

2009-12-15 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
I know, believe me I knowand this exec is not exactly what we would call a computer literate person.. I've got several questions now that need to be answered they are all in a meeting at the moment. Thanks everyone for the quick responses suggestions. We haven't allowed POP3

Re: Quick Outlook Question

2009-12-15 Thread Kurt Buff
Blocking port 25 outbound is not 'arbitrary' - it's 'egress filtering'. And, it's highly recommended. I'd think serious about doing what you're doing, and would likely require they gave me a written and signed request, which had been passed by the org's lawyer. Nasty things happen when kludges

RE: Route all external emails through another Exchange server

2009-12-15 Thread Michael B. Smith
Do you have an Internet SMTP Connector? (I bet the answer is yes, even if it has a different name.) You need to put server02 into it instead of server01. -Original Message- From: Gary Babb [mailto:gsb...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 3:35 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues

Re: Quick Outlook Question

2009-12-15 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
I don't have a choice, this is basically a family organization this exec is family. It's a web-site that was setup and maintained by a 3rd party. On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: Blocking port 25 outbound is not 'arbitrary' - it's 'egress filtering'. And,

Re: Quick Outlook Question

2009-12-15 Thread Jonathan Link
Are you in the mob? :-) On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.comwrote: I don't have a choice, this is basically a family organization this exec is family. It's a web-site that was setup and maintained by a 3rd party. On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Kurt

Re: Quick Outlook Question

2009-12-15 Thread Kurt Buff
I suppose we all have our crosses to bear... At least you have a job. Kurt On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:45, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.com wrote: I don't have a choice, this is basically a family organization this exec is family.  It's a web-site that was setup and maintained by a 3rd

Re: Quick Outlook Question

2009-12-15 Thread Sherry Abercrombie
Ha Jonathan, go take some NyQuil ;) On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: Are you in the mob? :-) On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.comwrote: I don't have a choice, this is basically a family organization this exec

RE: Route all external emails through another Exchange server

2009-12-15 Thread Gary Babb
Yes. Currently in the properties of the Internet Mail SMTP Connector has SERVER01 has the Local bridgeheads server. Thanks for you help. Regards, Gary

RE: Quick Outlook Question

2009-12-15 Thread Don Andrews
I've made up my mind, don't bother me with the facts From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 12:45 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Quick Outlook Question I don't have a choice, this is basically a

Defragmenting servers

2009-12-15 Thread mqcarp
Does anyone use tools like diskeeper to defrag their nondatabase servers? Is it recommended?

RE: Defragmenting servers

2009-12-15 Thread Sean Rector
Yes, I use Diskeeper - on all my servers. Sean Rector, MCSE -Original Message- From: mqcarp [mailto:mqcarpen...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 4:47 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Defragmenting servers Does anyone use tools like diskeeper to defrag their

RE: Defragmenting servers

2009-12-15 Thread Michael B. Smith
It provides a marginal speed improvement (assuming you defrag regularly). I like MyDefrag (used to be JKDefrag). It's free and it's fast. -Original Message- From: mqcarp [mailto:mqcarpen...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 4:47 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject:

Re: Quick Outlook Question

2009-12-15 Thread Jonathan Link
Don't use quotes around family. :-) On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Sherry Abercrombie saber...@gmail.comwrote: Ha Jonathan, go take some NyQuil ;) On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote: Are you in the mob? :-) On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:45 PM,

[MALWARE FREE]RE: [MALWARE FREE]Defragmenting servers

2009-12-15 Thread Chris Knieriem
Hello, I use MyDefrag on my servers and workstations. It works well, is free, scriptable, and is based on Microsoft's API's and can be customized to function on most server types. Information can be found at www.mydefrag.com. Chris Chris Knieriem Potomac Computer Care 920 National

SP2 for Exchange 2007

2009-12-15 Thread Stefan Jafs
I know it became available a few months ago, did you guys upgrade? Should I? -- Stefan Jafs

RE: SP2 for Exchange 2007

2009-12-15 Thread Campbell, Rob
I did. I highly recommend that you NOT enable the mailbox auditing feature. Other than that, no problems. From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 4:37 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: SP2 for Exchange 2007 I know it became available a few

Re: SP2 for Exchange 2007

2009-12-15 Thread Stefan Jafs
And why not? On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Campbell, Rob rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net wrote: I did. I highly recommend that you NOT enable the mailbox auditing feature. Other than that, no problems. *From:* Stefan Jafs [mailto:stefan.j...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday,

RE: SP2 for Exchange 2007

2009-12-15 Thread Campbell, Rob
When we enabled it, it caused email item attachments to get stripped from emails after they were sent, and it removed item attachments from some appointments but left an item reference attached. This caused the Availability Service to fail to return any FB information for a user that had one

RE: SP2 for Exchange 2007

2009-12-15 Thread Robinson, Chuck
If you are upgrading a CCR cluster, be sure to follow the following article to a T. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb676320(EXCHG.80).aspx I recently had some issues where the Transport Service (Hub) and the Mail Submission Service (Mailbox) would not start after upgrading to SP2.

Exchange 2007 New Mailbox Appearance in GAL

2009-12-15 Thread Brad Metzler
Today we added an Exchange 2007 server (on Win2k8) to our existing Exchange 2003 organization. The installation appears to have worked properly, all services are running, etc... I created a new user in ADUC and made a mailbox on the new E2k7 Server. I also create a user through the Exchange