Re: Spam blocking and false positives

2009-12-16 Thread James Rankin
Cisco IronPort. Nil on the false positives so far, and we've had it a couple of months. The content filters pull some false positives, for obvious reasons, but they are easy enough to tune. 2009/12/15 Steve Hart sh...@wrightbg.com Would anyone be interested in sharing what anti-spam solution

Re: SP2 for Exchange 2007

2009-12-16 Thread Andrew Levicki
Hi all, Can I please ask does Exchange list itself as Version 8.2 once SP2 has been installed (in Server properties or Help, About Exchange Server 2007)? Thanks, Andrew 2009/12/16 Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com OK, I’ve read that recently. (Can’t talk about some things until other

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

2009-12-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
They probably ran ESEUTIL as a regular management process. :) -sc -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:22 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Glad not to be the White House Exchange Administration a few years

RE: Defragmenting servers

2009-12-16 Thread David.Ricci
I was always under the impression that it was bad to defrag a server. I guess that was an old school notion. David M. Ricci IS Manager The Health Wellness Institute 291 Promenade Street Providence, RI 02908 T: 401.228.1332 C: 401.256.4933 F: 401.228.1399 www.hwinstitute.com

Re: Defragmenting servers

2009-12-16 Thread Kurt Buff
The really old school notion is to have a file system that doesn't need it, like UFS... Heh. On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 06:45, David.Ricci david.ri...@hwinstitute.com wrote: I was always under the impression that it was bad to defrag a server. I guess that was an old school notion. David M.

RE: Defragmenting servers

2009-12-16 Thread Michael B. Smith
Do you remember way back when? When NT 3.5 and 4.0 came out, Microsoft told us NTFS didn't need defraggingthus was born a new industry. :-) -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 9:58 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues

RE: Defragmenting servers

2009-12-16 Thread Campbell, Rob
IIRC, they also said the NT4 Directory was superior to Netware's directory, because a flat directory structure provided better performance. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 9:02 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues

Re: Defragmenting servers

2009-12-16 Thread James Rankin
Hehe I remember that.and then promptly appropriated all the goodness out of NDS for AD. I can still remember people looking at their first NDS system circa 2002 and telling me they've just ripped off Active Directory with that thing, what is it? 2009/12/16 Campbell, Rob

RE: Defragmenting servers

2009-12-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Honestly, compared to FAT, fragmentation on NTFS was not nearly as big an issue, IMO. Yes it fragmented but the cache-manager/VMM/filesystem and the ability to pre-read the block allocation and order them intelligently for an I/O operation reduced the effect significantly... -sc

RE: Defragmenting servers

2009-12-16 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Compared to the bindery, it was. NDS, however, is what I'm sure spurred AD on up in Redmond. -sc -Original Message- From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 10:06 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Defragmenting

RE: Defragmenting servers

2009-12-16 Thread David.Ricci
That is where I got it from. So now it is ok so as long as it is not a database obviously exchange, sql just file systems. Thank you, David M. Ricci IS Manager The Health Wellness Institute 291 Promenade Street Providence, RI 02908 T: 401.228.1332 C: 401.256.4933 F: 401.228.1399

Re: Defragmenting servers

2009-12-16 Thread Kurt Buff
Yep. Heh. Long time ago... On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 07:01, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: Do you remember way back when? When NT 3.5 and 4.0 came out, Microsoft told us NTFS didn't need defraggingthus was born a new industry. :-) -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff

Re: Defragmenting servers

2009-12-16 Thread Kurt Buff
Yup, until they ran into orgs with more than about 50k employees, IIRC. Didn't work so well, and there were resource domains and all sorts of workarounds. Bleh. Never worked in an org that large, though, so was only a spectator to the pain, not a participant, and for that I'm truly grateful. Kurt

RE: Defragmenting servers

2009-12-16 Thread Doug Rooney
OK, so does that mean the databases do not get fragmented, or there is another way to defrag them? I do not support our databases, only the hardware that houses them, but I do support Exchange. Thank You ~Doug Rooney Sonoma Tilemakers IT Manager 7750 Bell Rd. Windsor Ca, 95492 (707)

RE: Defragmenting servers

2009-12-16 Thread Joe Pochedley
There’s two different types of “fragmentation” in databases… There’s good ol’ file system fragmentation of the database files themselves… This type of fragmentation can be somewhat mitigated / limited by intelligently choosing how your DB auto-grows (if you have that feature enabled, or if

Secure SMTP VS Setup.

2009-12-16 Thread Harry Singh
All -- I could use some help with setting up a secure SMTP VS to allow users on mobile devices to send through our SMTP gateway. I'm running Exchange 2003 SP2. I've setup the second VS to listen on port 587, I've attached a wildcard cert, and made sure anon access is removed and auth and 128-bit

Re: Defragmenting servers

2009-12-16 Thread mqcarp
I have wondered this too Harry but I think the question is better put to your shared storage provider. That said, we are testing out Vizioncore's vOptimizer as well On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Harry Singh hbo...@gmail.com wrote: Is it recommended to kick off defrag's for VM's who are using

Re: Defragmenting servers

2009-12-16 Thread Harry Singh
After doing some digging, I did find the answer to my initial question. When it comes to defrag'n your VM guests, it's recommended. http://communities.vmware.com/thread/77661 On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 3:23 PM, mqcarp mqcarpen...@gmail.com wrote: I have wondered this too Harry but I think the