Re: Exchange 2003 to 2010 issues

2010-05-04 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 14:27, Paul Steele wrote: > I actually had this all working in my ESXi test environment but due to some > disk issues I lost my VMs. I thought I remembered how I had configured > things but obviously I don’t have a very good memory. I’ve gotten totally > confused about what

Re: Windows 2000 AD with Exchange 2003 server but no Windows 2003 DCs.

2010-05-04 Thread Stephan Barr
Understood. I've made some of those changes w/PSS on the line so I know of which you speak. Cool well here goes. Cheers. On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > It doesn’t hurt anything as long as no one has manually changed > permissions (and something requires those changes

RE: Windows 2000 AD with Exchange 2003 server but no Windows 2003 DCs.

2010-05-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
It doesn't hurt anything as long as no one has manually changed permissions (and something requires those changes). Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Stephan Barr [mailto:stephanbarr.li...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 10:26 PM

Re: Windows 2000 AD with Exchange 2003 server but no Windows 2003 DCs.

2010-05-04 Thread Stephan Barr
And hey thanks or the response. On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Stephan Barr wrote: > Yes I'm aware of the InetOrg issue. The Exchage 2003 is running on Windows > 2003. Just no WIndows 2003 DCs. As I recall it doesn't damage anything to > run adprep and such multiple times. True? > > On Tue, Ma

Re: Windows 2000 AD with Exchange 2003 server but no Windows 2003 DCs.

2010-05-04 Thread Stephan Barr
Yes I'm aware of the InetOrg issue. The Exchage 2003 is running on Windows 2003. Just no WIndows 2003 DCs. As I recall it doesn't damage anything to run adprep and such multiple times. True? On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > No, it does not. > > > > Exchange 2003 would r

RE: Windows 2000 AD with Exchange 2003 server but no Windows 2003 DCs.

2010-05-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
No, it does not. Exchange 2003 would run on Windows 2000, with somewhat limited functionality (for example, RPC/HTTP requires that Exchange run on Windows 2003). Exchange 2003 only required a mixed-mode AD (i.e., one directly upgraded from Windows NT). You could, in fact, run into schema colli

Windows 2000 AD with Exchange 2003 server but no Windows 2003 DCs.

2010-05-04 Thread Stephan Barr
A Windows 2000 AD network with an Exchange 2003 server by definition has to already have Windows 2003 ADPREP run right? Client company has this network running but it has no Windows 2003 DCs. I'm I right in thinking that adding Windows 2003 DCs is safe since the Exchange 2003 Server is running fin

FYI - MSFT doesn't tell all it knows

2010-05-04 Thread Kurt Buff
Why does this not surprise me? Kurt -- Forwarded message -- From: Core Security Technologies Advisories Date: Tue, May 4, 2010 at 15:26 Subject: [Full-disclosure] [CORE-2010-0427] Windows SMTP Service DNS query Id vulnerabilities To: full-disclos...@lists.grok.org.uk -BEGI

RE: Archiving solution

2010-05-04 Thread Martin Tuip
Only a limited amount of archiving solutions from the 80+ that Michael mentions actually support Exchange 2010. EV is indeed a bit late to the game. Mimosa NearPoint supports Exchange 2010 for what it is worth. Martin MVP Exchange From: Cameron Cooper [ccoo..

RE: Information Store unmounts

2010-05-04 Thread Campbell, Rob
Too many uncommitted logs? From: Maglinger, Paul Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 2:14 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Information Store unmounts Forgot to mention also that we're running Enterprise, so no such limitation. __

Re: Information Store unmounts

2010-05-04 Thread Sean Martin
Transaction log sequence numbers... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830408 - Sean On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Maglinger, Paul wrote: > Forgot to mention also that we're running Enterprise, so no such > limitation. > > -- > *From:* Richard Stovall [mailto:rich.

RE: Exchange 2003 to 2010 issues

2010-05-04 Thread Paul Steele
Ok, I read your Windows IT Pro article, which was very good. Unfortunately it didn't help and I'm officially *very* frustrated now. After fiddling with send/receive connectors for last couple of days, I still haven't gotten mail to flow within our new Exchange 2003/2010 organization properly. My ul

RE: Information Store unmounts

2010-05-04 Thread Maglinger, Paul
Forgot to mention also that we're running Enterprise, so no such limitation. From: Richard Stovall [mailto:rich...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 3:17 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Information Store unmounts Boy, I haven't seen that one f

RE: Information Store unmounts

2010-05-04 Thread Maglinger, Paul
Forgot to mention that. I checked that too and there was plenty (as in gigs) of free space. -Original Message- From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 3:11 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Information Store unmounts Disk s

efax alternative

2010-05-04 Thread David Baca
Do you guys have an alternative to efax that you have used and would recommend for 1-off faxes that need to be received via email. David

Re: Information Store unmounts

2010-05-04 Thread Richard Stovall
Boy, I haven't seen that one for a long time. What version of Exchange 2003? SP2? IIRC Microsoft upped the max database size for Exchange 2003 Standard in SP2 from 16GB to 75GB, but you still had to modify the registry to make it work. A quick Google search brings up the following kb article.

RE: Information Store unmounts

2010-05-04 Thread David Lum
+1 -Original Message- From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 1:11 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Information Store unmounts Disk space -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 1:09 PM

RE: Information Store unmounts

2010-05-04 Thread Campbell, Rob
Disk space -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 1:09 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Information Store unmounts Has anyone seen any instances where the Private and Public Stores in Exchange 2003 just unmounts without any apparent reason? So far

Information Store unmounts

2010-05-04 Thread Maglinger, Paul
Has anyone seen any instances where the Private and Public Stores in Exchange 2003 just unmounts without any apparent reason? So far it's only happened once (knock on wood). With my diagnostic logging for MSExchangeIS System General set at Medium, Private General at Maximum, the only thing I saw

RE: Upgrade to 2010 first?

2010-05-04 Thread Shields, Anthony
The article does ring some truth and we are moving away from redoing the servers every year - as we didn't do them last year, because we knew R2 and E2k10 would be out this year - along with Office 2k10. All of which we're upgrading to in July. Hopefully after this, I can go for a few years wi

Re: Upgrade to 2010 first?

2010-05-04 Thread Rob Bonfiglio
I worked for Higher Ed for a while, and we never used that approach either. It is definitely extreme. There is certainly more than one way to skin a cat, but this definitely isn't the way I would choose. On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Jason Gurtz wrote: > Schools are a unique I.T. environment

RE: Exchange 2003 to 2010 issues

2010-05-04 Thread John Bowles
I just lot the KB article that tells you what EMS commands to run to verify all the virtual directories URL's are correct. I've been looking for this stuff all morning :( John Bowles From: Paul Steele [paul.ste...@acadiau.ca] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 2:34 PM

RE: Exchange 2003 to 2010 issues

2010-05-04 Thread Paul Steele
I'm glad other people make mistakes too! :) From: John Bowles [mailto:john.bow...@wlkmmas.org] Sent: May-04-10 3:32 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2003 to 2010 issues This sounds awfully familiar ;-) John Bowles From: Mic

RE: Exchange 2003 to 2010 issues

2010-05-04 Thread John Bowles
This sounds awfully familiar ;-) John Bowles From: Michael B. Smith [mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 1:47 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2003 to 2010 issues You will have to edit the ExternalURLs on all the Exchange virt

RE: Exchange 2003 to 2010 issues

2010-05-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
You will have to edit the ExternalURLs on all the Exchange virtual directories. Personally, I find this easier to do via EMS; but most of them can be edited on the Server Configuration -> Client Access tabs. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com

RE: Exchange 2003 to 2010 issues

2010-05-04 Thread Paul Steele
I've just discovered that I made a mistake during the installation process. In the install wizard when it asks for the Internet facing name for the server I put in smtp.acadiau.ca instead of exchange.acadiau.ca. I'm not exactly sure what issues this mistake will cause, but it definitely messes up t

RE: Upgrade to 2010 first?

2010-05-04 Thread Jason Gurtz
Schools are a unique I.T. environment to be sure, but wow they sure don't use this rebuild-from-scratch approach at the schools around here! I've found software development to be amazingly similar to the practice of I.T. There's a guy out there (used to work in the Excel bus. unit at MS) who has

RE: Setting up Active Sync on E2K10

2010-05-04 Thread John Bowles
I'm not even sure where I would need to go to disable that function ;-) John Bowles From: Michael B. Smith [mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 11:47 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Setting up Active Sync on E2K10 It says that “OPTION

Re: Upgrade to 2010 first?

2010-05-04 Thread Steve Ens
Fair enough... On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Shields, Anthony < ashie...@epsteinatlanta.org> wrote: > It’s what we do in the school to maintain and improve our technology. We > rebuild, recreate and improve on what we had, deploy new hardware/software, > improve infrastructure. > > > > Inste

RE: Setting up Active Sync on E2K10

2010-05-04 Thread John Bowles
No, this was a very basic install. All roles on one server installation. John Bowles From: Michael B. Smith [mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 11:47 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Setting up Active Sync on E2K10 It says that “OPTI

RE: Setting up Active Sync on E2K10

2010-05-04 Thread Dan Cooper
Indeed oops! One reason for errorss after everything else seems ok... can be non default security permissions on the user accounts. But why this would change for everyone over night is beyond me. A quick test would be to go to the security settings for the user you are testing with and set the s

RE: Setting up Active Sync on E2K10

2010-05-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
It says that "OPTIONS" isn't allowed. Have you disabled that verb? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: John Bowles [mailto:john.bow...@wlkmmas.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 11:31 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Setting up Ac

RE: Setting up Active Sync on E2K10

2010-05-04 Thread Dan Cooper
I think Auto discovery (dns settings) is there to simplify setting up devices/applications and to allow for smooth transitions between legacy and new servers. The bottom line is your phone...needs to connect to the server acting as the front end for active sync. If this is being blocked active

RE: Upgrade to 2010 first?

2010-05-04 Thread Shields, Anthony
It's what we do in the school to maintain and improve our technology. We rebuild, recreate and improve on what we had, deploy new hardware/software, improve infrastructure. Instead of tacking things on down the road-during the year, we rebuild -incorporating all of those things during the summ

RE: Setting up Active Sync on E2K10

2010-05-04 Thread John Bowles
Disregard the first test.. I forgot to specify the AS server :-/ The error is at the very end. Thanks. Testing Exchange ActiveSync Exchange ActiveSync test Failed Test Steps Attempting to resolve the host name owa.company.com in DNS. Host successfully resolved Additional Details IP(s) ret

RE: Setting up Active Sync on E2K10

2010-05-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
It doesn't. Mr. Cooper was correct that port/DNS issues are the problem, but he picked the wrong segment. This is the problem: Attempting to test potential AutoDiscover URL https://autodiscover.company.com/AutoDiscover/AutoDiscover.xml Failed testing this potential AutoDiscover URL Test Steps

Re: Upgrade to 2010 first?

2010-05-04 Thread Steve Ens
My suggestion would be to not rebuild the domain. What are the reasons behind this? On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Shields, Anthony < ashie...@epsteinatlanta.org> wrote: > Nearly every summer we rebuild our domain from scratch, including > Exchange. This year, we will be upgrading several th

RE: Setting up Active Sync on E2K10

2010-05-04 Thread John Bowles
My question to you is, why does it need port 443 open for the server hosting the domain evolvent.com? This is a seperate server than the server hosting autodiscovery. John Bowles From: Dan Cooper [d...@180amsterdam.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 10:29 AM To:

Upgrade to 2010 first?

2010-05-04 Thread Shields, Anthony
Nearly every summer we rebuild our domain from scratch, including Exchange. This year, we will be upgrading several things including Win2k8 R2 and E2k10 server. Typically when we do this, we exmerge the existing store - in this case a E2k7 - to PST files, which are then exmerged into the new s

Public folders won't all move for Exchange 2003-2007 migration

2010-05-04 Thread Ben N
So I'm following the steps to migrate from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007. I've done this successfully in my test environment, but my production environment just won't move the public folder replicas. I have confirmed that all my public folders only have my exch2007 as the only replica. The next s

RE: Attachment not visible

2010-05-04 Thread Liby Philip Mathew
Thanks for your response. I tried your suggestion. But no success. After some googling I found the article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961940/en-us. I guess it is something to do with the malformed MIME content as per the KB. This is only applicable to mails coming from one client. I do

RE: Setting up Active Sync on E2K10

2010-05-04 Thread Dan Cooper
Testing TCP Port 443 on host company.com to ensure it is listening and open. The specified port is either blocked, not listening, or not producing the expected response. Tell me more about this issue and how to resolve it Additional Details A network error occurred while communicating with re

RE: Setting up Active Sync on E2K10

2010-05-04 Thread John Bowles
Testing Exchange ActiveSync Exchange ActiveSync test Failed Test Steps Attempting AutoDiscover and Exchange ActiveSync Test (if requested) Failed to test AutoDiscover for Exchange ActiveSync Test Steps Attempting each method of contacting the AutoDiscover Service Failed to contact the AutoDi

RE: Setting up Active Sync on E2K10

2010-05-04 Thread Dan Cooper
try this site: https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/ Let us know what errors you get From: John Bowles [mailto:john.bow...@wlkmmas.org] Sent: dinsdag 4 mei 2010 15:35 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Setting up Active Sync on E2K10 I'm following this article when opening up ex

RE: Setting up Active Sync on E2K10

2010-05-04 Thread John Bowles
I'm following this article when opening up external ports... the ports are open for AS, AutoDisc etc. I'm just curious as to why it would work one day and not the next if no changes were made? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb331973.aspx John Bowles | 301.473.2260 ___

Setting up Active Sync on E2K10

2010-05-04 Thread John Bowles
All- I've setup AS on my E2K10 server. We were pointing all the devices to the externalURL on the CAS server. Everything was working fine, came in this morning and all the devices are not working. I blew away my account on my phone and then tried to set it back up, and I'm getting verificatio

RE: OWA 2003 Loading.(Somewhat fixed.)

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Johnson
I had a similar issue with urlscan many years ago where the trailing period "." Was in the ini and stopped attachment downloading. Very frustrating until I tracked it down and sorted it out. Got me a job offer though !!! :) Regards [cid:image001.jpg@01CAEB75.9F588500] Peter Johnson I.T Archite