DAG setup and configuration help needed

Good morning everyone For those who have had experience so far in setting up a DAG - whether it was for testing or production - I wonder if you could help me? I've been following the excellent instructions over at www.msexchange.org, beginning with part 1: http://www

RE: List Etiquette

Or, for those that can, simply set their own Out of Office not to go to external senders. I'm in the "don't give a cr$p" camp - OOO replies are just emails that take a few seconds to delete, or filter. Never been a problem. From: bounce-8945627-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto:bounce

Re: List Etiquette

If you've ever sent an email to the Patch Management list, you'd think 12 was a blessing. It may be better now, but it used to be terrible. On 31 May 2010 10:34, James Bensley wrote: > Can people on this list please think about amending their email > accounts; I am on a few mailing lists but th

RE: List Etiquette

When it's one email, that's fine. When you post something to the list and you get 10 out of office emails, then it's annoying. Not alone that sometimes they don't even have a cache implemented and keep on getting out of office emails even when i reply to the same thread. That's my definition of

RE: List Etiquette

I'm with you, Richard. I just delete them. I subscribe to a non-tech list for our hospital's HCIS. Sometimes I dread posting knowing I'm going to get 40+ OOF's. From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:r.so...@imperial.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 6:48 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: R

RE: DAG setup and configuration help needed

If you are running the DAG wizard/cmdlets on one of your exchange mailbox servers that will be in the DAG - then add the REMOTE ONE FIRST (there is a bug about the permissions associated with the CNO if you don't do it that way - alternately, run the wizard elsewhere). You don't say how/when yo

Beginning to Migrate from pop/smtp hosted to Exchange 2003 in house.

Yeah Me! Okay so you all have given me great direction. I am doing my testing right now. I have a 5 step process. 1. Route all smtp mail through my firewall then my Ironport then my Exchange Server. 2. Add smtp address to my user account in Exchange. 3. Migrate Ou

GAL and Free Busy Info Sync

I am looking for a tool that will sync GAL and Free/Busy info from a legacy Exchange 2003 forest to an Exchange 2010 Resource Forest. I am aware of the following tools: Quest Collaboration Services (Will be Q3 at the earliest this year before they have a product that works with Exchange 2010)

Re: Beginning to Migrate from pop/smtp hosted to Exchange 2003 in house.

DNS can take time to propagate, so your new MX record may take some time to be "known". I use a few DNS sites as well as query my ISP DNS servers. http://www.iptools.com/ http://www.mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx Hope this helps. Eric On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:15 AM, David McSpadden wrote: >

RE: Beginning to Migrate from pop/smtp hosted to Exchange 2003 in house.

Haven't gotten there yet. Still migrating and testing the setup of the user account. _ From: Eric [mailto:seag...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 11:23 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Beginning to Migrate from pop/smtp hosted to Exchange 2003 in house. DNS ca

RE: Beginning to Migrate from pop/smtp hosted to Exchange 2003 in house.

Have you tried telnet to port 25 on the Ironport, or using a PS script to send an email using the Ironport as a smarthost? PS script (V2) Send-mailmessage -smtpserver -to "" -from "" -subject "Test" -body "Test" PS script (V1) $mailhost = "" $from = "" $to = "" $subj = "Test" $body = "Test

RE: DAG setup and configuration help needed

Thanks! Sounds promising. I'm assigning the IP address using "Set-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup -DatabaseAvailabilityGroupIPv4Address " cmdlet, AFTER the two servers have been added as members. I should probably add the IP address immediately after creating the DAG, I presume? I'll do this now, yo

RE: DAG setup and configuration help needed

Replied offline with lab workbook. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:r.so...@imperial.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 11:51 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: DAG setup and configuration help needed

RE: DAG setup and configuration help needed

Whoopity-doo! Shook From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 11:57 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: DAG setup and configuration help needed Replied offline with lab workbook. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheE

RE: GAL and Free Busy Info Sync

Note that if you HAD an Exchange 2007 server in your forest, you could use it and still use iorepl. Also note that there are several bugfixes in 2010 sp1 regarding iorepl, but I still don't know if it will be supported. NETsec's version of GALSync is another one to look at. Did you and I talk

RE: DAG setup and configuration help needed

I appreciate it, even if you don't :) From: bounce-8946529-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto:bounce-8946529-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of Andy Shook Sent: 01 June 2010 17:00 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: DAG setup and configuration help needed Whoopity-

RE: DAG setup and configuration help needed

I appreciate the opportunity to bust on MBS when I can... Shook From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:r.so...@imperial.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 1:50 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: DAG setup and configuration help needed I appreciate it, even if you don't :) From: bounce-8946

OT - BES upgrade

Looking for any offers of advice or suggestions - I will be upgrading our BES server from 4.1 to 5.0 in preparation for our Exchange upgrade from 2003 to 2010. I have *no* experience with BES so I need to familiarize myself with it first and go from there. Lots to learn! Just wondering

Re: OT - BES upgrade

What version of 4.1? You'll need to upgrade to 4.1.7 first (DB changes) then 5. How many users? John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families From: Tammy George To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Sent: Tue Jun 01 13:55:48 2010 Subject: OT - BES up

RE: OT - BES upgrade

Version 4.1.6.10 and 36 users. From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: June 1, 2010 3:06 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - BES upgrade What version of 4.1? You'll need to upgrade to 4.1.7 first (DB changes) then 5. How many users? John W. Cook Systems Adm

Re: OT - BES upgrade

Running on server 2003? John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families From: Tammy George To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Sent: Tue Jun 01 14:12:12 2010 Subject: RE: OT - BES upgrade Version 4.1.6.10 and 36 users. From: John Cook [mailto:john

RE: OT - BES upgrade

Yes. From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: June 1, 2010 3:14 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - BES upgrade Running on server 2003? John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families From: Tammy George

Re: OT - BES upgrade

My advice, if you don't have to, don't do both upgrades at the same time. We did. didn't have any big issues with upgrade/installations, but it's a lot to take in for a busy production environment. you won't know till you in the middle of it what issues the exchange upgrade will present, especia

Re: OT - BES upgrade

Well I just suffered through this so here goes - do backups at every stage, set up a new server (2008 SP2 not R2) if at all possible and migrate users (RIM has a tool for this)between servers. Upgrades are rarely clean or pretty. Open a case with RIM prior to starting, it will help mitigate down

RE: OT - BES upgrade

Why not R2? Inquiring minds want to know…. Shook From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 2:27 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - BES upgrade Well I just suffered through this so here goes - do backups at every stage, set up a new server (2008 SP2

RE: OT - BES upgrade

Not supported. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Andy Shook [mailto:andy.sh...@peak10.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 2:29 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT - BES upgrade Why not R2? Inquiring minds want to know…. Shook

Re: OT - BES upgrade

RIM support told me I could run it on R2, but only with the most recent update. On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > Not supported. > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael B. Smith > > Consultant and Exchange MVP > > http://TheEssentialExchange.com > > > > *From:* Andy Shook [mailto

RE: OT - BES upgrade

Interesting... Could the new server be 2003 as opposed to 2008? From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: June 1, 2010 3:27 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - BES upgrade Well I just suffered through this so here goes - do backups at every stage, set up a

RE: OT - BES upgrade

Do you have a link? I called two weeks ago, and was told that R2 support wouldn't be coming until 5.0 sp2. Thanks. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Jeff Brown [mailto:2jbr...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 2:39 PM To: MS-Excha

RE: OT - BES upgrade

Same thing stated at WES as well...sp2 gets you R2, I think you can run but not officially supported, much like the SQL clustering, can run but not officially supported yet. And yes, the new can be 2003, we are currently in the same boat, exchange 2003 and BES 4.1.6, have a new environment

Re: OT - BES upgrade

As far as I know the only server product they are shy about is '08R2. It'll run on '03 just fine. On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Tammy George wrote: > Interesting... > > > > Could the new server be 2003 as opposed to 2008? > > > > > > > > *From:* John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] > *Sent:*

RE: OT - BES upgrade

What about an in-place upgrade? I've read about this in the Upgrade documentation. Has anyone tried this? From: Jeff Brown [mailto:2jbr...@gmail.com] Sent: June 1, 2010 3:48 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - BES upgrade As far as I know the only server product they are

Re: OT - BES upgrade

You can run it on 2003 just fine but going forward do you want to keep setting up 2003 servers knowing EOS is not that many years off? John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families From: Tammy George To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Sent: Tue Ju

Re: OT - BES upgrade

Michael, I may well be running in what is officially an "unsupported" environment, but they didn't refuse to help me, and we were able to resolve the issues I was having. I am not able to use AD to login the the BES management interface, as far as I know that is the only thing that doesn't work.

Re: OT - BES upgrade

They don't really publicize it, but RIM has a migration plan you can purchase. I think it costs $700, which I was willing to pay for the comfort , peace of mind and convenience. It basically allows you to have a second SRP ID and your new server and old server both connected to the BB network

RE: OT - BES upgrade

Good point - we are using this upgrade (BES 4.1.6 on 2003 to 5.0 on virtual w/2008) as an opportunity to clear out all the old "stuff" in the DB and old hardware/OS etc. Transporter should allow for simple move to all new environment (it says here in the fine print). __

Re: OT - BES upgrade

Sorry you had to pay, I got free support, do you not have T support? John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families From: Bill Humphries To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Sent: Tue Jun 01 15:21:07 2010 Subject: Re: OT - BES upgrade They don't real

RE: OT - BES upgrade

That's how I did it, but I didn't have to pay. It was free. From: Bill Humphries [mailto:nt...@hedgedigger.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 12:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - BES upgrade They don't really publicize it, but RIM has a migration plan you can purchase. I

Re: OT - BES upgrade

They let you have two SRPs at one time without paying? I know the transporter tools were free. We do have T support, but was told no multiple SRPs without buying another server license or this migration option. Martin Blackstone wrote: That's how I did it, but I didn't have to pay. It wa

RE: OT - BES upgrade

I have just done a 400 user migration. All I did was download the evaluation from RIM, entered the trial key. Then used the CALs from the live environment on the new environment and the transporter suite to move the users. Completely transparent to them that anything changed. The only thing I did

Re: OT - BES upgrade

I too was given a 90 day temporary SRP. All I did was ask. It only came with 5 CALS and would not allow me to transfer my "NON-temp" CAL's to it. On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Bill Humphries wrote: > They let you have two SRPs at one time without paying? I know the > transporter tools were

Several NDR's

We have a user that has been receiving hundreds of the following NDR's. The date sent on the message show yesterday which was a holiday. The user did not loogn to her OWA or was not on her computer email at all yesterday. Any ideas would be appreciated. Check machine for virus, spyware, etc.

RE: Several NDR's

google "joe job" ...Tim -Original Message- From: Brent Zalewski [mailto:bzalew...@comcast.net] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 1:26 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Several NDR's We have a user that has been receiving hundreds of the following NDR's. The date sent on the message

email displayed names

I'm not even sure how to ask this exactly, so bear with the rambling... We've always had names in AD and in the GAL displayed as Last name, First name. So, when a email message was sent outside the company, names appeared as Last Name, First name mailto:em...@company.com>>. I was asked to chang

RE: OT - BES upgrade

There is a trick to allow you to use production CALs with a T SRP. Overtype the first CAL with a production CAL. Then you can add the rest of the CALs to the server. I was running with 400 CALs on both servers for over a week when I did the migration I mentioned earlier in the thread. Simon. Fr

RE: email displayed names

What's the format on the "DisplaySpecifiers" versus the one in the "displayName"? I don't recall seen what you exposed here ~D~ From: Jeff Jackson [mailto:jeff.jack...@rbza.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 3:32 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: email displayed names I'm not eve

RE: email displayed names

How do I find the format on "DisplaySpecifiers", please? If it's what I think it is, it is currently Lastname, Firstname, but I've had it set both ways. The "displayName" is set to Firstname Lastname, this is what I changed to get the displayed name in emails to appear Firstname Lastname mailto

RE: email displayed names

You might want to look at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/250455 Regards, ~D~ From: Jackson, Jeff [mailto:jeff.jack...@rbza.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 5:04 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: email displayed names How do I find the format on "DisplaySpecifiers", please?