RE: Exchange 2010 DAG and backup options/recommendations.

2010-07-28 Thread Matt Moore
I don't think I'd spend too much time studying storage vendors wares. They just aren't needed with 2010. 2010 is designed to use cheap big disks. DAG, DAG, DAG. Go simple. DL380 with a 40 drive box attached. One store per drive. It just doesn't get any easier than that. You just don't need E

Re: Exchange 2010 DAG and backup options/recommendations.

2010-07-28 Thread Sean Martin
I would spend some time and read the ESRP results from each of the storage vendors you entertain. There's some excellent data and very interesting results. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/bb412164.aspx Pay particular attention to each vendor's hardware configuration and compare that t

RE: Exchange 2007 Failure DSNs

2010-07-28 Thread Don Andrews
Recipient filtering at the front door - i.e. do not accept a message for a non-existent address. Once you accept a message for delivery you are technically obligated to either deliver or notify the sender of the failure. From: Tu, Kevin [mailto:k...@ccscorporati

Re: Exchange 2010 DAG and backup options/recommendations.

2010-07-28 Thread sms adm
You want dependability, performance, *and great support*. Netapp will be priced high, but won't come back with additional costs like EMC and IBM have been well known to do. Their support is EXCELLENT. Find a vendor that will give you great service. On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Sean Martin w

Re: Exchange 2010 DAG and backup options/recommendations.

2010-07-28 Thread Sean Martin
I would also look at the Dell/Equalogics. I keep hearing talk about them being one of the best performing iSCSI units out there, even compared to the big dogs like EMC and IBM. - Sean On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Pfefferkorn, Pete (pfeffepe) < pfeff...@ucmail.uc.edu> wrote: > We were loo

Re: Exchange 2010 DAG and backup options/recommendations.

2010-07-28 Thread sms adm
NetApp is outstanding. Whomever you choose should have a backup solution for you also. On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Jason Gurtz wrote: > Check out NetApp > > ~JasonG > > > -Original Message- > > From: Pfefferkorn, Pete (pfeffepe) [mailto:pfeff...@ucmail.uc.edu] > > Sent: Wednesday, J

RE: Exchange 2010 DAG and backup options/recommendations.

2010-07-28 Thread Jason Gurtz
Check out NetApp ~JasonG > -Original Message- > From: Pfefferkorn, Pete (pfeffepe) [mailto:pfeff...@ucmail.uc.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 16:30 > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 DAG and backup options/recommendations. > > We were looking at going with

RE: Exchange 2010 DAG and backup options/recommendations.

2010-07-28 Thread Pfefferkorn, Pete (pfeffepe)
We were looking at going with Dells Powervault MD3200's andMD1200's. But we are open to other vendors/options. Pete Pfefferkorn University of Cincinnati Email Services-Systems Engineer pete.pfefferk...@uc.edu (513)556-9076 From: sms adm [mailto:sms...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010

RE: Uninstalling Exchange 2003

2010-07-28 Thread Michael B. Smith
Can you remove the PF store? Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Paul Steele [mailto:paul.ste...@acadiau.ca] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 11:49 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Uninstalling Exchange 20

Re: Exchange 2010 DAG and backup options/recommendations.

2010-07-28 Thread sms adm
Who is your storage provider? I just attended an EMC presentation at the Netherlands Hotel in downtown Cinci for 2010, DAGs, and storage. Your storage provider SHOULD have a solution. On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Pfefferkorn, Pete (pfeffepe) < pfeff...@ucmail.uc.edu> wrote: > We are going t

Exchange 2010 DAG and backup options/recommendations.

2010-07-28 Thread Pfefferkorn, Pete (pfeffepe)
We are going to be moving to Exchange 2010. Basically we will have 14,000 users and will allow users to go up to 4 gig mailboxes. We will have 4 backends distributed between 2 on-site buildings for redundancy (power/network). We will also be deploying a DAG configuration with 2 copies per da

Exchange 2007 Failure DSNs

2010-07-28 Thread Tu, Kevin
Hello, It seems our Exchange server is bouncing DSNs (or Non-Delivery Notifications) to SPAM like emails. For example, if an email sent to an email address which does not exist, the Exchange server will bounce an Undeliverable notification to sender's address. Is this a concern and how to fix i

Choose an available room

2010-07-28 Thread Dan Abernathy
Hi all, Question from a new Exchange 2010 admin. I've set up a couple of "room" resource mailboxes representing our conference rooms. How do I make these appear in Outlook's Meeting Suggestion pane? I gather it's supposed to show rooms that have nothing on their calendars for the proposed date/

RE: Apple Most Vulnerable Platform: Report

2010-07-28 Thread Don Guyer
It was only AMOT seeing how many millions of Internet capable devices they've been selling for the past few years. Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 do

Re: Resolved: Exchange 2003 on non RAID 2 drive server. Exchange and store are on drive with bad sectors.

2010-07-28 Thread Stephan Barr
Thanks but not the first time by far. Still virtual and running great. P2V'd a DC as well. I'm now dangerous. Cheers. On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Peter Johnson wrote: > Cool!!! Well done or Bravo Zulu in Naval parlance. Did you leave it virtual > or did you move everything back? > > > > Qui

hol files compatable with Outlook 2003 and 2007?

2010-07-28 Thread Maglinger, Paul
Does anyone know if the same .hol file that works with Outlook 2003 will work with Outlook 2007? What about Outlook 2010? Has anyone had any success in pushing the .hol file down to their users?   Paul

Apple Most Vulnerable Platform: Report

2010-07-28 Thread Michael B. Smith
HAH. Love it. http://www.crn.com/security/226200083 Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com

RE: Exchange 2010 > Deliver to subfolder

2010-07-28 Thread Michael B. Smith
Third party or a transport agent. Check out slipstick.com. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: gro...@beachcomp.com [mailto:gro...@beachcomp.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 1:06 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2010

RE: Exchange 2003 on non RAID 2 drive server. Exchange and store are on drive with bad sectors.

2010-07-28 Thread Michael B. Smith
Sorry for delays in responding. I'm actually on vacation this week. Only looking at email once a day. Exchange 2003 supports a level of what's called "database portability", Exchange 2007 improved on this, and Exchange 2010 uses a completely different mapping mechanism. Regardless, a proper re

Uninstalling Exchange 2003

2010-07-28 Thread Paul Steele
The final step in our Exchange 2010 deployment is uninstalling Exchange 2003. I've completed all the other decommissioning steps (deleting routing groups, moving Public Folder replicas to the new server, and moving all mailboxes. When I try to uninstall Exchange 2003, I get the following error w

RE: Exchange 2003 on non RAID 2 drive server. Exchange and store are on drive with bad sectors.

2010-07-28 Thread Carl Houseman
You're right about the /disasterrecovery situation. On your question re: GUID mismatches, since MBS approved the idea and has also advised in the past, to uninstall and re-install Exchange around a dcpromo event, that a proper restore cares only about the server name and the availability of storag

RE: Faxing

2010-07-28 Thread Glen Johnson
Peter. Thanks for the reminder to check permissions. That was it, had forgotten to add anonymous as a contributor to the folder. All is good now. Glen. From: Dahl, Peter [mailto:peter.d...@yum.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 10:18 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Faxing I

RE: Resolved: Exchange 2003 on non RAID 2 drive server. Exchange and store are on drive with bad sectors.

2010-07-28 Thread Peter Johnson
Cool!!! Well done or Bravo Zulu in Naval parlance. Did you leave it virtual or did you move everything back? Quite an experience the first time you do it right? Regards [cid:image001.jpg@01CB2E74.374DA2F0] Peter Johnson I.T Architect United Kingdom: +44 1285 658542 South Africa: +27 11 252 1100

RE: Deleting a folder from all mailboxes

2010-07-28 Thread Michael B. Smith
Are you most interested in deleting the folder itself, or the contents of the folder? If it's the contents, you should be able to use a managed folder mailbox policy. For deleting the folder, you simply have to bind to the folder and then call the delete method. There is code for doing that in

Resolved: Exchange 2003 on non RAID 2 drive server. Exchange and store are on drive with bad sectors.

2010-07-28 Thread Stephan Barr
Complete. - Exchange 2003 fully patched on WIndows 2003 E fully patched installed on Dell SC1425 (1U 2 160GB SATA drives on SATA controller, No RAID) - Had a recent Acronis snapshot of the failing server - Deployed a virtual Exchange 2003 on HyperV 2008 - Moved all mailboxes to seco

RE: Deleting a folder from all mailboxes

2010-07-28 Thread greg.sweers
If you find the answer to that, please post. I have the same situation but with several sites that upgraded at one point and changed the name of the spam folders. Still using Vipre From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 8:49 AM To: MS-Exc

RE: Deleting a folder from all mailboxes

2010-07-28 Thread Campbell, Rob
I'd start by asking here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrdevelopment/threads If you're lucky Glen Scales will be lurking. From: Kretche, Peter [mailto:kretc...@uwgb.edu] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 7:41 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Deleting a folder fr

Deleting a folder from all mailboxes

2010-07-28 Thread Kretche, Peter
Does anyone know of a way to delete a folder in all mailboxes using Powershell? We used Sunbelt VIPRE (back to the days of iHateSpam) and we've since moved on to Forefront. If I ask users to delete the folder I expect very few will actually do it. I have a feeling deleting a folder in all mai

RE: Exchange 2003 on non RAID 2 drive server. Exchange and store are on drive with bad sectors.

2010-07-28 Thread Sobey, Richard A
Well, the OP said "uninstall and reinstall Exchange". If he uninstalls Exchange, the /DisasterRecovery switch will do no good at all. From: bounce-9034484-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto:bounce-9034484-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of Carl Houseman Sent: 27 July 2010

RE: Exchange 2010 > Deliver to subfolder

2010-07-28 Thread Neil Hobson
Might be worth checking out the New-InboxRule cmdlet in Exchange 2010. From: greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:greg.swe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: 28 July 2010 07:03 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2010 > Deliver to subfolder Good luck with that one. The manage g