RE: MaxSendSize Question

2010-11-03 Thread Michael B. Smith
That's not set by Exchange on mailboxes unless manually set (or set by an external provisioning system). Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Wayne Dueck [mailto:wayne.l.du...@state.or.us] Sent: Tuesday,

RE: Which files to backup on Exchange 2k7

2010-11-03 Thread Michael B. Smith
Exchange 2007 depends on the registry, configuration files in the Exchange directory (both for .NET and straight config files), and database content. There are KB articles that define what you theoretically need. But they are, unfortunately, incomplete (altho they may have been accurate at the

Mailbox Expansion During Upgrade?

2010-11-03 Thread Phil Hershey
Quick question, folks. I've heard from a couple of sources that when upgrading from Exchange 2003 to 2010 that the mailboxes will double in size. Is this correct? I'm trying to provision new servers with storage to last us 3-5 years. J Thanks. Philip --- To manage subscriptions

RE: Mailbox Expansion During Upgrade?

2010-11-03 Thread Sobey, Richard A
Some sort of Chinese whisper going on? Or are people referring to Single Item Recovery making mailboxes bigger as the months roll by after a migration.. Richard From: bounce-9158637-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto:bounce-9158637-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of Phil

RE: Mailbox Expansion During Upgrade?

2010-11-03 Thread Paul Hutchings
They probably mean because you lose Single Instance Storage. Not sure what the average numbers are but from what I've seen (we'll be doing this ourselves in a few months) doubling is very unlikely. From: Phil Hershey [mailto:phers...@agia.com] Sent: 03 November 2010 13:26 To: MS-Exchange

Re: Mailbox Expansion During Upgrade?

2010-11-03 Thread Richard Stovall
I would think that part of it has to do with the move away from SIS in 2010. That's just a semi-educated guess based on conversations here. On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Sobey, Richard A r.so...@imperial.ac.ukwrote: Some sort of Chinese whisper going on? Or are people referring to Single

RE: Mailbox Expansion During Upgrade?

2010-11-03 Thread Phil Hershey
Thanks, Richard. I'll bet the reference is to down-time bloat due to the new Dumpster functionality. My concern was that a large mailbox was going to double in size at the moment of migration. If this was a truly dumb questions, my bad. I go off to E2010 training in 10 days. Philip

RE: Mailbox Expansion During Upgrade?

2010-11-03 Thread Sobey, Richard A
Not a dumb question by any means :) Enjoy your training. From: bounce-9158653-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto:bounce-9158653-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of Phil Hershey Sent: 03 November 2010 13:39 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mailbox Expansion During

RE: Mailbox Expansion During Upgrade?

2010-11-03 Thread Simon Butler
I know where this thought of mailbox size doubling may have come from. If you compare the size of the mailbox in ESM with the size of the mailbox as displayed in Exchange Management Console, then it will be very different. The reason for this is that ESM doesn't report the true size of the

RE: Mailbox Expansion During Upgrade?

2010-11-03 Thread Peter Johnson
I’ve asked the question and was told the MS themselves saw a 20% increase in DB size on their migrations. Regards [cid:image001.jpg@01CB7B6D.5FCE2BF0] Peter Johnson I.T Architect United Kingdom: +44 1285 658542 South Africa: +27 11 252 1100 Swaziland: +268 442 7000 Fax:+27 11 974 7130 Mobile:

Disclaimers

2010-11-03 Thread Dennis Melahn
These were all the rage 5 years ago but I see them less and less these days. Still a necessary evil? Anyone still using them? Thanks, Dennis --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com

Re: Disclaimers

2010-11-03 Thread Chipshead
Still use them. Exchange 2010 makes it fairly easy. They are required in my enviroment (legal). - Original Message - From: Dennis Melahn den...@advancedav.com To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 9:48:34 AM Subject:

RE: Disclaimers

2010-11-03 Thread Paul Hutchings
Honestly I've yet to encounter a single techie who thinks they do anything worthwhile, it always comes down to our lawyers said we should. -Original Message- From: Dennis Melahn [mailto:den...@advancedav.com] Sent: 03 November 2010 13:49 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Disclaimers

RE: Disclaimers

2010-11-03 Thread Jason Gurtz
Still as meaningless and UN-necessary as ever! Unfortunately yes, many still do it. ~JasonG ** DISCLAIMER ** If there is any other disclaimer or legal notice in this posting, it is hereby declared NULL and VOID; you may safely ignore that content. This disclaimer supersedes all other

Re: Disclaimers

2010-11-03 Thread Jonathan Link
You are kidding, right? This list is lousy with them and other signature bloat. On Wednesday, November 3, 2010, Dennis Melahn den...@advancedav.com wrote: These were all the rage 5 years ago but I see them less and less these days.   Still a necessary evil?  Anyone still using them? Thanks,

RE: Disclaimers

2010-11-03 Thread Ellis, John P.
We still have them on our gateway box. John -Original Message- From: Dennis Melahn [mailto:den...@advancedav.com] Sent: 03 November 2010 13:49 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Disclaimers These were all the rage 5 years ago but I see them less and less these days. Still a

Re: Disclaimers

2010-11-03 Thread James Rankin
Does the same go for logon warnings? We still find ourselves obliged to put these in place so that users can't claim they didn't know we'd be spying on them, but I'm not sure there is actually any legal precedent for it. On 3 November 2010 13:53, Paul Hutchings paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk wrote:

Re: Disclaimers

2010-11-03 Thread Chris
The great thing about disclaimers for 2007 and 2010 is that you can use 1 disclaimer for internal emails and 1 for external emails. Since I run the IT department here, the IT staff runs a disclaimer for internal emails that talks about how and when to contact tech support. The external email

RE: Mailbox Expansion During Upgrade?

2010-11-03 Thread Phil Hershey
Thank you, Simon. That means my executives with 5-10 GB mailboxes have even more junk they're unable or unwilling to delete than even I thought. If only we could get buy-in on enforcing some policies. J Philip From: Simon Butler [mailto:si...@sembee.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, November

Written by a lawyer

2010-11-03 Thread Jason Gurtz
Please do the world a favor and tell YOUR lawyer to take a lookie http://arborlaw.biz/blog/2007/07/19/legal-issues-in-email-disclaimers/ Since it's predictably non-terse here's the key takeaways: A disclaimer COULD POSSIBLY serve as (legal) notice that protection of info was attempted (and

Re: Disclaimers

2010-11-03 Thread James Bensley
They are a great big-old-load of bobbins -- Regards, James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/ There are 10 kinds of people in the world; Those who understand Vigesimal, and J others...? --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to

Re: Disclaimers

2010-11-03 Thread Jonathan Link
I'd say a better method (of covering yourself) would be having it as part of the employee/personnell handbook and having them sign of as having read/received the handbook. On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:57 AM, James Rankin kz2...@googlemail.com wrote: Does the same go for logon warnings? We still

Ironport - Zix - PGP or?

2010-11-03 Thread Chipshead
I'm exploring email encryption solutions for HIPAA compliance. I'm interested in opinions on solutions with specific focus on the the recipient's experience upon delivery of an encrypted email. An Ironport appliance is intriguing because it appears I can incorporate both anti-spam and

Re: Written by a lawyer

2010-11-03 Thread James Bensley
I didn't finish reading that article because there is no grounds for legal action depending on the information disclosed (I believe). For example: it is my understanding that if I emailed you details on a shared customer of ours, in particular some personal details subject to The Data Protection

RE: Ironport - Zix - PGP or?

2010-11-03 Thread Jim Holmgren
We use Zix. Check with your business partners, we’ve found that many of ours are already using Zix, so it is practically a no-brainer. Jim Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD

RE: Ironport - Zix - PGP or?

2010-11-03 Thread David Mazzaccaro
Zix (through MessageLabs) MEssagelabs also does our anti-spam, anti-virus, and content filtering. From: Jim Holmgren [mailto:jholmg...@xlhealth.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 10:40 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ironport - Zix - PGP or? We use Zix. Check with

RE: Ironport - Zix - PGP or?

2010-11-03 Thread Ellis, John P.
We use PGP Universal server and works OK for us. Messages don't actually leave the business as such, they are held on a secure portal. It also does have the ability to have additional applications installed to it, ie Whole disc encryption, PDF messenger(secure PDFs) John

Re: Which files to backup on Exchange 2k7

2010-11-03 Thread Bill Songstad
If you use the SBS applications for managing the server, backing up exchange is a snap. Just use the built-in app. I can't remember the tab but it is in that little application unique to SBS for managing all the SBS stuff in one place. Using the standard WS2K8 stuff is much more difficult.

RE: Which files to backup on Exchange 2k7

2010-11-03 Thread KevinM
I wrote those topics.. they were accurate at RTM... = ] I can't speak to them now, but they were then. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 12:12 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Which files to backup on Exchange 2k7 Exchange 2007

RE: Power Shell Title Attribute

2010-11-03 Thread Campbell, Rob
There's not another name, get-mailbox just doesn't return it as a property. Get-user does, however. This will work for getting the title added to a console display: [PS] C:\Get-Mailbox name | ft Name,DistinguishedName,Server,Database,@{label = Title;expression = {(get-user

RE: Ironport - Zix - PGP or?

2010-11-03 Thread Chinnery, Paul
+1 We just went with Zix about 6 weeks ago. Works pretty good for us. However, you should know that the Subject line is not encrypted so PHI shouldn't be included in the subject line. We ran into this when we were testing sending Lab reports to providers (instead of faxing) and had to make a

Re: Ironport - Zix - PGP or?

2010-11-03 Thread Chipshead
Using for encrypting emails with PHI. - Original Message - From: Paul Chinnery PaulC @ mmcwm .com To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist @ lyris .sunbelt-software.com Sent: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 12:42:50 PM Subject: RE: Ironport - Zix - PGP or? +1 We just went with

Weird exchange issue

2010-11-03 Thread Colin McDerment (RCUK SSC Ltd, ISS)
I've searched for this but haven't found an answer. And I apologize at the start that this will probably go on... We wanted to create more secure connectors on our exchange 2007 servers as we only had a default one (accepting from any IP) and also a External Relay Connector (for use of our

RE: Ironport - Zix - PGP or?

2010-11-03 Thread Phil Hershey
We tried out an IronPort unit, and now we’re going to purchase 2 of them. We needed to start implementing encryption for HIPAA purposes between us and insurance carriers, as we’re a 3rd party insurance administration company. We like the idea of offloading the TLS overhead from the Exchange

DL's in 2010sp1

2010-11-03 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I have a few Dynamic DL's which work fine using OPath query's. These aren't externally available as my recip policy filters on an AD attribute, but they don't need to be. Now I need a few DL's that are externally available via email where membership is fairly static but I can't see how these

RE: DL's in 2010sp1

2010-11-03 Thread Michael B. Smith
Manually specify the external SMTP address and turn off Automatically update e-mail addresses based on e-mail policy. Don't overthink it. :) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent:

Another Noob Question

2010-11-03 Thread Phil Hershey
Sorry, but I've got another basic question. Can't wait to actually get my training. In our environment only the MS Forefront Online Protection Server are allowed to 'touch' our email servers to deliver messages. We don't have a formal DMZ per se, but all the servers sit behind Cisco firewall

RE: Another Noob Question

2010-11-03 Thread Michael B. Smith
You don't need Edge servers if you are running FOPE. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Phil Hershey [mailto:phers...@agia.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 4:45 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Another Noob Question Sorry,

RE: DL's in 2010sp1

2010-11-03 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Lol, I'm so dumb... Thanks Michael! jlc From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 2:32 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: DL's in 2010sp1 Manually specify the external SMTP address and turn off Automatically update e-mail addresses based

RE: Another Noob Question

2010-11-03 Thread Phil Hershey
Thank you, Michael. Excellent news. I can spend the money for 2 DL320's on more drives for the DL385's. J Appreciate your blog by the way. Too bad you're not in the Santa Barbara area. Philip From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 03,