RE: Email to SMS

2011-01-18 Thread Paul Cookman
Thank you guys for all your input. Kindest regards, Paul. -Original Message- From: James Bensley [mailto:jwbens...@gmail.com] Sent: 17 January 2011 22:14 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Email to SMS I've seen this before; http://www.esendex.co.uk/Services/Email-SMS But I

RE: Exchange 2007 statistics?

2011-01-18 Thread Neil Hobson
Why not use the Exchange Profile Analyzer? It's a free download from Microsoft. Here are the details on what it can do (about half-way down are the details on what it collects): http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb508856(EXCHG.65).aspx From: Leedy, Andy

Re: Exchange server went for a swim, now need to restore

2011-01-18 Thread James Hill
Exchange is back online and seems to be running smoothly. Thank you to all for your assistance! On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.comwrote: As long as you have the same SP, you’ll be good. After all is said and done, of course – patch to current.

Meeting room resources and user leaves

2011-01-18 Thread Fergal O'Connell
Hi, Exchange 2007 Sp1 - Outlook 2007 Sp2 I have this setup in a test environment before I go live and have noticed the following - User A creates a meeting and books Room A as resource. If I delete User A from both AD and the mailbox the meeting still exists in the Meeting Resource. Is this

RE: Exchange 2007 statistics?

2011-01-18 Thread Leedy, Andy
Thanks! Exchange Profile Analyzer looks awesome. I'll give it a try. -Andy From: Neil Hobson [mailto:nhob...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 3:44 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 statistics? Why not use the Exchange Profile Analyzer? It's a free download

RE: Meeting room resources and user leaves

2011-01-18 Thread Nicholas Turner
Just think of rooms as just another person coming along to the meeting, so by design it will stay even if the other attendees all are removed. Certainly this was/is the case in 2007. From: Fergal O'Connell [mailto:foconn...@curamsoftware.com] Sent: 18 January 2011 12:31 To: MS-Exchange Admin

Re: Exchange server went for a swim, now need to restore

2011-01-18 Thread Bill Humphries
congrats! James Hill wrote: Exchange is back online and seems to be running smoothly. Thank you to all for your assistance! On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com mailto:mich...@smithcons.com wrote: As long as you have the same SP, you’ll be good.

database size vs mailbox size

2011-01-18 Thread Bill Humphries
Hi all, Can anyone help me solve a mystery? Exchange 2010 small implementation. 30 users. When I run a script to get mailbox sizes all mailboxes add up to less than 12 gigs. We have default retention policy enabled that keeps deleted items for 14 days. the database management tick box is

RE: Meeting room resources and user leaves

2011-01-18 Thread Fergal O'Connell
Is that the expected behaviour? If so I'll press on. From: Nicholas Turner [mailto:ntur...@caci.co.uk] Sent: 18 January 2011 13:50 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Meeting room resources and user leaves Just think of rooms as just another person coming along to the meeting, so by

RE: database size vs mailbox size

2011-01-18 Thread Michael B. Smith
Check out 1221 for ESE in the Application log to see how much white space you have. Also: Get-mailbox -resultsize unlimited | get-mailboxstatistics | select DisplayName, TotalDeletedItemSize, TotalItemSize will provide you with more details... Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant

Re: database size vs mailbox size

2011-01-18 Thread Bill Humphries
Thanks, Michael. I do not see any 1221 events in the application log, but I ran this: Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | FL AvailableNewMailboxSpace and it replied 10.34 GB. I also have one user that shows 20 GB in totsldeleteditemd and one user with 7 GB. If I set their retention policy to 0

RE: database size vs mailbox size

2011-01-18 Thread Michael B. Smith
. If I set their retention policy to 0 days will that free up that space sometime today? It will free it up the next time white space consolidation completes running. That's generally within 24 hours. That will just increase AvailableNewMailboxSpace. Is there an actual problem you are

partial DAG restore, two of four dbs, sanity check

2011-01-18 Thread Rick Berry
Had a spate of drive failures across a three-server DAG last week (poweredge t710 firmware took out four drives across three machines inside of 24 hour period). I'm back up and running/healed ... but on one of the three, they'd like to take the opportunity to test their Backup Exec 2010

RE: partial DAG restore, two of four dbs, sanity check

2011-01-18 Thread Michael B. Smith
Google for dag offline seed Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Rick Berry [mailto:rbe...@elevativenetworks.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 3:56 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: partial DAG

RE: Report on opened emails

2011-01-18 Thread Missy Koslosky
Nope. From: Chris Blair [mailto:chris_bl...@identisys.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 4:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Report on opened emails Looking to see if a user has opened a specific email or not. Beyond read receipts, is there a report that can be run on the server

RE: Report on opened emails

2011-01-18 Thread Michael B. Smith
What does opened mean? It would be possible to develop an application that tells you whether or not an email message is in a read or an unread state. That's about it. And there is no built-in mechanism for that. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP

RE: Some recipients of a DL not getting mail

2011-01-18 Thread Michael B. Smith
That's where you start. After that, you look at connection logs, if necessary; and SMTP logs if you have them set up. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011

RE: Some recipients of a DL not getting mail

2011-01-18 Thread Campbell, Rob
If he's only complaining about not getting external email, you might check that DL and see if it's set to only accept mail from authenticated senders. From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 6:24 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Some

Completely Removing Exchange

2011-01-18 Thread Bonnie Miller
Where my DH works, they have completed a migration of all mail from an old Exchange 2003 A/P cluster to Google Apps. There are no more mailboxes on the server(s) and no mail services are using or otherwise routing through the Exchange server(s). He is wondering if there could be any problems in

RE: Some recipients of a DL not getting mail

2011-01-18 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Thanks Michael and Rob, He's done for the day and I couldn't confirm but what I gathered was he is the only one not getting copies from outside people, the other dl members are. I looked at the tracking logs and it resolves his address as a dl member, I think he's f-o-s:) I chase him down

RE: Completely Removing Exchange

2011-01-18 Thread greg.sweers
Just perform an uninstall, it will want the CD in the drive and be done with it. If there is a problem.. Refer... http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Remove-Exchange-server-entire-Exchange-organization.html Greg Sweers CEO ACTS360.comhttp://www.acts360.com/ P.O. Box 1193 Brandon, FL 33509

Re: Completely Removing Exchange

2011-01-18 Thread Bonnie Miller
He was saying something about not being able to run the uninstaller because there is no server to move the RUS to.. not sure if he's tried it yet though--just doing a lot of reading first. I do believe that is the same link he was looking at. 's been so long since I've looked at 2k3, and we were

RE: Report on opened emails

2011-01-18 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Probably not what you want to do but in the future you could hit it with a web bug. But annoying as heck to do on a day to day basis for a regular user. I have a sinking suspicion that this is a manager/employee behavior/trust issue and really isn't a technological problem. :) From: Chris

Re: database size vs mailbox size

2011-01-18 Thread Bill Humphries
I am wanting to test an online backup solution, so I want to minimize space. This is the same server that also has the runaway transaction logs creating up to 80 gigs a week in transaction logs. Thnaks. Bill Michael B. Smith wrote: . If I set their retention policy to 0 days will that