RE: Exchange 2010 SP1 Anti-Spam

2011-09-30 Thread Sobey, Richard A
Thanks for the advice gents. And yes, if there are any tuning options, like teaching Exchange what it's missed, that could be useful. Richard From: bounce-9428077-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto:bounce-9428077-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of HELP_PC Sent: 30 Septembe

Re: Theoretical maximum message size in E2k3?

2011-09-30 Thread Tony Patton
Meant to add that my google-fI has failed me on this and i've tried reading the e2k3 technical reference, but only came across the database size limits. T Typed slowly on HTC Desire On Sep 30, 2011 12:51 PM, "Tony Patton" wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've just been asked by a customer that if we remov

RE: Theoretical maximum message size in E2k3?

2011-09-30 Thread Sobey, Richard A
Does SMTP /have/ a theoretical limit on the size of a message? You'll hit technical limits (imposed by organisations/servers over which you have no control) far quicker though. Richard From: bounce-9428438-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto:bounce-9428438-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software

RE: Theoretical maximum message size in E2k3?

2011-09-30 Thread Michael B. Smith
The technical limits are likely to be on the e2k3 server itself. Remember, Exchange 2003 is a 32-bit application and is limited to 4GB RAM and the store consumes most of the RAM on that server. You can have a look at the Technical Reference Guide for the transport layout for the WHY, but you'll

RE: Exchange 2010 SP1 Anti-Spam

2011-09-30 Thread Michael B. Smith
I use xbl and sbl from spamhaus.org and have recipient filtering turned on and enable the junk mail filter in Outlook. I may get a spam message every other day (and I get hundreds of real emails every day, and my email addresses are posted on websites for easy harvesting). The next thing I woul

Re: Theoretical maximum message size in E2k3?

2011-09-30 Thread Richard Sobey
On 30/09/2011 13:28, Michael B. Smith wrote: The effective limit is going to be different on just about every server. There is no theoretical limit that I am aware of. But I’ve seen 150 MB messages crash Exchange 2003 servers because Exchange 2003 does not deal very well with running out of memo

RE: Theoretical maximum message size in E2k3?

2011-09-30 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I've seen a 1GB message crash an Ex2003 server. It's not pretty :) I had an astute user interested in doing non paid work from home by means of reading help files take the entire autocad dir under program files and drag into an email. There were a few log files made for a "short" interval while t

RE: Theoretical maximum message size in E2k3?

2011-09-30 Thread Michael B. Smith
Yes; it changed with Outlook 2007 sp1 and Exchange 2007 (I don't remember which sp). Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 9:09

RE: Confused by Calendar Repair options

2011-09-30 Thread Sobey, Richard A
Sorry, one other thing. Does this mean Calendar repair is NOT currently running on my server? CalendarRepairWorkCycle: CalendarRepairWorkCycleCheckpoint : CalendarRepairSchedule : {} CalendarRepairMissingItemFixDisabled : False CalendarRepairLogEnabled

FW: Retention policy to purge Deleted Items folder

2011-09-30 Thread Maglinger, Paul
Anyone? -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 5:02 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Retention policy to purge Deleted Items folder We have moved a few pilot users over to Exchange 2010. We have a retention tag t

RE: Theoretical maximum message size in E2k3?

2011-09-30 Thread KevinM
I had a customer in the past who regularly sent 4-5GB emails. The only issue was a backup of Transport behind the large message. From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:r.so...@imperial.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 4:56 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Theoretical maximum message si

Re: Theoretical maximum message size in E2k3?

2011-09-30 Thread David Liu
MBS, pardon my ignorance, VLF? On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > The technical limits are likely to be on the e2k3 server itself. > > ** ** > > Remember, Exchange 2003 is a 32-bit application and is limited to 4GB RAM > and the store consumes most of the RAM on that

RE: Theoretical maximum message size in E2k3?

2011-09-30 Thread Sobey, Richard A
Very Large Files? From: bounce-9428843-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto:bounce-9428843-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of David Liu Sent: 30 September 2011 16:16 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Theoretical maximum message size in E2k3? MBS, pardon my ignorance,

RE: Theoretical maximum message size in E2k3?

2011-09-30 Thread PRamatowski
Very Large File (IMHO) TGIF. Srsly. From: David Liu [mailto:ganymed...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 11:16 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Theoretical maximum message size in E2k3? MBS, pardon my ignorance, VLF? On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Michael B. Smith mailto

Re: Theoretical maximum message size in E2k3?

2011-09-30 Thread David Liu
Ha, all this leetspeak. :) Thanks On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Sobey, Richard A wrote: > Very Large Files? > > ** ** > > *From:* bounce-9428843-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto: > bounce-9428843-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] *On Behalf Of *David > Liu > *Sent:* 30 Septe

RE: Retention policy to purge Deleted Items folder

2011-09-30 Thread PRamatowski
Only a wag because I'm not sure on what level(s) this applies... But in Database properties, limits tab, Deletion settings is Don't permanently delete... checked or not? -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 10:50 AM To: M

Re: Theoretical maximum message size in E2k3?

2011-09-30 Thread Jonathan Link
Amen to the TGIF On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:25 AM, wrote: > Very Large File (IMHO) > > ** ** > > TGIF. Srsly. > > ** ** > > *From:* David Liu [mailto:ganymed...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, September 30, 2011 11:16 AM > > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Theoretical maxim

RE: Retention policy to purge Deleted Items folder

2011-09-30 Thread Maglinger, Paul
Not checked. -Original Message- From: pramatow...@mediageneral.com [mailto:pramatow...@mediageneral.com] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 10:28 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Retention policy to purge Deleted Items folder Only a wag because I'm not sure on what level(s) thi

RE: Retention policy to purge Deleted Items folder

2011-09-30 Thread Beckers, Shawn (IT Services)
When using Outlook 2010 or OWA to view the message that should have been removed, does it say the message has expired near the top of the message? If not, maybe the Managed Folder Assistant (MFA) hasn't run against your mailbox. You can force it to run against a chosen mailbox immediately inst

RE: Retention policy to purge Deleted Items folder

2011-09-30 Thread Maglinger, Paul
Thanks Shawn. That was a good link, and actually led me to some other resources on the subject. I had to read through them several times and it makes a little better sense, but now my head hurts. -Original Message- From: Beckers, Shawn (IT Services) [mailto:sbeck...@csbsju.edu] Sent:

Re: Here's an easy one I hope for Friday: arbitration/system mailbox move in Ex2k10

2011-09-30 Thread Dahl, Peter
Similar installation scenario here where I renamed the default database and I found that I was able to find a system mailbox through Exchange Management Console that did not show up in the shell. I was very surprised but it may be worth trying from the console. I set a filter for the specific

RE: Theoretical maximum message size in E2k3?

2011-09-30 Thread Michael B. Smith
Indeed. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:r.so...@imperial.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 11:23 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Theoretical maximum message size in E2k3? Very Large Files? F

RE: Confused by Calendar Repair options

2011-09-30 Thread Michael B. Smith
Correct. The first two must be non-null for the CRA to run. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:r.so...@imperial.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 10:35 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Confused by

RE: Retention policy to purge Deleted Items folder

2011-09-30 Thread Rupprecht, James R
Brian's post is how it is supposed to work, but is not how it works in reality. >From Brian: Example when an item is moved to DI from a folder w/o a RPT or DPT... 1. Item comes into Inbox on 1/24/2010 and Inbox has no RPT/DPT. No Start Date is stamped, Start Date remains $Null. 2. The

Exchange 2007/2010 Issue with IMAP / TMG Redirection Rule

2011-09-30 Thread Steven Alfano
We are having issues with IMAP clients (various clients on various OS's) connecting to Exchange 2007 CAS and mailbox servers when we change our TMG rule to redirect clients to our 2010 CAS in preparation for an eventual migration to Exchange 2010. Currently there is a single external entry poin

Re: Here's an easy one I hope for Friday: arbitration/system mailbox move in Ex2k10

2011-09-30 Thread David Liu
thanks for the quick response Peter. I set the filter for user mailbox on the said server & can't see anything. However, I did find in the Disconnected mailbox a DiscoverySearchMailbox {D919BA05-46A6-415f-80AD-7E09334BB852} & the admin acct used to install Ex2k10. Now here's the interesting thing:

Automatically Sending an e-mail on a regular bases

2011-09-30 Thread Stefan Jafs
People seem to forget things so the President suggest a particular e-mail to be sent out automatically every 3 months to the whole company (250 users). Is there a way in Outlook 2010, E2K7, or do we need a 3rd party solution? I know a secretary can schedule a Task and do it manually but is there a

Re: Automatically Sending an e-mail on a regular bases

2011-09-30 Thread Jonathan Link
Blat, scheduled task? On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Stefan Jafs wrote: > People seem to forget things so the President suggest a particular e-mail > to be sent out automatically every 3 months to the whole company (250 > users). > Is there a way in Outlook 2010, E2K7, or do we need a 3rd pa

RE: Automatically Sending an e-mail on a regular bases

2011-09-30 Thread Beckers, Shawn (IT Services)
We use a scheduled PowerShell script to do something similar. A snip of the code is below. A Google search on System.Net.Mail.MailMessage should give you more detailed examples and more options... $SmtpObject = New-Object System.Net.Mail.SMTPClient(PutSmtpServerNameHere, PutSmtpServerPortHere

RE: Exchange 2007/2010 Issue with IMAP / TMG Redirection Rule

2011-09-30 Thread Michael B. Smith
I'm pretty sure this was corrected in the latest 2010 sp1 rollup. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Steven Alfano [mailto:salf...@mail.rockefeller.edu] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 2:43 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchang

RE: Automatically Sending an e-mail on a regular bases

2011-09-30 Thread Campbell, Rob
Don't need blat any more. Just use send-mailmessage in a Powershell script. Schedule it on a hub transport server, and use localhost as the smtp server. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 2:51 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Automat

Re: Automatically Sending an e-mail on a regular bases

2011-09-30 Thread Jonathan Link
Doh. On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Campbell, Rob < rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net> wrote: > Don’t need blat any more. Just use send-mailmessage in a Powershell > script. > > ** ** > > Schedule it on a hub transport server, and use localhost as the smtp > server. > > ** ** > > *Fr

Re: Automatically Sending an e-mail on a regular bases

2011-09-30 Thread Stefan Jafs
Perfect, scheduled manually for next weeks to do. Stefan On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Campbell, Rob < rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net> wrote: > Don’t need blat any more. Just use send-mailmessage in a Powershell > script. > > ** ** > > Schedule it on a hub transport server, and use

RE: Message reply for retiring domain

2011-09-30 Thread Michael B. Smith
You could write a transport sink to emulate a catchall mailbox; but it isn't worth the overhead (IMO). I realize this isn't an Exchange solution, but it's an EASY solution: transfer the domain to GoDaddy and use their built-in catchall solution. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchang

RE: Message reply for retiring domain

2011-09-30 Thread Young, Darren
.edu can't transfer from EDUCAUSE. Good general idea though, I know some people there. I'll see if they have any options since they're the ones forcing the retirement of the old domain. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 3:15 PM To: MS-Exchange

Re: Exchange 2007/2010 Issue with IMAP / TMG Redirection Rule

2011-09-30 Thread Tom Kern
Make certain the LoginTypes match between Ex2k7 and Ex2k10 IMAP settings. On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Steven Alfano wrote: > We are having issues with IMAP clients (various clients on various OS’s) > connecting to Exchange 2007 CAS and mailbox servers when we change our TMG > rule to red

RE: Message reply for retiring domain

2011-09-30 Thread Campbell, Rob
I'd use a PS script and the EWS managed API. If you set it up right, you might be able to use a single transport rule doing a pattern match on the To: address, and copy them all to one mailbox. The script could read the messages, send a customized response based on the recipient address, and

RE: Message reply for retiring domain

2011-09-30 Thread Michael B. Smith
Sorry, I didn't know that fact! Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Young, Darren [mailto:darren.yo...@chicagobooth.edu] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 4:46 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Message reply for retiring domain .

RE: Message reply for retiring domain

2011-09-30 Thread Young, Darren
Salright. Their policy is one .edu per organization however there are some grandfathering rules prior to 2001 or something. Large donor in 2008 = name change but is *after* the single name policy. I think they allow a 1-2 year transition but somehow we talked them into 3. Can't talk them into

RE: Message reply for retiring domain

2011-09-30 Thread Michael B. Smith
Interesting. I work with three University clients. They all have multiple EDU names. That being said - they've been around a LONG time. :) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Young, Darren [mailto:darren.yo...@chicagobooth.edu] Sent: Frid

Re: 2003 to 2010 Public Folder question

2011-09-30 Thread David Liu
So I guess the step .\AddReplicaToPFRecursive.ps1 -TopPublicFolder "\NON_IPM_SUBTREE" -Recurse -ServerToAdd was then unnecessary since all our clients are OL2k7/2k10/2011/Entourage 2008? On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > All of them, if you have ANY Outlook 2003.

RE: SBS2003 to 2011 migration

2011-09-30 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Once I got on site it was easy to see, the receive connector had the wrong remote network acl’s. Thanks! jlc From: Steve Ens [mailto:stevey...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 7:17 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: SBS2003 to 2011 migration Joe, sounds like the firewall

Re: Here's an easy one I hope for Friday: arbitration/system mailbox move in Ex2k10

2011-09-30 Thread David Liu
Got it! Turned out I had to run Set-AdServerSettings -ViewEntireForest $True to see them. DoH! Federation/arbitration mb's moved & db deleted. Thanks On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:50 PM, David Liu wrote: > thanks for the quick response Peter. I set the filter for user mailbox on > the said server &