RE: GFI - Ugh

2013-02-20 Thread Evan Brastow
. John M. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 12:17 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: GFI - Ugh Interesting experience this week that I thought I would share. We use GFI MailEssentials and MailSecurity. Not really thrilled

RE: [Bulk] WAV files in Outlook

2012-12-30 Thread Evan Brastow
Nope, but I shall now. Thank you! Evan From: Orland, Kathleen [mailto:korl...@rogers.com] Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2012 4:22 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: [Bulk] WAV files in Outlook Did you read this? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926512 From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras

RE: Sending email from a hotfolder?

2012-07-31 Thread Evan Brastow
. I can provide you with some code samples from my scripts if you need more help. http://gsexdev.blogspot.com/ From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 2:18 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Sending email from a hotfolder? You know how sometimes

RE: Sending email from a hotfolder?

2012-07-31 Thread Evan Brastow
is that it does not itself run as a service, so you either need to have an account logged on all the time, or use something like FireDaemon to keep it going. (I have not tried srvany, though that might work too.) Good luck, RS On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Evan Brastow ebras

RE: Archiving (again)

2012-03-14 Thread Evan Brastow
that the OWA search only searches a single datastore so you need to select the archive to search, but at least its accessible from OWA by default without having to add extra's in. Dave Wade -Original Message- From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: 13 March 2012 19:10 To: MS

RE: Archiving (again)

2012-03-14 Thread Evan Brastow
and forget. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership for Strong Families - Original Message - From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 02:39 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: Archiving (again) I

RE: Archiving (again)

2012-03-14 Thread Evan Brastow
to ~2003-2007 server requirements because of all the online mailboxes? jb -Original Message- From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 10:19 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Archiving (again) Hi Dave, I'd like to get it off

RE: Archiving (again)

2012-03-14 Thread Evan Brastow
Hmm... didn't think I was beating a dead horse... that's the first time I asked that question :) I was only asking the list to see if people had had any experience that was similar to this tech's. Thought it might be a prudent thing to do when someone tells you something that could be quite

RE: Archiving (again)

2012-03-14 Thread Evan Brastow
: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 10:22 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Archiving (again) My current issue is that although the install was supposed to be done by a level 2 tech this morning, it was postponed because he forgot

RE: Archiving (again)

2012-03-14 Thread Evan Brastow
Hi Joseph, No problem at all, my friend. I wasn't offended... merely bewildered... lol Thanks, Evan -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 3:10 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Archiving (again) Hmm...

Archiving (again)

2012-03-13 Thread Evan Brastow
I think I may have asked this a year or two ago, but, here I am again. A while back I bought the Exchange Archiver from Sunbelt, and found out that they didn't recommend putting it on a DC. So, it went on the backburner for a little over a year, and a few weeks ago, I freed up a server and

Archiving (again)

2012-03-13 Thread Evan Brastow
I think I may have asked this a year or two ago, but, here I am again. A while back I bought the Exchange Archiver from Sunbelt, and found out that they didn't recommend putting it on a DC. So, it went on the backburner for a little over a year, and a few weeks ago, I freed up a server and

RE: Backup

2011-06-15 Thread Evan Brastow
That's what he's talking about :) Windows Server Backup will backup your Exchange databases. Many people use it to backup Exchange. Evan From: Lynden A. Philadelphia [mailto:lphiladelp...@philadelphiagroup.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 7:44 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE:

RE: Is there an Outlook tool for this?

2011-03-13 Thread Evan Brastow
-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Is there an Outlook tool for this? I was thinking of responding but then I said to myself, If you can't say something nice, don't say anything Oooops was that my outside voice? Perhaps a new customer service rep M From: Evan Brastow

RE: 2010 Practical mailbox size limitations?

2010-12-31 Thread Evan Brastow
://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 3:41 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: 2010 Practical mailbox size limitations? Hi guys, Happy New Year :) Thanks to everyone that's helped throughout this year and so

2010 Practical mailbox size limitations?

2010-12-30 Thread Evan Brastow
Hi guys, Happy New Year :) Thanks to everyone that's helped throughout this year and so many others! Quick question. In Exchange 2010, is there a recommended size limit for mailboxes? I'm trying to figure out, from a database perspective, why there would be. Whether 10 mailboxes combine to

RE: Anyone using Quest Exchange Archiver?

2010-10-20 Thread Evan Brastow
the small to the large. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 10:15 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone using Quest Exchange Archiver? Thanks. I

RE: Anyone using Quest Exchange Archiver?

2010-10-20 Thread Evan Brastow
the SEA Archiver 250 users, about 6 mil e-mails archived in 18 months, what do you need to know? I'm very happy with it. SJ On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Evan Brastow ebras...@automatedemblem.commailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com wrote: Just looking for opinions on it. We're a small installation

RE: Rules firing only once... any thoughts?

2010-10-20 Thread Evan Brastow
to reply to every message versus only one message per sender per day From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 5:14 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Rules firing only once... any thoughts? Me again. A while back I had inquired about

FW: Rules firing only once... any thoughts?

2010-10-20 Thread Evan Brastow
Okay... cancel this question. I bought a 3rd part plugin that seems to do the trick. Thanks, Evan From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 5:14 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Rules firing only once... any thoughts? Me again

Anyone using Quest Exchange Archiver?

2010-10-19 Thread Evan Brastow
Just looking for opinions on it. We're a small installation, but have some very large mailboxes that I'd like to archive. I've not had great luck getting a lot of info from Sunbelt, so I'm continuing research into other solutions. Quest seems to look pretty good to me. Thoughts? Thanks, Evan

RE: Anyone using Quest Exchange Archiver?

2010-10-19 Thread Evan Brastow
Archiver? We use Barracuda. I'd be leery of anything from Quest. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 1:59 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Anyone using Quest Exchange Archiver? Just looking for opinions on it. We're a small installation

RE: Exchange fails Windows 2008 Server Backup consistency check...

2010-10-12 Thread Evan Brastow
? The Application event log is your friend. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Evan Brastow [mailto:ebras...@automatedemblem.com] Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 10:50 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange fails

Exchange fails Windows 2008 Server Backup consistency check...

2010-10-11 Thread Evan Brastow
Hrmmm... okay, I've been trying to use Windows 2008 Server Backup to make an Exchange 2010 Enterprise backup, but it *always* fails the consistency check. I can Google and find out what my options are, but I wanted to maybe get some opinions from the brilliant minds on this list first (and

RE: Can I change the from to a group?

2010-08-09 Thread Evan Brastow
I went through this with an orders address. I eventually ended up creating a separate mailbox with the orders address, then having our customer service people open that mailbox within Outlook. Not only does this mean that when they reply to or compose a message, it comes from the orders

FW: Lyris humor

2010-08-09 Thread Evan Brastow
Kinda funny... the first time I tried to send that reply to Steve, I got a rejection notice from Lyris. Apparently I'd forgotten I was in the message journaling folder, and replied form that, and it included a Lyris header. This is the rejection message I got: Your message posting was

Outlook 2007 rules issue

2010-06-14 Thread Evan Brastow
Hi fine peoples and peopettes of the Exchange list J Weird issue. I have a mailbox that customers always send their orders to. I set up a desktop machine that's just dedicated to running Outlook 2007 with that mailbox open, so I could process rules. One rule I would like to implement is

Exchange 2010 on Win Server 2008

2010-04-22 Thread Evan Brastow
Hi guys, Quick question. Is there a benefit to running Exchange 2010 Enterprise on Windows 2008 Server Enterprise instead of Windows Server 2008 Standard? Thanks, Evan

Dumb question - Contacts

2009-03-18 Thread Evan Brastow
Been a while since I've made a fool of myself* and I hate to disappoint my fans, so We're running a pretty small environment.. Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise and maybe 20 users. For years, peoples' address book has consisted of just using the auto-complete in Outlook 2003 (and now

Barracuda question

2009-01-19 Thread Evan Brastow
Good morning peoples and peopettes, I'm seeing something with my Barracuda that doesn't seem to make sense to me. Wouldn't it seem like if you have attachment blocking set up (in this case, blocking all zip files,) that that should take priority over a whitelist? In other words, I'm

Rules for a mailbox that's not your own?

2008-11-06 Thread Evan Brastow
Hi, We have a mailbox that exists only for people to connect to as a secondary mailbox. It's basically used instead of a public folder. There are about 7 people that open it within Outlook in addition to their own account. I'm just wondering if there is an easy way to set up rules for that

RE: Question about BCC

2008-10-08 Thread Evan Brastow
Well, using that rule in Outlook 2007 that Jim mentioned, he could have a copy of every email he sends sent to a folder, just make that folder the Inbox. Then he'll get a copy of the email he sent in his Inbox, and it's the same as if he Bcc'd himself. From: Kelli Sterley [mailto:[EMAIL

Stopping an email user from sending to anyone outside of the organization?

2008-09-11 Thread Evan Brastow
Hi, I'm wondering if someone could point me to a way to allow a user to send email within the company, but not to any external addresses? We only have one domain and one server (Exchange 2003 Enterprise), so it shouldn't be too complicated, I would think... Thank you, Evan ~ Ninja

RE: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP

2008-08-25 Thread Evan Brastow
From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 10:10 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Bizarre Outlook issue.. HELP You could also look for personal distribution list that the user has created. On 8/25/08, Evan Brastow [EMAIL PROTECTED

Old FaxMaker connector won't go away

2008-08-14 Thread Evan Brastow
I have a problem that GFI didn't seem to be able to help me with. Here's the quick summary. I had an old mail server E2K) that ran FaxMaker. I set up a new server (E2K3 Enterprise) a while back and transferred all mail stores to it, and installed FaxMaker on it. The problem is that I get

RE: Old FaxMaker connector won't go away

2008-08-14 Thread Evan Brastow
: Old FaxMaker connector won't go away I'll bet there's still an AD object for that connector, referencing OLDSERVERNAME. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 12:14 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Old FaxMaker

RE: Corrupted files attached to emails

2008-07-29 Thread Evan Brastow
: Corrupted files attached to emails Not a bit much filtering ? GuidoElia HELPPC Da: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: lunedì 28 luglio 2008 23.22 A: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: Corrupted files attached to emails Hi Martin

RE: Corrupted files attached to emails

2008-07-29 Thread Evan Brastow
I agree that this could be a big help. My only problem is that there are quite a few customers, and getting them all to take this extra step is going to be a challenge. I would really like to figure out why for years beforehand (still running all three products on and around our server) we had no

RE: Corrupted files attached to emails

2008-07-29 Thread Evan Brastow
I do, too. I think I'll ask our biggest customer to start doing that, and see what the results are. I'm also looking into replacing our slightly aging (maybe 6 years old) Cisco router. Thanks, Evan From: Senter, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Corrupted files attached to emails

2008-07-28 Thread Evan Brastow
Hi folks, Got a weird problem that's been going on all month. I've talked to my ISP about this, and I'm not sure they're going to come through with anything, so I wanted to bounce it off you guys as well. My company works with a lot of art files... AI files (Adobe Illustrator) and TIFF

RE: Corrupted files attached to emails

2008-07-28 Thread Evan Brastow
components in route are more often the culprit. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 1:54 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Corrupted files attached to emails Hi folks, Got a weird problem that's been going on all month. I've talked to my ISP about

Mail alert?

2008-05-08 Thread Evan Brastow
Hi guys, You know the little desktop alert thingy that pops up on the bottom right of the screen when new mail arrives in the Inbox? Is there any Outlook (2003) add-on that can pop up an alert when an email arrives in an Inbox of another user, whose mailbox you have open within Outlook? I

Issues with users using an additional mailbox

2008-04-02 Thread Evan Brastow
Hi, Been a crazy weekend/week for me. Ever have a great idea that you KNOW will make everyone happy, and then you end up practically being burned in effigy? I created a new mailbox to replace a distribution group. The DL was getting about 300 emails a day, and so all of our CS people

Outlook 2003 auto-fill

2008-03-31 Thread Evan Brastow
Hi, Quick question for you fine folks. Is there a way to selectively delete entries from the auto-complete list that Outlook 2003 generates as you type in an address in the To: or Cc: boxes? I don't want to clear the whole list, but I'd like to remove one or two that are invalid and

RE: Outlook 2003 auto-fill

2008-03-31 Thread Evan Brastow
.arrow down to it and hit the delete key. From: Evan Brastow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 9:51 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Outlook 2003 auto-fill Hi, Quick question for you fine folks. Is there a way to selectively delete entries from

Search folder limit?

2008-03-31 Thread Evan Brastow
I'm hoping this is not as dumb a question as my previous one (though in some ways I'm hoping it is.) Is there any way to increase the maximum number of Search Folders in Outlook 2003? It seems like 20 is the limit. I need more than that. Any tweaks or workarounds? I'm using Exchange 2003

Flags in Public Folders

2008-02-08 Thread Evan Brastow
Hi folks, My company is a small company and we're beginning to get inundated with emails from customers. It's getting to be too much and things like orders, requests for quotes, requests for shipping info, etc.. are getting missed sometimes by Customer Service just because of the sheer volume

Troubling view issue

2008-01-12 Thread Evan Brastow
Hi, I have a user (and I may possibly now have a second user with this issue as well, I just found out) that is having the following problem: When he opens Outlook (version 2003 SP3 on XP,) his Inbox view is not how he left it. He arranges it with the columns he wants in the order he wants

RE: Troubling view issue

2008-01-12 Thread Evan Brastow
view issue Start Run outlook.exe /cleanviews. If that doesn't resolve the issue, close Outlook and delete the outcmd.dat, extend.dat, frmcache.dat, and .srs files. Have the user reset his views to see if they remain after that. From: Evan Brastow