I've heard good things about McBee's book: Microsoft® Exchange Server
2007: Implementation and Administration
>>> "Phillip Partipilo" 10/6/2009 7:24 AM >>>
What would you folks recommend as a good book to somebody getting their
feet
wet in Exchange 2007 (without previous Exchange experience on t
I was looking at Microsoft's site for this, and the only real difference I
could find was the number of mailbox databases possible. Is this the case, or
are there other things that I didn't see?
Thanks,
Joe
fferences.
Do note that mailbox resiliency requires Windows Server Enterprise, even though
the feature is available on both Exchange Standard and Exchange Enterprise.
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To: MS
What version of Outlook is required as a minimum for Exchange 2007/2010? Isn't
Outlook 2007 required for 2010? I think it's Outlook 2003 for Exchange 2007,
but I don't know if you can even buy Exchange 2007 anymore, so...
Would I be correct in forwarding up my chain of command that Outlook 200
Ok, so Outlook 2k3 is minimum for either version of Exchange... thanks :)
>>> "Joseph L. Casale" 12/30/2009 10:49 AM >>>
e2k10 supports OL 2003 as per technet...
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From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, Decem
/30/2009 10:49 AM >>>
> e2k10 supports OL 2003 as per technet...
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 11:38 AM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject: Client requirements for Exchang
new phone, executive... sounds like LOTS of mail to sync to me. Hopefully the
new handset fixes it, but it could be a matter of quantity of mail...
>>> Jean-Paul natola 4/13/2010 12:03 PM >>>
Hi all,
I know this is bit OT but our president is having an issue where her new dash
3g will wor
What do you call a quadriplegic hanging on the wall?
Art
>>> John Cook 4/30/2010 11:05 AM >>>
What do you call a quadriplegic in a pool?
Bob
What do you call a Quadriplegic in a hot tub?
Stew
What do you call a Quadriplegic at your front door?
Matt
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partners
Are you able to change your AD password from within OWA?
We have the following situation:
1) Novell currently handles our authentication, users, e-mail, etc. We have a
Windows domain, but it's only for applications.
2) We are planning a migration from Novell to a new Windows AD domain.
3)
pane.
Best regards,
Chris
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Joseph Heaton wrote:
> Are you able to change your AD password from within OWA?
>
> We have the following situation:
>
> 1) Novell currently handles our authentication, users, e-mail, etc. We
> have a Windows doma
Just finished a 2010 Exchange class. One of the designs that was brought up
was to have 3 hardware servers, all of them running CAS/HT/MB, with the MB
roles in a DAG, and hardware load balancers in front, for the CAS roles.
>>> "farooq.ahmed" 8/6/2010 7:42 PM >>>
I think it is in best practice
I haven't gotten any books yet, but I just finished an Exchange 2010 class, in
preparation for our migration from Groupwise. Finally getting off the
Novell side of the house.
>>> Jason Gurtz 8/10/2010 6:49 AM >>>
Yea, I think you may be right; it's pretty short too. We're also going to
be
h, we may have to bite the bullet with as quick a
migration as possible due to the scheduling.
Thanks, Lori
>>> Joseph Heaton mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov>> 8/13/2010
>>> 1:31 PM >>>
I haven't gotten any books yet, but I just finished an Exchange 2010 class, i
I am currently in the planning stages of a migration from Groupwise 7.0 to
Exchange 2010. We have around 2800 mailboxes, with around 1200 of those
belonging to people that rarely, if ever, actually connect physically to the
network. This project is huge. First phase, stand up a new AD, enough
r can easily configure OA.
The bigger question is how are you going to get Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010 on
their computers first?
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
This isn't a beta SP, is it? Says the beta was released in June, and half a
million mailboxes are using it within TAP customers.
>>> Paul Steele 8/25/2010 9:43 AM >>>
It's very tempting, but I know better than to put a beta service pack on my
production server. :-(
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Absolutely. Recovery time should be your BIG focus when determining how big
you want to allow your databases to get. I know with 2010, in a DAG, they say
you can go as high as 2TB per database, but only 100GB if they are standalone
databases. Not sure about 2007.
>>> "Campbell, Rob" 8/30/20
Hoping someone here can answer this:
We are setting up Exchange 2010 in our lab, in preparation to migrating to it
sometime in the near future. I just finished setting up the DAG, with 2
interfaces, one for MAPI traffic, and one for DAG traffic. Now, I'm moving on
to the CAS array. Our thoug
?
>>> Joseph Heaton 8/30/2010 3:23 PM >>>
Hoping someone here can answer this:
We are setting up Exchange 2010 in our lab, in preparation to migrating to it
sometime in the near future. I just finished setting up the DAG, with 2
interfaces, one for MAPI traffic, and one for DAG
The Service Pack, or Exchange 2010? We've been going slow, setting Exch 2010
up in our lab, including setting up a DMZ, Edge Transport, TMG, etc. We've
been working on it for about a week now. I obviously don't expect the
production install to take this long, but there are tons of little nuan
We're only in a lab situation at the moment, with two ESXi 4.0 hosts. We have
2 MBx servers, and 2 HT/CAS servers, one on each host, with DAG for MBx, and
Microsoft NLB for CAS. Hasn't squawked at me yet...
>>> Paul Hutchings 9/7/2010 10:41 AM >>>
That's what I don't understand tbh - why the
Is the server in question virtual, or physical? From that box, can you ping
through your network? The error says that the box is not in AD. Did you not
join the domain with it? I had a similar issue with a box yesterday, where it
was a virtual, seemed to join the domain fine, but couldn't ta
s of hosts on the
network... The server is joined to the domain. That's why when I saw that
message I was confused. What did you do to the template to resolve it?
John Bowles
________
From: Joseph Heaton [jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
Sent: Thursday, September 1
Does Activesync come in through Client access, or hub transport?
Here's our setup in the lab:
We have all client connections coming through a TMG box in the DMZ, then
forwarded to our CAS array.
We are in the process of setting up an Edge Transport box in the DMZ, for all
mail flow.
We have pu
Never mind the answer is that it goes to the TMG -> CAS array. So
something else is not configured correctly in my lab.
>>> Joseph Heaton 9/21/2010 3:50 PM >>>
Does Activesync come in through Client access, or hub transport?
Here's our setup in the lab:
We h
We're working on setting up an Edge box in our lab environment. We have a DMZ
setup, we have the Edge box installed in this zone. Currently, it has one NIC,
with a public IP on it. My question:
Is the box supposed to actually sit completely in the DMZ, or is it supposed to
have a second NIC,
and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 1:41 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Edge Transport Server - Exchange 2010
We're working on setting up an Edge box in our
email directly to the Internet?
If so, I'd blame this on your subscription. How did you set that up?
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
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From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, Septe
p://TheEssentialExchange.com
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From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 5:44 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Edge Transport Server - Exchange 2010
Ok, so here's where I stand. Hopefully, you can help me figure t
s,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 12:52 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Edge Transport Server - Exchange 2010
This morning, I decided
Anyone here using Droid phones with Exchange 2010 Activesync? Anyone get it to
work? I've done Google research, found tons of references to issues with Droid
and Exchange, but not many at all referencing 2010. Also, our setup in the lab
is going through TMG 2010, so that may have something to
eased" stream.
The workaround is to use touchdown until a permanent fix is released.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9455
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=11177
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
#x27;t seen images released
> for WP7 yet.)
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael B. Smith
> Consultant and Exchange MVP
> http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
>
Ah, so you're holding up the works, eh Michael?
>>> "Michael B. Smith" 10/5/2010 11:35 AM >>>
No, not yet. I just got Chapter 7 for review on Sunday. I think that's the last
chapter.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
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Does the setup.com /PrepareAD /OrganizationName: command need to be run on a
DC? Or is it supposed to be run on the first Exchange 2010 server?
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in the same
Active Directory site as the schema master. Setup will make all
configuration changes to the schema master to avoid conflicts because of
replication latency.
Webster
> -Original Message-
> From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
> Subject: Running /PrepareAD fo
changes to the schema master to avoid conflicts because of replication latency.
Webster
> -Original Message-
> From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
> Subject: Running /PrepareAD for new Exchange organization
>
> Does the setup.com /PrepareAD /OrganizationName: com
I would think that if it's a known downtime, I'd personally manually make the
one that's going to stay up the Active node. But it should failover
automatically, that's what the DAG is for.
>>> phil levine 10/20/2010 7:46 AM >>>
quick question that i feel kinda silly about asking; if i have se
Sounds like 50% spam? That's not too bad, really. That's my guess anyway.
>>> Steve Hart 11/19/2010 11:21 AM >>>
We just cutover to a new Exchange server last night. The old server runs
Forefront 10.2, the new server is running Forefront 2010. Both are Exchange
2007 SP3.
The new Forefront in
d, 315 blocked by connection filtering
and 9 blocked by SMTP filtering. I know that we're receiving emails, so
everything isn't being blocked. The "processed" number seems to really be
"total blocked".
Steve Hart
Network Administrator
503.491.4343 -Direct | 5
I took that class a few months ago. Great class, if you have a decent
instructor, and depending on your previous experience. Led me to the strong
belief that I also need a Powershell class...
>>> "Maglinger, Paul" 2/7/2011 5:55 AM >>>
First day of MS-10135 Configuring, Managing, and Troublesh
It becomes a social issue at this point. Give your people a deadline for
contacting all their senders, and remove the old domains. No sense in carrying
around the old baggage anymore, especially when it's adversely affecting your
spam stats.
>>> Steve Hart 2/8/2011 11:04 AM >>>
Quite a bit.
But you can never really get the smell out...
And leaves an after-taste on all your food :(
>>> John Cook 4/6/2011 5:25 PM >>>
Much cleaning will ensue...
John W. Cook
Systems Administrator
Partnership for Strong Families
- Original Message -
From: Campbell, Rob
To: MS-Exchange Admin I
I know the Remove-Mailbox command, which will disconnect a mailbox from a user,
and delete the user. But, I want to do the opposite. I want to disconnect the
mailbox from the user, and leave the user account intact. Then I want to
either delete the mailbox, or tie it to a different user accou
ed Mailboxes" in EMC and you can either purge it, attach it to
a different user, or leave it there until Deleted Mailbox Retention takes care
of it (defaults to 30 days).
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
Thanks for following up with your solution. I'm sure it will help someone else
down the line.
>>> "Sobey, Richard A" 4/8/2011 2:02 AM >>>
I think I've fixed this now, *user error* I'm ashamed to admit.
Using the /D switch *without* a space was the problem. Using /D without
specifying a path a
We are planning on using TMG for this purpose. We did it in our lab, and it
worked, but we had limited NICs, so we could only have either Activesync or OWA
working at any one time. As long as you have separate NICs for those, you can
set up multiple listeners, and you're set.
We're in the pro
Exchange 2010
Does it matter if the arbitration mailboxes are NOT in the same database? I
screwed up my database, so I went through the move process to move these off,
and the Federated mailbox ended up on a different database than the two System
mailboxes.
My plan, since I've now deleted the
I know, not a Groupwise forum. But there's a bunch of really smart people
here, so I have my fingers crossed.
I have been asked to research any possibility of some type of
connector/thingie, that can do the following:
1) E-mail comes into organization
2) Checks Groupwise for recipient
3)
nization
2) Checks Exchange for recipient
3) If recipient is not found in Exchange, the message is forwarded to
Groupwise.
-Original Message-
From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 11:23 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Groupwise - Exchange
our, and
any inbound email that doesn't match a valid recipient address is
rejected during the EHLO conversation.
Kurt
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 09:22, Joseph Heaton wrote:
> I know, not a Groupwise forum. But there's a bunch of really smart people
> here, so I have my fingers cross
how robust your AD and GW infrastructure are, and how big
your incoming pipe is.
Updating "recipient maps" hourly should take care of your needs.
Sendmail can also do this, but I have never liked it, and found
postfix to be much easier to configure/understand/maintain.
Kurt
On Mon, Apr
You say that your TulsaConnect IS enforcing size limits, and you're not. So,
besides everything in the header referencing TulsaConnect, I would still be
leaning towards at least finding out what their limit is that they're
enforcing, and whether or not you can get them to raise that limit.
>>>
Exchange 2010
Installing the Edge Transport role. Prereq check tells me that the fully
qualified domain name of the computer is either missing or empty. Setup cannot
continue.
If I click on the Recommended Action link, it tells me I need to add a DNS
suffix. I've got the machine sitting in
l B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-----Original Message-
From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 4:46 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Installing Edge server
Exchange 2010
Installing the Edge Transport role. Prereq check tells me t
Consultant and Exchange MVP
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From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 4:53 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Installing Edge server
And that's only for the NIC going to the internal side, right? Not t
Anyone having issues downloading the rollup? I click on the link from the
description KB, and says it can't be found.
>>> "Sobey, Richard A" 6/28/2011 11:22 AM >>>
Interim updates show up from past experience as interim updates in Add/Remove
programs. Rollups show as normal Exchange Server upd
Edge Server role is not just for AV/spam. It's for providing a secure link for
OWA/Activesync, also.
>>> Jason Benway 7/6/2011 11:38 AM >>>
We are running scanmail from Trend on our exchange 2003 cluster.
With Exchange 2010 it looks like scanmail gets installed on all roles
Edge MX/HT/CAS
Me too! My daughter's nowhere near that stage, but Butterfly Kisses has been
our song her whole life. I even have a children's book based on it somewhere
around the house.
>>> Don Holstrom 07/08/11 9:40 AM >>>
Excellente! My daughter is still in college, but I started crying halfway
through t
Stupid question... did you unplug the user's PC?
>>> "Kelsey, John" 7/19/2011 7:21 AM >>>
We have an internal authenticated user who is sending out a boatload of spam
messages. I've disabled his account for the moment to stop the mail flow.
Whats the best way to determine where on the LAN th
I'm using Forefront Endpoint Protection, but not the Exchange product. I
really like FEP, as it's managed through SCCM, and installing on a new machine
is as simple as adding it to the right collection, and within minutes FEP is
installed. Definition updates are pushed automatically, and it's
rked keeping viruses and malware off the workstations?
> A lot of malware gets past Trend on the desktop
>
> jb
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 2:25 PM
> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
> Subject:
I know that I can install the Edge Transport role on the same box as TMG. But,
if I don't do that, does the Edge server sit in front of, or behind, the TMG
box? How would mail traffic flow through this setup?
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Does the end user have some kind of filter on the inbox? Or a rule moving the
message to a different folder?
>>> Jay Dale 08/24/11 10:34 AM >>>
Hey all,
I have a client using Exchange 2010 on Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise. We send
emails to the client with invoices through our ConnectWise syste
Please bear with me on this one, I'm checking my sanity as much as anything
else:
We are moving from Groupwise to Exchange. I have my Exchange 2010 environment
setup (mostly). Here's how we're setup:
DMZ:
1) Edge Server for actual mail traffic. Our Edge server has 2 NICs. One
public IP,
to
get that traffic inside the firewall to the HT?
>>> "Michael B. Smith" 9/8/2011 7:04 PM >>>
Nothing obvious, but the devil is in the details.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From:
So young. He will surely be missed.
>>> "Orland, Kathleen" 9/13/2011 8:30 AM >>>
Did I miss this on the list last week (I've been on vacation):
http://www.foundandsons.com/obituaries/Stephen-Szabo/#/Obituary
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If I have my mailbox servers setup in a DAG, is the only reason to backup to
disk/tape to cover the "oops, where'd that message go?" issues?
If you do backup to disk/tape, what type of retention do you have? And, yes, I
know the retention issue is extremely subjective, depending on legal
requi
011 5:34 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Backup of Exchange 2010
And to cover your butt in the unlikely event of a corrupt database.
-Original Message-
From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 3:46 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subje
I'm in the same boat as Paul. We're using NLB, but haven't implemented
our Exchange environment yet. Still working on the details of migrating
from Groupwise.
>>> Brian McGloin 10/3/2011 6:10 AM >>>
Is anyone using the Windows 2008 Server NLB?
Experiences?
Thx in advance
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 a
That looks pretty good. We're not production on Exchange yet, so I just
patched one at a time and rebooted. Thanks for the article, I will definitely
stash that away or future reference.
>>> Brian McGloin 11/1/2011 7:13 AM >>>
Just found this (of course, after posting).
http://exchangeserverp
I'm setting up an OWA listener in TMG. The blog I'm following says to turn off
FBA in the Exchange console, and let TMG do the forms based authentication.
But, if I do this, then users internally hitting the OWA site don't get forms
based auth, just the normal authentication window that comes
, December 06, 2011 12:31 AM
To: Joseph Heaton
Cc: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Active sync through TMG
Yes that should be fine, you can just create a new rule and select the same
listener.
Steve
On 5 Dec 2011, at 23:11, "Joseph Heaton"
mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov>> wrote:
Exchan
Worked beautifully, thanks Steve!
From: Steve Goodman [mailto:st...@goodman.net]
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 8:22 AM
To: Joseph Heaton; MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Active sync through TMG
The ActiveSync rule has a different path in the URL,
/Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync (iirc
Novell to Windows, and setting our new AD
domain with attributes configured as required by the state.
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 9:57 AM
To: Joseph Heaton; MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Setting the default format for mail alia
Ok, but is there a way to change the default response to fill it with the
+SAMAccountName? I'm assuming the Set-Mailbox-Alias is a one for one
command?
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 10:44 AM
To: Joseph Heaton; MS-Exchange Admin I
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