Re: Exchange 2003 Running Out Of Space

2011-10-12 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
First, Needless to say, first of all, do a backup. Second partimage from the Linux rescue CD works as good as partition magic or any other commercial tool. Miguel De: Phil Hershey phers...@agia.com Para: MS-Exchange Admin Issues

Re: System Back-up solution.

2010-06-07 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
I'd go disk to disk backup buying a NAS device (maybe a cheap one) that lets you to extract/replace hard drives in a bay so you can take them offline. Going in the USB direction is very time consuming (USB bus is quite slow and you can overflood the device easily) and can prompt to failures.

RE: List Etiquette

2010-06-01 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
When it's one email, that's fine. When you post something to the list and you get 10 out of office emails, then it's annoying. Not alone that sometimes they don't even have a cache implemented and keep on getting out of office emails even when i reply to the same thread. That's my definition of

RE: Question about C: drive space on Exchange 2003

2010-03-05 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
And temporary files. One way to clean up mailboxes database is to perform an online defrag or even an offline defrag. Normally online defrags don't save much space but offline defrags saved me lot of gigs (I had a 60 Gb shrinked to a 20-30 Gb) Miguel --- El vie, 5/3/10, Michael B. Smith

RE: Native Exchange - Entourage

2009-12-14 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
In my previous job we used to call it hellourage. It's a nightmare with Exchange 2003. Inboxes dissapeared and can't be recovered, etc, etc. No good --- El lun, 14/12/09, Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com escribió: De: Martin Blackstone mblackst...@gmail.com Asunto: RE: Native Exchange

Re: Offline defragmentation of Exchange information store

2009-08-18 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
Hi, Last year, when I was managing a SMB 2003 with Exchange we were thinking of migrating to Exchange 2007. We were recommended to perform an offline defrag before thinking of migrating. We shrinked a DB of 60 Gb to around 25 Gb. In fact, it meant that one of the reasons to migrate was to do

RE: Offline defragmentation of Exchange information store

2009-08-18 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
anything! -Original Message- From: bounce-8633979-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto:bounce-8633979-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of Miguel Gonzalez Sent: 18 August 2009 16:52 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Offline defragmentation of Exchange

RE: Offline defragmentation of Exchange information store

2009-08-18 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
migrating, not backups :) -Original Message- From: bounce-8633987-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com [mailto:bounce-8633987-8066...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] On Behalf Of Miguel Gonzalez Sent: 18 August 2009 17:08 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Offline defragmentation

RE: Password expiration notice for non windows users

2008-12-10 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
I can't remember from the top of my head now, but there is a web tool provided by Microsoft under the IIS tools installed in SMB (and probably in any DC Windows Server) that let you to reset your password. I customized the script to change the look and feel, but blocking any access from

signing certificates for Apache in SBS

2008-07-17 Thread Miguel Gonzalez Castaños
Hi, We have a signed CA by Equifax and I'd like to know if I could sign certificates for our Apache Web servers. I have tried to issue a certificate request from apache but when I import it in the Certification Authority it says that is not following the right template. I've seen there is a

Re: signing certificates for Apache in SBS

2008-07-17 Thread Miguel Gonzalez Castaños
Troy Meyer wrote: Slow down and simplify. You bought a certificate from Equifax and you are trying to use it on an Apache web server. No, you can not use a certificate request from SBS (actually from Internet Information Services or IIS), you must use a request from Apache. When you submit

IISADMPWD and OWA

2008-05-01 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
I'm testing IISADMPWD for resetting passwords. We have a SBS 2003 running Exchange 2003 and AD. I've tested it and it works for the AD part, the old password doesn't work and only the new one works. However, when I go to test it in OWA, both, the old and the new password work. I have tried with

RE: IISADMPWD and OWA

2008-05-01 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
Apparently there is a caching time of 15 minutes where the old password still works. Here is the KB entry that I found http://support.microsoft.com/kb/267568/ Miguel --- Miguel Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I'm testing IISADMPWD for resetting passwords. We have a SBS 2003 running

CALs

2008-04-21 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
Hi, I have a SBS 2003 server. The licensing information says that We have 55 CALs. However, I'm getting recently a warning that we are 1 CAL away to reach our limit of licenses installed. We had 60 people in our company but now We are diminishing the number of employees (people that left). We

emails gone in Entourage with Exchange 2003

2008-04-09 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
Hi, We have the known issue with Entourage loosing emails with Exchange 2003. This morning we had again that issue. Unfortunately, in some cases is not they lose some emails but the whole mailbox (and there is no way to recover it from outlook deleted items). One article says that it is due

Blackberries or Windows CE phones

2008-04-02 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
Hi, We currently have a SBS 2003 server running Exchange 2003. We are planning to migrate to Exchange 2007, however, I don't have a timeline for that migration yet. In the meantime, I've been asked about phones and the costs for making them to work with our current Exchange server. My

RE: Blackberries or Windows CE phones

2008-04-02 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
. Blackberry does, in fact, require another server. Thanks, Jeremy Phillips Senior Messaging Engineer Azaleos Corporation -Original Message- From: Miguel Gonzalez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 12:54 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject

RE: Blackberries or Windows CE phones

2008-04-02 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
the additional CAL. Regards, Amer Karim Nautilis Information Systems -Original Message- From: Miguel Gonzalez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April-02-08 4:31 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Blackberries or Windows CE phones I think right now they are thinking of two

mailboxes and public folder

2008-03-20 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
Hi, We have SBS 2003. Everytime an employee leaves the company they require me to copy the mailbox to the Public Folders (apart of giving someone permissions to read the mailbox). It is very painful to create the folder and move the folders manually from outlook (authenticated as the user) and

redimensioning OS and logs partitions

2008-03-20 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
Hi, I have three partitions in my SBS 2003 server. C - OS D - Exchange databases (only) E - Exchange logs and AV C and E are partitions within the same RAID array (RAID 1+0). I want to shrink the E drive and expand the C drive. The partitions are basic (not dynamic) and I've read that

redimensioning OS and logs partitions

2008-03-20 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
Hi, I have three partitions in my SBS 2003 server. C - OS D - Exchange databases (only) E - Exchange logs and AV C and E are partitions within the same RAID array (RAID 1+0). I want to shrink the E drive and expand the C drive. The partitions are basic (not dynamic) and I've read that

RE: redimensioning OS and logs partitions

2008-03-20 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
any free tool? Miguel --- Stephan Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Lot's of options but check out Acronis. Fine stuff there. Cheers. -Original Message- From: Miguel Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: 3/20/2008

RE: redimensioning OS and logs partitions

2008-03-20 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
for the data drive, not the OS). Miguel --- Stephan Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Lot's of options but check out Acronis. Fine stuff there. Cheers. -Original Message- From: Miguel Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: 3

exchange 2007 migration and SBS 2003

2008-03-12 Thread Miguel Gonzalez
Hi, I'm going to retake the topic of migrating from SBS 2003 to a separate DC and Exchange 2007 standard. I’ve read this article http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Installing-Exchange-2007-Small-Business-Server-2003-domain-Part1.html But I’m not thinking of moving the FSMO roles to

Exchange 2007 migration

2008-02-07 Thread Miguel Gonzalez Castaños
Hi, We have a SBS 2003 running Exchange 2003. I'm reading through the self-paced training kit of Exchange 2007 and the book walks you through the steps to take for preparing the domain controller and the current exchange server to perform the migration. The book says that We need to

Re: Exchange 2007 migration

2008-02-07 Thread Miguel Gonzalez Castaños
John Cook escribió: Only the Exchange needs to be SP2, I am in the final stages of this myself. Thanks John. Is it a risky upgrade? Miguel ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~