RE: SP3

2013-02-25 Thread Rupprecht, James R.
There is a database conversion noted for SP3 that requires the store to be dismounted. For those that have upgraded... how long did that conversion take? I have 80 databases that are 400-600G each... I am not looking forward to this conversion. A question for you on this, Michael. I have a bit

RE: Is New-MailboxExportRequest available in Exchange 2010 SP1

2013-02-12 Thread Rupprecht, James R.
If you get that error it usually means that the account you are using doesn't have the appropriate rights. If I recall correctly, New-MailboxExportRequest requires Organization Management rights or can be individually delegated using Mailbox Import Export Role. Jim Rupprecht Enterprise

RE: Reconnect Exchange 2010 mailbox

2013-02-04 Thread Rupprecht, James R.
Run Clean-MailboxDatabase against the database that hosts the reconnected mailbox. Jim Rupprecht KU Information Technology - Original Message - From: Tom Miller [mailto:tmil...@sfgtrust.com] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 11:40 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject:

RE: Outlook tries to connect to port 443 on Domain Controller

2012-10-30 Thread Rupprecht, James R.
I'd bet it is AUTODISCOVER. Take a look at http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchdxb/archive/2012/05/10/troublshooting-autodiscover-exchange-2007-2010.aspx 1/3 of the way down that page you will see: 6. Outlook uses the appropriate configuration information and connection settings to connect to your

RE: Keep Service Accounts from accumulating auto-responders, etc.

2012-10-17 Thread Rupprecht, James R.
We generally tell service owners that they need to watch these accounts in case anyone responds to a message. Most of them ignore the advice and create a move to trash rule. We are setup to delete items in the trash older than 30 days which effectively prevents any significant mail

shared resource account

2012-02-15 Thread Rupprecht, James R
Exchange 2010, SP1, RU6. I've created a shared resource account and set a delegate for that account using the ESM. I created a resource policy. I then designated one person (not the delegate) who can book the resource automatically. Anyone can create an in-policy request that is sent to the

RE: shared resource account

2012-02-15 Thread Rupprecht, James R
Message- From: Rupprecht, James R [mailto:jimruppre...@ku.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 2:49 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: shared resource account Exchange 2010, SP1, RU6. I've created a shared resource account and set a delegate for that account using the ESM. I created

RE: shared resource account

2012-02-15 Thread Rupprecht, James R
it's recognizing the policy correctly. Do any of these people have author or better delegate permissions to this calendar? -Original Message- From: Rupprecht, James R [mailto:jimruppre...@ku.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 3:15 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: shared

RE: Outlook 2011 for MAC ... syncing calendar entries ...

2012-02-07 Thread Rupprecht, James R
If I had a dollar for every Outlook 2011 sync issue we've had I'd be wealthy and retired right now. Just so you know, Mac Office 2011 uses EWS via TCP 443 for connectivity regardless of where it is. In the RTM version we observed that the product didn't handle EWS budget messages well and this

RE: Outlook 2011 for MAC ... syncing calendar entries ...

2012-02-07 Thread Rupprecht, James R
these malformed cal. entries? Anyone care to chime in on this?  - On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Rupprecht, James R jimruppre...@ku.edu wrote: If I had a dollar for every Outlook 2011 sync issue we've had I'd be wealthy and retired right now. Just so you know, Mac Office 2011 uses EWS via TCP 443

RE: Bug trying to send Update to a Cal event in OWA 2010

2012-01-26 Thread Rupprecht, James R
We have about 25,000 EAS users here, many of whom have multiple devices. About 40 percent of those are iPhones/iPads and most the rest are Android devices though we still have a smattering of PalmOS, WebOS hanging around too. I personally have a Samsung Epic, a WebOS and a PalmOS device all

RE: ActiveSync Inventory

2012-01-13 Thread Rupprecht, James R
I don't have an answer to your question, but I'm wondering if this script actually runs for you? It throws an error for me. Pipeline not executed because a pipeline is already executing. Pipelines cannot be executed concurrently. + CategoryInfo : OperationStopped:

RE: Cheap UC SSL CA?

2011-12-18 Thread Rupprecht, James R
I personally use Digicert but they are probably more than what you are quoting. The one thing about buying from certificatesforexchange.com is that the folks who run that service actually know a thing or twelve about Exchange so you'll get exactly what you need and they will be able to support

RE: Marketing, marketing . . . . . .

2011-11-16 Thread Rupprecht, James R
Constant Contact is good. We like Mail Chimp even better. From: Harry Singh [mailto:hbo...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 10:55 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Marketing, marketing . . . . . . +1 Constant Contact. On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Jonathan Link

RE: Deleting Mailboxes in Exchange 2010

2011-10-11 Thread Rupprecht, James R
Those objects are ActiveSync device associations. Exchange 2010 stores activesync devices as child nodes of the user object. -jim From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 2:08 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Deleting Mailboxes in

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

RE: find and remove 'Ghost' Delegates

2011-09-14 Thread Rupprecht, James R
We see this a lot because we have a lot of students who come and go. Use ADSIEDIT to look at the publicDelegates attribute of the user. Remove any stale entries you find. Jim Rupprecht University of Kansas -Original Message- From: Dan Cooper [mailto:d...@180amsterdam.com] Sent:

RE: Outlook cached mode shared calendars

2011-08-22 Thread Rupprecht, James R
We ran into this same issue whilst also discovering some insane calendaring practices in some of the offices on campus. We found users who had 40+ people sharing/updating their calendar and other users who “needed” to monitor 50+ calendars. We also found some users (often users in leadership

RE: Exchange 2010 Disk Configuration

2011-08-02 Thread Rupprecht, James R
70,000 seats (soon to be 80,000). 2G quota 2 HUB, 5 CAS, 9 MBX all physical 3 replicas, one will move off-site in the next six months Netscaler HLB for CAS systems MBX servers are HP DL380 G6, 72G ram MBX servers have 16 internal 2.5 SAS drives for boot, swap, utility and transaction logs. Disks

RE: Store Crashed, Mailbox in Quarantine - Help!

2011-07-27 Thread Rupprecht, James R
I've had this happen twice and in both instances that mailbox itself was corrupt. When it happened I was unable to move the mailbox to another database and ended up doing an extract-delete-recreate-import on the data. Are you also seeing errors for the indexing and maintenance of the database?

RE: Store Crashed, Mailbox in Quarantine - Help!

2011-07-27 Thread Rupprecht, James R
, Rupprecht, James R jimruppre...@ku.edumailto:jimruppre...@ku.edu wrote: I've had this happen twice and in both instances that mailbox itself was corrupt. When it happened I was unable to move the mailbox to another database and ended up doing an extract-delete-recreate-import on the data. Are you

RE: Store Crashed, Mailbox in Quarantine - Help!

2011-07-27 Thread Rupprecht, James R
for the tip. On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Rupprecht, James R jimruppre...@ku.edumailto:jimruppre...@ku.edu wrote: I was able to take the mailboxes out of quarantine and then use New-MailboxExportRequest. As a backup I also performed extracts from Outlook. One user was a hard-core calendar user

RE: Exchange 2010 design

2011-06-17 Thread Rupprecht, James R
*Disclaimer* I have not tried running NLB in my Exchange 2010 environment. I used NLB in my Exchange 2003 environment and it performed quite well. I have 70,000 mailboxes (and a very heavy non-MAPI user profile) and used NLB on my 3 front-end servers to load-balance OWA, OMA, IMAP, POP, and

RE: Am I in a corner?

2011-06-01 Thread Rupprecht, James R
Yes, but the separation of transaction logs and databases in older versions of Exchange was more about recovering from failures than i/o profiles. What changed in Exchange 2010 is DAG replicas. That being said, I still maintain logs and databases on separate spindles in my environment (I have

RE: Anyone know how to report spammy MS hosting customers?

2011-05-23 Thread Rupprecht, James R
Try forwarding the message with full headers to ab...@messaging.microsoft.com. The number the provide to customers is 1-866-291-7726. I'm not sure they will talk to you if you are not a customer but the call is on their dime so it might be worth a shot. -jim James Rupprecht Senior Systems

RE: MAssive TRN log generation on one Exchange 2010 database

2011-05-12 Thread Rupprecht, James R
We've had to deal with this same issue twice in the past six months. The first case was caused by an older Android mobile device. Using exmon we were able to isolate the suspect user. We confirmed the diagnosis by moving the mailbox to another database and watched the growth follow the mailbox

RE: Exchange SSL cert, popup question

2011-03-24 Thread Rupprecht, James R
Are the internal and external URLs the same? If not, are both names in the certificate? Jim Rupprecht University of Kansas -Original Message- From: Chris Drobny [mailto:cdro...@lmsintellibound.com] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 11:43 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: