Possible AVAPI problem

2002-04-23 Thread Bendall, Paul (KBPB)
Hi all, I have a problem on a couple of servers running Windows 2000 SP2, Exchange 5.5 SP4 with post SP4 hotfixes and ScanMail 3.52 with hotfix. Here is the issue, we have recently been moving mailboxes from old Exchange servers to new ones using the Move Mailbox method, while this was being

OT: VB scripting for beginners

2002-04-19 Thread Bendall, Paul (KBPB)
Hi all, I am looking for recommendations on a book to learn VB scripting. I did a very basic course some time ago on VB so decided by first steps into scripting would probably be easier if I started with VB. I would class myself as a beginer and would be interested in any recommendations. TIA

DRC move and updating DL's

2002-03-18 Thread Bendall, Paul
Dear all, Exchange 5.5 SP4, Windows 2000 SP2 I am in the process of consolidating part of an Exchange organisation. I need to move the DRC from one site to another, I know this will cause a site teardown. My understanding is that when the DRC is recreated to the new site the distribution lists

RE: IIS Exchange 2000

2002-03-04 Thread Bendall, Paul (KBPB)
Stu, Have you had a look at q308599, seems it may help you out. Paul -Original Message- From: Stuart Pittwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 March 2002 09:35 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: IIS Exchange 2000 Here is the situation. We have Exchange 2000 (SP2) installed on

RE: Exchange 5.5 Administrator

2002-02-01 Thread Bendall, Paul
Have you had a look at Q251177, http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-GB;q251177 Regards, Paul -Original Message- From: Chris Pohlschneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 February 2002 15:44 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 5.5 Administrator I

RE: Installing Outlook Web Access

2002-01-31 Thread Bendall, Paul
Have you followed the instructions from Q246203, http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-GB;q246203 *may wrap* Regards, Paul -Original Message- From: Nick Symiakakis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 31 January 2002 17:51 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Installing

RE: Clustering Exchange

2002-01-18 Thread Bendall, Paul
Funny you should mention Marathon Technologies, I went to a briefing this week about their kit, it looks very interesting if expensive. I have two main complaints about Windows Clustering one, the length of time it takes to dismount and remount the store between nodes is likely to cause time outs

Setting permissions through site

2001-12-21 Thread Bendall, Paul
Exchange 5.5 SP4, Win 2K SP2 I have been asked if it is possible to seperate administration tasks in a site. The Exchange site is owned by two departments say A and B. Could I set granular security so that group A can only administer group A's servers and users? What are the minimum permsissions

RE: Setting permissions through site

2001-12-21 Thread Bendall, Paul
mailboxes, or logon to mailboxes etc. Kevin -Original Message- From: Bendall, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 December 2001 10:41 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Setting permissions through site Exchange 5.5 SP4, Win 2K SP2 I have been asked if it is possible to seperate

RE: Setting permissions through site

2001-12-21 Thread Bendall, Paul
does admin on mailboxes and maybe do the site-wide admin yourself, then your plan will satisfy your requirement but I would question how much the admins in these Departments would really be able to do. Kevin -Original Message- From: Bendall, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21

RE: Network browsing using Windows 2000 Professional

2001-12-18 Thread Bendall, Paul
Two thoughts come to mind with this sort of problem 1. Are you using Anti-virus software, if so does turning it off speed things up? Now you know the reason you have to decide the liveable solution. 2. Explorer in Windows 2000 by default tries to represent everything in HTML, change the folder

RE: Off topic Win 2k issue.

2001-12-18 Thread Bendall, Paul
I have been following this thread with interest, do you have a recommendation for a whitepaper Microsoft or not for securing laptops with EFS, Syskey Mode and security policies applied to the local machine. TIA Paul -Original Message- From: Bob t. Berge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Bulk Export of Public Folder SMTP addresses

2001-12-14 Thread Bendall, Paul
Server = Exchange 5.5 SP 4, Win 2K SP2 Ages ago our company changed it's email domain, at the time I did a bulk export of the directory using header.exe and customised a csv file to include secondary proxy address. Dumped the directory manipulated the csv file and imported it back in, great all

RE: Bulk Export of Public Folder SMTP addresses

2001-12-14 Thread Bendall, Paul
-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Bulk Export of Public Folder SMTP addresses Q185018 Neil -Original Message- From: Bendall, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: 14 December 2001 11:39 Posted To: Sunbelt Exchange List Conversation: Bulk Export of Public Folder SMTP addresses Subject

Yukon, Kodiak and beyond

2001-12-13 Thread Bendall, Paul
Ok I have had some spare time recently while I wait on others to make decisions on my Exchange projects. I decided to do a search on Kodiak, the replacement of the ESE database engine for Exchange. I found the following article, among others, which talks about Yukon the next version of SQL which

RE: exchange on a DC

2001-12-04 Thread Bendall, Paul
There is a Microsoft article that discusses some of the points and states that Microsoft does not support this deployment. That is not the same thing as it wouldn't work. Q275127 Regards, Paul List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm

RE: Automating adding/changing smtp addresses in Exchange 5.5?

2001-11-29 Thread Bendall, Paul
You need to do a directory export to a csv file from within Exchange administrator, you may want to get hold of header.exe to create a csv file with more headers than a normal default export of the directory will produce, specifically Secondary Proxy Address. Once you have the information in csv

RE: Deferring

2001-11-29 Thread Bendall, Paul
We also use Webshield, although we are moving away from it now to use IIS SMTP relay service and MessageLabs as our anti-virus protection, but I digress. I would update Webshield to the latest available version which I think is 4.5 MR1A, I seem to remember this being an ongoing problem with the

Disaster Recovery Best Practices

2001-11-20 Thread Bendall, Paul
I am interested in the procedures people have in place for disaster recovery on Exchange 5.5. I have read the disaster recovery white paper a number of times but wanted to know what people are doing in the field. The scenario is two servers in production housed in the same location, the disaster

Modprof and PRF for Outlook

2001-11-16 Thread Bendall, Paul
Has anyone got a copy of a prf file for use with modprof as opposed to newprof. I can't work out exactly where the new variables and syntax should go in the file and would appreciate anyone else's verion to copy. TIA Paul List Charter and FAQ at:

Palm syncing and Deleted item retention

2001-11-15 Thread Bendall, Paul
Does anyone know how the Chapura Pocket Mirror synchsonises between Outlook and Palm PDA? A user has managed to incorrectly synchronise the Palm and wipe out 2,000 contacts from his Outlook and Palm. I have looked in deleted items, and delted item recovery tool with the administrator registry

RE: Palm syncing and Deleted item retention

2001-11-15 Thread Bendall, Paul
... -Original Message- From: Bendall, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 2:23 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Palm syncing and Deleted item retention Does anyone know how the Chapura Pocket Mirror synchsonises between Outlook and Palm PDA? A user has managed

Outlook Profile after Move server wizard

2001-11-14 Thread Bendall, Paul
Hope someone can clear something up. If you use Move server wizard to move a server out of a site into a new site but in the same organisation, will Outlook get redirected? My understanding is that it will not Outlook MAPI only gets redirected to servers in the same site, i.e. it works for move

RE: Outlook Profile after Move server wizard

2001-11-14 Thread Bendall, Paul
, yes I know other things get changed but these are the significant elements for a profile). You might like to check out my website which offers createprf.exe which has the facility to update a profile from one server to another. Kevin www.mailsoftware.co.uk -Original Message- From: Bendall

Mailbox thinks it is a custom recipient

2001-11-09 Thread Bendall, Paul
Title: Mailbox thinks it is a custom recipient I have an Exchange server that has been restored, long story but the DS and IS both went belly up. Couldn't restore DS initially so reinstalled Exchange into same Org, Site and server had the same name then used the ADC to populate the Exchange

RE: Tracking relayed messages

2001-11-09 Thread Bendall, Paul
RFC 2821 Reads ...SMTP clients and servers SHOULD NOT copy the full set of RCPT command arguments into the headers, either as part of trace headers or as informational or private-extension headers... This is why BCC addresses will not appear in the internet headers. Regards, Paul

RE: Outlook 2000 slow to open MAPI account with Exchange 2000

2001-11-02 Thread Bendall, Paul
Or your last point upgrade to Windows XP Server (when available) which will allow you to change DC's and domain names. Paul -Original Message- From: Garrett Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 November 2001 15:24 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook 2000 slow to

RE: IIS 5.0 SMTP

2001-11-02 Thread Bendall, Paul
Mike, Take a look at this FAQ it may help you even though it was originally written for IIS 4.0. http://www.simpler-webb.com/resource/exch_faq_appxh.htm Regards, Paul -Original Message- From: Mike Powell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 November 2001 18:29 To: MS-Exchange Admin

Outlook 2002 administrative policies

2001-10-01 Thread Bendall, Paul
Title: Outlook 2002 administrative policies Ok I know this slightly off-topic of Exchange but has anyone had any experience of deploying Outlook2002 and using administrative policies through Windows 2000 GPO. In Outlook 2000 you could set the users with OST and set automatically synchronise

RE: Backing up Exchange with Veritas Backup Exec 8.x

2001-09-03 Thread Bendall, Paul
deleting refer to Technet article, Q178630. Good luck, Paul -Original Message- From: David James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 31 August 2001 18:59 To: 'Bendall, Paul ' Subject: RE: Backing up Exchange with Veritas Backup Exec 8.x Paul, How do you use Outlook to recover the items? DPJ

RE: Backing up Exchange with Veritas Backup Exec 8.x

2001-08-31 Thread Bendall, Paul
Backup Exec to backup the Exchange server, what type of back up jobs do you run? Daily Differentials and Full every Friday. [Bendall, Paul]Full every day, we are limited by space 40/80GB not time. DO you backup the IS and the individual mailboxes every evening or just the IS.[Bendall, Paul

Automatically creating signature in Outlook

2001-08-28 Thread Bendall, Paul
Title: Automatically creating signature in Outlook It would be nice if we could rollout an automated signature config for all our users. The majority of the signatures are the same for each user but obviously the name changes. First question is where is the signature kept is it the registry

RE: Need to get an email back.

2001-08-28 Thread Bendall, Paul
Go to the message in sent items, open it up. Then from Tools menu select recall message. This only works if the recipient is within the Exchange Organisation i.e. it would not work for a message sent to the internet. Regards, Paul -Original Message- From: David James [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Automatically creating signature in Outlook

2001-08-28 Thread Bendall, Paul
... - -Original Message- From: Bendall, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 11:52 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Automatically creating signature in Outlook Thanks for your help Scott. I think I may have got it sorted out after your initial

RE: Automatically creating signature in Outlook

2001-08-28 Thread Bendall, Paul
? - -Original Message- From: Bendall, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 11:55 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Automatically creating signature in Outlook Fire them ;o) -Original Message- From

RE: Automatically creating signature in Outlook

2001-08-28 Thread Bendall, Paul
- We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams. - Willy Wonka - -Original Message- From: Bendall, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 12:04 PM To: MS-Exchange

RE: MMC Snap-ins for SMTP NNTP not displaying

2001-08-23 Thread Bendall, Paul
This is done on the Exchange MMC under protocols. I made the same observation until I remembered back to my course. Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 23 August 2001 10:17 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: MMC Snap-ins for SMTP NNTP

RE: Viewing Multiple Mailboxes

2001-08-22 Thread Bendall, Paul
I am sure you can do this in Exchange 2000 PF's by disabling per user read/unread property on the PF. I also found the following article that applies the same thing can be done on Exch 5.5 post SP2, Q215335. Rregards, Paul -Original Message- From: Les Bessant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: Exchange Banner editing - Interesting Article on the sercurit y list - here's a summary for those who missed it

2001-08-22 Thread Bendall, Paul
I thought HP had moved to Exchange 2000 already. I know they are stopping Openmail support in the next year or so, should be busy time for you migrating the Openmail deployments. I know one place that sent their Openmail admins on Exchange 2000 course expecting them to come back and start

RE: Exchange Banner editing - Interesting Article on the sercurit y list - here's a summary for those who missed it

2001-08-22 Thread Bendall, Paul
- From: Bendall, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 4:42 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange Banner editing - Interesting Article on the sercurit y list - here's a summary for those who missed it I thought HP had moved to Exchange 2000 already. I