RE: Contact Management add-on for Exchange ?

2002-07-08 Thread Bob Christian
Have you tried making the .exe run as a service? There are several tools out there that will help you accomplish this, including tools packaged in the NT Resource Kit and 2000 Reskits. That might help you if you can get something you are already comfortable with to run as a service. Bob

DR hardware CPU failure (was RE: Question)

2002-06-21 Thread Bob Christian
Brien: Direct Answer: yes...but it depends on your manufacturer, their RAID or SCSI controller card, where the RAID/SCSI information is stored, etc. However, if your CPU takes a dive, the data that you move over might not be any good! It depends on why it died. We

RE: Filtering based on extra header info

2002-06-11 Thread Bob Christian
You could always create a rule to check messages when they arrive with specific words in the header and filter for X-Spam-Flag: YES, moving it to a SPAM folder or sending it to Deleted Items. Spam Assassin is pretty good. I use Trend's eManager to filter SPAM along with some rules I have

RE: NAV for Exchange

2002-04-30 Thread Bob Christian
I have to add my $0.02. I now use Trend products for e-mail, both on the DMZ and on the Exchange box. We used all NAV solutions for desktops, servers, and e-messaging products internally a few years back. Symantec's products are pretty easy to manage and practically manage themselves once

RE: How much time should I be allowing for Exchange 5.5 SP3 ---SP4

2002-04-30 Thread Bob Christian
I had nearly 11 Gig at that time and it took me around 1/2 hour to make the upgrade, test it, etc. I follwed the instructions from MS and had tested it on a workstation. If you have the time and space, I would suggest setting up a test domain and Exchange Organization/Site that mirrors yours

RE: Terminal Question

2002-04-22 Thread Bob Christian
You have to install it and the licensing from the W2K CD. Options, but less secure, are items like VNC from ATT (free, but with a few security flaws), Timbuktu Pro, PCAnywhere (*shudder*), Carbon Copy, Remote Desktop, Remotely ?(Possible)?. I would suggest installing the applicaiton and using

RE: RE: Terminal Question

2002-04-22 Thread Bob Christian
I forgot to add this: http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWS2000/downloads/recommended/TSAC/tsac.asp That is a follow-up to the Advanced PC solutions post. You still have to install the terminal services product from the CD. -Original Message- From: Bob Christian Sent: Monday

KVS Enterprise Vault

2002-04-15 Thread Bob Christian
Has your firm taken the time to talk to Veritas or IBM? Both have products that are similar to KVS's product. Since they are mainstream, it may be less expensive...or it may give you a pricing base to compare with KVS. I have never used KVS nor do I have any familiarity with the prodcut

RE: Exchange 2000 book recommendation

2002-04-12 Thread Bob Christian
RE: Exchange 2000 book recommendation (and shameless plug) I would recommend the Exchange 2000 training kit books and Admin pocket consultant. Both are from MS press. If you have a solid understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, and Active Directory you should be fine. All three should set you back

RE: MAPI over T1

2002-03-11 Thread Bob Christian
I did something similar for a remote office at a former employer. At the time it was an Exchange 5.5 solution. The main thing was limiting the size of the attachments. Second most important was teaching users how to move messages to subfolders, either by rule or manually. Outlook comes up a

Re: BackupExec 8.6 rev. 3878

2002-03-01 Thread Bob Christian
I assume you are on Exchange 5.5. I also assume you have created a backup user and put it in the administrator and backup operators group. If som re-create the job. When you click on the Exchange server, right-click on it and select connect as. Enter the DOMAIN\BackupAccountName and the

RE: Applying Mailbox Limits....After the Fact

2002-02-21 Thread Bob Christian
It depends on your goals. Most companies use POP3 and a Flavor if Linux or FreeBSD. This is primarily because of the low hardware and software cost of implementing such a solution. You can also use something like IMHO* to give webmail access to messages stored on the server. There are

RE: Exporting GAL

2002-01-18 Thread Bob Christian
You can create recipient policies in Exchange. The other thing you can do with Exchange 5.5 is import a .csv. I have an Excel Spreadsheet that I use to use do this. It has the concatenate strings and everything. I won't send it to the list, ye I be hung and De-Exchanged by Bill, Ed, and Stu.

Subject: RE: Exchange over a SAN

2001-12-08 Thread Bob Christian
I can not say whether Exchange on a SAN is supported or not...not my position. IBM Global Services salespeople have mentioned Exchange being used on a SAN and using Tivoli to back it up. I would expect it to be able to handle it. I have had Exchange 5.5 servers operating off a Compaq Fibre

Eric and M2Web: List Questions not getting answered

2001-12-04 Thread Bob Christian
I have not found a formula on how I answer questions. I think it all is based on the time that I have to write, at the time. I assume that we are all alike...sometimes we are all swamped and the messages to the list are small. Today's was 533K. That is about 1/2 the size I normally get.

RE: Anti-virus software for Exchange

2001-11-29 Thread Bob Christian
Trend ScanMail for Exchange, or Trend's Interscan Viruswall. Both are great products and definitely lifesavers. Trend also lets you update your software for up to 1 year free. We had 8 days left on our software purchase and they sent us a new license for the new version without a problem. We

RE: Is it possible to open the edb file and recover a users

2001-10-02 Thread Bob Christian
This is pretty simple. You have to open up Exchange Admin in raw mode. There is a setting for the server in there that you change. I strongly suggest calling PSS and spending the $295...or $245 and have them walk you through it so that you do not lose data or mailboxes!!! Chances are that you

Saving e-mails (follow-up)

2001-08-30 Thread Bob Christian
I saw the original answer from the RMicciche. That works (adding boxes to your outlook and exporting)...however, you may want to try EXMerge if you are looking at pulling all of the messages for review for a group of mailboxes. EXMerge is a tool from Microsoft. Last I remember, it came as part