RE: Droid - The next thing?

2009-10-24 Thread William Lefkovics
I read an amusing article recently suggesting Android sales will surpass iPhone by 2012 I think it was. -Original Message- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:pmaglin...@scvl.com] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 1:35 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Droid - The next thing?

RE: Droid - The next thing?

2009-10-24 Thread William Lefkovics
: Droid - The next thing? As if anybody can predict fickle market trends 3 years out... -sc -Original Message- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:will...@lefkovics.net] Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 7:19 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Droid - The next thing? I read an amusing

RE: Postini

2009-10-14 Thread William Lefkovics
How do we de-google ourselves? From: Wulff Jr, Ronald J. [mailto:rwu...@reedsmith.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 4:06 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Postini I am going to light them on fire. Anyone else getting a lot of question from management today after their

RE: Exchange 10

2009-10-08 Thread William Lefkovics
General availability in November. Not sure about the VHDs. From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sam.ca...@rollouts.com] Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 10:32 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 10 Sweet. When are the VHDs going to be avail online for testing? _

Re: Good book for getting my feet wet in Exch2007

2009-10-06 Thread William Lefkovics
Bill is my Dad. :) William Stormed from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: paul chinnery pdw1...@hotmail.com Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 12:29:03 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issuesexchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Subject: RE: Good book for getting my feet wet in

RE: iPhone experience

2009-10-02 Thread William Lefkovics
I have the very same experience with the Blackberry Storm. boing, boing, boing, thud I since bought a rubber sleeve for it. They have similar things for the iPhone of course, such as http://5thirtyone.com/archives/839. Maybe they will replace the screen if broken.

RE: iPhone experience

2009-10-02 Thread William Lefkovics
What an interesting thread. I heard that the number #1 mobile device connecting to Microsoft’s Exchange Servers is the iPhone. Rumours, surely. From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 2:10 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re:

RE: iPhone experience

2009-10-02 Thread William Lefkovics
It's iPhone owners you have to worry about. http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story/Man-Allegedly-Shows-Gun-After-iPhone-Tr ouble/m1SZuRQevUGyjuQOV3aqMA.cspx :) -Original Message- From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net] Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 3:02 PM To:

RE: Ironport or Proofpoint?

2009-09-18 Thread William Lefkovics
Exchange does just fine killing the right spam. It just requires more time and effort. I think you'd be better off using an 'edge' server running Postfix/spamassassin/openrbl, but that too requires a little time and effort. Other options: http://spam.abuse.net/adminhelp/mail.shtml

RE: Ironport or Proofpoint?

2009-09-18 Thread William Lefkovics
me over ASSP ? Kevinm | WLKMMAS | This message is Certified Swine Flu Free | http://www.hedonists.ca http://www.hedonists.ca/ From: William Lefkovics [mailto:will...@lefkovics.net] Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 9:38 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ironport or Proofpoint

RE: Is Exchange Doomed?

2009-06-25 Thread William Lefkovics
There are people moving from hosted to in-house solutions as well. -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 1:27 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Is Exchange Doomed? It is indeed more complicated than that, but it still

RE: Is Exchange Doomed?

2009-06-25 Thread William Lefkovics
Indeed. Furthermore, there is no assurance at all that external people can improve on what internal personnel can accomplish. Sometimes there is a place and others, notsomuch. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009

RE: Is Exchange Doomed?

2009-06-25 Thread William Lefkovics
- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 3:00 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Is Exchange Doomed? Seems like nobody's ever happy with what they have, it seems! :) On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 14:57, William Lefkovics will...@lefkovics.net wrote

RE: Is Exchange Doomed?

2009-06-23 Thread William Lefkovics
Like most other hosted messaging solutions. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:31 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Is Exchange Doomed? Shockingly, it's happening. A number of my hosted Exchange clients handle

RE: Is Exchange Doomed?

2009-06-23 Thread William Lefkovics
With 120k users, potentially, you could just be trading one cloud for another. Microsoft has been coming up with business POS for decades. Exchange, of course, is no POS. J From: KevinM [mailto:kev...@wlkmmas.org] Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 5:54 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues

RE: what is your maximum message size in exchange 2007

2009-06-11 Thread William Lefkovics
Has it been 20 minutes already? -Original Message- From: Dennis Melahn [mailto:den...@advancedav.com] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 9:24 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: what is your maximum message size in exchange 2007 Was just curious if I was being unreasonable to my Sales

RE: what is your maximum message size in exchange 2007

2009-06-11 Thread William Lefkovics
Of course, the limitations that others have implemented in their messaging solutions have little to do with whether DM is being reasonable given the balance of his firm's needs and resources. Limits? Ya, whatever the receiving system accepts. From: Sherry Abercrombie

RE: what is your maximum message size in exchange 2007

2009-06-11 Thread William Lefkovics
I used to be a customer. From: Kat Collins [mailto:messagel...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 9:45 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: what is your maximum message size in exchange 2007 And if you consistently need larger file delivery, look at shameless plug YouSendIt

RE: what is your maximum message size in exchange 2007

2009-06-11 Thread William Lefkovics
I will disagree with that 20th century assessment. It is more like using a different screwdriver. If you want to setup and maintain a SFTP resource and the intended recipients are willing to partake in this method of file transfer, then great. Perhaps that is best for you. Perhaps an HTTPS file

RE: Is Exchange Doomed?

2009-06-10 Thread William Lefkovics
All the major competitors have Outlook plugins. The many open source solutions, like Zimbra Collaboration Suite, used to market that they were 'exchange killers' because they were able to minimize the impact of changing to their server product on the user experience. It never really materialized

RE: Is Exchange Doomed?

2009-06-10 Thread William Lefkovics
I used it once. From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:24 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Is Exchange Doomed? Around 1.75 million businesses are using Google Apps? 1.75 million USERS I would believe, not businesses. Exchange

RE: Is Exchange Doomed?

2009-06-10 Thread William Lefkovics
Most shops I know use Exchange for MAIL. Specifically because of the interaction between Outlook and Exchange. The competitive marketing material for Lotus Notes proudly declares that comparing Exchange and Notes is like Apples and Oranges - Exchange is just a MAIL platform and Notes is a

RE: Is Exchange Doomed?

2009-06-10 Thread William Lefkovics
I was with you right up to the 'Gmail is great' part and then I tasted some throwup in my mouth. From: Louis, Joe [mailto:jlo...@guardianalarm.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 10:06 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Is Exchange Doomed? I just find it hard to believe that

RE: Is Exchange Doomed?

2009-06-10 Thread William Lefkovics
There are reasons it is offered for free. It is still in beta, isn't it? When you go down the list, it seems there is a lot that their Outlook connector cannot do: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=147751 From: Joe Pochedley [mailto:joe.poched...@fivesgroup.com]

RE: Is Exchange Doomed?

2009-06-10 Thread William Lefkovics
at 12:53 PM, William Lefkovics will...@lefkovics.net wrote: I was with you right up to the 'Gmail is great' part and then I tasted some throwup in my mouth. From: Louis, Joe [mailto:jlo...@guardianalarm.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 10:06 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE

RE: Transaction Log File Names Running Out

2009-05-12 Thread William Lefkovics
It doesn't matter if you do backups or not. If your server has used 950,000 transaction logs for that storage group, the warning will appear through ExBPA or MOM. I've never seen it in real life. From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:mblackst...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 9:05 AM

RE: Exchange archiving

2009-05-07 Thread William Lefkovics
I don't see file system storage access for companies very often anymore. Oh sure, the IT dept works in the CLI or Explorer, but the user base doesn't. Why have users wandering through Windows Explorer? It tends to be a content management system of some sort distributed through some database

RE: Exchange archiving

2009-05-06 Thread William Lefkovics
As long as they are not using 5000 subfolders. From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:sj...@amico.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 8:26 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange archiving Yes most of my users are using many subfolders so the 5,000 limit is not a problem,

RE: Exchange archiving

2009-05-06 Thread William Lefkovics
Here, it is both a file transfer system and a storage system accessed through a PIM portal (Outlook in most cases). From: Don Andrews [mailto:don.andr...@safeway.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 9:24 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange archiving We tell 'em - save

RE: Exchange archiving

2009-05-06 Thread William Lefkovics
of their driveway. _ From: William Lefkovics [mailto:will...@lefkovics.net] Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 12:21 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange archiving Here, it is both a file transfer system and a storage system accessed through a PIM portal (Outlook in most

RE: Very Important Swine Flu Tip

2009-04-30 Thread William Lefkovics
what % of 6,000,000,000 is 257? That is about the same percentage needed for a successful spam promotion. :) Go bots! If a viral pandemic reaches tenths of a percent of the world population in deaths, it is very well established and possibly way too late for constructive global reaction.

RE: OT: Very Important Swine Flu Tip

2009-04-30 Thread William Lefkovics
I deal with salespeople and I never get ill from e.coli either. From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 7:49 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Very Important Swine Flu Tip Yep. -- ME2 On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:28

RE: Exmon Available for Exchange 2007

2009-04-01 Thread William Lefkovics
Or wait until they put it up there. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@owa.smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 8:35 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exmon Available for Exchange 2007 Two years laterExmon (Exchange Server User Monitor) has finally been updated

RE: Exmon Available for Exchange 2007

2009-04-01 Thread William Lefkovics
Well, ExMon itself is version 6.5, but all the support around it is old. You have to install it to get to the documentation that tells you how to install it. J From: William Lefkovics [mailto:will...@lefkovics.net] Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 9:26 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject

RE: BLOCING PORN SITES

2009-03-30 Thread William Lefkovics
Twitter and Facebook are the new pr0n. Most pr0n in e-mail is blocked as spam, isn't it? I have a client who uses WebSense for website blocking and reporting and then uses anti-spam measures with Exchange, including content filtering with specific terms. Journaling or archiving can provide

RE: Offline Defrag of 2007 message store

2009-03-27 Thread William Lefkovics
I don't see any difference really, but to be honest, I have never tried to quantify eseutil performance for each. From: Cesare' A. Ramos [mailto:cra...@idfllc.com] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:48 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Offline Defrag of 2007 message store Hellos

RE: OST's PST's

2009-03-25 Thread William Lefkovics
files. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832925 So.those of you keeping users from adding to PST's must be doing it a different way than I'm attempting. Please, please, please (and yeah, I'm begging) share how!!! _ From: William Lefkovics [mailto:will...@lefkovics.net] Sent: Monday

RE: +AFs-LIST ADMIN MESSAGE+AF0- RE: Make sure you look better by losing weight

2009-03-24 Thread William Lefkovics
Bypassing captchas is also done with a minimum of effort - both with technology and cheap labour. They stop me, of course. But they don't stop spammers that want to get to the other side of one. -Original Message- From: Jason Gurtz [mailto:jasongu...@npumail.com] Sent: Tuesday,

RE: OST's PST's

2009-03-23 Thread William Lefkovics
However, this also affects OST files. Where did you read this? From: Brown, Larry [mailto:larry.br...@dplinc.com] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 7:14 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: OST's PST's Exchange 2007 CCR, Outlook 2003 (until later this year.I hope) We are in

RE: Large Mailboxes Performance

2009-03-23 Thread William Lefkovics
I wonder if those very rough guidelines are impacted at all by the performance improvements in the Outlook 2007 cumulative update from February 2009. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=968009 (This will be in Office 2007 SP2 also) From: Neil Hobson [mailto:nhob...@gmail.com] Sent:

RE: Problems with PST files on a Network Drive.

2009-03-23 Thread William Lefkovics
Any Outlook integrated antivirus? Does it work in safe mode? (outlook.exe /safe) Any permission changes on the network drives? (Outlook needs write access, not just read) And of course to ask the question you don't want to hear, if you have Exchange, why use PSTs at all? From: Kevan

RE: Out of Touch for Next week

2009-03-21 Thread William Lefkovics
http://facebookpr0xy.info/ Oh, and congratulations. William (7,500 diaper changes and counting) From: gswe...@actsconsulting.net [mailto:gswe...@actsconsulting.net] Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 10:00 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Out of Touch for Next week Just

RE: Large file.

2009-03-17 Thread William Lefkovics
I bet mortar fire really message up the voice recognition software. I am thinking at the end of my blackberry messages, I should type. Rest assured that this absolutely was not From: Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT) [mailto:john.matte...@afghan.swa.army.mil] Sent:

RE: OT: Social Networking

2009-03-17 Thread William Lefkovics
At least you didn't say something about how he well he could mount his 2U in a rack. -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 9:45 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Social Networking I heard that in

RE: Large file.

2009-03-17 Thread William Lefkovics
don't like that signature, why not change it or turn it off? (or does Verizon not allow you to do that?) _ From: William Lefkovics [mailto:will...@lefkovics.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 2:02 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Large file. I bet mortar fire really

RE: Happy Birthday Wishes to Michael B. Smith

2009-03-16 Thread William Lefkovics
removes birthday from facebook At least on Facebook, he could control who sees that personal information. From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 10:05 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: OT: Happy Birthday Wishes to Michael B. Smith

RE: Social Networking

2009-03-16 Thread William Lefkovics
Leave it to businesses to ruin a social tool. Go back to LinkedIn, CIOs. From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 12:47 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: OT: Social Networking Okay, since I caused such an uproar with my other OT post

RE: Ex2007 books

2009-03-10 Thread William Lefkovics
Subject: RE: Ex2007 books Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: The Complete Reference; by Richard Luckett, Bharat Suneja, and (this list's own) William Lefkovics http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Exchange-Server-2007-Reference/dp/0071490841 /ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8 http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Exchange

RE: A downloaded .xls file attachment is empty when you open the file by using Outlook Web Access

2009-03-09 Thread William Lefkovics
Congrats on finally getting the book out there. What is it called again? Exchange 2016 - Enterprise Cloud Version? From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com] Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 5:19 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: A downloaded .xls file

OT: Friday Funny - Selling Office 2007 in Denmark

2009-02-27 Thread William Lefkovics
The Word icon is such a slut. http://www.microsoft.com/danmark/office/kampagner/ultimatestudent/default.as px ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja~

RE: Multiple attachments in OWA 2007

2009-02-24 Thread William Lefkovics
Compile them in a single zip file and then attach? -Original Message- From: Steve Hart [mailto:sh...@wrightbg.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 1:32 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Multiple attachments in OWA 2007 This is definitely more of a client question than

RE: E14 Short Demo - Outlook Live

2009-02-12 Thread William Lefkovics
Is there anyone here that does not have the ExchangeTeam blog in their opml? From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com] Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 2:01 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: E14 Short Demo - Outlook Live MSFT has us under strict NDA about

RE: Rules

2009-02-06 Thread William Lefkovics
Because your task seems easier to do on certain mail server/client combinations, it would help for those non-Outlook clients. It's just an option, since Exchange doesn't seem to have a simple server-side transport solution for you. From: KevinM [mailto:kev...@wlkmmas.org] Sent: Friday,

RE: Rules

2009-02-06 Thread William Lefkovics
. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php From: William Lefkovics [mailto:will...@lefkovics.net] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 2:03 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE

RE: mail store size question

2009-02-02 Thread William Lefkovics
I agree. There are better places for file transfer and storage. But I don't think a 6GB mailbox is unreasonable at all though. An archiving solution may be beneficial in that case, but as for size consideration, 6GB is not that much anymore for long term positions of high email use. 150MB is

RE: mail store size question

2009-02-02 Thread William Lefkovics
have a rather high daily e-mail usage, with e-mailing contract changes back and forth all day, and having to keep all versions until a point is agreed on. They still don't have more than 200 MB. Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel From: William Lefkovics [mailto:will...@lefkovics.net] Sent

RE: mail store size question

2009-02-02 Thread William Lefkovics
changes back and forth all day, and having to keep all versions until a point is agreed on. They still don't have more than 200 MB. Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel From: William Lefkovics [mailto:will...@lefkovics.net] Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 10:55 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues

RE: Exchange 2007 and Powershell books

2009-02-02 Thread William Lefkovics
You won't go wrong with McBee books. -Original Message- From: Didtel, Larry [mailto:larry.did...@stemilt.com] Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 10:59 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 2007 and Powershell books What are your favorite Exchange 2007 and newbie to Powershell

RE: Exchange 2007 and Powershell books

2009-02-02 Thread William Lefkovics
://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -Original Message- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:will...@lefkovics.net] Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 2:40 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 and Powershell books You won't

¿lıɐɯ-ǝ ɹoɟ ǝsn oʇ ɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ p ılɐʌ ɐ sıɥʇ sı

2009-01-28 Thread William Lefkovics
RFC5322 lists the valid characters. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5322.txt From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:04 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Is this a valid character to use for e-mail? Is this: Ÿ A valid

RE: ¿lıɐɯ-ǝ ɹoɟ ǝsn oʇ ɹǝʇɔɐɹɐ ɥɔ pılɐʌ ɐ sıɥʇ sı

2009-01-28 Thread William Lefkovics
ɹoɟ ǝsn oʇ ɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ pılɐʌ ɐ sıɥʇ sı LOL—How long did that take you!?! -Bonnie From: William Lefkovics [mailto:will...@lefkovics.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:03 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: ¿lıɐɯ-ǝ ɹoɟ ǝsn oʇ ɹǝʇɔɐɹɐɥɔ pılɐʌ ɐ sıɥʇ sı RFC5322 lists the valid

RE: SPAM: Re: Is this a valid character to use for e-mail?

2009-01-28 Thread William Lefkovics
FWIW, RFC2822 was replaced by RFC5322 last year. http://hellomate.typepad.com/exchange/2008/10/rfc28212822-updated-and-replac ed-with-rfc53215322.html BTW, when ordering a cake by email, be sure to use plain text: http://www.labnol.org/internet/microsoft-outlook-ruins-birthday-cake/6824/

RE: Friday Humor

2009-01-23 Thread William Lefkovics
Maybe his DIY USB Colonoscopy Kit crashed WinMe. http://craziestgadgets.com/2009/01/22/diy-usb-colonoscopy-kit/ -Original Message- From: Steve Szabo [mailto:steve...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 2:50 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: OT: Friday Humor Be the fly on

RE: [OT] Thursday Funny

2009-01-22 Thread William Lefkovics
The cloud, Software-as-a-Service, Hosted Solutions, whatever you want to call it, is part of the evolution of networking. They are not _worried_ about it; they are embracing it (groove.com, mesh.com, office.live.com). However, it means fewer installed instances of Windows Server, Office,

RE: [OT] Thursday Funny

2009-01-22 Thread William Lefkovics
and will hurt a lot more in the future than they do now, as they have more serious consequences, I sincerely believe. On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:00 PM, William Lefkovics will...@lefkovics.net wrote: The cloud, Software-as-a-Service, Hosted Solutions, whatever you want to call it, is part

RE: Penetration testing for Exchange server

2009-01-19 Thread William Lefkovics
Preparing for such a test, I would start with Microsoft Security Assessment Tool http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/cc185712.aspx Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/cc184924.aspx From: Zayan, Abdullah [mailto:aza...@kockw.com]

RE: exchange reporting tool

2009-01-12 Thread William Lefkovics
Exchange can gather a lot of information about itself. Performance Monitor can quantify usage on hundreds of different metrics. Weblogs can be parsed to show OWA usage. Protocol logging, message tracking, event logs, configuration information (AD), WMI... Here is a list of products that can

RE: Incremental backups

2009-01-12 Thread William Lefkovics
Circular logging is not enabled is it? Anything in the app event log after the last full backup to indicate a problem? Were the transaction logs properly deleted after the last full backup? From: Sobey, Richard A [mailto:r.so...@imperial.ac.uk] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 2:37 AM

RE: exchange reporting tool

2009-01-12 Thread William Lefkovics
tool Webster likes GoExchange for these types of reporting needs... :) No, that is William Lefkovics. He covers GoExchange in Chapter 22 of his book. Never seen a product covered in so much detail before. Made me want to go out and spend my own money on the product and give it to MBS

RE: exchange reporting tool

2009-01-12 Thread William Lefkovics
Lefkovics [mailto:will...@lefkovics.net] Subject: RE: exchange reporting tool -Original Message- From: Webster [mailto:carlwebs...@gmail.com] Subject: RE: exchange reporting tool No, that is William Lefkovics. He covers GoExchange in Chapter 22 of his book. Never seen a product

RE: Outlook POP/SMTP question

2009-01-08 Thread William Lefkovics
All users? A few? New profiles? Do you have control of the POP3 server? If it is a lot of users, then I would be looking at the server and troubleshooting POP from there first. You could use a packet sniffer to view the POP3 conversations to see where they fail. You could enable logging in

RE: Catalogdata files

2009-01-02 Thread William Lefkovics
It does put a load on the server depending on busy that server is. I would stop the Microsoft Exchange Search Service and then delete the catalogdata. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa995966.aspx -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent:

RE: Catalogdata files

2009-01-02 Thread William Lefkovics
No. Just stop the Microsoft Exchange Search Service. -Original Message- From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 8:19 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Catalogdata files Does the DB have to be taken offline to delete them? John W. Cook

RE: Managed Default folders

2009-01-02 Thread William Lefkovics
You're supposed to use the URL... http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=site%3Amicrosoft.com+start+Exchange+Message+Records+Management -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com] Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 12:26 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues

RE: Bulk mail services?

2008-12-31 Thread William Lefkovics
ListServ Maestro by L-soft. http://www.lsoft.com/products/maestro.asp Depending on what 'services' you are looking for. From: Moss, Sue [mailto:sm...@cas.org] Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 5:14 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Bulk mail services? Hello and Happy New

RE: Happy Holidays

2008-12-24 Thread William Lefkovics
Merry Christmas to you and yours and mine and hers and theirs and ours and his. It’s great to have your unique perspective in this forum, John. _ From: Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT) [mailto:john.matte...@afghan.swa.army.mil] Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008

RE: Happy, Happy, Merry,Merry!

2008-12-24 Thread William Lefkovics
23 OOFs. A new record for me. Maybe they are all out hunting Rudolph with a Howitzer. http://www.buckstix.com/howitzer.htm (ya, it's old) -Original Message- From: Matt Moore [mailto:mattmoore...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 8:38 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues

RE: Happy, Happy, Merry,Merry!

2008-12-24 Thread William Lefkovics
I was way too quick with that. It is now at 35 OOFs for that message. -Original Message- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:will...@lefkovics.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 9:37 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Happy, Happy, Merry,Merry! 23 OOFs. A new record for me

RE: Non-Outlook Exchange Clients

2008-12-18 Thread William Lefkovics
There are lots of alternatives, but none are Outlook. A recent compelling one is Spicebird (www.spicebird.com). I did a review of an earlier beta: http://www.brighthub.com/office/collaboration/reviews/11575.aspx Another one is the MAPI client Zimbra Desktop Client. You would have to connect

RE: Non-Outlook Exchange Clients

2008-12-18 Thread William Lefkovics
What is the goal by the way? You can purchase Outlook independent of Office. Would that meet the requirements? -Original Message- From: Steve Hart [mailto:sh...@wrightbg.com] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 1:12 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Non-Outlook Exchange Clients

RE: Resume Posting

2008-12-17 Thread William Lefkovics
Good for you. I hope he's cute. From: Jeremy Phillips [mailto:jeremy.phill...@azaleos.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 12:56 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Resume Posting Yeah, I've heard that. I'm waiting for the snow to appear. I'm now supposed to get up to 9 at

RE: Resume Posting

2008-12-17 Thread William Lefkovics
Same here. 1 of snow here in Las Vegas, NV so far today. -Original Message- From: Jeremy Phillips [mailto:jeremy.phill...@azaleos.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 1:30 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Resume Posting I would take snow over humidity any day. ;)

RE: Resume Posting

2008-12-17 Thread William Lefkovics
The last snowman I made in Las Vegas was in 2003, so it has been awhile. Sometimes it snows and doesn't stick. It is a winter wonderland here in the Mojave Desert. William Lefkovics http://msexchangeblog.com -Original Message- From: Thomas Gonzalez [mailto:tgonza...@girlscouts

RE: Lotus Notes 8x vs Exchange 2007.

2008-12-01 Thread William Lefkovics
Lotus made so many great changes in version 8. From the clients side, Notes 8 seems to have decided to try to copy Outlook in presentation. This is not your father's Domino/Notes anymore. It is still a much better platform for developing custom applications and workflow, especially with the

RE: Lotus Notes 8x vs Exchange 2007.

2008-12-01 Thread William Lefkovics
You should create a pseudonym logon for the Lotus Notes list too and ask the same question for balance. Their answers on this theme tend to be a little more religious in fervor. [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Andrew Leong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 7:52 AM To:

RE: Happy Thanksgiving

2008-11-25 Thread William Lefkovics
Certainly Happy Thanksgiving to the Americans on the list, wherever you are in the world. Except for maybe the Native Americans to whom I extend my condolences on this day of mourning. From: Bill Lambert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 7:20 AM To: MS-Exchange

RE: Offline Defrag of Exchange store, but disk space is limited

2008-11-21 Thread William Lefkovics
How often do you folks perform offline defrags? Every few years or so, whether it's needed or not. when disk space is running a little low? Add more disks. If disk space is a problem, and you want to get some back, are you forcing archiving somewhere or mailbox cleanup policy (in

RE: Offline Defrag of Exchange store, but disk space is limited

2008-11-21 Thread William Lefkovics
an offline defrag whether it's needed or not ? On 11/21/08, William Lefkovics [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How often do you folks perform offline defrags? Every few years or so, whether it's needed or not. when disk space is running a little low? Add more disks. If disk space

RE: Offline Defrag of Exchange store, but disk space is limited

2008-11-21 Thread William Lefkovics
Ya, that's it... I go to Hallucin8 and download the latest trial version of GoExchange... (I am surprised it is already time for the bimonthly offline defrag thread) -Original Message- From: Webster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 4:46 AM To: MS-Exchange

RE: Offline Defrag of Exchange store, but disk space is limited

2008-11-21 Thread William Lefkovics
I have one. I mounted it atop my old yarmulke. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 7:25 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Offline Defrag of Exchange store, but disk space is limited You gave me one I can send

RE: Email Archival 101: a General View

2008-11-20 Thread William Lefkovics
Lots of good information in there. I certainly don't agree with everything. Event sinks? In Exchange 2007, you would write an archiving transport/routing agent. Small companies often need archiving but do not have a legal department or binding regulatory needs. They need a manageable

RE: Offline Defrag of Exchange store, but disk space is limited

2008-11-20 Thread William Lefkovics
One of the eseutil switches allows for a network drive for the temp database file, but bandwidth limitations will probably make this task considerably longer to perform. The more whitespace you have, the less time. Something like: Eseutil.exe /d /t z:\remotelocation\temp.edb

RE: e-mail archiving

2008-11-19 Thread William Lefkovics
Without apologies to Sunbelt or any of the other 1000 or so Exchange archiving companies, I am also testing the Exchange Server Archiver from Red Gate. It seems to focus on ease of use and is very effective. http://hellomate.typepad.com/exchange/2008/11/red-gate-softwares-exchange-ar

RE: Outlook Popup

2008-11-13 Thread William Lefkovics
I agree with James, though I would favor the Mapilabs solution for #2. -Original Message- From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 5:15 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Outlook Popup Yeah we did look at 'redemption' but it required

RE: Guide to Exchange 2007 hosting setup

2008-10-28 Thread William Lefkovics
I think the barriers are lower than they used to be. But it is quickly getting crowded out there for hosted services. Obviously economies of scale come into play here. -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:21 AM To:

RE: A Friday Look Back to Look Ahead: 1969

2008-10-24 Thread William Lefkovics
Especially this part. Items the wife purchases on her console are paid for by the husband on his console From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 5:47 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: OT: A Friday Look Back to Look Ahead: 1969

RE: OT: A Friday Look Back to Look Ahead: 1969 (UNCLASSIFIED)

2008-10-24 Thread William Lefkovics
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=qhl=engeocode=q=head+smashed+in+buffalo+jum p,+albertamrt=kmlkmzjsv=133dsll=51.715118,-112.854309sspn=0.993803,2.900 391ie=UTF8latlng=49749400,-113623900,8335634340298906039ei=lj0CScDwLIr6Nc yG_OsMcd=3 From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

RE: Exchange archive/PST consolidation

2008-10-16 Thread William Lefkovics
Three or four Exchange MVPs work for Mimosa. I suspect there is a reason for that. http://www.mimosasystems.com/ From: Damien Solodow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 2:28 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange archive/PST consolidation We're

RE: Alternative to Exchange

2008-10-15 Thread William Lefkovics
There are lots of alternatives to Exchange. None of them are the market leader of course. Axigen OpenXchange (http://www.open-xchange.com/) Zimbra (http://zimbra.com) Scalix Perhaps a hosted Exchange solution or similar would be better? -Original Message- From: Dennis Rogov

RE: outlook 07 macro help

2008-10-02 Thread William Lefkovics
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sue Mosher (Digital Press) and Ken Slovak (Wrox) have authored the two best, if not only, books on programming Outlook 2007. -Original Message- From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 11:54 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues

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