Anyone recommend a good free M$ Outlook alternative (for Windows) that
fully integrates with Exchange Server (2003)?
Regards,
Rab.
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Robert Jackson Phone: +44 (0) 141 332
7999
IT Manager
Hi Rab,
Evolution has been ported to Windows recently:
http://www.dipconsultants.com/evolution/
http://www.dipconsultants.com/evolution/Regards,
Andrew
On 2 August 2010 16:20, Robert Jackson r...@walkermartyn.co.uk wrote:
Anyone recommend a good free M$ Outlook alternative (for Windows)
Yep - great for sniffing traffic too when you don't want to bother with
a span port ;)
a
-Original Message-
From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com]
Sent: 31 July 2010 05:31
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Your copy of ?Networking and Security for Dummies
On
We're hiding in all sorts of corners .. working in London but from Dublin ;o)
a
From: James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com]
Sent: 31 July 2010 13:46
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: It's that day!
Nice, I was born in Temple street and raised
Just saw this in a newsletter from Sourceforge this morning:
9. DavMail POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav to Exchange
https://sourceforge.net/projects/davmail Ever wanted to get rid of
Outlook ? DavMail is a POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/LDAP gateway allowing users
to use any mail/calendar client with Exchange,
Trying to run a scan on my wife's PC at home (XP Pro SP3) using VipreRescue,
I get an error something about unable to execute instruction. Sorry, it's
a long address string and I didn't write it down. This happens both in
regular mode and in safe-mode with command-prompt-only. Any idea what's
1. As you mentioned, run a scandisk
2. Try a new download of VIPRERESCUE. It's possible you got a bad
download, or something burped during the install.
Good luck!
--
Richard D. McClary
Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group
ASPCA®
1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36
Urbana, IL 61802
We used Vipre last year until It couldn't stop conficker from spreading.
Installed Symantec Endpoint and haven't had any issues. You have to
babysit Vipre way too much.
From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 11:06 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject:
If you set the XP SP3 802.1x authentication mode back to its default, you
should get what you want. The default authentication mode allows a computer
to authenticate with PEAP under its computer account credentials. When a
user logs in to the computer, the auth process is repeated, this time with
Thanks for the info
From: Rob Bonfiglio [mailto:robbonfig...@gmail.com]
Posted At: Sunday, August 01, 2010 12:42 PM
Posted To: itli...@imcu.com
Conversation: OT: Apologies
Subject: Re: OT: Apologies
It looks like it was some variant Antivirus Pro 2009.
I stand corrected, maybe it was 66 days. As a general rule I don't change
defaults unless I have a compelling reason to do so, and I can't think of one
here.
-Original Message-
From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com]
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 4:07 PM
To: NT System Admin
You can either use machine certs or machine credentials (against AD, if the
machines have credentials in AD...)
Cheers
Ken
From: Kelsey, John [mailto:jckel...@drmc.org]
Sent: Friday, 30 July 2010 10:36 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: FW: Wireless Machine Authentication
All Cisco LWAP
We used the machine AD credentials, as that is the path of least resistance.
It is a pretty simple GPO configuration to set it all up, too.
-Malcolm
From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com]
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 10:03
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Wireless
Not if you want to capture data at modern speeds.
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 01:32, Alan Davies adav...@cls-services.com wrote:
Yep - great for sniffing traffic too when you don't want to bother with
a span port ;)
a
-Original Message-
From: Angus Scott-Fleming
Anyone got any idea whether it's possible to use eventcreate to create an event
log entry that contains carriage returns in the description? If so, how?
Is there another tool I can use to achieve this?
Olly
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Network Support
I sent this earlier, but it looks like it may not have made it to the list
since I had been unsubscribed from my little episode this weekend:
We got this from our TAM this morning. No real details, other than that
there will be an out of band update and details will be released later:
They think they have a patch for the .LNK vulnerability. They have also
found a really nasty virus (SALITY) which has been transmitted by this
vulnerability.
They feel it is enough of an emergency to release it on a Monday (rather
than on the second Tuesday).
This information is elsewhere,
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20012270-83.html?tag=nl.e757
From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org]
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 11:23 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Fwd: Upcoming Out of Band update
They think they have
Hah, awesome!
- Original Message -
From: Alan Davies
To: NT System Admin Issues
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 4:37 AM
Subject: RE: It's that day!
We're hiding in all sorts of corners .. working in London but from Dublin ;o)
a
Has anyone seen malware that creates an Outlook rule that moves all new
mail to Deleted Items and then sends out a bunch of spam? I have a few
users that have been hit with something I can't find. I scanned the PCs
with VIPRE, MalwareBytes, Symantec's online scanner and didn't find
anything.
On 2 Aug 2010 at 12:16, Rob Bonfiglio wrote:
I sent this earlier, but it looks like it may not have made it to the
list since I had been unsubscribed from my little episode this weekend:
We got this from our TAM this morning. No real details, other than that
there will be an out of
Have you had the users change their passwords yet?
Die dulci fruere!
Roger Wright
___
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Osborne, Richard
richard.osbo...@wth.org wrote:
Has anyone seen malware that creates an Outlook rule that moves all new
mail to Deleted Items and then sends out a bunch of
Out of curiosity, how long can we expect it to take to download once we've
synchronized? I wouldn't think it would take very long to show up waiting
for approval, but it has been 20 minutes, even though I can see the various
patches were listed in the synchronization report.
On Mon, Aug 2,
I disabled their accounts and it didn't help.
-Original Message-
From: Roger Wright [mailto:rhw...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 1:09 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: malware that creates Outlook rules
Have you had the users change their passwords yet?
Die dulci
60 is the default for 2000 and 2003 R2 forests, 180 for 2003, 2008, 2008 R2
forests. Note this is the original OS version of the first DC not the current
FFL.
There are scenarios you'd change this but they're fairly vertical.
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
c - 312.731.3132
you turned off the computers and it is still happening?
I'd check OWA.
you disabled the accounts, and the spam is still being sent?
Google.com Learn it. Live it. Love it.
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:21, Osborne, Richard richard.osbo...@wth.org wrote:
I disabled their accounts and it didn't
Wow.. Why did it shift downward from 2003 to 2003R2?
-ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.comwrote:
60 is the default for 2000 and 2003 R2 forests, 180 for 2003, 2008, 2008 R2
forests. Note this is the original OS version of the
Can you say bug? :-P
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 2:33 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: 2008 DC being offline
Wow.. Why did it shift downward from
Is your firewall set to only allow SMTP (port 25) traffic from your
Exchange server?
Die dulci fruere!
Roger Wright
___
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Osborne, Richard
richard.osbo...@wth.org wrote:
I disabled their accounts and it didn't help.
-Original Message-
From: Roger
And, it looks as if they're being strict about it too...
I don't see a patch for either Win2k or WinXP SP2 - they both EOL'ed in July.
Kurt
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 09:16, Rob Bonfiglio robbonfig...@gmail.com wrote:
I sent this earlier, but it looks like it may not have made it to the list
We are having a similar issue. We changed the users password, and since that
user is in a meeting, we turned his machine off. Looks like it has to be
coming from OWA. Here is some info from an error message our external MTA sent
to me (our Exchange guys are looking into the matter):
Little late, but.Funny you say this. At a previous job, we kept our
monthly/quarterly/yearly backups at a local branch. Dailies went to IM for
2-week rotation.
Don Guyer
Systems Engineer - Information Services
Prudential, Fox Roach/Trident Group
431 W. Lancaster Avenue
Devon, PA 19333
Check the sent items folder to see if the user replied to a phishing
email. You might have 1000's of emails to go through to find but it
might be there, unless they gave the user id and password to a web site.
We've seen very similar things here. Massive spam in the sent folder
but just before
I'm glad I'm not the only sufferer!
I'll try and answer the other questions that were asked:
1) yes, the spam continued even with the user's account disabled and their PC
powered off
2) yes, only our Exchange server can send SMTP to the Internet
3) my OWA servers are clean according to VIPRE
Also check those exchange smtp queues.
If it is compromised accounts the spammers can send spam via you owa faster
than your exchange server can process so it will get backed up so disabling
accounts or changing passwords wont stop it until the queues are emptied.
-Original Message-
It's very likely a phished account. This happens to us on a regular basis and
there's really nothing that can be done to fix it short of educating the users,
which is...difficult. The fact that spam was continuing even after the account
is disabled could be chalked up to mail still in the
You need to go through the OWA logs for that users access history to
verify if it is through OWA. It won't infect your OWA servers.
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Crawford, Scott crawfo...@evangel.edu wrote:
It's very likely a phished account. This happens to us on a regular basis and
I have been monitoring the Exchange queues. It's the only way I can tell when
it is happening. I found the aqadmcli.exe utility and have been using it to
clean the queues (aqadmcli delmsg flags=SENDER,sender=bob.sm...@wth.org.
I'll check the OWA logs ASAP.
Assuming I have had three users
We're a Lotus Notes shop using Postini as a relay, if it makes any
difference...
We had one desktop system here, and a few in NYC, where spam as being
spewed out. This actually had nothing at all to do with Domino/Lotus but
rather a rogue SMTP server which got snuck onto some workstations.
This actually looks promising. We just recently got off 2003 so I'll be
investigating this heavily.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd298094.aspx
The problem we have is that we keep getting on spam lists and then blocked from
sending email to hotmail, gmail, etc. Hopefully a
Yeah, that sounds nice except we have 2000 students with an average of 500 new
ones every year so our major issue isn't repeat offenders.
-Original Message-
From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu]
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 2:51 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE:
We have an old database that is being used by a company we now own. They are
using an old version of smart suite to use the Approach database. Is there a
new version of this software that I can buy or some kind of software that will
work because the install files for the program are not
http://preview.tinyurl.com/39p336p
Die dulci fruere!
Roger Wright
___
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:08 PM, James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com wrote:
We have an old database that is being used by a company we now own. They are
using an old version of smart suite to use the Approach database. Is
Ya, I saw that the other night when News 10 broadcast it. What that article
doesn't say is that she watched the tech download the pictures once he found
them. Then, along with shipping that laptop, the tech also charged a new
computer and printer to this lady's Dell account, and shipped it to
Ah ha.
Didn't notice the .edu addy.
In that case, I would seriously investigate outsourcing that to MS or Google.
The entire Va. Community College System went with Google for student email and
so far it has worked really well.
Can't beat the cost too. Zero and the student gets to keep their same
We haven't had any of those problems since switching to opendns and Vipre
for exchange.
-Original Message-
From: Glen Johnson [mailto:gjohn...@vhcc.edu]
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 2:51 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: malware that creates Outlook rules
When this happened
Ideas:
Patch your machines - XP SP2 is no longer supported. Get to SP3, and
get all the patches after that, including today's emergency patch.
Patch your Wind2k3 server, too. Current is SP2, and you're not there,
so you're *WAY* behind.
Get UBCD4WIN, and boot any suspect machines with it and
How DARE you accuse that woman of thinking or using any cognitive functions
in any way, shape or form!
-ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20012250-71.html
Die dulci fruere!
Roger Wright
Symphony: free, opens a lot of file types and if you can't find the
type you need, there's always the plugins:
http://symphony.lotus.com/
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:08 PM, James Kerr cluster...@gmail.com wrote:
We have an old database that is being used by a company we now own. They are
using
Note: he's no longer handling Dell calls.
So, he's now doing HP support?
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote:
How DARE you accuse that woman of thinking or using any cognitive functions
in any way, shape or form!
-ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker
Nah, he doing Photoshop support now.
From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 3:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: OT: WHAT Was She Thinking?!?
Note: he's no longer handling Dell calls.
So, he's now doing HP support?
On Mon, Aug 2,
Excellent I didn't even think of ebay. I'm not familiar with the Lotus stuff
at all.
- Original Message -
From: Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com
To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: Lotus Approach Files
I saw that as well. It is a deeply unsatisfying description of Mr. Shaikh's
current status.
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.comwrote:
Note: he's no longer handling Dell calls.
So, he's now doing HP support?
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Andrew S. Baker
Doh! I already bought a copy of smart suite on ebay!
- Original Message -
From: Rubens Almeida rubensalme...@gmail.com
To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: Lotus Approach Files
Symphony: free, opens a lot
Reminds me of a movie we just watched a few days ago:
Outsourced - http://www.outsourcedthemovie.com/
Die dulci fruere!
Roger Wright
___
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Jonathan Link jonathan.l...@gmail.com wrote:
Note: he's no longer handling Dell calls.
So, he's now doing HP
Approach uses dBase format database file. Any program that can access a dBase
file can access an Approach database. If you want the Approach front end (ie
Forms, Reports, Views) you would need the Approach program.
--
Bob Hartung
Wisco Industries, Inc.
736 Janesville St.
Yeah, it's on the investigate list. It does happen with staff on occasion too,
but not nearly as much as students.
The major outstanding question I have is how to do Unified Messaging with
Exchange if the mailbox is outsourced? It's prolly something simple, but I just
haven't looked into it
We have a group that wants to come in, and scan our servers to gather
information. We want to cooperate with this effort, but we don't want to give
them access to be able to write back to the servers. Is this possible? Is
there a tool that can be used without an admin account, in order to
Microsoft Quashed Effort to Boost Online Privacy
by Nick Wingfield, Wall Street Journal (2 Aug 2010)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703467304575383530439838568.html
Internet Explorer's handling of cookies hasn't really changed in
over a decade. The WSJ is claiming the IE
By default, Google Chrome allows third party cookies. It can be disabled.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 7:00 PM
To: NT System Admin
All,
Anyone on here use a Secure Computing Sidewinder (Now McAfee -
http://www.mcafee.com/us/enterprise/products/network_security/firewall_enterprise.html)
firewall?
Anyone with it run into issues where the hotmail/MSN Live redesign
last week fubar'ed access through the Sidewinder?
I don't have
Right...
http://consumerist.com/2010/08/crook-crack-check-image-sites.html
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
It was a regression.
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
br...@briandesmond.com
c - 312.731.3132
From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 1:33 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: 2008 DC being offline
Wow.. Why did it shift downward from 2003 to 2003R2?
-ASB:
All,
On our file server we have a single 1.5tb partition - it's on a SAN.
Over the course of 4 days recently it went from about 30% free to
about 13% free - someone slammed around 200gb onto the file server.
I have a general idea of where it might be - there are two top-level
directories that
Well, not everything on the Internet is cloud computing
Having said that, consolidating valuable assets should make them easier to
protect (and should make protection more cost-effective). At the same time,
such a collection of valuable assets increases the risk of attack, due to
the
If no new files jump at you, someone may have inadvertantly copied a
large directory.
What OS are you running? I think 2003 R2 had some duplicate file
reporting features. I imagine 2008 has the same features.
- Sean
On Aug 2, 2010, at 4:48 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
All,
In re: [1], either 'du' or 'find' can do what you want.
I'm pretty sure that I had a native Windows application called scanner.exe
that did that too - but I'm unable to locate it right now.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-Original
*for %V in (C:\Temp\*.*) do @echo %~tV %~zV %~V*
This is only the regular modified date of the file, though.
PowerShell can do what you want, but I'd have to play with that longer to
tell you...
*ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker
*Exploiting Technology for Business
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
(my choice of atime, mtime or ctime)
Those Unix concepts don't exist one-to-one in Windows.
atime is last accessed, Windows does that pretty much the same thing,
as Last accessed.
mtime is last data modification (i.e., file
Powershell...
* **dir C:\Temp -force | format-table -property CreationTime, Length, Name*
* dir C:\Temp -force | format-table -property LastWriteTime, Length, Name*
* dir C:\Temp -force | format-table -property LastAccessTime, Length, Name*
*ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker
PowerShell... and here's one of my favorites one-liners to find big files:
dir c:\temp -force -recurse | sort length -desc | format-table
creationtime,lastwritetime,lastaccesstime,length,fullname -auto
You can sort the results replacing the length by any of the properties
after format-table
On
Win2k3 R2. I'll have to look at the docos to see what I can find.
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 17:59, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote:
If no new files jump at you, someone may have inadvertantly copied a large
directory.
What OS are you running? I think 2003 R2 had some duplicate file
I'll have to read up on my 'find' implementation. That seems likely.
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 17:59, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote:
In re: [1], either 'du' or 'find' can do what you want.
I'm pretty sure that I had a native Windows application called scanner.exe
that did that
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 18:08, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
(my choice of atime, mtime or ctime)
Those Unix concepts don't exist one-to-one in Windows.
Yeah, but those are the terms that stick in my mind. Funny how
And that is almost certainly what I'm looking for.
I'll try that tomorrow.
Thank you sir.
Kurt
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 18:21, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote:
Powershell...
dir C:\Temp -force | format-table -property CreationTime, Length, Name
dir C:\Temp -force | format-table
I like that. Nice one-liner.
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 20:52, Rubens Almeida rubensalme...@gmail.com wrote:
PowerShell... and here's one of my favorites one-liners to find big files:
dir c:\temp -force -recurse | sort length -desc | format-table
The other thing that comes to mind is to check the backup logs from
those dates. I don't know if my minion has set the logs to record
files backed up, but if they are set that way, I can diff them and see
what happened.
If they aren't set that way, I'll have to see what kind of impact that
I like the command line options but the file resource reporting
features are a good way to trend utilization.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2006.05.getcontrol.aspx
- Sean
On Aug 2, 2010, at 8:14 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
The other thing that comes to mind is
http://scienceblog.com/36957/data-sorting-world-record-falls-computer-scientists-break-terabyte-sort-barrier-in-60-seconds/
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~
Thanks - looks like a good read.
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 21:47, Sean Martin seanmarti...@gmail.com wrote:
I like the command line options but the file resource reporting features are
a good way to trend utilization.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2006.05.getcontrol.aspx
- Sean
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