RE: Notes vs. Exchange

2003-07-30 Thread norem0rz
Well, this probably won't be quite as technical as you want... but it is what I have experienced. Lotus notes - No decent support in the channel (premium support) - core product has not been substancially updated in years, but has an update every month... requires a heafty subscrition fee.

RE: Exchange 2K and SP4

2003-07-30 Thread norem0rz
Have installed about 4 so far, and have no issues with SP4 except on a Compaq Proliant 3000... which I think may have just been the age of the machine (Runnning SBS 2000, and lost it RAID config - backup was still good, all is well)

RE: Permission Issue?

2003-07-30 Thread Hurst, Paul
Missy, I would agree with you as the Exchange server would not update the NT account permission on the IS until the 2 hour replication cycle has initiate (unless of course you have change the reg entry down to 5min or something). Cheers Paul Standards are like toothbrushes, everyone wants one

RE: Notes vs. Exchange

2003-07-30 Thread Schwartz, Jim
Microsoft Exchange engineers are a dime a dozen Good ones are difficult to find and even more difficult to pry away from their current employer. After interviewing Exchange admins over the last few years I've found that most people that put Exchange experience on their resume have added or

RE: Notes vs. Exchange

2003-07-30 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
There is a whole mailing list of these dime-a-dozens :) -Original Message- From: Schwartz, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 8:54 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Notes vs. Exchange Microsoft Exchange engineers are a dime a dozen Good ones are

RE: Notes vs. Exchange

2003-07-30 Thread Erik Sojka
Yeah, but you don't got no 31337 hacker name in your email address, d00d! -Original Message- From: Schwartz, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 8:54 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Notes vs. Exchange Microsoft Exchange engineers are a dime a

Exchange 2k3 RTM

2003-07-30 Thread Woodruff, Michael
Just to be sure, RTM is the finished product, but just not ready to be released for Volume Licensing? _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface:

In-place Upgrade to Windows 2003

2003-07-30 Thread DOT
We did an in-place upgrade of our Exchange 2000 server to Exchange 2003 everything came up fine. Then we upgraded the OS to Windows 2003 and now we can't get the Exchange 2003 server to connect to the domain. Has anyone experienced this behavior? I'm stumped. Dot Harris William Blair Company

RE: Notes vs. Exchange

2003-07-30 Thread Wilson, Fenton
Or call any of the more popular Anti-virus software suite companies who will be happy to sell you products necessary for an Exchange environment Fenton Wilson MCSE MCP I learned all I needed from Jack Kerouac's On The Road when I was in high school I'm attempting to convince my management

RE: Secondary Address Book

2003-07-30 Thread mh exch
When I select the To... and then change from global to the public folder I created called distributors with the contacts imported into it. I don't see these on other machines, only on the server that has the outlook client on it. I can browse down to the public folders and get to the public

RE: In-place Upgrade to Windows 2003

2003-07-30 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
What if you re-do the Exchange 2003 installation? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 9:22 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: In-place Upgrade to Windows 2003 We did an in-place upgrade of our Exchange 2000 server to

RE: In-place Upgrade to Windows 2003

2003-07-30 Thread Woodruff, Michael
A few event IDs or such might be a little easier for us to help you out. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Fyodorov, Andrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 9:37 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: In-place Upgrade to Windows 2003 What if you re-do the

RE: In-place Upgrade to Windows 2003

2003-07-30 Thread DOT
I'm getting Event ID 63. -Original Message- From: Woodruff, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 8:43 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: In-place Upgrade to Windows 2003 A few event IDs or such might be a little easier for us to help you out. Thanks.

RE: Notes vs. Exchange

2003-07-30 Thread John Parker
Before I start, let me state that I am not complaining. I love where I work, and I am damn glad to have a job in these times One of the things to consider in today tech field though is the fact that more and more employers are refusing to hire people for specific tasks in an IT environment.

RE: In-place Upgrade to Windows 2003

2003-07-30 Thread DOT
To be more specific, when attempting to join the domain. I'm getting the error: The following error occurred attempting to join the domain domain name. Access denied. -Original Message- From: Harris, Dot Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 8:44 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE:

RE: DNS DHCP Question

2003-07-30 Thread by
But Windows 2003 mentions there is no more security vulnerability for running DHCP on domain controller. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy David Sent: Tuesday, 29 July 2003 4:13 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: DNS DHCP

RE: In-place Upgrade to Windows 2003

2003-07-30 Thread Bennett, Joshua
Sounds like a DNS/WINS setting. Take a look and make sure that the Exchange server is looking at the correct DNS/WINS servers for the domain you are trying join. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 9:49 AM To: Exchange

RE: In-place Upgrade to Windows 2003

2003-07-30 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
So it was already a member of the domain? Why is it trying to join the domain again? -Original Message- From: Bennett, Joshua [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 9:49 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: In-place Upgrade to Windows 2003 Sounds like a DNS/WINS

ESM weirdness

2003-07-30 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
Hi all. All of a sudden we are not able to create new public folders in ESM. When I right-click on the root or on an existing folder, all the other choices are there but New Folder is missing. This is even when I go to the server's console and log in with the account that was used to install

RE: Zombie ACL's

2003-07-30 Thread Jeff Beckham
PFDAVADMIN -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carmila Fresco Posted At: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 1:19 PM Posted To: Exchange Discussion List Conversation: Zombie ACL's Subject: Zombie ACL's We're getting this kind of warning on 3 of our E2K

RE: Notes vs. Exchange

2003-07-30 Thread norem0rz
Ok - dime a dozen... not exactally the best wording for what I was trying to get across - I work for a var, and even though we are a small shop, over half of our engineers are pretty good in any Exchange situation, but not only do we not have anyone with any good skills in Notes, but I know our

OT - Beta EntourageX v10.1.4

2003-07-30 Thread Stephens, Tara
Anybody trying to work with this yet? Please email offlist. Thanks. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface:

RE: Notes vs. Exchange

2003-07-30 Thread bscott
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, at 9:21am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or call any of the more popular Anti-virus software suite companies who will be happy to sell you products necessary for an Exchange environment I imagine most people running Notes still have MS-Windows on the desktop, and thus

Free/Busy No Information

2003-07-30 Thread Avallone, Vincent
For some strange reason when we try to schedule appts we can only see 1 month of information. I have set the Free/Busy to 6 months, ran outlook /cleanfreebusy but to no avail. We are running Outlook 2002 and Exchange 2000.   I am not getting any errors at all, it just is not publishing data

RE: Notes vs. Exchange

2003-07-30 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
And Notes itself is virus-proof? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 10:49 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Notes vs. Exchange On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, at 9:21am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or call any of the more

RE: Notes vs. Exchange

2003-07-30 Thread Roger Seielstad
Sure it is. Which is why both Sybari and Trend Micro write AV packages for it. -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -Original Message- From: Fyodorov, Andrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: OT - Beta EntourageX v10.1.4

2003-07-30 Thread Holstrom, Don
I'd be interested in hearing about it as well... -Original Message- From: Stephens, Tara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 10:41 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: OT - Beta EntourageX v10.1.4 Anybody trying to work with this yet? Please email offlist. Thanks.

RE: Notes vs. Exchange

2003-07-30 Thread Schwartz, Jim
I could scan the archives for some of the questions asked here and prove you wrong, but I'd rather go drink a beer. -Original Message- From: Fyodorov, Andrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 9:13 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Notes vs. Exchange There

RE: Auto Accept Utility stopped working

2003-07-30 Thread Paul kondilys
Hello All, First, wanted to say that you guys have always been a great help in the past. I have a simple, but probably dumb question. I need some ammo though before I get back to one of my employees about what he's doing. Can someone just verify what I'm saying... It is not possible to

RE: Auto Accept Utility stopped working

2003-07-30 Thread Woodruff, Michael
If he is using Veritas he needs the Exchange Agent to do an online backup. -Original Message- From: Paul kondilys [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 8:35 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Auto Accept Utility stopped working Hello All, First, wanted to say

RE: Notes vs. Exchange

2003-07-30 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
I guess just to be 100% sure. Trust but verify kind of deal. -Original Message- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 11:02 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Notes vs. Exchange Sure it is. Which is why both Sybari and Trend Micro write

RE: Secondary Address Book

2003-07-30 Thread Ed Crowley
You have to add the public folder to the Outlook Address Book at any Outlook client where you want to use it that way. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: XCH 5.5 DB Maintenance

2003-07-30 Thread Ed Crowley
Yes, that is the way it's supposed to work. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris H Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 8:29 AM To:

RE: XCH 5.5 DB Maintenance

2003-07-30 Thread Bendall, Paul
If you want to see how much space you have left in the database then have a look in the application event log for 1221. Regards, Paul -Original Message- From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 July 2003 16:44 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: XCH 5.5 DB Maintenance

RE: Secondary Address Book

2003-07-30 Thread Blunt, James H (Jim)
First, you have to make sure that every client has the Outlook Address Book added to the Outlook profile. Second, you have to go to the properties of the PF in question, go to the Outlook Address Book tab and check the Show this folder as an e-mail address book option. -Original Message-

Re: XCH 5.5 DB Maintenance

2003-07-30 Thread Chris H
But can the DB re-use that space for new storage without an offline defrag? - Original Message - From: Bendall, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 11:44 AM Subject: RE: XCH 5.5 DB Maintenance If you want to see how much

Re: XCH 5.5 DB Maintenance

2003-07-30 Thread Chris H
in other words, if the event 1221 from this morning says the private store has 6277 mb free and I have 600 mb free on disk then I have roughly 7 gb free space to work with? Chris - Original Message - From: Bendall, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: Auto Accept Utility stopped working

2003-07-30 Thread Ben Winzenz
It is quite possible to do a backup of Exchange 5.5 WITHOUT stopping the services. You either use NTBackup, or use a 3rd party backup utility with an Exchange Agent. If you decide to not use either of those 2 methods, you sure as heck better stop the Exchange services first, otherwise you will

RE: XCH 5.5 DB Maintenance

2003-07-30 Thread Ben Winzenz
Yes. The Database will re-use the Whitespace before it grows the actual priv.edb in size any more. At least that is how it is supposed to work. Ben Winzenz Network Engineer Gardner White (317) 581-1580 ext 418 -Original Message- From: Chris H [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At:

RE: Auto Accept Utility stopped working

2003-07-30 Thread Ed Crowley
Oh, the backup won't cause any problems. Not that it would be of any use... Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Winzenz Sent:

RE: XCH 5.5 DB Maintenance

2003-07-30 Thread Bendall, Paul
Yepp that is correct. Paul -Original Message- From: Chris H [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 July 2003 17:12 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: XCH 5.5 DB Maintenance in other words, if the event 1221 from this morning says the private store has 6277 mb free and I have 600 mb free

RE: Auto Accept Utility stopped working

2003-07-30 Thread Paul kondilys
Well, actually we are running veritas with the exchange agent, only thing is that the PRIV.EDB file is skipped. I thought that in order to backup the PRIV.EDB file you have to stop the exchange services? Any ideas? Paul -Original Message- From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Auto Accept Utility stopped working

2003-07-30 Thread Erik Sojka
If you want to back up that *file*, then yes you would have to close whatever software is keeping the file open. If you want to back up Exchange, however, use an Exchange-aware backup solution like NTBACKUP and the services remain running and functional during the backup. -Original

RE: Removing Site

2003-07-30 Thread Blunt, James H (Jim)
Have you read these Q articles? http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;184535 XADM: Removing a Site from an Organization - You will be unable to delete a Site container using the Microsoft Exchange Server Administrator program. If you highlight the object and click the Edit menu,

RE: Auto Accept Utility stopped working

2003-07-30 Thread Atkinson, Daniel
No, you don't have to stop the services. Please clarify how you are using veritas; i.e. are you looking on the relevant drive and ticking priv.edb as a file to backup? If so, this won't work, you need to tick 'Microsoft Exchange Information Store' in the veritas directory tree. If this doesn't

RE: Auto Accept Utility stopped working

2003-07-30 Thread Bendall, Paul
If you are using the Exchange aware agent you wouldn't be aware that it was backing up the priv.edb, pub.edb or even dir.edb, you would just select Exchange Information Store and Exchange Directory store. Sounds to me you are still using the file system part of Backup Exec to try and backup the

RE: Auto Accept Utility stopped working

2003-07-30 Thread Ed Crowley
The Exchange Agent backs up the Information Store. You should be backing that up. It's a separate object. And you should be excluding the C:\Exchsrvr\*data (note wildcard) directories from your file backup. If you're running Exchange 200x, you should also exclude the mailroot directory and the

RE: Notes vs. Exchange

2003-07-30 Thread Roger Seielstad
Lest you forget, speaking in relative terms, the most destructive virus/worm in history propagated across Unix machines. -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -Original Message- From:

RE: Auto Accept Utility stopped working

2003-07-30 Thread Paul kondilys
We are ticking off the option for the Information Store, but have now modified the job to backup the PRIV.EDB as well. Only reason we're doing this is because we would like to have the actual PRIV.EDB in a backup media for access by one of our 3rd party applications that can access the PRIV.EDB,

Re: Removing Site

2003-07-30 Thread Chris H
yes, but, this is the one and only server in the site, and once it is gone the site is. I didnt find anything that specifically addresses the *last* (but also the first! hee hee) server in the site, leaving the site up w/no servers, etc . . . - Original Message - From: Blunt, James H

RE: Auto Accept Utility stopped working

2003-07-30 Thread Ben Winzenz
You aren't doing the backup correct then. You do NOT want to select the File from the backup job. In Backup Exec, when you browse your list of servers selections in the backup job, under your Exchange server, you will see the hard disks and also there should be an added entry for Microsoft

RE: Auto Accept Utility stopped working

2003-07-30 Thread Bendall, Paul
That is not possible you can't do a file backup of the databases files they are locked open unless you stop the IS. What app are you trying to use to read the edb files is it Ontrack's Power Tools? Regards, Paul -Original Message- From: Paul kondilys [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30

RE: Auto Accept Utility stopped working

2003-07-30 Thread Atkinson, Daniel
No, you can't do that, if you want to copy priv.edb on it's own you have to stop the services. -Original Message- From: Paul kondilys [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 July 2003 17:30 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Auto Accept Utility stopped working We are ticking off

RE: Auto Accept Utility stopped working

2003-07-30 Thread Erik Sojka
You'll have to stop the services then. What's the utility that is pulling from the PRIV? You can get messages and mailboxes pulled from the Exchange stores using standard supported utilities like EXMERGE. -Original Message- From: Paul kondilys [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: Auto Accept Utility stopped working

2003-07-30 Thread Ben Winzenz
You cannot backup up the actual priv.edb file unless the services are stopped. Period. As explained before, it is because the database is an open file. Since it is open and in use, it cannot be locked by the backup program, therefore, it is skipped. Unless there is some immense value in

RE: Removing Site

2003-07-30 Thread Blunt, James H (Jim)
Hmmm... I would think that if you had read and actually followed all of the Q's posted in the first message (primarily the first one about removing the site from the org) and you read and follow all the instructions in this new one below, that all your questions should be answered.

RE: Auto Accept Utility stopped working

2003-07-30 Thread Bendall, Paul
Right in that case the latest version of PowerTools is able to read the backup tape and get the priv.edb file directly from the Online Backup. Note I wrote online backup not offline backup. I don't know how this works as well use Netbackup but that is the way it is supposed to work, if not then

RE: Auto Accept Utility stopped working

2003-07-30 Thread Ed Crowley
Better to restore the Exchange Information Store to your recovery server from your Exchange-aware backup, and run the utility there. Not only will you have a transactionally accurate store that will actually mount, you can use that opportunity to practice your disaster recovery skills. Ed

RE: Auto Accept Utility stopped working

2003-07-30 Thread Atkinson, Daniel
This powertools sounds interesting. When it reads the online backup from the tape does it need to read the whole thing or can it locate a mailbox, message etc on the tape and extract it? I tried to find out on the website but it's not exactly clear as to whether you can do this... We've had to do

RE: Auto Accept Utility stopped working

2003-07-30 Thread Woodruff, Michael
You have to copy the whole edb to hard disk first. -Original Message- From: Atkinson, Daniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 12:52 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Auto Accept Utility stopped working This powertools sounds interesting. When it reads the

RE: Auto Accept Utility stopped working

2003-07-30 Thread Bendall, Paul
It would be nice but don't cross your fingers. The current version of PowerTools has limited use, if you can successfully restore the Exchange server from an online backup and it is consistent then you can mount it and just go into the database with Outlook or Exmerge. The reason to use PowerTools

RE: Auto Accept Utility stopped working

2003-07-30 Thread Bendall, Paul
I agree with Michael, the documentation is not clear but I am sure it just eases the process of copying the information from tape to hard drive. Paul -Original Message- From: Woodruff, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 July 2003 18:00 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Auto

RE: Auto Accept Utility stopped working

2003-07-30 Thread Paul kondilys
It's kinda cool actually. Could use some more work and they do have a new version coming out soon. The utility is installed onto the server/WS that has the tape drives mounted. You then mount your Exchange backup tape that has the IS on it. The tool scans the tape, finds the IS, and tells you

High Availability Exchange 2000

2003-07-30 Thread Bridges, Samantha
Hello All. Little Background: Last week, Exchange 5.5 server went ka-poot early in the day and I was unable to recover the IS. We ended up losing 11 hours of data that was not on a backup tape. A key member of the management team has had the stance in the past that email is best-effort. I knew

RE: Auto Accept Utility stopped working

2003-07-30 Thread Paul kondilys
Yup, You're right paul.always good to stick to the old rules. Thanks for the input guys.. Paul -Original Message- From: Bendall, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:05 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Auto Accept Utility stopped working It

RE: High Availability Exchange 2000

2003-07-30 Thread Martin Blackstone
Could you tell us a little bit about what you have now? Like what brand of hardware, model, and your current configuration? -Original Message- From: Bridges, Samantha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 10:14 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: High Availability

RE: High Availability Exchange 2000

2003-07-30 Thread Bendall, Paul
How about Exchange 2003 with Volume Shadowing on a SAN. Not seen it in practise but I thought this was one of the strong selling points of E2K3. Anyone had any experience? Paul -Original Message- From: Bridges, Samantha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 July 2003 18:14 To: Exchange

RE: High Availability Exchange 2000

2003-07-30 Thread Bridges, Samantha
Thanks for the reply. What I have now is: One Server - Compaq ML530 Dual CPU 2GB RAM 3 drives at 36.4 each - RAID 5 Windows 2000 Advanced Server 1000 Mailboxes Samantha -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:14 PM To:

RE: High Availability Exchange 2000

2003-07-30 Thread Martin Blackstone
That's a pretty nice server. That's what I have. First off, I would look at Exchange 2003 rather than 2000. Its high availability features are MUCH MUCH better than they were in past versions. So, what are your options? Well, Exchange doesn't mirror, so forget that. You could always go with

RE: High Availability Exchange 2000

2003-07-30 Thread Martin Blackstone
Being able to take snapshot backups and restores is going to be sweet. Is there anything out there that supports it yet? -Original Message- From: Bendall, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 10:17 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: High Availability

RE: High Availability Exchange 2000

2003-07-30 Thread Ben Winzenz
I thought the presentations at TechEd indicated BackupExec supported that? Yup - BE 9.0 gives you several choices for Advanced Open File including Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy Service. I'll have to dig up that ppt again. Ben Winzenz Network Engineer Gardner White (317) 581-1580 ext 418

RE: High Availability Exchange 2000

2003-07-30 Thread Martin Blackstone
Ill have to look. I thought they were not ready yet. -Original Message- From: Ben Winzenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 10:29 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: High Availability Exchange 2000 I thought the presentations at TechEd indicated BackupExec

RE: High Availability Exchange 2000

2003-07-30 Thread Bendall, Paul
Cool keep the info coming, if you find the PPT would you be prepared to mail it? VSS for Exchange 2003 would be a life saver. It has become such an issue here that we are looking at other mail solutions and no it is not Notes but a solution from a large database organisation ;o) Paul

RE: High Availability Exchange 2000

2003-07-30 Thread Martin Blackstone
Sure. Just leave your ugly boyfriend at home this time. -Original Message- From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 10:36 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: High Availability Exchange 2000 How about we meet at the malt shop afterwards, do our hair

Re: High Availability Exchange 2000

2003-07-30 Thread Andy David
How about we meet at the malt shop afterwards, do our hair and listen to some 45s? - Original Message - From: Martin Blackstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:24 PM Subject: RE: High Availability Exchange 2000 That's a

RE: High Availability Exchange 2000

2003-07-30 Thread Mellott, Bill
sure but I wont ask why only 3 drives for such a killer box which per the one Im getting for my new sql app has 12 slot's avalable.. more spindles more speed... 45's..start the wayback machine insert 8 track...next floor 78's. -Original Message- From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: High Availability Exchange 2000

2003-07-30 Thread Dan Bartley
It is not all it is cracked up to be. The VSS support in BE9, build 4454 (the only one that supports it), is very unreliable. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. Especially with a Win2k3 domain controller. Does not cause any damage, just does not always query the writer properly and

RE: High Availability Exchange 2000

2003-07-30 Thread Ed Crowley
Start small. First change your drive array. For a 1,000-user server you should have: C: RAID-1 (2 drives) OS and binaries D: RAID-1 (2 drives) Exchange transaction logs (only) E: RAID-5 (3+ drives; recommend maybe 5) Exchange database files By separating the logs from the OS, if you

RE: High Availability Exchange 2000

2003-07-30 Thread norem0rz
You might also want to check out LEGATO Co-StandbyServer AAdvanced for Microsoft Exchange - we have had pretty good success with this, and even though it does require a second server and the software, it is a much more economical way to go over most SAN type solutions.

Flags have stooped working

2003-07-30 Thread Mitchell Mike
Outlook 98 Exchange 5.5 Windows 2000) The flagging of a message has stopped working. You can flag a message and set a reminder as many times a you want, but the reminder message never appears. We have rerun the cleanreminders switch but nothing happens. Reminders for tasks and meeting appear

RE: Secondary Address Book

2003-07-30 Thread mh exch
I have done this and all is working now. Thanks for all of the help you have saved me a lot of headaches. Thanks Again MH -Original Message- From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 9:36 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Secondary Address Book

OT: Virtual Server Beta and E2K

2003-07-30 Thread William E. Grever
I am setting up a test environment using Microsoft's Beta of Virtual Server. I am having trouble getting Exchange to install correctly. Has anyone played with VS and managed to get E2K up and running? Will Grever _ List posting

RE: High Availability Exchange 2000

2003-07-30 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
You mean what used to be called Vinca? -Original Message- From: norem0rz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 1:59 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: High Availability Exchange 2000 You might also want to check out LEGATO Co-StandbyServer AAdvanced for

Veritas BE Settings (Was: Auto Accept Utility stopped working)

2003-07-30 Thread Blunt, James H (Jim)
Running Veritas Version 8.60, Rev 3808 against Exchange 5.5 SP4/Win2k SP2. Due to the loss of people within the company, I am having to start learning some of the BU stuff. Before, I have just let our BU guy configure it all. I THINK I know what the settings should be, based on what I have read

RE: High Availability Exchange 2000

2003-07-30 Thread norem0rz
yes. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange

RE: High Availability Exchange 2000

2003-07-30 Thread Hutchins, Mike
Maybe so -Original Message- From: Woodruff, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 12:49 PM To: Exchange Discussions no -Original Message- From: norem0rz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 2:49 PM To: Exchange Discussions

RE: High Availability Exchange 2000

2003-07-30 Thread Woodruff, Michael
no -Original Message- From: norem0rz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 2:49 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: High Availability Exchange 2000 yes. _ List posting FAQ:

RE: High Availability Exchange 2000

2003-07-30 Thread norem0rz
no? Let me find out what it was called previously. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang=english To

RE: Veritas BE Settings (Was: Auto Accept Utility stopped working)

2003-07-30 Thread Christopher Hummert
In the properties of the backup job, our BU Admin has the Database and Logs (Flush committed logs) You have that set to full right? Not copy or differential? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blunt, James H (Jim) Sent: Wednesday, July 30,

RE: High Availability Exchange 2000

2003-07-30 Thread norem0rz
In 1999 Legato aquired Vinca corp. so yes. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchangetext_mode=lang=english To unsubscribe:

RE: High Availability Exchange 2000

2003-07-30 Thread Blunt, James H (Jim)
Dude...select the option from the web interface that appends the rest of the message thread to your reply, so that people know what the heck question you are responding to. -Original Message- From: norem0rz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 11:54 AM To: Exchange

Re: Veritas BE Settings (Was: Auto Accept Utility stopped working)

2003-07-30 Thread Andy David
From the main Backup Exec console, under the Tools / Options / Set Application Defaults property page / Exchange tab, the same backup method is selected. However, under the Restore section, we have 1) No loss restore, 2) Restore public folder and 3) Restore Private Mailboxes options all

Re: Veritas BE Settings (Was: Auto Accept Utility stopped working)

2003-07-30 Thread Andy David
Copy and Diff backups do not flush the logs so you wont see the (Flush committed logs) thing in the dialog box unless you are doing a full or incremental backup. - Original Message - From: Christopher Hummert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

RE: High Availability Exchange 2000

2003-07-30 Thread norem0rz
hmmm... will do. Did not realize I needed to do that. My appologies. Dude...select the option from the web interface that appends the rest of the message thread to your reply, so that people know what the heck question you are responding to. -Original Message- From: norem0rz

RE: Virtual Server Beta and E2K

2003-07-30 Thread Ed Crowley
I have gotten both Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 to work therein. I don't recall having to do anything special. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Veritas BE Settings (Was: Auto Accept Utility stopped working)

2003-07-30 Thread Christopher Hummert
Ah right (puts foot in mouth) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy David Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 11:58 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Veritas BE Settings (Was: Auto Accept Utility stopped working) Copy and Diff backups

RE: Virtual Server Beta and E2K

2003-07-30 Thread William E. Grever
Do you recall if you had the exchange VMs as domain controllers? I may be having DNS issues between my VMs. Even though forestprep and domainprep went without any errors, the SA can not find the global catalog server. Will -Original Message- From: Ed Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Veritas BE Settings (Was: Auto Accept Utility stopped working )

2003-07-30 Thread Dolphin, Jeff
We have ours set to run a FULL backup-to-disk on Fridays to a seperate storage server (map a drive) and we use incrementals monday to thursday for just the Exchange data (store, logs, priv pub .edb's. Exchange agent is installed. We also run twice weekly and monthly COPY backups to tape (4 week

RE: Virtual Server Beta and E2K

2003-07-30 Thread Ed Crowley
They were member servers because the scenario we had worked used a Windows 2003 domain and we started with Exchange 2000, so we couldn't install it on the DC. We later upgraded the Exchange 2000 servers to Exchange 2003 without incident. We had five virtual machines, including two domain

RE: Veritas BE Settings (Was: Auto Accept Utility stopped working )

2003-07-30 Thread Ed Crowley
Incrementals only back up log files. If you were to try to restore from a full and a series of incrementals, you could wait a long time for recovery to complete because of the number of log files you would have to replay. Consider that when you reevaluate your strategy. You might test how long

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