RE: Protocol for communication between Outlook and Exchange Server

2003-11-19 Thread McBee, Jim
Outlook uses MAPI (the messaging API) over RPC (remote procedure calls). Here are some good starting points. You will probably need the Exchange SDK to do very much with MAPI. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/e2k3/e2 k3/_exch2k3_mapi_access.asp

RE: BadMail Folder

2003-11-18 Thread McBee, Jim
Certain types of relay attempts will also show up in this folder, also. - Jim -Original Message- From: Fyodorov, Andrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Monday, November 17, 2003 8:11 AM Posted To: Exchange Technical Mailing List Conversation: BadMail Folder Subject: RE: BadMail

Replying to messages from System Administrator

2003-09-19 Thread McBee, Jim
Hi all: I had posted this to the E2K list and no one seemed to know how to do this. In Exchange 5.5, you could configure a SYSTEM address for the System Administrator on one of the mailboxes and whenever anyone managed to reply to a notification message from the System Administrator,

RE: Extracting to pst

2003-09-17 Thread McBee, Jim
Nope, I think the number of mailboxes you can read is based on the licenses you purchased. It is a great piece of software. One of my 5.5 customers does snapshot backups to a NAS and they use it all the time. - Jim sends -Original Message- From: Aaron Shimmons [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Goofy Exchange / Win2K3 problem

2003-08-14 Thread McBee, Jim
Hi Brett: Hummm, where to I start I have never seen this problem. What is the error message? Is it a MAPI error? I'm betting it is. I doubt it is really Exchange 2003 related, but more related to the fact that you have Outlook installed on the Exchange server.

RE: Exchange 2003 OWA segmentation feature

2003-08-14 Thread McBee, Jim
they are in the book Exchange 24/7 by Jm McBee From: McBee, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Exchange 2003 OWA segmentation feature Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 11:01:25 -1000 Hi everyone: I'm looking for some

Exchange 2003 OWA segmentation feature

2003-08-14 Thread McBee, Jim
Hi everyone: I'm looking for some information on a feature in Exchange 2003 and I have used up all of my ideas on how to find out more info. It was called OWA segmentation in Exchange 2000 and was introduced in Exchange 2000 SP2. It allowed you to turn off public folders, the calendar,

RE: E2K and E2K RC1

2003-03-10 Thread McBee, Jim
Moving servers between admin groups was something they attempted in the betas but coul dnot make work. Even with Exchange 2000 in native mode, all objects have a legacyExchangeDN associated with them. If I remember correctly, this was the reason that the decided it was going to be too

OnlySystemMessagesUseCDs functionality in Exchange 2000

2003-03-06 Thread McBee, Jim
Hey everyone: I'm working with an organization that has 9 Exchange 5.5 sites and a bridgehead site. They use the IMS to connect the spoke sites to the hub site and directory replication occurs with the bridgehead site. However, they are using the OnlySystemMessagesUseCDs registry key on

RE: Limiting Amount Of Distribution List Members

2003-02-28 Thread McBee, Jim
Erik: I don't have a knowledge of that specific setting, but if it exists, I doubt that it is a registry setting, but rather an Active Directory setting since E2K uses AD groups for mail distribution. Wish I could give you a more specific answer, but maybe it will help just pointing you

RE: How do you get a hardcopy list?

2003-02-17 Thread McBee, Jim
Are you running Exchange 5.5? If so, you can export the distribution lists to a CSV file. The membership list is included in th -Original Message- From: Mitchell Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Monday, February 17, 2003 9:48 AM Posted To: Exchange Technical Mailing List

RE: How do you get a hardcopy list?

2003-02-17 Thread McBee, Jim
(Oooppsss, darn notebook touchpad... - Completing and resending) Are you running Exchange 5.5? If so, you can export the distribution lists to a CSV file. The membership list is included in CSV file. It ain't pretty, but it will get you're a copy out to a file.From their you can massage it

RE: Single instance storage anyway to revert?

2003-02-15 Thread McBee, Jim
Hu I am resaonbly sure that this should NOT have happened. UNLESS you used ExMerge to move the mail out to a PST and then imported it back in. How did you move the mailboxes? If you use the Move option in Exchange Tasks to move a mailbox, Single Instance Store is preserved. And

RE: POP3 Collection

2003-02-14 Thread McBee, Jim
Tony: A couple of companies have got POP3 connectors for Exchange. Try www.exchangepop3.com, PopCon (http://www.christensen-software.com/popcon.htm), or http://www.popbeamer.com). I believe that Small Business Server has a POP3 connector built in to it. If you want to offload

RE: KMS

2003-02-14 Thread McBee, Jim
I have not seen any whitepapers from Microsoft or anyone else regarding using KMS. One of the best resources I found was the Exchange 5.0 courseware. Not to toot my own horn, but I spent an awful lot of time covering the KMS in my Exchange 2000 book (Exchange 2000 Server 24Seven)

RE: E2K OWA timeouts

2003-02-14 Thread McBee, Jim
Ken: Are you looking at MessageWare (http://www.messageware.com)? I have not worked with them personally, but I know a couple of folks that have had good things to say about them. Of course, you could always wait for Exchange 2003. :-) Jim -Original Message- From:

RE: Deleting both Information Stores?

2003-02-14 Thread McBee, Jim
Paul: Yes, both of the stores can be deleted, but I have never had to delete them both at the same time. Just out of curiosity, why do you want to delete both stores? Couldn't shutting down the Information Store service accomplish the same thing? (Unless the services you are running

RE: Deleting both Information Stores?

2003-02-14 Thread McBee, Jim
Message- From: McBee, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 February 2003 19:02 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Deleting both Information Stores? [bcc] Paul: Yes, both of the stores can be deleted, but I have never had to delete them both at the same time. Just out

RE: Messaging Transaction Volume Monitoring and Reporting

2003-02-14 Thread McBee, Jim
Jim: If you have big bucks and want comprehensive reports on EVERYTHING, look to something like NetIQ (http://www.netiq.com). Some other interesting solutions include Promodag (www.promodag.com), MELIA (www.sunbeltsoftware.com is the best place I know to find info about it), and

Problems with ADC Public Folder CA...

2003-02-14 Thread McBee, Jim
Hi folks: I am re-posting this. I sent it several hours ago, but it never arrived. I have configured a PF CA between an Exchange 5.5 server and the Active Directory. The user account I am using on the Exchange 5.5 side is the service account. The account to Windows is a member of

RE: Low tombstone in ex55

2003-02-10 Thread McBee, Jim
Leave the tombstone at the default. It is possible if you drop the tombstone lifetime to a very low level and then some replication messages get missed, you will end up with orphaned objects. I did have one instance where PSS advised us to drop the lifetime down to 1 day because we were having

RE: Book recommendation

2003-02-10 Thread McBee, Jim
*Blush* Thanks! Jim P.S. I'm very open to suggestions as to the content for an Exchange 2003 version. Contact me offline. -Original Message- From: Chinnery, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Monday, February 10, 2003 10:19 AM Posted To: Exchange Technical Mailing List

RE: Exchange 2000 Message Retention Policies

2003-02-05 Thread McBee, Jim
Mark: The Mailbox Manager in Exchange 2000 can do exactly what you are looking for; it is available in Exchange 2000 SP1 and later. There is a good article on using the mailbox manager at http://www.exchangeadmin.com. Look for InstaDoc ID 21147. The article is called Exchange 2000's

RE: Post SP4 Patches

2003-02-01 Thread McBee, Jim
I just recently did a check on this (back around October) and this is what I came up with: Exchange 5.5 Post SP4 hotfixes (in order of recommended installation) Order Component KB Article Number 1 Remote Procedure Calls Q304602 2

Changing the SMTP Message-ID field

2003-01-10 Thread McBee, Jim
Hi everyone! I have been asking around about this and no one seems to know. I had someone recently ask me how they can change the SMTP Message-ID field in the SMTP header. Their E2K servers are sending out a message ID that they don't want sent. It looks something like this: Message-ID:

RE: Transaction log reports

2003-01-09 Thread McBee, Jim
Charles: I have never seen a tool for mining information from the transaction logs. The information in those logs would be information that only a mother could love. Specifically, mother-ESE. The transaction logs contain pages of data that will be written to the EDB or EDB/STM files;

RE: Transaction log reports

2003-01-09 Thread McBee, Jim
with some Oracle folks and Oracle logs are a useful source of report info. Oracle has an email app and we were discussing it. You ever had any experience with it? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of McBee, Jim Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 5:19 PM

Updating Outlook 2000 profile when switching to E2K server

2002-11-23 Thread McBee, Jim
Hi everyone: I have a sticky problem. A customer is moving to Exchange 2000. Everything seems to working okay. The ADC is configured properly, data is replicating between Ex 5.5 and AD properly. Move a mailbox from Ex 5.5 SP4 to E2K SP3 on W2K SP3. Force the ADC Recipient CA

RE: E2K stops getting mail when LDAP down

2002-11-21 Thread McBee, Jim
Are you running E2K SP2 or SP3 (you should be). Pre-SP2 was not as good as automatically switching over to another global catalog. And Mike is right, both domain controllers must be global catalogs if you want redundancy for Exchange 2000. HTH, Jim -Original Message- From: Dan Aalberg

RE: Exchange Store

2002-11-19 Thread McBee, Jim
Hi Jim: I hope that the book has not been too tedious for you. :-) The 16GB limit is imposed on Exchange 2000 Server (unofficially known as standard edition.) If the sum total of the EDB file and the STM file exceeds 16GB, then the store dismounts. So, basically, you are

Exchange 2000 and NTFS file system permissions

2002-10-17 Thread McBee, Jim
Hi everyone: I have been looking around for a definitive recommendation on locking down NTFS permissions on an Exchange 2000 server. Does anyone have any recommendations or thoughts on this subject? Possible problems? Thanks much, Jim McBee

RE: OWA 2000 login prompt

2002-10-17 Thread McBee, Jim
Are any of your public folders on clustered back-end servers? -Original Message- From: Edwards, Aaron [mailto:AEdwards;watrust.com] Posted At: Thursday, October 17, 2002 12:01 PM Posted To: Exchange Technical Mailing List Conversation: OWA 2000 login prompt Subject: OWA 2000 login

RE: Ex 5.5 SP 4

2002-02-06 Thread McBee, Jim
Chris: You probably only need the SP4_550I.EXE, which is the core files that updates the 5.5 server. The SP4_55SS1.EXE includes the files you find in the \SUPPORT directory. There a number of hotfixes for Exchange 5.5 SP4 (you need SP4 first!) that you can download from

RE: recipients

2002-01-03 Thread McBee, Jim
Chili dog in one hand, surfboard in the other grin -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Thursday, January 03, 2002 8:26 AM Posted To: Exchange Technical Mailing List Conversation: recipients Subject: RE: recipients But that Jim Mcbee dude

RE: SMTP Addressing

2001-09-03 Thread McBee, Jim
Dan: Are you having problems sending a particular character? If you are reading RFCs, I'm sure you are already aware that most data today is transmitted in some encoded format (MIME or UUENCODE). The newer ESMTP RFCs, of course, cloud this a little bit with the introduction of 8-bit MIME and