RE: SMTP connector and smart hosts
Hi, One option would be to create a CNAME in DNS for your two smtp servers, give the CNAME something like smtp.mycompany.com and use this alias as the smart host. You can then round robin between the two servers and provide failover if one of them goes down. Davy -Original Message- From: Varghese, Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 September 2002 20:57 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: SMTP connector and smart hosts Is there a way to put multiple smart hosts in the General Tab on the SMTP connectors? I have two bridgehead servers I want to use to send messages to. One in CA, one in Indiana. Can I put both IP numbers in there enclosed in []? If so, what's the separator? Comma, semicolon, or space? Also would this work in a fail over situation? If this, can't be done.. How can I create something that would do this? Thanks in advance. Wilson _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*groan* PST Files
Hi. Standard Version of EX5.5, SP4. 200+ users. We are looking at educating users in not storing everything in their email, but storing in either a .pst or .ost. Money is an issue, my company won't pay for us to upgrade to 5.5 Enterprise or Exchange 2K, so there's no option IMO other than educate the packrats, and set up an archiving solution. I've also read the arguments in the FAQ, but wonder what other folks in a similar situation would do, with regard to archiving. Currently our priv.edb is 13.9 GB, while the pub.edb is 226MB, so would archiving essential emails on Public folders be a reasonable idea? Some of our client handlers need to keep archives for some of our clients, in case of compliance issues. Jon * DISCLAIMER Any opinions expressed in this email are those of the individual and not necessarily the Company. This email and any files transmitted with it, including replies and forwarded copies (which may contain alterations) subsequently transmitted from the Company, are confidential and solely for the use of the intended recipient. It may contain material protected by attorney-client privilege. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the IT department by telephone on +44 (0)117 311 8555 or via email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], including a copy of this message. Please then delete this email and destroy any copies of it. * _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: *groan* PST Files
Jon, IMHO Don't go down that route, before I joined here they went for that, now we have uses that get corrupt PST's because they are knocking around the 1.84GB limit, they make copies of the PST (one for March, then another in June with 10% more email). All it does is move the problem of space onto either a non-secure desktop/laptop or fill up a file server. I would just make sure that the server is of reasonable spec and KEEP it on exchange where it belongs (since you have no money to archive it). ALSO see FAQ why PST=BAD. Cheers Paul Standards are like toothbrushes, everyone wants one but not yours -Original Message- From: Exchange.ListServe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 September 2002 10:02 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: *groan* PST Files Hi. Standard Version of EX5.5, SP4. 200+ users. We are looking at educating users in not storing everything in their email, but storing in either a .pst or .ost. Money is an issue, my company won't pay for us to upgrade to 5.5 Enterprise or Exchange 2K, so there's no option IMO other than educate the packrats, and set up an archiving solution. I've also read the arguments in the FAQ, but wonder what other folks in a similar situation would do, with regard to archiving. Currently our priv.edb is 13.9 GB, while the pub.edb is 226MB, so would archiving essential emails on Public folders be a reasonable idea? Some of our client handlers need to keep archives for some of our clients, in case of compliance issues. Jon * DISCLAIMER Any opinions expressed in this email are those of the individual and not necessarily the Company. This email and any files transmitted with it, including replies and forwarded copies (which may contain alterations) subsequently transmitted from the Company, are confidential and solely for the use of the intended recipient. It may contain material protected by attorney-client privilege. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the IT department by telephone on +44 (0)117 311 8555 or via email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], including a copy of this message. Please then delete this email and destroy any copies of it. * _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** The information contained in this message or any of its attachments may be confidential and is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s). Any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other dissemination or use of this communication is strictly prohibited without the express permission of the sender. The views expressed in this email are those of the individual and not necessarily those of Sony or Sony affiliated companies. Sony email is for business use only. This email and any response may be monitored by Sony United Kingdom Limited. (04) *** _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: *groan* PST Files
As it seems that you do actually need large email stores to archive mail which
presumably needs to be reliably stored so you can actually get it back (or else whats
the point of bothering to archive it?), what business functionality would moving them
from a nice reliable easy to back up and manage exchange database store to a
unreliable, difficult to control and backup PST file?
I'm not a fan of shuffling stuff around between different file stores to be honest, it
is at best a short term solution that won't solve your actual problem.
-Original Message-
From: Exchange.ListServe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thu 19/09/2002 10:02
To: Exchange Discussions
Cc:
Subject: *groan* PST Files
Hi.
Standard Version of EX5.5, SP4. 200+ users.
We are looking at educating users in not storing everything in their email,
but storing in either a .pst or .ost. Money is an issue, my company won't pay
for us to upgrade to 5.5 Enterprise or Exchange 2K, so there's no option IMO
other than educate the packrats, and set up an archiving solution.
I've also read the arguments in the FAQ, but wonder what other folks in a
similar
situation would do, with regard to archiving.
Currently our priv.edb is 13.9 GB, while the pub.edb is 226MB, so would
archiving
essential emails on Public folders be a reasonable idea?
Some of our client handlers need to keep archives for some of our clients, in
case
of compliance issues.
Jon
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RE: *groan* PST Files
Implement strict mailbox quotas. Block GIF, JPG, MP*, AVI and other multimedia files. Do not allow e-mails larger than 5Mb to be anywhere in your information store. Teach users to use file shares rather than e-mail to send stuff across. And one last thing, implement this policy throughout your organisation Teach the boss that no matter how much he shouts and threatens, Exchange server will still have a 16gb limitation, which will shout back at him if he insists on sending/receiving child-porn/car photos/yacht layout diagrams In other words, be ruthless...until the money comes in for an upgrade.. -Original Message- From: Robert Moir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 September 2002 2:11 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: *groan* PST Files As it seems that you do actually need large email stores to archive mail which presumably needs to be reliably stored so you can actually get it back (or else whats the point of bothering to archive it?), what business functionality would moving them from a nice reliable easy to back up and manage exchange database store to a unreliable, difficult to control and backup PST file? I'm not a fan of shuffling stuff around between different file stores to be honest, it is at best a short term solution that won't solve your actual problem. -Original Message- From: Exchange.ListServe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thu 19/09/2002 10:02 To: Exchange Discussions Cc: Subject: *groan* PST Files Hi. Standard Version of EX5.5, SP4. 200+ users. We are looking at educating users in not storing everything in their email, but storing in either a .pst or .ost. Money is an issue, my company won't pay for us to upgrade to 5.5 Enterprise or Exchange 2K, so there's no option IMO other than educate the packrats, and set up an archiving solution. I've also read the arguments in the FAQ, but wonder what other folks in a similar situation would do, with regard to archiving. Currently our priv.edb is 13.9 GB, while the pub.edb is 226MB, so would archiving essential emails on Public folders be a reasonable idea? Some of our client handlers need to keep archives for some of our clients, in case of compliance issues. Jon * DISCLAIMER Any opinions expressed in this email are those of the individual and not necessarily the Company. This email and any files transmitted with it, including replies and forwarded copies (which may contain alterations) subsequently transmitted from the Company, are confidential and solely for the use of the intended recipient. It may contain material protected by attorney-client privilege. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the IT department by telephone on +44 (0)117 311 8555 or via email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], including a copy of this message. Please then delete this email and destroy any copies of it. * _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +--xm ,)r(ື \b=!6 0 zǚ1r䀬:.˛ m隊[hy㞄\z[,䔀)rɄZ Zvh쀧+-i٢2뮞G( Andrea Coppini +356 79 ANDREA (263732) [EMAIL PROTECTED] EMPOWER PEOPLE - THE WORLD IN YOUR HAND iWG (iWORLD GROUP) is a global e-mobile company creating, building and growing new businesses. iWG founders are pioneers in creating multi-billion dollar mobile and Internet businesses in Europe, Asia and the US. The Global Partners include the shareholders Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, Hikari Tsushin, McCaw, PaineWebber/UBS, The Dolphins' Trust, Perikles Trust and the iAA Advisory Network. www.iWG.info www.countryprofiler.com/iWG Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm
RE: *groan* PST Files
Perzactly. Jon-- the arguments you need to use to management are: Is disk space for file servers cheaper than diskspace (and an upgrade to enterprise edition)? Not to mention the extra tape storage for backups, and headaches for users and you when they need a .pst file back. Once you start down the .pst path, there is almost no way to get back from it-- users get used to using them and are difficult to un-train. Keep in mind that .pst files: 1) Break SIS-- you will now have umpteen copies of that pretty 25 MB powerpoint presentation instead of just 1. 2) .PST files save a plain text version and a rich text version of every file (and attachment, I believe). Therefore, they are automatically roughly double the size of the mail as it sits in the database: i.e. a 200 MB mailbox becomes a 400 MB .pst. 3) As Paul mentions, have a hard 2 gig limit, and are unstable after about 500 MB or less. Mike Morrison Staff System Engineer Fletcher Allen Health Care -Original Message- From: Hurst, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 5:35 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: *groan* PST Files Jon, IMHO Don't go down that route, before I joined here they went for that, now we have uses that get corrupt PST's because they are knocking around the 1.84GB limit, they make copies of the PST (one for March, then another in June with 10% more email). All it does is move the problem of space onto either a non-secure desktop/laptop or fill up a file server. I would just make sure that the server is of reasonable spec and KEEP it on exchange where it belongs (since you have no money to archive it). ALSO see FAQ why PST=BAD. Cheers Paul Standards are like toothbrushes, everyone wants one but not yours -Original Message- From: Exchange.ListServe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 September 2002 10:02 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: *groan* PST Files Hi. Standard Version of EX5.5, SP4. 200+ users. We are looking at educating users in not storing everything in their email, but storing in either a .pst or .ost. Money is an issue, my company won't pay for us to upgrade to 5.5 Enterprise or Exchange 2K, so there's no option IMO other than educate the packrats, and set up an archiving solution. I've also read the arguments in the FAQ, but wonder what other folks in a similar situation would do, with regard to archiving. Currently our priv.edb is 13.9 GB, while the pub.edb is 226MB, so would archiving essential emails on Public folders be a reasonable idea? Some of our client handlers need to keep archives for some of our clients, in case of compliance issues. Jon * DISCLAIMER Any opinions expressed in this email are those of the individual and not necessarily the Company. This email and any files transmitted with it, including replies and forwarded copies (which may contain alterations) subsequently transmitted from the Company, are confidential and solely for the use of the intended recipient. It may contain material protected by attorney-client privilege. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify the IT department by telephone on +44 (0)117 311 8555 or via email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], including a copy of this message. Please then delete this email and destroy any copies of it. * _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** The information contained in this message or any of its attachments may be confidential and is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s). Any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other dissemination or use of this communication is strictly prohibited without the express permission of the sender. The views expressed in this email are those of the individual and not necessarily those of Sony or Sony affiliated companies. Sony email is for business use only. This email and any response may be monitored by Sony United Kingdom Limited. (04) *** _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL
RE: Hard Drive Utilization
Any time, I don't know if you have a server, or are going to be getting a new one. If you are getting a new one be sure to take a look at the EXP line of expansion boxes. I also know they are recreating the X line of servers again, and of course they can't leave the good systems in place. The 342 close to the one you have now, and has a good price. The 350 is a great system if you can still find one. Also take a look at the ServeRAID-4H card, it will double your Cache Memory, has a 266 over a 100 Microprocessor, and is a 4 channel card so you can have up to 4 independent disk arms (always a good thing). Happy Server Building! -Original Message- From: Gonzalez, Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 4:22 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hard Drive Utilization Thanks for all of your information. I think we are going to build a new server the proper way and migrate everyone over. I don't think that our CIO would want to risk us doing a DR situation if we don't have to even if it involves more work. Reason being that we have been so busy that no one has ever let us come up with a strategy. This environment has been here for about a year and a half and still no time for us to complete one. That's a whole nother story. -Original Message- From: Waters, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 3:42 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hard Drive Utilization If you are a single channel RAID5 yes. You would need to crack open the box and disconnect the NETBAY3 from the current channel and connect it to the 2nd channel on the controller. This would break the established RAID. Then you would build the box from the ground up, starting with the IBM Raid CD so you can recreate your drives. If you do this I would recommend you do the OS/Log as a RAID1 (with 2 logical drives) and enroll the 3rd drive as a spare. Then do the 2nd as a RAID5. Think of it as a way to test your DR plans. The good news is if you do it this way and still don't get the performance you are looking for, when you add the EXP you will only have to tell exchange to move your log files to the new drives. -Original Message- From: Gonzalez, Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 3:41 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hard Drive Utilization We have Netbay3. Am I going to have to rebuild the box to do all this? -Original Message- From: Waters, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 3:29 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hard Drive Utilization Do you have the Netfinity NETBAY3 so that you can use up to 6 drives? If you don't, and you aren't using something like the EXP300 external bay then you are physically limited to 3 drives and one arm. If you have the NETBAY3 you can run up to 6 drives with 3 on each channel, or with all 6 on one channel. To go beyond that you are going to be looking at something like the EXP300 or 500 expansion bays. If you don't have the NETBAY3 I would get one, and then get the store on a different arm/channel. Here are your choices as I see them from the top of my head. using a NETBAY3; 1 channel and 3 raid 1 drives, then you could do os, logs, and store on separate drives however you are still going to take a performance hit because they are all on the same channel. 2 channels 1- Raid1 drive and 2 logical drives on 1 channel for the OS and Logs 1- Raid1 drive with 1 logical drive for the store. Not the optimum, however you will at least get your logs and store on separate drive arms. I had this for a couple of years and it worked fine. Get yourself an EXP unit; 1-Raid 1 in the server for the OS 1-Raid 1 in the EXP for the logs 1-Raid 5 in the EXP for the stores The EXP is a duel channel bus, this would put your OS, Logs and Store all on separate channels and give you the best performance. What I have done for our severs is run both the NETBAY3 and an EXP500, this allows me to run two channels within the servers, and split the EXP between two servers. -Original Message- From: Gonzalez, Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 3:07 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hard Drive Utilization Oh it's a 86565RY. -Original Message- From: Waters, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 2:14 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hard Drive Utilization Sorry brain dead, I missed the netfinity part. What server are you running this in? If you have the IBM raid manager loaded you can run that within windows, otherwise you either run the config or open the box up. Your server configuration is going to determine how the drives are setup. If you get me the model of IBM server you have I can give more information. I know the 4M card very well as we have a few of them here. -Original Message- From: Gonzalez, Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
SnapShot (Imaging backup ) PowerQuest V2I Protector
Hi I backuped up 2.78 GB live in 10 minutes with the new Powerquest V2i Protector. ( backuped up an ex2000 server ) Does anyone use that kind of product in conjunction with ordinary backup method (for the logs files etc ) to make restore faster ? JF _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Hard Drive Utilization
I am so excited. NOT!!! I think we are going to look into buying a 342 with 15k drives instead of the 7.2k that we have now. I will build the arrays properly and then use Veritas with IDR to perform a disaster recovery. It shouldn't take more than a day I hope. -Original Message- From: Waters, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 9:00 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hard Drive Utilization Any time, I don't know if you have a server, or are going to be getting a new one. If you are getting a new one be sure to take a look at the EXP line of expansion boxes. I also know they are recreating the X line of servers again, and of course they can't leave the good systems in place. The 342 close to the one you have now, and has a good price. The 350 is a great system if you can still find one. Also take a look at the ServeRAID-4H card, it will double your Cache Memory, has a 266 over a 100 Microprocessor, and is a 4 channel card so you can have up to 4 independent disk arms (always a good thing). Happy Server Building! -Original Message- From: Gonzalez, Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 4:22 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hard Drive Utilization Thanks for all of your information. I think we are going to build a new server the proper way and migrate everyone over. I don't think that our CIO would want to risk us doing a DR situation if we don't have to even if it involves more work. Reason being that we have been so busy that no one has ever let us come up with a strategy. This environment has been here for about a year and a half and still no time for us to complete one. That's a whole nother story. -Original Message- From: Waters, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 3:42 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hard Drive Utilization If you are a single channel RAID5 yes. You would need to crack open the box and disconnect the NETBAY3 from the current channel and connect it to the 2nd channel on the controller. This would break the established RAID. Then you would build the box from the ground up, starting with the IBM Raid CD so you can recreate your drives. If you do this I would recommend you do the OS/Log as a RAID1 (with 2 logical drives) and enroll the 3rd drive as a spare. Then do the 2nd as a RAID5. Think of it as a way to test your DR plans. The good news is if you do it this way and still don't get the performance you are looking for, when you add the EXP you will only have to tell exchange to move your log files to the new drives. -Original Message- From: Gonzalez, Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 3:41 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hard Drive Utilization We have Netbay3. Am I going to have to rebuild the box to do all this? -Original Message- From: Waters, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 3:29 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hard Drive Utilization Do you have the Netfinity NETBAY3 so that you can use up to 6 drives? If you don't, and you aren't using something like the EXP300 external bay then you are physically limited to 3 drives and one arm. If you have the NETBAY3 you can run up to 6 drives with 3 on each channel, or with all 6 on one channel. To go beyond that you are going to be looking at something like the EXP300 or 500 expansion bays. If you don't have the NETBAY3 I would get one, and then get the store on a different arm/channel. Here are your choices as I see them from the top of my head. using a NETBAY3; 1 channel and 3 raid 1 drives, then you could do os, logs, and store on separate drives however you are still going to take a performance hit because they are all on the same channel. 2 channels 1- Raid1 drive and 2 logical drives on 1 channel for the OS and Logs 1- Raid1 drive with 1 logical drive for the store. Not the optimum, however you will at least get your logs and store on separate drive arms. I had this for a couple of years and it worked fine. Get yourself an EXP unit; 1-Raid 1 in the server for the OS 1-Raid 1 in the EXP for the logs 1-Raid 5 in the EXP for the stores The EXP is a duel channel bus, this would put your OS, Logs and Store all on separate channels and give you the best performance. What I have done for our severs is run both the NETBAY3 and an EXP500, this allows me to run two channels within the servers, and split the EXP between two servers. -Original Message- From: Gonzalez, Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 3:07 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hard Drive Utilization Oh it's a 86565RY. -Original Message- From: Waters, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 2:14 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hard Drive Utilization Sorry brain dead, I missed the netfinity part. What
RE: Hard Drive Utilization
Hey you don't by chance know of anything that would Ghost these servers would you. Symantec and Server Image both say they wont work. They said it wouldn't work with Compaq's either but it does. I know that it doesn't with these though. -Original Message- From: Waters, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 9:00 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hard Drive Utilization Any time, I don't know if you have a server, or are going to be getting a new one. If you are getting a new one be sure to take a look at the EXP line of expansion boxes. I also know they are recreating the X line of servers again, and of course they can't leave the good systems in place. The 342 close to the one you have now, and has a good price. The 350 is a great system if you can still find one. Also take a look at the ServeRAID-4H card, it will double your Cache Memory, has a 266 over a 100 Microprocessor, and is a 4 channel card so you can have up to 4 independent disk arms (always a good thing). Happy Server Building! -Original Message- From: Gonzalez, Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 4:22 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hard Drive Utilization Thanks for all of your information. I think we are going to build a new server the proper way and migrate everyone over. I don't think that our CIO would want to risk us doing a DR situation if we don't have to even if it involves more work. Reason being that we have been so busy that no one has ever let us come up with a strategy. This environment has been here for about a year and a half and still no time for us to complete one. That's a whole nother story. -Original Message- From: Waters, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 3:42 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hard Drive Utilization If you are a single channel RAID5 yes. You would need to crack open the box and disconnect the NETBAY3 from the current channel and connect it to the 2nd channel on the controller. This would break the established RAID. Then you would build the box from the ground up, starting with the IBM Raid CD so you can recreate your drives. If you do this I would recommend you do the OS/Log as a RAID1 (with 2 logical drives) and enroll the 3rd drive as a spare. Then do the 2nd as a RAID5. Think of it as a way to test your DR plans. The good news is if you do it this way and still don't get the performance you are looking for, when you add the EXP you will only have to tell exchange to move your log files to the new drives. -Original Message- From: Gonzalez, Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 3:41 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hard Drive Utilization We have Netbay3. Am I going to have to rebuild the box to do all this? -Original Message- From: Waters, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 3:29 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hard Drive Utilization Do you have the Netfinity NETBAY3 so that you can use up to 6 drives? If you don't, and you aren't using something like the EXP300 external bay then you are physically limited to 3 drives and one arm. If you have the NETBAY3 you can run up to 6 drives with 3 on each channel, or with all 6 on one channel. To go beyond that you are going to be looking at something like the EXP300 or 500 expansion bays. If you don't have the NETBAY3 I would get one, and then get the store on a different arm/channel. Here are your choices as I see them from the top of my head. using a NETBAY3; 1 channel and 3 raid 1 drives, then you could do os, logs, and store on separate drives however you are still going to take a performance hit because they are all on the same channel. 2 channels 1- Raid1 drive and 2 logical drives on 1 channel for the OS and Logs 1- Raid1 drive with 1 logical drive for the store. Not the optimum, however you will at least get your logs and store on separate drive arms. I had this for a couple of years and it worked fine. Get yourself an EXP unit; 1-Raid 1 in the server for the OS 1-Raid 1 in the EXP for the logs 1-Raid 5 in the EXP for the stores The EXP is a duel channel bus, this would put your OS, Logs and Store all on separate channels and give you the best performance. What I have done for our severs is run both the NETBAY3 and an EXP500, this allows me to run two channels within the servers, and split the EXP between two servers. -Original Message- From: Gonzalez, Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 3:07 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hard Drive Utilization Oh it's a 86565RY. -Original Message- From: Waters, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 2:14 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hard Drive Utilization Sorry brain dead, I missed the netfinity part. What server are you running this in?
Are Deleted Items Logged?..etc
Q: When a user delete's items in OL/Exch does the Exchange system log this action? Does it log that fact that a user would then empty the deleted items? Does it log the fact that the items where recovered from the retention? What log's might I look at for this info? Exch55sp4 NT4sp6a Yes..issue in management... thanks bill _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Calendar Detail in Outlook
Hello! I am wondering if anyone has run into a simliar problem as I have using the AutoAccept utility. OS:Windows 2000 SP2 Servers: Exchange 5.5 SP4 with CDO update Clients: Outlook 2000 and 2002 We've been using AutoAccept utility (wonderful tool) to manage our conference rooms for a while and ran into a small problem. I am trying to find out if anyone has run into a simliar problem and have done anything about it. Description of a problem: When someone books a meeting with one of AutoAccept configured conference room, Calendar Detail disappears in Outlook until someone manaully goes into a conference room to republish the information. This also happens when someone cancels a meeting from a AutoAccept configured conference room as well. This only happens to conference/resources configured with AutoAccept. One other thing we noticed is that when Calendar details disappears, it seems to publish Free/Busy information more than it's supposed to, like over 5 years. What I am wondering is if anyone ran into simliar problems. If so, have you found any fix to this problem. Thank you in advance, Brian _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: *groan* PST Files
Much like Robert, it's an inherited policy that I've stumbled into the sole reponsibilty of, and I'm cobbling bits of info together for a guideline and policy docco to stamp some authority over it. It gets a bit worrying though, when 8-10 people contantly use nearly a fifth of the servers capacity. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recovering data from client-side OST files
Our Exchange server crashed, and we are now running on a temporary server, w/ manually created accounts. Unfortunately, the new accounts are not the ones that created the OST files, and therefore we cannot get at the information in them. Stuff like calendars and contacts are inaccessible until (and if) the backups can be restored. In the meantime, is there a tool MS or third-party, that can read an OST file? I tried renaming to to .pst in the hope that they used the same format, but to no avail. TIA _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Exchange 2000 : IM problem
Hi, We have two boxes of Exchange 2k installed on Win2K . Both are domain controllers in mixed mode with an NT 4 SP6a domain controller. I installed Instant Messenger service on both the Exchange servers and installed IM clients on all the client machines. The problem is while it works fine for few of the users (i.e. they are able to send and receive instant messages ) however there are other users on the same configuration it doesn't work (i.e. they are not able to receive messages from others, though they are able to send to those people who works fine) . Those who have problem for them even the status of the other users doesn't change in their IM. They are all able to log-in fine though. I'm totally stuck now as I couldn't find any documentation on Microsoft's website. PLEASE some one help me . Any direction towards technicality of Exchange IM will help including directing me to some where I find some advance level technical information on Exchange IM as to where it keeps the user's logged-in information and how the server is routing messages . I really will appreciate ANY HELP ...PLEASE Thanks With Regards, Kishore Gagrani Director- Information Technology PRICE Systems,L.L.C. Phone: +1-856-608-7220 17000 Commerce Parkway Suite A Mt Laurel, NJ 08054 -Original Message- From: Davy Rowland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 9:40 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Outlook 2000 - Exchange 2000 - VPN problem Hi, I've seen something similar with XP over VPN. Not just connecting to a mail server, but also to file servers. It's all down to DNS, until we resolved the issue, we could connect to anything using the IP address, however, using the name alone didn't work. Either you have a DNS problem, DNS on the XP client is incorrectly configured, or the correct DNS settings are not filtering through your ISA server. E2K loves DNS, we can't bodge through on WINS alone anymore :-) Davy -Original Message- From: Andrey Fyodorov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 September 2002 14:52 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Outlook 2000 - Exchange 2000 - VPN problem I have seen weird behavior on Win98/Outlook 2000 clients where they would not connect to Exchange server unless DNS was configured correctly on those Win98 machines. -Original Message- From: Guy Swartwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 12:18 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Outlook 2000 - Exchange 2000 - VPN problem My setup: Single box / Win2k Server (PDC), Exchange 2000, ISA and RAS. All my users VPN into this box to connect Outlook 2000 to Exchange. Currently all my users connect fine through VPN. My XP users get server unavailable when they start Outlook. They can press retry and sometimes after pressing it many times, it will actually connect. My Win9x users do not have this problem. They press retry once and it is connected. My Win2k users usually don't have the XP problem, they usually only have the press the retry once. Any Ideas? Guy Swartwood _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Outlook 2000 - Exchange 2000 - VPN problem
Same Problem here after two retries it works fine. Never a problem on Win2k machines only with XP . I have upgraded all the XP machines to SP1 this week and at least one user tells me that he didn't have to hit retry , don't know though if it just a coincidence . Yet to see the results from others after SP1 install . I'll post the results to this list once I have them all. Kishore Gagrani -Original Message- From: Davy Rowland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 9:40 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Outlook 2000 - Exchange 2000 - VPN problem Hi, I've seen something similar with XP over VPN. Not just connecting to a mail server, but also to file servers. It's all down to DNS, until we resolved the issue, we could connect to anything using the IP address, however, using the name alone didn't work. Either you have a DNS problem, DNS on the XP client is incorrectly configured, or the correct DNS settings are not filtering through your ISA server. E2K loves DNS, we can't bodge through on WINS alone anymore :-) Davy -Original Message- From: Andrey Fyodorov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 September 2002 14:52 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Outlook 2000 - Exchange 2000 - VPN problem I have seen weird behavior on Win98/Outlook 2000 clients where they would not connect to Exchange server unless DNS was configured correctly on those Win98 machines. -Original Message- From: Guy Swartwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 12:18 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Outlook 2000 - Exchange 2000 - VPN problem My setup: Single box / Win2k Server (PDC), Exchange 2000, ISA and RAS. All my users VPN into this box to connect Outlook 2000 to Exchange. Currently all my users connect fine through VPN. My XP users get server unavailable when they start Outlook. They can press retry and sometimes after pressing it many times, it will actually connect. My Win9x users do not have this problem. They press retry once and it is connected. My Win2k users usually don't have the XP problem, they usually only have the press the retry once. Any Ideas? Guy Swartwood _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tools for Maintaining Active Directory
We need to add a large number of names to the Active Directory for people who do not have Windows or Exchange accounts, but who have mailboxes on other email systems (unix, etc). We want them to be included in the GAL. What programs or products are other people using to maintain the Active Directory in an automated fashion for maintaining custom recipients? _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Exchange Security Breach????
Hello everyone, One of my users (unfortunately it's my Supervisor) got an alert from Group Shield saying that his attachment (.exe) was blocked. But he swears that he didn't send out any emails. Couldn't argue with that. Not only that, we were unable to find anything on his Sent Items folder either. Here is what he received on his inbox from Postmaster -Original Message- From: postmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] mailto:[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Undeliverable mail--Helvetica The following mail can't be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Helvetica The attachment is the original mail * I just can't seem to find any information on this on the internet. Helvetica is a font. That's all I've got so for. Could this be a Security breach? Is someone using my exchange server? Has anyone received any messages like this before? Please help. Any input is welcome! Thanks everyone! rama _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
FW: Exchange 2000 : IM problem
I wonder my messages are going to the list -Original Message- From: Gagrani, Kishore Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 1:07 PM To: 'Exchange Discussions' Subject: Exchange 2000 : IM problem Hi, We have two boxes of Exchange 2k installed on Win2K . Both are domain controllers in mixed mode with an NT 4 SP6a domain controller. I installed Instant Messenger service on both the Exchange servers and installed IM clients on all the client machines. The problem is while it works fine for few of the users (i.e. they are able to send and receive instant messages ) however there are other users on the same configuration it doesn't work (i.e. they are not able to receive messages from others, though they are able to send to those people who works fine) . Those who have problem for them even the status of the other users doesn't change in their IM. They are all able to log-in fine though. I'm totally stuck now as I couldn't find any documentation on Microsoft's website. PLEASE some one help me . Any direction towards technicality of Exchange IM will help including directing me to some where I find some advance level technical information on Exchange IM as to where it keeps the user's logged-in information and how the server is routing messages . I really will appreciate ANY HELP ...PLEASE Thanks With Regards, Kishore Gagrani Director- Information Technology PRICE Systems,L.L.C. Phone: +1-856-608-7220 17000 Commerce Parkway Suite A Mt Laurel, NJ 08054 -Original Message- From: Davy Rowland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 9:40 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Outlook 2000 - Exchange 2000 - VPN problem Hi, I've seen something similar with XP over VPN. Not just connecting to a mail server, but also to file servers. It's all down to DNS, until we resolved the issue, we could connect to anything using the IP address, however, using the name alone didn't work. Either you have a DNS problem, DNS on the XP client is incorrectly configured, or the correct DNS settings are not filtering through your ISA server. E2K loves DNS, we can't bodge through on WINS alone anymore :-) Davy -Original Message- From: Andrey Fyodorov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 September 2002 14:52 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Outlook 2000 - Exchange 2000 - VPN problem I have seen weird behavior on Win98/Outlook 2000 clients where they would not connect to Exchange server unless DNS was configured correctly on those Win98 machines. -Original Message- From: Guy Swartwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 12:18 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Outlook 2000 - Exchange 2000 - VPN problem My setup: Single box / Win2k Server (PDC), Exchange 2000, ISA and RAS. All my users VPN into this box to connect Outlook 2000 to Exchange. Currently all my users connect fine through VPN. My XP users get server unavailable when they start Outlook. They can press retry and sometimes after pressing it many times, it will actually connect. My Win9x users do not have this problem. They press retry once and it is connected. My Win2k users usually don't have the XP problem, they usually only have the press the retry once. Any Ideas? Guy Swartwood _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Restore
Our exchange 2000 server crashed and I rebuilt it unfortunately the third party backup package has screwed up. I have managed to re-configure and setup it up again however obviously the mail that was there previously is now gone. I do have a copy of the old priv.edb and pub.edb which became currupt and wish to setup a backup exchange standalone server. I have given it the same org name etc as the production system. Is it possible to copy the priv and pub files onto this backup server to retrieve some of the old mailbox's? Any help would be great. Thanks _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Exchange Security Breach????
Hello everyone, One of my users (unfortunately it's my Supervisor) got an alert from Group Shield saying that his attachment (.exe) was blocked. But he swears that he didn't send out any emails. Not only that, we were unable to find anything on his Sent Items folder either. Here is what he received on his inbox from Postmaster -Original Message- From: postmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] mailto:[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Undeliverable mail--Helvetica The following mail can't be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Helvetica The attachment is the original mail * I just can't seem to find any information on this on the internet. Helvetica is a font. That's all I've got so for. Could this be a Security breach? Is someone using my exchange server? Has anyone received any messages like this before? Please help. Any input is welcome! Thanks everyone! rama Rama Arumugam Network Administrator Wire DynamiX.com (253) 395-4527 _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Recovering data from client-side OST files
http://www.officerecovery.com/exchange/ The utility I'm familiar with is called ost2pst which it looks like has been bought by the above company. -Original Message- From: Bruce MacDonald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 1:54 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Recovering data from client-side OST files Our Exchange server crashed, and we are now running on a temporary server, w/ manually created accounts. Unfortunately, the new accounts are not the ones that created the OST files, and therefore we cannot get at the information in them. Stuff like calendars and contacts are inaccessible until (and if) the backups can be restored. In the meantime, is there a tool MS or third-party, that can read an OST file? I tried renaming to to .pst in the hope that they used the same format, but to no avail. TIA _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Exchange Security Breach????
Simple : some one else over the internet sent out an e-mail using his e-mail address . The bounced mail came to him. Its also possible if some one is relaying through your server. -Original Message- From: Rama Arumugam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:28 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Exchange Security Breach Hello everyone, One of my users (unfortunately it's my Supervisor) got an alert from Group Shield saying that his attachment (.exe) was blocked. But he swears that he didn't send out any emails. Couldn't argue with that. Not only that, we were unable to find anything on his Sent Items folder either. Here is what he received on his inbox from Postmaster -Original Message- From: postmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] mailto:[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Undeliverable mail--Helvetica The following mail can't be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Helvetica The attachment is the original mail * I just can't seem to find any information on this on the internet. Helvetica is a font. That's all I've got so for. Could this be a Security breach? Is someone using my exchange server? Has anyone received any messages like this before? Please help. Any input is welcome! Thanks everyone! rama _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Exchange Security Breach????
How do I find out if some one is in fact relaying through our server? Thanks! Rama Arumugam Network Administrator Wire DynamiX.com (253) 395-4527 -Original Message- From: Gagrani, Kishore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 8:11 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange Security Breach Simple : some one else over the internet sent out an e-mail using his e-mail address . The bounced mail came to him. Its also possible if some one is relaying through your server. -Original Message- From: Rama Arumugam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:28 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Exchange Security Breach Hello everyone, One of my users (unfortunately it's my Supervisor) got an alert from Group Shield saying that his attachment (.exe) was blocked. But he swears that he didn't send out any emails. Couldn't argue with that. Not only that, we were unable to find anything on his Sent Items folder either. Here is what he received on his inbox from Postmaster -Original Message- From: postmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] mailto:[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Undeliverable mail--Helvetica The following mail can't be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Helvetica The attachment is the original mail * I just can't seem to find any information on this on the internet. Helvetica is a font. That's all I've got so for. Could this be a Security breach? Is someone using my exchange server? Has anyone received any messages like this before? Please help. Any input is welcome! Thanks everyone! rama _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Exchange Security Breach????
Open telnet session to your exchange server and test it using mail to / mail from command. Lot of help on it also available on Microsoft KB , search for open relay. -Original Message- From: Rama Arumugam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 11:10 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange Security Breach How do I find out if some one is in fact relaying through our server? Thanks! Rama Arumugam Network Administrator Wire DynamiX.com (253) 395-4527 -Original Message- From: Gagrani, Kishore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 8:11 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange Security Breach Simple : some one else over the internet sent out an e-mail using his e-mail address . The bounced mail came to him. Its also possible if some one is relaying through your server. -Original Message- From: Rama Arumugam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:28 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Exchange Security Breach Hello everyone, One of my users (unfortunately it's my Supervisor) got an alert from Group Shield saying that his attachment (.exe) was blocked. But he swears that he didn't send out any emails. Couldn't argue with that. Not only that, we were unable to find anything on his Sent Items folder either. Here is what he received on his inbox from Postmaster -Original Message- From: postmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] mailto:[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Undeliverable mail--Helvetica The following mail can't be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Helvetica The attachment is the original mail * I just can't seem to find any information on this on the internet. Helvetica is a font. That's all I've got so for. Could this be a Security breach? Is someone using my exchange server? Has anyone received any messages like this before? Please help. Any input is welcome! Thanks everyone! rama _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Exchange Security Breach????
You may also use third party open relay testers over internet. There are many , just search for open relay in your google or yahoo . -Original Message- From: Gagrani, Kishore Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 11:15 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange Security Breach Open telnet session to your exchange server and test it using mail to / mail from command. Lot of help on it also available on Microsoft KB , search for open relay. -Original Message- From: Rama Arumugam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 11:10 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange Security Breach How do I find out if some one is in fact relaying through our server? Thanks! Rama Arumugam Network Administrator Wire DynamiX.com (253) 395-4527 -Original Message- From: Gagrani, Kishore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 8:11 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange Security Breach Simple : some one else over the internet sent out an e-mail using his e-mail address . The bounced mail came to him. Its also possible if some one is relaying through your server. -Original Message- From: Rama Arumugam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:28 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Exchange Security Breach Hello everyone, One of my users (unfortunately it's my Supervisor) got an alert from Group Shield saying that his attachment (.exe) was blocked. But he swears that he didn't send out any emails. Couldn't argue with that. Not only that, we were unable to find anything on his Sent Items folder either. Here is what he received on his inbox from Postmaster -Original Message- From: postmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] mailto:[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Undeliverable mail--Helvetica The following mail can't be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Helvetica The attachment is the original mail * I just can't seem to find any information on this on the internet. Helvetica is a font. That's all I've got so for. Could this be a Security breach? Is someone using my exchange server? Has anyone received any messages like this before? Please help. Any input is welcome! Thanks everyone! rama _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Exchange Security Breach????
What do you mean by someone else's machine or someone used my boss's email address? Do you mean some one on the internet has an email address (as an alias may be??)that matches my boss's email address? Thanks! Rama Arumugam -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 8:18 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange Security Breach Could also be klez virus (or variant) on someone else's machine as well which used your boss' email address -Original Message- From: Gagrani, Kishore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 11:15 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange Security Breach Open telnet session to your exchange server and test it using mail to / mail from command. Lot of help on it also available on Microsoft KB , search for open relay. -Original Message- From: Rama Arumugam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 11:10 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange Security Breach How do I find out if some one is in fact relaying through our server? Thanks! Rama Arumugam Network Administrator Wire DynamiX.com (253) 395-4527 -Original Message- From: Gagrani, Kishore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 8:11 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange Security Breach Simple : some one else over the internet sent out an e-mail using his e-mail address . The bounced mail came to him. Its also possible if some one is relaying through your server. -Original Message- From: Rama Arumugam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:28 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Exchange Security Breach Hello everyone, One of my users (unfortunately it's my Supervisor) got an alert from Group Shield saying that his attachment (.exe) was blocked. But he swears that he didn't send out any emails. Couldn't argue with that. Not only that, we were unable to find anything on his Sent Items folder either. Here is what he received on his inbox from Postmaster -Original Message- From: postmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] mailto:[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Undeliverable mail--Helvetica The following mail can't be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Helvetica The attachment is the original mail * I just can't seem to find any information on this on the internet. Helvetica is a font. That's all I've got so for. Could this be a Security breach? Is someone using my exchange server? Has anyone received any messages like this before? Please help. Any input is welcome! Thanks everyone! rama _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Exchange Security Breach????
It's Klez. Don't worry about it. -Original Message- From: Rama Arumugam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Thursday, September 19, 2002 09:28 AM Posted To: MSExchange Mailing List Conversation: Exchange Security Breach Subject: Exchange Security Breach Hello everyone, One of my users (unfortunately it's my Supervisor) got an alert from Group Shield saying that his attachment (.exe) was blocked. But he swears that he didn't send out any emails. Couldn't argue with that. Not only that, we were unable to find anything on his Sent Items folder either. Here is what he received on his inbox from Postmaster -Original Message- From: postmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] mailto:[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Undeliverable mail--Helvetica The following mail can't be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Helvetica The attachment is the original mail ** ** * I just can't seem to find any information on this on the internet. Helvetica is a font. That's all I've got so for. Could this be a Security breach? Is someone using my exchange server? Has anyone received any messages like this before? Please help. Any input is welcome! Thanks everyone! rama _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Exchange Security Breach????
What do you mean don't worry about? By the way we have NetShield and GroupShield both running on our exchange server and we do block most of the extensions (.exe,.vbs, etc.) from coming in. Rama Arumugam Network Administrator Wire DynamiX.com (253) 395-4527 -Original Message- From: Tom Meunier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 8:20 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange Security Breach It's Klez. Don't worry about it. -Original Message- From: Rama Arumugam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Thursday, September 19, 2002 09:28 AM Posted To: MSExchange Mailing List Conversation: Exchange Security Breach Subject: Exchange Security Breach Hello everyone, One of my users (unfortunately it's my Supervisor) got an alert from Group Shield saying that his attachment (.exe) was blocked. But he swears that he didn't send out any emails. Couldn't argue with that. Not only that, we were unable to find anything on his Sent Items folder either. Here is what he received on his inbox from Postmaster -Original Message- From: postmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] mailto:[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Undeliverable mail--Helvetica The following mail can't be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Helvetica The attachment is the original mail ** ** * I just can't seem to find any information on this on the internet. Helvetica is a font. That's all I've got so for. Could this be a Security breach? Is someone using my exchange server? Has anyone received any messages like this before? Please help. Any input is welcome! Thanks everyone! rama _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Exchange Security Breach????
No, I don't mean that. What I meant was its quite possible some one deliberately used your boss's e-mail address. SPAMERS do such a thing all the time. -Original Message- From: Rama Arumugam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 11:19 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange Security Breach What do you mean by someone else's machine or someone used my boss's email address? Do you mean some one on the internet has an email address (as an alias may be??)that matches my boss's email address? Thanks! Rama Arumugam -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 8:18 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange Security Breach Could also be klez virus (or variant) on someone else's machine as well which used your boss' email address -Original Message- From: Gagrani, Kishore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 11:15 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange Security Breach Open telnet session to your exchange server and test it using mail to / mail from command. Lot of help on it also available on Microsoft KB , search for open relay. -Original Message- From: Rama Arumugam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 11:10 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange Security Breach How do I find out if some one is in fact relaying through our server? Thanks! Rama Arumugam Network Administrator Wire DynamiX.com (253) 395-4527 -Original Message- From: Gagrani, Kishore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 8:11 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange Security Breach Simple : some one else over the internet sent out an e-mail using his e-mail address . The bounced mail came to him. Its also possible if some one is relaying through your server. -Original Message- From: Rama Arumugam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:28 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Exchange Security Breach Hello everyone, One of my users (unfortunately it's my Supervisor) got an alert from Group Shield saying that his attachment (.exe) was blocked. But he swears that he didn't send out any emails. Couldn't argue with that. Not only that, we were unable to find anything on his Sent Items folder either. Here is what he received on his inbox from Postmaster -Original Message- From: postmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] mailto:[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Undeliverable mail--Helvetica The following mail can't be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Helvetica The attachment is the original mail * I just can't seem to find any information on this on the internet. Helvetica is a font. That's all I've got so for. Could this be a Security breach? Is someone using my exchange server? Has anyone received any messages like this before? Please help. Any input is welcome! Thanks everyone! rama _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:
RE: Exchange Security Breach????
You could start by reading a description of what klez actually does, paying special attention to the bit about forging emails from totally innocent people who have nothing to do with the virus infection. -Original Message- From: Rama Arumugam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thu 19/09/2002 16:22 To: Exchange Discussions Cc: Subject: RE: Exchange Security Breach What do you mean don't worry about? By the way we have NetShield and GroupShield both running on our exchange server and we do block most of the extensions (.exe,.vbs, etc.) from coming in. Rama Arumugam Network Administrator Wire DynamiX.com (253) 395-4527 -Original Message- From: Tom Meunier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 8:20 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange Security Breach It's Klez. Don't worry about it. -Original Message- From: Rama Arumugam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Thursday, September 19, 2002 09:28 AM Posted To: MSExchange Mailing List Conversation: Exchange Security Breach Subject: Exchange Security Breach Hello everyone, One of my users (unfortunately it's my Supervisor) got an alert from Group Shield saying that his attachment (.exe) was blocked. But he swears that he didn't send out any emails. Couldn't argue with that. Not only that, we were unable to find anything on his Sent Items folder either. Here is what he received on his inbox from Postmaster -Original Message- From: postmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] mailto:[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Undeliverable mail--Helvetica The following mail can't be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Helvetica The attachment is the original mail ** ** * I just can't seem to find any information on this on the internet. Helvetica is a font. That's all I've got so for. Could this be a Security breach? Is someone using my exchange server? Has anyone received any messages like this before? Please help. Any input is welcome! Thanks everyone! rama _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] â²Úh²Ø§PÛiÿü0ÂÌÇ(úÞ²«qïÞÅÈ_j¨m Ü+Þ²m§ÿðà 0Êy ¢oì׬yªÜû j·!jÊS¢éì¹» ®Þ¨¥¶^j÷ÅÈZ¥²Ì2G(L\ ©àx¸¬µ§fyb²Ö)ìÃ)är
RE: Hard Drive Utilization
I don't, however that's not saying a lot because as a rule I will not use any type of Ghost or H/D image for servers. I am still from the old school that a server should be built and installed from scratch each and every time. It's hard to teach an old dog a new trick. Sorry -Original Message- From: Gonzalez, Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 9:56 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hard Drive Utilization Hey you don't by chance know of anything that would Ghost these servers would you. Symantec and Server Image both say they wont work. They said it wouldn't work with Compaq's either but it does. I know that it doesn't with these though. -Original Message- From: Waters, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 9:00 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hard Drive Utilization Any time, I don't know if you have a server, or are going to be getting a new one. If you are getting a new one be sure to take a look at the EXP line of expansion boxes. I also know they are recreating the X line of servers again, and of course they can't leave the good systems in place. The 342 close to the one you have now, and has a good price. The 350 is a great system if you can still find one. Also take a look at the ServeRAID-4H card, it will double your Cache Memory, has a 266 over a 100 Microprocessor, and is a 4 channel card so you can have up to 4 independent disk arms (always a good thing). Happy Server Building! -Original Message- From: Gonzalez, Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 4:22 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hard Drive Utilization Thanks for all of your information. I think we are going to build a new server the proper way and migrate everyone over. I don't think that our CIO would want to risk us doing a DR situation if we don't have to even if it involves more work. Reason being that we have been so busy that no one has ever let us come up with a strategy. This environment has been here for about a year and a half and still no time for us to complete one. That's a whole nother story. -Original Message- From: Waters, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 3:42 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hard Drive Utilization If you are a single channel RAID5 yes. You would need to crack open the box and disconnect the NETBAY3 from the current channel and connect it to the 2nd channel on the controller. This would break the established RAID. Then you would build the box from the ground up, starting with the IBM Raid CD so you can recreate your drives. If you do this I would recommend you do the OS/Log as a RAID1 (with 2 logical drives) and enroll the 3rd drive as a spare. Then do the 2nd as a RAID5. Think of it as a way to test your DR plans. The good news is if you do it this way and still don't get the performance you are looking for, when you add the EXP you will only have to tell exchange to move your log files to the new drives. -Original Message- From: Gonzalez, Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 3:41 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hard Drive Utilization We have Netbay3. Am I going to have to rebuild the box to do all this? -Original Message- From: Waters, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 3:29 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Hard Drive Utilization Do you have the Netfinity NETBAY3 so that you can use up to 6 drives? If you don't, and you aren't using something like the EXP300 external bay then you are physically limited to 3 drives and one arm. If you have the NETBAY3 you can run up to 6 drives with 3 on each channel, or with all 6 on one channel. To go beyond that you are going to be looking at something like the EXP300 or 500 expansion bays. If you don't have the NETBAY3 I would get one, and then get the store on a different arm/channel. Here are your choices as I see them from the top of my head. using a NETBAY3; 1 channel and 3 raid 1 drives, then you could do os, logs, and store on separate drives however you are still going to take a performance hit because they are all on the same channel. 2 channels 1- Raid1 drive and 2 logical drives on 1 channel for the OS and Logs 1- Raid1 drive with 1 logical drive for the store. Not the optimum, however you will at least get your logs and store on separate drive arms. I had this for a couple of years and it worked fine. Get yourself an EXP unit; 1-Raid 1 in the server for the OS 1-Raid 1 in the EXP for the logs 1-Raid 5 in the EXP for the stores The EXP is a duel channel bus, this would put your OS, Logs and Store all on separate channels and give you the best performance. What I have done for our severs is run both the NETBAY3 and an EXP500, this allows me to run two channels within the servers, and split the EXP between two servers.
RE: *groan* PST Files
You have to ask if theres a real business need for what they are doing, and if so you really have to support it. This is a management issue - if your users have a need to archive this mail properly (which PSTs don't meet due to their problems) then you have a need to upgrade to Ent. edition or invest in some other creative solution which will probably cost more. It's not an easy choice but that choice has to be made - if your employers want to play on the grown up golf course they have to accept they'll have to pay grown up greens fees. Or they'll have to change the way they work. -Original Message- From: Exchange.ListServe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thu 19/09/2002 15:58 To: Exchange Discussions Cc: Subject: RE: *groan* PST Files Much like Robert, it's an inherited policy that I've stumbled into the sole reponsibilty of, and I'm cobbling bits of info together for a guideline and policy docco to stamp some authority over it. It gets a bit worrying though, when 8-10 people contantly use nearly a fifth of the servers capacity. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] .+-¦-xm¶ÿà ,Â)Ür¿ë(º· ýì\ öªÙÈb½ë!¶Úÿ 0³ §ÊþÈzÇȱæ«r¬¥:.˱Êâmé[hæ¯yì\ ©àz[,Ã)ärÅÈZËZvh§+-iÙ¢Ì2G(
RE: Exchange Security Breach????
I mean, ignore it. That's how Klez works. So someone your boss knows has Klez. So what? Someone my boss knows has rotten kids, but I don't tell my boss she should take her kids to a child psychologist because of it. -Original Message- From: Rama Arumugam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:23 AM Posted To: MSExchange Mailing List Conversation: Exchange Security Breach Subject: RE: Exchange Security Breach What do you mean don't worry about? By the way we have NetShield and GroupShield both running on our exchange server and we do block most of the extensions (.exe,.vbs, etc.) from coming in. Rama Arumugam Network Administrator Wire DynamiX.com (253) 395-4527 -Original Message- From: Tom Meunier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 8:20 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange Security Breach It's Klez. Don't worry about it. -Original Message- From: Rama Arumugam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Thursday, September 19, 2002 09:28 AM Posted To: MSExchange Mailing List Conversation: Exchange Security Breach Subject: Exchange Security Breach Hello everyone, One of my users (unfortunately it's my Supervisor) got an alert from Group Shield saying that his attachment (.exe) was blocked. But he swears that he didn't send out any emails. Couldn't argue with that. Not only that, we were unable to find anything on his Sent Items folder either. Here is what he received on his inbox from Postmaster -Original Message- From: postmaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] mailto:[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Undeliverable mail--Helvetica The following mail can't be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Helvetica The attachment is the original mail ** ** * I just can't seem to find any information on this on the internet. Helvetica is a font. That's all I've got so for. Could this be a Security breach? Is someone using my exchange server? Has anyone received any messages like this before? Please help. Any input is welcome! Thanks everyone! rama _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: SMTP connector and smart hosts
Great, thanks. Hmm I searched support with every word i could think of and this Q did not show up.. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
How did you set up Searching Public Folders?
I've looked on Microsoft Knowledgebase and have found that you can't search sub folders with Public Folders because they can be on different Servers. Has any one an application or plug in that can do this? john Remember 9/11 _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rules Wizard
Exchange 2000(SP3), Windows 2000 server(SP3). The rule is to have the server reply with a certain subject. it works internaly but the replies to external emails hangs in the Categorizer. Any thoughts? Thanx. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: *groan* PST Files
Hmm . . . I think that several issues that should be thought of distinctly and separate, have been muddled together here. We have - mail box size limits - storage management - .PST usage - .OST usage - budget and PHB management - Data and information management I think you will do best, if you separate these from each other, and deal with them as appropriate. If it will help, I'll comment on a couple of them, in a specific order. Budget and PHB Management: You need to have a yearly budget. Part of it has to be for your hardware. That will include maintaining what you have, and a program for upgrades that is tied to both your depreciation schedule and your life cycle plan. If your PHB has not required you to coordinate these, or even draw up some of them, then you need to manage your PHB and get them done and blessed. You cannot survive without them. Storage Management: In a static organization (in terms of the total number of users), as you replace hot spare spindles for your RAID system, each new spindle should hit a budgeted price point. Do this in targeted sizes, so that you are auto-magically increasing your capacity over time. You should NEVER have to buy a larger array to get more storage for a finite population, if you are doing a good job of managing what you have. Mail Box Size: Bigger is better - usually. It is not IS's business to be passing judgment on the business value of what your customers want to store, nor how they want to organize it (except as noted below). Your job is to manage to your budget, and make sure that your budget is sized to your need. Customer satisfaction is an element of service quality that you should be measuring. If you aren't, your policies have no validity - even if you think they are about right. Data and information management- This has NOTHING (as in not one little bit) to do with storage management. If your organization wants to achieve a state of managing your digital information and data, and the job has been given to people that manage storage, then you will fail. Data and information management is a discipline of the library sciences. If you don't have someone with that kind of training who is providing requirements to your storage management people, then all you have is useless chaos. If that is your situation, then your policies about capacity and limits are capricious and without a foundation in the needs of the business. But alas, most IT shops are run this way. .OST usage. An .OST file is an Off-line STore. Unfortunately, it is limited to being a mirror of folders on your server that have been flagged for offline availability. As far as I know (hey, I make mistakes too), there is no way to have a folder in an .OST that is not in the server store. So, customer data that properly belongs in a personal store and not in your enterprise message store, has to go someplace else. .PST usage. A .PST does those things that an .OST cannot. Most (if not all) of your customers will have message data that is either personal or private, and which they feel is inappropriate to keep on one of your servers. The reasons for this are almost infinite, and usually consistent with your business rules and guidelines (even if you think they aren't). A .PST is a terrible thing to use as a message delivery destination, but it is an excellent Personal STore. I think we would be better off, neither Exchange nor Outlook were in the storage business. It would be better to have a general purpose DFS service in both client and server versions, and simply have the ability to create special folders that were valid mail destinations, but alas we are not yet there. Someday. So for now, we have to deal with what we have. -Original Message- From: Exchange.ListServe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 2:02 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: *groan* PST Files Hi. Standard Version of EX5.5, SP4. 200+ users. We are looking at educating users in not storing everything in their email, but storing in either a .pst or .ost. Money is an issue, my company won't pay for us to upgrade to 5.5 Enterprise or Exchange 2K, so there's no option IMO other than educate the packrats, and set up an archiving solution. I've also read the arguments in the FAQ, but wonder what other folks in a similar situation would do, with regard to archiving. Currently our priv.edb is 13.9 GB, while the pub.edb is 226MB, so would archiving essential emails on Public folders be a reasonable idea? Some of our client handlers need to keep archives for some of our clients, in case of compliance issues. Jon * DISCLAIMER Any opinions expressed in this email are those of the individual and not necessarily the Company. This email and any files transmitted with it, including replies and forwarded copies (which may
AD Exchange2K co-existence
All, Quick question: We are in the process of rolling out AD, and the Exchange2K upgrade will immediately follow. We are planning on housing Exchange2K on the AD Domain controller, and then retiring both the NT4.0 DC and Exchange 5.5 server (management is all about server consolidation). 1. Would it be wise to wait until AD is 100% deployed and stable before any Exchange upgrades/migrations, or is it safe to do the projects in parallel? 2. If its best to wait for AD to be 100% deployed, would it be feasible to at least get Exchange2K installed on the new AD DC's during the build - and then when we are ready for the Exchange piece to commence all we have to do is the actual migration??? Thanks, _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
does this swink still work
I havent seen an email from the list in awhile. Rich _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organizing Public Folders
We are planning to deploy public folders in our local site but we also want to expand to our remote sites which include users who are overseas. I'm curious as to how people organize their public folder hierarchy and how they determine where a public folder is homed. By region then by functional group? Or strictly by functional group (even if that group spans sites) Thanks - Jason _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
It all started with a lie - Q313819
So, I write this to test the waters and see how others have managed this issue - For many years, going back to 4.0, we used CSV files to create/manage/delete mailboxes within Exchange and this worked well. Then comes along Exchange 2000, which with it's integration of Active Directory and the requirement to use LDIFDE. Ok, no problem I can learn new tools and I learn the silly new LDIF import format and I make it do what I want it to do - mailbox enable an existing AD account. All is well until a few weeks following the mailbox enabling of the accounts, our users discover access to public folders (along with free/busy, off-line address book, etc) can not be had. A call to Microsoft produces the answer that, the attribute of msExchUserAccountControl had not been properly populated into AD. Microsoft writes a script for us that uses CDOEXM to re-set the permissions and while this does resolve the problem for existing users it doesn't resolve the on-going problems. So, Microsoft transferred me between a few groups (it's hard I guess to know what is what when you've got half of your mail system managed by another non-communicative group - Active Directory support) where I landed with an LDIFDE support engineer. This engineer then proceeded to explain that it was not possible to create mailbox enabled AD accounts with LDIFDE and pointed me to an article Q324353 [XADM: Users Cannot Access Public Folders or Delegate Mailboxes on a Separate Server] which states: If you want to use LDIFDE/ADSI to create users, Microsoft recommends that you use LDIFDE/ADSI to create only the user accounts, and then use Active Directory Users and Computers to create the mailboxes. to which I replied that Microsoft does support it and the answer can be found in Q313819 - [HOW TO: Create Mailbox-Enabled Account Using LDIFDE in Exchange 2000 Server] and after a bit of discussion Microsoft decided that it really sucks. It all seems to boil down to the fact that no one knows how the encoding of msExchUserAccountControl is done (in PSS that is) and without the ability to set that attribute at creation time, the RUS does not properly setup the account and Microsoft has no intentions to support this, even with the Q article on how to do it. So, my question? Simple - has anyone managed to use LDIFDE to create and mailbox enable or just to mailbox enable an existing account in AD and had it work properly, namely the use of public folders? I don't know about others that have a long history with Exchange but, do some of you feel that Exchange has made some real steps backward from the functionality that Exchange 5.5 had? And a word of warning to those still on 5.5 - if it aint' broken, don't fix it. Thanks, david moore Chevron Phillips Chemical _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Organizing Public Folders
Public folders, like shared file, should be organized in accordance with your enterprise's master information management schema. -Original Message- From: Kelley, Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 1:02 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Organizing Public Folders We are planning to deploy public folders in our local site but we also want to expand to our remote sites which include users who are overseas. I'm curious as to how people organize their public folder hierarchy and how they determine where a public folder is homed. By region then by functional group? Or strictly by functional group (even if that group spans sites) Thanks - Jason _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: OOA questions
It can be set programmatically with MAPI - here is a start: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q308281 By default OOF messages do not go to the internet, nor should they. david -Original Message- From: Alex Alborzfard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 17 September, 2002 10:44 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: OOA questions Ok so a 3rd party tool is needed. 1- Maybe it's easy, but it's not a very efficient method. But thanks, I'll check those sites. 2- OWA would work best when user is away and has no access to his/her computer. Maybe I'm wrong but doesn't turning off the auto-replies disables generating auto-reply and not the Out-of-Office messages and only to the Internet? This would have no effect on internal emails. --Alex -Original Message- From: Morrison, Mike L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 8:30 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: OOA questions 1- Easiest way I can think of is send a message to al users and see which one's send back Out of Office replies. If a tool exists, it's either at www.cdolive.com, www.mail-resources.com [1], or www.slipstick.com. 2- OWA could be used, but it amounts to the same thing as logging into the user's mailbox. You could turn off auto-replies to the internet at your IMS [2] to block all of them. Mike Morrison Staff System Engineer Fletcher Allen Health Care [1] No promotional fees were paid to the sender for this blatant plug. [3] [2] Generally accepted as a Good Idea! [3] Hi, Chris! -Original Message- From: Alex Alborzfard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 4:30 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: OOA questions EX 55/SP4, NT4/SP6 1- Is there a way/tool to find out which mailboxes are setup with Out of Office message at any given time? 2- Is there a way/tool to modify it (e.g. turn it off), right from the Exchange Administrator and without having to log in to user's mailbox? Can OWA be used to do this? Thanks --Alex _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: OWA 2000 Logon field..
This could be done in matter of 2 hours with only one ASP page - just use response.redirect and some dropdowns on a form that points to itself and you are there. david -Original Message- From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 16 September, 2002 5:06 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: OWA 2000 Logon field.. I know a couple of talented developers who'd likely have time to work on such a project after MEC. -Original Message- From: Andrea Coppini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 7:56 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: OWA 2000 Logon field.. Hi all, I believe this has been asked before. I searched through the archives but I couldn't find it... Basically I need to have an OWA 5.5 style logon box so users can enter their mailbox alias. I need it because some users have multiple mailboxes associated to them. I know I can use http://[exchange.ip]/exchange/[alias_name], but the users won't remember. Any ideas? Andrea Coppini +356 79 ANDREA (263732) [EMAIL PROTECTED] EMPOWER PEOPLE - THE WORLD IN YOUR HAND iWG (iWORLD GROUP) is a global e-mobile company creating, building and growing new businesses. iWG founders are pioneers in creating multi-billion dollar mobile and Internet businesses in Europe, Asia and the US. The Global Partners include the shareholders Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, Hikari Tsushin, McCaw, PaineWebber/UBS, The Dolphins' Trust, Perikles Trust and the iAA Advisory Network. www.iWG.info www.countryprofiler.com/iWG Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: It all started with a lie - Q313819
I manage a network on a college campus and have to create 500+ accounts/mailboxes every fall. I also have to delete that many and I have to do a whole lot of security group/distribution group management and housekeeping as well. I used a heavily modified addusers.vbs this term to create my accounts but found that it was much easier to go into AD Users and Computers and create my mailboxes in bulk after the user accounts were done. That is one of the very few things that you can still do in bulk. I have not had much time to play with it (maybe a week now) but I just found a little toy called ADVantage from Javelina Software that has a lot of Active Directory bulk modification features (it also does a lot of reporting and management on Win2K ACLS). I don't see any Exch2K features yet but it is version 1.0 so that may be forthcoming. I have downloaded a 1 month trial version to play with and I am going to keep a close eye on where they go with it because it could be extremely useful. Jeff Hague Network Manager Randolph-Macon College -Original Message- From: Moore, David K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 4:17 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: It all started with a lie - Q313819 So, I write this to test the waters and see how others have managed this issue - For many years, going back to 4.0, we used CSV files to create/manage/delete mailboxes within Exchange and this worked well. Then comes along Exchange 2000, which with it's integration of Active Directory and the requirement to use LDIFDE. Ok, no problem I can learn new tools and I learn the silly new LDIF import format and I make it do what I want it to do - mailbox enable an existing AD account. All is well until a few weeks following the mailbox enabling of the accounts, our users discover access to public folders (along with free/busy, off-line address book, etc) can not be had. A call to Microsoft produces the answer that, the attribute of msExchUserAccountControl had not been properly populated into AD. Microsoft writes a script for us that uses CDOEXM to re-set the permissions and while this does resolve the problem for existing users it doesn't resolve the on-going problems. So, Microsoft transferred me between a few groups (it's hard I guess to know what is what when you've got half of your mail system managed by another non-communicative group - Active Directory support) where I landed with an LDIFDE support engineer. This engineer then proceeded to explain that it was not possible to create mailbox enabled AD accounts with LDIFDE and pointed me to an article Q324353 [XADM: Users Cannot Access Public Folders or Delegate Mailboxes on a Separate Server] which states: If you want to use LDIFDE/ADSI to create users, Microsoft recommends that you use LDIFDE/ADSI to create only the user accounts, and then use Active Directory Users and Computers to create the mailboxes. to which I replied that Microsoft does support it and the answer can be found in Q313819 - [HOW TO: Create Mailbox-Enabled Account Using LDIFDE in Exchange 2000 Server] and after a bit of discussion Microsoft decided that it really sucks. It all seems to boil down to the fact that no one knows how the encoding of msExchUserAccountControl is done (in PSS that is) and without the ability to set that attribute at creation time, the RUS does not properly setup the account and Microsoft has no intentions to support this, even with the Q article on how to do it. So, my question? Simple - has anyone managed to use LDIFDE to create and mailbox enable or just to mailbox enable an existing account in AD and had it work properly, namely the use of public folders? I don't know about others that have a long history with Exchange but, do some of you feel that Exchange has made some real steps backward from the functionality that Exchange 5.5 had? And a word of warning to those still on 5.5 - if it aint' broken, don't fix it. Thanks, david moore Chevron Phillips Chemical _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: does this swink still work
I haven't seen an email since Tuesday at 11:14AM either. I had to go to the website. _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: It all started with a lie - Q313819
Hello, Yes, it does suck. Toss all your cute Excel spreadsheets that made various account management tasks a snap. We've moved to VB scripting for account creation/management. Decrease personal discretionary spending, increase savings, and retire before the next big update. Brent -Original Message- From: Moore, David K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Thursday, September 19, 2002 1:17 PM Posted To: MS Exchange List Conversation: Test Subject: It all started with a lie - Q313819 So, I write this to test the waters and see how others have managed this issue - For many years, going back to 4.0, we used CSV files to create/manage/delete mailboxes within Exchange and this worked well. Then comes along Exchange 2000, which with it's integration of Active Directory and the requirement to use LDIFDE. Ok, no problem I can learn new tools and I learn the silly new LDIF import format and I make it do what I want it to do - mailbox enable an existing AD account. All is well until a few weeks following the mailbox enabling of the accounts, our users discover access to public folders (along with free/busy, off-line address book, etc) can not be had. A call to Microsoft produces the answer that, the attribute of msExchUserAccountControl had not been properly populated into AD. Microsoft writes a script for us that uses CDOEXM to re-set the permissions and while this does resolve the problem for existing users it doesn't resolve the on-going problems. So, Microsoft transferred me between a few groups (it's hard I guess to know what is what when you've got half of your mail system managed by another non-communicative group - Active Directory support) where I landed with an LDIFDE support engineer. This engineer then proceeded to explain that it was not possible to create mailbox enabled AD accounts with LDIFDE and pointed me to an article Q324353 [XADM: Users Cannot Access Public Folders or Delegate Mailboxes on a Separate Server] which states: If you want to use LDIFDE/ADSI to create users, Microsoft recommends that you use LDIFDE/ADSI to create only the user accounts, and then use Active Directory Users and Computers to create the mailboxes. to which I replied that Microsoft does support it and the answer can be found in Q313819 - [HOW TO: Create Mailbox-Enabled Account Using LDIFDE in Exchange 2000 Server] and after a bit of discussion Microsoft decided that it really sucks. It all seems to boil down to the fact that no one knows how the encoding of msExchUserAccountControl is done (in PSS that is) and without the ability to set that attribute at creation time, the RUS does not properly setup the account and Microsoft has no intentions to support this, even with the Q article on how to do it. So, my question? Simple - has anyone managed to use LDIFDE to create and mailbox enable or just to mailbox enable an existing account in AD and had it work properly, namely the use of public folders? I don't know about others that have a long history with Exchange but, do some of you feel that Exchange has made some real steps backward from the functionality that Exchange 5.5 had? And a word of warning to those still on 5.5 - if it aint' broken, don't fix it. Thanks, david moore Chevron Phillips Chemical _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: *groan* PST Files
Give away a generous mailbox quota. Institute a nominal charge for larger quotas. If a manager has to approve a charge, even a small charge, the manager has to decide whether there is business value. It's best when the customer decides what qualifies as business value instead of the service provider. Edgar J. Crowley Jr. Technical Consultant Windows Messaging Platforms Practice hp Services *510-612-3365 *[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dupler, Craig Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:45 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: *groan* PST Files Hmm . . . I think that several issues that should be thought of distinctly and separate, have been muddled together here. We have - mail box size limits - storage management - .PST usage - .OST usage - budget and PHB management - Data and information management I think you will do best, if you separate these from each other, and deal with them as appropriate. If it will help, I'll comment on a couple of them, in a specific order. Budget and PHB Management: You need to have a yearly budget. Part of it has to be for your hardware. That will include maintaining what you have, and a program for upgrades that is tied to both your depreciation schedule and your life cycle plan. If your PHB has not required you to coordinate these, or even draw up some of them, then you need to manage your PHB and get them done and blessed. You cannot survive without them. Storage Management: In a static organization (in terms of the total number of users), as you replace hot spare spindles for your RAID system, each new spindle should hit a budgeted price point. Do this in targeted sizes, so that you are auto-magically increasing your capacity over time. You should NEVER have to buy a larger array to get more storage for a finite population, if you are doing a good job of managing what you have. Mail Box Size: Bigger is better - usually. It is not IS's business to be passing judgment on the business value of what your customers want to store, nor how they want to organize it (except as noted below). Your job is to manage to your budget, and make sure that your budget is sized to your need. Customer satisfaction is an element of service quality that you should be measuring. If you aren't, your policies have no validity - even if you think they are about right. Data and information management- This has NOTHING (as in not one little bit) to do with storage management. If your organization wants to achieve a state of managing your digital information and data, and the job has been given to people that manage storage, then you will fail. Data and information management is a discipline of the library sciences. If you don't have someone with that kind of training who is providing requirements to your storage management people, then all you have is useless chaos. If that is your situation, then your policies about capacity and limits are capricious and without a foundation in the needs of the business. But alas, most IT shops are run this way. .OST usage. An .OST file is an Off-line STore. Unfortunately, it is limited to being a mirror of folders on your server that have been flagged for offline availability. As far as I know (hey, I make mistakes too), there is no way to have a folder in an .OST that is not in the server store. So, customer data that properly belongs in a personal store and not in your enterprise message store, has to go someplace else. .PST usage. A .PST does those things that an .OST cannot. Most (if not all) of your customers will have message data that is either personal or private, and which they feel is inappropriate to keep on one of your servers. The reasons for this are almost infinite, and usually consistent with your business rules and guidelines (even if you think they aren't). A .PST is a terrible thing to use as a message delivery destination, but it is an excellent Personal STore. I think we would be better off, neither Exchange nor Outlook were in the storage business. It would be better to have a general purpose DFS service in both client and server versions, and simply have the ability to create special folders that were valid mail destinations, but alas we are not yet there. Someday. So for now, we have to deal with what we have. -Original Message- From: Exchange.ListServe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 2:02 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: *groan* PST Files Hi. Standard Version of EX5.5, SP4. 200+ users. We are looking at educating users in not storing everything in their email, but storing in either a .pst or .ost. Money is an issue, my company won't pay for us to upgrade to 5.5 Enterprise or Exchange 2K, so there's no option IMO other than educate the packrats, and set up an archiving solution. I've also read the arguments in
RE: Are Deleted Items Logged?..etc
Of course it is logged in the transaction log, but I know of no way to make any use of that fact. Edgar J. Crowley Jr. Technical Consultant Windows Messaging Platforms Practice hp Services *510-612-3365 *[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mellott, Bill Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 7:19 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Are Deleted Items Logged?..etc Q: When a user delete's items in OL/Exch does the Exchange system log this action? Does it log that fact that a user would then empty the deleted items? Does it log the fact that the items where recovered from the retention? What log's might I look at for this info? Exch55sp4 NT4sp6a Yes..issue in management... thanks bill _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: AD Exchange2K co-existence
1. Depends on what 100% means. I'd want all users migrated before starting Exchange, but it isn't necessary that every file server be moved. 2. I don't like putting Exchange on domain controllers. It makes disaster recovery, future migraton, and maintenance more difficult. You should have at least three domain controllers if your organization is any size, too. Edgar J. Crowley Jr. Technical Consultant Windows Messaging Platforms Practice hp Services *510-612-3365 *[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Miller, Robert Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 12:27 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: AD Exchange2K co-existence All, Quick question: We are in the process of rolling out AD, and the Exchange2K upgrade will immediately follow. We are planning on housing Exchange2K on the AD Domain controller, and then retiring both the NT4.0 DC and Exchange 5.5 server (management is all about server consolidation). 1. Would it be wise to wait until AD is 100% deployed and stable before any Exchange upgrades/migrations, or is it safe to do the projects in parallel? 2. If its best to wait for AD to be 100% deployed, would it be feasible to at least get Exchange2K installed on the new AD DC's during the build - and then when we are ready for the Exchange piece to commence all we have to do is the actual migration??? Thanks, _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Organizing Public Folders
It would really depend on your organization. Also, it doesn't make sense to replicate content to remote sites that won't use it. Edgar J. Crowley Jr. Technical Consultant Windows Messaging Platforms Practice hp Services *510-612-3365 *[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Kelley, Jason Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 1:02 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Organizing Public Folders We are planning to deploy public folders in our local site but we also want to expand to our remote sites which include users who are overseas. I'm curious as to how people organize their public folder hierarchy and how they determine where a public folder is homed. By region then by functional group? Or strictly by functional group (even if that group spans sites) Thanks - Jason _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
