RE: Port 135 and Exchange Issue

2003-08-25 Thread Hague, Jeff
Have you considered Terminal Server or (better yet) Citrix? This works wonders for us - full Outlook Exchange as well as all the other apps we run. We only have a dozen or so users so far but my understanding is that Terminal by itself on one decent server (dual Xeon 2.0GHz/1.5GB RAM) is fine

RE: Port 135 and Exchange Issue

2003-08-25 Thread Martin Blackstone
That's certainly an option, but a much more costly one IMHO. -Original Message- From: Hague, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 5:43 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Port 135 and Exchange Issue Have you considered Terminal Server or (better yet)

Workflow (almost)

2003-08-25 Thread Schan Henson
We are currently using Lotus Notes and Document Libraries. I want to do the same thing in Exchange. Basically what I want to do is: 1) User sends a message to a group of people, one person at a time. 2) When the first user is done (may add comments) it is sent to the second person. 3) After the

Re: Port 135 and Exchange Issue - Resolved

2003-08-25 Thread Hank
Martin ... It worked like a charm. Thank you. We now have Outlook and Exchange talking again like before port 135 was closed. Here is a recap of what we did: Enable VPN on our W2K server. Enable VPN on each client (all are remote) * Had to use the absolute IP address for the server * Changed

RE: SSL with a F5

2003-08-25 Thread Andrew Chan
Do you have multiple Exchange 2000 servers? Did you install one of them to be the front end server for the F5 to do the SSL proxy to? If not, it might be the case where the server is located on a different E2K server, and hence it used the standard http:// Andrew MCSE (w2k/nt4) + CCNA

Re: Non-Exchange related Sorry

2003-08-25 Thread Allison M. Wittstock
To a Samba share or Windows share? On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 18:42, Tony Nguyen wrote: I just wanted to know if anyone who is running Windows XP is having this problem or is this by design. When I access a map drive it take about 30 second to open. Then everything work fine but if I go away

Calendar items show in OWA but not Outlook

2003-08-25 Thread Gonzalez, Alex
We are currently experiencing a weird issue where there are calendar events in OWA that are not showing up in Outlook. Anyone ever seen this before? We are running Outlook 2002 and Exchange 2000 SP3. I have checked the filters and views and everything looks normal. Now we also have

RE: Non-Exchange related Sorry

2003-08-25 Thread Tony Nguyen
Windows share -Original Message- From: Allison M. Wittstock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 3:07 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Non-Exchange related Sorry To a Samba share or Windows share? On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 18:42, Tony Nguyen wrote: I just

Re: Calendar items show in OWA but not Outlook

2003-08-25 Thread Chris Scharff
Do the users have mail delivery configured for the Exchange server? From: Gonzalez, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 08:31:42 -0400 To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Calendar items show in OWA but not Outlook

Messagelabs. Postini, etc..

2003-08-25 Thread Steve Sorenson
Hello all, I wonder if those of you that have have experience with the above services could take a moment and share them, good or bad? We're currently using Messagelabs (the idea was to help control spam and add an additional layer of virus protection to our network), and while the anti-spam

RE: Calendar items show in OWA but not Outlook

2003-08-25 Thread Gonzalez, Alex
Yes they do. I know that because I am one of them. -Original Message- From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 10:27 AM To: Exchange Discussions Do the users have mail delivery configured for the Exchange server? From: Gonzalez, Alex [EMAIL

RE: Messagelabs. Postini, etc..

2003-08-25 Thread Aaron Brasslett
We are early in the process of using Postini. So far, the experience has been positive with no issues experienced. I have not yet used technical support. Documentation is complete and useable. It's is doing a very good job of detecting SPAM. We won't be using their spooling service. I don't

RE: SSL with a F5

2003-08-25 Thread Bennett, Josh
Yes, I have 2 backend mail servers and one front box dedicated to just owa. What I did was that the F5 was using round robin DNS to load balance OWA to 2 Exchange 5.5 OWA servers. I replaced the 2 5.5 OWA servers with 1 E2K OWA server and just assigned the new server the 2 IP's of the old 5.5

RE: Messagelabs. Postini, etc..

2003-08-25 Thread Pillai, Raj
We have used Postini for a couple of months now. Looks good so far, we are only using it for spam control on inbound mail. I would highly recommend it, Tech support is good as well. Raj -Original Message- From: Aaron Brasslett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003

RE: Non-Exchange related Sorry

2003-08-25 Thread Allison M. Wittstock
Sorry, I only have good experience troubleshooting Win XP + Samba shares. AW On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 16:08, Tony Nguyen wrote: Windows share -Original Message- From: Allison M. Wittstock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 3:07 AM To: Exchange Discussions

RE: Port 135 and Exchange Issue

2003-08-25 Thread Hague, Jeff
Definitely more costly but it really works well. The setup and configuration aspects alone (client-side anyway) are much simpler and the performance is probably much better than a straight VPN solution. I think if you look it at all the factors there is a positive ROI. Jeff -Original

RE: Messagelabs. Postini, etc..

2003-08-25 Thread Tom Meunier
I dunno how much you're paying for MessageLabs' service, but it's pretty much a customized front end for the open-source SpamAssassin. The only benefit I can see over a stock Postfix/Sendmail gateway using Spamassassin, perhaps with MailScanner or amavisd or Anomy Sanitizer for some more

RE: Messagelabs. Postini, etc..

2003-08-25 Thread Steve Sorenson
Thanks for the reply Aaron. Do you happen to know what percentage of spam Postini is catching at your company? -Original Message- From: Aaron Brasslett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 9:55 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Messagelabs. Postini, etc..

RE: Messagelabs. Postini, etc..

2003-08-25 Thread Steve Sorenson
Thanks for the reply, Raj. Are you letting your users control their own spam settings (I believe that Postini offers this), or do you control it company-wide? Thanks again, Steve -Original Message- From: Pillai, Raj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 10:03 AM

Locking down exchange

2003-08-25 Thread Jeremy T. Slater
This may sound extremely corny to some, but we have been handed down a directive from our COO to remove the ability for users to add fancy backgrounds and images in Outlook. He has also asked us to force the user to use a specific font and font size. He would like all messages to look the same,

RE: Messagelabs. Postini, etc..

2003-08-25 Thread Steve Sorenson
Tom, Messagelabs was right around $4500/yr for the services we've contracted for - antivirus, antispam and antiporn. The first two work well. The last one is worthless, IMHO. The users are happy with the spam levels we're seeing. Messagelabs also offers an outbound scanning service (comes with

RE: Messagelabs. Postini, etc..

2003-08-25 Thread Aaron Brasslett
95% would be a conservative estimate. -Original Message- From: Steve Sorenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 11:52 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Messagelabs. Postini, etc.. Thanks for the reply Aaron. Do you happen to know what percentage of spam

RE: Messagelabs. Postini, etc..

2003-08-25 Thread Pillai, Raj
When I set up the account,the settings are set to maximum security. But the users have control of their own settings. -Original Message- From: Steve Sorenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 10:54 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Messagelabs. Postini,

Re: Locking down exchange

2003-08-25 Thread Tony Hlabse
You need to lock those settings down thru a policy. Although I am not sure all can be locked. You will have to find each one and see if or what settings can be done. From: Jeremy T. Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL

RE: Replication and Schema problem

2003-08-25 Thread Matt Hoffman
Well, it already has. We just haven't been able to figure it out yet. Likely it ahs to do with native vs. mixed AD modes, but even the Enterprise Admins are relative newbies and none of us are really knowledgable about this. I'm still having trouble finding adequate documentation on how to

RE: Replication and Schema problem

2003-08-25 Thread Roger Seielstad
I can assure you that it isn't due to mixed modes of AD - that has no effect on the schema changes. Now, it could be because of a lack of 'local' global catalogs because you're still using a downlevel BDC. -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS

RE: Replication and Schema problem

2003-08-25 Thread Matt Hoffman
Hah! OK, I was wondering about whether we needed to be set up as a Global Catalog. I was seeing that that was not set up when looking at the schema with LDP to see if the Exchange settings has replicated down to us. So, this is most likely more of a problem with us not being set as a Global

RE: Locking down exchange

2003-08-25 Thread Jeremy T. Slater
Any chance you can point me to the policy? -Original Message- From: Tony Hlabse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 11:31 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Locking down exchange You need to lock those settings down thru a policy. Although I am not sure all

RE: Replication and Schema problem

2003-08-25 Thread Ben Winzenz
You need to have a Global Catalog server in every AD Site that hosts Exchange (not Exchange site, AD Site). As far as the remote offices, it depends. GC's can help with a number of things, including password changes, logins, etc. If you don't have local DNS servers though, having or not having

RE: Locking down exchange

2003-08-25 Thread Ben Winzenz
You might be able to accomplish some of them if you deployed Office via a Group Policy and custom Transform file. I don't know if you are going to be able to enforce them though. Group Policy does not cover Office, only Windows. Better solution would be to get with HR and draft a policy stating

RE: Sobig.F alert

2003-08-25 Thread Blunt, James H (Jim)
I was S disgusted on Friday with our federal government's anti-virus policy!! I had to make a trip over to the passport office in Seattle to get a new passport for the wife, who was leaving on a 1:23pm flight that day for Chile. The passport office is an office of the Department of State.

RE: Sobig.F alert

2003-08-25 Thread Christopher Hummert
Last time I checked they were human too. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blunt, James H (Jim) Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 11:22 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Sobig.F alert I was S disgusted on Friday with our federal

RE: Sobig.F alert

2003-08-25 Thread Bill Kuhl
My home email account has been blasted with the virus all weekend long, probably hundreds of them. But I have my my home email address on my web site. Have never seen any virus that comes anywhere even close to this one in volume. Bill Kuhl

RE: Replication and Schema problem

2003-08-25 Thread Matt Hoffman
Yeah, it was no big deal here. I'm not quite sure why we didn't think about it at the time. It's really our first foray into remote DC's. In the past we always just had two domain controllers for Windows NT 4.0 here, and if the T1's went down then people had no access to anything. Now (and

Message Filtering

2003-08-25 Thread Mitchell Mike
Greetings, Outlook 98 Exchange 5.5 Windows 2000 Is there any way to use a wildcard when doing messaging filtering on Exchange 5.5 Admin? (Connections, IMS, Connections, message filtering) We are trying to filter eMAIL using this feature and there are several domains that are the same except for

RE: Message Filtering

2003-08-25 Thread Couch, Nate
You can wildcard your filters for domains. On the IMS under Message Filtering you can enter domains using the @domain.com (.net, etc.) You can filter a whole country in a similar fashion by using @fr (for France) For example. Regards. Nate Couch EDS

Event ID 41's over and over

2003-08-25 Thread Woods, Tony
Hi all, Exchange 5.5 SP4 on W2K SP3. Every 10 seconds and up to every 2mins I get the following entry in the Application Event Log: ID: 41 Source: MSExchangeDSExp Starting the directory export. And then one second later... ID: 38 Source: MSexchangeDSExp The directory export is complete.

RE: Sobig.F alert

2003-08-25 Thread Couch, Nate
And this surprises you??? -- From: Blunt, James H (Jim) Reply To: Exchange Discussions Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 1:21 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Sobig.F alert I was S disgusted on Friday with our federal government's anti-virus

RE: Sobig.F alert

2003-08-25 Thread Blunt, James H (Jim)
It shouldn't...but yes, it does. I mean, come on. For the cost of a $250 PC and a $50 copy of RedHat 9.0 (actually, a recycled PII or PII would do), thrown in front of every access point to the network, they could be blocking every attachment on the Martin Blackstone list! BAS! -Original

RE: Sobig.F alert

2003-08-25 Thread Lawrence, Mitchell
That is actually overestimating the price of security. Redhat is free (without support), and a pc to run this would cost less than 250 if you knew where to look. Thank you, Mitchell D. Lawrence **Good|Cheap|Fast (Pick Two)** -Original Message- From: Blunt, James H (Jim) [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Sobig.F alert

2003-08-25 Thread Tom Meunier
Which begs an analysis of your .sig line, eh? -tom -Original Message- From: Lawrence, Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Monday, August 25, 2003 2:34 PM Posted To: MSExchange Mailing List Conversation: Sobig.F alert Subject: RE: Sobig.F alert That is actually

RE: Sobig.F alert

2003-08-25 Thread John Matteson
You've never tried purchasing a computer for the government have you? John Matteson Geac Corporate ISS (404) 239 - 2981 Atlanta, Georgia, USA. -Original Message- From: Blunt, James H (Jim) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Monday, August 25, 2003 3:30 PM Posted To: Exchange

RE: Replication and Schema problem

2003-08-25 Thread Roger Seielstad
With Exchange, you can rarely have enough GC's. -- Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -Original Message- From: Matt Hoffman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003

RE: Sobig.F alert

2003-08-25 Thread Blunt, James H (Jim)
Actually, yes...I have. I work for one of the prime contractors at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in SE Washington St, which is run by the Dept of Energy. -Original Message- From: John Matteson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 12:39 PM To: Exchange Discussions

RE: Replication and Schema problem

2003-08-25 Thread Matt Hoffman
Well, we've only got the one server. But, I've already gone in and set up GC's at all our AD sites. DomainPrep seems to have now worked, and our replication actually seems to have been solved by a time sync. Apparently when our servers were set up, the Time Service wasn't set to look at the

RE: Sobig.F alert

2003-08-25 Thread Tom Meunier
And a quick glance shows that state.gov's email passes through (something generic), sendmail, and Trend InterScan Viruswall before being delivered to an Exchange 5.5 box. The latter two, and presumably the former one, are all easily configurable to block based on any number of criteria,

RE: Outlook to Exchange over VPN issues

2003-08-25 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
There is a registry fix for the new message notification UDP blockage. The fix causes Outlook to refresh every 1 minute and display the new messages. -Original Message- From: Martin, Jon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 3:39 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject:

RE: Message Filtering

2003-08-25 Thread Mitchell Mike
Nate, I don't understand what you are saying? I know I can block full domains (@yahoo.com) but what I want is to block @**.ivy.net for @01.ivy.net and @02.ivy.net You see the suffix is .ivy.net but the prefix is 01 and 02... Thanks, Mike -Original Message- From: Couch, Nate

RE: Message Filtering

2003-08-25 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
Two stars (**) would be an overkill -Original Message- From: Mitchell Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 4:24 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Message Filtering Nate, I don't understand what you are saying? I know I can block full domains

RE: Message Filtering

2003-08-25 Thread Blunt, James H (Jim)
Mike, Get a good Exchange book and read it. Paul Robichaux's Managing MS Exchange Server, Chapter 8, pg 294, bottom of the page: @foe.com - reject mail from foe.com or any subdomain [EMAIL PROTECTED] - reject mail from foe.com, but not a.foe.com So...Nate's response was right on the money.

RE: Aelita Recovery Manager (ARM) for Exchange...

2003-08-25 Thread Jon Hill
We played around with demos of both products, and had a much worse experience with ARMex. We found that ARMex would only work if the server was recovered to the extent that Exchange services could be started. With Powercontrols, we just restored the .edb. Unfortunately, Ontrack refuses to

optoins to populate the GAL

2003-08-25 Thread Microsoft Exchange List Server
Hi all, W2KAD+sp4 - 1 forest-1tree MSX2000+sp3 Using outlook client we can see the list of members of our *users* OU and send messages to them. How can we see a list of other users in another forests? any other way to populate our gal maybe based on public folder? or another views? thx