RE: Server hardware specs for E2K3 (WAS: E2K Forest/Domain-prep on Wi n2003 Domain?)

2003-08-14 Thread Andy Grafton
To address Steven's question far below... Thoughts, ideas? Put the logs and database on different physical drives. Makes a hell of a difference under load. All the best, Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 5. august 2003 23:23

RE: Backup Software for Exchange 2000

2003-08-14 Thread Andy Grafton
Some observations: I now get 550Mb/min using BackupExec 8.6 against Exchange 2K (store backup, not BLB) - perhaps the limiting factor is the 100MBit net card. The Exchange server has 16Gb of stores on a PIII 600 with 768Mb RAM and Raid 1 data disks. The backup server is a PIII 450. When we

New Entourage: glitch

2003-08-08 Thread Andy Grafton
Exchange 2000 SP3 on W2K SP3 Upgraded a number of Mac clients to the new Entourage. Now when doing a send/receive, we get the following annoying dialogue showing up as it gets roughly to the middle of the Public Folders. Never saw it before with plain IMAP with Entourage 10.1.3 on the same

RE: OWA and the M:

2003-06-20 Thread Andy Grafton
Mine've always been like that... And all the other servers I ever looked at. Andy -Original Message- From: Rob Hackney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20. juni 2003 12:51 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: FW: OWA and the M: Hi, I stopped my IIS services recently on and

RE: Sending emails that can not be altered

2003-06-06 Thread Andy Grafton
I'd think you'll have to solve this one with an attachment of some sort. All the best, Andy -Original Message- From: Tony Hlabse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 5. juni 2003 15:39 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Sending emails that can not be altered Due to Martha's

RE: Arcserve and restoring public folder calander

2003-06-03 Thread Andy Grafton
Neil have you tried exporting the Sellafield folder to a .pst, deleting it from the PF tree and then letting Arcserver restore the whole folder? All the best, Andy -Original Message- From: Neil Doody [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2. juni 2003 16:04 To: Exchange Discussions

RE: Boot drives smoked

2003-01-27 Thread Andy Grafton
Dunno why this bounced before... Here we go again. Fwd: No idea if it works, but it might be cheaper than hours spent setting up a new server and recovering, depending on your environment and how recoverable it is. $850-$950 http://www.ontrack.com/special/0602pc1exchangead.asp

RE: Very strange problems occuring

2002-11-27 Thread Andy Grafton
Set the speed of the adaptors and switches as described. If they don't work at 100MBit try setting them to 10Mbit and see if that works for reference sake. If 100MBit doesn't work but 10MBit does, check the cabling and associated wiring stuff (patch leads, sockets etc.) the *whole* way from the

RE: Strange Incoming Mail Problem

2002-11-26 Thread Andy Grafton
Requests to mail.bondyweb.com on port 25 just time out. telnet mail.bondyweb.com 25 Connecting To mail.bondyweb.com...Could not open connection to the host on port 25: Connect failed Check your firewall, and any other things which could cause the appropriate port to be blocked... Check also

RE: Incoming Mail not working

2002-11-12 Thread Andy Grafton
Jonathan you don't mention it, but I assume you have set up the appropriate recipient policies in Exchange System Manager i.e. added the public domains which the Exchange server is hosting? If the public email domains are different to the Exchange Server's domain, it needs to know about it. If

RE: Incoming Mail not working

2002-11-12 Thread Andy Grafton
I take my last post back. Your DNS records are all screwed up. Titaniumcouncil address goes nowhere, spectore.com goes to an iMail server at colony1.net, which I presume isn't an Exchange server hacked to look like an iMail server? Making DNS work properly first would be a really good start...

RE: Swedish characters not displayed correctly in OWA??

2002-08-14 Thread Andy Grafton
I don't know if its any help, but the default install of Windows 2000 Server SP2 (International English) with a default install of Exchange 2000 Server SP2 (International English) results in OWA correctly displaying Danish, Swedish and Norwegian special characters. You do not need the

RE: OWA setup problems

2002-07-17 Thread Andy Grafton
Jerry first is replication. Depending on the size of your network and your patience this can be a problem. Have you tried domain/user or domain\user or [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the login? One thing I was not aware of is that for a mailbox to be displayed, the user has to have an email address

RE: Unlimited Quotas

2002-07-09 Thread Andy Grafton
James writes; But then they talk about how the IT guy is a dick etc. Already had that happen. If anyone finds a surefire way to avoid this happening, then they could be Very Rich Very Quick (put me on the DL)... All the best, Andéjà vudy -Original Message- From: Woodrick,

RE: One Folder (was Unlimited Quotas)

2002-07-09 Thread Andy Grafton
James I guess it depends on your situation as well as best practices. I've noticed no particular performance degredation with people having 1+ messages in their inbox, or another folder [a là my Exchange List Archive folder...] when they are running on a fast (LAN/10Mbit+) link. Users

RE: M Drive

2002-07-09 Thread Andy Grafton
You are trolling, right? Read this http://www.swinc.com/resource/e2kfaq_sec5.htm ..any other questions, see the archives... Leave it there, guys? Please? Andy -Original Message- From: Jeffery Caudill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 8. juli 2002 23:05 To: Exchange

RE: Outlook 2002 issues with process hanging.

2002-06-27 Thread Andy Grafton
Long shot, but... Have had users with this or similar problems when running apps (SETI command line comes to mind) which consmue 100% CPU at normal priority. Not exactly sure why it happens [you can guess at my advised solution to this one and the amount of time I haven't spent fixing it],

Exchange-related ?AD or IIS problem

2002-06-25 Thread Andy Grafton
I have a problem which relates to some kind of Exchange/IIS/AD issues, and I was wondering if anyone can help. Long post which might eliminate a bunch of have you tried this questions or its a security issue statements. The symptoms of the problem only appear when using OWA but I don't think

RE: Exchange-related ?AD or IIS problem

2002-06-25 Thread Andy Grafton
Mark asks: You say that you joined an Exchange 55 Organisation which had snip on an FE server) Mark we created a new organisation and did a mailbox migration. The exchange orgs never knew about each other. Now with one Front-end OWA box, all your users will need to have at least one SMTP

RE: SQ - urgent

2002-06-25 Thread Andy Grafton
I need to find proof that a message sent last Monday was actually sent out... where do I find it? (first time this happens, so I never looked into it...) Exchange system manager - Tools - Message tracking centre You do have the logs retained for more than 1 day, eh? All the best, Andy

RE: SQ - urgent

2002-06-25 Thread Andy Grafton
PS I'm not sure that constitutes proof but its the closest you'll get. A -Original Message- From: Andy Grafton Sent: 25. juni 2002 18:56 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: SQ - urgent I need to find proof that a message sent last Monday was actually sent out

RE: Exchange-related ?AD or IIS problem

2002-06-25 Thread Andy Grafton
: Andy Grafton Sent: 25. juni 2002 18:15 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Exchange-related ?AD or IIS problem Mark asks: You say that you joined an Exchange 55 Organisation which had snip on an FE server) Mark we created a new organisation and did a mailbox migration

RE: kinda OT - RAID on the exchange server

2002-06-05 Thread Andy Grafton
Discussions Subject: RE: kinda OT - RAID on the exchange server We have a number of the x series that support that configuration. Their RAID controllers are very unpredictable and I can't believe the rate of disk failures. Serdar Soysal -Original Message- From: Andy Grafton

RE: Adding some HTML to all outbound messages?

2002-06-05 Thread Andy Grafton
Out CEO wants us to add some HTML to the top of all outbound messages. It is a graphic with a hotlink to our website. 10K total size. How about telling them that the in-flight magazine was wrong, and it can't be done cheaply? It may be the future, but the future will upset a lot of people

RE: Adding some HTML to all outbound messages?

2002-06-05 Thread Andy Grafton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes; Maybe a faq link should be put at the bottom of all list posts instead of...Huh?...what's that?...Oh, I see... Never mind then... ... Aha! but then it has to slip in between the most recent post and all the other long posts alluding to, but not actually saying,

RE: kinda OT - RAID on the exchange server

2002-06-03 Thread Andy Grafton
Ed asks; Please share what RAID5e is. More info: http://www-5.ibm.com/pl/eserver/xseries/ulotki/psref-raidtech.pdf Mind the wrap, mind the .pdf. Andy Creuna Danmark A/S Snaregade 10 1205 København K Denmark Tel : +45 22 68 58 23 Fax : +45 70 20 72 42

RE: kinda OT - RAID on the exchange server

2002-06-03 Thread Andy Grafton
Raid 5e AFAIK incorporates a hot spare into the array by striping unused white space across the disks. Makes for faster access times than a raid 5 array + hot spare as the data is on more live spindles. IBM proprietary. Evil, evil, IBM. All the best, Andy -Original Message- From: