We add .cmd & .bat but subtract .txt. We also allow the picture extensions.
If you want to tick off your users you can also block .doc, .xls, .ppt. We
just make sure to scan them for known viruses before we pass them along (we
do quarantine password-protected documents because Sophos can't check
We have MIMESweeper between our firewall and our Exchange server. It's
great at protecting us from worms e-mailed to the firm. It works with
third-party AV software (we use Sophos but if I had to choose today I'd
probably go with Trend), plus we've set up rules to quarantine all files
with speci
The Lord High Mucky-Muck at my firm is *finally* acceding to our demands
that she clean up her mailbox. One of her assistants has been tasked with
going through the 5000 items in her Inbox and filing/deleting them as
appropriate. For any message that contains an attachment, she is to save
the at
Thanks, David. Grinningshark will almost certainly solve our problem. What
a great product.
Serdar, I didn't know that. Thanks. Unfortunately, O2K2 is not on the
horizon for us. As for your Exch question, yes it's worthwhile. We can
move all the attachments to low-cost storage (our SAN has
ginal Message-
From: Jon Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 4:44 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: suppressing R e a d r e c e i p t s
Thanks, David. Grinningshark will almost certainly solve our problem. What
a great product.
Serdar, I didn't
Anyone familiar with this product?
http://www.veritas.com/products/category/ProductDetail.jhtml?productId=stora
gemigratorexchange
As an investment advisor, Jennison gets loads of attachments from the sell
side. Many of our equity analysts get upwards of 30MB/day, and it's a real
chore getting t
We are planning to upgrade to AD and Exch2K in a week. Our testing so far
has been favorable with one pretty significant exception:
In our test domain, we have a couple NT4 workstations with Office 2000 SR1
installed via the Custom Installation Wizard (ie, a customized server-based
install to th
Oh, and OWA access is fully functional.
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The NT domain was upgraded to AD. And when Outlook is installed from CD on
the same NT4 workstation, no problems.
-Original Message-
From: Tony Hlabse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 1:07 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Re: authentication dialog after Exch
Yeah, we've tried recreating the profile. I can't even get the Check Name
button to work if I specify the new server. If I specify the old server and
hit Check Name, it changes the old server to the new server name (as it
should). Odd that it doesn't work when the new server is specified
direct
Figured I should let everyone know what the solution turned out to be
(forehead slap!).
About a month after we first rolled out Office97, we found ourselves
hammered by user complaints about the length of time it took Outlook to
launch. A little research determined that reducing the number of pr
Many of my users are getting the following message when they open meeting
requests that have been sent to them:
This meeting is not in the Calendar; it may have been moved or deleted.
Once the user Accepts or Accepts Tentative, the meeting appears in the
Calendar where it belongs.
Our Environmen
If you wanted to do it all at once rather than wait for users to log in,
you could write an adsi script that would loop through every machine name
found in the AD (or SAM), and then use fso to loop through every folder name
found under documents and settings. Something like:
sub main
set wsh
Is there a limit to the number of public folders one can replicate at any
one time?
I have maybe 400 PFs, all but ten of which were until recently homed on my
5.5 server. We'd like to get rid of the 5.5 box so we've been trying for
several months now to replicate the folders to our E2K cluster.
We switched last weekend from E55 IMS on a non-clustered box to an SMTP connector on
an E2K active/passive cluster. No troubles. Took ten minutes (plus 7 hours tracking
down what turned out to be a MAILsweeper config problem on the non-Exchange e-mail
gateway server).
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Centrinity is supposed to be coming out with a Linux version of its FirstClass
e-mail/UM/collab server within a month or so. It's in beta now.
http://www.centrinity.com/platforms/linux/
-Original Message-
From: Allison M. Wittstock [mailto:aw@;inubit.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06
Word of warning to anyone running NAV Corporate Edition 7.x: Messages in public
folders for which users have read-only permissions will not be accessible if (a) they
contain attachments and (b) the folder is homed on an E2K server. Apparently the NAV
e-mail plugin scans the message before open
MAILsweeper will block or copy emails meeting criteria you specify (contains a
four-letter word; contains a .exe attachment; contains a virus; from
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; whatever). I use the SMTP version which stands
between the firewall and Exchange; there's a version that sits on the Exchange se
Try rebuilding the box and doing an online restore of all except the dir. Then use
the DS/IS consistency adjuster to rebuild the dir (Advanced tab in server's
properties). I'm pretty sure the E55 DR whitepaper discusses this.
-Original Message-
From: Mellott, Bill [mailto:bmellott@;SN
here's an easy way if you don't have many hosts:
ping four or five hosts
arp -a
ping the next four or five
arp -a
repeat
-Original Message-
From: David Lloyd [mailto:David.Lloyd@;which.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 4:42 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: NT 4 resolution
Hi Guy
Is there any way to audit use of System Manager and/or Cluster Administrator? I have
checked security settings in ESM itself: when I right-click on the Org and go to
Properties, then select Security | Advanced | Auditing, I see an auditing entry that
applies to All. All the access items withi
I'm way late to this thread but have some experience with HP's XP-512 that might be
relevant.
As you probably know, the XP series and HDS 99xx series are basically the same machine
- HP & HDS develop the hardware together and put their own software on board
(actually, HP used to work with HDS s
Exch2K SP2, Win2K AS SP2, 2-node MSCS Cluster.
I am in the process of setting up a new Exchange server and I notice that
each of the Protocols folders (HTTP, IMAP4, POP3, SMTP) has 5 stopped
virtual servers and one functional virtual server. I don't see any way to
remove the old servers and I ha
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 off
Do any of you block incoming e-mails containing ActiveX references? I just received a
spam that tried to instantiate an object at http://
%363.2%346.%3130.2%30%31%2F%63g%69%2D%62i%6E%2Fa%2E%63%67%69." I translated that to a
real URL (http://63.246.130.201 /cgi-bin/a.cgi) and let the colo NOC k
My CIO has asked me to attend a meeting in which IBM is going to propose outsourcing
our e-mail services, taking over for our 350 Exchange 2000 mailboxes.
I'm looking for arguments to marshal against outsourcing. So far, what I've got is:
* security: We use Clearswift MIMEsweeper to block
KVS recently partnered with MDY FileSurf, a DoD 5015.2-compliant records manager. It
doubles or triples the cost of the entire solution but (a) you can use FileSurf for
other records management needs and (b) MDY adds tough (DoD-compliant!) auditing and
other security measures, along with RM fea
I recently resolved a performance problem by stopping and restarting the http cluster
resource on our E2K cluster. I've been trying to figure out ever since why http would
affect the server's performance.
Around 9:15a users started complaining that e-mail "seemed slow." I confirmed that
messa
Our DCs should be able to handle Exchange (three DCs with dual 1.24GHz and 1GB RAM for
<300 users). This was a one-time problem. We hardly ever have performance problems
like this.
Thanks for the info.
-Original Message-
From: John W. Luther [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday
I finally gave up after about a month of troubleshooting (this was about eight months
ago). Check out HP's forums. I remember finding some very helpful tidbits in there
when I was trying to get this to work. http://forums.itrc.hp.com. Do a search for
9100C LDAP and hit the checkmarks for the
ary 02, 2003 2:47 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Re: http
Are you saying that you have Exchange running on your DC/GC machines? If so
not a good idea unless it is a very small environment.
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From: "Jon Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Exch
We use Melia, but it may have been discontinued. Microdata, the company that produced
Melia, appears to have been bought out by intellireach.
Take a look at http://www.msexchange.org/software/Reporting/. Promodag is their
editor's pick.
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [
rom: Jojo Solis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 1:48 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: Many stopped Virtual Servers
used ADSI to remove the dead server.
-Original Message-
From: Jon Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, 2 July 2002 6:13 AM
To: Ex
Your code used the Outlook Object Model, so the following code should work:
Set olNS = ol.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set olGAL = olNS.AddressLists("Global Address List")
For Each olThisBox In olGAL.AddressEntries
If olThisBox.DisplayType = olUser Then
Set mailbox = olNS.CreateRecipient(out
WAG - have you checked the HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Exchange\Exchange
Provider\Rpc_Binding_Order key on your workstation and on the server? Does
Outlook on your XP box reach the fifth server?
-Original Message-
From: Nick Field [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 6:19
Have all your mailboxes been moved to E2K? If not, just bear in mind that
E2K OWA can't access E5.5 mailboxes, whereas E5.5 OWA can read E2K
mailboxes. But there's no reason you can't have both versions of OWA
running simultaneously (on different servers, naturally).
-Original Message-
ource, the branch in the tree
was purged. When I added SA back again, Exchange recreated the
branch from scratch. When I deleted the cluster nodes from AD the first
four or five times, the branch was *not* deleted.
Anyway, I'm back and I'm happy.
-Original Message-
From: J
he mailbox back to 5.5.
-Original Message-----
From: Jon Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 1:19 PM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: Move Mailbox 5.5 -> 2K
5.5 SP4 on NTSP6a, E2K SP2 on W2K AS SP2.
Attempts to move mailboxes from 5.5 to E2K appear to be su
One of my VIP users has two 5.5 mailboxes--the primary one that everyone
sends mail to and a private one for who knows what. The private mailbox'
name is fname minitial lname (Jane E. Smith), while her public mailbox is
simply fname lname (Jane Smith).
We recently installed AD, E2K and ADC. N
I came very close to doing just that, but:
The Jane E. Smith userid is jsmith. Jane Smith's (disabled) userid is
jsmith1. If I rename the two accounts, the private mailbox is still
assigned to the jsmith userid, ie the userid she's been using forever and
ever. If she wants to continue logging i
270480 is MSFT-only but I tried 256862, which caused two additional
mailboxes to be created after I restarted ADC. Argh.
Got PSS involved and they had me go through the same process as before, with
this exception: I removed all Exchange attributes from all the AD userids
after I stopped the ser
Environment:
Exch 5.5 SP4 on NT4 SP6a
Exch2K SP2 on W2K SP2
I have a user who gets an Unable to Delete Item error whenever she tries to
delete mail from her mailbox via OWA 5.5. I have no trouble deleting mail
from her mailbox, and nor does the E2K service account. The E5.5 service
account, how
I know this is a dumb question but I just wanna be sure.
I've just about completed moving mailboxes from 5.5 to 2K but I still have a
couple left. I'm not sure whether I should leave the remainder on the 5.5
server or migrate them. I call them mailboxes only because I see them
listed in the Mai
If they're treating you as custom recipients, that's how you'll want to
treat them. You'll want to edit the .csv file substantially. Remove all
columns except Obj-class, display name, alias name, e-mail address and
whatever display fields you like to use (company, dept, phone, address,
etc). Th
I have two userids - one is a domain admin and the other is a regular domain
user.
The domain user account is linked to my mailbox. The domain admin account
does not have a mailbox.
About two weeks ago we migrated public folders from E5.5 to E2K and I am now
finding that I cannot access most pu
You'll want to hear from someone more authoritative than myself, but my
understanding is that the concept of homing disappeared in E2K, so if a
public folder has several servers listed in its replication tab, all those
servers "own" the folder equally.
My gut is that the server would get repopu
Is anyone out there getting periodic event 1025s in their applogs? Esp.
anyone with a cluster?
I've got E2K SP2 running on W2K AS SP2 in a two-node cluster. There's also
a 5.5 and another E2K server in the site. The E2K box is the SRS server.
Every three to five hours, I get a pair of event 1
If the contractor has Outlook and you have him listed in your Contacts
folder or PAB, double-click on his e-mail address and check the "always send
to this recipient in Outlook rich-text format." You should then be able to
assign him the task as if he were a local user. You can also use this
tec
Anyone else ever get this? Whenever a user clicks the logout button in OWA,
I get the following event in my syslog:
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: W3SVC
Event Category: None
Event ID: 36
Date: 8/28/2002
Time: 10:06:12 AM
User: N/A
Computer: BEAU
Oops. logoff.asp (https://owaserver/exchweb/bin/usa/logoff.asp)
-Original Message-
From: Jon Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 10:22 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: OWA2K logout.asp generates event 36
Anyone else ever get this? Whenever a user
t access it with OWA.
Wilson
-Original Message-
From: Jon Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 7:43 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: OWA2K logout.asp generates event 36
Oops. logoff.asp (https://owaserver/exchweb/bin/usa/logoff.asp)
-Original Message
the Exchange HTTP Virtual Server resource.
FYI
-Original Message-
From: Jon Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 7:43 AM
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: OWA2K logout.asp generates event 36
Oops. logoff.asp (https://owaserver/exchweb/bin/usa/logoff.asp
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