WebAdmin

2002-04-11 Thread Michael B. Smith
I've D/L'ed and installed WebAdmin 1.0 from Microsoft. It's powerful, but far from a finished product, and pretty buggy in some areas. Has anyone else continued development on this and if so, where can it be found? Thanks. List Charter and FAQ at:

RE: Exchange escalation engineer (OT)

2007-12-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
centers. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Tom Kern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 2:04 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange escalation engineer (OT) I just got offered

RE: Exchange escalation engineer (OT)

2007-12-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
Who? Me? I've got to write two articles between now and January 2. I'm not going anywhere! :-P Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 9:04 PM

RE: Outlook over HTTP Problem

2007-12-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
And I would add - this behavior says that you are probably missing the trusted root on the workstation (or an intermediate root). Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 24

RE: Exchange escalation engineer (OT)

2007-12-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
, that just means they drive down the street. For most, it means airports and hotels. PSS generally stays at home; except for premier engineering that may be deployed in 'fly and fix' situations. I'm not clear on the escalation backend on how you get from 'a' to 'b'. Regards, Michael B. Smith

RE: Exchange escalation engineer (OT)

2007-12-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
When Exchange MVPs == Andy and Martin Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Schwartz, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 11:05 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange escalation

RE: Exchange escalation engineer (OT)

2007-12-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
In this case? Nope. :-) Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 11:11 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange escalation engineer (OT

RE: Sub-Mailbox creation

2007-12-27 Thread Michael B. Smith
No it doesn't. Tell us the business application and perhaps we can suggest something else. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 1:44 PM To: MS

RE: Sub-Mailbox creation

2007-12-27 Thread Michael B. Smith
Not Exchange, but Outlook certainly can; based on various contents of the headers of an e-mail. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 4:13 PM

RE: Hosted Exchange...

2007-12-27 Thread Michael B. Smith
titled 'Tis The Season to Host - Or Not. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 3:01 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hosted Exchange... Exchange

RE: Sub-Mailbox creation

2007-12-27 Thread Michael B. Smith
Can IMail change the subject when it does the forward? (Like IMAILFWD:)??? That is the only thing that I can think of... Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday

RE: Exchange 2007 install problem - DNS?

2007-12-31 Thread Michael B. Smith
You need to run the netlogin stop, remove database, netlogin start process to clean up the records. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Steve Hart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 3:03 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin

RE: Security

2008-01-01 Thread Michael B. Smith
It's probably at the administrative group level. Use adsiedit or ldp to view that. That being said, domain admins are restricted from that behavior by default. Are your managers domain admins? That wouldn't be a normal type of set up. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http

RE: happy New Year!

2008-01-01 Thread Michael B. Smith
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 2:58 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: happy New Year! June 2008 On Jan 1, 2008 11:47 AM, [EMAIL

RE: Help: re-Create SMTP Queue

2008-01-02 Thread Michael B. Smith
Someone has to read the install guide first. :-) Wrappage: http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/12/05/file-level-antivirus-for-exchange.aspx Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Don Andrews [mailto

RE: Backup Product E2K7

2008-01-02 Thread Michael B. Smith
DPM 2007 and other VSS-based products (including BackupExec and others) Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sirianni, Steven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 1:51 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Backup

RE: Backup Product E2K7

2008-01-02 Thread Michael B. Smith
I do not believe so. It's heavily dependent on A/D for a number of features it provides. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 2:15 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues

RE: Outlook 2003 Holidays

2008-01-02 Thread Michael B. Smith
Exchange has no concept of holidays, I'm afraid. You could certainly wrap up an installer, I guess. But it's probably too late for that now. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: Backup Product E2K7

2008-01-02 Thread Michael B. Smith
Do you have a DMZ domain? You can trust and backup remote forests; and I know the ports can be specifically identified. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 2:40 PM

RE: Email de-duplicator?

2008-01-02 Thread Michael B. Smith
a custom version in SBS 2000), I had as many as eight engineers working with me to make that right. It took 3 days. And cost me - you guessed it - about $250. Yes, sometimes frontline support can be idiots - but I've never had MSFT fail me in a critical support situation. Regards, Michael B

RE: Virtual Server

2008-01-03 Thread Michael B. Smith
Iisreset.exe Or you could figure out why the service is crashing and fix that problem. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Dennis Rogov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 10:38 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues

RE: Virtual Server

2008-01-03 Thread Michael B. Smith
I would be examining the event logs immediately before the services failed. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Dennis Rogov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 11:09 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE

RE: exchange reporting question

2008-01-03 Thread Michael B. Smith
Promodag and Quest both have good reporting packages. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Matthew McComas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 12:22 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: exchange reporting

RE: Edge Transport Kick in the pants

2008-01-03 Thread Michael B. Smith
That was an sp1 enhancement, wasn't it? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Troy Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 12:52 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Edge Transport Kick in the pants

RE: Mailbox Maintenance

2008-01-03 Thread Michael B. Smith
it is required. In a prior life I wrote applications that did this kind of thing. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Troy Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 12:12 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject

RE: ISINTEG question.

2008-01-03 Thread Michael B. Smith
databases - up to and including Exchange 2007! (Fixed in update rollup 3.) Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Tom Strader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 7:18 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE

RE: Mail Enabled Public Folder

2008-01-03 Thread Michael B. Smith
Do Anonymous and Default have create item permission? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Blake R. Fowkes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 5:44 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Mail Enabled Public Folder

More issues with the scalable networking pack

2008-01-03 Thread Michael B. Smith
Cross-posted to Exchange and Sysadmin. Wrappage: http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2008/01/03/more-issue s-with-the-windows-server-2003-scalable-networking-pack.aspx Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com ~ Ninja Email

RE: ISINTEG question.

2008-01-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
Online recovery is the first resort (i.e., letting the database engine play back it's logfiles). I would consider recovering from backup then playing back logfiles to be the second resort. Finally, database repair (eseutil + isinteg) to be the last resort. IMHO. YMMV. Regards, Michael B. Smith

RE: ISINTEG question.

2008-01-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
Eseutil's /p option (repair) followed by isinteg. But it should really be considered a method of last resort. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: HELP_PC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 12:31 AM

RE: ISINTEG question.

2008-01-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
Other than the specific tools used, restoration and/or repair of an Exchange database is EXACTLY THE SAME as restoration and/or repair of a Microsoft SQL database. In fact, I could truthfully argue that in the repair situation, Exchange is EASIER than Microsoft SQL. Regards, Michael B. Smith

RE: Body of Message SOMETIMES blank

2008-01-04 Thread Michael B. Smith
I have a vague memory of this first appearing between 2000 and 2003 at one point and it having something to do with mismatched default message encoding. Why aren't you sending e-mail from the Exchange 2007 servers directly? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http

RE: RPC-Http Access

2008-01-07 Thread Michael B. Smith
One or two firings generally takes care of problems like this. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Jason Benway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 4:41 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RPC

RE: RPC-Http Access

2008-01-07 Thread Michael B. Smith
Once you've got it on one machine, it's a trivial matter to export. Granted, that does require a smarter user. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 5:44

RE: RPC-Http Access

2008-01-07 Thread Michael B. Smith
You can look at the deviceid that connected in terms of mobile devices; and for personal computers, you can look at the versions of Outlook connecting. If it isn't the corporate version then you know something is going on, ne'? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http

RE: RPC-Http Access

2008-01-07 Thread Michael B. Smith
Then you fire'em. :-P Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Barsodi.John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 7:13 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: RPC-Http Access insert sarcastic question

RE: Entourage and Exchange 2007

2008-01-08 Thread Michael B. Smith
MAPI users? For 700 total users I would be hard pressed to justify more than a single server. OK, perhaps two, CAS + MB. But that's probably it, max. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Consuming the available log sequence...

2008-01-08 Thread Michael B. Smith
Eh, you've gotta have pretty high volume to run into the problem. And, in Exchange 2007, they added LOTS more digits to the sequence number. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Salvador Manzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday

RE: Sending email from exchange when not all addresses are in the server.

2008-01-09 Thread Michael B. Smith
What version of Exchange? For Exchange 2000/2003: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321721/en-us Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Silvio L. Nisgoski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 7:21 AM

RE: Relaying email from a DMZ

2008-01-09 Thread Michael B. Smith
Sure. No problem. What isn't working? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: McCready, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 8:43 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Relaying email from

RE: FORWARDING RULE NOT WORKING

2008-01-09 Thread Michael B. Smith
Murray Murray Murray..you know better than this. J What, exactly, is the rule? (Change email addresses as appropriate of course.) What precedes and succeeds the rule in your rule list? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Murray

RE: Log Files

2008-01-09 Thread Michael B. Smith
Yeppers. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 11:03 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Log Files I've got an odd one that I've not seen before

RE: Log Files

2008-01-09 Thread Michael B. Smith
That is correct. Uh...you might want to wait on the removal until all users have a had a chance to check in and get redirected. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday

RE: Recipient Policies Update Issue

2008-01-10 Thread Michael B. Smith
As Web said, wait two hours before getting your ducks wet. Or bounce the information store service if it's really important. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Andrew Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008

RE: Database won't mount on New 2007 server

2008-01-10 Thread Michael B. Smith
Wow. I never heard of this one. 1) Are you referring to the pre-Windows 2000 logon name (i.e., sAMAccountName) or to the Universal Principal Name? 2) Did you run ExBPA? (If not, I might can get this added as a rule. I can certainly suggest it to the appropriate parties.) Regards, Michael B

RE: Exchange 2007 Message Tracking strangeness

2008-01-11 Thread Michael B. Smith
Yeah, it sucks. In several ways. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 4:36 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 2007 Message Tracking strangeness

RE: Exchange 2007 Message Tracking strangeness

2008-01-11 Thread Michael B. Smith
The data in the logs is great. If you are PS savvy, you can get great data. It's just the GUI that leaves so much to be desired. And yes, I think it's the same DGV. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:[EMAIL

OT: What would YOU want to know?

2008-01-14 Thread Michael B. Smith
of Exchange topics would you like to see covered in blogs and articles that you don't see being covered? Or that you don't get enough details about? The more specific the better! Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark

RE: Public folder - Gone but can't forget

2008-01-14 Thread Michael B. Smith
Cached mode or not? How many servers in your topology? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 1:20 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Public folder - Gone

RE: Public folder - Gone but can't forget

2008-01-14 Thread Michael B. Smith
OK. Do you see it from OWA? I'm guessing you won't. And it'll disappear from cached mode in a day or so, when that change replicates down to your desktop. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: Public folder - Gone but can't forget

2008-01-14 Thread Michael B. Smith
It would've been different for YOU - but the same for all the other users in cached mode. A delay in synchronization is one of the tradeoffs associated with using cached mode. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Joe Heaton [mailto

RE: What would YOU want to know?

2008-01-14 Thread Michael B. Smith
? As far as Exchange topics and articles, there don't seem to be any references available for 2007 equal to the technical reference library that was available for 2003. _ From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 12:24 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin

RE: What would YOU want to know?

2008-01-14 Thread Michael B. Smith
. _ From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 12:24 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: OT: What would YOU want to know? OK, I ask these questions for my own benefit. I hope you'll forgive me. 1] Let's assume that a book regarding using Exchange 2007

RE: What would YOU want to know?

2008-01-14 Thread Michael B. Smith
Well, I think the available for download is the kicker. There is a huge amount of documentation available for Exchange 2007, but 95% of it is WRO (Web Release Only). Personally, jumping from webpage to webpage gives me a headache. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http

RE: Outlook 2003 Max .OST file size

2008-01-14 Thread Michael B. Smith
and Exchange 2007. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: McCready, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 5:03 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Outlook 2003 Max .OST file size Does anybody know

RE: Anybody want to save my sanity?

2008-01-15 Thread Michael B. Smith
I can tell you how to force it, if you want to know (it involves using adsiedit). But I have no idea why the tab is greyed out. (It's getting reset because of a process called DS2MB that resyncs information from A/D to the IIS metabase.) Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP

RE: Synching PF calendars

2008-01-16 Thread Michael B. Smith
It's not a capability built into the product. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:01 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Synching PF calendars

RE: Recipient Policies Update Issue

2008-01-16 Thread Michael B. Smith
/exchange-a ctive-directory-and-wins.aspx Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Carl Webster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:48 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Recipient Policies Update Issue

RE: How To Renew VeriSign SSL Certificate of OWA ?

2008-01-16 Thread Michael B. Smith
You have to create a new request not a renewal. That's why you have to create a new site. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Don Andrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 3:52 PM To: MS

RE: How To Renew VeriSign SSL Certificate of OWA ?

2008-01-16 Thread Michael B. Smith
I dunno. Most sites want a new CSR not a renewal CSR. I've been creating dummy sites (or using openssl to generate fresh CSRs) for years. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Don Andrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: How To Renew VeriSign SSL Certificate of OWA ?

2008-01-16 Thread Michael B. Smith
Interestingly, in Windows Server 2008, you create and renew certificates at the Web Server level; not the Web Site level. In other words, it is finally at the proper place. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Michael B

RE: How To Renew VeriSign SSL Certificate of OWA ?

2008-01-16 Thread Michael B. Smith
You still assign an individual cert to one or more sites (as in the case of a UCC or wildcard cert), but as you say, the management is at the server level. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Don Andrews [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Mailbox size discrepency

2008-01-17 Thread Michael B. Smith
Are your Exchange stores finishing nightly maintenance every night? You don't say how LARGE the mailbox is. For a large mailbox, I would consider 10 MB trivial. For a small one, it may or may not be significant. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com

RE: Mailbox Count

2008-01-17 Thread Michael B. Smith
HAHAHAHAHA. :-) Got me. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:26 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mailbox Count I'll do the same

RE: Mailbox Count

2008-01-17 Thread Michael B. Smith
I'll take that two liner and make it one... ;-) (gwmi -namespace root\microsoftexchangev2 -class exchange_mailbox -computer servername).Count Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Mailbox Count

2008-01-17 Thread Michael B. Smith
Hmph. :-) This one uses PowerShell and sorts the output by Active Directory OU. Wrappage: http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/a-script-f or-getting-mailbox-sizes-using-wmi-in-powershell.aspx Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http

RE: Mailbox Count

2008-01-17 Thread Michael B. Smith
And if you also want to know how large each one is, here is a report you can run: Wrappage: http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/a-script-f or-getting-mailbox-sizes-using-wmi.aspx Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com

RE: Mailbox Count

2008-01-17 Thread Michael B. Smith
I don't think it's trivial at all. Good practice. :-) Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 5:56 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mailbox

RE: Mailbox Count

2008-01-18 Thread Michael B. Smith
Cool! I've never used StartsWith() before. Thanks for pointing it out. I think that's a pretty PowerShell'ed routine now. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday

RE: Anyone using CCR in production?

2008-01-21 Thread Michael B. Smith
30K+ users, 2 GB hard limits, individual databases limited to 100 GB. Geodispersion is coming, using Windows Server 2008. Backup is LCR to cheap disk. I'm seeing more folks moving away from clustering with LCR and SCR. Good riddance, in my opinion. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE

RE: Recreating Exchange 2003 Public Folder Store

2008-01-21 Thread Michael B. Smith
If everything has replicated, truly, then you won't lose anything. It will all backfill. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Barsodi.John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 8:03 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues

RE: Exchange 2007 Plain text message problem

2008-01-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb690955.aspx - see the DomainName explanation. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Alex Fontana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 1:07 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues

RE: Event ID 9667

2008-01-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
What's the number? You only get that warning when you are within 20% of the maximum limit. You need to figure out what's creating the named properties. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Alex Alborzfard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Event ID 9667

2008-01-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
This almost certainly means that it is creating a custom X-* header. It shouldn't do that. To eliminate the properties, you can move a mailbox that contains the properties to another store. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Alex

RE: Event ID 9667

2008-01-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
a store. I've always moved the content and deleted the store. With a PF, you'd have to replicate it to another server instead of using Move Mailbox. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday

RE: Anyone using CCR in production?

2008-01-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
worthwhile. I dunno yet. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Pete Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 10:05 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone using CCR in production? Ive had a CCR

RE: Event ID 9667

2008-01-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
the mailboxes out of the store with too many properties, you delete the store. MFCMAPI can show you all the named properties on a store. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Alex Alborzfard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22

RE: GoExchange Response

2008-01-22 Thread Michael B. Smith
a vested interest in selling their product. I respect that. They do provide some value-add with reporting. But that is all that I see. And I don't approve of their marketing. I personally think that it is misleading. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http

RE: Corruptions - redux

2008-01-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
that to verify an incoming message. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 6:08 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Corruptions - redux Chaps, On my hunt

RE: Event ID 9667

2008-01-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
of named properties are exhausted, a store will no longer accept any messages that require the creation of a named property. So.it's non-optimal. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Alex Alborzfard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday

RE: GoExchange Response

2008-01-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
defragging the db. Doesn’t exchange do that by itself??? Unless they mean an offline defrag which MS even says only if necessary. From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8:13 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: GoExchange Response

RE: Corruptions - redux

2008-01-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
You may need to look at the physical messages themselves to determine if you can determine a pattern of corruption. As another poster said yesterday (I think it was yesterday), it's probably the A/V software somewhere along the way. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http

RE: Anyone using CCR in production?

2008-01-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
Do you have a specific question? DAS can be cheap. If you plan for the I/O load, and good backups, it'll work just fine. The replication options, CCR/LCR/SCR - they are great. I wish MSFT had done that technology years ago. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http

RE: to RSG or to not RSG

2008-01-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
You have to answer first - what is the goal? Why are you doing the restore? Does it impact all users or just one (or a few?). Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 23

RE: to RSG or to not RSG

2008-01-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
I wouldn't have done it that way, but that should be an ok way. Given what you've said, I'd take a dump of the crappy hardware and restore it on the new hardware. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Size Error Anomaly

2008-01-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
You need to look at the message tracking log on party B's exchange server. If you've copied the SMTP conversation properly, then party B's exchange server is generating a NDR after reception is complete. The message tracking log should tell you an error reason why. Regards, Michael B

RE: to RSG or to not RSG

2008-01-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
Option 1 is what I would do. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Bill Songstad (WCUL) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:26 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: to RSG or to not RSG Yeah me too

RE: Rollup 3 vs. SP1

2008-01-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
Yes. All changes up to and including UR5 were in SP1. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Steve Hart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:53 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Rollup 3 vs. SP1 I'm

RE: Tales of woe featuring Exchange 2007, Macs and Certs

2008-01-23 Thread Michael B. Smith
are http://certificatesforexchange.com (I am not affiliated.) Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Steve Hart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 6:20 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Tales of woe featuring

RE: IPod Wifi Email

2008-01-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
That makes me smile. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Matteson, John H Jr USA Mr USA 25th SigBN (ITT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 12:14 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: IPod

RE: Assistance requested for issues with mail flow and writing a report

2008-01-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
He's Micheal. I'm Michael. And yes I do. :-) Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Tom Strader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 1:39 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Assistance

RE: Journaling a mail-enabled public folder

2008-01-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
Look on CDOLive. They used to have lots of that kinda stuff. You are aware that those are synchronous, right? Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 3:57 PM To: MS

RE: MX/txt record confusion

2008-01-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
Would you please update the link in that article to: http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/verifying- dns-configurations-using-powershell.aspx Thanks... Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From

RE: MX/txt record confusion

2008-01-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
And I thought I e-mailed you directly instead of on the list. Sorry about that... Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 4:44 PM To: MS-Exchange

RE: Journaling a mail-enabled public folder

2008-01-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
the categorizer. If you aren't a high-volume e-mail shop (I mean hundreds of e-mails per minute) then it likely isn't a problem. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 4:47

RE: Journaling a mail-enabled public folder

2008-01-24 Thread Michael B. Smith
That's typical. You need to be able to decode TNEF to understand most Exchange e-mail messages. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 6:35 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin

RE: Exchange OWA Front End Options

2008-01-25 Thread Michael B. Smith
SSL Explorer is free and easy to use. But I'm not 100% sure what you mean by front-end security. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: N Parr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 12:25 PM To: MS

RE: View Postmaster

2008-01-28 Thread Michael B. Smith
Try using OWA or download them into a PST using POP3. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 9:49 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: View Postmaster I

RE: SMTPReceive Log

2008-01-28 Thread Michael B. Smith
, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Brown, Larry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 10:14 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: SMTPReceive Log Hey all, I'm having an issue with a newsletter not being delivered. Other

RE: SMTPReceive Log

2008-01-28 Thread Michael B. Smith
disabled the SNP? Wrappage: http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2008/01/03/more-issue s-with-the-windows-server-2003-scalable-networking-pack.aspx Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Brown, Larry [mailto:[EMAIL

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