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Internet Explorer: Jun 1, 2005

ozmunkeh posted:

Our clients with Office 2007 are Small Business edition (we don't use Access), and the few Office 2010 installations are Standard edition for the same reason. We're on Exchange 2007 at the moment and I'm trying to figure out what licenses I would need to use the personal archive feature of Exchange 2010, because gently caress PSTs.
It seems that I need to upgrade everyone to Office 2010 Professional Plus in order to have it work, is that right? Also, we need both Std and Ent CALs for Exchange 2010.

One option, which I think we may end up going with, is to only allow access to archived mail through OWA. Buying all new Office licenses with Pro Plus is ridiculously expensive.

# ? Feb 2, 2012 17:19

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# ? Apr 19, 2024 06:32

j3rkstore: Jan 28, 2009; L'esprit d'escalier

I was looking into this awhile ago and it turns out you can use the functionality in Office 2007 as well.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2010/12/20/yes-virginia-there-is-exchange-2010-archive-support-in-outlook-2007.aspx

quote:

In Yes Virginia, there is an Exchange 2010 SP1, we announced Outlook 2007 support for Personal Archives in Exchange 2010 SP1 timeframe. This is now available in February 2011 Cumulative Update for Office 2007.

# ? Feb 2, 2012 17:37

ozmunkeh: Feb 28, 2008; hey guys what is happening in this thread

j3rkstore posted:

I was looking into this awhile ago and it turns out you can use the functionality in Office 2007 as well.

Yes, but only for Office Professional Plus, Enterprise or standalone Outlook 2007 as far as I can tell. If that's the case OWA is looking like the best solution.

# ? Feb 2, 2012 18:50

simcole: Sep 13, 2003; PATHETIC STALKER

I have a problem and I need some guidance.

I have a set of wireless security cameras that take pictures of 3 different businesses. Each business has 3 cameras for a total of 9 cameras. Whenever a camera takes a picture it text messages it to a preset email address: example bobcam1@home.com bobcam2@home.com etc

What I need:
I need the attachment stripped from the email and put into a specific folder on my webserver and then the email deleted. So root/bob/ or root/sam/ etc with pictures in each of those folders.
I found an exchange addon that will do this called "attachment save" http://www.mapilab.com/exchange/attachment_save. Problem is bluehost doesn't run an exchange server nor do I know anything about exchange. I downloaded and ran a demo copy of exchange and this addon and it works as long as the place you want to store it is on the same machine as the exchange server. If I could save it to my bluehost site that would be ideal. Maybe I don't even need exchange to strip the email.

PLEASE help.

# ? Feb 8, 2012 06:16

citywok: Sep 8, 2003; Born To Surf

simcole posted:

I have a problem and I need some guidance.

I have a set of wireless security cameras that take pictures of 3 different businesses. Each business has 3 cameras for a total of 9 cameras. Whenever a camera takes a picture it text messages it to a preset email address: example bobcam1@home.com bobcam2@home.com etc

What I need:
I need the attachment stripped from the email and put into a specific folder on my webserver and then the email deleted. So root/bob/ or root/sam/ etc with pictures in each of those folders.
I found an exchange addon that will do this called "attachment save" http://www.mapilab.com/exchange/attachment_save. Problem is bluehost doesn't run an exchange server nor do I know anything about exchange. I downloaded and ran a demo copy of exchange and this addon and it works as long as the place you want to store it is on the same machine as the exchange server. If I could save it to my bluehost site that would be ideal. Maybe I don't even need exchange to strip the email.

PLEASE help.

Is this an IMAP mailbox, and do you know any PHP? If so, you could do this in like 5 minutes. This is probably fairly simple in other languages too, but i've done something similar in PHP before so that's why i'm showing it to you this way.

This should send you in the right direction:

$mbox = imap_open("{localhost:143}INBOX","username","password") or die('Cannot connect to imap: ' . print_r(imap_error()));
$totalrows = imap_num_msg($mbox);
$headers = imap_fetch_overview($mbox, "1:$totalrows", 0);
foreach($headers as $header){
//this is the grey area for grabbing the attachment, you may need some logic here to make sure this is the exact slot the image ends up in. i use this code for something else where the attachment ends up in slot 2 normally
$attachment = imap_fetchbody($mbox, $header->uid, 2, FT_UID);
$file=fopen("/root/bob/image.jpg","w");
fputs($file, $attachment);
imap_delete($mbox, $header->uid, FT_UID);
}

HTH

# ? Feb 14, 2012 05:19

babies havin rabies: Feb 24, 2006

Does Exchange, or AD for that matter, have certain reserved strings that cannot be used for objects? We want a distribution group named 'Service', but AD will not let me create it, and says the cn already exists in our Users group, although I do not see it listed.

edit: Thank you very much!

babies havin rabies fucked around with this message at 15:48 on Feb 14, 2012

# ? Feb 14, 2012 15:28

Mierdaan: Sep 14, 2004; Pillbug

babies havin rabies posted:

Does Exchange, or AD for that matter, have certain reserved strings that cannot be used for objects? We want a distribution group named 'Service', but AD will not let me create it, and says the cn already exists in our Users group, although I do not see it listed.

Yep. Looks like an older article and it doesn't specifically say that group names are subject to the same restrictions (just computers, domains, sites and OUs) but I'd imagine that's what you're hitting.

edit: table at bottom

# ? Feb 14, 2012 15:36

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

I'm not an Exchange admin or anything, but I need to get some information on distribution lists and the users contained within from my C# app (probably could be made in a macro as well). I can query everything through an Outlook object up to and including getting an Exchange User object with information such as names, email, phone number etc. However, somehow it's missing the user's country - there's office location, street, postcode and region, but no country :confused:

Maybe I'm just blind and it's somewhere there, however more importantly I also need to get some additional information such as the cost center, which is maintained and is visible in the outlook contact card. Apparently I can query for unexposed object properties with Property Accessor, but I need to know the appropriate property tag. How can I determine this tag, or is there an alternative way of getting this information?

Edit: now that I think about it, this might not be very clear to someone who's not using the Outlook objects, let me know if I need to restate the problem in another way...

mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 14:23 on Feb 16, 2012

# ? Feb 16, 2012 14:18

Trinitrotoluene: Dec 25, 2004

mobby_6kl posted:

I'm not an Exchange admin or anything, *snip*

If you go in ADSI Edit and have a look in AD you will find all the names of the appropriate tags (more commonly known as attributes).

# ? Feb 17, 2012 00:16

bairfanx: Jan 20, 2006; I look like this IRL,
but, you know,
more Greg Land-y.

So, I've got a list of ~400 aliases that I need information for and I was told to go into Outlook, look up each one in the address book, and then copy the relevant data into a spreadsheet.

After five of these, I realized just how unbelievably annoying this is going to be to do.

I went online to see if there was a convenient way to output the global address list as a spreadsheet and just do a handful of vlookups to get the information for each alias. The only sites tha seemed to know what I was talking about suggested I export it to Access, which has crashed twice while trying to do it.

So, does anyone have any thoughts? I'm pulling associate's name, department number, department, and office. I really don't want to brute force this.

# ? Feb 17, 2012 21:54

Internet Explorer: Jun 1, 2005

Check out Hyena.

# ? Feb 17, 2012 21:57

babies havin rabies: Feb 24, 2006

Any way I can block an external email address from sending mail to one internal email address? I only want to block a@hotmail.com -> specificperson@us.com, a@hotmail.com would be able to send to every other address on the domain.

I've tried the Message Delivery Restrictions pane, but apparently this can only reject emails from internal addresses?

# ? Feb 22, 2012 15:14

sanchez: Feb 26, 2003

Can you do it through your spam filtering service instead? On postini or something that'd be easy.

# ? Feb 22, 2012 15:17

babies havin rabies: Feb 24, 2006

sanchez posted:

Can you do it through your spam filtering service instead? On postini or something that'd be easy.

We use AppRiver, it can only block mail domain-wide.

I am going to try a transport rule under Organization Config.

Edit: Yep, that's the place to do it.

babies havin rabies fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Feb 22, 2012

# ? Feb 22, 2012 15:20

Furnok Dorn: Mar 30, 2004; SOCIALLY WORTHLESS SHUT-IN NERD

Having a strange problem I haven't been able to figure out a solution for:

User A created a calendar that was shared with various people throughout the organization. User A has since left but the calendar still exists, I'd changed permissions on it to set User B who now deals with that calendar to be the folder owner, but the 'share calendar' option is greyed out now (Outlook 2007 with Exchange 2003 installed)

Is there something else I need to do to give this person the ability to send out sharing requests?

# ? Feb 28, 2012 16:16

Tripred: Nov 25, 2004; Deals in quack, not opinion.

bairfanx posted:

So, I've got a list of ~400 aliases that I need information for and I was told to go into Outlook, look up each one in the address book, and then copy the relevant data into a spreadsheet.

After five of these, I realized just how unbelievably annoying this is going to be to do.

I went online to see if there was a convenient way to output the global address list as a spreadsheet and just do a handful of vlookups to get the information for each alias. The only sites tha seemed to know what I was talking about suggested I export it to Access, which has crashed twice while trying to do it.

So, does anyone have any thoughts? I'm pulling associate's name, department number, department, and office. I really don't want to brute force this.

I hope you are a little familiar with VBS script:

Step 1. Put all 400 members into a group, this way we have a central place to use to lookup their data, instead of having to query for something else that may or may not give us the exact results we need.

Step 2. Copy and Paste this into notepad. Name the file EnumGroup2.vbs. (There is a newer version of this script up on http://www.rlmueller.net but this version is the easiest to modify with the attribute output you need.)

code:

' EnumGroup2.vbs
' VBScript program to enumerate members of a group by retrieving the
' "member" multivalued attribute of the group. Uses ADO range limits
' to handle groups with more than 1000 members. Uses a recursive
' subroutine to handle nested groups. Uses a dictionary object to
' recognize duplicate group members (due to nesting).
'
' ----------------------------------------------------------------------
' Copyright (c) 2003 Richard L. Mueller
' Hilltop Lab web site - [url]http://www.rlmueller.net[/url]
' Version 1.0 - March 28, 2003
' Version 1.1 - October 29, 2003 - Use dictionary object.
'
' You have a royalty-free right to use, modify, reproduce, and
' distribute this script file in any way you find useful, provided that
' you agree that the copyright owner above has no warranty, obligations,
' or liability for such use.

Option Explicit

Dim strNTName, objRootDSE, strDNSDomain, objCommand
Dim objConnection, strBase, strAttributes, objGroupList

' Check for required argument.
If Wscript.Arguments.Count <> 1 Then
  Wscript.Echo "Required argument <NT Name> missing. " _
    & "For example:" & vbCrLf _
    & "cscript //nologo EnumGroup.vbs ""GroupNTName"""
  Wscript.Quit(0)
End If

strNTName = Wscript.Arguments(0)

' Determine DNS domain name.
Set objRootDSE = GetObject("LDAP://RootDSE")
strDNSDomain = objRootDSE.Get("DefaultNamingContext")

' Use dictionary object to track unique group members.
Set objGroupList = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
objGroupList.CompareMode = vbTextCompare

' Use ADO to search Active Directory.
Set objCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
Set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
objConnection.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
objConnection.Open = "Active Directory Provider"
objCommand.ActiveConnection = objConnection
objCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 100
objCommand.Properties("Timeout") = 30
objCommand.Properties("Cache Results") = False

' Specify base of search and "member" attribute to retrieve.
strBase = "<LDAP://" & strDNSDomain & ">"
strAttributes = "member"

' Header for .csv file
wscript.echo "Name,Description,Address,City,State,Zip,Phone,Fax,Email,EmployeeID,Username"

' Enumerate group members.
Call EnumMembers(strNTName, "")

Sub EnumMembers(strName, strOffset)
' Recursive subroutine to enumerate members of a group,
' including nested group memberships.
' Uses range limits to handle groups with more than 1000 members.

  Dim strFilter, strQuery, objRecordSet, k, objMember
  Dim strDN, intCount, blnLast, intLowRange
  Dim intHighRange, intRangeStep, objField

  ' Filter on objects of class "group" and specified name.
  strFilter = "(&(ObjectCategory=group)" _
    & "(ObjectClass=group)" _
    & "(sAMAccountName=" & strName & "))"

  ' Setup to retrieve 1000 members at a time.
  blnLast = False
  intRangeStep = 999
  intLowRange = 0
  IntHighRange = intLowRange + intRangeStep

  Do While True

    If blnLast = True Then
      ' If last query, retrieve remaining members.
      strQuery = strBase & ";" & strFilter & ";" _
        & strAttributes & ";range=" & intLowRange _
        & "-*;subtree"
    Else
      ' If not last query, retrieve 1000 members.
      strQuery = strBase & ";" & strFilter & ";" _
      & strAttributes & ";range=" & intLowRange & "-" _
      & intHighRange & ";subtree"
    End If
    objCommand.CommandText = strQuery
    Set objRecordSet = objCommand.Execute
    intCount = 0

    Do Until objRecordSet.EOF
      For Each objField In objRecordSet.Fields
        If VarType(objField) = (vbArray + vbVariant) _
            Then
          For Each strDN In objField.Value
            ' Check dictionary object for duplicates.
            If Not objGroupList.Exists(strDN) Then
              ' Add to dictionary object.
              objGroupList(strDN) = True

              ' Bind to each group member, to find "class" of member.
              Set objMember = GetObject("LDAP://" & strDN)
              ' Output group member.

              ' *************************************************************************
              ' This section tells the script what information to dump.  Don't forget to
              ' include a "," between each item if you want to dump into a .csv file.
              ' *************************************************************************
		Wscript.Echo Chr(34) & objMember.displayName & Chr(34) & "," _
		& Chr(34) & objMember.description & Chr(34) & "," _
                & Chr(34) & objMember.streetAddress & Chr(34) & "," _
		& Chr(34) & objMember.l & Chr(34) & "," _
		& Chr(34) & objMember.st & Chr(34) & "," _
		& Chr(34) & objMember.postalCode & Chr(34) & "," _
		& Chr(34) & objMember.telephoneNumber & Chr(34) & "," _
		& Chr(34) & objMember.facsimileTelephoneNumber & Chr(34) & "," _
		& Chr(34) & objMember.mail & Chr(34) & "," _
		& Chr(34) & objMember.employeeid & Chr(34) & "," _
		& Chr(34) & objMember.samAccountName & Chr(34) & ","
              ' *************************************************************************
              ' End of data section
              ' *************************************************************************

              intCount = intCount + 1
              If UCase(objMember.Class) = "GROUP" Then
                ' If the member is class "group",
                ' call subroutine recursively.
                Call _
                  EnumMembers(objMember.sAMAccountName, _
                  strOffset & "--")
              End If
            Else
              ' Duplicate member. Output group member.
              'Wscript.Echo strOffset & "Member of " & strName & ": " & strDN & " (Duplicate)"
            End If
          Next
        End If
      Next
      objRecordSet.MoveNext
    Loop

    ' If this is the last query, exit the Do While loop.
    If blnLast = True Then
      Exit Do
    End If

    ' If the previous query returned no members, then the previous
    ' query for the next 1000 members failed. Perform one more
    ' query to retrieve remaining members (less than 1000).
    If intCount = 0 Then
      blnLast = True
    Else
      ' Setup to retrieve next 1000 members.
      intLowRange = intHighRange + 1
      intHighRange = intLowRange + intRangeStep
    End If
  Loop
End Sub

Line 57 is your CSV file header that echos on the first line of the text file. Starting at Line 117 you'll see the actual attributes that are being output. You will need to modify line 57 and Lines 117-127 to output what you need.

associate's name = should equal "DisplayName" attribute in AD. Already on line 117.

department number = no clue... what field is it on the Outlook Address Book details?

department = "department" attribute. Add "Department" to the header somewhere in line 57, then add

code:

& Chr(34) & objMember.department & Chr(34) & "," _"

to the corresponding line around 117.

Office: "PhysicalDeliveryOfficeName" attribute. Add "Office" to the header somewhere in line 57, then add

code:

& Chr(34) & objMember.physicaldeliveryofficename& Chr(34) & "," _"

to the corresponding line around 117.

Step 3. Open a command prompt, and run

code:

cscript //nologo enumgroup2.vbs "GroupName" > GroupName.csv

If you did everything right you should get a CSV file you can open in Excel with everything you need and more. Make sure your headers on line 57 and your column data starting on line 117 are both in the same order or you will have to fix the CSV after.

# ? Feb 28, 2012 16:49

Tripred: Nov 25, 2004; Deals in quack, not opinion.

Furnok Dorn posted:

Having a strange problem I haven't been able to figure out a solution for:

User A created a calendar that was shared with various people throughout the organization. User A has since left but the calendar still exists, I'd changed permissions on it to set User B who now deals with that calendar to be the folder owner, but the 'share calendar' option is greyed out now (Outlook 2007 with Exchange 2003 installed)

Is there something else I need to do to give this person the ability to send out sharing requests?

I'm assuming this is a Calendar in a mailbox? The "Share Calendar" option is not available on Public Folders.

How is the user opening the mailbox? I believe that the "Share Calendar" option is only available on the primary mailbox in a profile. If they are opening the calendar as a secondary calendar or additional mailbox, I don't think they will see that option.

Create a profile that opens only the shared calendar mailbox as the primary mailbox. From there you can assign permissions, delegation, and so forth. The "share calendar" option should be available.

# ? Feb 28, 2012 16:57

Drumstick: Jun 20, 2006; Lord of cacti

Is there a way to have new users created in AD automatically create an exchange mailbox? I thought it would or did do it automatically at some defined interval. My help desk is making mistakes on user accounts. They are creating them in Exchange, then moving and assigning them in AD. I would prefer that they did not, and have told them so but unfortunately I have no authority over them.

# ? Feb 29, 2012 21:24

no pubes yet sorry: Sep 11, 2003

I am replacing an ancient Exchange 2003 server (800mhz!!) with a modern beefy Exchange 2010 box. There are only around 40-50 mailboxes and maybe 60 AD accounts.

I remember coming across a guide migrating existing an existing exchange server to a new server but am having trouble googling it. Anyone know of a relatively straight forward guide?

# ? Feb 29, 2012 21:52

EoRaptor: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy

Drumstick posted:

Is there a way to have new users created in AD automatically create an exchange mailbox? I thought it would or did do it automatically at some defined interval. My help desk is making mistakes on user accounts. They are creating them in Exchange, then moving and assigning them in AD. I would prefer that they did not, and have told them so but unfortunately I have no authority over them.

Exchange will create a new mailbox the first time an account receives mail if one doesn't already exist. It will also create accounts if the System Attendant is restarted.

# ? Feb 29, 2012 22:39

sanchez: Feb 26, 2003

EoRaptor posted:

Exchange will create a new mailbox the first time an account receives mail if one doesn't already exist. It will also create accounts if the System Attendant is restarted.

What?

# ? Mar 1, 2012 13:44

Mierdaan: Sep 14, 2004; Pillbug

Pretty sure he's talking about how (at least some versions of) Exchange don't create a mailbox until it receives some mail. I know 2000 used to do this, haven't noticed it being the case in 2007 anymore though.

# ? Mar 1, 2012 14:31

Matt Zerella: Oct 7, 2002; Norris'es are back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (fox Howl)

platypusmalone posted:

I am replacing an ancient Exchange 2003 server (800mhz!!) with a modern beefy Exchange 2010 box. There are only around 40-50 mailboxes and maybe 60 AD accounts.

I remember coming across a guide migrating existing an existing exchange server to a new server but am having trouble googling it. Anyone know of a relatively straight forward guide?

Oh boy. Having just done this the past summer, there's no such thing as a straightforward method of doing it.

I used this and the article from Windows IT Pro May 2010 about doing the transition. And I just ignored the virtualization part, I run Exchang eon bare metal.

My one recommendation is leave the 2003 box up as long as you possibly can, even after moving the mailboxes over. I think I lef tmy old 2003 box up for about a month before going through the decommission steps. It might have been overkill but it was a smooth transition.

Now I need to slap another 12 gigs of RAM into the server because 12 isn't enough for about 45 mailboxes. Sheesh.

# ? Mar 1, 2012 15:42

JBark: Jun 27, 2000; Good passwords are a good idea.

platypusmalone posted:

I am replacing an ancient Exchange 2003 server (800mhz!!) with a modern beefy Exchange 2010 box. There are only around 40-50 mailboxes and maybe 60 AD accounts.

I remember coming across a guide migrating existing an existing exchange server to a new server but am having trouble googling it. Anyone know of a relatively straight forward guide?

You are probably thinking of ExDeploy:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/exdeploy2010/default.aspx#Index

Amazing tool, you punch in exactly what your current setup is and what you want your final config to be, and it spits out an extremely detailed step by step process. And when I say detailed, I mean detailed. You could pretty much know nothing about Exchange and probably be fine. I just used this exact guide to do a 2003 to 2010 migration and it was perfect.

LmaoTheKid posted:

Now I need to slap another 12 gigs of RAM into the server because 12 isn't enough for about 45 mailboxes. Sheesh.

Are you getting actually performance problems? Don't go by system memory usage with 2007/2010, since Exchange will use all available memory (well, something more like 95%), no matter how much you put in there. In fact, I've read a few MS articles that point towards performance decreases if you put in too much memory in an Ex2010 server that doesn't actually need it.

12GB is probably enough for around 500 mailboxes according to the MS calculator.

JBark fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Mar 1, 2012

# ? Mar 1, 2012 16:06

Matt Zerella: Oct 7, 2002; Norris'es are back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (fox Howl)

JBark posted:

Are you getting actually performance problems? Don't go by system memory usage with 2007/2010, since Exchange will use all available memory (well, something more like 95%), no matter how much you put in there. In fact, I've read a few MS articles that point towards performance decreases if you put in too much memory in a multi role server.

12GB is probably enough for around 500 mailboxes according to the MS calculator.

The system itself is slow as poo poo when I'm trying to do anything. I have the ESM installed on one of our DCs and it takes FORFUCKINGEVER to do anything.

I have some users with gigantic mailboxes so that may be slowing things down. We also have a bunch of people using outlook on citrix so they don't use OSTs and I think that may be affecting performance too.

I'm also getting Event ID 906 for ESE:

quote:

Information Store (4412) A significant portion of the database buffer cache has been written out to the system paging file. This may result in severe performance degradation.
See help link for complete details of possible causes.
Resident cache has fallen by 41185 buffers (or 21%) in the last 65223 seconds.
Current Total Percent Resident: 78% (151384 of 192569 buffers)

Every link I read says this means there isn't enough RAM in the system.

# ? Mar 1, 2012 16:12

sanchez: Feb 26, 2003

That's weird, I've seen 80 mailboxes and about 150gb of mail run on exchange 2010 with 4gb of ram. The transaction latency was high enough to annoy BES until we upgraded to 8gb but certainly there were no eventlogs like that. Did you mess with anything during the server install? (Swap file sizes etc)

# ? Mar 1, 2012 16:18

sanchez: Feb 26, 2003

Mierdaan posted:

Pretty sure he's talking about how (at least some versions of) Exchange don't create a mailbox until it receives some mail. I know 2000 used to do this, haven't noticed it being the case in 2007 anymore though.

Ah. It seemed like he was implying that creating an AD account would somehow also create an exchange account.

# ? Mar 1, 2012 16:19

Matt Zerella: Oct 7, 2002; Norris'es are back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (fox Howl)

sanchez posted:

That's weird, I've seen 80 mailboxes and about 150gb of mail run on exchange 2010 with 4gb of ram. The transaction latency was high enough to annoy BES until we upgraded to 8gb but certainly there were no eventlogs like that. Did you mess with anything during the server install? (Swap file sizes etc)

Nope, didn't mess with anything. It's baffling since our old exchange server was fine and it only had 4 gigs.

EDIT: Just realized I haven't rebooted since we cut over. I rebooted the email server and now the server has about 3 gigs free. I'll see if this keeps up.

Matt Zerella fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Mar 1, 2012

# ? Mar 1, 2012 16:27

MonkeyHate: Oct 11, 2002; Dance, monkey, dance!; Taco Defender

Drumstick posted:

Is there a way to have new users created in AD automatically create an exchange mailbox? I thought it would or did do it automatically at some defined interval. My help desk is making mistakes on user accounts. They are creating them in Exchange, then moving and assigning them in AD. I would prefer that they did not, and have told them so but unfortunately I have no authority over them.

I have a script running every five minutes which auto creates mailboxes for user accounts that are A) Enabled B) Without a mailbox on Exchange already and C) flagged with an AD attribute that gets set by a different script depending on whether helpdesk checks the regular Employee/Contractor box or the Vendor/Service Account box on the new user provisioning web form.

I could PM it to you if think it would be helpful. We have a pretty weird environment though so I imagine it would take quite a bit of tweaking.

# ? Mar 2, 2012 09:57

Blame Pyrrhus: May 6, 2003; Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.; Pillbug

LmaoTheKid posted:

Now I need to slap another 12 gigs of RAM into the server because 12 isn't enough for about 45 mailboxes. Sheesh.

You don't require 12GB for 45 mailboxes.

If you don't manage your ESE Database cache limits then it will eat literally every byte of RAM available. There's nothing in the UI for this, and AFAIK no cmdlets facilitate this. You have to use ADSIEdit to set the min and max size.

Read this: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee832793.aspx

Do some math, set an appropriate limit, and watch the disk I/O performance. Typically I limit it to about 30MB to 50MB per active copy mailbox and never run into performance problems on dedicated boxes.

My only advice to people that are going through the 2003 -> 2010 migration for the first time, is to eliminate public folder databases entirely, and use adsiedit to remove the 2003 administrative group once you are done. Graceful uninstalls of 2003 have never cleaned up AD properly, I'm not even sure it's supposed to.

Blame Pyrrhus fucked around with this message at 01:41 on Mar 3, 2012

# ? Mar 3, 2012 01:32

Matt Zerella: Oct 7, 2002; Norris'es are back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (fox Howl)

Linux Nazi posted:

You don't require 12GB for 45 mailboxes.

If you don't manage your ESE Database cache limits then it will eat literally every byte of RAM available. There's nothing in the UI for this, and AFAIK no cmdlets facilitate this. You have to use ADSIEdit to set the min and max size.

Read this: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee832793.aspx

Do some math, set an appropriate limit, and watch the disk I/O performance. Typically I limit it to about 30MB to 50MB per active copy mailbox and never run into performance problems on dedicated boxes.

My only advice to people that are going through the 2003 -> 2010 migration for the first time, is to eliminate public folder databases entirely, and use adsiedit to remove the 2003 administrative group once you are done. Graceful uninstalls of 2003 have never cleaned up AD properly, I'm not even sure it's supposed to.

Thanks so much!

# ? Mar 4, 2012 19:40

Drumstick: Jun 20, 2006; Lord of cacti

MonkeyHate posted:

I have a script running every five minutes which auto creates mailboxes for user accounts that are A) Enabled B) Without a mailbox on Exchange already and C) flagged with an AD attribute that gets set by a different script depending on whether helpdesk checks the regular Employee/Contractor box or the Vendor/Service Account box on the new user provisioning web form.

I could PM it to you if think it would be helpful. We have a pretty weird environment though so I imagine it would take quite a bit of tweaking.

Oh, I didnt even consider a script to do it. Ill look into it and see how difficult it would be to set up something like that.

# ? Mar 5, 2012 17:15

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# ? Mar 5, 2012 21:06

psylent: Nov 29, 2000; Pillbug

Running Exch2010 - after I add an email address to an already existing mailbox - how quickly should that mailbox be able to receive external mail to that address?

# ? Mar 6, 2012 01:31

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psylent posted:

Running Exch2010 - after I add an email address to an already existing mailbox - how quickly should that mailbox be able to receive external mail to that address?

Immediately, unless you have really latent AD replication or other outstanding issues.

# ? Mar 6, 2012 01:34

slartibartfast: Nov 13, 2002

I've been asked to look at recovering about 24 hours' worth of email from a series of .edb files which are supposedly corrupted Exch 2010 databases. I am not the Exchange guy, so I'm a kinda wandering around in the dark here. Googling for "edb recovery" or "edb export" yields a zillion shareware results, each one screaming out in broken English that they're the best of the bunch.

I've got one .edb file on my local machine right now, and am not connected to the Exchange server in any way. I could use some help figuring out how to 1) see if this database contains any mail from that 24 window at all and 2) dump it back into Outlook.

Ontrack PowerControls was mentioned earlier in this thread, but it seems to have issues with 64-bit clients, and wants to be connected to Exchange before it does anything.

I just want to see if this .edb file has any mail in it. Is there some magic utility that's blessed by the Exchange goons?

# ? Mar 6, 2012 03:04

psylent: Nov 29, 2000; Pillbug

Linux Nazi posted:

Immediately, unless you have really latent AD replication or other outstanding issues.

Looks like we had AD replication issues then. It took about an hour!

# ? Mar 6, 2012 03:59

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slartibartfast posted:

I've been asked to look at recovering about 24 hours' worth of email from a series of .edb files which are supposedly corrupted Exch 2010 databases. I am not the Exchange guy, so I'm a kinda wandering around in the dark here. Googling for "edb recovery" or "edb export" yields a zillion shareware results, each one screaming out in broken English that they're the best of the bunch.

I've got one .edb file on my local machine right now, and am not connected to the Exchange server in any way. I could use some help figuring out how to 1) see if this database contains any mail from that 24 window at all and 2) dump it back into Outlook.

Ontrack PowerControls was mentioned earlier in this thread, but it seems to have issues with 64-bit clients, and wants to be connected to Exchange before it does anything.

I just want to see if this .edb file has any mail in it. Is there some magic utility that's blessed by the Exchange goons?

You can mount them as recovery databases and work with them directly. Though, if corrupted, you are also going to need to get them to a usable state using eseutil.

This isn't really something I could recommend for somebody not familiar with Exchange. The only saving grace here is that you aren't really putting a whole lot at risk by mounting it as a recovery database, as long as you are mindful when you perform the actual recovery on the mailbox. It can be a pretty complicated process overall.

# ? Mar 6, 2012 14:39

xtothez: Jan 4, 2004; College Slice

psylent posted:

Running Exch2010 - after I add an email address to an already existing mailbox - how quickly should that mailbox be able to receive external mail to that address?

The change has to replicate to a DC on the same site as the Edge Server handling the external mail. This should take 15mins or less if your AD sites are well-planned.

# ? Mar 6, 2012 16:32

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# ? Apr 19, 2024 06:32

slartibartfast: Nov 13, 2002

Linux Nazi posted:

You can mount them as recovery databases and work with them directly. Though, if corrupted, you are also going to need to get them to a usable state using eseutil.

This isn't really something I could recommend for somebody not familiar with Exchange. The only saving grace here is that you aren't really putting a whole lot at risk by mounting it as a recovery database, as long as you are mindful when you perform the actual recovery on the mailbox. It can be a pretty complicated process overall.

Thanks, that's good to know.

Could I download one of Microsoft's pre-packaged "trial version of Exchange" virtual machines and mount it as a recovery database there? We don't have a test server for Exchange, only production, and I'm hesitant to screw around on the production Exchange box.

# ? Mar 6, 2012 16:52

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