Recent content by MarkArnold

This has crept far away from "can I upgrade by W2K3/E2K7SP1 box to W2K8. Having an RODC in your mix is going to help your admins not delete things but only if you take away their Domain Admin rights. If someone is a DA they will be able to screw you over whatever you do operating system wise...

To be honest they need to stop "looking" at Exclaimer and get it in. There's no need to look at it, just plan what you want it to look like and do it. Force the email to be plain text going through (mix of GPOs and global settings) would be a quicky but it will anger the punters so you want to...

A signature is added to a message on a per message basis, if done by each user being sent the file which they add to their signature. 100KB is just pathetic and I might say stupid. It would be better if you appended this signature on the way out of the system by using exclaimer.com (as an...

In my opinion you will gain not one damn jot of benefit. It's going to be a pain in the butt since you're going to have to learn IIS7 on a production system. The only possible upside to uninstalling and reinstalling is that you're going to need to do it within 18 months when 2003 goes out of...

Given what goes wrong I think it will be a cold day in hell before it's possible to upgrade. Don't even plan on an upgrade. Base all your thinking on a new installation to new hardware - even if that takes a server refresh cycle to get you there.

You CANNOT upgrade Windows Server 2003 x64 to Windows Server 2008 x64 if Exchange Server 2007 SP1 is already on the box. No, no, not no way not no how. I have ranted: http://markarnold.blogspot.com/2008/02/windows-2003-to-2008-with-exchange-sp1.html Oh, and just for kicks and giggles I took a...

Install off the download. You'll find a lot of language files on the DVD.

You don't have to have SP1 in order to conduct the migration unless you're installing Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2008. The management of PFs on the 2007 box is somewhat pants without SP1 though. And IIRC the SP1 is complete code. Download it and run the setup from there. You don't need the...

a) The Exchange in SBS 2003 is Exchange 2003. There is no practical difference. b) Look in Exchange System Manager. Drill down and click the "servers" object. On the right screen you can adjust the columns to expose the type of Exchange (standard, enterprise, cluster etc. - yours will obviously...

The only name on the certificate you should have applied for is "server.domain.com" where "server" is the URL that you access from the Internet. The warning message will tell you three things; Whether the cert is in date. Whether the cert is trusted by the PC you're using. Whether the name on...

So, what happens when you use: cluster4.us.messagelabs.com as the smarthost rather than the Linux box or DNS. Obviously only a test but you need to tell us what happened when you tried it.

In Exchange Management Console: Org Configuration Hub Transport Remote Domains (Properties) Look on the "format blah" tab There's the tickboxes you're expecting.

Last time I saw this the reply was to use a custom NDR and forward a copy of the original message to the intended user The auto reply is best done in Outlook against the mailbox. The Outlook doesn't need to be running but it's best created against the individual mailbox.

You'd want ForeFront on top of the Edge and no, ISA doesn't feature in any part of this. The Edge has no inbuilt anti virus of its own.

Adrian, it's Exchange 2007. He couldn't install it onto the SBS server even if he wanted to. Unless of course he wanted to stick the 32bit testing version of 2007 onto the SBS box and then we'd all step a heck of a long way from this thread. And yeah, Microsoft are often like insurance. They...