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Re: Block email address in Exchange

jefton5 — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:36:02 GMT

Hi tezfair

Thanks for the advice mate. I'll have a look at this in a bit. I'll try again and then I'll test it.

Can anyone recommend a good security package for my server? AV etc?

Thanks

URGENT help needed with slow access to Excel files over SBS network

jefton5 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:45:11 GMT

Hi Everyone

I'm having real difficulty with the speed of opening two Excel files on my network.

We have an SBS 2003 network as such:

WAN > Netgear DG834 router > SBS 2003 Server > XP Pro clients

The router, SBS 2003 server and XP client are all plugged into a central switch.

Thye SBS provides DNS, Exchange, VPN etc. The router provides DHCP. I know this is not ideal. I can change DHCP to server but this will disrupt business ALOT.

We have two Excel files shared via mapped drive to all the client. They are 14BM and 8MB in size respectively.

The thing is it takes ages to open them. Even files half their size. I've restarted the server to see of it makes a difference but none whatsoever.

It take about 1 minute for the 14MB file and 45 seconds for the 8MB file to open via tyhe mapped drive. Even when saved locally on thye machine it takes that long.

Both files does contain loads of PivotTables for reporting from one worksheet to the other etc.

Any ideas? Or anyone working with SBS 2003 that experienced this before? This is really doing my head in. Other much smaller Excel (and all OFFICE files) works fine. We use Office XP.

Thanks in advance

Re: Block email address in Exchange

jefton5 — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:51:45 GMT

Hi Maxibo

Sorry for the late reply mate. I was out of the office almost all day yesterday. Anyway, I'm checking this out today and will post back on the results.

PS. I do work weekends, depending on how many beers I've got in the fridge. One beer in the fridge = lots of work getting done. Lots of beer in the fridge = well, we don't speak about it...

Cheers

Re: Block email address in Exchange

jefton5 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:23:12 GMT

Hi Maxibo

Thanks for the link mate. It looks good. I won't be able to do it today still but I'll definitely have a proper look at it over the weekend and try it on Monday first thing.

And no, I did not stop and start the Virtual Server. Propbably should have thought of that. However, I'll try again and see where we are.

Again, thanks a mill.

Re: Block email address in Exchange

jefton5 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:23:07 GMT

Hi Maxibo

Thanks for the ink mate. It looks good. I won't be able to do it today still but I'll definitely have a proper look at it over the weekend and try it on Monday first thing.

And no, I did not stop and start the Virtual Server. Propbably should have thought of that. However, I'll try again and see where we are.

Again, thanks a mill.

Re: Block email address in Exchange

jefton5 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:28:31 GMT

Hi Maxibo

Thanks for the reply.

##Which version of exchange and sp ?##

I use Exchange 2003 SP2. I think the message filtering in Exchange 2003 is s bit different.

##Have you done similar steps to here ?##

Yes - I did set up the Sender Filtering in Exchange 2003 but the email still came through. That is why I am still looking for a solution. Do you know how to do this in Exchange 2003???

Thanks mate

Re: Block email address in Exchange

jefton5 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:43:07 GMT

Hi David

Thanks very much for your response. It is very helpful. The thing is that the two email addresses I want to block is not really spam. I just want to block these two email addresses. I do not actually want to enable IMF because in general we don't have a problem with spam. The other issue is that it will be my first time working with IMF. However, I'll try it now and see how it works. Again, thanks a MILL!!!

Any other ideas is also welcome.

Block email address in Exchange

jefton5 — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:20:54 GMT

I am trying to block an email address from being able to send to one of my users. The user in dispute is sending 'personal' emails to this particular address.

I would like to block emails coming from that address. How can I do this?

I've tried setting up Sender Filtering but it is not working for some reason. Anyone have any ideas??

Thanks in advance