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You could setup a transport rule on the Exchange server in the following way: Apply this rule if... The sender is located - "Inside the Organisation" then under Do the following... select Modify the message properties -> set the spam confidence level and select Bypass Spam Filtering (you may need to click on More Options link to see the modify the message properties option).

You can't set the settings per mailbox database, they are per mailbox. Your alternatives are: Create the mailbox as standard then run something like this: Get-Mailbox -Database "dbname" | Set-CasMailbox -ActiveSyncEnabled $false -MAPIEnabled $false -OwaMailboxPolicy "Custom" Set-CASMailbox It won't matter if there are mailboxes where that property is already set to false. Stopping external emails reaching the student accounts, couldn't you do this with a transport rule, depending on how the email addresses are formatted? You could set up the transport rule and use a suitable regex to drop emails received from outside the organisation or for auditing purposes redirect them to a generic mailbox For ActiveSync, set the ActiveSync organisation settings: From the EAC goto Mobile, Mobile Device Access and there is a button on the right hand side to edit the Exchange ActiveSync Access Settings. From there you can Allow, Block or Quarantine devices across the organisation. If you Quarantine you can specify admin email address that will receive notification when a device is Quarantined.

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So you have a RAID1 with the OS and DPM installed and a separate RAID(something) with the DPM storage pool, yes? I would have thought you could backup the DPM DB, flatten the RAID1 with the OS/DPM installed, re-install everything and then restore the db. Once you've restored the db, you will have to consistency check everything. Could of things to bear in mind... You can't change the name of the DPM server, we found the location of the database needed to remain the same (ours is in Program Files\Microsoft DPM\DPM\DPMDB because this DB has been upgraded from 2007 through to 2012 R2 where as a new DB would be in somewhere like Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012 R2\DPM\DPMDB) as it failing to restore when not in the original location.

Just a thought.... can you do a backup of Exchange with Windows Server Backup? That might eliminate Exchange or DPM as the culprit?

I'm on CU6 and haven't done November updates yet so it's a safe bet it's one of those. Have you got any free support incidents (like you'd get from a Dreamspark subscription) that you could use? If it's a bug you'll get the incident back. If/When you find out which one, can you post it up here!

The version of ese.dll and eseutil.exe in the DPM\bin folder - are they the same as the versions from your exchange server?

To outline the setup first... We have our on-premise Exchange 2013 server on which only staff have mailboxes, we use Office 365 for student email and students accounts sync using DirSync. Staff email address are, for example, [email protected] and student email addresses on O365 are [email protected] - there is no hybrid connection between our on-premise setup and O365. Now the problem... For some reason, when staff try and send an email to a student email address they are getting an NDR with the reason as 4.2.0 Recipient deferred because there is no Mdb and I am guessing this is because Exchange is seeing it as an internal mailbox and not trying to relay the mail outside and off to O365. Does anybody have any idea why it would be doing this?

Have they given you a reason why they can't do it/won't do it? Just last week I know of another school who had problems getting a port for their VOIP system opened because Atomwide insisted that it wasn't required despite what the documentation said and what the 3rd party company who was doing the install said. They got there eventually. Sometimes you have to keep on at them...

Have considered it on many occasions when they won't unblock what I need, but I've found that if you can justify what you are asking for and depending on who answers your support site case, you can normally get what you want. Are they just saying no? You could consider going Option 2 and then have your own firewall which you are in control of....

Is this it: SIMS Registration and Admissions | capita-independent.co.uk and can non-independent schools have this facility?

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I'm toying with that idea... It's a VM, setup like this: C: - OS D: - Staff Docs E: - Student Docs I'm wondering if I could just build a temporary VM with 2012 as the OS, then take that VHD and attach it to my existing fileserver VM. As long as I keep the original VHD I can always go back to it should I have any problems.

I'm trying to upgrade one of our fileservers to 2012 from 2008 R2 SP1. It already failed once and I was forced to rollback to the previous version of Windows. Now, when I try I am continually getting the "Windows Setup cannot find a location to store temporary installation files. To install Windows, make sure that a partition on your boot disk has at least 1198 megabytes of free space". The C drive has 55GB free, D drive 78GB free and E drive 255GB free. I've tried running the setup from the command line and using the /tempdrive: switch to specify the location the setup should place the temporary installation files but, no matter which drive I choose, I get the same error. In case it makes a difference it's a VM. Anyone have any ideas?

No trust between schools but I have kit (for off-site backup and I have a spare DC) at another school local to us, both LGfL 2.0. Atomwide can setup any to any firewall rules between sites quite easily if you get the nominated contacts at both sites to raise a case on the support site - even easier if you are the NC at both sites. Once you've got that sorted and any appropriate routing in place, no reason why it shouldn't work.