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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.

You can't have 2 folders/drives/shares etc.. on the same server protected by 2 different protection groups, DPM won't allow it, which is why the tick box is removed when you try and create the second one. You can have a protection group per tape if you choose not to optimise the tape usage, but your still stuck with the problem above. The only way I can see you achieving what you want is to have the 2 folders on separate servers so they can be in different protection groups. Any particular reason for wanting to write the data to separate tapes?

There are a couple of lines of interest... ReadDataAndWriteToFile() failed. 80072efe Download() failed. 80072efe 0x80072efe = "The connection with the server was terminated abnormally" Could you provide the IIS logs from around the same time as you were running this TS, they may point you in the direction of the problem. Couple of other things.. When deploying Windows 7, is it on the same switch (and switch port - to rule out a physical network issue) as when you try and deploy Windows 8.1, are you running SCCM 2012 SP1 CU3?

That path is actually one of the default rules created by Applocker and is already in place.

I've got a piece of software that has been deployed to a bunch of machines using SCCM which appear to complete successfully. When students run it, it looks like something is being configured as the install runs again and generates the error: Error 1718 was recjected by digital signal policy and the software refuses to run. At first I assumed Applocker was to blame as I found this Verify AppLocker Policy | and when I ran the command on one of the affected machines it came back as Disallowed. So, I made the changes to allow anything from the C:\Windows\ccmcache\ folder and subfolders to run thinking that would solve it, no. Then I found this: FIX: Error message when you try to install a large Windows Installer package or a large Windows Installer patch package in Windows Server 2003 or in Windows XP: "Error 1718. File was rejected by digital signature policy" The hotfix is no good because it's only for XP and Server 2003, but I tried the registry workaround and that didn't work. I'm now out of ideas.... Anybody come across this before?

Depends on how your network is setup, size etc... I wouldn't say 10 is too many if the number of clients, setup warrants it. I have 19 VLANs on my Core Switch... (HP 5406zl), I'm working from a /20 address range (4096 addresses), firstly split into 2x /21 ranges, one of those /21 is solely for wireless clients, the other /21 is subnetted further, broken down (as logically as possible) into areas of the school. I don't necessarily have all VLANs on every edge switch, only those edge switches that need to serve multiple VLANs for whatever reason.

Have you installed UR1 for DPM 2012 R2? Issues that are fixed in System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager Update Rollup 1 There are a lot of 0x80070005 errors in your logs. I had an issue with the consistency of 2 file shares the remained inconsistent from when I upgraded to R2, ended up opening a case with Microsoft for which I got a private fix for - the issue I was seeing is fixed in UR1.

I had a similar issue with SQL databases where 5 out of 13 on the same instance would not create recovery points. Never really figured out what was causing it, but I ended up offsetting the sync time of the replicas and changing some of the TCP global properties on the DPM server. From an elevated command prompt: netsh int tcp set global congestion=none netsh int tcp set global rss=disabled netsh int tcp set global chimney=disabled Another thing to try, re-run a job that will fail. Once it fails grab the MSDPMCurr.errlog and DPMRACurr.errlog from C:\Program Files\Microsoft System Center 2012\DPM\DPM\Temp and chuck them up here so I can see if I can spot anything.

What is the actual error message? When the job fails goto Monitoring, under Jobs, Failed Jobs for Yesterday and Today. Find the failed job and copy/paste the error. Also, is it RTM, SP1, R2?

Perfectly possible... Open up the Sync Service Manager (you'll find it here "C:\Program Files\Windows Azure Active Directory Sync\SYNCBUS\Synchronization Service\UIShell\miisclient.exe") On the Management Agents tab you should have 2 agents. Open the the properties of the agent called Active Directory Connector. Choose Configure Directory Partitions from the left hand side and select the appropriate partition (if you have more than 1 domain). Click on the Containers button and you will see the AD structure where you can select specific OUs

Try this... I managed to get this to work without mounting the volume as a drive. Create a folder to copy the txt file into... Open a cmd prompt as administrator and run: copy \\?\Volume{49f41fea-6262-11e3-80bb-2c768a56b42f}\c85de758-92d3-442c-a764-8689456a5184\FailedFilesLog.txt c:\