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Hi, If your students are just using OWA you can restrict the address book to look at a OU within AD see, XCCC: How to Restrict OWA Address View Searches You can use a tool like ADModify to bulk change the value for all your users. As for restriction students from emailing staff i know this is possible in exchange 2007, but i cannot remember if it is possible in 2003 In 2007 you can apply delievery restirictions on a per mailbox lvl, so you can say Reject messages from teh group "Students" which would just bounce all emails from students. Hope this part helps Mark

Hi Matt, Unfortunatly i dont know a way to display the Quota on the desktop, but I do have a nice VBS script that I used to place on the sutdents Desktop that caluculated all the folders in the H:\ and the sizes and outputed it to a Excel file in the H:\ The students can then see how much room each folder is using and the total size that thier H:\ I know it is not the best soulution, but if you cannot get a another way let me know and I will give you teh VBS script. Mark

Hi Uraken, To filter emails based on key workds using exchange 2007, you need to do the following steps: Create and populate a group for all your students. in this example i am going to use a group called "Pupils" They is 2 ways you can create the new rules i will show you the EMC way incase you are not familiar with powershell. Open EMC -> Organzational Config -> Hub Transport -> Transport Rules Select New Transport Rule Give your rule a name Conditions, check -> "Sent to a member of distribution Group" and then choose your pupils group. Then check -> "when the Subject field or the body of the message contains text patterns" then enter the key words you wish to block. Actions -> you can either check "silently drop the message" or i prefer "Send bounce message to sender with enhance status code" The choice is yours but i never like to drop messages with out knowing why, also you can customise the NDR if you choose send bounce back. Exceptions -> by default you do not need to select any but you may find you would like an exception. The only warnig i would give with this method is that if you filter a word like "cum" then it would filter the word "cucumber" so be very carful when adding words. Once the rule has been created depending on your enviroment it should take no more than 5mins to apply. This is a basic way of filting key words using Transport Rules and the Exchange Managemanet Console. Hope this helps, Mark

If you open Exchange Powershell and type get-help New-GlobalAddressList it will tell you how to add a recipient filter. You can control the OWA addy lookup by changing the msExchQueryBaseDN vaule in AD for your users This is a OU lookup, e.g. OU=Students,Ou=Users,DC=Mydomain,DC=com for students OU=Staff,Ou=Users,DC=Mydomain,DC=com for staff assuming your users are in OU's like this Users -> Pupils -> Staff if you set this to a root OU it will search all the sub ous for mail enabled users So as above your staff would be looking at the Staff OU and would see only staff and your pupils would be lokoing in Students for users. The Gals are for Outlook distribution, if you want to seperate them it comes under the Exchange Hosted setup, because you are trying to sperate the users as if they where in a different company. This is a massive config change and is very hard to keep up with. I would reccommend allowing your pupils OWA only access and staff access to both. This is a bit of a pain to get working and manage but can be configured to be all scripted, let me know if you need anymore help, Hope this Helps Mark

Hi, Yes this is possible but it is more important to understand what you are trying to achieve. Why do you want 2 GAL's? How do your users connect to exchange? This is what i am guessing, If you are in a normal school enviroment your staff will be using Outlook and pupils using OWA i would have thought. To create a new GAL and OAB you need to do the following, the powershell commands are on the end, Create a new GAL that has just the users you want using: New-GlobalAddressList Create an Address list with the same name: New-AddressList Create an offline address book for the new GAL: New-OfflineAddressBook Once you have done this you should have 3 GALS, addresslists and OAB's Staff Pupils, and default. You can force outlook to pickup the staff GAL by using group policy, and the users will be able to see the pupils address list in the dropdown. If that is what you are aiming to do. Hope this helps, Mark (sorry my spelling is so bad, i am just a bit rushed during the day)

You have a few options to get around this, the solution below is how my product configures address books for schools which we have found seems to be the best way around this, Staff have access to Outlook and OWA Staff are given access to the default GAL which includes everyone in your school Staff are given an alias of title.surname e.g. [email protected] Pupils are give OWA access only, Pupils are modified using Admodify (or any AD modification tool) to only be allowed to see other pupils in the school. (if you need to know what you need to change to restrict the lookups let me know.) If pupils then need to contact a member of staff via Email they simply email the teacher as they would call them in lesson, [email protected] The only problem with this way is that as soon as the member of staff replies it will return the staff members display name on the email. They is a few other ways you can maniplulate exchange, if you need anything else let me know. Mark

The address book is generated from the Display Name attribute in AD, if you where to change the Dispaly Name for your staff it would reflect in your GAL. This would also reflect in emails, any email sent by a staff member would appear to come from e.g. Mr J Smith I host Email for allot of schools and most schools are happy with just initial surname, e.g. J Smith. Hope this helps, Mark

I am modifying some AD values using powershell, below is part of a standard update for AD, but i am trying to add multiple values for otherIpPhone, can anyone help me with the code that i need to do this? $url= "sometexthere" $objUser = [ADSI]"LDAP://CN=$cn,OU=$usertype,OU=$fullname,DC=domain,DC=co,DC=uk" $objUser.put("otherPager", "$url") $objUser.put("otherIpPhone", "$membertype") $objUser.setInfo() The values are all populated in my full script this is just a cut out, The only other way I can think to do this is to pipe the update into admodify command line tool. I have a vbs script to do this but i need to do this via powershell if possible, Thanks Mark

Hi, I managed to filter all the proxy bypass sites using ISA 2006, the easiest way is to filter all Https traffic. Then just have an allowed list for the trusted sites that they need Https to. I found that the pupils didnt need access to that many Https sites. I am not the biggest fan of bulk blocking when it comes to filtering, but this way worked for me. Mark

I have a few customers connecting to my Exchange server 2007 using Apple Mail, i had to enable IMAP connectivity. You can turn POP3 on too if you wanted but POP3 will remove the emails from the server. I wouls use IMAP. Mark

Just another thought, might be worth checking the Firewall rules, i think when i updated one of my CAS servers, it closed some exchange ports. You mentioned you upgraded to SP2, it might have reset your firewall policy on your exchange server. Mark

Hi, To run tests against your Exchnage server from Exchange powershell: Test-OutlookWebServices -ClientAccessServer "CASServer01" also try using https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/ This site will tell you whats going wrong. If you need anymore help trouble shooting let me know. Mark

You can manage key word filters using Exchange 2007 transport rules, you don’t need any addition software to do this. If you would like examples please let me know. Alternatively you can always outsource your email to a hosted solution like School Email that will allow you to manage blocked words and has bully and key word filtering built in. Mark

You need to add the feature called Desktop Experiance, this will install Windows Media Player.

I used to use a Dell PE 2900 for a storage drive for student data. Spec: 2* Quad 2.4Ghz 8Gb RAM Dell Perc 5i Card 5* 146Gb SAS - For data 2* 74GB SAS - for OS 2* 1Gb Ethernet This work great for me, I had 1500 pupils with over 600 pupil computers which got used all the time, I wouldnt go splashing your money on a fancy SAN or NAS box when you can buy a proper box that will give you the proformace you are looking for. I would imagine you can get a HP box with a simlair spec, i would just change the HDD config to suit your needs. When the server got backed up it pulled over 1GB a min from the drives, the added bonus if you can run windows search on the student data during the day with no problems Hope this helps Mark