A question about exchange

twistedfaith · 21 Oct 2008 at 09:32

I have been asked to renew the license for our anti-spam software. I was wondering if there was a way to determine the number of mailboxes we have on the server? We are using Exchange 2000, the main problem I'm having is finding out if contacts/distribution/security groups count as mailboxes. Thanks very much in advance!

twistedfaith · 22 Oct 2008 at 09:00

howler · 22 Oct 2008 at 09:09

Open System Manager, expand your storage group(s) then right click on Mailboxes and export list

this will pump them out to a CSV, amount of lines will be the amount of mailboxes

There is probably an easier way but cant think of it at this time in the morning

twistedfaith · 22 Oct 2008 at 09:12

thanks very much

twistedfaith · 22 Oct 2008 at 09:27

that was exactly what I wanted! (just did it). You're a life saver mate!

Confused · 22 Oct 2008 at 13:06

I'd be tempted to put the money towards either an offsite hosted mail filtering, or a small appliance to do the job, and keep it away from your Exchange box...

dhill · 22 Oct 2008 at 13:12

We used GFI Mail Essentials for a while, but then moved over to the MessageLabs solution.

Yes Messagelabs is expensive, but what a product! Amazing, cant fault it what so ever. Has cut down on so much spam mail and viruses before it even hits our exchange server.

Confused · 22 Oct 2008 at 16:08

dhill said:
We used GFI Mail Essentials for a while, but then moved over to the MessageLabs solution.

Yes Messagelabs is expensive, but what a product! Amazing, cant fault it what so ever. Has cut down on so much spam mail and viruses before it even hits our exchange server.

I've had the displeasure of having to administrate GFI - despite my best attempts to persuade otherwise, the salesman had his way, I was just the guy who had to support it

At the same time, I also supported a Barracuda Spam Firewall... that was so effortless, and didn't throw a hissy fit when adding additional mailboxes, as it is not integrated with Exchange, and sits well away from the server.