Outlook Attachments

Hi all

We are running a small system, W2K3, Exchange Server 2003 all service
packs and updates. Outlook 2002 on all workstations.

Our problem is that something. Exchange or Outlook or ? seems to be
removing some of our attachments. The reported ext's are. ZIP. PDF I
have not tested through all the common ext's as I know these are being
removed and resolving this hopefully would resolve the rest if they are
a problem.

I have looked though the normal tabs in Outlook to see if I can find a
reason for this nothing seems to jump out as obvious.

Is there a configuration setting in exchange that will perform this
removal of certain ext's to internet addresses? We are able to send to
internal addresses OK.

I have visited one customer that has complained about no receiving the
attachments of both .Zip and .PDF. She was usung a simple ADSL
connection, WINXP Home, Outlook Express and Norton Internet Security
2005. I configured OE not to hide potentially dangerous attachments but
that has not helped, so I suspect our setup.

This can really have an impact on the business as we are planning on
switching to sending invoices by .pdf over email where possible.


Any ideas would be very helpfull at this point, thanks in advance for
taking the time to read this.


--
Dave Griffiths
Skøyen - Oslo - Norway

Mark
Mon Mar 13 02:01:46 CST 2006

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 01:29:33 -0600, "DaveG"
<newsgroup@daveg.no.nospam> wrote:

>Hi all
>
>We are running a small system, W2K3, Exchange Server 2003 all service
>packs and updates. Outlook 2002 on all workstations.
>
>Our problem is that something. Exchange or Outlook or ? seems to be
>removing some of our attachments. The reported ext's are. ZIP. PDF I
>have not tested through all the common ext's as I know these are being
>removed and resolving this hopefully would resolve the rest if they are
>a problem.
>
>I have looked though the normal tabs in Outlook to see if I can find a
>reason for this nothing seems to jump out as obvious.
>
>Is there a configuration setting in exchange that will perform this
>removal of certain ext's to internet addresses? We are able to send to
>internal addresses OK.
>
>I have visited one customer that has complained about no receiving the
>attachments of both .Zip and .PDF. She was usung a simple ADSL
>connection, WINXP Home, Outlook Express and Norton Internet Security
>2005. I configured OE not to hide potentially dangerous attachments but
>that has not helped, so I suspect our setup.
>
>This can really have an impact on the business as we are planning on
>switching to sending invoices by .pdf over email where possible.
>
>
>Any ideas would be very helpfull at this point, thanks in advance for
>taking the time to read this.

Unless you actually installed something onto your Exchange server and
unless you run SBS then it's Outlook pulling the attachments out,
Exchange will only do this as part of a 3rd party product. So, what do
you think you might have installed on the Exchange server?

DaveG
Tue Mar 14 01:23:55 CST 2006

Hi Mark

The server is a Win2003 DC, Exchange 2003, IIS for OWA we run nothing
else on it at this point.

We do not use any terminal server functions.

Our main file server to now is a Linux server running Samba (Never
given us a problem) so we do not even use it as a file server. Though
when all things are running correctly we are planning a switch the file
server to the windows box.

If the problem lies with Outlook where in Outlook do I search for the
answer. I have looked through the Options so often for something I
might have missed.

Thanks

--
DaveG
Skoyen - Oslo - Norway


On 13/03/2006 Mark Arnold [MVP] wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 01:29:33 -0600, "DaveG"
> <newsgroup@daveg.no.nospam> wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > We are running a small system, W2K3, Exchange Server 2003 all
> > service packs and updates. Outlook 2002 on all workstations.
> >
> > Our problem is that something. Exchange or Outlook or ? seems to be
> > removing some of our attachments. The reported ext's are. ZIP. PDF I
> > have not tested through all the common ext's as I know these are
> > being removed and resolving this hopefully would resolve the rest
> > if they are a problem.
> >
> > I have looked though the normal tabs in Outlook to see if I can
> > find a reason for this nothing seems to jump out as obvious.
> >
> > Is there a configuration setting in exchange that will perform this
> > removal of certain ext's to internet addresses? We are able to send
> > to internal addresses OK.
> >
> > I have visited one customer that has complained about no receiving
> > the attachments of both .Zip and .PDF. She was usung a simple ADSL
> > connection, WINXP Home, Outlook Express and Norton Internet Security
> > 2005. I configured OE not to hide potentially dangerous attachments
> > but that has not helped, so I suspect our setup.
> >
> > This can really have an impact on the business as we are planning on
> > switching to sending invoices by .pdf over email where possible.
> >
> >
> > Any ideas would be very helpfull at this point, thanks in advance
> > for taking the time to read this.
>
> Unless you actually installed something onto your Exchange server and
> unless you run SBS then it's Outlook pulling the attachments out,
> Exchange will only do this as part of a 3rd party product. So, what do
> you think you might have installed on the Exchange server?