Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
Ingenious, a script for testing the Exchange VSS Writer has been published in the Exchange Team Blog. I have already spent a lot of time analyzing backup problems. Sometimes it was faulty databases, sometimes faulty volumes, sometimes faulty VSS writers, it's all been there. Some time ago I described here how a manual VSS backup ... Read more
Today was one of those days... let's not go there. It caught me cold today. The monitoring of the Exchange environment was not running properly and the impending catastrophe was only noticed when it had already occurred. Within a few hours the Exchange log partition was full of transaction logs. When users reported that no more mails were being received and ... Read more
The out-of-office assistant can also be conveniently managed via Exchange Management Shell, so if a user has forgotten to switch on the assistant before going on vacation... Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration frank -AutoReplyState Enabled -InternalMessage "I'm not here" -ExternalMessage "Dear customer I'll be back soon" to switch off Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration frank -AutoReplyState Disabled You could also build a nice template, ... Read more
I have already reported on the logging of the Client Access service here. Today I had a specific case in which there were repeated connection errors or interruptions. I therefore created a script that extracts all errors from the RCA log into a CSV file. However, the script is in the category Quick & ... Read more
A simple Powershell command can be used to display the backup status of the mailbox databases Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | ft name,LastFullBackup,LastIncrementalBackup,BackupInProgress In this example, the time of the last full backup and the last incremental backup is displayed. It also shows whether the database is currently being backed up.
If you want to find out which users connect to the Client Access Server, you will find a corresponding log file on the CAS server under the path "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Logging\RPC Client Access" Here you will find corresponding logs which also contain the SID of the user who has connected to the CAS server This information can be important if, for example, ... Read more
In this article I describe the migration from Exchange Server 2010 to Exchange Server 2013. I have created the following test environment for the migration: Test environment DC01 is a Windows Server 2012 Domain Controller that provides the Active Directory forest "frankysweb.local". Exchange 2010 SP3 on Server 2008 R2 is installed on Server EX2010. The Service Pack 3 ... Read more
I am curious whether the date will be kept. The CU1 for Exchange 2013 has been announced for 02.04.2013. CU1 enables Exchange 2007/2010 servers to coexist with Exchange 2013. CU1 will then also support the migration from Exchange 2007/2010 to Exchange 2013. http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/03/25/exchange-2013-rtm-cu1-status.aspx Time to prepare the test environments
I use PRTG to monitor my systems, and the monitoring options are many and varied. PRTG even comes with a whole set of sensors for Exchange. At first glance, you'll be overwhelmed, PRTG comes with over 100 sensors for a single Exchange server. However, after I pruned the sensors a little, I realized that ... Read more
I have already reported on the Sophos UTM Firewall, which is even free for private use. Unfortunately, there was the restriction that the Web Application Firewall previously did not provide Outlook Anywhere support. But now that Forefront TMG has been discontinued, other manufacturers seem to be jumping on the bandwagon and adding Outlook Anywhere support to their products. Read more
