Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
Users of Outlook or OWA are able to create rules for their mailboxes, for example if they want to forward mails to another person when they are on vacation. However, it sometimes happens that users forget that they have activated rules. There is, however, the option to view the rules that a user ... Read more
The new version 0.8 of the Exchange Reporter has just been released. Many thanks to Gerd, Jürgen and Marcel for pointing out some bugs. The changes can be found in the ChangeLog. Go to the page here Unfortunately, there is still the problem that the sorting of the weekdays in the bar charts for the mail statistics is mixed up. I am working ... Read more
In my spare time I have dedicated myself to a new project, the "Exchange Reporter". This is a Powershell script that creates a weekly report and sends it by e-mail. The report contains the following data: -number of sent mails per weekday (with graphical overview) -number of received mails per weekday (with graphical overview) -received/sent mails per weekday ... Read more
Resource mailboxes are a great thing. Meeting rooms and devices can be easily invited to an appointment. Resource mailboxes manage your calendars independently and automatically accept or reject bookings if the resource is already occupied. The administrator can control how long a resource can be booked. To get a quick overview of the utilization ... Read more
Mike Pfeiffer has written a nice function for counting active Exchange users. This helped me a lot today, here is the entire article: http://www.mikepfeiffer.net/2011/04/determine-the-number-of-active-users-on-exchange-2010-client-access-servers-with-powershell/ Many thanks at this point.
On request, the script was supplemented by the specification of the port for the smarthost. Many thanks for the hint and the suggestion at this point J The current version can be downloaded here: https://www.frankysweb.de/download/configure-exchange_v1.20.zip
The CMDlet "Test-OutlookWebServices" is useful for detecting configuration problems, but unfortunately the CMDlet is a little bit bitchy until it runs J This error usually occurs when running Test-OutlookWebServices: WARNING: Unexpected error. A Watson image is generated: The mailbox was not found. Mailbox = 'extest_a8e4e849bf564@mail.frankysweb.local'.. The mailbox was not found. Inbox = 'extest_a8e4e849bf564@mail.frankysweb.local'. + CategoryInfo ... Read more
I am often asked why it is not possible to query the number of received or sent messages, I have even come across a Powershell script that counts the messages in a cumbersome way. But there is an easier way: Count sent messages on day X: (Get-MessageTrackingLog -Start "03.10.2012 00:00:00" -End "03.10.2012 23:59:00" -EventId SEND).count Received messages on ... Read more
The Exchange team has released the "Log Parser Studio" tool. The Log Parser Studio provides a graphical user interface for Log Parser 2.2. This makes it possible to easily analyze the log files of Exchange and IIS. Very useful and helpful for troubleshooting and solving performance problems. Log Parser Studio is available here: ... Read more
Update RollUp 1 has been released for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2. The RollUp can be downloaded here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de-de/details.aspx?familyid=4077dd70-5670-4fc7-a61c-002ed3f4414a&displaylang=de A list of fixed bugs can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2645995 There are a few important fixes, so read through them J
