Author: samdrey

Exchange 2010 and BES server Throttling Policy settings – What Client Throttling Policy Blackberry recommends for the BES Admin Account.

To avoid BES connection latencies and connectivity issues, the Client Access Throttling Policy recommended by RIM is as follows:By default, Microsoft® Exchange 2010 uses client throttling policies to track the bandwidth that each Microsoft Exchange user consumes and enforce bandwidth limits as necessary. The policies affect the performance of the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, so you … Continue reading Exchange 2010 and BES server Throttling Policy settings – What Client Throttling Policy Blackberry recommends for the BES Admin Account. →

Exchange 2010–Links to nice articles showing how to simply troubleshoot Exchange 2010 performance issues

 The first article is Exchange 2010 counters information from the Technet.The principle described in the second and the third article can be applied or declined to any versions of Exchange.  1> The general counters values and thresholds for all Exchange 2010 servers, and narrowed by role:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff367896(v=exchg.141).aspx 2> From Nicole Allen from the Exchange Team : how … Continue reading Exchange 2010–Links to nice articles showing how to simply troubleshoot Exchange 2010 performance issues →

UNSUPPORTED and DRAFT post – but just to play in a Lab for fun–Installing Exchange system Manager 2003 and Exmerge on a Windows 7 computer to export Exchange 2007 mailbox data to PST files

 Installing ExMerge:ExMerge download link :http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=2743 Installing ESM 2003 on a Windows 7 64 bits machine:- First download the ESM for Vista :http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17836- Second, extract the MSI (launch the .exe) somewhere- Third, run ESMVISTA.MSI /passiveOf course an ESM 2003 on a Windows 7 is not supported, but that only means “not tested”, that actually works… now we … Continue reading UNSUPPORTED and DRAFT post – but just to play in a Lab for fun–Installing Exchange system Manager 2003 and Exmerge on a Windows 7 computer to export Exchange 2007 mailbox data to PST files →

Exchange 2007–A Queue Monitoring Console simply built

  Using my DTW (Document-Tool-Walkthru) Excel based tool that you can download through : http://www.opsvault.com/how-to-build-a-simple-and-efficient-windows-monitoring-solution-dtw/   Here is a nice HTA console quickly built with the above Excel tool that I called “DTW” tool :   And here is the code generated with the help of my DTW. Copy and paste the below code into … Continue reading Exchange 2007–A Queue Monitoring Console simply built →

Performance Analysis–Excel (2010) automation : how to create graphs from a Perfmon-generated CSV file–Essay#1

  Hi all, Today I’m concentrating my efforts into generating graphs as painless as possible for many data collected on Exchange servers. I’ll start by generating graphs from the two following counters which give an idea of the load of the servers: - Active User Count - RPC Operations/sec The first step (Essay#1) is to … Continue reading Performance Analysis–Excel (2010) automation : how to create graphs from a Perfmon-generated CSV file–Essay#1 →

Exchange 2010–Dumpster V2.0 questions and answers

  Ø Does the archive database has a separate dumpster with a separate retention ? Remember in my presentation, I talked about the dumpster v2.0 and the purposes of the “Deletions”, “Versions”, and “Purges” subfolders. Note that these will be used only if you activate the “Single Item Recovery” or the “Litigation Hold” feature on … Continue reading Exchange 2010–Dumpster V2.0 questions and answers →

Exchange 2007–Event ID 9786 potentially followed by Event ID 623 possible causes

 Authors : Levon Kohoutek (for the question) and Nagesh Mahadev (for the answer)Question :Exchange 2007 SP3 RU6 - Server 2008 SP2 environment. Quite frequently we’re receiving ExchangeIS Event 9786’s potentially followed by ESE Event ID: 623 “The version store for this instance (x) has reached its maximum size of xxxMb.” errors. At this point we’re … Continue reading Exchange 2007–Event ID 9786 potentially followed by Event ID 623 possible causes →

LogParser or ExRAP tools “Log row too long” issue

 Bookmark to Rhoderick’s blog :http://blogs.technet.com/b/rmilne/archive/2012/07/05/how-to-fix-log-parser-log-row-too-long.aspxNote : The maximum value is *not* 0xFFFFFFFF.  It’s actually 0x00785111 (hard coded in the LogParser code)To determine the value to put on the below registry key, take the performance log file that you have in CSV format (works only on CSV formats), copy the headers only, and paste it in … Continue reading LogParser or ExRAP tools “Log row too long” issue →

Exchange 2010 DAG–Collapse the MAPI networks in a DAG

 To avoid DAG switchover issues, you should always collapse the MAPI networks in a DAG.The following Technet article state that we “should” or we “must” do it:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd298065.aspx#Dathttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd638104.aspx#NR … and Tim McMichael explains why :http://blogs.technet.com/b/timmcmic/archive/2011/09/26/exchange-2010-collapsing-dag-networks.aspx