Author: samdrey

Bookmark – Where is the Cluster Log in Windows 2008 R2 ?

Disclaimer: ---------------------------------------------------------Thanks to Symon Perriman MSFT for this information !Putting it in my blog as well as I’m using my blog as an extension of my (red fish) memoryCheck out his blog for the details on Cluster Logs : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2008/09/24/8962934.aspx---------------------------------------------------------------------------End of DisclaimerCREATING THE CLUSTER.LOG:From one of the nodes of the cluster, - open a Command … Continue reading Bookmark – Where is the Cluster Log in Windows 2008 R2 ? →

Determine the file encoding of a file – CSV file with French accents or other exotic characters that you’re trying to import in Powershell

Bernie and I had an issue today trying to import a CSV file using Import-CSV in Powershell V2.0, as the French accents and some dashes were not imported correctly, and then we couldn’t use some of the information in the CSV to query Exchange or AD objects with other Powershell commandlets. So it appears that … Continue reading Determine the file encoding of a file – CSV file with French accents or other exotic characters that you’re trying to import in Powershell →

Exchange 2010/2013 – Using Get-MailboxFolderPermissions to export MAPI permissions of folders for a given mailbox

EDIT : This does NOT work with Exchange 2007 as "Get-MailboxFolderPermissions" is not an available cmdlet on E2007 - Use EWS or PFDavAdmin to get these permissions ... Thanks Chris, Manfred and friends from the following article: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/5ad656a5-fe70-477f-a608-0e588096f227/how-to-get-mailbox-folder-permissions-to-all-mailbox-folders-in-all-mailboxes?forum=exchangesvradminlegacy Manfred Preissner : http://social.technet.microsoft.com/profile/manfred%20preissner/?ws=usercard-mini   $SpecialExchangeFolders = "Top of Information Store|Recoverable Items|Deletions|Purges|Versions"     $CurrentUser = gci … Continue reading Exchange 2010/2013 – Using Get-MailboxFolderPermissions to export MAPI permissions of folders for a given mailbox →

Exchange 2010 – Production : Public Folder replication messages stuck in the queue

Context :You noticed more than 300 system messages stuck in some HUB transport servers queues with error code : 432 4.3.2 STOREDRV.Deliver ;Recipient thread limit exceededThis is a known issue from Exchange 2010 SP1, which implements a default limitation on delivery threads, to avoid mail storms or Public Folder replication storms that could take Hub … Continue reading Exchange 2010 – Production : Public Folder replication messages stuck in the queue →

Exchange 2013 – Memory (RAM) allocation by the store with an example

First, a reminder of the theory: Exchange store is comprised of 3 services: msexchangerepl.exe = Replication Service Process Microsoft.Exchange.Store.Service.exe = Store Service Process (or Controller) Microsoft.Exchange.Store.Worker.exe = Store Worker Process (1 per DB) •Algorithm will allocate total ESE cache available for all store worker processes based on physical RAM – ~25% of total memory allocated … Continue reading Exchange 2013 – Memory (RAM) allocation by the store with an example →

Link + Pasted from Technet – Exchange 2013 (>=CU1) : How does Autoreseed works

First configure Autoreseed for your DAG(s):http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj619303.aspxSecond, here is the process, explained by Scott Schnoll:AutoReseed is designed to automatically restore database redundancy after a disk failure by using spare disks that have been provisioned on the system.CU1 includes numerous fixes to AutoReseed, including fixes for issues around AutoReseed not detecting spare disks correctly and AutoReseed not … Continue reading Link + Pasted from Technet – Exchange 2013 (>=CU1) : How does Autoreseed works →

Link : Content Transformation Services + Interaction Management Services – CTS – (Business Logic layer in Exchange 2013)

What are CTS and IMS as referred in the Exchange 2013 architecture slides ? (XSO = Exchange Server Object – structure i.e. properties, attributes, methods associated with the the Exchange Server Object into the AD for example) CTS = Content Transformation Services + IMS = Interaction Management Services both part of the FAST search engine, … Continue reading Link : Content Transformation Services + Interaction Management Services – CTS – (Business Logic layer in Exchange 2013) →