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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
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
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
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
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
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
get-service *Exchange* | ? {-not ($_.name -like "*IMAP4*") -and -not ($_.name -like "*POP*")} Notes:“?” is the alias for “Where-Object”CommandType Name Definition ----------- ---- ---------- Alias ? Where-Object
I- Onsite Organization Plan (Pull data from MS Project or Excel) Project Project Title Tasks Task description 1 Environment Assessment 1.1 ADTD run and analysis 1.2 DAG configuration deep dive 1.3 DAG configuration analysis and advices to fall into the best practices 2 Project number 2 2.1 Task number 1 of … Continue reading Notes for myself–PFE Engagement status reporting framework
1) Just create a text file and put in the following from: blabla@domain.com to: Recipient@domain.com subject: pick up folder test This is the body 2)Then save the file as EML file extension 3)stop the transport sevrice 4)copy and paste the file to the pickup folder If you hold contol-v it will paste it constantly, then … Continue reading Notes from the field–Other method to generate 2000 messages in the queues of your Exchange servers
- The prerequisite step is to create a “Test” OU - Then the first step is to create a CSV file using Excel containing 2000 test user names and a minimum set of attributes for these users (Display Name, sAMAccountName, UserPrincipalName, First Name, Last Name). Easy with the “fill series function” of Excel … Continue reading Notes from the field–Bulk create 2000 mailboxes and their associated AD accounts from a CSV file + generating 2000 messages in the queues of an Exchange 2007 server in a Lab (to be continued)
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