Quick perfmon check to detect potential memory leak in Windows

The below counters are just to be taken as indicators if you suspect a memory leak on your machine; there are other Tools that are designed for detecting precisely memory leaks, but you can start with understanding what Working Set – Private, Private Bytes and Working Set indicate and watching the below perfmon counters …- … Continue reading Quick perfmon check to detect potential memory leak in Windows →

Outlook Shared calendars quick note – cache mode and online mode for Shared folders

Q: What’s the impact of a user having lots of Shared calendars opened or just configured in his Outlook profile ? Is the calendar connection opened “on access” or is the connection made everytime the user opens Outlook ? What if the Outlook (2010, 2013) user has checked the “download Shared folders” to cache all … Continue reading Outlook Shared calendars quick note – cache mode and online mode for Shared folders →

Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 on Windows 2008 or Windows 2008 R2 – Updated TCP Chimney and RSS settings experience

See info below, and let me know what you think:http://blogs.technet.com/b/samdrey/archive/2013/12/02/exchange-2007-2010-2013-on-windows-2008-2008-r2-check-tcp-chimney-windows-settings-and-status.aspx Cheers,Sam.

Exchange 2013 Tip – Limitation on receive connector’s IP address list

Exchange 2013 has a 1300-ish limit on the number of allowed IPs we can set in the list (the limit is on the corresponding AD attribute actually). Here are a few tips to workaround this limitation: create another receive connector with remaining IP addresses with the same set of permissions. You get another 1300 ~ … Continue reading Exchange 2013 Tip – Limitation on receive connector’s IP address list →

Powershell – exporting multivalued properties (Draft)

This one is just for me to remember; more explanations later onget-service | `select name,@{Name='ServicesDependedOn';Expression={[string]::join(";",($_.ServicesDEpendedOn.name))}} | export-csv $env:userprofiledesktoptestExport.csv

Exchange (2007-2010-2013) – Error when trying to Enable-ExchangeCertificate: PrivateKeyMissing – or – how to ensure that when you import an issued certificate you get the private key generated

This post is more a reminder on the main rule on what not to do when installing a certificate that you requested using Exchange or IIS. Why this reminder? Because even I forget all the times (I’m not playing with Certificates everyday). - Cert from the CA HAS to be imported on the SAME server … Continue reading Exchange (2007-2010-2013) – Error when trying to Enable-ExchangeCertificate: PrivateKeyMissing – or – how to ensure that when you import an issued certificate you get the private key generated →

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 →