How-To procedure – Exchange 2010 – all SPs – After CAS array setup - do not forget to update this Database property !

  Even if you have your CAS Array already established, double check the RPCClientAccessServer attribute on all your databases ! Experience show that on 80% cases, customers still have the wrong value for some databases…   How-to procedure - Exchange Server 2010 SP1 - Operations - Updating servers from a DAG.pdf

July 13, 2013



Next - Exchange how-to procedures

 Hello all, From now on, and before moving on to Exchange 2013, I will post a series of common day-to-day How-To procédures for Exchange 2007/2010. Stay tuned,Cheers,Sam.

July 7, 2013



Exchange 2010–(really) quick note about some logs useful to collect

  CAS : RCA logs (for RPC Client Access logs) Program FilesMicrosoftExchange ServerV14LoggingRPC Client AccessNote that you’ll find lots of other useful logs there such as the AddressBook Service logs, the migration logs, and other ones that you may need for deeper troubleshooting.  HUB : Connectivity logs Program FilesMicrosoftExchange ServerV14TransportRolesLogsConnectivityCONNECTLOGxxxxxxxx-x.LOG)  All Roles: Our traditional Application...

June 6, 2013



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Gc servers.txt | % {&"c:utilsexperfwizexperfwiz.ps1" -quiet -server $_ -interval 5 –Begin “04/03/2013 11:00:00” –End “04/03/2013 15:00:00“ -filepath C:PerfLogs}

April 3, 2013



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...

March 27, 2013



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...

March 27, 2013



Windows 2012–Uninstalling AD DS services (demoting GC)–copied Powershell script from the setup

 # # Windows PowerShell script for AD DS Deployment #Import-Module ADDSDeployment Uninstall-ADDSDomainController ` -DemoteOperationMasterRole:$true ` -IgnoreLastDnsServerForZone:$true ` -LastDomainControllerInDomain:$true ` -RemoveApplicationPartitions:$true ` -Force:$true

February 10, 2013



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...

February 8, 2013



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...

February 7, 2013



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...

January 28, 2013