Articles focused around Exchange 2010. There’s quite a lot here around Database availability groups, the OOOCTA (out of office configuration tool), Remove Exchange attributes tool (useful for FUBAR situations).
A long time ago (in a Galaxy far, far away) I released a tool for Exchange 2007 called the OOOCTA. In essence the OOOCTA allowed for administrators to delegate (via a web interface) the configuration and reporting of Out of Office. To be honest, this tool was a little … clunky. Don’t get me wrong […]
I have been working on a few Exchange installs recently which have not gone completely according to plan. Normally when Exchange setup fails my first stop are the logs which are produced by the Exchange Setup process. These are typically located in “c:\ExchangeSetupLogs”. There are normally quite a lot of files within this folder which […]
A couple of weeks back I published a very simple script which I had been using on a few versions of Exchange to determine the physical sizes of each of the EDB files. A reader commented that in Exchange 2010 – such an elaborate script was not needed as the Get-MailboxDatabase cmdlet contains a “DatabaseSize” […]
Script Description This PowerShell script is a sample which is attached to this article. The script performs the following functions: Is executed from the Exchange Management Shell Provides you with the physical database size of all the Exchange Databases in your environment Download [ GetEXDBPhysicalSize.ps1 – 1.3KB ] Usage Please refer to the following article: […]
I have been doing some work recently on pulling capacity management information from Exchange 2010 using PowerShell. One requirement that I needed to satisfy was returning the physical size of all Exchange Database files within the organisation. There are a number of examples of how this can be done when you have a look around […]
I came back from Hol’s today to an odd issue with one of my production database copies (2010 x 3 node DAG). Whilst I was away there has been a slight incident in one of our data centres which resulted in a failover between DAG nodes. Whereas service was restored quickly – one specific database's […]
This is a pretty well documented process on the web and indeed on TechNet, but recently I have had to change the database path within my production DAG environment, so I thought that I would share with you some of “frustrations” that I had which will give you the chance to “plan ahead” should you […]
After some critical patching in within my Exchange environment today I was faced with a problem where one of my Exchange 2010 Public Folder databases would not mount. All of the Mailbox Databases had mounted correctly (albeit on other DAG nodes). When trying to mount the Public Folder in question I was presented with the […]
Let’s kick off this post by considering the following Exchange 2010 DAG Configuration: In summary – the Exchange infrastructure is spread across 3 geographic sites. There are two DAG nodes on site A and B which are also running the Client Access Server and Hub Transport roles. At site C there is a file share […]
I have been planning an upgrade within an DAG based Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 environment to Exchange Service Pack 2 with Roll up 2. When planning such upgrades I always like to gather as much configuration data as possible – mainly focussing on areas such as Client Access Server settings. However – there are […]
The other day whilst trying to send an e-mail to a new starter in my organisation I discovered that their name did not appear to be on the Global Address List within my Outlook client (Outlook 2010). Now I knew that the user had been created correctly (and had been several days ago), was also […]
I was asked the above question the other day – essentially, how do you have a group of people with delegated access to manage all aspects of Distribution Lists within Exchange 2010? There was a desire to devolve the management of its Distribution Lists the HR section, therefore releasing a number of members from the […]
The PST Capture Tool was released on the 30th Jan 2012 (see: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/01/30/pst-time-to-walk-the-plank.aspx for more information) after a fairly long and highly anticipated wait by the Exchange Community. In essence the PST Capture tool has two main tiers of operation: PST Capture Central Service The PST Capture Central Service maintains the knowledge of the PST […]
As the Boom Town Rats (and Sir Bob) said, I don’t like Mondays. Some of you lucky folks don’t have to work on a Monday (or indeed some other days of the week) – so are you tired of setting your Out of Office the night before you are not in the office on a […]
Script Description This Powershell script is a sample which is attached to this article. The script performs the following functions: Is executed from the Exchange Management Shell Accepts a single mandatory parameter – 1) ReportFile Reports on the OOF status for each user in your organisation to a text file Download [ GetOOFExchange2010.ps1 – 1KB […]
