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 […]
Exchange 2010 Articles
Articles focused around Exchange 2010.
Errors Running Get-SetupLog.ps1 script on Exchange 2010
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 […]
Quick Tip (Revisited) – How to get the physical sizes of Exchange Databases (in different versions of Exchange from a single script)
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” […]
Exchange 2010–Get Physical Mailbox Database Size Script
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: […]
Quick Tip – How can I get the physical sizes of all my Exchange databases
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 […]
Exchange 2010 DAG Update Database Copy – Hresult: 0x50d. Error: A database backup is already in progress.
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 […]
Exchange 2010 – Moving the Database Path on DAG Servers…
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 […]
Quick Tip – Exchange 2010 cannot mount public folder database within a dag environment
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 […]
Client Access Array Switchover script…
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 […]
Gathering Exchange 2010 Client Access Server Configuration data to a Microsoft InfoPath form…
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 […]