Another quick script, this one finds all databases located on Exchange 2010 servers with a status of ‘FailedAndSuspended’ and then reseeds them. Since this scripts makes changes to the systems, instead of just reading information, all activities are logged via PowerShell’s transcript feature. You’ll need to change the path in the 5th line of the [...]
Tagged Exchange 2010, PowerShellJust a quick script that checks your databases. Anything besides ‘Healthy’ or ‘Mounted’ should probably be investigated. Add-PSSnapin *0* -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue $mailboxservers = get-mailboxserver | get-exchangeserver | ?{$_.IsE14OrLater -eq ‘True’} $A = (get-host).UI.RawUI $A.WindowTitle = “Database Health Check” $B = $A.windowsize $B.width = 110 $B.height = 30 $A.WindowSize = $B while ($true) {cls; foreach ($mailboxserver [...]
Tagged Exchange 2010, PowerShellHow to Configure Change Password for OWA 2003/2007/2010 Mixed Environments http://bit.ly/8avxgZ Making sense of Exchange Logs using ExLogAnalyzer http://bit.ly/8zZHIn How Much The Average American Can Save On Taxes By Having A Business http://bit.ly/88g00b Choosing a disk configuration for your Exchange Server 2007 storage http://bit.ly/7rSi3z Personal Marketing and Social Media http://bit.ly/5uPoYC Microsoft to issue emergency IE [...]
Tagged Exchange 2010, PowerShellI’ve had a number of clients ask me whether this was possible, especially the ‘restrict contractors to just certain domains’ part. This is definitely worthwhile knowledge that you should run through in your Exchange 2010 lab. You do have a lab running Exchange 2010, right? (Not that I’m anyone to talk about it, I have a [...]
Tagged Exchange 2010, PowerShellCtrl P – The Data Protection Manager Blog! : DPM 2010 Protecting Exchange 2010 DAG in a Single Site. A very good blog post on using DPM to backup Exchange 2010 DAGs. They cover JBOD vs RAID for the DPM server itself, Point in Time recovery for lagged copies vs DPM and a few reasons [...]
Tagged Exchange 2010, PowerShellLast Thursday night I had the distinct privilege of participating in a real life Exchange 2010 disaster recovery scenario. Roughly 41,000 mailboxes on 22 databases had the DAG ripped out from underneath them accidentally. When I say ‘ripped out from underneath them’ I mean literally that; everything was removed, including all the cluster resources and [...]
Tagged Exchange 2010, PowerShellISA 2006 SP1 Configuration with Exchange 2010 While ISA 2006 SP1 includes a Client Access Web Publishing Wizard for both Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007, the wizard does not have any knowledge of Exchange 2010. Exchange 2010 includes the following changes with respect to its URLs and virtual directories: Exchange 2010 Client Access Servers (CAS) [...]
Tagged Exchange 2010, PowerShellArchiving and Retention As the volume of e-mail continues to grow within organizations, the need to systematically archive this information has become a growing priority. Archiving can provide users a better e-mail experience by making space in a user’s mailbox, which can result in improved performance. Archiving also helps the organization to address compliance and [...]
Tagged Exchange 2010, PowerShellI just had a conversation about how many nodes can fail in a three node DAG and since there was a misconception present I figured I should point out a section of the “Planning For High Availability and Site Resilience” article on TechNet. From “Witness Server Requirements” DAGs with an odd number of members do [...]
Tagged Exchange 2010, PowerShellhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd638121(EXCHG.140).aspx Exchange 2010 will be generally available soon; It’s time to start reading up on High Availability and Site Resilience through the use of Database Availability Groups. Possibly Related Posts: Checking Exchange 2010 Database Health with PowerShell Daily Links: 1/21/2010
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