Comments on: EMS – Exchange Server 2007 Message Tracking log file retention

By: Abdul Waheed

Abdul Waheed — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:02:36 +0000

ok i got it- but following path shows logs for 30 days:

E:\Exchange Server 2007\TransportRoles\Logs\MessageTracking

By: Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:27:54 +0000

So a few days ago you changed your message tracking log retention from 1 day to 30 days, correct? So at this moment in time you’ve only got a couple of days worth of tracking logs there, right?

So any message tracking query you run only has a few days logs to inspect. You can’t expect to see 30 days worth of results when you haven’t got 30 days worth of logs to inspect.

By: Abdul Waheed

Abdul Waheed — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:10:57 +0000

ok- you are the man—-i got it. it means after every successful backup transaction logs are automatically removed. thanks a lot bro

one more and hopefully last !!!!!

i have tracking logs for past 30 days but when i track emails in exchange server, i found emails for past two days only…is there anything i am missing here as well?

By: Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:13:02 +0000

Abdul, those are completely different. Those are the transaction logs for your databases. They are truncated when you run a backup (which I assume you are doing every night).

I can think of no reason why you would want to keep 30 days worth of those logs.

By: Abdul Waheed

Abdul Waheed — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:57:55 +0000

Sorry if i have mixed things.its mailbox logs which are causing issue-

E:\Exchange Server 2007\Mailbox\First Storage Group

this is the path with 1 day logs- plz help

By: Abdul Waheed

Abdul Waheed — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:55:05 +0000

mentioned above command only showed:

SERVER NAME

i tried this command : Get-TransportServer | fl name, messagetrackinglogmaxage, messagetrackinglogpath

and it showed 30.00:00

but it still keeps logs for one day only

By: Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:12:20 +0000

Abdul, if you run:

“Get-TransportServer | fl name, messagetrackinglog*”

you should see output similar to this:

MessageTrackingLogEnabled : True
MessageTrackingLogMaxAge : 30.00:00:00

Is your max age setting showing as 30 days, or still as 1 day?

By: Abdul Waheed

Abdul Waheed — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:57:54 +0000

i have restarted exchange server. but it didnt worked……please help

By: Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:40:40 +0000

Abdul, I haven’t really looked into it but my first thought would be to restart the MSExchangeTransport service to see if the change sticks after that.

By: Abdul Waheed

Abdul Waheed — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 08:00:54 +0000

i had changed logs retention from 30 days to 1 day and it worked fine. but now i want revert these settings so i have changed logs retention age back to 30 days but it isnt working. mail server still keeps logs for 1 day ??? any idea ?