August 1, 2010

EMS – Exchange 2007 Public Folder item count

With a simple Exchange Management Shell command you can display a list of your public folders and the item count for each one.  All you need to do is pipe Get-PublicFolder into Get-PublicFolderStatistics like this: [PS] C:\>Get-PublicFolder \ -Recurse | Get-PublicFolderStatistics

Enable/disable Exchange Server 2007 circular logging

When planning a mailbox migration to Exchange Server 2007 you should consider the amount of transaction logging that will be generated by the move.  In low risk environments circular logging can be used to avoid disk space problems caused by the volume of transaction logs generated during bulk mailbox moves. You can query the current [...]

Project Coconut: Part 5 – Its mailbox migration time!

Project Coconut entries: Project Coconut: Introduction Project Coconut: Part 1 – Getting the environment up to scratch Project Coconut: Part 2 – Sizing the Exchange Server 2007 servers Project Coconut: Part 3 – Deploying the first Exchange Server 2007 server Project Coconut: Part 4 – Configuring Standby Continuous Replication Project Coconut: Part 5 – Its [...]

Exchange Server 2007 replication problems can lead to backup issues

Exchange Server 2007 has some very useful replication features such as Local Continuous Replication (in RTM and SP1) and Standby Continuous Replication (in SP1 only).  These features can provide nice and simple disaster recovery options by replicating your storage group logs and databases to another location, be it another disk/LUN with LCR or another mailbox [...]

Project Coconut: Part 3 – Deploying the first Exchange Server 2007 server

Project Coconut entries: Project Coconut: Introduction Project Coconut: Part 1 – Getting the environment up to scratch Project Coconut: Part 2 – Sizing the Exchange Server 2007 servers Project Coconut: Part 3 – Deploying the first Exchange Server 2007 server Project Coconut: Part 4 – Configuring Standby Continuous Replication Project Coconut: Part 5 – Its [...]

EMS – Exchange Server 2007 Message Tracking log file retention

In earlier versions of Exchange Server the Message Tracking log settings were configured through the GUI interface.  Now with Exchange Server 2007 you can set the Message Tracking log path in the GUI, but you need to hit the Exchange Management Shell for other settings such as the log retention period. To view the retention [...]