Category Archives: Exchange

For those who are having issue with transport agent can enable pipeline tracing log. This tracing will capture OR snapshot email message for each agent. So, the basic idea is we can trace what are the changes made by each agent and got an idea where are the culprit coming from. Below is the step… Read More »

Exchange resource forest topology concept usually used in enterprise environment. In this topology, we will have account and resource forest. Account forest is where the account created while resource forest is where service provider (Exchange, Lync) that have account disable linked back to account forest. Usually, this been used while an organization used service provider… Read More »

As quick note for my self. To install new (without co-exist legacy) Exchange in child domain, below is the step : Scenario : Parent-Child domain (parent.local & child.parent.local) 1) In parent.local domain controller, sign in as account have Enterprise and Schema Admin for parent.local. 2) Open command prompt and perform : setup.com /PrepareSchema 3) Once… Read More »

When have this issue in Exchange 2013, you can try to perform below : 1) Open Exchange Management Shell in malbox server 2) issue below command o Restart-Service msexchangesubmission o Restart-Service msexchangedelivery o Restart-Service msexchangetransport So far no impact to database, we only restart the transport services in mailbox server. Then try again to see… Read More »

Some important key for SP upgrade is : 1) SP cannot be uninstall 2) Schema will cange/extend Below is the sequence of upgrade based on role : 1) Client Access servers (beginning with the internet-facing site) 2) Hub Transport and Edge Transport servers 3) Mailbox servers 4) Unified Messaging servers Doing upgrade by sequence and… Read More »

Public folders, introduced in the first version of Microsoft Exchange, are designed for shared access and provide an easy and effective way to collect, organize, and share information with other people in your workgroup or organization. Public folders are hierarchically organized, stored in dedicated databases, and can be replicated between servers running Exchange. Below is… Read More »

I came across this problem recently… A user had hit their Send Quota limit on their mailbox and was unable to send any emails (and refused to clean up their mailbox). So being the nice sys admin I am I upped their send limit and sent them away with the standard give that 15 mins,… Read More »

Below is the useful collection of powershell command use in SCR environment. This command is tested on Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP1. 1) Check replication status 2) Enable SCR for storage group 3) Disable SCR for storage group 4) Suspend SCR for storage group 5) Resume SCR for storage group 6) View setting for StandbyMachine

If you want to seeding CCR Passive Storage group in Exchange 2007, you can use this method (easiest method that I found): 1) Go to EMC in passive node 2) Select Storage and click Update Storage Group 3) Click Next until process completed. P/S : It’s depends on your size of EDB and log files.… Read More »