I have been approached by one of my friend to look into the Stellar EDB to PST Converter tool and write a review. I am pleased to see the great feature this tool has with very minimal efforts After couple of test performed into it. Now – I understand that why its been rated one... Continue Reading →
How to track account locked out in TMG 2010 SP2
Started noticing that few AD accounts are getting locked out within Active Directory where the source, as per the monitoring reports shows that the TMG Servers of your environment, which is working as a reverse proxy for mobile clients. An account lockout occurs after several failed authentication attempts that are made by incoming web proxy or web... Continue Reading →
Message Tracking log with multiple Transport Server
There several blog says about how to track email message for multiple HUB transport servers placed after HW LB like F5. I was doing same and thoug to put here for my reference 🙂 !!! 1: Tracking of message for a subject ""WHAT'S NEW" on a single HUB transport server. Get-MessageTrackingLog -start "5/8/2014 12:00 AM"... Continue Reading →
Relay Application Server SMTP Traffic is getting time out
I was dealing with a Email Relay application which was sending 5000-10000 news letters in one shot to internal recipients & External. Application team complain that the distribution often fail with below error and need to check from Exchange side. This kind of behavior have been seen specially with the Environment of Exchange 2001 because of... Continue Reading →
Microsoft Diagnostics Services—Self-Help
The "Fix it Center Pro" name and its associated portal is retired now and are replaced by the Microsoft Diagnostics Services—Self-Help portal. The new portal is an automated troubleshooting service from Microsoft. This service can help make it easier to identify solutions to problems with Microsoft applications. Microsoft Diagnostics Services—Self-Help uses targeted analysis to scan your... Continue Reading →
Volume Shadow Copy Service error event ID 12292
Since we had change the SAN switch for one of our Exchange 2010 DAG nodes, Its started to fetch the event ID 12292 and VSS backup stoped working for this node. Used below cmdlet to make sure exchange replication writer and providers are working fine. Vssadmin list writers Vssadmin list providers Started looking the registry value... Continue Reading →
A myth – Removing GC/DC and Exchange CRY
In the weekend I was working with my friend and helping him to remove his existing GC/DC and seen some interesting behavior about exchange which I thought to admit here which may be benefit to people those stuck into such Environment. Current Setup The environment has only one windows 2008 Server with all FSMO role... Continue Reading →
Dude, I only want to export “Dumpster” in New-MailboxExportRequest
To export the only "Dumpster" items in mailbox in exchange 2010 SP2/SP3. you can use below cmdlet. Export CMDLet : [PS] C:\>New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox AliasMBX -FilePath \\anil04\Share\Dumpster.pst -IncludeFolder "#Recoverable Items/Deletions#" To see the export status : [PS] C:\>Get-MailboxExportRequest -Identity AliasMBX\MailboxExport To Import item into Dumpster back : [PS] C:\new-mailboximportrequest -mailbox AliasMBX -filepath \\anil04\Share\Dumpster.pst -IncludeFolder "#Recoverable Items/Deletions#" -TargetRootFolder "Dumpster"
Launched, SMTP header analysis tool in Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer
Launched, SMTP header analysis tool in Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer Just see, A new enhancement is done in Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer web-based tool that provides administrators and end users with the ability to run connectivity diagnostics for our servers to test common issues with Microsoft Exchange, Lync and Office 365. Now no more PDT,CST,GMT…….... Continue Reading →
RBAC – How to control Management Mailbox access
We had requirement to enable RBAC permission model where we can assign few selective exchange Administrators to access higher management mailbox (Security Concern :)) To achieve this goal, I am going through to explain you step by step. 1. Create two Distribution Group B7_Supporters – This group consists members those are allowed to access management... Continue Reading →