This is post 3 in a series of 3 Exchange mini health assessment posts. The CAS role mini heath check post can be found here. The HUB mini health assessment post can be found here. The third PS1 script is a limited health assessment for the Mailbox role. The script runs through 4 functional areas:  core Exchange service status, Test mail flow, MAPI connectivity, and ExBPA (errors are exported to the report and warnings are displayed on screen). Once the data is collected, the results are ex... [More]

This is post 2 in a series of 3 Exchange mini health assessment posts. The CAS role mini heath check post can be found here. The Mailbox mini health assessment post can be found here. This script provides a limited health assessment for the HUB Transport role. The script runs through 3 functional areas:  core Exchange service status, Edge Sync Heath, and ExBPA (errors are exported to the report and warnings are displayed on screen). Once the data is collected, the results are exported to a... [More]

Part 2 of a 2 part post. Part 1 provides a background for Virtual List View (VLV) and the impact on Exchange of disabling this functionality. In this part we’re going to look at some examples of error messages which will be returned from ExBPA and OWA when VLV is disabled. Test Environment 2 – 2003R2 SP2 dcs 2 – Exchange 2003 – Windows 2003 1 – CCR Windows 2008 2 – HUB\CAS Windows 2008 Outlook 2003 SP2 Outlook 2007 All Outlook clients are in online mode The environme... [More]

Working with Exchange, you often come across settings that are good for one technology but can have a negative impact on Exchange – or vice versa. I bring this topic up because I was talking to a Microsoft Platforms PFE friend of mine that recommended enabling Virtual List View (VLV) to his customer to improve Active Directory performance. After discussing with him about some of the downfalls with VLV and Exchange, I wanted to write a blog that covers some of the advantages and disadvantages of ... [More]

A few weeks back I was onsite with a customer that was experiencing some issues with their Exchange servers after applying the latest rollup the night before. After we resolved the problem, the customer asked for a solution to validate all core Exchange services were online after patching their Exchange servers. Since the customer has hundreds of Exchange servers, we knew the only good solution would be to automate the task so I decided to build a PowerShell script. What I have done is broken ... [More]

If we are able to export data from public folders we should be able to export data from mailboxes. What I have done is taken the same code used in the Public Folder to HTML blog but, just replaced the public folder commands with mailbox commands. Note: To be able to use the sortable feature you will need to download the JS script form this website, http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable/. I encourage changing the HTML output to reflect the needs of your environment. When you change th... [More]

Large tokens can wreak havoc on an organization.  For an Exchange environment, it can be devastating. Some common problems that will occur include: Event 2020, “The server was unable to allocate from the system paged pool because the pool is empty” in the application event log Event 333, “An I/O operation initiated by the Registry failed unrecoverably. The Registry could not read in or write out or flush one of the files that contain the system's image of the Registry... [More]