Gc servers.txt | % {&"c:\utils\experfwiz\experfwiz.ps1" -quiet -server $_ -interval 5 –Begin “04/03/2013 11:00:00” –End “04/03/2013 15:00:00“ -filepath C:\PerfLogs}

  The credit for the following article goes to Carter Tan , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer, and BlackBerry (the proudly Canadian company) as well. Thank for putting all this together Carter !   From Exchange 2010 SP1 and later, the MaxSessionsPerUser...

  The first article is Exchange 2010 counters information from the Technet. The principle described in the second and the third article can be applied or declined to any versions of Exchange.   1> The general counters values and thresholds...

  # # Windows PowerShell script for AD DS Deployment # Import-Module ADDSDeployment Uninstall-ADDSDomainController ` -DemoteOperationMasterRole:$true ` -IgnoreLastDnsServerForZone:$true ` -LastDomainControllerInDomain:$true ` -RemoveApplicationPartitions...

  Installing ExMerge: ExMerge download link : http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=2743   Installing ESM 2003 on a Windows 7 64 bits machine: - First download the ESM for Vista : http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details...

  Using my DTW (Document-Tool-Walkthru) Excel based tool that you can download through : http://www.opsvault.com/how-to-build-a-simple-and-efficient-windows-monitoring-solution-dtw/   Here is a nice HTA console quickly built with the above Excel...

  Hi all, Today I’m concentrating my efforts into generating graphs as painless as possible for many data collected on Exchange servers. I’ll start by generating graphs from the two following counters which give an idea of the load of the servers...

  Ø Does the archive database has a separate dumpster with a separate retention ? Remember in my presentation, I talked about the dumpster v2.0 and the purposes of the “Deletions”, “Versions”, and “Purges” subfolders. Note that these will be used...

  Authors : Levon Kohoutek (for the question) and Nagesh Mahadev (for the answer) Question : Exchange 2007 SP3 RU6 - Server 2008 SP2 environment. Quite frequently we’re receiving ExchangeIS Event 9786’s potentially followed by ESE Event ID: 623 ...

  Bookmark to Rhoderick’s blog : http://blogs.technet.com/b/rmilne/archive/2012/07/05/how-to-fix-log-parser-log-row-too-long.aspx Note : The maximum value is * not * 0xFFFFFFFF.  It’s actually 0x00785111 (hard coded in the LogParser code) To...

  To avoid DAG switchover issues, you should always collapse the MAPI networks in a DAG. The following Technet article state that we “should” or we “must” do it: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd298065.aspx#Dat http://technet.microsoft...

  get-service *Exchange* | ? {-not ($_.name -like "*IMAP4*") -and -not ($_.name -like "*POP*")}   Notes: “?” is the alias for “Where-Object” CommandType     Name                                               ...

  I- Onsite Organization Plan (Pull data from MS Project or Excel) Project Project Title Tasks Task description 1 Environment Assessment 1.1 ADTD run and analysis 1.2 DAG configuration deep dive 1.3 DAG configuration analysis and advices to fall...

    1) Just create a text file and put in the following from: blabla@domain.com to: Recipient@domain.com subject: pick up folder test This is the body 2)Then save the file as EML file extension 3)stop the transport sevrice 4)copy and paste the...

    - The prerequisite step is to create a “Test” OU - Then the first step is to create a CSV file using Excel containing 2000 test user names and a minimum set of attributes for these users ( Display Name, sAMAccountName, UserPrincipalName...

  References : Multi-Threading in PowerShell V2 (using Jobs) http://ryan.witschger.net/?p=22 Microsoft documentation about Jobs http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd878288%28VS.85%29.aspx PowerShell internals and PowerShell threading (using...

Exchange Server and Update Rollups Build Numbers (en-US) http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/240.exchange-server-and-update-rollups-build-numbers-en-us.aspx Great Barghav, thanks ! Other links : Exchange Server Build...

•On an Outlook station of a user who complains about Outlook startup latencies : –From the file-level antivirus on the desktop/laptop, Exclude files present in the following directories (whichever is applying to your Windows version...

  Prerequisites : - Collect performance data using the updated Exchange 2003 Perfwiz from Mike Lagase, or the ExPerfWiz for Exchange 2007 or 2010 , from Mike Lagase again - Then, either prior to the data collection start , modify the destination...

  The security update catalog file, wsusscn2.cab ( http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=76054 ) The Windows Update Redistribution Catalog, wuredist.cab ( http://update.microsoft.com/redist/wuredist.cab ) The authorization catalog file, muauth.cab...

  (Credits for this research goes to Sathya Narayanan, Microsoft Support Engineer) Persistence : http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2010/high-availability-recovery/load-balancing-exchange-2010-client-access-servers-using...

  For Exchange 2003, the Perfwiz is an HTML configuration file, that can be taken from Mike’s blog article specific for Exchange 2003 . For Exchange 2007 and 2010, just download the script from the following link : http://experfwiz.codeplex.com/...

[Please check the updated version of this post here] For Windows 7 desktop users : Exclude all files present in both below directories: %userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook...

 

  Right from a discussion internal reflexions (thanks to Ross Smith IV and Brian Day for their help on putting metrics down), here is the final statement. Based on BES documentation : http://docs.blackberry.com/en/admin/deliverables/8864/BlackBerry_Enterprise_Server_for_Microsoft_Exchange...