PFDAVAdmin Content Report - First step to explore the ‘jungle’ of your public folders

re: PFDAVAdmin Content Report - First step to explore the ‘jungle’ of your public folders

Lou Mandich — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 22:24:08 GMT

Great Information!
In order to help customers dump the information from multiple servers I wrote a simple set of batch files. Batch files at the bottom.

Instructions
(Please download Pfdavadmin first)
1. Put all of these files in C:\pfadvadmin
2. Open pfdavadmin (run pfdavadmin.exe) and enable logging under tools, options, then close pfdavadmin.
3. Create a servers.txt file that contains all of the Public Folder Servers you wish to scan.
4. Double click or run runpf.bat from a command line
5. This will give you one report per server in a tsv file.

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Runpf.bat- save in a text file (only the for command to the %%i
for /f "tokens=1" %%i in (c:\pfdavadmin\servers.txt) do c:\pfdavadmin\pfreports.bat %%i
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pfreports.bat- (save in a text file between the set command and the echo done command)
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set ntserver=%1

rem ***************************************************************
ECHO Running PFAdmin Reports
pfdavadmin -contentreport -s %ntserver% -f %ntserver%.tsv
:end
echo Done!
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re: PFDAVAdmin Content Report - First step to explore the ‘jungle’ of your public folders

Nam — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:54:03 GMT

Why can not I use this tool is there anything to set on the exchange 2003 SP1 server before I can use this?
verything I try to use the tool to open PF to manage it popup with an error saying that "400 bad request"

re: PFDAVAdmin Content Report - First step to explore the ‘jungle’ of your public folders

Bill Long — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 04:26:58 GMT

Hi Nam,

There's typically nothing you need to do on the Exchange server to allow PFDAVAdmin to work. It sounds like the tool is generating some malformed XML when it requests the PF hierarchy. It may be a bug or something specific to the environment that's causing the problem. I'd start by taking a netmon trace so we can see in the trace exactly what DAV request looks like. If you open a case with PSS I'm sure we can track down the problem.

re: PFDAVAdmin Content Report - First step to explore the ‘jungle’ of your public folders

Frank Carius — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:05:30 GMT

Nice tool. BTW there is a second way to do some reporting. Instead of using HTTP (i assumd PFDavAdmin ist doing that) you can also use WMI (Exchange 2003 required ?)

I have a sample Script on www.msxfaq.net/tools/pfreport.htm. Unfortunaly the description on that page is german, so you should use google, if you want to read that. But the code is VBScript and thats readable for everyone :-)
www.msxfaq.net/tools/pfreport.1.2.vbs.txt

re: PFDAVAdmin Content Report - First step to explore the ‘jungle’ of your public folders

Frank Carius — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:06:54 GMT

I have written somethin similar based on WMI. Even if the description is german on www.msxfaq.net/tools/pfrepor.htm the code itself is readable at www.msxfaq.net/tools/pfreport.1.2.vbs.txt

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