August 2009 - Posts

New ADAccess Performance counters included with Exchange 2007 SP2
30 August 09 06:17 PM | mikelag | 0 Comments   

Exchange 2007 SP2 has a new set of ADAccess Performance counters that only shows performance data from domain controllers in the same site as the Exchange Server. This new object is MSExchange ADAccess Local Site Domain Controllers. Previously, you had Read More...

Filed under: Performance, Exchange 2007, Counters

Exchange 2007 SP2 Auditing Whitepaper
25 August 09 07:37 PM | mikelag | 0 Comments   

Exchange 2007 SP2 has introduced some new Mailbox Access Auditing features to help log events when users access folders and messages either in their own mailbox or another users mailbox. I wrote a whitepaper on these new features at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee331009.aspx Read More...

Filed under: Auditing

Exchange 2007 Memory usage and helpful troubleshooting tips
20 August 09 03:58 PM | mikelag | 0 Comments   

In support, we get a lot of statements stating that Exchange is using all or most of the memory on a given server. Some may say that is a bad thing, but for Exchange 2007 that is actually a good thing. In this blog, I would like to explain some of the Read More...

Filed under: Performance

The Case of the Mysterious Exchange Server Hang
04 August 09 09:45 AM | mikelag | 4 Comments   

Recently we had a case in which an Exchange 2003 server would hang and no longer accept any new RPC connections to the Information Store. The rest of the server seemed to be operating just fine, but it was the Store that was ultimately having the problems. Read More...

Filed under: Performance