• Windows – 2003 to 2012 – Monitoring replication (without SCOM)

    Choice of two useful Tools to monitor AD replication. First is Active Directory Replication Status Tool . Second is REPADMIN .     > Examples below are run in an AD Forest named “Contoso.ca”, composed of 1 domain and 2 DCs (GC2K7 and E2010...
  • Aide-Mémoire – Converting ExTra ETL trace to CSV

      Just a reminder for me (Extrace.exe is an internal tool used for deep debugging).   extrace.exe -c -v ExchangeDebugTraces.etl >TraceOut.csv   We have to use the Microsoft.Exchange.Diagnostics.dll matching the Exchange build where the...
  • Exchange Server 2010 – If search fails after upgrading to SP3 (RU2 as well in this case)

      First, as my colleague Rhoderick wrote in a nice and easy-to-read “Troubleshooting Content Indexing” article , we can use the Troubleshoot-CI.ps1 script to try detect other potential issues such as deadlocks (threads blocked and search is waiting...