Sunday, December 27, 2009

Online Move Mailbox feature in Exchange server 2010:

This article explains the Online Move Mailbox feature in the exchange server 2010. In the previous version of exchange, during the course of the mailbox movement, the resultant mailbox user cannot access his email. The downtime during the course of mailbox movement is still an area which needs an attention from the providers, Microsoft has rightly addressed this effectively by bringing in the new feature called Online Move Mailbox feature. By means of this, user mailbox can be moved between databases without affecting the online users. So users will be able to send and receive emails as normal on the course of the movement. This functionality has been named as ”MoveRequest” in exchange 2010.

In the exchange mixed mode environment, the MoveRequest works fine (i.e., the move is online) when you are trying to move mailbox from exchange 2007 to 2010 in transition phase. But unfortunately vice versa i.e., mailbox movement from 2010 to 2007 or 2010 to 2003, the move is offline.

Hope the above is informative.

Thanks

Logan
971552596187 | logu_microsoft@hotmail.com

Script for Event log backup and clearing:

The below is the simple script for backing up and clearing the event logs.

###########################################################################################
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate, (Backup, Security)}!\\" _
& strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colLogFiles = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * from Win32_NTEventLogFile where LogFileName='Security'")
For Each objLogfile in colLogFiles
OutputFile = "c:\eventlog\" & "Security "
OutputFile = OutputFile & Day(Now) & "-" & month(now) & "-" & year(now)
OutputFile = OutputFile & ".evt"
errBackupLog = objLogFile.BackupEventLog(OutputFile)
If errBackupLog = 0 Or errBackupLog = 183 Then
objLogFile.ClearEventLog()
Else
Wscript.Echo "The Security event log could not be backed up."
End If
Next
###########################################################################################

In the above, you can specify the log file type accordingly and also specify the location where the event log .evt file will be stored. After taking the backup of the event log, it will clear the event log.

Thanks

Logan

971552596187 | logu_microsoft@hotmail.com

Post Step after Exchange server 2010/2007 and Make it Live:

This article explains the post check steps that need to be carried after installation of internal exchange server for sending and receiving emails from internet. In other words, we are actually making the exchange server into the production world.

After the installation of all mandatory roles of exchange servers and if edge exist then after the synchronization of the edge server with the Hub transport server role, and of course after checking the internal mail flow, we need to perform the below steps to be carried out in the organizational level to make the external mail flow.

1. License Key feed.
2. Accepted Domain setting.
3. Configure Email address policy.
4. Configure a Send Connector to send email to the Internet.
5. In case if Edge server name is not used, then configure the hub transport to accept anonymous SMTP. By default, this option is not set.
6. Configure external certificate for the CAS server for public access.
7. Configure the CAS server according to your organization. The options like Outlook anywhere, Exchange Active sync, Outlook Web access - OWA (2010 called as Outlook Web app)

Thanks

Logan

971552596187 | logu_microsoft@hotmail.com