MOVING TRANSPORT QUEUE IN EXCHANGE 2007

Posted by on May 2, 2012 No comments

All servers running exchange 2003 has smtp queues. This behaviour has been changed in 2007, with only the transport servers having a mail queue. If you have an edge server in your environment, then both your edge and hub servers have a transport queue, which is an ESE database named Mail.Que

If you don’t have an edge, the transport queues will be present only in the hub servers. The default location of the transport queue database is in System driveProgram FilesMicrosoftExchange ServerTransport RolesDataQueue.

The location will have an ESE database named Mail.Que, a temporary edb file, log files, checkpoint file and reserved log files. It is ideal to move the queue database to a drive which has more space, as it will stop message delivery if the drive runs out of space.

There are two ways to move the database to a different drive.

1. Edit the EdgeTransport.exe Config file.

Navigate to exchange 2007 bin directory (system driveProgram FilesMicrosoftExchange ServerBin, assuming the default location).

Open the edgetransport.exe.config file using notepad.

Edit the location for QueueDatabasePath and QueueDatabaseLoggingPath to your desired location and save. The transport service has to be restarted for the change to take effect. The queue from the original location is NOT moved, it only creates a new database in the new location.

2. Use Move-TransportDatabase script in exchange scripts folder.

Launch Exchange Shell and run the following command.

.Move-TransportDatabase.ps1 -QueueDatabasePath “d:Queue” -QueueDatabaseLoggingPath “d:QueueLogs”

The queue database and associated files will be moved from original location to the new one and the transport service is restarted automatically as part of the script, which is a good feature.

Moral : Use the script to make things easier!

SOURCE:

http://www.howexchangeworks.com/2009/07/moving-transport-queue-in-exchange-2007.html

Set Up Exchange ActiveSync E-Mail on Windows Mobile 6.5

Posted by on April 18, 2012 No comments

How do I set up Exchange ActiveSync on Windows Mobile 6.5?

  1. Tap Start > Messaging > Setup E-mail.
  2. Enter your e-mail address and password, and then tap Next.
  3. Make sure the check box Try to get e-mail settings automatically from the Internet is selected, and then tap Next.
    Your mobile phone will try to get settings from the Internet automatically. If this fails, tap Next. Otherwise go to step 8.
  4. For Your e-mail provider, select Exchange server, and then tap Next twice.
  5. Enter your e-mail address (for example, tony@contoso.com), and then tap Next.
  6. Tap in the Server box and enter your server name and then tap Next. For instructions for locating your server name, see the Finding My Server Name section below.
  7. Enter your user name and password, and then tap Next. Your user name is your complete e-mail address (for example, tony@contoso.com).
  8. Select the check boxes for the types of items you want to view on your device, and then tap Finish.

SOURCE

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exchangelabshelp/dd125428

Outlook 2011 and the really low email attachment size limit

Posted by on April 17, 2012 No comments

Anyone with an Exchange 2007 email account who recently upgraded from Office 2008 to 2011 on the Mac might find themselves unable to send emails with attachments that are over 10MB in size.  While Entourage used WebDAV, Outlook 2011 uses Exchange Web Services (EWS) for email access. The default size limit for sending emails using EWS is 10MB. To fix this, you’ll need to edit a few files named “web.config” on the Exchange server, run a few commands and then reboot the sucker just because its a good time.

Here’s what you do:

  1. On your Exchange server go to “C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\ClientAccess\exchweb\ews”
  2. Make a copy the “web.config” file – just in case you break something.
  3. Open up the “web.config” file in notepad or Notepad++ (if you’re badass)
  4. Find the line with the following “httpRuntime maxRequestLength=”13280″”
  5. Change the 13280 value to whatever you want. Note that this value is in KB.
  6. Save and close the file
  7. Next, you’ll want to repeat steps 1-6 with the “web.config” files in the “\ClientAccess\owa” and“\ClientAccess\sync” folders.
  8. Open up the command prompt and enter “CD %windir%\system32\inetsrv”
  9. Enter the following commands:

    “appcmd set config “Default Web Site/ews” -section:requestFiltering -requestLimits.maxAllowedContentLength:#########”

    “appcmd set config “Default Web Site/owa” -section:requestFiltering -requestLimits.maxAllowedContentLength:#########”

    “appcmd set config “Default Web Site/Microsoft-Server-Activesync” -section:requestFiltering -requestLimits.maxAllowedContentLength:#########”
    Note: Replace the # with the values you entered in in the web.config files but this time in bytes. If you entered 100000 in the web.config file, enter 100000000 for the value in the command line.
  10. Enter the “iisreset” command
  11. Take a moment to reflect on how awesome you are for winning.

related: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrclients/thread/f2dc3e4d-b24f-484f-908e-c181c1665f15/

SOURCE

http://abnergoodwin.com/2011/06/20/outlook-2011-and-the-really-low-attachment-size-limit/

How to View the Size of User Mailboxes in Exchange 2007

Posted by on April 11, 2012 No comments

So how can you find out the size of a users mailbox in Exchange 2007? Well, until they bring back the columns in a future service pack, you have to use the command line.

For example, here is the command line you would use to get a list of all mailboxes with their sizes sorted from biggest to smallest. It will also give you the number of items in the mailbox and will list the sizes in MB.

Get-MailboxStatistics | Sort-Object TotalItemSize -Descending | ft DisplayName,@{label=”TotalItemSize(MB)”;expression={$_.TotalItemSize.Value.ToMB()}},ItemCount

If the above command does not work for some reason, you can also try this one:

Get-MailboxStatistics -Database “Mailbox Database” | Sort -Property TotalItemsize | Format-Table DisplayName, LastLoggedOnUserAccount, ItemCount, @{expression={$_.totalitemsize.value.ToMB()};label=”Size(MB)”}, LastLogonTime, LastLogoffTime

mailbox size exchange 2007

Note that if you just want to see the mailbox size of one mailbox, you can simply go to the Properties of the mailbox and view the size and number of items on the General tab.

One last way you can access this information is to install Exchange 2003 Management Tools on a different server and use it to view the size of Exchange 2007 mailboxes. Make sure not to use the tool to perform any management tasks, only to view information about mailboxes.

Hopefully future versions or service packs of Exchange 2007 will fix this problem, but for now you can either use the command line or use the Exchange 2003 Management Tools! Enjoy!

 

SOURCE:

http://helpdeskgeek.com/exchange-server/how-to-view-the-size-of-user-mailboxes-in-exchange-2007/

How to edit the hosts file in Mac OS X – Leopard

Posted by on April 7, 2012 No comments

How to edit the hosts file in Mac OS X – Leopard

April 6, 2009 by decoding

Introduction

The hosts file is a text file that maps hostnames to IP addresses.
Upon typing a url address on the browser, the system is checking if there is a relevant entry on the hosts file and gets the corresponding IP address, else it resolves the IP via the active connection’s DNS servers.

The hosts file can be edited to block certain hostnames (like ad-serving/malicious hosts), or used for web development purposes, i.e. to redirect domains to local addresses.

Editing the hosts file

Editing the hosts file in Mac OS X – Leopard, is a pretty easy task, especially if you are familiar with the terminal.

Step 1 – Open the Terminal.app

Either by start typing Terminal on the Spotlight, or by going into Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal.

Step 2 – Open the hosts file

Open the hosts by typing on the Terminal that you have just opened:

 

1 $ sudo nano /private/etc/hosts

 

Type your user password when prompted.

Step 3 – Edit the hosts file

The hosts file contains some comments (lines starting with the # symbol), as well as some default hostname mappings (e.g. 127.0.0.1 – localhost).
Simply append your new mappings underneath the default ones. Or edit one of the default values if you know what you are doing!
You can navigate the file using the arrow keys.

Step 4 – Save the hosts file

When done editing the hosts file, press control-o to save the file.
Press enter on the filename prompt, and control-x to exit the editor.

Step 5 – Flush the DNS cache

On Leopard you can issue a simple Terminal command to flush the DNS cache, and have your host file changes to take immediate effect:

 

1 $ dscacheutil -flushcache

 

You can now test your new mapping on the browser!

Exchange 2010 install on another server

Posted by on April 6, 2012 No comments

install dotnet on exchange server through server roles

run command on DC and exchange server:

ServerManagerCmd -i RSAT-ADDS 

ML110 G6 – HP ProLiant Smart Array Embedded SATA RAID Controller Driver for Windows 2008 x64 Editions

Posted by on April 5, 2012 No comments

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Windows 7 Network Slow – 6 Easy Ways to Make it Fast

Posted by on April 2, 2012 No comments

How to Fix Windows 7 network slow problem?

1) Disable Autotuning

Disabling autotuning will help much on DNS lookup and network discovery. It improves the datatransfer speed also over the network. Disabling autotuning in windows 7 is very similar to Windows vista method. Read more here about disabling autotuning in windows vista.

To recap important steps,

Start command prompt as administrator, and follow the commands as shown in below example.

Windows 7 Network slow

2) Remove RDC ( Remote Differential Compression)

This feature introduced with Windows Vista to transfer data over network in compressed format. The same RDC feature continued in Windows 7 also. Since most of the old operating systems came before vista do not support this RDC feature, it slows down network data transfer in windows 7. You can remove this RDC (Remote Differential Compression) in windows 7 by visiting control panel and programs and features. Click on ‘Turn Windows features on or off’, as shown below.
Remove RDC ( Remote Differential Compression) in Vista

Windows 7 Network slow

3) Remove IPv6 from network properties.

If your internal or external networks do not  require  IPv6 protocol, better remove it under networkconnection properties. Keeping IPv6 in your computer sometimes slows down network by trying to register IPv6 addresses, or trying to get IPv6 address, or trying to resolve IPv6. Better remove it if it’s not required.
Remove IPv6 in Windows Vista

4) Clear DNS Cache

You can remove any DNS cache from computer, so next time DNS request will be solved by updated DNS server. This will avoid your computer to try broken or changed DNS records from cache. To clear DNS cache, open command prompt as administrator and type ipconfig /flushdns
Ceaer DNS Cache in Vista

5) Disable Wireless Network and any additional (including Virtual adapters) network adapters.

If you will not be using wireless network or it’s your secondary network, I recommend you to disable wireless network in windows 7 under network connection.  If it’s enabled, windows 7 computer will be trying to connect available wireless network around you, and trying to login though its network. Loading your profiles and start up programs will be slow while booting because of this.

6) Modifying Link Speed & Duplex Value in Network adapter Properties.

This step also helps sometimes when you face problem with windows 7 network slow. I can’t say which option will work better, because it depends on your physical network setup (network adapter, cable type, LAN speed and network switch). By default it is set for Auto Negotiation. But you can play around with Value options and find out which is working better for your computer and network.

Windows 7 Network slow

I’m sure above steps will help to solve windows 7 network slow. Feel free to suggest any additional steps you did to solve windows 7 network slow, or problems you face to fix it.

 

SOURCE

http://www.sysprobs.com/windows-7-network-slow

Error message when you try to open the Out of Office Assistant in Outlook 2007: “Your Out of Office settings cannot be displayed, because the server is currently unavailable. Try again later”

Posted by on March 23, 2012 No comments

 

 

kb 970123

Click here to open in a new browser window

SOURCE

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970123

Exchange Maintenance

Posted by on March 20, 2012 No comments
  1. Open Exchange System Manager.
  2. Expand Servers, and then expand the server that you want to work with.
  3. Expand the storage group that you want to work with.
  4. In the list of available data stores in the details pane, right-click the store that you want to work with, and then click Properties.
  5. In the Store Properties dialog box, click the Database tab.
  6. Do one of the following:
    • In the Maintenance interval list, select an interval.
    • Click Customize to access the Schedule dialog box, and then create a custom interval.
  7. Click OK.
  1. Open Exchange Management Console.
  2. Expand Server Configuration and then select the server that you want to work with.
  3. Expand the storage group that you want to work with.
  4. Right-click the store that you want to work with, and then click Properties.
  5. On the General tab, click the Maintenance schedule list. Then, click an interval or click Customize to create a custom schedule.