There’s no way to delete individual log entries in the error log. It would be a nice feauture. In my case I want to clean up those entries I solved. There is also one log entry of an agent dated in the year 6273 😉 … Unless I clean everything theres no easy way (as far as I know) to delete this entry.
I posted the idea in RES Uservoice…. Maybe in the next Service Release?
Here are some examples of Exchange Management Shell commandlines I frequently use.
Import a PST file in the mailbox of UserA
New-MailboxImportRequest -Mailbox UserA -FilePath \\server\d$\pst\UserA.pst -BadItemLimit 10
View statistics of all running import requests
Get-MailboxImportRequest -Status InProgress| get-MailboxImportRequeststatistics
Import all pst files found in de PST directory. Make sure the name of the PST file correspondends with the target username
Dir \\server\d$\PST\*.pst | %{ New-MailboxImportRequest -Name import -BatchName batch1 -Mailbox $_.BaseName -FilePath $_.FullName -BadItemLimit 10}
Import a PST file in a subfolder of the mailbox
New-MailboxImportRequest -Mailbox UserA -name Archive -FilePath “\\server\d$\archive 2011.pst” -BadItemLimit 10 -Targetrootfolder Archive2011
Give UserB full mailbox permissions to the mailbox of UserA
Add-MailboxPermission -Identity “UserA” -User UserB -AccessRight FullAccess
Give UserB “Send as” permissions for MailboxA
Add-ADPermission -Identity ‘CN=MailboxA,OU=Mailboxen,DC=domain,DC=local’ -User ‘UserB’ -ExtendedRights ‘Send-as’
Set review permissions on a user’s mailbox for a mail enabled group
Add-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity UserA:\Calendar -user GroupB@domain.local -Accessright reviewer
How to view total size of a mailbox?
Get-MailboxStatistics -identity UserA| ft DisplayName, TotalItemSize, ItemCount
Create a new addresslist based on emailaddress (domain name)
new-addresslist -name AddresslistA -recipientfilter {(emailaddresses -like “*@example.com“)}
We have configured 2 Exchange 2010 servers hosting 4 databases in a DAG. All databases and the log files are on different disks. Because the log disks were to small we decided to move the log files to another disk. The problem is that in a DAG configuration there is no option to move the “database path”. This option is only available after deleting all database copies. Because we didn’t want to remove the database copies we did the following on ALL DAG members:
1. Add the new log disks to the server.
2. Create the same folder structure and set all NTFS permissions.
3. Dismount all databases.
4. Stop all Exchange services.
5. Copy all log files to the new disk.
6. Start all Exchange services
7. Mount all databases
This procedure also works for moving a database to a larger disk.
Folder2iso is a tool that I use to convert my folders (and it’s subfolders) into ISO’s. This works great, espesially when working with Virtual Machines. Often it is the quickest way to have files available in the VM.
You can download it here.
Before installing the first Exchange 2010 server in you organization you have to extend the Active Directory schema. This can be done by running the setup.com /PrepareSchema command from the Exchange 2010 DVD. In most cases this stage completes without errors. Except in our environment ;-(
The following error occured:
“There was an error while running ‘ldifde.exe’ to import the schema file ‘C:\Windows\Temp\ExchangeSetup\Setup\Data\PostExchange2003_schema18.ldf’. The error code is: 8245. More details can be found in the error file: ‘C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\2\ldif.err'”.
Looking into the logfile shows this:
Entry DN: CN=ms-Exch-Mobile-Mailbox-Policy-Link, CN=Schema, CN=Configuration,DC=domain,DC=local
Add error on entry starting on line 358: Unwilling To Perform The server side error is: 0x2114 Schema update failed: An attribute with the same link identifier already exists.
The extended server error is: 00002114: SvcErr: DSID-032603BC, problem 5003 (WILL_NOT_PERFORM), data 8468
Research learns that this error happens occasionally.
http://tsoorad.blogspot.nl/2012/02/0x2114-schema-update-failed.html
To fix the problem I followed the instructions explained in this Microsoft knowledge base article
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917682
To edit the .ldf files I copied the whole content of the Exchange 2010 DVD to the local disk and started setup.com from there. At first the PrepareSchema action failed again. I found out that for some reason the setup did not copied the file that I edited but used the default file. To solve this I started the PrepareSchema command and manually copied the file that I edited in the temporary directory that was created by the PrepareSchema command.
In total there were two attributes with a link identifier that already existed. Both attributes were related to the Exchange Mobile Mailbox object.
As a prerequisite of Exchange 2010 server I tried to install .Net Framework 3.5 on a Windows 2008 R2 server. So I downloaded the dotnetfx35 executable and started the setup.
The setup failed with the following error:
You must use the Role Management Tool to install …
Research learned that .Net Framework 3.5 is a feature that is already included in Windows 2008 R2. You only have to enable it.
To enable it follow these steps:
In RES Automation Manager I create teams based on IP address rules. But not all the agents I expected where member of the team. I used he following rule:
>= 192.168.100.1
<= 192.168.100.255
All the expressions need to be true.
Contacting support learned that if I wanted to know the number of computers on an given subnet, I better could use:
LIKE 192.168.1.*
One of our customers asked me if it was possible to automatically open two websites (Managed Applications) in two different tabs when logging on.
Because every application has it’s own Application ID, pwrgate.exe starts a new instance of the application, even though the Internet Explorer is already active.
Since there is no commandline option to open a url in a new tab (unlike Firefox; firefox.exe -new-tab <url>), starting iexplore.exe is no option. Eventually RES Support came with the solution, When starting the url directly from the command prompt, Internet Explorer opens the website in a new tab.
Remember to change the shortcut icon when presenting the new application.
“c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c start http://www.ressoftware.com”
RES Software has announced RES HyperDrive, a file sharing platform designed to let workers access files outside the company firewall, across different devices, and share them with colleagues, while allowing the IT department to retain control over security.
We have installed Outlook 2010 in a XenApp 5.0 environment in combination with Windows 2008 server. When users open an meeting and open the free busy scheduling view, and scroll in the calendar, Outlook crashes. In the detailed information you can see the gdiplus.dll is involved.
Research learns that there are a lot issues with the gdiplus.dll and that it can be resolved by installing a hotfix. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971589/en-us
On the Citrix forum you can find the following threat
http://forums.citrix.com/thread.jspa?threadID=273082&tstart=0#1545823
Although the symptoms are different we solved the problem by installing the hotfix.
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