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Get all List of all Archives
Wayne Humphrey | 13 Dec 2009 | 0 comments
This SQL Script will get all List of all Archives and dispaly the following:
  • Mailbox Name
  • Exchange Server
  • Number of Items (Mailbox) 
  • Number of (Archive)
  • Mailbox Size (MB) 
  • Archive Size (MB)
  • Total Size (MB) 
  • Archive Created
  • Archive Updated
SELECT 
LEFT(MbxDisplayName,20) AS 'Mailbox', 
ExchangeComputer AS 'Exchange Server',
MbxItemCount AS '#Items (Mailbox)', 
VS1.ArchivedItems AS '#Items (Archive)',
MbxSize/1024 AS 'Mbx Size (MB)', 
VS1.ArchivedItemsSize/1024 AS  'Archive Size(MB)',
(mbxsize+VS1.ArchivedItemsSize)/1024 AS 'Total Size(MB)', 
VS1.CreatedDate AS 'Archive Created',
VS1.ModifiedDate AS 'Archive Updated', 
MbxExchangeState AS 'Exchange State'
 
FROM
EnterpriseVaultDirectory.dbo.ExchangeMailboxEntry AS EME,
EnterpriseVaultDirectory.dbo.ExchangeServerEntry AS...
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Mbx Archiving State / Mbx Exchange State
Wayne Humphrey | 08 Dec 2009 | 0 comments
Often the question of what is the different states of MbxArchivingState and MbxExchangeState in the ExchangeMailboxEntry table.

The Archiving State translates as follows:

0 = Not Enabled
1 = Enabled
2 = Disabled
3 = Re-Link

To view the Archiving State you can use the following:

SELECT count(MbxArchivingState) as '# Mailboxes',
MbxArchivingState as 'Archiving State'
FROM ExchangeMailboxEntry
GROUP BY MbxArchivingState

The Exchange State translates as follows: 
 

0 = Normal
1 = Hidden
2 = Deleted

To view the Exchange State you can use the following:

SELECT count(MbxExchangeState) as '# Mailboxes',
MbxExchangeState as 'Exchange State'
FROM ExchangeMailboxEntry
GROUP BY MbxExchangeState

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EV Connection Status
Wayne Humphrey | 06 Dec 2009 | 0 comments

In the EV Outlook Client trace you very often see the Connection Status listed as a number.. well, what does the number mean ?

0 = Unknown connection.  You sometimes see that near the start of a client trace.
1 = Online
2 = Offline
3 = No Exchange
4 = Disconnected
5 = Cached Mode, Offline
6 = Cached Mode, Disconnected
7 = Cached Connected, headers only
8 = Cached Connected, Full items
9 = Cached Connected, “Drizzle Mode”
 
These are of course the Outlook to Exchange connection states, and the EV Outlook Add-in often needs to know what state things are in so that various operations can be performed (or not as the case may be).
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Who is the owner of this shortcut?
Mnereng | 30 Sep 2009 | 2 comments

Occassionally my users end up with someone else's shortcut in thier mailbox.  They get there any number of ways: sent as attachements, cross mailbox copying, copying in and out of shared public folders, etc.  And often the user does not have access to the originating archive, so when they open the shortcut, they get the typical access denied error.  After much research, I finally came up with a solution:

  • Highlight the shortcut in Outlook
  • Hold CTRL + SHIFT, and mouse click on one of the EV buttons (ie, Archive Explorer)
  • Click on Vault Inofrmation
  • Scroll down to the "Selected Item Properties" section, and find the Saveset ID.
  • Copy everything to the right of the last tilda.  This string is called the Transaction ID (you can use the Send To Clipboard button to help with this, or copy the value manually).
  • Now you have to modify you modify the Transaction ID to fit the following format: 8 char, dash,...
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Best practices for preparing the Exchange Server for backup
bhupeshsingh | 26 Aug 2009 | 0 comments

Circular logging must be disabled if you want to do the following:

Run incremental and differential backups.

Recover data up to the point of failure.

Run continuous backups of Information Store transaction logs.

Put transaction log files on a separate physical disk from the database. If the disk that contains the database is damaged, the transaction logs are available as a recovery resource.

Set the retention period for deleted items and mailboxes to a length of time that is appropriate for the available disk space. The longer the retention period, the more disk space is required. However, some retention period can prevent you from having to restore a mailbox or database. If possible, configure the Exchange server so that items are not deleted until a full backup is performed.

Make Write Cache unavailable on the SCSI controller. Data corruption can occur if the computer fails before the operation is written to disk.

Monitor the...

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After abnormal restart of Exchange Server2003 MailBox Store was not accessable
Zahid.Haseeb | 23 Jul 2009 | 3 comments

Today i will share you the blog in which i faced my MailBox was not accessable after my Exchange Server2003 was restarted abnormally. i saw my MailBox Store container stopped in the Server Manager in Exchange Server2003.
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I simply went to services in the Exchange Server 2003 and i had noticed that the Microsoft Exchange information Store service was stopped. I just started it.

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Now you see the MailBox Store container is still showing stopped (but before doing refresh). As i clicked on refresh the status of MailBox Store changed to started as you can see in the last figure.

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Virtualising Enterprise Vault. Going from support hell to support heaven.
jprknight | 17 Jul 2009 | 1 comment

Within our organisation we are solely concerned with email archiving. We have six Exchange 2000 active/passive clusters, with a dedicated EV server attached to each split equally across two data centres.

Before our virtualisation adventure took place we were running our EV email archiving servers on end of life hardware (End of life when the project implemented EV), which with ever increasing frequency of hardware failures took place. Typically mirrored disks would go down, raid card battery failures, RSA cards not functioning, the list goes on. It was just one big headache; and that was only the hardware.

For the software we were running on 2007 7.5 SP1, which seemed to give us no end of users complaining about their emails not completely archiving and their mailboxes not decreasing in size. We were also running on Windows 2003 SP1; which Symantec had advised us several times has serious shortcomings with MSMQs. Essentially the outgoing queues did not get processed...

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A Workaround Solution!
RahulG | 06 Jul 2009 | 1 comment

Mailboxes for the user's deleted from the active directory do not show up in the restore selections when the data is backed up to a tape.

Details: This behavior is by design.

Explanation : When Running the GRT backup to tape , the exchange data is backed up in the native format ,along with the ese.dll and other supporting files,Later the MAPI is initialize on the exchange server by RAWS (Remote agent for Windows Server) to gather granular restore information .MAPI gathers the exchange data using Active directory and then writes to the catalog. As MAPI cannot retrieve the information about the deleted user from the Active directory the catalog information for the user is not written to the catalog. this is not a problem with restore selection from backup to disk folder due to the Dynamic way we can read the exchange DB using the VFF technology

Workaround : Duplicate the backup set from tape...

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Exchange Server2003 Backup failed with error ""none of the files in the file list exist(71)""
Zahid.Haseeb | 25 Jun 2009 | 0 comments

Today i like to share a Blog which can help you while facing error in getting Backup of Exchange Server 2003

I was able to successfully backup of Exchange information Store via Netbackup Policy BUT when i take the backup of Microsoft Exchange MailBoxes it was not able to successfully backup. even i selected the Misrosoft Exchange Mailboxes in the Backup Selection TAB in the policy.

ERROR

6/24/2009 1:25:17 PM - requesting resource Exchange
6/24/2009 1:25:17 PM - requesting resource tpsbkp.NBU_CLIENT.MAXJOBS.exchange
6/24/2009 1:25:17 PM - requesting resource tpsbkp.NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.Exchange-MailBoxes
6/24/2009 1:25:17 PM - granted resource tpsbkp.NBU_CLIENT.MAXJOBS.exchange
6/24/2009 1:25:17 PM - granted resource tpsbkp.NBU_POLICY.MAXJOBS.Exchange-MailBoxes
6/24/2009 1:25:17 PM - granted resource MediaID=@aaaa2;Path=E:\Netbackup\Exchange;MediaServer=tpsbkp
6/24/2009 1:25:17 PM - granted resource Exchange...

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Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
Wayne Humphrey | 16 Jun 2009 | 0 comments

I always get asked about MSMQ, here is a short note on things to look at if you have MSMQ issue's, even if you don't have issues you can always benefit from tweaking MSMQ and enhance Enterprise Vault’s performance.

Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)

The root cause I believe lies in the way MSMQ stores messages. In the Storage directory (normally under windows\system32\msmq) will be a number of 4MB files that will contain the messages. Each file can contain as many messages as will fit which works quite well to start with. If a message cannot fit into one storage file, though, because it is too big for the remaining free space then a fresh file is created. There can only be as many storage files as would fit within the storage quota and when this limit is reached then no more storage files can be created. For example from windows 2003 SP2, a 2GB quota could accommodate 500 4MB storage files. In older versions Microsoft used to have an 8GB quota...

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