by DAVID DAVIS Cisco APs are strong and reliable but require a little more configuration than your typical Linksys, Dlink, or Netgear. In this article, you will find out how to configure this enterprise grade wireless AP (a Cisco 1242G) to allow your wireless users to connect to your LAN, through your Wireless LAN (WLAN). Lots [...]
READ MORE »How to defragment with the Eseutil utility (Eseutil.exe)
Eseutil Defrag Tool Database defragmentation is a process to arrange non-contagious data into contagious form to reduce the size of database and eliminating the extra space. In case of Microsoft Exchange Server, online defragmentation of the Exchange database is performed automatically during normal database maintenance. But, being the system administrator you cannot just rely on [...]
READ MORE »How to Calculate Exchange 2010 Mailbox Sizes with PowerShell
Article is a re-print from exchangeserverpro.com by Paul Cunningham The Exchange Management Shell, powered by PowerShell, makes it easy to collect size information for the mailboxes in an Exchange 2010 organization. For example, to list the sizes of all mailboxes on a particular database we can use this command. [PS] C:\>Get-Mailbox -Database MB-HO-01 | Get-MailboxStatistics | ft displayname,totaldeleteditemsize,totalitemsize [...]
READ MORE »How to Restore an Individual Exchange 2010 Mailbox or Mailbox Items with Windows Server Backup
Article is a re-print from exchangeserverpro.com by Paul Cunningham Restoring an Exchange Server 2010 Mailbox Database to an Alternate Location The first step is to perform a restore of the mailbox server backup, redirecting the restore to an alternate location on the server. Start by launching Windows Server Backup, and then in the Actions panel click on Recover to start [...]
READ MORE »Archiving mailboxes in exchange 2010
Archive Mailbox In Exchange 2010… Article re-printed from howexchangeworks.com Archive Mailbox is one of the many welcoming features in Exchange 2010 Server. This feature solves issues related to PST files which gives headache for any exchange admins. Let me explain how archive mailbox feature will address the existing problems. There is no company which doesn’t [...]
READ MORE »Exchange 2010 Database HTML Email Report
Article from MS Technet PowerShell ##################################################################################### # Exchange 2010 Mailbox Database HTML Email Report # Author: Thiyagu14 # Date Jan 28th 2010 # Script gathers below information # 1. Server currently hosting the Database. # 2. Database Size # 3. Database file path # 4. Number of users in the Database. # 5. Amount of Whitespace # 6. Top Mailbox in the Database and the size of it. # 7. Last Backup time and days since last backup. # ################################################################################### # It then generates HTML Files for this. # You can setup Threshold in the script,below are the items which can have threshold # 1. Number of Mailboxes # 2. Database Size # 3. How old a Backup can be # 4. Top Mailbox Size # If any one of the above threshold is reached the configured threshold. # It will be marked as red in the HTML. ##################################################################################### Remove-Item C:\Users\thiyagu\Documents\DBReport.htm New-Item -ItemType file -Path C:\Users\ADMIN\Documents -Name dbreport.htm $mailboxCountThreshold = 30 $dbSizeThreshold = 10GB $backupThreshold = 1 $mbxSizeThreshold = 30MB $fileName = ”DBReport.htm” Function writeHtmlHeader { param($fileName) $date = ( Get-Date ).ToString(‘yyyy/MM/dd’) Add-Content $fileName ”" Add-Content $fileName ”" Add-Content $fileName ”" Add-Content $fileName ’myExchangeWorld.COM Database Report’ Add-Content $fileName ” Add-Content $fileName ”" Add-Content $fileName ”" Add-Content $fileName ”" Add-Content $fileName ”" Add-Content $fileName ”" Add-Content $fileName ”" Add-Content $fileName ”" Add-Content $fileName ”myExchangeWorld.COM Database Report - $date” Add-Content $fileName ”" Add-Content $fileName ”" Add-Content $fileName ”" [...]
READ MORE »Configure an SSL Certificate for Exchange Server 2010
Exchange Server 2010 like its predecessor Exchange Server 2007 makes heavy use of SSL certificates for various communications protocols. When you install a new Exchange server is comes pre-configured with a self-signed certificate. Before putting a new server into production you should create and assign a new SSL cert for the server. In this example [...]
READ MORE »Upgrade Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 Part 1
Microsoft released Exchange Server 2010 in October 2009, and this new version of Exchange Server contains a lot of compelling new features such as the new High Availability, the facility to store your Exchange databases on JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks), the archiving option and the new Outlook Web App. Oh, and do not forget the [...]
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