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Monitoring & Operations Articles

Auditing Mailbox Access Using Exchange System Manager and Event Viewer: Date - Mar 27, 2007; Author - Neil Hobson; A look at how to audit mailbox access using Exchange System Manager and Event Viewer.
Windows 2003 Server Emergency Management Services: Date - Oct 12, 2006; Author - Lee Derbyshire; This article discusses Windows 2003 Server Emergency Management Services.
MOM 2005 SLA Scorecard for Exchange: Date - Jun 01, 2006; Author - Neil Hobson; In this article, I will look at what this scorecard is and what it offers you.
Exchange 2003 Message Tracking and Logging: Date - Nov 10, 2005; Author - Marc Grote; In this article I will show you how to enable Message Tracking and Logging of Messages in Exchange Server 2003.
Automating a Quicker Exchange 2000 or 2003 / DC reboot: Date - Oct 13, 2005; Author - Lee Derbyshire; For those of you running Exchange 2000/2003 on a Domain Controller, this article describes how to make sure that the Exchange services are automatically stopped before Active Directory, substantially improving shutdown/reboot time.
Monitoring Exchange and Finding Common Problems: Date - Aug 11, 2005; Author - Robert J. Shimonski; In our daily jobs as Systems Engineers and Administrators we come across systems that are in need of our help… and may even be asking for it. Beyond checking your Event Viewer’s, this article looks at some common issues you might find on the server you are running Exchange on. As a Network and Systems Consultant, I see many times that Exchange itself is not the problem, but the fact that Exchange is installed on a sub-par system. Either the server hardware isn’t enterprise class, or the minimum hardware requirements weren’t addressed. In this article, we will take a look at checking the fundamentals of your Exchange System and look at a real world production server suffering from a common problem.
Managing Exchange 2003 With MOM 2005 (Part 3): Date - Jun 09, 2005; Author - Neil Hobson; The Exchange Management Pack Configuration Wizard can make configuring the Exchange management pack really easy and here I show you how. When you’ve done that, you should also check out the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer (ExBPA) management pack.
Managing Exchange 2003 With MOM 2005 (Part 2): Date - May 31, 2005; Author - Neil Hobson; In the second part of this three part article, I will take a look at what drives MOM 2005 as far as Exchange management is concerned: the Exchange management pack. Understanding what’s contained within the management pack is key to obtaining a firm grasp of what MOM 2005 can offer the Exchange professional.
Managing Exchange 2003 With MOM 2005 (Part 1): Date - May 19, 2005; Author - Neil Hobson; We would like to welcome Microsoft MVP Neil Hobson to our team of authors as he presents his first article to MSExchange.org readers: In this three part article I will take a look at the highlights of what MOM 2005 can do for you, the Exchange professional. If you’re responsible for one or more Exchange servers and haven’t investigated MOM 2005 yet, then hopefully this series of articles will make you want to check out the product further.
Tape Backup Alternatives: Date - Apr 07, 2005; Author - Amit Zinman; Tape backup is an old technology. It is sort of like the car engine. Though the technology has definitely matured, the basic principle and shortcomings have remained the same. In this article I will discuss backing to hard drives and DVD RAM drives for small and branch offices.
Scripting Exchange Using VBScript and ADSI (Part 2): Date - Mar 29, 2005; Author - Amit Zinman; The first part of my scripting series discussed ways of accessing and searching for Exchange objects such as users and contacts in Active Directory. This second part of the series will go over creation of a new object, and over the most important attribute of an Exchange recipient, the e-mail address.
How to Speed up an Exchange 2000 or 2003 / DC reboot: Date - Mar 24, 2005; Author - Lee Derbyshire; Automatic Updates often require a reboot, and if you have a Domain Controller with Exchange installed on it, a reboot can take a very long time indeed. This article discusses why Exchange/DC shutdown takes such a long time, and (more importantly) what you can do about it.
Configuring SMTP Logging to an Access Database: Date - Aug 01, 2004; Author - Mark Fugatt; In this article we will look at how you can configure Exchange to perform SMTP logging to an Access database.
Things to Do When Your Exchange gets Blacklisted: Date - Jul 27, 2004; Author - Amit Zinman; One day you get a lot of phone calls regarding mail not getting anywhere and your SMTP queue is full of junk. This could easily get you into panic and much calls to outside expensive consultants. Instead, a few steps can rid you of these attacks. This article will deal with how to get your Exchange server out of block lists and stop attacks at the same time.
Status Monitoring: Date - Jun 08, 2004; Author - Marc Grote; Exchange 2003 Standard and Enterprise offers the feature to monitor the Server status of the Exchange Servers in your Enterprise. If some of the monitored services and other Resources (RAM, CPU, Services) are in “Warning state” or “Critical State” you receive a status E-Mail or a customized action provided by a script notification. This article explains in detailed steps how to configure Monitoring and E-Mail notification.
Testing Mail Flow using Outlook Express: Date - Dec 04, 2003; Author - Amit Zinman; Sometimes, in order to troubleshoot mail problems you can use a handy tool installed on every Windows 2000/2003 server, Outlook Express. Outlook Express is a powerful SMTP diagnostic tool. It's availability on almost all mail servers and workstations makes it easy to play Sherlock Holmes finding clues regarding mail problems.