Bulk Disable of Exchange Mailboxes

Hi Readers I have been given a list of terminated users from previous years to verify that if tey exist in Exchange enviornment & if they exist it needs to be removed. I have used the condtion that is user account is disabled in AD, hidden from GAL & OU is terminated user OU. You…

TroubleShooting Fast growing transactional logs – Part 2

I am continuing from the previous post ” TroubleShooting Fast growing transactional logs”. In my experience I have seen the most of the issues where transactional log drives gets fill up quickly is because of  Active sync enabled devies. Microsoft has provided a very good script of finding out the devices atht are causing issues. Below…

SharePoint 2010 Services concepts

I want to share below article as its seems to be useful & is provided to us by MS. SharePoint Foundation Service :- The core SharePoint service for content collaboration. In large SharePoint Server 2010 deployments, we recommend that you allocate redundant Web servers based on expected traffic load, properly size the SQL Server–based computers that…

TroubleShooting Fast growing transactional logs – Part1

I am working with one of the biggest Messaging setup & facing issues where transactional log drives starts to gets fill up very fast.  This troublshooting comes with a bit of experience, it involves reading of transactional logs, montoring using Exmon & a guess work sometimes 🙂 Reading transactional logs is not a easy task…

Failed to create mailbox event id 1205

Hi Readers, I have faced unique issue this week which has challenged many folks in L1 & L2 teams. Here is the situation: the client for which I work has a policy that if a user is rehired gave them new mailbox. In this case user was rehired with in the retention period of exchange…