Troubleshooting Exchange 2007 Transport Logs with LogParser

 

There is a series of posts on the Microsoft Exchange team blog on analyzing and troubleshooting your Exchange 2007 logs.

 
Part 1, gives an introduction to LogParser.
Part 2, drills down to analyzing various exchange logs and explains how to draw charts from your mail flow information.

Here are some of the queries you can find in part two:

- Identifying top senders to your system
- Identifying times of highest traffic
- Identifying top senders
- Identifying top email rejecting IP sources
- Identifying outbound email issues
- Content agent filtering log
- Message tracking log

Exchange Server 2007 with Service Pack 1

 

Exchange Server 2007 with Service Pack 1 is available for download here.

See the full list of new features in SP1 here.

Bear In mind that installing SP1 requires uninstalling the current version and re-installing
the SP1 version.So, Backup... Backup and Backup again!

Script Fanatic - The Hebrew version

I started a new weblog on Microsoft's Israel blogs. It is intended for Israeli audience and will be written in Hebrew and I hope it will help Israeli scripters to get acquainted to PowerShell. I'll keep on posting here in English.

Developer Academy II

 

Yesterday, I attended the second Microsoft's annual developers event "Developer Academy II", in Israel.

I attended some sessions like LINQ introduction, Mushups and Windows Live and C# 3.0 but the main event for me was "The Power of Windows PowerShell" session presented by Shahar Gvirtz.

Shahar showed some cool demos: how to use PowerShell from any .NET Application including Web pages, Runspaces, writing Cmdlets for web administration and Invoking them from hosted runspaces, VSTO, extending PowerShell from code or by using XML files and many more.

I really loved it. At first, only quarter of the session auditorium was full. A minute before the session started they had to add another 40 seats, Hugh success!. The session presentation is also available from Shahar's weblog.

This weblog also got mentioned in the links slide of the session. Thanks!

TechNet Magazine Poster: Exchange 2007

Get your hands on this new Exchange 2007 poster of this month's TechNet magazine issue. This poster highlights the architecture and feature set of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007:

Management and Monitoring

High Availability

Client Access, Edge Transport, Hub Transport, Mailbox, and Unified Messaging server roles

 

Download it here (PDF)

Top 5 Exchange Server 2007 Security Best Practices

Devin L. Ganger, Exchange MVP, lists his recommendations for securing Exchange 2007. Read it here.

Two PowerShell articles on MSDN magazine

In this month's issue of the MSDN Magazine, there are two articles on PowerShell.

Ever wanted to perform automation on windows forms or click a button in a window, etc?

Dr. James McCaffrey (blog link) shows how to create a small collection of custom Windows PowerShell cmdlets (eight custom cmdlets) that perform Windows UI automation tasks.

The sample cmdlets includes: get-window, get-control, get-controlByIndex, send-chars, send-click, get-listBox, send-menu, and get-textBox.

 

The second article "Extend Windows PowerShell With Custom Commands" by Jim Truher discusses:

• Windows PowerShell SDK
• Using the System.IO.IsolatedStorage namespace
• Overriding default cmdlet behavior
• Installing and using custom cmdlets

You can also download the magazine in HTML Help (.chm) format here. Click the month link and try to download the file in your language. BTW, the English version for December 2007 (EN) is broken :-(