Being ... ALI HASSAN

If you check a user's mailbox size in Exchange system manager and it shows a different value as compared to the mails you have in the outlook client then this might be one of the possible issues that the server is facing.

Go to --> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeIS\<servername>\Private-<MailboxStoreGUID>

Check for the registry keys if present Background cleanup and Track Duplicates

Registry entry name: Background Cleanup
Value type: REG_ DWORD
Value data: 60000 (decimal) or 0xEA60 (hexadecimal) 4.

Registry entry name: Track Duplicates
Value type: REG_ DWORD
Value data: 1

If not present please create these 2 reg keys and after restarting the information store service the ESM mailbox size and Outlook mailbox size should be the same.

-Alstar

This is a great utility to read those "Message Tracking Logs" from exchange servers 2000/2003 and extract out details, it is very easy to use and all you have to do is browse and point to the correct log file and the tool does all the work for you!!

MTNL Analyzer

Guys you know when you run the perfwiz.exe utility to collect the performance counters on your windows or exchange servers this is a cool utility to read those .BLG files by simply copying it in the folder and double clicking the runme.cmd batch file.

Let me know if you have any questions

Experf.zip

-Alstar

Here is how you query AD for all those users who have Non-Default maximum receipts set.

ldifde -f c:\limit.txt -r "(&(objectclass=user)(msExchRecipLimit=FALSE))" -l "Dn of the HomeMdb of the database"

Example

ldifde -f c:\limit.txt -r "(&(objectclass=user)(msExchRecipLimit=FALSE))" -l "CN=Mailbox Store (EXCH ANGE2003),CN=First Storage Group,CN=InformationStore,CN=EXCHANGE2003,CN=Servers,CN=First AdministrativeGroup,CN=Administrative Groups,CN=First Organization,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN
=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=alstar,DC=com"

-Alstar

This is something I was working on yesterday and wanted to find out all the user's on my Exchange server with Non-Default Mailbox limit set.

You can do this via Ldifde and its real easy all you have to do is to query the "mDBUserDefaults" attribute and export it to a text file.

ldifde -f c:\limit.txt -r "(&(objectclass=user)(msDBUserDefaults=FALSE))" -l "DN of the HomeMdb of the Database"

Example:

ldifde -f  c:\limit.txt -r "(&(objectclass=user)(msDBUserDefaults=FALSE))" -l "CN=Mailbox Store (EXCHANGE2003),CN=First Storage Group,CN=InformationStore,CN=EXCHANGE2003,CN=Servers,CN=First AdministrativeGroup,CN=Administrative Groups,CN=First Organization,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN
=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=alstar,DC=com"

-Alstar