martes, 12 de julio de 2011

Archive mailbox in Exchange 2010

Excellent link relate that how to configure archiving in exchange 2010.

http://www.howexchangeworks.com/2009/08/archive-mailbox-in-exchange-2010.html

Enable Pipeline Tracing

Setting the value for the PipelineTracingSenderAddress parameter to "<>" captures all e-mail server-generated messages received by the Hub Transport or Edge Transport server that you are configuring. Depending on the amount of e-mail server-generated messages that your organization receives, this may place a significant load on the server and may quickly consume available disk space. Always monitor available disk space when pipeline tracing is enabled.

How to:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb125018.aspx

domingo, 10 de julio de 2011

Role Groups and Roles + Exchange 2010

An important concept you need to understand in order to appreciate RBAC is the relationship between role groups, roles, cmdlets (commandlets) and parameters.

The RBAC Triangle of Power

Before we end this article, let’s have a look at a graphical representation that summarizes how RBAC works.

Members of the Exchange team like to depict the workings of the RBAC with what they call the "Triangle of Power".


The Triangle of Power is made up of four main components: the Where, the What, the Who, and the Glue.

The Where or Scope represents the range over which a particular role assignment is supposed to apply, i.e., a single organizational unit, a single user, a group of users, or the entire organization.

The What or Role represents what your role can actually do. Exchange Server 2010 has 65 built-in roles that you can either use straightaway or build from.

The Who or Role Group, as we mentioned way back, is simply a collection of roles (which in turn are made up of cmdlets and parameters). You combine this with the Scope to come up with a complete Role Assignment.

Predefined Role Groups used in Exchange Server 2010 Role Based Access Control:

  1. Delegated Setup - For admins who need to deploy Exchange 2010 servers that have been previously provisioned by a member of the Organization Management role group.
  2. Discovery Management - For admins who need to perform searches of mailboxes for data that meet specific criteria as well as configure legal holds on mailboxes.
  3. Help Desk - For admins who need to view and modify the Microsoft Office Outlook Web App options.
  4. Hygiene Management - For administrators who need to configure the virus and antivirus features of Exchange.
  5. Organization Management - For admins who need to have administrative access to the entire Exchange 2010 organization.
  6. Public Folder Management - For administrators who need to manage public folders and databases on servers running Exchange 2010.
  7. Recipient Management - For admins who need to manage Exchange 2010 recipients.
  8. Records Management - For administrators who need to configure compliance features such as retention policies, message classifications, and transport rules.
  9. Server Management - For admins who need to set server-specific configurations of transport, Unified Messaging (UM), client access, and mailbox features.
  10. UM Management - For admins who need to manage UM-related server configurations, properties on mailboxes, prompts, and auto attendant configurations.
  11. View-Only Organization Management - For administrators who need to view the properties of any object in Exchange.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd298183.aspx
http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2010/management-administration/exchange-2010-role-based-access-control-part1.html


viernes, 1 de julio de 2011

TeamViewer

TeamViewer connects to any PC or server around the world within a few seconds. You can remote control your partner's PC as if you were sitting right in front of it.

Download the client for this link:

http://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/index.aspx

You can install this software or just run it, afther that the software provide you an ID with a security password and you are able to take remote control for other computers:



Provide the ID and password to others persons and share your application.

SSL Diagnostics Version 1.1 (x86)

Download the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) troubleshooting tool for Internet Information Services (IIS).

A common problem for administrators of IIS servers is configuring and troubleshooting SSL enabled websites. To assist in administrators efforts, Microsoft has designed a tool - SSL Diagnostics - to aid in quickly identifying configuration problems in the IIS metabase, certificates, or certificate stores.

This tool allows users to review configuration information in a easy to read view mode or to run the tool silently with only the creation of a log file. During use, administrators can simulate the SSL handshake to find errors. They can also quickly "hot swap" certificates for testing purposes.

Overview

A common problem for administrators of IIS servers is configuring and troubleshooting SSL enabled websites. To assist in administrators efforts, Microsoft has designed a tool - SSL Diagnostics - to aid in quickly identifying configuration problems in the IIS metabase, certificates, or certificate stores.

This tool allows users to review configuration information in a easy to read view mode or to run the tool silently with only the creation of a log file. During use, administrators can simulate the SSL handshake to find errors. They can also quickly "hot swap" certificates for testing purposes.

These packages come in two forms: Express and Full. The express will only give the pertinent tools for administrators to use SSL Diagnostics while full install installs the same files with the appropriate documentation. Included in the full install is a SSL Frequently Asked Questions that can assist in the learning of SSL for administrators.


System requirements

Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-Bit x86), Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2, Windows XP Professional Edition

This update includes fixes from customer reported issues as well as expand functionality including creation of self-sign certificates. For more information, please visit the IIS Diagnostics home page.

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=674

How to??

with this tool you can check the SSL version that you client are using:









lunes, 13 de junio de 2011

Nonpaged Pool Memory

what distinguishes Paged Pool and NonPaged Pool memory? The first difference is that Paged Pool is exactly what its name implies - it can be paged out. The NonPaged Pool cannot be paged out. Drivers use the NonPaged Pool for many of their requirements because they can be accessed at any Interrupt Request Level (IRQL). The IRQL defines the hardware priority at which a processor operates at any given time (there's a link to a document covering Scheduling, Thread Context and IRQL's in the Additional Resources section at the end of this post).

Getting back to our Pool Resources, it is important to remember that these resources are finite. The table below outlines some sample maximum values for Paged / NonPaged Pool on x86 systems that are not configured with the /3GB switch in the system's boot.ini file. We'll cover /3GB and its effects on memory in a future post. We'll also cover Kernel Changes to Windows Vista separately. It's important to note that x64 systems don't suffer from the same Virtual Address Space limitations!

Windows 2000

System RAM NonPaged Max Paged Max Paged Max (TS)
512 MB 131 MB 264 MB 160 MB *
1024 MB 212 MB 268 MB 160 MB *
1536 MB 256 MB 340 MB 160 MB *
2048 MB 256 MB 340 MB 160 MB *

* If Terminal Services is installed on Windows 2000, Paged Pool is lowered down to 160 MB unless a registry change is made to the server to set the Paged Pool Size to its maximum value (see below).

Windows 2003 SP1

System RAM NonPaged Max Paged Max
512 MB 125 MB 184 MB
1024 MB 202 MB 168 MB
1536 MB 254 MB 352 MB
2048 MB 252 MB 352 MB

On Windows 2003 systems, Terminal Services are enabled by default.

On both Windows 2000 and Windows 2003, the HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Management\Memory Management\PagedPoolSize value can be set to 0xFFFFFFFF (or resetting the value to 0) to ensure that the Virtual Address Space used for Paged Pool is maximized.

Also - here's the theoretical maximums for pre-Vista Operating Systems:

Region IA-64 x64 x86
Process Address Space 7152 GB 8192 GB 2 to 3 GB*
Paged Pool 128 GB 128 GB 470 to 650 MB
NonPaged Pool 128 GB 128 GB 256 MB

http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2007/03/07/memory-management-understanding-pool-resources.aspx


For server runing Exchange 2003


The following table displays the matrix of evaluations used by the Exchange Server Analyzer to determine whether this value is out-of-bounds for a specified Exchange server. If the conditions in the following table are matched, a warning is displayed.

Operating System Boot.ini Setting Current Non-Paged Pool is

Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server

/3GB

100 MB or more

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server

None

200 MB or more

Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003

/3GB

100 MB or more

Microsoft Windows Server 2003

None

200 MB or more

The PoolNonpagedBytes key value is the size, in bytes, of the kernel memory non-paged pool. This is an area of physical system memory for objects that cannot be written to disk even when they are not being used. This value for this key is the last observed value. On a healthy Exchange server, unless a backup or restore is occurring, there should be no more than 85 MB of non-paged pool memory being used.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996269%28EXCHG.80%29.aspx



Schedule free bussy

Outlook 2003 and 2007

Outlook 2007 will look for a Client Access Server to view free/busy info. Exchange 2003 uses public folders to publish free/busy info.

To force Outlook 2007 to look for Public Folder based Free/Busy information you need to hack the registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Options\Calendar
Value Type:
DWORD
Value Name:
UseLegacyFB
Values:
0 or not set (default behavior which is to use the Availability Service) or 1 (use Public Folder based Free/Busy information)

Special Considerations for Working with Client Permissions

For outlook 2003

MS recomendation:

By default:

For outlook 2007:

· Si ambos usuarios no están, usen PFadmin para reparar los permisos, al agregar o modificar permisos, también corrige problemas.

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Algunos testeos q están buenos:

Test configuration on outlook 2007

# While Outlook 2007 is running, hold down the CTRL key, right-click the Outlook icon in the notification area, and then select Test E-mail AutoConfiguration.

# Verify that the correct e-mail address is in the box next to E-mail Address.

# Clear the check boxes next to Use Guessmart and Secure Guessmart Authentication.

# On the Test E-mail AutoConfiguration page, verify that the check box next to Use AutoDiscover is selected, and then click the Test button.


Enable TST

# In Outlook 2007, on the Tools menu, click Options, click the Other tab, and then click Advanced Options.

# On the Advanced Options page, select Enable logging (troubleshooting), and then click OK.

# Restart Outlook 2007, and then try to view free/busy information for another user.

# In Microsoft Windows, click Start, click Run, and then type %temp%.

# In Windows Explorer, open the olkdisc.log file and locate the files in the olkas directory.