Web site of the sister-company went live!

www.tacklesoftware.com went live. Home of the brand new Recycle Bin for Microsoft Dynamics CRM4. Product adds easy recovery to CRM4. Other CRM Tools to come. Good luck to the new web site!

File system Anti-virus exceptions for Exchange 2007

Great article that list how to find out the definite list of files and folders to be excluded from file system anti-virus scanning

http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2007/security-message-hygiene/configuring-file-level-antivirus-software.html

Symantec Enterprise Vault (aka KVS) and showInAddressBook attribute

showInAddressBook attribute of system or journaling account might get messed up (ie. the value is set to <Not Set>), which would result Journaling Task to fail on starting up with the following error message (among other bad things caused by showInAddressBook not set):

Event Type:    Error

Event Source:    Enterprise Vault

Event Category:    Journal Task

Event ID:    3305

Date:        6/14/2010

Time:        12:36:06 PM

User:        N/A

Computer:    KVSServer

Description:

The Task 'Exchange Journaling Task for ExchServer' failed to log on to Exchange server 'ExchServer' using mailbox 'SMTP:journalmailbox@mydomain.com'. Please ensure the mailbox has not been hidden, that the server is running and that the Vault account has sufficient permissions on the server.

 

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://evevent.symantec.com/rosetta/showevent.asp

To fix – simply set showInAddressBook attribute properly.

Powershell Tips

Tip #1: when you have Exchange Powershell installed on the workstation, you might need to load Exchange shell every time you want to run Exchange based command anyways:

add-pssnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.Admin

Tip #2: To get mailbox stats run: get-mailboxstatistics –server mailbox1w | Where-Object {$_.displayname –eq "John Smith"}