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Exchange 2010 Administrator Audit Log – script

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 07/06/2013 - 04:00 |
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Till now we wrote two articles about Adminstrator Audit Log.

First described how to enable and configure Administrator Audit Log:

Exchange 2010 Administrator Audit Log – configuration

in second we explained how to search Administrator Audit Log:

Exchange 2010 Administrator Audit Log – search logs

 

Now we will describe how to automate search of Administrator Audit Log.

During Administrator Audit Log configuration we set, how long audit logs will be stored in a hidden arbitration mailbox.

The command you to configure how long the logs should be kept are presented below:

Set-AdminAuditLogConfig -AdminAuditLogAgeLimit 60.00:00:00

 

To specify a value of days, use the format dd.hh:mm:ss so in this example logs will be kept for 60 days.

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Exchange 2010 Administrator Audit Log – search logs

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 06/06/2013 - 02:12 |
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We wrote how to enable Administrator Audit Log on Exchange 2010 in last post:

Exchange 2010 Administrator Audit Log – configuration

 

Now we want to explain how can we search logs or export them.

 

We can see logs and export them using:

  • ECP console
  • CMDlet Search-AdminAuditLog or New-AdminAuditLogSearch

 

Using ECP console to search and export logs:

Run ECP console and choose:

  1. In the drop-down list box next to Mail > Options, click My Organization from the Select what to manage list.
  2. Click Reporting, click Auditing, and then click Export Configuration Changes.
  3. Select a date range using the Start Date and End Date fields.
  4. Select the recipient who should receive the XML file using the Select users to email the audit log to field.
  5. Click Export.

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Exchange 2010 Administrator Audit Log – configuration

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 05/06/2013 - 04:20 |
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If your Exchange organization has more than one administrators, and sometimes you need to know who did what, then you should use Exchange Administrator Audit Log.

When you enable Administrator Audit Log it will help you to keep a track of the changes made to any Exchange configuration like:

creating new mailbox, changing receive connectors, transport rules etc.

 

Those information are quite important during troubleshooting your Exchange environment.

In Microsoft Exchange 2010 RTM, Administrator Audit Log logged all operations to mailbox. When you enable audit log then you need to use parameter AdminAuditLogMailbox to specify mailbox to store all audit logs.

But with SP1 for Exchange 2010 you don’t need to use mailbox anymore.

Now all logs are stored in a hidden, dedicated arbitration mailbox.

 

To check if Administrator Audit Log is enabled we should use following command:

Get-AdminAuditLogConfig | FL

 

we will receive information about audit settings like below:

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Provisioning Guide for Lync-Skype Connectivity

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 04/06/2013 - 04:29 | ,
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On Microsoft Download Center WebSite you can find document describing how to create Lync-Skype connectivity

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To download this document go to:

Provisioning Guide for Lync-Skype Connectivity

 

In this Lync-Skype connectivity guide you will find information about:

  • Provisioning Guide for Lync-Skype Connectivity
  • Enabling Lync – Skype Connectivity for Office 365 and Lync Online
  • Overview of Lync-Skype Connectivity Process for Lync Server
  • Accessing the Microsoft Lync Server Public IM Connectivity Provisioning Site
  • Enabling Federation and Public IM Connectivity (PIC)
  • Using Lync-Skype Connectivity as an End User

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Exchange 2010 Server Role Requirements Calculator v20.7

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 03/06/2013 - 03:55 |
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Last time we wrote about new requirements calculator for Exchange 2013 and also for Exchange 2010.

Unfortunately Exchange 2010 Requirements Calculator in version 20.6 has some problems with memory calculations formulas when designing site resilient topologies for CAS or HT.

So now we have new version of Exchange 2010 Requirements Calculator v20.7

New version can be downloaded here:

Exchange 2010 Server Requirements Calculator v20.7

To see what’s new in this version go to:

Updates to the Exchange 2010 Server Role Requirements Calculator

 

 

Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 KB2803727

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 31/05/2013 - 11:15 |
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The Exchange Team released Rollup 1 for Exchange 2010 SP3.

After installation of Rollup 1 you will get version 14.3.146.0

Rollup 1 for Exchange 2010 SP3 is available for download from:

Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 (KB2803727)

 

Ex2010SP3RU1

 

 

Full details for this release you can find here:

Description of Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3

Issues resolved by Rollup 1:

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Exchange receive connectors add IP addresses

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 29/05/2013 - 01:52 | ,
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When we need to add IP address to existing Receive Connector we can add it using Exchange Management Console in Server Configuration, Hub Transport.

This solution is fast when you need to add few IP addresses.
But if you need to add many IP addresses then better option is to use Exchange Management Console and Powershell

 

To get list of Receive Connectors we can run command:

Get-ReceiveConnector

We will get list of all Receive Connectors available on all HUB Transport Exchange Servers.

If we want to list Receive Connectors available on specified server then we need to add parameter -server like below:

Get-ReceiveConnector -server ServerName

 

Now we have list of Receive Connectors, we need to check Identity from this list to use it to get list of all IP addresses assigned to Receive Connector.

Run following command to get all IP addresses from Receive Connector:

(Get-ReceiveConnector -identity "servername\receiveconnector_name").RemoteIPRanges

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Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator v5.6

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 27/05/2013 - 01:04 |
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Exchange Team Blog released new version of Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator v5.6

You can download new version here:

Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator v5.6

 

Also Exchange Team Blog released new version of Microsoft Exchange 2010 Server Role Requirements Calculator:

v20.6 of the Exchange 2010 Server Role Requirements Calculator

 

Fixes in Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator v5.6 are the following.

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Exchange 2013 Requirements Calculator v5.1

  By Remigiusz Szatkowski | 15/05/2013 - 09:13 |
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Exchange Team released first version of the Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator

New calculator includes Mailbox server role calculator and also recommendations on sizing Client Access servers.

Some of the highlights with the calculator:

  • The calculator includes transport sizing (hence the name, I guess);
  • Accommodating for Client Access Server role with sizing for multi-role server deployments;
  • Support for multiple databases / JBOD volumes;
  • Configurable witness server location (primary, secondary or tertiary data center);
  • Configurable server names and database prefixes for generated scripts;
  • Generated scripts include script for DAG creation;
  • Support for single HA, Act/Pas and Act/Act distribution models

 

 

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