Posted March 12th, 2009 by Matt Shadbolt
Man! I’m killing these powershell scripts today – and they’ve all been related to alerting/reporting via email. If you’ve missed my two other posts – there is a mailbox size report (http://mattlog.net/2009/03/12/auto-email-exchange-2007-mailbox-report/) and a StorageGroupCopyStatus report (http://mattlog.net/2009/03/12/auto-email-exchange-2007-storagegroupcopystatus/) This one is a little more useful. Basically, this PowerShell script checks the SummaryCopyStatus and checks that it’s [...]
Tags: Exchange 2007, PowerShell, SCR, StorageGroupCopyStatus
Posted March 12th, 2009 by Matt Shadbolt
Exchange 2007′s Storage Group Copy feature is one of my favourites, however the one area it is really lacking is the reporting. You need to manually run the Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus -Server INITIALSERVER -StandbyMachine TARGETSERVER to find that your SCR is Healthy. I’ve been playing around writing some simple PowerShell scripts today so I thought I would [...]
Tags: Exchange 2007, PowerShell, SCR, Standby Continuous Replication, StorageGroupCopyStatus
Posted October 26th, 2008 by Matt Shadbolt
If you find that your Exchange 2007 Standby Continuous Replication isn’t working correctly, firstly run the following command from the source server using the Exchange Management Shell (EMS): Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus – StandbyMachine EXCHANGESERVERNAME You will then receive the Copy status queues etc. If you receive the following “Suspended” output your replication isn’t working: There are a [...]
Tags: Exchange 2007, Exchange Management Shell, SCR, Standby Continuous Replication
Posted September 29th, 2008 by Matt Shadbolt
I thought I would just quickly give you my take on the main benifit of moving your Exchange 2003 servers to Exchange 2007. There are a bunch of new features within Exchange 2007 – Microsoft have really been pushing the new OWA interface – however in my opinion the greatest new feature for administrators with [...]
Tags: Exchange 2007, SCR, Standby Continuous Replication