Welcome to Matts Admin tips. This blog is full of little fixes, tutorials and work-arounds to those anoying problems that a Systems Administrator might face. If you find something that you have found useful please leave me a comment - I appreciate knowing that I've helped! Also, feel free to leave a comment if my tips or ideas don't work in your environment... I monitor them closely and would be happy to help! Matt

Auto Email Exchange 2007 StorageGroupCopyStatus

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 fix [...]

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Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) “Suspended”

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 couple of commands [...]

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Exchange 2007 and Standby Continuous Replication (SCR)

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 a [...]

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