E2K7: Determining Status of Database Backups

Archived in the category: Exchange Server, PowerShell, Technology, Tools
Posted by Dave on 27 Aug 09 - 0 Comments

While running some reports on Exchange backup success I could not figure out why when I ran get-mailboxdatabase | fl Name,LastFullBackup it would return a blank LastFull Backup.  In Exchange Management console I could look at the properties of the database and see the Last full backup and the Last incrementation backup times.

 
After some search, [...]

Reporting on Mailbox Databases

Archived in the category: Exchange Server, PowerShell, Technology, Tools
Posted by Dave on 30 Apr 09 - 0 Comments

There are a number of advantages to spreading your users’ mailboxes across your databases in Exchange 2007 versus putting department or groups in to a single database together. One of the biggest advantages is risk mitigation of a single database outage putting an entire group out of commission. Managing database sizes is also important in [...]

Using my previous employers standard SQL build caused some issues installing a new OCS pool. The 2 errors are related to the articles below.
Security Account Delegation
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa905162%28SQL.80%29.aspx
Shrinking your model DB size.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/307487