Its always a problem on finding, What Roles the Current user is Assigned to, Not sure on what all he has having access to.
You can use the Below PowerShell Command to Find in which role assigments the user is part of in Exchange Role based acess groups.
Replace with “Username” with the Alias of the mailbox
Get-ManagementRoleAssignment -GetEffectiveUsers | Where-Object {$_.EffectiveUserName -eq "Username"} | select-object Role
You can Download the Smart Guide for complete reference
GFI Mail Archiver Smart Guide
Mailbox Journaling Became much easier. It does what it suppose to do.
Storing all your old Emails in the SQL database makes the software much efficient to query and get the data back to us in less span of time. It has much more good features available .
Journaling always needed for legal and Audit purposes, And Retrieving it at the right time is always more adequate. We need some good software where we got to depend on it.
GFI Mailarchiver uses much more efficient API . Where it creates a virtual Directory in IIS where all the requests hits there. where all the controls available on the webpage
which is more flexible
Installation process is much simpler –
See
And Adding the SQL storage is done without a hassle using an Automatic wizard
Creation of Journal Mailbox and Associating in to database is also done using a automatic Wizard
See
How to Add New Archive Store & Associate Journal Mailbox in GFI MailArchiver
Import and Export tool , Make things more easier for us – To archive the mailbox data – and Export a selective content
Location
Start –>All programs –> GFI MailArchiver –> Import and Export Tool
For Example, Lets say i want to archive some content in a mailbox – Specifying a date
Choose the Exchange Version – Enter the Credentials
Choose the Mailbox you want to or Choose All
Choose the date required
And Import is done
You can use the same tool to export the mails which you required , so that looks pretty good.
Browsing the Archived emails in a webpage
Supports the same from Android 2.1+,Apple iPhone iOS 4,Blackberry OS5+
It can generate smart reports . Where we can get a good real picture on what we really archive. the rate of emails and size
It has multiple templates and easily customizable on our needs
The GFI MailArchiver Outlook Connector enables users to synchronize their Microsoft Outlook® folders
with the data archived by GFI MailArchiver
You can install it as an Outlook-addin
And the most important feature is , You can do a brick level restore of mailboxes
I think we went through the product very well,
As per my thoughts – The overall product is much simpler to use and easy to understand ,Starters can just install and start using right away without any issues.
I rate the product on how user friendly it is and how effective on things in terms of retrieving the data when required .
Overall the product looks beneficiary for Exchange Admins
Its always your choice on what to choose and what not to choose
You can Archive the mails to GFI archive database or you can configure a SQL server to store it
SQL Server can be 2000 or above
In my case have installed SQL 2005 which is much easy to configure
You can use the Below Link which has the Steps to download and install SQL 2005
once you install the SQL2005
Also install Exchange Managements Tools using Exchange Setup Where you can use the automatic configuration wizard
You can click on New Archive Store Settings
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Choose Next
You can choose SQL server which is recommended
If you are testing in lab you can also use GFI MailArchiver Database
Choosing Manual Configuration
Have installed SQLExpress in the GFI mailarchiver Server itself
You got to specify the servername\Serverinstance
Have entered the default instance
As recommended you got to specify a dedicated drives for your log files and database
where its going to be large in real Environment .
So Plan smart
You can Choose the indexing also in a Dedicated drive where the database resides.
Which will eventually improve the performance
Now you archive server configured successfully !!
In the Main Windows Choose Add Mail Server
Choose “ Let the Wizard Create a New Journal Mailbox”
Choose
Choose Automatic creating of journal maibox
Enter the Admin Credentials
Now you could see on the Database Properties a Journal mailbox is associated automatically
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Satheshwaran Manoharan
Lets says Backup runs on your Exchange Server. Where it failed due to Disk space or some connectivity issues
VSS – Volume Shadow Copy Service – is responsible for your Backups on your Exchange Server
To Check for your Available writers you can run the below command in your command prompt
Vssadmin list writers
And some writers may be unstable or in waiting for completion state.
Especially “Microsoft Exchange Writer”
if that is unstable or waiting for completion for a long time , Eventually your Next backup will fail
You can try restarting Microsoft Exchange Information store Service to refresh it
or you can reboot the server
to get the writers back to stable.
If nothing could get your writers to stable state.
As a Last resort you can try Re registering the Vss dlls
Re-registering Vss Dlls
cd /d %windir%\system32 net stop vss net stop swprv regsvr32 /s ole32.dll regsvr32 /s oleaut32.dll regsvr32 /s vss_ps.dll vssvc /register regsvr32 /s /i swprv.dll regsvr32 /s /i eventcls.dll regsvr32 /s es.dll regsvr32 /s stdprov.dll regsvr32 /s vssui.dll regsvr32 /s msxml.dll regsvr32 /s msxml3.dll regsvr32 /s msxml4.dll vssvc /register net start swprv net start vss
It does help in getting the Vss service to function properly
Lets see how to deploy and Configure GFI archiving solution with Exchange 2010
You can register and download the Setup
Download GFI Mail Archiver
Just Before Installing GFI mail archiver you need the prerequisites
Note :
If the Microsoft® .NET framework is installed after IIS is installed this is automatically registered. Else,
register ASP.NET® with IIS®
From command prompt, navigate to:
For example: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\
Key in aspnet_regiis.exe -i and press Enter.
Step 1:
Download Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Standalone Installer)
Step 2:
Click on Install Components on the GFI MailArchiver Setup
Where GFI setup made the prerequisites installation much simpler.
It does it Automatically
Step3 :
Download and install the API on the archiving server where GFI MailArchiver uses it
Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1
Choose Do not Check for New build
Accept
Choose the Installation location
Choose the Default web site.
Choose Next
Choose finish
You have installed GFI Mail Archiver Successfully
Configuring Free/busy across forest is always a typical task to do.
But Creating Federation trust became much easier to share free busy across forest as a permanent solution
Understanding Federated Delegation
Still some scenarios require Exporting Free/busy to the other forest to build a coexistence between forests.
Lets see how to do it.
There are some other methods where we can configure Cross forest Free/busy without Active Directory trust, which will be covered in later posts
First Two Way Transitive Trust is configured between these forests
when target Forest resolves the Source domain for Free/busy it should resolve “Autodiscover.CareExchange.in” to your source forest client access server
I am try to do a Test email auto configuration from (TargetForest) CareExchange.in to a Mail Contact ”Galsync1@careExchange.in”
you can see “Autodiscover.CareExchange.in” resolves through DNS to the Source forest Client Access Server
In my case , I have Configured DNS forwarders from Target DNS server Forwarding my unfulfilled requests to Source DNS server,Where I have a HOST A record in the source domain already “Autodiscover.careexchange.in” Resolving to my source Exchange Client access server
Once That part is done.
You can use a GALsync to have your Mailboxes synced from source forest(Careexchange.in) as contacts in the Target forest (TargetExchange.in)
You can use ILM,FIM 2010 or you can use 3rd party NetSec Galsync which will get your the contacts synced from Source to Target.
Now you got to add your AvailabilityAddressSpace on the source forest
Step1:
Run the Below Command on the Source Forest
Add-AvailabilityAddressSpace -ForestName TargetExchange.in -AccessMethod PerUserFB -UseServiceAccount $true
Step2 :
Giving “ms-exch-epi-token-serialization” permission to the Source Exchange Servers over the Target Forest
Run the Below Command on the Target Forest
Get-ClientAccessServer | Add-AdPermission -AccessRights ExtendedRight -ExtendedRights "ms-exch-epi-token-serialization" -User "CareExchange\Exchange Servers"
Step 3:
Run this command in the Source forest (CareExchange.in) to export the SCP from the Source forest to the Target forest
So that the Target forest will have the Free busy information of the Source forest
Save the Credentials of the Target forest.
$Target=Get-Credential
Please Type “DomainName\Username” and Password
Now run
Export-AutodiscoverConfig -TargetForestDomainController "Targetdc.targetexchange.in" -TargetForestCredential $Target -MultipleExchangeDeployments $true
Now Autodiscover information has been Exported from from source forest(Careexchange.in) to the Target forest (TargetExchange.in)
Now able to use autodiscover & Access free busy without any issues
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