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Upgrading Exchange 2010 RTM to Exchange 2010 SP3

Satheshwaran Manoharan

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February 2, 2014

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I had to Upgrade a SBS Small Business Server from Exchange 2010 RTM to Exchange 2010 Sp3

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Downloaded Exchange 2010 Sp3 Setup

Extracted it to “C:\Exch 2010 sp3”

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Taken a Full Bare metal backup for safety

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Browse command prompt to setup location

Skipping Setup.com /pl (no Exchange 2003 Exists)

Skipping Setup.com /preparealldomain (no child domain exists)

Preparing Schema

Setup.com /prepareschema

Preparing Root domain

Setup.com /preparedomain

Preparing AD

Setup.com /prepareAD

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Download and install –

Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Packs

http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=17062

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Make sure IIS 6 WMI Compatibility Role service is added to IIS

If not add it

Add Role Services for Webserver – IIS 6 WMI Compatibility

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Downloaded Hot fix and installed it

Error:
Setup cannot continue with the upgrade because the ‘SMEX_SystemWatcher’ () process (ID: 748) has open files. Close the process and restart Setup.
Click here for help… http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms.exch.err.default(EXCHG.141).aspx?v=14.3.123.3&e=ms.exch.err.Ex28883C&l=0&cl=cp

Warning:
Install hotfix Microsoft Knowledge Base article 2550886 from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2550886 to improve Windows Failover Cluster transient communication instability when deploying stretched Database Availability Groups across datacenters.

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Disabled all Trend Micros Services

Rebooted the server

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Now run the setup again

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SP3 upgraded successfully

Not able to add subdomain in plesk – Unknown error 0xC00CE505 -COM Error C00CE505

Satheshwaran Manoharan

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January 27, 2014

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Adding subdomain in plesk gives

Error: Unknown error 0xC00CE505 (COM Error C00CE505) at setScriptMaps(test55.domain.com, ) (Error code 1)

Login to plesk server – Vhosts – domain.com(problematic domain)

Open the .Plesk folder , (if its not showing , View hidden files)

You will have a .security file

Take a back up of the file and remove it.

Now it will allow you to add Sub domain

How to remove old files from specified directories using PowerShell-Plesk

Satheshwaran Manoharan

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January 17, 2014

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Removing old iis logs in plesk

Here is the situation

I have 1600 + clients per server

And every client has its own IIS logs in their folder

For example

IIS log directory for Client1

“E:\Vhosts\Client1\Statistics\logs”

Wrote a Simple Script where it goes into these folders and removes the log files of every client which are 15 days old


$allclients = Get-ChildItem "E:\vhosts"

Foreach ($client in $allclients)

{
$location = "E:\vhosts\$client\statistics\logs\w3*"
$DeleteDays = (Get-Date).adddays(-4)
Get-ChildItem "$location" -Recurse | Where-object {$_.lastwritetime -lt $DeleteDays} | remove-item
}

Save it to .ps1 and run it Smile

Customize it as per your requirement

For plesk servers these are much suitable

Plesk Error: “Please obtain and install a new functioning license key”

Satheshwaran Manoharan

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January 14, 2014

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Plesk is a Webhosting software . which is installed on a windows machine

Plesk needs to do a automatic renewal but it fails to do at times :

The license key is invalid. In order to use the Parallels Plesk Panel, please obtain and install a new functioning license key. Your license key has expired. To continue using your Parallels Plesk Panel you must purchase a non-expiring commercial license key.

Just Press “Retrieve Keys”

And click ok

Log out and login back

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Crazy Plesk Smile

Can we enable Circular logging on Exchange database which has Database Copies

Satheshwaran Manoharan

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January 13, 2014

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It’s a good question . There are few situations like . where storage is filling up faster because of log files . where databases having more database copies . and there is no enough storage available to withstand the situation.

So we will be forced to enable Circular logging in these situation, still its not recommended to do so .

What is Circular logging ? – for starters

To prevent a buildup of log files, you enable circular logging for your replicated databases. When you combine circular logging with continuous replication, you have a new type of circular logging called continuous replication circular logging (CRCL), which is different from Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) circular logging. Whereas ESE circular logging is performed and managed by the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service, CRCL is performed and managed by the Microsoft Exchange Replication service. When enabled, ESE circular logging doesn’t generate additional log files and instead overwrites the current log file when needed. However, in a continuous replication environment, log files are needed for log shipping and replay. As a result, when you enable CRCL, the current log file isn’t overwritten and closed log files are generated for the log shipping and replay process.

So the question is , is it safe ? to Enable circular logging in Exchange Databases which are mounted ?

Yes, And not all the databases in one shot – – It may get your replication network down (Totally depends on the your situation, Read through )

If I enable circular logging in Exchange 2013. is my logs are going purge itself ?

Yes , It will be purged automatically by information store service.

Is all my database copies logs will be purged ?

Yes , it re synchronizes the logs and it will be purged in all database copies , it may few hours depends on the database size.

Example : Like 200 GB of database with 300 GB logs takes 3 to 4 hours in Blade servers

is it safe to enable Circular logging in business hours ?

No, Its totally depends on the size of the logs file you have with your databases , If there are more GB’s of log files .(they are going to resynchronize) which will increase more bandwidth on the replication network.

Still if the databases is too busy in Read/write data. it will put more load on storage in the process of removing those old log files

Will I Need to restart information store service ?

No , It should react in few minutes and resynchronize the logs in few hours . (In my case it didn’t require a restart, I cannot assure in all the environments)

How to Enable Circular logging in a database ?

To Enable :

Set-MailboxDatabase “DatabaseName” -CircularLoggingEnabled:$True

To Disable:

Set-MailboxDatabase “DatabaseName” -CircularLoggingEnabled:$False

To Enable Circular logging in all databases

Get-mailboxdatabase | Set-MailboxDatabase -CircularLoggingEnabled:$True

To Disable Circular logging in all databases

Get-mailboxdatabase | Set-MailboxDatabase -CircularLoggingEnabled:$False

Hope this article was informative Smile