If you are interested in troubleshooting, and creating network maps, then I recommend that you try NPM now. After launching the Exchange Management Console and looking around, you may find it quicker and easier to type a few PowerShell commands rather than keep drilling down via the GUI.
Here are a few of the many PowerShell commands to configure your Exchange stores and storage groups. There is also a family of MailboxPermission commands, which use the verbs add, get or remove. Import users from a spreadsheet, complete with their mailbox. Just provide a list of the users with the fields in the top row, and save as. Optionally, you can provide the name of the OU where the new mailboxes will be born.
There are also two bonus tools in the free download, and all 3 have been approved by Microsoft:. Download your FREE bulk mailbox import tool. When you install Exchange Server , it creates a storage group named First Storage Group as well as a mailbox store. Thereafter, you can create additional stores, and modify the parameters associated with a store. Exchange Stores and Storage Groups Instead of having one huge mail store, I advise you to divide, and so rule your Exchange Organization.
Fewer users will be affected should you need to take one store offline. Each store can have its own policy for mailbox limits. If you have multiple disks, dividing a single store into storage groups will improve performance. Note that all stores in one storage group share the same log file. Instead of having lots of small Exchange servers, buy one powerful machine and configure multiple Storage Groups. Storage Groups — New Limits The big news for Exchange storage groups is that the standard edition now has no database limit.
You can actually do this from any server. Expand the Server Configuration container. Select the Mailbox server where you want to create the new storage group. Now wait for the tool to merge the mailbox data from Mailbox Database in the Recovery Storage Group for the selected mailbox.
When the mailbox data merge has completed, you should be able to see the content that was deleted from the production Mailbox Database.
If you have a fair amount of experience working with cmdlets, restoring mailbox data from a Mailbox Database in a Recovery Storage Group can be done a lot faster than when using ExTRA. The first step is to create the RSG. The next step is to add a recovery database either moved, copied or restored from backup to the RSG, this is done by running the New-MailboxDatabase cmdlet with the MailboxDatabaseToRecover parameter.
With the Mailbox Database created in the Recovery Storage Group we now need to configure it to allow overwrites by running the Set-MailboxDatabase cmdlet with the —AllowRestore parameter. To allow file restores for the recovery database just created, type:. To do so launch the Windows Backup tool and restore the respective Mailbox Database version using the same steps as we did when we used the ExTRA to recover Mailbox data.
We now need to mount the restore Mailbox Database using the Mount-Database cmdlet. In order to do so type:. With the Mailbox Database mounted we can now extract Mailbox data from it. If you for example want to merge the mailbox data of an existing user in the recovery database to the production mailbox database, you need to type:.
Note Depending on the size of the mailbox that is to be recovered, this merging process can take a long time. If you need to recover mailbox data for all users in the RSG, you would need to use the following command:.
In this case you have the option of recovering the mailbox data to a target folder in another mailbox by using the following command:. To do so, first run the command to remove the recovery database:. Click Yes to the confirmation warning, then type the following command in order to remove the RSG:.
As you have seen throughout this article, the way we work with Recovery Storage Groups RSGs has changed quite a lot with Exchange Your email address will not be published. Learn about the latest security threats, system optimization tricks, and the hottest new technologies in the industry. Over 1,, fellow IT Pros are already on-board, don't be left out! TechGenix reaches millions of IT Professionals every month, and has set the standard for providing free technical content through its growing family of websites, empowering them with the answers and tools that are needed to set up, configure, maintain and enhance their networks.
Exchange Server makes it fairly easy to move storage group and database paths using a few simple commands. Instead the administrator must move the files manually, and issue commands to update the storage group and database configurations to the new paths.
This might be feasible for the default storage group and database created when the cluster was first installed, but once you have added mailboxes it is no longer an option. In that case, why not just create the new storage group and database and migrate the mailboxes instead? It can also take a lot longer than simply moving the storage group and database. Before you move a storage group in an CCR cluster I recommend that you first back up the database in that storage group.
By running a full backup you:. You should also make sure the new storage paths are properly configured and ready to be used in production.
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