Ever been asked to, or needed to, check the Best Practice recommendations on all EV, DA and SQL Servers in the Enterprise Vault environment and needed to compare multiple settings against one, or all, of the below technotes?Optimization Recommendatio...
A few lines PowerShell I wrote to send the detail of Event Log events. I use it to notify me when Archiving tasks end (events 3454 and 3446) and when my backup mode script triggers (events 7058, 7079, 7060 and 7081). Set the appropriate emai...
Hey all, I figured I throw these out to everyone. These are a few queries I use to help identify issues with backlogs for items awaiting for backup (backupcomplete) and committed to the index (IndexCommited). These give a good healthcheck on the Vaul...
All - I know it's been awhile, but this took a bit to sort out. The purpose of this query was to get all necessary information from the EnterpriseVaultDirectory when pertaining to EV Move Archive. This was tested and should be very helpful with revie...
Hi All, Exchange Mailbox Archive Task Report is a really great feature to understand the archiving status. But, the bad part of this feature is no notifications and you must check every server individually. We created some scripts which can import ...
All - Awhile back I posted a Query to pull the details and statistics for Vault Cache Content Cache (CC) download status'. I have since added details gathered by the ClientDiagnostics.aspx page introduced in 10.0.3. While you can go to an interactive...
In certain circumstances when an exchange mailboxes are re enabled for archiving it get 'DefaultVaultId' from ‘ExchangeMailboxEntry’ table of directory database. A duplicate archive may get create if 'DefaultVaultId' is blank at the time when mail-bo...
The Enterprise Vault Configuration Reporter (EVCR) for EV 11 has been released.
Here's the Powershell script that you can run from within the File Server to dump everything from the FSA VaultStore: the attached file must be renamed into .PS1 to be executed though the Powershell console. ** Requires Powershell be installed...
All - Been awhile but I figured I'd provide this query. In later versions of Enterprise Vault, the ClientDiagnostics.aspx page has been included to provide admin-level information on Vault Cache/Virtual Vault for an environment. Prior to this howev...
Hi there, It's often important to keep track of the size of your partitions. I've created a simple script that will report the size of each of your partitions. This script requires SQL Server 2008 R2 or greater on the server as well as SQL Server 20...
The usual ‘unsupported’, ‘subject to change’ caveats and disclaimers apply. But maybe useful for further development. Output: 32bit-PS C:\tools> .\tasks.ps1 Exchange Journaling Task for W2K8R2AIO is Running Exchange Journaling Task for W2K8R2AIO(Retr...
Over the weekend I needed to do some testing with reasonable amounts of random FSA Data. The following little download will help with this sort of task if you ever need to do it in your own environment, and don't want to use 'real' files. You will s...
All, here is another large SQL Query I put together to help in identifying issues and details. This one however runs against the Vault Store DB only. Notes: - As this cannot take into consideration every environment, please run these queries wi...
Large Text file viewer - very useful tool for viewing very large Dtrace Logs or Report Files Struggling to open and view EV Report files or Dtrace Logs that are hundreds of megabytes or even few gigabytes in Size? Just run LTFViewr5u.exe and drad and...
So, I've been cobbling together a few SQL queries lately that help get large amounts of information from EV. I figured I'd provide one of these to everyone. As I post these queries I will also provide the information it gathers below so people kn...
In the forums a few weeks ago someone asked about whether or not empty folders that had been left by Enterprise Vault CAB process could be removed. The answer is that they can .. And I wrote this tool (source code and all is freely available) which...
Hi all, This is a tool from my colleague Wayne. It's been around quite some time, but, this is an updated version and can be pretty hand if you want to see what an item that has been archived looks like. The tool is called SaveSetFetcher. Put the EX...
The other day I need something to create some data for FSA testing. After some surfing, and trying a number of different scripts, I amalgamated a bunch and came up with the attached. There are two files, both will need Python 3+ installing. That'...
There's a known problem in the API Runtime installer (NOT the EV Server installer) which can prevent some Managed assemblies from being properly registered for COM interop. This can be problematic especially if you up-or downgrade, as the assembly ve...
