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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I was recently asked to scan a volume to check for any offline files to confirm that a bulk restore was successful. I created this gui-user-friendly powershell script to perform that function. It prompts for a directory to (recursively) check for off...
This simple script will parse all the IIS logs given as a command line argument for 500 errors (so you can investigate furhter) logged for aspx pages. PS C:\inetpub\log\IISlogs> .\nat.ps1 *.log DATE USER URL ...
Acording to best practice documentation, (I forget where now, I will update this if I find it again -- http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH48862 section 5 of the resolution) it is a good idea to periodically reduce the ...
I have produced a couple of folder/message scanners, and this is the latest one. I had the need recently to count the number of folders in Virtual Vault, and this script will do that. Normally Virtual Vault will contain all the folders that are in t...
Enterprise Vault can do quota based archiving as well as aged based archiving, or a combination of the two. One of the things that I used to struggle with when support Exchange Server was figuring out which mailboxes had a non-standard quota limit. ...
A colleague of mine asked about this the other day. He said I had produced a script a long time ago which showed archives in Enterprise Vault which had no primary user account, ie they were archives where the Active Directory account had been dele...
This is a second script to use against an Exchange Mailbox to create many folders, but this time it will allow you to control the depth and breadth of the structures which are created. The script creates a structure like this : Inbox \s1 ...
I had the need to test something out in Archive Explorer the other day.. and for the test I need a LOT of folders in the mailbox, thousands of them.. and of course thousands of archived items spread throughout those folders. I wanted a structure a bi...
Heres another PShell script. Pumps list of Outlook Profiles to an HTML format file. Not earthshattering but EV creates many TEMP profiles and MAPI doesn't always clear them, quick easy way to pull a list of profiles if you are getting MAPI errors in...
Having seen some performance cases recently made me wonder if there was an easier way to pull some counters relevant to EV a bit quicker and to be able to port the results to file a bit easier than perfmon which has comprehensive counter listing in t...
Powershell script to restart services daily between 0645 and 0800. #**************************************************************** # # DailyRestartEVServices.ps1 # # jprknight 08.09.2010 Initial Draft # # Powershell script t...
