Whilst working through the event logs on our Exchange Server 2007 I discovered Information Event 2080 which appears with more than a little regularity, stating:

“Process MAD.EXE (PID=5544). Exchange Active Directory Provider has discovered the following servers with the following characteristics: “

I don’t mind informational events however if they have nothing major to report it can be handy to keep them to a minimum. The first step was to head to the Exchange Command Shell and execute the command

• get-eventloglevel

This lists all the Exchange Services and their associated logging levels.

Most of the services were reporting the Lowest logging level, however two services in particular were showing “Low” – as Event ID 2080 is related to ADAccess I set the logging level to “Low” for these two services using the commands:

• set-eventloglevel "MSExchange ADAccess\Validation" – level 0
• set-eventloglevel "MSExchange ADAccess\Topology" – level 0

Hopefully, this should reduce the number of occurrences of this keen informational event in the event log.