How to find the last logon time by a mailbox user in Microsoft Exchange 2007 If you need to get the last logon time by mailbox user in Exchange 2007 one of the easiest ways is to fire up the Exchange Management Shell and execute the cmdlet: get-mailboxstatistics The default setting of this option will [read more...]

Mail journaling is a useful facility in Microsoft Exchange 2007 and is commonly used by mail archiving systems and managed email security services. There are two options for Journaling in Microsoft Exchange 2007: mailbox database journaling and recipient rule-based journaling. In this article we will be talking about mailbox database journaling. Of the two method, [read more...]

For a number of reasons we use the built-in ntbackup program to back up our Exchange 2007 mail stores. Things have been running well until recently when the backups have been failing with the stark warning: The ‘Microsoft Information Store’ returned ‘Some log or patch files are missing.’ from a call to ‘HrESEBackupOpenFile()’ additional data [read more...]

Just read on RealWire, “Mimecast Announced Winner in Legal Technology Awards 2009” (3 Feb 2009) – Mimecast got the award for “Online Product of the Year” (and it uses that Unified word). Read the entire post on RealWire.

We are back to looking at ways of enhancing our email infrastructure – see Bolstering Email Services – What Are The Options?. My supplier is still waiting on a price from Webroot so in the meantime I have spent some time looking at Mimecast which recently included a WebEx demonstration. I have also been taking [read more...]

 We are currently investigating ways of improving, consolidating, and bolstering our self hosted, self managed electronic mail service. We wouldn’t want to move to a completely hosted or managed environment as we do try and run everything in house but e-mail is becoming a behemoth. Our electronic mail system is run on an Exchange Server [read more...]

Recently, I have been using Google Alerts to look for useful keywords and phrases relevant to our company. As we use MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) I got to thinking how we could better manage these alerts and provide a more usable record of them. MOSS supports lists that can receive email but the one [read more...]

A regular occurrence in our Exchange 2007 Server has been Event ID 1040 with Source MSExchange ActiveSync, the event appears approximately every fifteen minutes. The event tells us: Event Type:    WarningEvent Source:    MSExchange ActiveSyncEvent Category:    Requests Event ID:    1040Description:The average of the most recent [89] heartbeat intervals used by clients is less than or equal [read more...]