Microsoft Exchange 2007 - Stores and Storage Groups

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Exchange 2007 - Stores and Storage Groups

Exchange 2007 Stores and Storage Groups

Instead of having one huge mail store, I advise you to divide, and so rule your Exchange Organization. Management really is the keyword. Creating multiple storage groups will greatly improve your control over the Exchange 2007 serve mailboxes.

Topics for Exchange 2007 Storage Groups

Benefits of Exchange Multiple Stores Storage Groups - New Limits Managing Your Storage Group and Stores Troubleshooting Exchange 2007 Storage Problems PowerShell Commands for Storage Groups and Stores Exchange 2010 Stores Summary of Stores and Storage Groups
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Benefits of Exchange's Multiple Stores

1. Smaller stores mean that backup completes faster, and that restores are easier to manage. 2. Fewer users will be affected should you need to take one store offline. 3. Each store can have its own policy for mailbox limits. 4. If you have multiple disks, dividing a single store into storage groups will improve performance. Note that all stores in one storage group share th same log file. 5. Instead of having lots of small Exchange 2007 servers, buy one powerful machine and configure multiple Storage Groups.

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Storage Groups - New Limits

The big news for Exchange 2007 storage groups is that the standard edition no has no database limit. If you remember, in Exchange 2003 it only grow to a maximum of 75 GB. However, even better news is the increase in storage grou for the Enterprise versions, you can now have up to 50 mailbox stores per 2003 Std 2003 Ent 2007 Std 2007 Ent Storage groups Stores per group
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Creating More Exchange Storage Groups

Begin by launching the Exchange Management Console. You can actually do this from any server. 1. Expand the Server Configuration container. 2. Select the Mailbox server where you want to create the new storage group. 3. Look in the 'Action pane', choose New Storage Group.

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4. All the wizard really needs to know is the name of the new storage group 5. Take the opportunity to check the options.

Managing Your Storage Group and Stores

Exchange Server 2007 has a new feature called Local Continuous Rep group. One consequence of enabling LCR is that you can only have one databa reduce the recovery time for data-level disasters. LCR works by enabling a qui of the data. Exchange Mailbox Store

One option you may wish to implement is the Journal Recipient. Exchange 200 every message, what you do is create a special account, and then 'wire up' the Recipient. Move a Mailbox

It could not be easier to move a mailbox store, just right-click the store and th process to re-house the database. Mailbox Limits

When you configure mailbox limits, they never seem to work. This is take effect. You can enforce a limit immediately by restarting Microsoft Rebooting the Exchange 2007 server would have the same effect, but restartin and satisfying solution. Errors when you mount a database

If you get error messages when you mount a database store, the simple solutio Server SP1. In the event logs you may see evidence such as ID 7011, 7034, 9 these are false positives, and in fact, Exchange 2007 mounted the database wi

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Troubleshooting Exchange 2007 Storage Problems

Server Stops Responding to a MAPI Client

Exchange Server 2007 sets limits on the number of server objects tha trade-off, if you allow Microsoft Outlook client to open unlimited numbers thoughtless uses can hog the server. If you choke down the number of objects you will get lots of Event 9646, indicating that a MAPI client has open server.

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As so often these cases, there is a registry setting where you can change the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeIS\P You need to create a sub-key called: MaxObjsPerMapiSession

Next, right-click the MaxObjsPerMapiSession that you just created, click New, objtMessage. In the 'Value' data box, type the new maximum number of objec

If you are interested, you could research then add more values, for example: o objtRulesView, objtFXSrcStrm, objtFXDstStrm, or objtCStream.

'Windows could not start the Microsoft Exchange Information Store on

Check the application event log for Event ID messages 1121 and 5000. The roo 'Mr Nobody' deleting the default E-mail Address policy, and then creating a new The solution to this error 'Windows could not start the Microsoft Information Store', lies with ADSI Edit (not Regedit). What you need to do is set the attribute msExchPolicyOrder = 2147483647. This how to navigate to the correct property: 1. CN= Configuration\CN=Services\CN=Microsoft Exchange. Then: CN=<Organization>\CN=Recipient Policies\CN=E-mail Address Policies 2. Right-click the E-mail Address Policies name, and then select Properties. 3. Find the msExchPolicyOrder attribute, and then click Edit. 4. Set the value of the msExchPolicyOrder attribute to 2147483647. General Solution to Store Problems Restart the underlying Exchange 2007 service:

In Services snap-in, in the details pane, locate the Microsoft Exchange Informa Alternatively, use a PowerShell command: restart-Service "Microsoft Exchange Information Store"

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PowerShell Commands for Storage Groups and Stores

After launching the Exchange Management Console and looking around, you m type a few PowerShell commands rather than keep drilling down via the PowerShell commands to configure your Exchange 2007 stores and storage mount-Database

Example: Mount-Database -Identity ExchSrv\MgrDatabase There is also a siste remove-MailboxDatabase Example: remove-MailboxDatabase -Identity "OldMgrs" set-MailboxDatabase This is the command to set mailbox limits. Example: Set-MailboxDatabase "MgrDatabase" IssueWarningQuota 5 ProhibitSendReceiveQuota 614400000

set-MailboxDatabase has more parameters, for example, you can 'wire up' ema family of MailboxPermission commands, which use the verbs add, get or remov Statistics Two more interesting cmdlets are: get-MailboxFolderStatistics and also

move-DatabasePath This command requires more parameters, I would favo moving mailstore databases.

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Summary - Exchange 2007 Storage Groups

Just like its predecessor, each Exchange 2007 store is associated with its own d storage group's log files. When you install Exchange Server 2007, it creates Storage Group as well as a mailbox store. Thereafter, you can create additiona parameters associated with a store.

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