Thursday 29 May 2014

Exchange 2010 monitoring

There are scores of counters on Exchange to be aware of, but these give a good high level representation of the infrastructure:
  • %Processor Time: < 75% (average)
  • Processor Queue Length < 5
  • Memory Available > 100 MB
  • Memory Transition Pages/Sec < 100, spikes < 1000
  • Memory Page Reads/Sec < 100
  • .net clr mem% time in Global Catalog < 10%
  • TCPv4 /v6 connection resets should be low
  • LDAP time < 50 ms, max < 100ms
Additional Counters for CAS
  • OWA average search time < 5000ms
  • ASP.net App restarts / Worker process restarts / request wait = 0
  • RPC Client Access / Latency < 250ms
  • RPC Client Backoff /sec = low numbers, should no increase
Additional Counters for Hub Transport:
  • Average Disk Reads/Sec < 20ms, spike < 50
  • Average Disk Writes/Sec < 20 ms, spike < 50
  • Aggregate Delivery Queue Length < 3000, spike < 5000
  • Remote Delivery < 250
  • Submission Queue < 100
  • Retry Delivery Queue <100
  • Largest Delivery Queue < 200
Additional Counters for Mailbox:
  • I/O reads avg latency < 20ms < 100ms
  • Page faults stalls/sec 0 (disk I/O)
  • RPC requests < 60
  • RPC avg latency < 10ms
  • Database Instances / Log gen check < 500, 20-30 per DB
Additional Counters for UM:
  • Message success processed /hour > 95%
  • Call answer queued messages < 50
  • Direct access failures =0
  • Operations > 6 seconds =0

Wednesday 28 May 2014

CTRL-ALT-DELETE in an RDP session

Just found out today that if you press CTRL-DELETE-END it will lock your RDP session. Probably should've known this 10 years ago.

Monday 26 May 2014

Exchange 2010 MCITP Retiring

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en-gb/retired-certification-exams.aspx

Microsoft don't appear to have been consistent on showing where the retirement dates for these exams are. For instance, I couldn't find it on the US site. Maybe its just UK.


Wednesday 21 May 2014

This is TimMcMic's DAC guide:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/timmcmic/archive/2012/05/21/my-databases-do-not-automatically-mount-after-i-enabled-datacenter-activation-coordination.aspx


This blog from Tim McMic is my goto guide for HA.

He is the only person to write about the CPQ of 9223372036854775766, so it's only fair to ensure it gets more coverage here.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/timmcmic/archive/2012/05/30/exchange-2010-the-mystery-of-the-9223372036854775766-copy-queue.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/timmcmic/


Exchange Server 2010 SP and Rollup Build Numbers


http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/240.exchange-server-and-update-rollups-build-numbers.aspx

Exchange Server 2010

Product name Build number Date KB
 Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 RTM  14.0.639.21  11/9/2009
 Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010  14.0.682.1  12/9/2009  KB976573
 Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2010  14.0.689.0  3/4/2010  KB979611
 Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2010  14.0.694.0  4/9/2010  KB981401
 Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010  14.0.702.1  6/17/2010  KB982639
 Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010  14.0.726.0  12/13/2010  KB2407113

Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1

Product name Build number Date KB
 Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1  14.1.218.15  8/24/2010
 Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1  14.1.255.2  10/4/2010  KB2407028
 Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1  14.1.270.1  12/9/2010  KB2425179
 Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1
 14.1.289.3  3/7/2011  KB2492690
 Update Rollup 3-v3 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1  14.1.289.7  4/1/2011  KB2529939
 Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1  14.1.323.1  6/22/2011  KB2509910
 Update Rollup 4-v2 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1  14.1.323.6  7/27/2011  KB2579150
 Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1  14.1.339.1  8/23/2011  KB2582113
 Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1  14.1.355.2  10/27/2011  KB2608646
 Update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1  14.1.421.0  8/13/2012  KB2743248
 Update Rollup 7-v2 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1  14.1.421.2  10/9/2012  KB2756496
 Update Rollup 7-v3 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1  14.1.421.3  11/12/2012  KB2778158
 Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1  14.1.438.0  12/10/2012  KB2787763

Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2
Product name Build number Date KB
 Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP2  14.2.247.5  12/4/2011
 Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 SP2  14.2.283.3  2/13/2012  KB2645995
 Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2010 SP2  14.2.298.4  4/16/2012  KB2661854
 Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2010 SP2  14.2.309.2  5/29/2012  KB2685289
 Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 SP2  14.2.318.2   8/13/2012  KB2706690
 Update Rollup 4-v2 for Exchange Server 2010 SP2  14.2.318.4  10/9/2012  KB2756485
 Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 SP2  14.2.328.5  11/13/2012   KB2719800 
 Update Rollup 5-v2 for Exchange Server 2010 SP2  14.2.328.10  12/10/2012  KB2785908
 Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2010 SP2  14.2.342.3  2/11/2013  KB2746164
 Update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2010 SP2  14.2.375.0  8/13/2013  KB2874216
 Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2010 SP2 14.2.390.3  12/10/2013  KB2903903

Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3


Product name Build number Date KB
 Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP3  14.3.123.4  2/12/2013  KB2808208
 Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 SP3  14.3.146.0   5/29/2013  KB2803727
 Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2010 SP3  14.3.158.1  8/13/2013  KB2866475
 Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2010 SP3  14.3.169.1  11/25/2013  KB2891587
 Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 SP3  14.3.174.1  12/10/2013  KB2905616
 Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 SP3   14.3.181.6  2/25/2014  KB2917508

Tuesday 20 May 2014

To flush/Delete the ARP cache in Windows 2000/2003, run the following command:

netsh interface ip delete arpcache
Delete IP address using arp command
arp -d <ip address>
Display arp table
arp -a
Add static entry to ARP table
arp -s <ip address> <mac address>