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From inside of the Exchange Management Shell, here are a few examples of how to export the message tracking log results to a csv (comma separated value) file which is easily imported and manipulated in a spreadsheet application such as Microsoft Excel or Open Office Calc:
To display the date, time, recipients, and the message subject on all of the sent items from a mailbox between a given time period:
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This will grant full access rights to all mailboxes for the Domain Admins group. Obviously, you need to replace “YourDomainHere” with your actual domain name. Type the following inside of the Exchange Management Shell:
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Every now and then, when re-enabling a user’s mailbox after it has been disabled, OWA will spit out an error message saying that the account is still disabled and the user will not be able to log in. To fix this, run the following command in the Exchange Management Shell:
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If you have any Active Directory users that have been deleted out but the addresses still show up in OWA or if you changed somebody’s user/email attributes and emails bounce back as undeliverable, this article is for you. I found this info here, the entries are stored in the user’s mailbox so the you can only delete them by doing one of the following:
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Out of nowhere today I rebooted my Exchange server (that has been up and running for several years without problems) then users could no longer delete their messages – they would just receive an unfriendly message stating that “An unexpected error occurred and your request could not be handled”. The event log showed the following error every couple of seconds:
Event 3, System.ServiceModel 3.0.0.0
WebHost failed to process a request. Sender Information: System.ServiceModel.ServiceHostingEnvironment+HostingManager/20974680 Exception: System.ServiceModel.ServiceActivationException: The service '/EWS/Exchange.asmx' cannot be activated due to an exception during compilation. The exception message is: The type initializer for 'Microsoft.Exchange.Services.Wcf.MessageInspectorManager' threw an exception.. ---> System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'Microsoft.Exchange.Services.Wcf.MessageInspectorManager' threw an exception. ---> System.InvalidOperationException: Unable to generate a temporary class (result=1). Continue reading "Exchange 2010 OWA – Can’t Delete Messages"
To ensure that the Message Tracking Log is enabled, inside the Exchange Management Console, navigate to the following area:
Server Configuration > Hub Transport > Right click on your Hub Transport entry > Log Settings Tab > Check the box labeled "Enable message tracking log" and directly underneath it, enter the path where your log files will reside.
Open the Exchange Management Shell console and determine your server’s identity and verfiy logging is enabled with either of these commands.
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