Considerations for virtualizing Exchange 2007 mailbox servers

Microsoft Exchange Server hardware virtualization is so popular that it seems as if everyone is moving their entire infrastructure to a virtual server environment. That being the case, I want to discuss some of the issues you may encounter when virtualizing Exchange 2007 mailbox servers. Microsoft’s virtualization support policy…

Exchange WMI Errors - WMI Repository Clear & Reinstall Script

Finally found the solution to fix the “An error occured during a call to Windows Management Instrumentation ID no: 8004100e Exchange System Manager” error. It worked beautifully. I can now fully utilise Message Tracking on my Windows 2000 Exchange server. I have to give full credit to Luke Edson at…

Full Text Search Fix

For a corrupted Index file, please perform the following steps to try to resolve this issue: Step 1: ================== 1). On the Exchange server, open Registry Editor and back up the entire registry as a precaution. 2). Locate and then click the following registry subkey, where COMPUTERNAME is the name of…

Automating a Quicker Exchange 2000 or 2003 / DC reboot

Original article here. [http://www.msexchange.org/articles/Automating-Quicker-Exchange-2000-2003-DC-reboot.html] You can make the server execute a script at shutdown time by using the Group Policy Editor, which is an MMC (Microsoft Management Console) snap-in.  I will explain how to use the Group Policy Editor shortly, but first, we need…