Microsoft Exchange 2007 Logging

With Microsoft Exchange 2007 everything should be running smooth after first install and for new administrator with Exchange this is great. But when you need to get the logs of the server transaction, the default settings was not enough.

Let say the log retention, size of the logs, and other things will be need to adjusted according your organization requirements. This will also affect the server sizing and performance. Thats why sometimes click and pray doesn't works well.

Here my journey on Exchange 2007 email tracking.

I want to know if message tracking enabled, using exchange management shell :

Get-TransportServer | fl *messagetracking*

you can see is it enabled, max age, max directory size, max file size, and the file path.

how to enable / disable it ? here the command :

Set-TransportServer SERVERNAME –MessageTrackingLogEnabled $false or $true

How if we want to log using different path/disk ? note that path should local to exchange server

Set-TransportServer SERVERNAME –MessageTrackingLogPath "D:\TrackingLogs"

and make sure the security as administrator have Full control, Systems need full control, Network services needs Read, Write, and Delete Subfolders and Files.

How about the max directory size ?

Set-TransportServer Servername –MessageTrackingLogMaxDirectorySize 500MB

and for max log files :

Set-TransportServer CorpExch –MessageTrackingLogMaxFileSize 5MB

And the maximum Log file Age by default are 30 days in exchange 2007. To modify :

Set-TransportServer SERVERNAME –MessageTrackingLogMaxAge DD.HH:MM:SS

So let say your organization needs 3 month logs to be retreived, set :

Set-TransportServer CorpExch –MessageTrackingLogMaxAge 90.00:00:00

And for subject logging, it is by default enabled in exchange 2007, you can disable it by :

Set-TransportServer CorpExchangeServre –MessageTrackingLogSubjectLoggingEnabled $false

And how if want to see detail transaction log for send and receive of smtp log? you need to enable it manually as it not enabled by default.

To enable outbound SMTP logging use Set-SendConnector "Connector Name" -ProtocolLoggingLevel verbose. By default it is set to none.

To enable inbound SMTP logging use Set-RecieveConnector "Connector Name" -ProtcolLoggingLevel verbose.


So there was my journey. If need logs more than default 30 days, you better enable it.

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