You can roll-your-own get-counter very easily without waiting for another CTP. See my post below.
Wrappage: <http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/accessing- performance-counters-in-powershell.aspx> Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php -----Original Message----- From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 2:48 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 Mailbox cleanup frustrations I've seen at least one blog post about Powershell CTP3 promising a get-counter cmdlet that looks like it will provide direct access to the performance counters. -----Original Message----- From: Troy Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 1:36 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 Mailbox cleanup frustrations To add to that, the poor man can create his own Exchange monitoring from a crummy workstation running the exchange management shell and having its own external smtp destination. Parsing test-servicehealth and get-queue can give you a pretty good idea of what is going on with your 2007 environment (you can add any of the test commands to that to enhance its reporting, ie test-mailflow). We also check disk space with get-wmiobject -class Win32_LogicalDisk -Computername Server When the script is done we either send a notification based on an issue, or use convertto-html and post it to an internal website. It's a far cry from SCE, but the price is right. -Troy -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 11:15 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 Mailbox cleanup frustrations As far as I know. Microsoft encourages you to use a fully featured monitoring product, such as OpsMgr or SCE or even ServersAlive. Something off-box from the Exchange server that can check more individual items. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php From: Leedy, Andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 11:11 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 Mailbox cleanup frustrations Thanks for the Reply Michael. One other question. Is built the in monitoring and alerts (queue size, drive free space etc...) gone in Exchange 2007? -Andy From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 10:42 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 Mailbox cleanup frustrations Insofar as [1] - not that I'm aware of. [2] would take a small MAPI-based program. Glen Scales blog may have some specific samples, or I'm sure you could retain any of several people to write one. As far as that goes, [1] is a MAPI program too - and could be written for much less than the cost of Enterprise CALs, but it is a larger effort than [1]. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php From: Leedy, Andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 9:54 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 2007 Mailbox cleanup frustrations In Exchange Server 2003 we scheduled Mailbox Manager to run weekly to move items older than 60 days to the System Cleanup folders based on recipient policy. We also deleted items older than 30 days from the System Clean folders again with the recipient policy. This gave the Outlook users 30 days to review what was going to deleted rather than just going straight to the deleted items folder. Also, after it ran weekly, each user was notified that via email that their mailbox was cleaned and the Admin was emailed a report. It seems this option has been discontinued in Exchange Server 2007. In Exchange 2007 the move to Systems Cleanup Folders has been replaced with Move to Custom Managed Folder. In order to have the same functionality in Exchange 2007, you have to pay for Enterprise CALs in order to create Managed Custom Folders. Which doesn't sound bad but at $35 per user times 600 users that's a lot. And, there still is no option send a email to each user and get a report. So, the best it seems we can do is move items directly to the deleted items folder an send out a mass email manually weekly or by script. Plus mailboxes that have been moved to the 2007 server still have the "System Cleanup" folder in them. 1) Is there an way to get the System Cleanup Folders in Exchange 2007 that I'm not aware of? Registry entry or some other method? 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