Objective 5.2 Exchange 2010 Flashcards
Objective 5.2: Monitor mail flow.
You should know that, by default, message ______ is enabled on all Exchange 2010 Hub Transport, Edge Transport, and Mailbox servers.
tracking
You can use the EMC to configure some message tracking settings on a Hub Transport or Edge Transport server, such as the location of the message tracking log file. You do this by accessing the ______ dialog box for the Hub Transport or Edge Transport object.
Properties
You cannot, however, use the ______ to configure the maximum size or age of message tracking log files or the maximum size of the message tracking log file directory. Also, you cannot use this tool to configure message subject logging in message tracking logs.
EMC
You can use the EMS ______ cmdlet to enable or disable message tracking and to change the path to the message tracking log on a Hub Transport or Edge Transport server.
Set-TransportServer
The following command disables message tracking on the Exchange 2010 Hub Transport server VAN-EX1: ______.
Set-TransportServer –Identity VAN-EX1 -MessageTrackingLogEnabled:$false
The following command changes the path to the message tracking log on Hub Transport server VAN-EX1 to C:\Logfiles\MessageTracking: ______.
Set-TransportServer –Identity VAN-EX1 -MessageTrackingLogPath C:\Logfiles\MessageTracking
You can use the ______ cmdlet to change the maximum size of each message tracking log file, the maximum age of each message tracking log file, and the maximum size for the entire message tracking log directory on Hub Transport, Edge Transport, and Mailbox servers.
Set-TransportServer
The following command changes the maximum size of each message tracking log file on the Hub Transport server VAN-EX1 to 15 MB (the same command would work on an Edge Transport server): ______.
Set-TransportServer –Identity VAN-EX1 -MessageTrackingLogMaxFileSize 15MB
The commands to configure maximum log size and age and the maximum size of the message tracking log file directory on a Mailbox server are similar, except that the EMS ______ cmdlet is used.
Set-MailboxServer
The following command changes the maximum size of each message tracking log file on the Mailbox server VAN-EX2 to 20 MB: ______.
Set-MailboxServer –Identity VAN-EX2 -MessageTrackingLogMaxFileSize 20MB
The following command changes the maximum age of each message tracking log on the Mailbox server VAN-EX2 to 40 days: ______.
Set-MailboxServer –Identity VAN-EX2 -MessageTrackingLogMaxAge 40.00:00:00
The following command disables message subject logging in message tracking logs on the Mailbox server VAN-EX1: ______.
Set-MailboxServer –Identity VAN-EX1 -MessageTrackingLogSubjectLoggingEnabled $false
You should be aware that in order to receive incoming mail, an ______ record for each of your Exchange servers that you have configured as Edge Transport servers or Internet facing Hub Transport servers must exist on your external DNS infrastructure.
MX
For external DNS servers to resolve any Exchange server’s MX record, the Exchange server must be reachable from the ______ zone and must be configured to contact a DNS server to resolve DNS names.
Internet
To support outgoing mail, you can configure Exchange 2010 servers to use internal DNS servers that use ______ to external DNS servers.
forwarders
Typically, you configure computers running Exchange 2010 as DNS clients of your ______ DNS infrastructure. On your internal DNS server, you can configure an external forwarder to point to a trusted external DNS server.
internal
If a Hub Transport or Edge Transport server becomes overloaded, this can result in an excessive number of ______ in the queues on that server.
messages
You can access Queue Viewer from the EMC to monitor transport queues. You can also use the EMS ______ cmdlet to view message queues.
Get-Queue
You can use the Get-Queue cmdlet to filter queues. You can use this cmdlet with the ______ parameter to filter queues.
Filter
The following command lists all the queues that contain more than 50 messages on the Hub Transport or Edge Transport server on which it is entered: ______.
Get-Queue -Filter {MessageCount -gt 50}