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Monitoring Exchange Server 2007 with System Center Operations Manager 2007

Just a few days ago, my new book (of the subject title!) started shipping from Amazon. If it hasn’t already, it should start appearing in your local bookstores this week.

If you want to order from Amazon, you can get it here.

Eight months in the making, this book was a labor of love. Including information on installing and configuring OpsMgr 2007, it also includes much information about operating a reliable Exchange environment. Even if you don’t have OpsMgr in your organization, you can learn from this book the key areas of Exchange that need monitoring and how to do so.

A strong PowerShell component is provided in several chapters to assist you in the generation of synthetic transactions for testing your Exchange environment.

While the book is written toward a key audience of Exchange Server 2007 administrators, much material is also provided for the Exchange Server 2003 administrator. The book uses a virtualized environment to describe a test roll-out of an OpsMgr 2007 and Exchange 2003/2007 mixed environment.

Since Exchange Server depends on the health of Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, and IIS; tracking the health and well-being of these key services is also covered.

Go buy it. You’ll like it. 🙂

The chapter titles are:

  1. An Evolution of Server Management
  2. Monitoring Exchange Server 2007
  3. Installing and Configuring OpsMgr 2007
  4. Deplying OpsMgr 2007
  5. The First Management Pack: WIndows Server
  6. The Active Directory Management Pack
  7. The Domain Name System (DNS) Management Pack
  8. The Internet Information Services Management Pack
  9. SQL Server: An Ancillary Management Pack
  10. Exchange Server 2003
  11. Exchange Server 2007
  12. Exchange Server 2007 Redundancy
  13. Exchange Server Operations
  14. Tracking Mail Flow

Until next time…

As always, if there are items you would like me to talk about, please drop me a line and let me know!

Follow me on twitter: @EssentialExch

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Monitoring Exchange Server 2007 with System Center Operations Manager 2007

Just a few days ago, my new book (of the subject title!) started shipping from Amazon. If it hasn’t already, it should start appearing in your local bookstores this week.

If you want to order from Amazon, you can get it here.

Eight months in the making, this book was a labor of love. Including information on installing and configuring OpsMgr 2007, it also includes much information about operating a reliable Exchange environment. Even if you don’t have OpsMgr in your organization, you can learn from this book the key areas of Exchange that need monitoring and how to do so.

A strong PowerShell component is provided in several chapters to assist you in the generation of synthetic transactions for testing your Exchange environment.

While the book is written toward a key audience of Exchange Server 2007 administrators, much material is also provided for the Exchange Server 2003 administrator. The book uses a virtualized environment to describe a test roll-out of an OpsMgr 2007 and Exchange 2003/2007 mixed environment.

Since Exchange Server depends on the health of Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, and IIS; tracking the health and well-being of these key services is also covered.

Go buy it. You’ll like it. 🙂

The chapter titles are:

  1. An Evolution of Server Management
  2. Monitoring Exchange Server 2007
  3. Installing and Configuring OpsMgr 2007
  4. Deplying OpsMgr 2007
  5. The First Management Pack: WIndows Server
  6. The Active Directory Management Pack
  7. The Domain Name System (DNS) Management Pack
  8. The Internet Information Services Management Pack
  9. SQL Server: An Ancillary Management Pack
  10. Exchange Server 2003
  11. Exchange Server 2007
  12. Exchange Server 2007 Redundancy
  13. Exchange Server Operations
  14. Tracking Mail Flow

Until next time…

As always, if there are items you would like me to talk about, please drop me a line and let me know!

Follow me on twitter: @EssentialExch

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Script for From The Field

The authors of the upcoming “Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Resource Kit” asked me if I wanted to write a script for them for a section named “From The Field”. I said sure! I based the script on one I wrote a long time ago, which you can access here. So the readers have the EXACT script that was published I’m putting this on my blog.

The purpose for this script is to tie the script to a particular event that might occur from Terminal Services. This capability is a new feature of the Windows Server 2008 Event Log Subsystem. If that event occurs, then this script is executed to send an email.

Now, the Resource Kit goes into detail of the event id that happens and how you actually do that tying together. Go buy it! 🙂

Of course, there are multiple ways to skin this cat, but here is one for you to use.

Option Explicit

'''----- script configuration area
Const strSMTPServer = "arvon.alpineskihouse.com"
Const strFrom       = "alerts@alpineskihouse.com"
Const strTo         = "adam.barr@alpineskihouse.com "
'''----- end configuration area

Dim objMail               ' the CDO object
Dim objWSHNetwork         ' windows-script-host network object
Dim strNetBIOSComputer    ' the netbios name of our computer

''' get the NetBIOS computer name
Set objWSHNetwork  = CreateObject ("WScript.Network")
strNetBIOSComputer = objWSHNetwork.ComputerName
Set objWSHNetwork  = Nothing 

''' do the real work to send the message 
Set objMail = CreateObject ("CDO.Message")
objMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing")      = 2
objMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver")     = strSMTPServer
objMail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = 25
objMail.Configuration.Fields.Update

objMail.From     = strFrom
objMail.To       = strTo
objMail.Subject  = "Critical error!! " & strNetBIOSComputer & " failed to reboot " & Now
objMail.Textbody = "Critical error!! " & strNetBIOSComputer & " failed to reboot " & Now & vbCRLF
objMail.Send

Set objMail = Nothing

Until next time…

As always, if there are items you would like me to talk about, please drop me a line and let me know!

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Edit on September 10, 2010 – The Microsoft Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) are not installed by default on Windows Server 2008 or above. You can download them from here.

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