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Quickie: List Copy Status of Storage Group

August 22nd, 2012 No comments

We have Exchange 2007 environment which contains 6 Failover Exchange clusters and each with 24 mailbox databases (total 144 mailbox databases). When there is a problem with replication of databases we needed to click every Failover cluster and check Copy Status of databases. To get rid of this hassle I wrote little script which lists all databases which Copy Status is not “Healthy”:

Get-MailboxServer | % { Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus -Server $_.Identity | ? {$_.SummaryCopyStatus -NotLike “Healthy” } }

For Exchange 2010 it would change little bit to:

Get-MailboxServer | % { Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus -Server $_.Identity | ? {$_.Status -NotLike “Healthy” } }

Now I’m ready to check in couple of seconds the health of databases 🙂

Quickie: Reliability Monitor

August 8th, 2012 No comments

Sometimes you need to have a overview what happened on OS couple days/weeks/monts ago. Before I knew there is some utility I would look into events and look for some problem ones.

Now I know there is a utility in Windows Vista and higher which is called Reliability Monitor which records all major changes/errors on OS. You can run it from Start Menu typying “Reliabi..” and you will find:

 

Reliability Monitor

Reliability Monitor

 

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Quickie: List encrypted files

August 7th, 2012 No comments

If you want to list all encrypted files by EFS you can use command:

cipher [PATH]

This command will list all files in PATH. Encrypted files will have “E” character in front of it:

 

List encrypted files

List encrypted files

 

This command is great to handle encrypted files. Look at cipher /? command output.

 

Quickie: Display detailed activation and license status

August 6th, 2012 No comments

Sometimes you need to find out if your windows is activated and quickes way to do so is to run command:

slmgr /dli

This command can also do

  • /ipk <Product Key> – Install product key (replaces existing one)
  • /ato [Activation ID] – Activate Windows
  • /dli – Display license information
  • /dlv – Display detailed license information
  • /xpr – Expiration date for current license state
  • …AND MANY MORE

For full help use slmgr /?.