Exchange 2007 Delegation for Symantec Enterprise Vault

Symantec Enterprise vault is an awesome tool for mail archiving and Journaling. I really impressed with its administrations console for configuration and data management.

In my work environment we have deployed Enterprise vault 7.0, 8.0, 8.0 SP3 with Microsoft exchange ver 2003 and 2007. All these deployments are different in its features and exchange compatibility. One of the basic requirements to have successful deployment is to set proper mail server delegation for vault service account.


In Exchange 2000,2003 it was easy to delegate the mailbox admin controls thru. In exchange 2007 it was a challenge to apply the necessary delegation thru power shell and i spent some decent time to find the script working and posting the script to benefit the vault administrators. In prior to that you should delegate server admin privileges for the specific mailbox server then execute below script at mail store level

Script which I used


"Add-ADPermission -identity "mail store name" -user "Vault Service account" -AccessRights GenericAll"

Standard Syntax from microsoft

"Add-ADPermission -Identity  -User  

[-AccessRights ]

 [-ChildObjectTypes ] 

[-Confirm []] [-Deny ]

 [-DomainController ] [-ExtendedRights ]

 [-InheritanceType ] 

[-InheritedObjectType ] [-Properties ] 

[-WhatIf []]"

Hope this helps.

Exchange 2007 - Generate Mail Users Reports with Size

All old time exchange administrators are so used of MMC interface with exchange administration and it was easy navigate thru mailstores to pull out mailbox user related reports with customized columns like mailbox size.

In exchange 2007 we couldn't find these options in MMC console and i have googled found some interesting result. Microsoft avoided mailbox information related features in MMC based Exchange admin console due to the stress on mailboxes during report time.  Its nice but how to get what we need.

Yup.... there is an alternative thru power shell script. a simple script made to pull the mailbox size details with username, count of mails and size in MB.

"Get-MailboxStatistics | Sort-Object TotalItemSize -Descending | ft DisplayName,@{label=”TotalItemSize(MB)”;expression={$_.TotalItemSize.Value.ToMB()}},ItemCount"

 This script will provide traditional report for mailbox users and its size.

"Get-MailboxStatistics -Database “Mailbox Database” | Sort -Property TotalItemsize | Format-Table DisplayName, LastLoggedOnUserAccount, ItemCount, @{expression={$_.totalitemsize.value.ToMB()};label=”Size(MB)”}, LastLogonTime, LastLogoffTime"

CISSP

CISSP - Certifed Information Systems Security Professional

For past 2 years i got involved with CISSP certification and trying to get momentum on it. This exam is really a killer for professionals as (ISC)2.org exam methods are unbelivele.

All these times i have collected a lot of materials and information for this certification and would like to share with Internet community.

Core Resource

http://www.isc2.org

This is home site for ISC2.org , you can obtain all information related to certification , advantages and exam details from it. it is good to watch this site regularly as time to time ISC2 changes the policies and its rules.

www.cccure.org

This site maintained by a security professional namely Clement Dupis. Personally i admire this person's work and dedication for IT security. this site has independent discussion groups for most of all security certifications along with sample questionnaire (ISC2 doesn't allow to share original exam questions (previous ones).

www.freepracticetests.org

This site has whole lot of sample questions and answers which can give idea for real exam and require time calculation.

Saving Rule

Income - Saving = Expenditure

Yesterday i learnt a lesson to apply the expenditure formula. It is interesting that expenditure was replaced by Saving, nowadays it is essential to save $$$ to have decent future.