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Seok Bee - 26 Apr 2006 02:40 GMT

Dear Experts,

I would like to find out more information on the Microsoft Exchange 2000
Server, such the information on the log files. I would like to know more in
depth on the log files and where to get those files. My intention is to write
a script to extract the information in the log file(s) into a document
(Word/Excel). Hope you experts out there could give me some hints on this.

Many thanks in advance.

Regards,
Seok Bee

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Eric Bockelman - 26 Apr 2006 14:49 GMT

I assume you are wanting to mine the message tracking log data. The message
tracking logs contain a lot of good data, and there are several commercial
products that take advantage of that.

When you enable message tracking, a SERVERNAME.log share is automatically
created on the server. You can connect to that share to read the logs.

This article will describe the general format of the tracking logs:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/246965/en-us

This article gives you the event IDs that Exchange 2003 will log:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821905/en-us

Simply have your script parse the files for the event data you are
interested in.

Eric Bockelman
Principal IT Infrastructure Specialist
Windows Platform Engineering
Symantec Corporation

> Dear Experts,
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> Regards,
> Seok Bee

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