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August 26, 2005

Upgraded to MT 3.2

All I can say is "wow!" There are a ton of new features and enhancements-- very impressive for a point release. Please let me know if you find anything that doesn't work properly.

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Upgraded to MoveableType 3.2

All I can say is "wow!" There are a ton of new features and enhancements-- very impressive for a point release. Please let me know if you find anything that doesn't work properly.

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August 18, 2005

Sending email via scripts

One common question I get is how to send email via scripts; Joseph Neubauer wrote a good article that explains how to do it using various dialects of CDO, as well as the SMTP pickup directory.

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August 15, 2005

Welcome, Andrey!

Exchange MVP Andrey Fyodorov has kindly offered to join us here at the Cookbook; his first post is for a nifty-neat-o Exchange backup script. Welcome, Andrey!

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UPDATED Aug 19 2005 - VBScript that will use NTBACKUP to back up Exchange 200x

Use NTBACKUP to back up your Exchange server to disk. The script works on single node servers and on clusters. It backs up all information stores and SRS if the latter is present. Backup logs are retrieved and e-mailed to a predefined address. Logs are also analyzed the following morning and the reports are e-mailed. Also the script schedules itself to run the following day. Finally the script can be set up to keep only one day's copy of backups or do a two-day rotation.

Download file

THIS VBSCRIPT ENUMERATES ALL INFORMATION STORES
AND CREATES NECESSARY BACKUP JOB SELECTION FILES AND BATCH FILES
THEN IF REQUESTED IT RUNS THE BACKUP JOBS
THEN IT SCHEDULES ITSELF FOR THE NEXT DAY
AFTER EACH BACKUP JOB, IT SENDS BACKUP LOGS TO A SPECIFIED E-MAIL ADDRESS
IT ALSO MAKES A SUMMARY OF ALL LOGS AND SENDS TO A SPECIFIED E-MAIL ADDRESS
IF REQUESTED IT CAN PEFORM A TWO-DAY BACKUP ROTATION
WRITTEN BY ANDREY FYODOROV - afyodoro(AT)bellsouth.net

Please run the script from a command prompt (DOS) window
cscript backupexchange.vbs - to setup and schedule backup jobs for tomorrow.
cscript backupexchange.vbs Rotate2 - to setup and schedule backup jobs for tomorrow using 2-day rotation.
cscript backupexchange.vbs BackupNow - to setup and schedule backup jobs for tomorrow and perform an immediate backup.
cscript backupexchange.vbs BackupNow Rotate2 - to setup and schedule backup jobs for tomorrow using 2-day rotation and perform an immediate backup.

COPY THE BACKUPEXCHANGE.VBS TO D:\NTBACKUP
THE SCRIPT ASSUMES THAT THE TARGET BACKUP VOLUME IS G:
IT CREATES G:\NTBACKUP DIRECTORY WITH \SELECTIONS, \CMDs, \LOGs, and \Exchange Backups SUBDIRECTORIES

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August 09, 2005

Chapter 9 scripts

Chapter 9 tells you how to manage your public folder databases. Scripts in this chapter include:

Or you can get all of the chapter scripts as a single bundle.

In addition, this chapter is the sample chapter that you can download from O'Reilly's Exchange Server Cookbook page, so if you haven't actually seen the book yet, go there and take a look.

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