Exchange 2013 Journaling Best practices

I am using native Exchange 2013 Journaling for journal all external messages for all users. The size of journal mailbox is very huge. I am looking for best practices for journaling
in terms of journal mailbox size? Journal database size? Do I need to create multiple journal mailboxes? Do I enable achieving for journal mailbox? If archiving enabled, then what is max size for archive mailbox? I do not want to export mails to PSTs.
Appreciate help from others

Hi,
Do you mean the size limit for .pst file?
By default, in Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013, the overall size of .pst file has a preconfigured limit of 50GB. In Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007, the default .pst file size limit is 20 GB. If the file size is greater than the default size limit, you will
be unable to open the .pst file. However, we can modify this value by making changes to the Windows registry.
Here is a related article for your reference.
The file size limits of .pst and .ost files are larger in Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982577
About the user mailbox size limit, there are no inherent size limits, you can set the size limit to unlimited if you want. But you need to take many factors into consideration as mentioned above.
Best regards,
Belinda
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TechNet Community Support

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Is anyone using JBOD on exchange journaling servers? If yes, how is that working out for you?

Hi mombu,
Microsoft does not support Exchange server deployed on JBOD storage architecture without DAG. JBOD have two main advantages: full space utilization and cost effective. However, if you lose a single disk in the JBOD then there is a high likelihood that you
will lose data, as the concept of a JBOD does not include not fault tolerance.
So it is important to point out at this stage that JBODs should not be considered if you do not plan to use DAG.
More details about Exchange 2013 storage configuration and
high availability, for your reference:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee832792(v=exchg.150).aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn789066(v=exchg.150).aspx
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Native Exchange 2013 Journaling - Guidance over Storage Planning!

Hi,
We are currently exploring full envelope journaling service using Exchange 2013 with Sharepoint 2013 eDiscovery suite for ALL internal and external messages for a largish enterprise ~40K mailboxes and need to accurately plan storage for the dedicated Journal
servers; we have used the standard messagestats powershell script to get send / receive and average message size and have some valid metrics to utilize however there is next to no actual guidance on how to plan storage for journaling published?
My question concerns which metric to use - unique send and receive OR total send / receive figures; I have reached out to some of my default Microsoft contacts and dug into how FE Journaling works under the hood and my understanding is that it is total send
/ receive for every message would be more valid to plan against?
Any guidance would be great!

Hi,
Do you mean you want to plan storage for journaling in Exchange 2013?
The storage will keep increasing as long as the new conversation is recorded. Targeting only the specific recipients can minimizes storage which is based on your requirements.
Here is an article about journaling in Exchange 2013 for your reference.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-GB/library/aa998649(v=exchg.150).aspx
Hope this is helpful to you.
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Exchange logs DAG best practice

In real world scenarios do may of you enable circular logging? I have never had to replay log files and usually enable circular logging.
Also in a DAG do the transaction logs get created on each member if circular logging is disabled?
finally what is best practice for backing up databases in a dag if i have 2 active with split mounted copies of each database so db 1,2,3 are on server one with passive 4,5 and 123, are passive on server 2 with 4,5 active then I have server 3 with 1,2,3,4,5
all passive where do I back up from?
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I wouldn't enable the circular logging and let my Daily Backup take care of log truncation. However you can enable the circular logging, it all depends on how you want to design your infra, backup and recovery strategy...
Yes in DAG, transaction logs are copied over to other server where database copy is located, inspected and checked that it is not needed by other database before it got truncated due to circular logging.
I would take backup from the server 3 where all the DBs are not mounted...
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Circular Logging and Mailbox Database Copies - http://blogs.technet.com/b/scottschnoll/archive/2011/06/27/circular-logging-and-mailbox-database-copies.aspx
Managing mailbox database copies - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd335158(v=exchg.150).aspx
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Hi All,
please help me to resolve these concerns for one of my customer..
(1) I am going to enable journalling for my all users. i will have retention period of one year and after one year i have to delete all mail items from journal mailbox. is there any cmdlet that can delete all mail items without login and configuring outlook
for journalling mailbox and deleting mail items manually?
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Hello,
For your first issue, you can use search-mailbox cmdlet to do it. Here is an article for your reference.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd298173(v=exchg.150).aspx
For your second issue, I recommend you use transport rule to do it.
For your third issue, if you want to check messages TO/FROM a particular user, I recommend you search these messages in jourmal mailbox.
If I have any misunderstanding, please free let me know.
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TechNet Community Support

Exchange 2013 Performance counters

Hi All
Can I have performance counters which need to be monitored regularly for below
CAS - Outlook & OWA Connectivity
Mail flow
Database & DAG health
ActiveSync
SAH

Hi SAH,
Tuning a system for optimum performance is an iterative process. We must take the time to understand all the variables that affect your system, including user profile, architecture, and hardware.
More details about Understanding Exchange Performance, please refer to:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd351192(v=exchg.141).aspx
Besides, we can use Microsoft Exchange Jetstress and Microsoft Exchange Load Generator to evaluate system performance before deploy Exchange evnironment, for your reference:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd335108(v=exchg.141).aspx
Also, we can run Exchange Best Practices Analyzer to monitor Exchange server:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997090(v=exchg.80).aspx
Note: we can download
this tool for Exchange 2013.
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The company I work for has a medium-sized Exchange 2010 infrastructure that consists of several geographically dispersed 2-node DAGs and corresponding CASArrays. It hosts about 1000 mailboxes in total and large public folder database that is replicated on
every mailbox server in the environment. All users are using Outlook 2010/2013.
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To work around this issue while still performing the migration I am considering the following scenario:
Deploy Exchange 2013 servers in the organization
Migrate all mailboxes to Exchange 2013 servers
Don't ever start migration of Public Folders (leave one Exchange 2010 mailbox server in every location for hosting the Public Folder database)
Keep the coexistence permanently (with mailboxes on 2013 and public folders on 2010)
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Thanks.

Hi,
You can leave the public folders on Exchange 2010 if you can’t migrate them to Exchange 2013. Exchange 2013 users can access public folders on Exchange 2010, but Exchange 2010 users can’t access public folders on Exchange 2013.
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Exchange 2013 "Server Error in '/owa' Application" - System.Xml.XmlException: '.', hexadecimal value 0x00, is an invalid character. Line 1, position 1

Out of nowhere...literally this started happening to our standalone Exchange server / Domain Controller
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Standard
Problem Child: Microsoft Exchange Server 2013
Error: When i try to login to the OWA or ECP i receive the listed errors above.
OS and Exchange installed on C:\
Mailbox Databases installed on D:\
Mailbox Logs on E:\
Outlook is still working for the end-user, but Outlook Web Access, ECP and all other features required to make this server manageable are failing. I can access the login screen, though at:
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or
https://<servername>/ecp
I have tried reset of virtual directories. Tried IISRESET /NOFORCE after this, but no success.

Hi MRXennix,
Base on my research, the issue is caused by corrupted Killbit.xml file on "ClientAccess\owa\15.0.xxx.x\owa2\ext\killbit".
I recommend you refer to the following method to solved the issue:
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Exchange 2010 users cannot open Exchange 2013 shared mailbox

Title says it all.
We're in the process of migrating 1000+ mailboxes to Exchange 2013. A number of shared mailboxes have been migrated, but those users still on 2010 cannot open them.
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Hi,
I tested in my lab, if the shared mailbox is on Exchange 2010, I could open this shared mailbox successfully. Then I moved this shared mailbox to Exchange 2013, after that, I couldn’t open it anymore, I got the following error:
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I have a Exchange 2010 server on Server 2008R2. I just installed Exchange 2013 on Server 2012R2. Anyone know what changes i need to make to begin moving users over to the new server? Shouldn't it have pulled all the settings over from the other exchange
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Hi,
To migrate from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013, you can refer to the articles provided by Amit Tank.
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folders to Exchange 2013.
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Exchange 2013 mailflow issues & transport latency

Hi,
we have more then 50 Exchange Server 2013 deployed and every single Exchange has transport issues.
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-RAM consumption
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-we have Exchaneg 2013 with all CUs / SP1 version installed and i cannot see any improvement.
I m disappointed and i hope that someone can help me to understand the Exchange 2013 Mailflow
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@ 1 i want to say thanks all of you for the Replays and for helpful information.
Yes i have a Transport Agent on the Computer for Archiving S.Nithyanandham
I fix the Problem with the Microsoft Script and now i will wait to see any improvement.
After i set the eventlog to high i can see
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3696 MSExchangeThrottling
5664 Microsoft.Exchange.EdgeSyncSvc
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19660 WmiPrvSE
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21412 mmc
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6040 MSExchangeFrontendTransport
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Best Practice Analyzer for Exchange 2013

Greetings,
I have upgraded the messaging infrastructure from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013.
I want to test the Health of the system through ExBPA for Exchange 2013.
But i don't find any setup for Exchange 2013 like it was in 2010.
I went through an article by Office365 community, according to which for In-premises Exchange also we need to have office 365 account (can use trial account also) to get the downloader file for ExBPA 2013.
http://community.office365.com/en-us/w/deploy/office-365-best-practices-analyzer-for-exchange-server-2013.aspx
But to run the setup the servers needs to be connected to internet.
And, i don't want to expose my environment to internet in any condition.
Somebody, please suggest me if there is any setup available so that i can install directly without exposing to internet.
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K2

Welcome to Exchange 2013.
Exchange Server 2013 doesn't come with ExBPA for health check. This might help
http://exchangeserverpro.com/powershell-script-health-check-report-exchange-2010/
Apart from that you can run these commands too
Get-ServerHealth -Identity Exchange2013ServerName
Test-ServiceHealth
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Best practices for buying a digital certificate for Exchange 2013

Good dayfriends,
Could you indicateme which are the bestpractices when buying
a public digital certificatefor use onExchangeServer 2013.
I'd be interested in knowing your opinion about
using wildcardor SAN certificates.
Likewise what are the best recommendations
to include names and why they should or
should not include the internal FQDN
of my servers.
Currently I have an infrastructure that has two
MailBox servers,two CAS servers and an EDGE
2010 server, but I'm planning update it to Exchange 2013.
I searched what are the best
practices according to Microsoft but
have found little information.
I would appreciate
if you can post links like
Microsoft KBs and other technical documents that
discuss the above mentioned.
Thanking your
invaluable support.
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Hi,
Personal suggestion, we can use two namespaces for your Exchange 2013:
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http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2014/03/19/certificate-planning-in-exchange-2013.aspx
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What is the best practices to apply two factor authentication on on-premise Exchange 2013 Environment ?

Hi, Everyone
i want to know what is the requirements to apply two factor authentication in Exchange 2013, Through Mobile or SMS.
what is the third party solutions of Microsoft solutions

Hi,
If we can deploy Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0, it means that Outlook Web App and EAC in Exchange 2013 SP1 can support multifactor authentication methods, such as certificate-based authentication, authentication or security tokens, and
fingerprint authentication.
Additional, we can use TMG or Microsoft UAG to deploy MFA, please refer to:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/f355ffbd-7d03-45d8-b4b1-987b2db5eadf/is-there-a-way-to-do-two-factor-authentication-with-outlook-web-app-2010?forum=exchangesvrgenerallegacy
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What is the best practice on mailbox database size in exchange 2013

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does anybody have any links to good sites that gives some pros/cons when it comes to the mailbox database sizes in exchange 2013? I've tried to google it - but hasn't found any good answers. I would like to know if I really need more than 5 mailbox databases
or not on my exchange environment.

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