How long to rebuild Exchange 2010 index?

Exchange 2010 sp3
so my index was disabled for some weeks due to low disk space. last night I extended the database drive partition to an additional 250GB, reenabled the index service, re-enabled the databases index too. since last night, the database copy status are still
crawling.
the total size of all my databases are 1.07TB.
how long will the rebuild take?

Hi,
There are many factors that influence the rebuild rates and time to complete, you can refer to this
article.
You can track starting and ending of crawling with the Events 109 and 110 respectively in the application log.
Best regards,
Belinda
Belinda Ma
TechNet Community Support

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Hi Siva,
We could execute the command below to view Administrator Audit Logging settings:
Get-AdminAuditLogConfig
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Hi All,
I am hoping that someone could perhaps provide some insight on this topic as I apparently can't seem to google the best answer.
I have recently acquired an AD domain that is running on a 2003 domain controller. I have been tasked with upgrading our existing domain structure with 2012 R2 domain controllers for our main office and remote offices.
The domain name is company.mynetwork.com, and it is the default first site name. We have multiple offices throughout the US with their own domain controllers (i.e. FL.mynetwork.com, NY.mynetwork.com, DC.mynetwork.com, etc.).
Our main office, and default first site has one domain controller (mynetdc1) running Server 2003 R2. It is also our only DNS server for the main office. It also has an additional domain controller called mynetmaster3 which is running Server 2003.
Both mynetdc1 & mynetmaster3 NTDS settings show them as global catalogs under AD Sites & Services. Both servers are also in the AD Domain Controllers OU, along with all of the other satellite office domain controllers.
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after a 4 hour maintenance window to get the task completed has passed)?
Should we upgrade the satellite offices first after raising the functional level for mynetdc1, or should we do the opposite (upgrade main office, then satellite offices)?
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As long as the operating system on your Exchange servers isn't upgraded, and as long as you do the Active Directory domain and forest updates in the supported manner (the following link is a good example -
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Hello,
According to your description:
"Is there ANY way we can replicate site 1 to site 2 with the current setup? Even if it means site 2 is "inactive" unless we need it for a failure at site 1?"
For CAS and Hub Transport roles you can simply deploy an additional server in secondary site and configure namespaces, mail flow etc. For mailbox role you should configure
DAG. But it requires at least Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Enterprise or Windows 2012 Standard. In addition you cannot mix Failover Clustering and Windows Network Load Balancing so
for full redundancy you need:
1. Four Exchange servers: 2 CAS + Hub Transport with Network Load Balancing and 2 Mailbox servers with DAG.
2. Two Exchange servers with CAS, HT and Mailbox and deploy hardware Load Balancer.
"If not, can we upgrade to the enterprise edition for the servers? Any idea on cost?"
In-place upgrade is not supported when Exchange server is installed. The only option is to deploy an additional server (Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise, 2012 Standard) and move
all resources from old server.
"If we upgrade to Enterprise, is there a decent place to go to read on how to setup the second site?"
The starting point is to configure Active Sites properly. For more info:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd979799%28v=exchg.141%29.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd979781%28v=exchg.141%29.aspx
http://exchangeserverpro.com/exchange-server-2010-database-availability-group-installation-step-by-step/
http://www.msexchange.org/articles-tutorials/exchange-server-2010/high-availability-recovery/designing-site-resilient-exchange-2010-solution-part1.html
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd638121%28v=exchg.141%29.aspx
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Adam
CodeTwo: Software solutions for Exchange and Office 365
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Do you want to do fast search in public folders in Outlook?
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hi,
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I had some problems with my old Exchange 2010 as it was freezing from time to time. I decided to install a new Exchang 2010 server. I transferred mailboxes, MX record stays the same and I routed all e-mails to the new server now. I disconnected other server
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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/3912.exchange-2010-how-to-delete-the-first-database-and-move-the-system-mailboxes.aspx
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3. For the issue whether the license can be used twice, we recommend you to contact with Microsoft Customer Service to confirm.
4. By default, when Exchange 2010 is installed, OAB is created in the default internal Web site in Internet Information Services (IIS).
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Exchange 2010 Certificates, IPs, and Domain Names...

I'm setting up a new Exchange 2010 server, migrating from an old Exchange 2003.
I'm at the point now where I'm stuck and cannot move the mailboxes of the users to the new server until I get the new server setup with certificates, reconfigure the firewall, and more Aname records. ... reason, I'd like to take advantage of the autodiscover,
sync, outlook anywhere, etc.
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Can someone tell me what the best practice would be for creating the CSR? And I'm a bit curious as to IPs.
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of the certificates. Can anyone tell me if this approach(below) is best practice or far from it?
I'm very intrigued with the capabilities but dont' understand why MS would use as an example the same domain name, mail.contoso.com for each function. But it may be because they'd just have to point to one IP address whereas I'll have to point several IPs
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Outlook Web App:
webmail.domainname.com,domainname.com
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outlook.domainname.com, domainname.com

Not sure I understand - but why do you want to map each individual service to an individual public IP ? Usually the trend is to keep as little public IPs as possible (you can get away with 1 public IP for the CAS role). For autodiscover, I've usually seen
the autodiscover.domainname.com being used, due to the domainname.com reserved (public site) - this actually keeps inside the logic used by Outlook clients to autodetect the servers (see
this link).
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Exchange 2010 - Virtual Directory Internal & External URL's with Wildcard Cert

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I am trying to determine if my Exchange 2010 server Virtual Directory URL's are setup according to best practice. I'm sure anyone with good Exchange experience will instantly be able to tell me if my Virtual Directory DNS is correct or could cause issues.
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Hosted Exchange 2010 SP1. Multiple client mail domains hosted
2x CA, 2x HT, 2x MB, 2x DC
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AD domain is he.example.za.net
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InternalNLBBypassUrl : https://ca2.he.example.za.net/ews/exchange.asmx
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ExternalUrl          : https://outlook.example.co.za/ews/Exchange.asmx
[PS] C:>Get-ActiveSyncVirtualDirectory -Server ca2 |fl *url
MobileClientCertificateAuthorityURL :
InternalUrl                         : https://outlook.example.co.za/Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync
ExternalUrl                         : https://outlook.example.co.za/Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync
[PS] C:>Get-EcpVirtualDirectory -Server ca2 |fl *url
InternalUrl : https://ca2.he.example.za.net/ecp
ExternalUrl : https://outlook.example.co.za/ecp
[PS] C:>Get-OwaVirtualDirectory -Server ca2 |fl *url
Url             : {}
Exchange2003Url :
FailbackUrl     :
InternalUrl     : https://ca2.he.example.za.net/owa
ExternalUrl     : https://outlook.example.co.za/owa
[PS] C:>Get-AutodiscoverVirtualDirectory |fl *url, server
InternalUrl :
ExternalUrl :
Server      : CA1
InternalUrl : https://outlook.example.co.za/
ExternalUrl : https://outlook.example.co.za/
Server      : CA2
REALLY APPRECIATE SOME EXPERT ADVISE. Thanks.

Hi Kane,
Why did not you use cas array to load balance client connectivity?
If you create a CAS array, you can assign an virtual IP (VIP) for the CAS array FQDN (e.g CASarray.example.za.net), and then point all the Virtual Directories internal URL to CAS array fqdn;
For external, you can point outlook.example.co.za to VIP which had been assigned to CAS array.
I recommend you refer to the following article to understand CAS array:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee332317(v=exchg.141).aspx#CASarray
http://blogs.technet.com/b/ucedsg/archive/2009/12/06/how-to-setup-an-exchange-2010-cas-array-to-load-balance-mapi.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/03/23/demystifying-the-cas-array-object-part-1.aspx
Best regards,
Niko Cheng
TechNet Community Support

Can someone explain Exchange 2010 intersite message routing to me?

Greetings,
We are about remove our legacy routing group connectors and I want to ensure that I really understand how message routing in Exchange 2010 works. I understand that Exchange uses AD IP Site Links to determine best path unless an actual Exchange costs is assigned.
We have three sites A-B-C with Exchange resources. We have a DAG that spans sites and A and B. I have reviewed our AD IP site topology and noticed there is no direct IP site link between site and A and C. When a user is active in site A and emails a user
in site C, I would expect the message to be routed through site B first.
However, after reviewing the message logs i can see that the HT server in site A sends it directly to HT server in site C. So I guess i don't fully understand message routing. If there is no IP Site link between site A and C how and why does this work? No
Exchange Costs are assigned.
Thanks much!

Its transitive
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998825(v=exchg.141).aspx
By default, all site links are transitive. This means that if Site A has a link to Site B, and Site B has a link to Site C, Site A is transitively linked to Site C. The transitive link between Site A and Site C is also known as a
site-link bridge.
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