Day to day tasks of an exchange admin?

[nugget]

We have installed a new exchange 2007 server and I was just wondering if anyone could help me a little with what an exchange administrator does for the everyday tasks. I'm very new to exchange so I really have no clue.

[BosonMichael]

Administer exchange, troubleshoot problems, add/delete users, manage quotas, figure out why e-mail's not being delivered, pull stuff out of the spam trap.

In truth, I'd go mad from the boredom.

[Fergal1982]

Step 1. Is it on?
Step 2. Can I get my emails?
****Server Good!****

Exchange admins do all sorts of things. Colleague at my old place used to routinely check the storage sizes of the mailbox stores, and balance the accounts out so we had roughly equal stores on each. Couldnt tell you exactly what, beyond steps 1 and 2 there.

[Stoney]

Check that the transaction logs have not eaten all the hard disk space!

[Mitzs]

Hey nugg, I don't know if you found this yet or not but I hope it helps you on your new path.

Top 10 Tasks for New Exchange Server Administrators
Introduction

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...entasks_1.mspx

[wizard]

Originally Posted by Mitzs

Hey nugg, I don't know if you found this yet or not but I hope it helps you on your new path.



http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...entasks_1.mspx

11. Duct tape users to the ceiling

[Mitzs]

and this. It is the exchange server tech center.

Exchange Server 2007 Documentation


http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/e.../bb330844.aspx

[Mitzs]

Originally Posted by Mitzs

and this. It is the exchange server tech center.

Exchange Server 2007 Documentation


http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/e.../bb330844.aspx

One more.

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[nugget]

Originally Posted by BosonMichael

Administer exchange, troubleshoot problems, add/delete users, manage quotas, figure out why e-mail's not being delivered, pull stuff out of the spam trap.

In truth, I'd go mad from the boredom.

Umm, thanks, I think. That's just like giving a blind man a stick and saying good luck mate.

Originally Posted by Fergal1982

Step 1. Is it on?
Step 2. Can I get my emails?
****Server Good!****

Exchange admins do all sorts of things. Colleague at my old place used to routinely check the storage sizes of the mailbox stores, and balance the accounts out so we had roughly equal stores on each. Couldnt tell you exactly what, beyond steps 1 and 2 there.

I figured out today that this is number 1 on the list. Check database sizes.

Originally Posted by Stoney

Check that the transaction logs have not eaten all the hard disk space!

This happened to us on the first night. We moved 14 GB of mail to the Exchange database in a few hours and it completly filled the system partition. We have moved the logfile store to a much larger partition now.

Originally Posted by Mitzs

Hey nugg, I don't know if you found this yet or not but I hope it helps you on your new path.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...entasks_1.mspx

Thanks Mitzs.

[BosonMichael]

Originally Posted by nugget

Umm, thanks, I think. That's just like giving a blind man a stick and saying good luck mate.

Actually, it's my hope that you find your glasses soon.

[popeye67]

And do make sure you check/script removal of files in BadMail.