Applies to: Exchange Server 2010 SP3, Exchange Server 2010 SP2
Topic Last Modified: 2011-03-19
To configure the Mailbox servers in your organization, you can either use the Mailbox node in the Exchange Management Console (EMC) or the Set-MailboxServer cmdlet in the Exchange Management Shell.
What Do You Want to Do?
Use the EMC to configure Mailbox server properties
You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Mailbox server configuration" entry in the Mailbox Permissions topic.
- In the console tree, select the forest you want, and then
navigate to Server Configuration > Mailbox.
- In the result pane, select the server you want to
configure.
- In the action pane, under the server name, click
Properties.
- On the General
tab, you can view general information about the server:
- Version This field displays the version
of Exchange installed on the server.
- Edition This field displays the
Exchange Server edition. The edition is either Standard Edition or
Enterprise Edition.
- Role(s) This field displays the
Exchange server roles installed on the server.
- Product ID This field displays the
product ID for the Exchange server. If you haven't yet entered the
product key for the server, the product ID displayed is
Unlicensed. To license an unlicensed version of Exchange,
see Enter
Product Key.
- Modified This field displays the last
date and time that a configuration change was made on this
server.
- Version This field displays the version
of Exchange installed on the server.
- On the System
Settings tab, view the domain controller servers and global
catalog servers. You can also enable an error reporting
feature:
- Domain controller servers being used by
Exchange This read-only box displays a list of
domain controller servers used by the Exchange server.
Note: This box isn't available on Edge Transport servers. - Global catalog servers being used by
Exchange This read-only box displays a list of
global catalog servers used by the Exchange server.
Note: This box isn't available on Edge Transport servers. - Automatically send fatal service error report to
Microsoft Select this check box if you want to
enable the error reporting feature and automatically send an error
report to Microsoft in the event of a fatal error.
If you enable the error reporting feature, information about fatal service errors is sent to Microsoft over encrypted channels. The information is used to improve Microsoft products.
When this feature is enabled and the issue reported has a known solution, the server receives feedback from Microsoft. This feedback contains a link to information that may help resolve the problem.
- Domain controller servers being used by
Exchange This read-only box displays a list of
domain controller servers used by the Exchange server.
- On the Customer
Feedback Options tab, you can enroll the selected server into
the Customer Experience Improvement Program. For more information,
see Opt-in or
Opt-out of the Customer Experience Improvement Program.
- On the Messaging
Records Management tab, configure the schedule for the Managed
Folder Assistant. The Managed Folder Assistant is an Exchange
Mailbox Assistant that places the managed folders that you have
created into users' mailboxes and applies managed content settings
to managed folders. When the Managed Folder Assistant is running,
it processes all the mailboxes on a server. If the Managed Folder
Assistant doesn't finish processing the mailboxes on the server in
the time that you specified, it automatically resumes processing
where it left off the next time it runs. There is one Managed
Folder Assistant for each server. To learn more, see Configure the Managed
Folder Assistant.
- Schedule the Managed Folder
Assistant Use this box to schedule the Managed
Folder Assistant or to prevent it from running. The following
options are available:
Use Custom Schedule Select this option to configure the Managed Folder Assistant to run at specified times. If you select UseCustom Schedule, you must also click Customize to set a schedule. There is no default schedule.
Never Run Select this option to prevent the Managed Folder Assistant from running.
- Customize Click this button to open the
Schedule dialog box and set a schedule for the Managed
Folder Assistant. To set the schedule, click the time grid in the
dialog box. The Managed Folder Assistant runs during the time slots
that you select, which are marked in blue. You can select the same
time slot every day by clicking a column header for a specific time
slot. You can select an entire day by clicking the name of that
day.
The default time slot for the grid is one hour. For finer control, you can change the schedule grid to 15 minute intervals by clicking 15 Minutes. Scheduled intervals must be at least 15 minutes apart.
- Schedule the Managed Folder
Assistant Use this box to schedule the Managed
Folder Assistant or to prevent it from running. The following
options are available:
Use the Shell to configure Mailbox server properties
You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Mailbox server configuration" entry in the Mailbox Permissions topic.
This example sets the server override list to HubServer01, HubServer02, and HubServer03
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Set-MailboxServer -Identity Server1 -SubmissionServerOverrideList HubServer01,HubServer02,HubServer03 |
This example sets the maximum size of the messaging records management (MRM) log directory to 1 GB.
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Set-MailboxServer -Identity Exchange01 -LogDirectorySizeLimitForManagedFolders "1 GB" |
This example sets the maximum size of the MRM log files to 20 MB.
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Set-MailboxServer -Identity Exchange01 -LogFileSizeLimitForManagedFolders "20 MB" |
For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Set-MailboxServer.