Search exchange log files

You can use the Get-MessageTrackingLog cmdlet in the Exchange Management Shell to search for entries in the message tracking log by using specific search criteria. For example:. You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure or procedures.

To see what permissions you need, see the "Message tracking" entry in the Mail flow permissions topic. Searching the message tracking logs requires that the Microsoft Exchange Transport Log Search service is running.

If you disable or stop this service, you can't search the message tracking logs or run delivery reports. However, stopping this service does not affect other features in Exchange.

The field names displayed in the results from the Get-MessageTrackingLog cmdlet are similar to the actual field names found in the message tracking log files. The biggest differences are:. Dashes are removed from the field names. What does this mean in regards of recovery? This means that if you have the transaction log, one can replay log file to reconstruct the entire Mailbox database from the transaction logs. Of course you would need all the log files, so a healthy backup must be in place.

The software scans Exchange database and does not requires log files. It extracts the mailboxes from the database and lets you save them in PST format or you can import these mailboxes to a new or existing healthy database on Live Exchange in a few clicks. With regards to recovery all starts with the Checkpoint file which can be found in the location of the database with the check extension.

The checkpoint file keeps track of what has been committed to the database and not. If you are replaying the log files into your Exchange database and the checkpoint file does not exist, it will replay from the oldest available log file.

When a database has been successfully dismounted and in a consistent state with the log files and any pending transactions the result from the EseUtil the database state is in Healthy Shutdown and the Log required section is zero. When you have a missing log file, this can be replayed into the database and commit the changes to the database.

If there is a missing log file it will show like this. At this moment if you try to recover the database from a Dirty shutdown to a Healthy shutdown you might need to run the soft recovery which can be executed as below. Here is the short video to fix this error:. Under the state, you will notice that log information.

State: Dirty Shutdown. As you might see from the above there is no way to know exactly which log file is missing. There is a way to make the Exchange Server thing that the latest available log file in the sequence is the last available log file. Antispam Agent Logging. Configure Antispam Agent Logging. Enable antispam functionality on Mailbox servers. Default location of log files : Note that the folder isn't created until an agent attempts to write information to the log. Connectivity logging records outbound message transmission activity by the transport services on the Exchange server.

Connectivity logging in Exchange Server. Configure connectivity logging in Exchange Server. Message tracking is a detailed record of all message activity as mail flows through the transport pipeline on an Exchange server. Message tracking. Configure message tracking. The other feature that logs weekly and daily files is the Diagnostic logs Health explorer.

Some of you might want that spa. The other player here is IIS logs. Lastly, another set of logs that could be filling up is the Http Proxy log. This log will fill up in most cases when you have issues and will create an hourly file from 4MB onwards.

In this article I will go through each of the following logs below and explain how you can maintain them or turn them off:. Lastly, A PowerShell script is available to run to clean up this without having to go into each folder.

Health Manager runs and collects information about the health of the system.