Enabling Selective Journaling
- From: "Deshwal, Chand" <CDD@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Exchange" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:14:59 +0530
Hi List,
I had done this and thought of sharing with the list. It may be of some
use.
Chand
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> Enabling Per Mailbox Journaling for External E-mails
>
> Well, we all know how to enable message journaling per mailbox store
> in Exchange 2003. Its good for compliance purposes, where you need to
> maintain all e-mails generated on your mail server(s). This also helps
> in case of a server crash, where you are not able to restore your
> server back to the original state (Should not happen!). But, what if
> we want to perform selective journaling? There are plenty of third
> party tools available and they come on a cost.
>
> There is a free way to do the same, provided, you have at least two
> servers or maintain a border server for mail delivery and receipt.
> This is achieved by using SMTP Archive Sink, using a small VBSCRIPT.
>
> The script is available for download from OulookExchange
> <http://www.outlookexchange.com/articles/glenscales/caudexp.asp>
> written by Glanscales.
>
> How to use the script
>
> I assume that you have a two-server scenario, a sort of front-end,
> back-end one, where one server hosts all the mailboxes. Mailbox server
> forwards all the e-mails to border server. We will register an event
> sink on the border server for Outgoing mails for selective mailboxes
> (Could be all as well).
>
> We will register another event sink on the mailbox server for Incoming
> e-mails for selective mailboxes.
>
> On the border server (For outgoing mails):
>
> 1. Make a directory, suppose c:\jrnlarchive
> 2. Download
> <http://www.outlookexchange.com/articles/glenscales/caudexp.zip> the
> script and save it at c:\jrnlarchive. I assume, you saved the file as
> smtpjrnl.vbs
> 3. Edit the script and replace Monitormailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx by
> your monitoring mailbox.
> 4. Download
> <http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5D3475BD-691
> 5-4110-959D-6E4CB233D79D&displaylang=en> SMTPREG.VBS provided by
> Microsoft to register/un-register event sinks. Save this script in the
> same directory as above script.
> 5. Open a command prompt and change directory to c:\jrnlarchive
> 6. Type cscript smtpreg.vbs /add 1 onarrival smtpjrnlOut
> CDO.SS_SMTPOnArrivalSink "Mail From=user1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Mail
> From=user2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Mail from=userN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" and press
> enter.
>
> Type all on one line
>
> Note: Where userN stands for N number of mailboxes. If you want
> to do journaling for all the mailboxes for outgoing e-mais, then the
> command will be cscript smtpreg.vbs /add 1 onarrival smtpjrnl
> CDO.SS_SMTPOnArrivalSink "Mail From=*@yourdomain.com"
>
> 7. Type cscript smtpreg.vbs /setprop 1 onarrival smtpjrnlOut Sink
> ScriptName c:\jrnlarchive\smtpjrnl.vbs
>
> Test it by sending mails from the any of the specified mailboxes.
>
> On the Mailbox Server (For incoming mails):
>
> 1. Repeat steps 1-5.
> 2. Type cscript smtpreg.vbs /add 1 onarrival smtpjrnlIn
> CDO.SS_SMTPOnArrivalSink "Rcpt to=user1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Rcpt
> to=user2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx". Press Enter
>
> To journal incoming e-mails for every mailbox, use: cscript
> smtpreg.vbs /add 1 onarrival smtpjrnlIn CDO.SS_SMTPOnArrivalSink "Rcpt
> to=*@yourdomain.com"
>
>
> 3. Type: cscript smtpreg.vbs /setprop 1 onarrival smtpjrnlIn Sink
> ScriptName c:\jrnlarchive\smtpjrnl.vbs
>
> Test it by sending mails to the any of the specified mailboxes.
>
> Drawback
>
> Bad part is when you need to modify the list of mailboxes to be
> journaled. This can be done by remove the sink and re-register it with
> modified list of mailboxes. I do it by maintaining a small batch file.
>
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