Message tracking Assistant - date/time range of searching when I dont type date/time
Hello, I have one simple question. How date range uses Exchange 2010 for searching mail in "Message Tracking Assistant" when I dont type date/time? In the other words - whats the default time used by Exchange 2010?
August 3rd, 2011 9:50am

Hi AFAIK it's from the first log file it can find/use for tracking till now You can find them manually under the installation path:\Program Files\V14\TransportRoles\Logs\MessageTracking it's recommended to be a bit selective and select sender, recipient and or Start and End date/time, or else you might end up with too many results Jonas Andersson | Microsoft Community Contributor Award 2011 | MCITP: EMA 2007/2010 | Blog: http://www.testlabs.se/blog | Follow me on twitter: jonand82
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August 4th, 2011 10:02am

Hi, In Exchange 2010, I suggest you run Get-MessageTrackingLog command to search message information. This command can retrieve message tracking log entries according start time, end time, senders, recipients, domain controller and so on. For more information, you can refer to the article ‘Get-MessageTrackingLog’. Hope this helps. ThanksSophia Xu
August 4th, 2011 10:59pm

Thanks for posts. I googled for a long time and I didnt find any answer (in article http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997573.aspx is not answer too).
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August 7th, 2011 12:15pm

On Sun, 7 Aug 2011 16:06:57 +0000, polo939 wrote: >Thanks for posts. I googled for a long time and I didnt find any answer (in article http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997573.aspx is not answer too). If you specify no start or end date/time then the entire set of message tracking log entries are returned. IOW, date/time is not considered when retrieving the records. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
August 7th, 2011 12:58pm

Ok, a little example. Log file contents records from 1.1.2009 to 11.1.2010. When I dont specify date and time so message tracking assistant uses all of them(from 1.1.2009 to 11.1.2010) for searching, right? If yes, we can close this topic.
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August 7th, 2011 3:46pm

On Sun, 7 Aug 2011 19:38:08 +0000, polo939 wrote: >Ok, a little example. Log file contents records from 1.1.2009 to 11.1.2010. When I dont specify date and time so message tracking assistant uses all of them(from 1.1.2009 to 11.1.2010) for searching, right? That's correct. >If yes, we can close this topic. Or leave it open. Whatever suits you, --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
August 7th, 2011 4:26pm

Hi, In the article I mentioned above, there is an example: This example uses the Get-MessageTrackingLog command to retrieve message tracking log entries that were created between March 13, 2010 at 09:00 and March 15, 2010 at 17:00 with a Sender parameter value of john@contoso.com. Get-MessageTrackingLog -Start "03/13/2010 9:00AM" -End "03/15/2010 5:00PM" -Sender john@contoso.com I think it should be helpful for you. ThanksSophia Xu
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August 10th, 2011 10:52pm

i think you need to specify the dates. Example get-messagetrackinglog -ResultSize Unlimited -Server "servername" -EventID "RECEIVE" -Start "26/02/2008 00:01:00" -End "27/02/2008 00:01:00" | select-object sender,@{Name="Recipients";Expression={$_.recipients}},totalbytes | export- csv c:\tracking\allitems.csvAbhi
August 10th, 2011 11:06pm

i think you need to specify the dates. Example get-messagetrackinglog -ResultSize Unlimited -Server "servername" -EventID "RECEIVE" -Start "26/02/2008 00:01:00" -End "27/02/2008 00:01:00" | select-object sender,@{Name="Recipients";Expression={$_.recipients}},totalbytes | export- csv c:\tracking\allitems.csv Abhi i wonder whats wrong with my command so its not mark as answer :OAbhi
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August 12th, 2011 2:36am

On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 06:28:28 +0000, Abhinav Aneja wrote: >get-messagetrackinglog -ResultSize Unlimited -Server "servername" -EventID "RECEIVE" -Start "26/02/2008 00:01:00" -End "27/02/2008 00:01:00" | select-object sender,@{Name="Recipients";Expression={$_.recipients}},totalbytes | export- csv c:\tracking\allitems.csv >Abhii wonder whats wrong with my command so its not mark as answer :O I guess becasue it doesn't really answer the question that was asked? The question that was asked was: "How date range uses Exchange 2010 for searching mail in "Message Tracking Assistant" when I dont type date/time?" Providing an example of the get-messagetracking cmdlet that uses both -start and -end paramters demonstrates only how to specify those values, not what happens when you *don't* use them. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
August 12th, 2011 3:53pm

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