How to Rebuild Exchange Index

This process involves removing the existing content index files, which will trigger Exchange Search to re-index that database. The re-indexing process can cause a high load on the Exchange server, which may impact performance for the server. So you should carefully consider the timing of any content index rebuilds, and how it might impact your end users. The content index files are located in the same path as the database EDB file, in a sub-folder named with a GUID.

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Before the corrupt index files can be removed, the Exchange Search services must be stopped. While these services are stopped, searches in OWA will not be able to be performed by end users, and all of the database content indexes on the server will be reported as “Failed” by Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus.

1PS C:\> Invoke-Command -ComputerName EX2013SRV1 {Stop-Service MSExchangeFastSearch; Stop-Service HostControllerService}

Next, delete the GUID-named folder that contains the content index files. If the folder will not delete due to files in use, then it’s likely that either:

  • You haven’t stopped the correct search services
  • Another process, such as file-level anti-virus software, has a lock on the folder (and may be the cause of the index corrupting to begin with)

After deleting the files, start the search services again.

1PS C:\> Invoke-Command -ComputerName EX2013SRV1 {Start-Service MSExchangeFastSearch; Start-Service HostControllerService}

After a delay while Exchange Search evaluates the situation, the database will be re-indexed. The content index will have a state of “Crawling” while this is occurring.

12345678[PS] C:\>Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus -Server EX2013SRV1 | ft -auto Name            Status  CopyQueueLength ReplayQueueLength LastInspectedLogTime ContentIndexState—-            ——  ————— —————– ——————– —————–DB01EX2013SRV1 Mounted 0               0                                      CrawlingDB02EX2013SRV1 Mounted 0               0                                      HealthyDB03EX2013SRV1 Mounted 0               0                                      HealthyDB04EX2013SRV1 Mounted 0               0                                      Healthy

You can monitor the progress of the database crawl by watching the MSExchange Search IndexesCrawler: Mailboxes Remaining counter in Performance Monitor for that database instance.

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Summary :

Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus -Server SRV-EX13.farad.local | ft -auto
locate the database not healthy
Invoke-Command -ComputerName SRV-EX13.farad.local {Stop-Service MSExchangeFastSearch; Stop-Service HostControllerService}
delete folder.single in the exchange folder database correspond to not healthy
Invoke-Command -ComputerName SRV-EX13.farad.local {Start-Service MSExchangeFastSearch; Start-Service HostControllerService}

Postfix Authenticated SMTP Relay configuration

This is my configuration in addition to an existing ispconfig setup:
#SMTP AUTH CONFIGURATION
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
#smtpd_client_message_rate_limit = 5
#smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
#smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
#smtp_sasl_security_options =
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $myhostname
smtpd_reject_unlisted_recipient = no
smtpd_reject_unlisted_sender = no
#####

Example:
eg. rerouting all emails of destination domain mydomain.com via a relay server (relay.myserver.com)

(Email ==> Email Accounts / Email Routing)
Select ‘Add new Transport’
Fill in the fields:
Server: (Select the server)
Domain: mydomain.com
Type: (select smtp)
No MX lookup: (leave unchecked)
Destination: relay.myserver.com
Sort by: 1
Active: (Checked)

(Email ==> Global Filters / Relay Recipients)
Select: ‘Add new relay reciepient’

Fill in the fields:
Server: (Chose the server)
Relay recipient: @mydomain.com
Active: (Checked)

Linux Access to shared Windows Folder command

mount -t cifs //192.168.51.21/SWIFT-production/ /mnt/SWIFT-production -o user=foras,domain=farad.local

to give all permission

mount -t cifs //192.168.51.21/SWIFT-production/ /mnt/SWIFT-production -o user=foras,domain=farad.local,rw,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

remove user tomcat from group root : gpasswd -d tomcat root

unmount with force a folder : umount -f -l /mnt/SWIFT-production/ 

 

Yum Errors

[Errno 14] HTTP/HTTPS Error 404

[Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 – “The requested URL returned error: 403”

[Errno 14] Error 60 – It was impossible to connect to the CentOS servers

Summary

When trying to install or update packages using yum on client systems, yum is failing with one of the following errors:

[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
[Errno 14] HTTPS Error 404 - Not Found
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Status 404
[Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 403"
[Errno 14] Error 60 - It was impossible to connect to the CentOS servers

Leading Causes

1. You are not connected to the internet.

2. This issue can also occur if the system is able to communicate with given server but could not find or access the requested package or path on the server.

3. You have a misconfigured proxy server.

Fixes

1. Validate the system can see things on the internet.

2. This issue can also occur due to corruption of the local machine cache, try to clear cache on system:

yum clean all 
rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*

3. If you have a proxy server, validate it is configured properly in /etc/yum.conf. Here is an example (your names, passwords, and port numbers will obviously be different).

proxy=http://mystuff.mydomain.com:1234
# Account details for yum connections
proxy_username=proxy-user
proxy_password=proxy-password

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