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Update Symantec Messaging Gateway (BrightMail) Preparing for the Upgrade Reducing Control Center data before the upgrade (The upgrade process might be lengthy if you have large data sources in the Control Center) Reduce messages in the spam quarantine (Spam -> Quarantine Settings) Reduce messages in the Content Incident folders (Content -> Content Incident Folders) Edit settings for each Quarantine folder Reduce reports data storage (Administration -> Reports) Reduce operational Logs (Administration -> Logs) It is recommended to clear as much data as you can before upgrading to make the p

How to configure E-Mail notification in WSUS The WSUS server can be configured to send e-mail notifications of new updates and reports on the status of the WSUS network. Notifications will be sent whenever the WSUS server synchronizes new updates, and status reports can be sent daily or weekly.  Set up e-mail notifications In the WSUS Administration console, click  Options in the left pane. In the center pane, click  E-Mail Notifications . Click the  General If you want update notifications, select the  Send e-mail notification when new updates are synchronized check box. In the  Recipients box, type the e-mail addresses of the people who should receive update notifications. Separate the names with semi-colons. If you want status reports, select the  Send status reports check box. In the  Frequency box, select either  Daily  or  Weekly . In the  Send repo...

How to take Full Database Backup (MS SQL Server) This topic describes how to create a full database backup in SQL Server 2017 using SQL Server Management Studio Back up a database Open   MS SQL server management studio, then try to connect SQL server on local or a  remote location  After  connecting to the appropriate instance of the Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine, in  Object Explorer , click the server name to expand the server tree. Expand  Databases , and either select a user database or expand  System Databases  and select a system database. Right-click the database, point to  Tasks , and then click  Back Up . The  Back Up Database  dialog box appears. General box options opens, In the  Database  drop-down list, verify the database name. Optionally, you can select a different database from the list. The  Recovery model  text box is for reference only. You can perform a...

How to change or edit default email retention policy on exchange server This policy make deleted mailboxes possibility to connect back for the defined time range 1- Open and login to https://mailserver.com/ecp/ 2- Go to servers,then go to databases 3- Double click on the database that you want to change the retention policy 4- after that go to 'Limits' 5- then change the parameter of *keep deleted mailboxes items for(days),  by default it keeps the deleted mailboxes for few days, we have changed to 365 days

Increase Mailbox quota Size at Database Level in Exchange Server 2013 /2016 There can be many reasons due to which you need to set Mailbox quota in Exchange 2013/2016 for all Users at database level. And you can do this just by following below simple steps: 1. Start ECP, open https://mailserveraddress/ecp from browser then Click on Servers >> Database tab. and select the database that you want to work on it. Mailbox DB selection on exchange 2. Select the database of which you want to change the size. Mailbox DB properties 3. Click on limits and set the required size for Database. Note: Size limit will be applicable for all the mailboxes that are included in that Database.

Update Symantec Messaging Gateway software version Preparing for the Upgrade Reducing Control Center data before the upgrade (The upgrade process might be lengthy if you have large data sources in the Control Center) Reduce messages in the spam quarantine (Spam -> Quarantine Settings) Reduce messages in the Content Incident folders (Content -> Content Incident Folders) Edit settings for each Quarantine folder Reduce reports data storage (Administration -> Reports) Reduce operational Logs (Administration -> Logs) It is recommended to clear as much data as you can before upgrading to make the process smoother as well as reducing the backup size before the upgrade To make a backup of the current version: (Symantec recommends backing up the current version when moving to any new release before proceeding with the upgrade) Login to the Control Center Navigate to  Administration  ->  Version Click  Backup Now Symantec messagi...

DHCP Failover In order to have secondary node to provide IP to clients, we are going to add failover node to   primary (10.211.0.25), we are adding partner Server (LABdc02-10.211.0.26), Configure a Failover relationship. Configuring the DHCP failover in your LAN is a simple operation to improve the reliability of the network. There are two main ways to provide DHCP failover: ·          Load balancing ·          Hot standby Load balancing allows to share the load between two or more DHCP servers while the Hot standby mode simply provide DHCP redundancy. In this guide we adopted the Hot standby mode. The DHCP servers are two Windows 2012 R2 machine in the same domain (mandatory requirement).   First, configure a failover relationship using (LABDC01) and (LABDC02)  TO CONFIGURE A F...