Message tracking log

Question

Can we able to retrieve data frm exchange message tracking log using WMI and WebDAV?

if so kindly provide me a sample code!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And which one can be used to retrieve data frm message tracking log of exchange 2003 , 2007 and 2010?

Answer 1

Webdav can only be used to access mailbox content on 2003 and 2007 so isn't useful for the message tracking logs. In 2003 you can use the WMI class Exchange_MessageTrackingEntry see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa143739(EXCHG.65).aspx . The Exchange WMI class's where discontinued in 2007 so you can't use this for message tracking on 2007 and 2010 you need to use the Exchange Management shell cmdlet see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997573.aspx and http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124926.aspx .

The thing to keep in mind is that these are plain text files so you can use things like log-parser to parse the logs yourself once you understand the structure if you don't want to use the conventional API's. eg the structure is described in http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124375(EXCHG.140).aspx.

Cheers
Glen