Microsoft Exchange Server hardware virtualization is so popular that it seems as if everyone is moving their entire infrastructure to a virtual server environment. That being the case, I want to discuss some of the issues you may encounter when virtualizing Exchange 2007 mailbox servers.

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Finally found the solution to fix the “An error occured during a call to Windows Management Instrumentation ID no: 8004100e Exchange System Manager” error. It worked beautifully. I can now fully utilise Message Tracking on my Windows 2000 Exchange server.
I have to give full credit to Luke Edson at http://www.mrtweak.com/exchange-ser…install-script/
In essence, it incompases the solution given by Danielp ealier, but goes a little further. Just run this script:

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For a corrupted Index file, please perform the following steps to try to resolve this issue:

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Original article here.

You can make the server execute a script at shutdown time by using the Group Policy Editor, which is an MMC (Microsoft Management Console) snap-in.  I will explain how to use the Group Policy Editor shortly, but first, we need to create the batch file that will shut down the Exchange services.

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