Custom Recipients

[aj88sd]

How can i check the activities of custom reipients . Should i check the transaction log of every server or just the bridgehead server.

 

[zbnet]

We only put CRs on the hubsite (CRs are site-based, not server-based), so I only ever check the IMS server's tracking logs for their activity.

 

[aj88sd]

I have over 500 CR and I know half of them are in-valid, what is the best way to run a report in regard to activity of CR and clear my exchange enviroment

 

[fuego007]

Try hiding all the recipients from the GAL. Any that your users complain about can be deleted. I would do this over a period of time, as not all will be used frequently. I don't know of a way to track usage on custom recipients other than through message tracking, and that probably won't work for CRs.

 

[zbnet]

Message tracking does indeed track messages delivered to CRs, because it records deliveries to all GAL objects (so long as you've turned it on).

As CRs are external objects, it is sufficient to check just the tracking log on the server that hosts the IMS.

However, there isn't a specific event that signals delivery to a CR, so you'd need to step through each tracking log entry, and for every list of recipients in it, step through each recipient looking for CRs (this is easier if you have all your CRs in a CR-specific container).

A script to do this can run each day to scan the previous day's tracking log, and record the results. Do this for a period of a month or two, and you'll have a record of every time a CR is emailed. It's then a matter of processing the data to discover which CRs you have that haven't been emailed in the monitoring period.