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Microsoft Exchange Protocol Log Size

Although message tracking logs provide a lot of information regarding a message on an Microsoft Exchange infrastructure, there are many times that protocol logs have been proved to be the last resort for detailed information. By default, Exchange has some restrictions on the maximum age or directory size for protocol logs. Although these will fit most of the organizations, I believe that you should check how long back in time your logs are with your currently configured limits and then configure those limits in order to have at least four to five days of logs. The size of a protocol folder depends on the traffic on your server and on the type of the protocol. The receive logs are going to be more than the send logs and the transport logs are going to be more that the frontend transport logs, so pick a number for each of the four folders. The below commands configure the transport and frontend transport service in a way that logs are not deleted until the size of the protocol ...