Add-ResubmitRequest Exchange cmdlet issued (25530) how to monitor with email alert

[bob]

You ever notice how Event Viewer in Windows Server just logs all these quirky happenings, like this one event ID 25530 that pops up when someone runs the Add-ResubmitRequest cmdlet in Exchange. It basically flags that a message got queued up for resending, you know, because something glitched during delivery or whatever. I mean, it's not a huge deal usually, but it shows up in the Application log under Microsoft-Exchange-MailboxDatabase or something similar, with details on the exact message ID and why it needed that nudge. And if you're running Exchange on your server, this event tells you admins or scripts are tinkering with stuck emails, trying to push them through again. It includes bits like the timestamp, the user who issued it, and even the database involved, so you can trace back if it's a one-off or a pattern messing with your mail flow. Hmmm, sometimes it ties to bigger issues, like transport rules failing or connectivity hiccups, but mostly it's just Exchange saying, hey, we fixed that delivery snag.

Now, if you want to keep an eye on this without staring at screens all day, I set mine up through Event Viewer itself, super straightforward. You fire up Event Viewer, right-click on Custom Views, and whip up a new one filtering for event ID 25530 in the Application log. That way, it only shows these specific alerts when they hit. Then, to get email pings, you create a task in Task Scheduler linked right from Event Viewer-click on the event, go to Attach Task To This Event, and pick what triggers it, like when 25530 logs. I tell it to run a simple program that shoots an email, using whatever mail setup you've got, maybe even Outlook if you're old-school. Or, you can point it to a batch file that calls your SMTP server directly, keeping you looped in without much fuss. It fires off right away or on a schedule, whatever suits you, so you're not blindsided by resubmit spikes.

And speaking of keeping things smooth on your server, especially with Exchange chugging along, you might dig BackupChain Windows Server Backup for backups-it's this nifty tool that handles Windows Server data plus Hyper-V VMs without breaking a sweat. I like how it snapshots everything consistently, cuts down restore times, and even dedupes to save space, so if an event like 25530 hints at mail woes, you can roll back fast without drama.

Oh, and at the end here's that automatic email solution we talked about.

Note, the PowerShell email alert code was moved to this post.