Suspend-PublicFolderMoveRequest Exchange cmdlet issued (25684) how to monitor with email alert

[bob]

Man, that event 25684 in the Event Viewer on your Windows Server, it's all about when someone runs the Suspend-PublicFolderMoveRequest cmdlet in Exchange. You know, it pops up because that command basically hits the pause button on moving public folders around. I remember troubleshooting this once, and it logs right there under the Microsoft-Exchange-MailboxReplication service. The details spill out the job ID, the mailbox database names involved, and even the user who triggered it. But yeah, it flags if the move gets suspended mid-way, maybe due to some hiccup or just a deliberate stop. Hmmm, without this log, you'd be blind to those pauses, and public folders could end up in limbo. Or worse, emails and calendars get tangled. I always check the event properties for the full XML data, it shows timestamps and reasons why it suspended. You click on the event in the viewer, and bam, all the juicy bits unfold. And if it's recurring, that means your Exchange setup might need a nudge.

Setting up monitoring for this, you don't need fancy stuff. Just fire up the Event Viewer on your server. I do this all the time for alerts. Right-click on the Custom Views, make a new one filtering for event ID 25684 in the Application log. You attach a task to it then. Go to the Actions tab, create a scheduled task that triggers on this event. I link it to send an email via the built-in task scheduler options. You pick your SMTP server details there, add the recipient, and subject like "Hey, public folder move paused again." But keep it simple, test it once to see if the email flies out. Or tweak the trigger to only alert during business hours if you want. This way, you get pinged right when it happens, no waiting around.

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At the end here, you'll find the automatic email solution we talked about.

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