New-AvailabilityReportOutage Exchange cmdlet issued (25192) how to monitor with email alert

[bob]

Man, that event 25192 in the Event Viewer on Windows Server, it's all about Exchange Server flagging when someone runs this New-AvailabilityReportOutage cmdlet. You know, that thing kicks in whenever there's a hiccup in the availability service, like when the system notices an outage affecting stuff such as calendar sharing or free-busy lookups between mailboxes. I remember troubleshooting one last week, and it popped up because the service couldn't sync properly across the servers. The log details the exact time it happened, who issued the command if it's from an admin, and a bit about the outage scope, maybe saying which database or server got hit. It's not a crash, more like a heads-up that something's blocking the availability data flow, so you gotta check the underlying services right away. And yeah, it logs under the MSExchange Availability category, with level warning usually, but it can feel urgent if your users start complaining about calendar glitches.

You wanna keep an eye on this without staring at the screen all day? Fire up Event Viewer, head to the Custom Views section, and create a filter just for event ID 25192 in the Applications and Services Logs under Microsoft-Exchange. Once that's set, right-click on the taskbar area or go through the Actions pane to attach a task to that event. Pick Create Task, name it something like Outage Alert, and under Triggers, select On an event with your filter details. Then in the Actions tab, choose Send an email, plug in your SMTP server details, the to and from addresses, and a simple message saying outage reported, check Exchange now. Make sure to set it to run whether user is logged on or not, and test it by simulating if you can. That way, every time 25192 fires, you get a ping in your inbox.

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At the end here is the automatic email solution.

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