Vista - Different behavior of "Get-Content -Wait" on Windows Server 2008

I use "Get-Content -Wait <Logfile>" in situations where I have to
troubleshoot
transport issues on my Exchange Server 2007.

When running on Windows Server 2003, the command opens the Logfile, then
keeps it open and displays new content in the logfile immediately.

When running on Windows Server 2008, the logfile is opened, kept open, but
new content is not displayed.

What am I missing here? I tried running PS as adminsitrator - with no
succes.

Any ideas what I can do? Is this a known issue?`

TIA

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Christian Schindler

Are you using the same version of Exchange of both machine?

Does Exchange always append to the log or will it modify exiting records.
Does this depend on the size of the log.

Exchange like most services likely do cache the log entries and do a lazy
write. Which means nothing goes to disk till after the write. If you can
force a write do so.

Can you reproduce this outside of Exchange 2007?

i.e.
using notepad create a file, write to it, save it
gc <file> -wait
either reopen the file in notepad or if its still open append to the end of
the file and
save it

If the works or you think this may be related to exchange you should
probably repost there.

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