What’s New in Exchange 2007 #14 of 15: Cool Tools Included with Exchange 2007
Posted by our Guest Blogger Peter Bruzzese, Exchange 2007 trainer for www.cbtnuggets.com.
There are some great tools that help us to monitor our environment, fix problems, and troubleshoot areas where we are suffering from mail flow deterrents, connectivity issues, database corruption, and other problems.
One of the best tools at our disposal is the Microsoft Exchange Best Practices Analyzer which comes automatically with the install of the EM Console and Exchange 2007. If you want to install it separately, especially to perform a pre-Exchange 2007 checkup for your organization, you can find it here.
The Best Practices Analyzer collects information from Active Directory, the registry, and the metabase. Then it compares that information to a set of preconfigured “best practices” and returns the results along with suggestions. One of the greatest pieces…
…is the “Readiness Check” which scans the topology and existing Exchange 2000/2003 servers to see if you are ready to support Exchange 2007.
Some of the other cool tools include Mail Flow Tools like the mail flow troubleshooter, message tracking and queue viewer, all of which are either new or have been enhanced for the 2007 version. Also are Disaster Recovery Tools like the Database Recovery Management and Database Troubleshooter tools. And there are Performance Tools, like Performance Troubleshooter and Monitor.
But where we find some really cool stuff is in the EM Shell. Go to the shell and type: get-help *test*.
You will see the list of about 15 different cmdlets that will allow you to test all sorts of things like MapiConnectivity to test the ability for MAPI clients to connect to your server. You can also get some great reports by testing –ServiceHealth and –SystemHealth. Give those a try and see how your system is doing.
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