Microsoft Exchange Diagnostic Tools

1. Microsoft Exchange Server User Monitor (ExMON) We will be using the Microsoft Exchange Server User Monitor to gather real-time data to better understand current client usage patterns, and to view several items, including IP addresses used by clients, versions and modes of Microsoft Office Outlook, and resources such as CPU usage, server-side processor latency, and total latency for network and processing. 2. Microsoft Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant v1.1 (ExPTA) The Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant programmatically executes a set of troubleshooting steps to identify the root cause of performance, mail flow, and database mounting issues. The tool determines what set of data is required to troubleshoot the identified symptoms and collects configuration data, performance counters, event logs and live tracing information from an Exchange server and other appropriate sources. The tool analyzes each subsystem to determine individual bottlenecks and component failures, then aggregates the information to provide root cause analysis. 3. Log Parser 2.2 Log parser is a powerful, versatile tool that provides universal query access to text-based data such as log files, XML files and CSV files, as well as key data sources on the Windows operating system such as the Event Log, the Registry, the file system, and Active Directory. 4. Exchange Log Analyzer The ExLogAnalyzer is a framework that parses logs and triggers events based on the log entries. It can analyze (replay) logs across multiple servers and multiple log types in a single run. 5. Exchange Support Tool: ExchDump ExchDump is a command line utility that gathers Exchange configuration information from various sources used in troubleshooting support issues. 6. Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1 The Messaging API is a COM-like API that provides access to the contents of messaging stores. CDO 1.2.1 (Collaboration Data Objects, version 1.2.1) is a package providing access to Outlookcompatible objects through a COM-based API. Using either CDO or MAPI, a program can connect to a MAPI store, and then perform operations against that store.

7. Microsoft Exchange Server Public Folder DAV-based Administration Tool Exchange Server Public Folder Distributed Authoring and Versioning (DAV)-based Administration tool (PFDAVAdmin) to perform various management tasks related to public folders and mailboxes. The tool checks the permissions status of each public and mailbox folder and corrects any problems found. The ability to bulk export/import the permissions and replica lists make this tool invaluable in achieving greater productivity in managing public folders. The program can also reports content information of each public folder and mailbox folder such as the number of items in each folder, size of folder and most recent modification date of any item in the folder. 8. Microsoft Exchange Server Inter-Organization Replication We will be using the Inter-Organization Replication tool to replicate free and busy information and public folder content between Exchange organizations. The tool will allow for the coordination of meeting, appointments, contacts, and public folder information between disjointed Exchange organizations