

- #EXCHANGE 2010 BEST PRACTICES ANALYZER INSTALL#
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#EXCHANGE 2010 BEST PRACTICES ANALYZER UPGRADE#
#EXCHANGE 2010 BEST PRACTICES ANALYZER SOFTWARE#
There are all kinds of things that can go wrong with deployment, from software bugs to misbehaved hardware, so the advice here is to go “by-the-book”. Exchange Server Jetstress 2010: Simulate disk I/O load on a test server running Exchange to verify the performance and stability of your disk subsystem before putting your server into a production environment.Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator: The mother of all planning tools, will assist you with sizing the hardware components of the most crucial Exchange Server role, the Mailbox Server (including multi-role servers).Exchange Pre-Deployment Analyzer: The Exchange Pre-Deployment Analyzer performs an overall topology readiness scan of your environment and provides you with a list of decisions that need to be made before you deploy Exchange Server 2010.Fortunately there are some amazing tools that significantly lower the risk of making bad decisions: It’s the time to make all critical decisions that will ultimately affect how the overall system behaves. Thorough planning is crucial for the health of any Exchange Server infrastructure. So, first things first, and since we don’t want to skip any step, one should always start with the planning phase. Plan > Deploy > Operate, that’s the order, carved on stone, of the lifecycle of any Microsoft product (it applies to any product, really). Exchange Team Blog (aka You Had Me at EHLO).If you can’t afford attending Microsoft Tech.Ed, most of the content is available online at Channel 9.Īnd then, of course, there are lots and lots of places on the Internet where the technical community shares knowledge. Instructor led training and attending conferences and technical events are quite obvious ones. It is not an easy answer, just because there are so many resources available, most of them free. I often get asked by people seeking to improve their Exchange Server knowledge what is the best way to achieve the desired level of expertise and what are the technical learning resources available. And this is even true for those Organizations that completely outsource their IT systems. And the deeper the knowledge about the product someone responsible for an Exchange infrastructure has, the better it will perform and will be less likely to suffer from downtime due to misconfigurations. This means that in order to correctly apply the information here exposed, there is expected to be a minimum level of technical knowledge about Exchange Server.
#EXCHANGE 2010 BEST PRACTICES ANALYZER SERIES#
In this article I’ll enumerate a series of tips and best practices, collected from several technical sources, gathered from the vast Exchange Community or simply an accumulation of notes to self from real situations in the field.Īlthough the articles at don’t get rated on the Microsoft scale 100-400, according to the technical knowledge required, I would classify this article, at least, as a level 200. But it keeps getting better and better… Which makes my work writing these tips a little bit more difficult, since I started this series of optimization articles with Exchange Server 2003. Exchange Server is simply rock solid, period.


One can argue the reasons behind this success, but there’s no doubt that, since the beginning, the Exchange Product Team has done a terrific job regarding functionality, interoperability, security, manageability and performance. Since its birth at 1996, Exchange Server has been one of the most successful products in history of Microsoft. 15 Tips to Optimize an Exchange 2010 Infrastructure (Part 3).15 Tips to Optimize an Exchange 2010 Infrastructure (Part 2).If you would like to read the other parts of this article series please go to:
