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Microsoft Exchange Best Practices Analyzer v2.8

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  • Category: Tool
  • Language: English

The Microsoft Exchange Best Practices Analyzer is designed for administrators who want to determine the overall health of their Exchange servers and topology. The tool scans Exchange servers and identifies items that do not conform to Microsoft best practices.

The Exchange Best Practices Analyzer programmatically collects settings and values from data repositories such as Active Directory, registry, metabase and performance monitor. Once collected, a set of comprehensive ‘best practice’ rules are applied to the topology.
Administrators running this tool will get a detailed report listing the recommendations that can be made to the environment to achieve greater performance, scalability and uptime.

Note Exchange Best Practices Analyzer v2.8 should not be used to scan Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2010. In Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2010, the Best Practices Analyzer is installed during Exchange Setup and can be run from the Exchange Management Console Toolbox.

Support Life Cycle Statement for this Tool Microsoft Exchange Best Practices Analyzer v2.8 follows the Microsoft Lifecycle policy of Exchange Server 2003, which is in Extended Support since April 2009. For more information on the Extended Support phase refer to the Microsoft Support Lifecycle page.

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System Requirements

Operating Systems: Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP

  • Click here to view the system requirements for the Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool

NOTE: It is recommended that this tool is installed and executed on a workstation rather than an Exchange server.

Installation Instructions

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