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Monitoring and Performance for Exchange Server

Exchange is a complex application, especially as your usage grows. The overall performance of Exchange is also dependent on the performance of the servers on which it runs (that is, Windows Server performance), the performance of Active Directory, the performance of the Domain Name System (DNS), and the performance of the network connecting individual Exchange servers and the Internet. The Exchange application plus these individual pieces - the Exchange infrastructure - make up the Exchange environment (sometimes called the Exchange ecosystem).

It behooves the Exchange administrator to track the performance of her Exchange environment. With tracking, the Exchange administrator can see trends in usage, discover and analyze end-user issues, find peak and minimum usage times, and be alerted to problems before and as they occur.

Performance tracking is a major piece of historical monitoring.

In this tutorial, you will learn to:

  • Examine and interpret key performance monitor counters
  • Install and configure the Exchange Management Pack
  • Configure, locate, and examine SMTP connector logs
  • Configure and evaluate Exchange diagnostic logging

In this tutorial:

  1. Key Performance Monitor Counters
  2. Memory
  3. Processor
  4. Disk
  5. Disk Performance Counters
  6. Active Directory for Exchange Server
  7. Network
  8. MAPI
  9. Using System Center Operations Manager
  10. Modifying Management Pack Objects
  11. Event Logs
  12. Defining a Security Audit Policy
  13. Protocol and Connection Logs
  14. POP
  15. Send and Receive Logs