Tools

In this article I will show you how to use the new Exchange Server 2003 Disaster Recovery Analyzer Tool (ExDRA).

In this article I will give you some information about the small but very helpful tool ExchDump. With the help of ExchDump you can collect a lot of useful information about your Exchange Servers.

In this article I will show you how, with the help of a little 3rd party tool, you can monitor your Exchange 2003 server as well as the Exchange services running on it. It’s also possible to stop, start and restart services as well as enable and disable them. In addition, you can see the version and build numbers of the Exchange Servers.

In this article I’ll introduce you to the Offline Address Book Integrity (OABInteg) utility, which can be of great help when troubleshooting Offline Address Book (OAB) generation issues as well as OAB download issues.

Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS) can provide you with a useful tool called NoMAS. In this article I want to cover what the NoMAS tool is and under what circumstances you might want to use it.

These days almost every corporate e-mail has a disclaimer. Companies use them because of legal issues, as an advertising means or maybe because they think messages look nicer with a disclaimer. Since Exchange Server 5.5 Microsoft has provided a way of adding basic disclaimers to outgoing messages. Let’s see how things have evolved since then and what we can do to extend the provided capabilities.

The first two parts of my scripting series discussed Exchange users in almost every possible angle. This third part of the series will go over ways for accessing Exchange objects, such as servers, storage groups and databases.

Due to the many different theories about the best practice of configuring a Exchange Server 2003 deployment in an organization, Microsoft tried to give each administrator and consultant an easy way to deploy Exchange using Microsoft’s recommendations on best practices. With release 2.0 of the Exchange Best Practice Analyzer, Paul Bowden, the “father” of this tool, has provided a powerful tool for easily configuring and optimizing your Exchange Server environment. In this article you will get a brief description of the features of Exchange Best Practice Analyzer 2.0 and how to use it to optimize your configuration.

In this article I will give you an introduction to Microsoft’s latest Exchange 2003 Server Web Release tool – Microsoft Exchange Server User Monitor (ExMon) which was announced on You Had Me at EHLO (aka Exchange team blog) the 7 April 2005. ExMon makes it possible for Exchange Administrators to view, evaluate and gather real-time data about the users in an Exchange environment.

In this article I will give you an insight into how you, with the use of the Quota Message Service for Exchange, can customize mailbox quota messages (aka mailbox limit warnings.)