In December 2005, Microsoft shipped System Center Capacity Planner (SCCP) 2006. In this two-part article, I want to give you an introduction to what SCCP 2006 is and how it can help the Exchange professional. Here in part 1, I’ll cover an overview of SCCP, its installation requirements and how to start a new design using the Model Wizard.
Exchange System Manager itself can be considered a client of many other different services, for it has to obtain different types of information from different sources. For example, Exchange System Manager uses the Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) to display information about mailbox resources as well as Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to display information about the queues within the Queue Viewer. As you might expect, it also has to contact Active Directory to retrieve information about the configuration of Exchange. In this article, I want to cover how you can determine which domain controller Exchange System Manager is communicating with to retrieve this information.
Public folders are important to Exchange because not only do they contain user data, they also contain important system information required for the smooth operation of your Exchange environment. Replicating these folders between Exchange servers can sometimes be troublesome and so in this article I want to look at the initial steps you can take to troubleshoot your public folder replication 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.
The Exchange Management Pack Configuration Wizard can make configuring the Exchange management pack really easy and here I show you how. When you’ve done that, you should also check out the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer (ExBPA) management pack.
In the second part of this three part article, I will take a look at what drives MOM 2005 as far as Exchange management is concerned: the Exchange management pack. Understanding what’s contained within the management pack is key to obtaining a firm grasp of what MOM 2005 can offer the Exchange professional.
We would like to welcome Microsoft MVP Neil Hobson to our team of authors as he presents his first article to MSExchange.org readers: In this three part article I will take a look at the highlights of what MOM 2005 can do for you, the Exchange professional. If you’re responsible for one or more Exchange servers and haven’t investigated MOM 2005 yet, then hopefully this series of articles will make you want to check out the product further.
