Five free Exchange and Outlook add-ons that ease administration woes

Free Exchange monitoring tool offers quick glimpse at important stats

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SolarWinds' desktop Exchange monitoring tool gives admins an at-a-glance view of Exchange Server's most crucial statistics: mail queue lengths, CPU usage, disk space and the status of vital Exchange services, such as the MTA stack or routing engines.

If problems exist, they are labeled with either a critical (stop sign) or warning (yield sign) logo. Reporting tools for other Microsoft server products, like SQL Server, are also available.

You're not limited to these five; there are lots of other free tools available:

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