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The Performance Monitor Wizard

Brien M. Posey
03.15.2005
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The Windows Performance Monitor has many different performance objects to choose from, and each performance object has a number of different counters. That's great if all you want to know is how well the processor is performing. But what if you want to know how well Exchange Server is performing? You can look at Exchange-related counters -- but that doesn't give you the full picture. After all, Exchange runs on Windows; if Windows isn't healthy, Exchange isn't healthy. If you only monitor Exchange-related counters and ignore Windows-related counters, you may miss important information.

So how do you choose which of the hundreds of counters to monitor? Give Microsoft's Performance Monitor Wizard a try. The Performance Monitor Wizard is designed to make performance monitoring easier. Best of all, it can be custom tailored for Exchange environments.

You can download the Pe

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rformance Monitor Wizard from Microsoft as a 46 KB zip file. The application contained within the zip file will run under Windows 2000, XP and 2003. The only catch is that you can't perform the download until the Microsoft Web site confirms that you are running a legitimate (not pirated) copy of Windows.

How to install and use the Performance Monitor Wizard

About the author: Brien M. Posey, MCSE, is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for his work with Windows 2000 Server and IIS. Brien has served as CIO for a nationwide chain of hospitals and was once in charge of IT security for Fort Knox. As a freelance technical writer he has written for Microsoft, CNET, ZDNet, TechTarget, MSD2D, Relevant Technologies and other technology companies. You can visit Brien's personal Web site at www.brienposey.com.

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