This SearchExchange.com guide introduces you to Exchange Server performance, explains best practices and pitfalls to avoid and provides troubleshooting help and advice. You'll find performance related articles, tutorials, tips, tools, white
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| Exchange Server Performance QuickStart | Return to Top |
- Checklist: Top 10 Exchange performance worst practices (SearchExchange.com)
- Checklist: Tools that diagnose Exchange performance problems (SearchExchange.com)
- Article: Three basics of Exchange Server performance (Microsoft)
- Article: Understanding Exchange performance (Microsoft)
- Reference: Exchange Server Standard Maintenance Checklist (SearchExchange.com)
| Exchange Server Performance Overview | Return to Top |
- Article: Exchange Server 2003 performance -- 10 things to think about (Microsoft)
- Tutorial: 10 tips to optimize Exchange 2003 performance (MSExchange.org)
- Tutorial: Tuning Exchange 2000 (InformIT.com)
- Tutorial: Performance anxiety monitoring your Exchange 2000 Server (MSExchange.org)
- White Paper: Exchange Server 2003 Performance and Scalability Guide (Microsoft)
- Online Book: Troubleshooting Exchange 2000 performance (Microsoft)
- Reference Center: Exchange 2000 performance tuning and optimization resources (LabMice.net)
| Exchange Server Performance Tools | Return to Top |
- Tip: Load Simulator tests Exchange Server's capabilities (SearchExchange.com)
- Tip: The Exchange Best Practices Analyzer tool (SearchExchange.com)
- Tip: The Performance Monitor Wizard (SearchExchange.com)
- Tip: Free log reporting tool for HTTP and Exchange (SearchExchange.com)
- Tip: When Exchange performance counters don't show up in WMI apps (SearchExchange.com)
- Tip: Memory reports from Exchange BPA tool trouble users (SearchExchange.com)
- Tutorial: Using the Microsoft Exchange Server User Monitor (ExMon) tool (MSExchange.org)
- Checklist: Tools that diagnose Exchange performance problems (SearchExchange.com)
| Exchange Server Memory and Storage | Return to Top |
- Tip: Is an offline defragmentation really worth it? (SearchExchange.com)
- Tip: Exchange Server capacity planning (SearchExchange.com)
- Tip: Using an external hard drive to defragment Exchange (SearchExchange.com)
- Tip: Move those logs for faster performance (SearchExchange.com)
- Tip: Defragmenting Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 databases (Microsoft)
- Tip: Four ways to monitor Exchange's health (SearchExchange.com)
- Article: How to defragment Exchange databases (Microsoft)
- Article: How to defragment with the ESEUTIL utility (Microsoft)
| Exchange Server Performance Clustering | Return to Top |
- Tip: Exchange Admin 101: An introduction to Exchange clustering (SearchExchange.com)
- Tip: Seven-step plan to clustering Exchange servers (SearchExchange.com)
- Learning Center: Exchange clustering 101 and 102 (SearchExchange.com)
- Book Excerpt: Exchange Server performance and clusters (SearchExchange.com)
- Online Book: Deploying Microsoft Exchange 2000 clusters (Microsoft)
- Reference Center: Microsoft Exchange clustering tips and resources (SearchExchange.com)
| Exchange Server and MOM | Return to Top |
- Tip: Exchange Admin 101: Meet MOM (SearchExchange.com)
- Reference: Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 product overview (Microsoft)
- Tutorial: Managing Exchange 2003 with MOM 2005 (MSExchange.org)
- Webcast: An introduction to MOM architecture, features, performance and sizing (Microsoft)
- Learning Guide: Microsoft Operations Manager (SearchWinSystems.com)
- Reference Center: Microsoft Operations Manager tips and resources (LabMice.net)
This was first published in August 2005