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EXCHANGE UTILITY BELT TIPS
(AKA
EXCHANGE
TOOLS)
Speaker: Dave Stork
Company: OGD ict-diensten bv
Position: Architect
Who am I?
Dave Stork – Architect (Exchange, Office 365)
OGD ict services: Government Partner of the Year
Award Finalist 2015 http://bit.ly/virtualcity
I am an Exchange MVP and an MCT.
I am also one of the Contributors of The UC Architects
Podcast
@theucarchitects / www.theucarchitects.com
I tweet from @dmstork
I blog at https://dirteam.com/dave
Email me [email protected]
When not tweeting/blogging I like to watch sci-fi tv
series and movies, Xbox and argue with people on the
internet (they are wrong!).
AGENDA
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Sizing and validating
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Troubleshooting
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Reporting & Other
NOTICE
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Sheets will be available after the event
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Notes contain links to downloads and blog posts
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Not that I mind you taking notes or pictures 
SIZING AND VALIDATING
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Huh? Why this in session about tools?
Because sizing matters!
And tools can help with that
SIZING AND VALIDATING
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Exchange 201x Server Role Requirements Calculator
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Exchange Processor Query Tool
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Tool to help you find standardized CPU performance information
For use with the Exchange Role calculator
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Generate Message Profile
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Jetstress
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Honorable mentions
EXCHANGE 201X SERVER ROLE
REQUIREMENTS CALCULATOR
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Excel sheet to help you size and validate you Exchange design
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You already have to have a general idea what your design is
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Depending on input gives it returns expected resource requirements
HA, Site resiliency, Virtualization, choice of hardware
Available for Exchange 2010 and 2013
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Note that it can be patch specific
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Run, repeat, run, repeat etc.
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Take your time and study documentation
Server Configuration
/ Primary Datacenter
Server (Single Failure)
Recommended RAM Configuration
Number of Processor Cores Utilized
Server CPU Utilization
Server CPU Megacycle Requirements
Server Total Available Adjusted Megacycles
Possible Storage Architecture
Recommended Transport Database Location
Host IO and Throughput Requirements
Total Database Required IOPS
Total Log Required IOPS
Database Read I/O Percentage
Background Database Maintenance Throughput Requirements
24 GB
2
18%
4821
26430
RAID
System Disk
/ Database
1
0
60%
1.0 MB/s
/ Server
66
15
-58 MB/s
/ DAG
133
29
-116 MB/s
EXCHANGE PROCESSOR QUERY TOOL
GENERATE MESSAGE PROFILE
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Generate-MessageProfile.ps1
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For use with the Exchange Calculator
SiteName
Mailboxes AvgTotalMsgs AvgTotalKB AvgSentMsgs AvgRcvdMsgs AvgSentKB AvgRcvdKB
Default-FirstSite-Name
19
1
12
1
1
10
12
JETSTRESS
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Tool to simulate Exchange disk load
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Verify the performance and stability of you disk subsystem
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Before installing & putting Exchange in production
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Read the Jetstress Field Guide
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Version specific
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Build specific, get the required DLL files from setup
RESULTS REPORT
RESULTS REPORT
HONORABLE MENTIONS
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LoadSim
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Exchange Client Network Bandwidth Calculator Beta
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Simulation tool to measure the impact of MAPI, OWA, ActiveSync, IMAP, POP and SMTP
clients on Exchange servers
Not supported in production, deprecated.
To predict the client network bandwidth requirements for a specific set of users
Exchange 2013 CPU Sizing Checker
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Peak average usage CPU utilization based on hardware, message profile and current
number of mailboxes
TROUBLESHOOTING
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Connectivity
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Outlook
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Logs
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Performance
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Other
OUTLOOK CONNECTIVITY
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Outlook has some built in tools
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Connection Status
Test AutoDiscover
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Outlook Tray Icon CTRL + Right Click
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Connectivity Remote Connectivity Analyzer
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Also for several Exchange protocols and Lync/Skype.
Web based & remote
Client
OUTLOOK CONNECTIVITY
OUTLOOK CONNECTIVITY
OTHER OUTLOOK & MAILBOX ISSUES
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Microsoft Office Configuration Analyzer Tool 2.x
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CalCheck
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MFCMAPI
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Calendar Checking and fixing
Low (MAPI) level mailbox viewer & editor
New-MailboxRepairRequest
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Use -DetectOnly if you need to detect errors and not disturb user access
OFFCAT
OFFCAT
LOGS & PERFORMANCE
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Log Parser & Log Parser Studio
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Tools to parse log files
Contains ready made queries
Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) tool
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Checking Performance counters whether they are within threshold values
DailyPerformanceLogs
Exchange 2013 Template from Pal
ExPerfWiz
Tip 1: Collect all logs and run PAL on a fast computer
Tip 2: don’t use IE for reports; very very slow.
OTHER
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https://<server>/<protocol>/HealthCheck.htm
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https://mail.contoso.com/owa/healthcheck.htm
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OpenSSL Win 32 (and SSLSCAN)
• Checking Exchange SSL protocols and ciphers
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IISCrypto
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RBAC Manager
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SnakeTail
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SnakeTail is a Windows tail utility for monitoring growing log files.
Telnet!
OTHER
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Collect-OverMetrics.ps1
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CollectLogScript.ps1
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DAG Failover report
Built-In -> $EXSCRIPTS
Collecting eventlogs, IIS logs etc.
Run per server
Exchange 2013 Performance Health Check Scripts
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HealthChecker.ps1
COLLECTOVER METRICS
OTHER
Very cool Exchange PowerShell scripts
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Exchange Analyzer
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Michael van Horenbeeck
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Community Best Practice Analyzer
Exchange 2013 Maintenance Script
Steve Goodman
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Environment Report
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Paul Cunningham
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Michel de Rooij
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Install Exchange 2013 script
Fix-MailboxFolders.ps1 & Remove-MessageClassItems.ps1
Q&A