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Microsoft provides a few tools for stressing an Exchange server so you can check beforehand if your server can handle the projected load.

The main tool is Exchange Load Simulator (LoadSim) 2003, now updated to handle new Exchange 2003 features. This tool is intended for testing Exchange servers which mainly serve Outlook MAPI calls including RPC Over HTTP clients.

eine detailierte anleitung gibts bei msexchange.org

eine kleine aber feine step-by-step howto anleitung: Implementing a Two Node Cluster with Windows 2003 Enterprise

hier gibts es noch weitere tutorials

Yes, we love Outlook when it’s reminding us of appointments, helping us schedule meetings, alerting us of e-mail from the big boss, and keeping us honest with our deadlines. But then with no warning our adorable little pal goes all psycho on us. Searches crash the system. We find ourselves buried alive in an Inbox that’s out of room. And then there are those pernicious, pervasive, flesh-eating e-mail viruses. All too soon, our Outlook dream is a nightmare. And we can’t wake up.

Outlook horror stories

“For the next thirteen days, I attempted to restore the Exchange backup.”

My thirteen days in Exchange Hell

The Exchange Server MSSearch Administration tool can be used to determine which Exchange Stores in the domain have Full-Text Indexes, provide status on indexes, and provide administration tasks all via the command line.

MSSearch Administration tool overview:

Provide a way to determine which Exchange Stores in the domain have Full-Text Indexes.

Provide a way to get the status of the existing Full-Text Indexes on an Exchange Server and provide additional information than what Exchange System Manager displays.

Provide a way to repair any existing Exchange Full-Text Indexes after any of the following has occurred:

- Domain Rename
- Change Primary SMTP Address for Default Recipient Policy

Provide a way for an admin to perform actions against an existing Full-Text Index via a command line tool. The main actions being:

- Enable the Index for searching
- Disable the Index for searching
- Start a Full Population
- Start an Incremental Population
- Pause the current population
- Resume the current population
- Stop the current population
- Reset the Index (Should only be used as a replacement for Deleting the Full-Text Index and then recreating it)

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The Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer represents the individual knowledge of Microsoft engineers, information about product support issues, and best practices guidelines. This knowledge is transferred into a series of eXtensible Markup Language (XML) rules that can be run against deployments of Microsoft Exchange to deliver a thorough health and status check on the system — perhaps exposing hidden configuration problems that will become critical issues later or identifying errors that can be more easily corrected now than later. The tool operates from a remote workstation — it is not necessary to load the analyzer software onto the Exchange server itself.

via MS PressPass; hier gehts zum download

der “Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer” untersucht 2000er und 2003er landschaften; 5.5er nur, wenn sie teil einer mixed-mode topologie sind.

Key Features

Outlook Redemption works around limitations imposed by the Outlook Security Patch and Service Pack 2 of MS Office 98/2000 and Office 2002 and 2003 (which include Security Patch) plus provides a number of functions to work with properties and functionality not exposed through the Outlook object model.

With Outlook Redemption you can

- Make your VB and VBA code run unaffected by the Security Patch.
- Access properties not exposed by the Outlook Object Model (internet message headers, sender e-mail address and hundreds more properties)
- Directly access RTF body of any Outlook item
- Import MSG, EML (RFC822) and TNEF files
- Export messages to MSG, EML, TXT, HTML, TNEF and vCard formats.
- Directly access message attachments as strings or as arrays without saving them as files first
- Display Address Book
- Force immediate Send/Receive (Tools | Send/Receive in Outlook)
- Track new e-mail events with (unlike Outlook) new e-mail item passed to your handler.