Perfwiz for Exchange 2010
NOTE: This version of Perfwiz has been replaced by a newly written script that is talked about in...
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The effects of paged pool token memory usage and Outlook 2007’s shared...
In Exchange 2003, we are bound by 32-bit architecture memory limitations and paged pool memory just so happens to be one of them. This is a very common issue that we in Exchange support see is paged...
View ArticleExchange Server Profile Analyzer updated!!
For any of you folks that might have created a hair ball on the floor by pulling your hair out trying to obtain data from the Exchange Profile Analyzer (EPA) tool, there is good news that a new version...
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Perfmon data viewing nuance…
Recently, I have been running in to a perfmon nuance that I would like to call out. On any given performance troubleshooting day which is almost every day, I open up Perfmon, select the BLG file of...
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Audit Exchange 2007 SP2 Auditing
There have been a few cases that have been coming through the support channels stating that auditing is not working for whatever reason. After reviewing the cases, we have found that this is due to...
View ArticleExchange 2007/2010 Performance Data Collection Script
In efforts to help streamline performance data collection on Exchange 2007/Exchange 2010 servers, I have created a powershell script that will automate the data collection for you. One of the nice...
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Detecting Low Virtual Memory Conditions in Windows 2008 and R2
On Windows 2008 servers with Exchange 2007/2010 installed, there are times when you may run out of virtual memory for various reasons. One could be a memory leak in some application or simply not...
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How to unload/reload performance counters on Exchange 2010
Previously I had wrote a set of steps for fixing/repairing broken Exchange 2007 counters at http://blogs.technet.com/b/mikelag/archive/2009/10/21/how-to-fix-repair-broken-exchange-2007-counters.aspx....
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Processor 0 increased CPU utilization
While looking on a Exchange 2010 server recently in task manager to review the amount of CPU utilization, I noticed that Processor 0 was at 100% CPU while all of the other CPUs were relatively lower...
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How fragmentation on incorrectly formatted NTFS volumes affects Exchange
Recently we have been seeing some gnarly performance issues in Exchange 2007 along with an added splash of database operation failures. This doesn’t sound enticing at all, but this blog post is going...
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