Introducing the Microsoft Exchange Best Practices Analyzer Tool

We just released an update to the rules. If you have Internet connectivity from your workstation, then the tool should auto-detect the update and prompt you to download. If you're working in a closed environment, or the tool doesn't manage to detect the update,

then you can download and apply the "Web Update Pack" from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4f2f1339-cbcd-4d26-9174-f30c10d7ec4c

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4f2f1339-cbcd-4d26-9174-f30c10d7ec4c. Simply extract the files to your installation folder (usually, C:Program FilesExBPA). Within a short period of time we'll also have a link to the Web Update

Pack from our main http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/exbpa

http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/exbpa">http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/exbpa page.

If you want to double-check if the update is applied, then click the "About..." link in the left-hand navigator when the tool is open. You'll see two version numbers ...the first is 1.0.7408.1 ...this is the version of the main binaries. The second version

number is what we call the "ConfigVersion". You'll see one of the following:

1.5.4.0 = You're running the rules as shipped in the original MSI package

1.5.5.1 = You're running the rules update that we posted a few days ago

1.5.6.1 = You're running the very latest rules available

These latest rules include some refinements that we made in response to the postings on the newsgroup and the blogs that we're monitoring.

Please keep the feedback coming! Through your help we can further refine the rules and documentation so that you see only the issues which are relevant for you.

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Paul Bowden

Program Manager

Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer

http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/exbpa">http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/exbpa

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.