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Microsoft Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant v1.0 now available!

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The_Exchange_Team
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Aug 03, 2006

What Jon Avner announced in this blog post is now a reality - today we have released the version 1.0 of Microsoft Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant. You can download it from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4bdc1d6b-de34-4f1c-aeba-fed1256caf9a&DisplayLang=en

The download page says:

The Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant programmatically collects configuration data, performance counters and live tracing information from an Exchange server. The tool analyzes each subsystem to determine individual bottlenecks and component failures, then aggregates the information to provide root cause analysis.

Let us know what you think!! Post comments to this blog post or if you need assistance, please go to the microsoft.public.exchange.tools newsgroup!

- Nino Bilic

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Aug 04, 2006
    Can you explain how this is different from the ExPTA?
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Aug 04, 2006
    It sounds like you're describing ExBPA, which does do a general scan of your system and looks for any issues and reports everything it finds (mostly config related, but it does other checks as well).  It does over 2500 checks right now, and growing.

    The difference between the tools is that ExBPA is meant to be run regularly to verify system health and ExTRA is meant to be run specifically to deal with a current issue being experienced.  
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    Anonymous
    Aug 04, 2006
    Nice tool, very handy....long overdue. Perhaps include a way to run a scan without having to input any symptoms. Sometimes I just want to know that everything is running ok. Sometimes there will be a problem but no one brings it up until it has gone on for a couple of weeks. Good job though!
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    Anonymous
    Aug 04, 2006
    This will work for both E2K and E2K3, although there might be some tests and features not available for E2K.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Aug 04, 2006
    I can't get it to collect ExMon data from the server, although I can run ExMon locally on the server without any problems. What am I missing?
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Aug 03, 2006
    this works for exchange 2000 and exchange 2003 ?
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Aug 03, 2006
    BD,

    Give it a little if it does not work, sorry about that. I am guessing replication is still taking place. I just tried it and I can access it.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Aug 03, 2006
    The link doesn't work. Has it been released yet.