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Using ExTRA to find long running transactions inside Store
During your normal flow of troubleshooting performance for Exchange, you may have the need to see what functions might be consuming higher than normal resources on your Exchange server. These functions...
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Search Folder Performance problem detection
One of the problems we see in support from time to time is High CPU or server not responding scenarios causing 623 events on Exchange servers. This has been talked about in great detail in the...
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Certain AMD processors might cause inaccurate counter data
If during your troubleshooting, you run in to some counters (Disk Read/Writes) that just don't seem correct based on the way the server is performing, then you might be running in to a drift...
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Slow Outlook Online Mode Performance
Switching to or running Outlook in Online mode against an Exchange 2003 server may exhibit slower than normal performance when clicking on particular folders in your mailbox that contain high item...
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Steps to help mitigate Excessive Paging and Working Set trimming issues on...
Previously, I wrote a blog about excessive paging on Exchange 2007 servers due to a system wide working set trimming problem at...
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Getting started with Exchange 2007 Performance monitoring and Windows 2008
With all the moving bells and whistles of Exchange 2007 and the amount of dependencies that Exchange relies on, it could be a bit overwhelming on where to get started. For some, they may have their own...
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Updated Exchange 2003 Perfwiz
For all of you folks out there still hanging on to Exchange 2003 and dealing with performance issues, I have taken the liberty to update the Perfwiz data counter collection to the latest/greatest...
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Performance Counter Collection Tools for Exchange
I've created a Category called Perfwiz in which you can easily find all Perfwiz versions. Click on http://blogs.technet.com/mikelag/archive/tags/Perfwiz/default.aspx to get you there.Have a good one!!
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New Windows Dynamic Cache Service for 64-bit Windows 2003 servers
If you've ever had an issue where low memory conditions were causing working set trimming issues due to excessive use of the System File Cache, then we have just released a new service that can be used...
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Client RPC Dialog box questionnaire for Administrators
There are times when you are troubleshooting an Exchange Server issue where it appears that the server is performing OK, but the users are still complaining of the dreaded RPC dialog box and hangs in...
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Outlook 2007 Performance Improvements Hotfix
If you haven't heard already, we have released a Pre-SP2 hotfix that help improve Outlook performance and responsiveness in a big way. Here is an excerpt from the article.Performance improvements...
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Windows Desktop Search and the implications on WAN performance
Windows Desktop search (WDS) is a great tool to help you to search through the unwieldy plethora of documents or emails that you may have scattered across your desktop. With the addition of 3rd party...
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How to collect per request Performance Stats for IIS on Exchange 2007
Ever had a time where you were trying to troubleshoot an IIS Performance related issue on Exchange 2007 and the built-in performance counters were not giving you the data that you needed to gain...
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The Case of the Mysterious Exchange Server Hang
Recently we had a case in which an Exchange 2003 server would hang and no longer accept any new RPC connections to the Information Store. The rest of the server seemed to be operating just fine, but it...
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Exchange 2007 Memory usage and helpful troubleshooting tips
In support, we get a lot of statements stating that Exchange is using all or most of the memory on a given server. Some may say that is a bad thing, but for Exchange 2007 that is actually a good thing....
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New ADAccess Performance counters included with Exchange 2007 SP2
Exchange 2007 SP2 has a new set of ADAccess Performance counters that only shows performance data from domain controllers in the same site as the Exchange Server. This new object is MSExchange ADAccess...
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How to monitor and troubleshoot the use of Nonpaged pool memory in Exchange...
This article is a high level overview on how to troubleshoot current Nonpaged pool memory usage on an Exchange server. It explains what could be done to help mitigate some of the underlying problems...
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How to fix/repair broken Exchange 2007 counters
I commonly get calls on the inability to see performance counters in Performance Monitor (perfmon) and the inability to query them through WMI. I thought I would take some time to write about how to...
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The case of the slow Exchange 2003 Server – Lessons learned
Recently we received a case in support with an Exchange 2003 server where message delivery was slow and the Local Delivery queue was getting backed up. The Local Delivery queue was actually reaching in...
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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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