Administering a large corporate Microsoft Exchange Server environment is an important and sometimes challenging job. With the release of Microsoft Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool, network administrators now have an advanced new utility to help maintain the health and optimal performance of a Microsoft Exchange Server. The Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer encodes the top Microsoft Exchange Server product support issues and resolutions into a software tool that can be run as part of an automated network "health check" or a troubleshooting test to identify and diagnose configuration problems in the network. The no-cost tool helps customers to more easily manage and maximize performance in existing Exchange deployments.

"I like to think of the Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer as a Microsoft-engineer-in-a-box," says Paul Bowden, program manager for Exchange Server Development at Microsoft. "The tool represents an encoding of Microsoft's Knowledge Base about Microsoft Exchange Server in an automated, continually-updated format that makes it easy for customers to monitor and optimize their network infrastructure."