FREE Exchange Monitor

I found this excellent tool from solarwinds,

This free desktop dashboard continuously monitors Microsoft Exchange servers to deliver real-time insight into Exchange services, mail queue sizes, and host server health. With Exchange Monitor at your fingertips, you’ll be able to track Exchange health at-a-glance and ensure this mission-critical app never fails you.

• Quickly identify and troubleshoot Exchange server problems, preventing email delays and calendaring issues


• Spot growing mail queues that can indicate bigger issues, like transport failures, Internet connection failures, and virus activity


• Leverage out-of-the-box settings based on best practices to start monitoring Exchange immediately


• Prevent performance issues before they impact users with built-in red, yellow, and green health indicators


• Monitor critical server health indicators, including disk space, CPU utilization, and memory utilization, to ensure optimal hardware functionality

No problems getting it running on Standard Windows, or SBS, Quick and Easy..

download file here:

http://sites.google.com/site/a2zcomputingltd/files-found/SolarWinds-Exchange-Monitor-I.zip?attredirects=0

SBS 2003 Memory Problems

Have you added more RAM into your server, and suddley your getting memeory Allocation errors.

in these cases where allocated memory errors were caused by adding RAM to the machine. This happens because we are actually making use of the new memory (which is a good thing, the server is using the resources you have added more effectively), but you may want to modify the threshold to avoid getting an unneeded alert.

The actual text of the error message is:

Alert on SBSSERVER at 2006.06.27. 0:05:00

A large amount of memory is committed to applications and processes. Consistently high memory usage can cause performance problems.

To determine which processes and applications are using the most memory, use Task Manager. Monitor the activity of these resources over a few days. If they continue to use a high level of memory and are less critical processes or services, try stopping and then restarting them.

You can disable this alert or change its threshold by using the Change Alert Notifications task in the Server Management Monitoring and Reporting taskpad.

To modify the value, do the following:

1. Click START -> Run -> mmc

2. Click File -> Add/Remove snap-in in MMC

3. Add health monitor and click ok back to the main screen.

4. Navigate to Health Monitor -> All Monitored Computers -> SBSSERVER -> Small Business Server Alerts -> Core Server Alerts -> Allocated Memory. On the right-hand pane, right-click on "Allocated Memory" and choose Properties. Edit the "is greater than" value to reflect the correct amount of RAM. Default is 2 GB/2147483648 (3 GB = 3221225472, 4 GB = 4294967296).







Thats it..

This was obtained from the official SBS Blog : http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/ - not easy to find.

Video Player for various formats

Had a call today regarding how to play Videos over the network, and not kill the system. also be able to play various formats.

Well I said "VIDEOLAN"

It allows you to play lots of video formats, more that Microsoft's, and is FREE, will allow you to stream files over the IP Network. What more do you need..

Put a Video on a network share access it via 20 machines, buy double clicking it and watch the network come to a crawl.

Now do the same thing but create a shortcut using videolan so its loads (needs to be install on all computers) hay look no dropouts and still completely usable network.

The Link to download this program is on favorits also :

Download VideoLan

Here is a huge : feature list