looks like this has been discussed already.. sorry
From: "John M" <sdkfj@microsoft.com>
Subject: best practices tool
Date: Friday, July 29, 2005 5:10 PM

I just ran the new best practices tool
It told me about one of my servers needs the /3GB switch set in the boot.ini
The problem is, that I read the support article at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/EXBPA/2a3fbee3-f3fa-4eca-8
99b-50bbf6884ae6.mspx

I have just ran the EXBPA tool for the first time an WOW I have a lot of
critical issues. First this is a Win2k3, Exchange 2k3 clustered configuration.
The errors are:
DSA Computer name mismatch

We've installed the Exchange Server BPA Mgmt pack in MOM 2005 world and I'm
getting a slew of "The 90th percentile for counter..." events for many
performance objects where the maximum value reported is 0. Is the tool just
establishing an initial baseline to measure by? Will ...

First off, I forgot to thank the person who helped me out the last time.
Thanks. Now I need to pull the contacts out of some of our sales reps
folders. Is there a way to do this without having to log in as the user and
create a pst? Mailbox manager (as I've read) only allows you ...

C: drive = system = 2.5 GB free
D: drive = logs = 14.5 GB free
E: drive = exchange = 7.5 GB free
Long story short, my Public Folders are only 660 MB in size (Outlook tells

I have several warning in the EXBPA Summary review regarding items I must
modify as to avoid issues when I upgraded to Windows Server 2003 Native Mode.
1)To avoid mailbox re-homing issues when the forest is upgraded to W2K3
native mode a modification to the system policies is ...

I have about 6 back end Exchange 2000 / Exchange 2003 servers that are
running Standard version.  Is there a tool that anyone's used to notify me
when the databases are reaching the 16 Gb limit?

I've just created a test bed for XBPA before I run it on the live exchange
server, however, we have a web filtering system that will block certain
traffic (Finjan Server, in fact) When I try and run the update / Check for
updates from within the XBPA program I recieve the ...

Hello - when I run ExBPA (2.1.7599.0/2.4.0.1), I get warnings on the full
issues list that our domain controllers do not have the 3GB set.  Almost all
of these servers are Win2k3 Standard (fully patched except not yet SP1), and
according to the "Tell me more..." details, this ...

Does anyone know of a mailbox monitoring tool, perhaps an event sink or
someother type of software for caputuring the Inbound/Outbound traffic of a
mailbox?  I hate this, but I do get requests from HR for crap like this and
it's sure a pain to manaully extract a sent items or ...

Hello,
What kind of tools are you using during migration from 5.5 to 2003?
Do you use Microsoft delivered tools (Mailbox migrate....) or others ?
Please,

I just installed and ran ExBPA 2.1 on my Exchange org. (Native-mode 2003 on
Mixed-mode Windows 2003 AD) The scan came up with a critical issue of "ADC
server cannot be contacted." This is referring to an Exchange 2000 server
that I removed from the Exchange org some time ago.

We just installed Exchange 2003 on Windows 2003 Server. Migration of the
mailboxes has been completed. We added a new user through active directory
and while setting up his laptop, outlookXP failed to download address book.
Only error that i see is "Error occured in server". If ...

I got an error when create an event sink as below:-
C:\Excall>cscript smtpreg.vbs /add 1 onarrival SMTPScriptingHost
CDO.SS_SMTPOnArriv
alSink "mail from=*@cna.com.my"