Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=983b941d-06cb-4658-b7f6-3088333d062f Version: 3.3 1641 Date Published: 4/21/2009 Network Monitor 3.3 is a protocol analyzer. It allows you to capture network traffic, view and analyze it. Version 3.3 is an update and replaces Network Monitor 3.2. Network Monitor 3.x is a complete overhaul of the previous Network Monitor 2.x version.
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Use PowerShell To Auto-Update Your Sysinternals
how cool is this! http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/Joe/archive/2009/04/17/use-powershell-to-auto-update-your-sysinternals.aspx
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I used this when I worked on the farside, but internally it was time bombed. But now it’s free and it still rocks! .. multi threaded copy! Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.utilityspotlight.aspx .. RichCopy is a free utility that comes to us from Ken Tamaru of Microsoft. The tool was first developed in 2001 and has been updated
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Comments Off Windows Sysinternals updates
so 30th September saw some updates to some systinternals tools: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb545027.aspx Contig v1.55 There are a number of NT disk defraggers on the market, including Winternals Defrag Manager. These tools are useful for performing a general defragmentation of disks, but while most files are defragmented on drives processed by these utilities, some files may not
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Comments Off Microsoft Exchange Best Practices Analyzer
At last a Web Update Pack for ExBPA. You can get it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4F2F1339-CBCD-4D26-9174-F30C10D7EC4C&displaylang=en Basically this download contains the latest XML and ExBPA.chm files. Use this package to update your existing installation of the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer. You only need to apply it (if like almost every production server in the world) the
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Comments Off Test-SystemHealth
Okay so we all know that Test-SystemHealth is basically ExBPAcmd with a nice wrapper. What I find interesting is that when I run it, it always “Mailbox Role Checks” even if it’s run on a CAS or Hub Transport server. Well Test-SystemHealth does have a -roles but the help file says it’s Reserved for internal
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Comments Off ExBPA on Exchange 2007
Okay I’m confused. I started with this Application Version: 3.2.685.18 Configuration File Version: 12.11.11.0 If I download the ExBPA update files from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4F2F1339-CBCD-4D26-9174-F30C10D7EC4C&displaylang=en and copy them to C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\Bin\en My BPA from the Exchange 2007 Toolbox shows: Configuration File Version: 2.11.16.0 BUT if I connect my 2007 server to the internet and click on
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Comments Off ExBPA Update on Exchange 2007
This is interesting. So I ran ExBPA & Test-SystemHealth on my Exchange 2007 box and they give the same answers (Phew!) But, I just copied this: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4f2f1339-cbcd-4d26-9174-f30c10d7ec4c&displaylang=en to c:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\Bin\en and now Test-SystemHealth says this: [PS] C:\>Test-SystemHealth Test-SystemHealth : This specified Role (Mailbox) is not defined in the configu ration file. Parameter name: Roles
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Comments Off Microsoft Cluster Configuration Validation Wizard
Found this on the download site today … looks interesting. Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bf9eb3a7-fb91-4691-9c16-553604265c31&DisplayLang=en The Microsoft Cluster Configuration Validation Wizard, a.k.a. “ClusPrep”, is a validation tool that does a complete system inventory and runs focused tests on servers that are configured and ready for Microsoft Server Cluster installation (in other words, before the servers are a cluster).
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