MS Best Practice Analyzer

[leco]

Does anyone know of an idiots guide to interpreting what the analyzer reports? I know that a white cross in a red circle means I have to do something - follow the link and read/action the resulting advice. But should all the icons be ticks instead of plings? What do the arrows indicate?

 

Another thing, there is an icon to print the report - but it does nothing on my server. Help please.

[SYNACK]

Screenshot?

 

I think that the arrows are just things to be aware of that may make it work better but will not cause faults themselves, just stuff that could be done better.

[leco]

Well I would give a screen shot, but I've closed my VPN link now - got fed up of trying to sort things out. I've done all the red circles, but hadn't realised that there might be ticks until some came up. I thought all the plings were for information rather than action required. I have been trying to find info on the analyzer without any luck.

[SYNACK]

Here is a the quickstart guide Microsoft Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Quick Start Guide

This gives a bit of info Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 - Microsoft's ExBPA (Best Practice Analyzer)

and these are webcasts on it which should shed some light http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032287287&culture=en-US plus https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032294709&CountryCode=US

[leco]

As ever Synack you are a better searcher than I - thank you so much.

[detjo]

Is there a Best Practices Analyzer addon released for 2008 'R1' that we can install ?

Had a look around but cant fnd one anywhere, so im guessing there isnt