Microsoft Exchange

With e-mail at the forefront of corporate communications, the need for Microsoft Exchange reporting and analysis has become paramount for executives, I.T. directors and managers, Exchange administrators, and migration consultants alike. Understanding Microsoft Exchange usage and trends, modeling and justifying expenses, and forecasting operational requirements are fundamental to effective management of an Exchange environment. This necessitates metrics on service delivery, capacity, usage, and inventory from both technical and business perspectives in order to confirm operational efficiencies and facilitate overall corporate objectives.

MessageStats Microsoft Exchange reporting enables the measurement and management of your Exchange infrastructure with the following predefined reporting categories:

• Executive Summary reports provide an "at a glance" view of the current usage, service delivery, capacity, and financial metrics from your Exchange organizations. Such as composite reports that highlight key Exchange management disciplines in line with standard operational best practices.
• Organizational reports provide information on objects at the top level of the Exchange organization, such as Subject Auditing and Departmental reports. These reports are valuable for enterprises that have more than one Exchange organization to identify issues that are apparent at an organizational-level, and you can use other MessageStats Reports to focus on the issues.
• Server reports provide information about the reports under the Servers node. Information is presented from a sending (transmission) perspective, or receiving (delivery) perspective, and shows the quantity (number) and volume (overall size) of information observed in the Exchange tracking logs.
• Content Analysis reports provide item count and volume information for the items in public and private stores, including attachments. You can audit the information using specific criteria such as identify message header details.
• Mailbox reports provide valuable reporting capabilities for mailboxes across your organization. You can create reports to view the largest mailboxes across the entire Exchange organization, or across a single department.
• Custom Recipients reports provide data on the top custom recipients, and the users who use the custom recipients most often in your organization. Custom recipients represent users of foreign mail servers.
• Distribution List reports provide valuable information about the distribution lists in your organization, including usage, access, and traffic.
• Public Folder reports drill down into the Exchange public folder infrastructure and analyze size, usage, permissions, and replication throughout the enterprise.
• Storage reports provide an enterprise view of all storage use and free space in the Exchange organization including the overall number of mailboxes and analyze the storage usage at the database and storage group level.
• Internet reports provide information about the way your Exchange organization interacts with the Internet, including top Internet domains observed in tracking logs, domains that MessageStats has been configured to audit and distribution of messages sent from the Internet to an Exchange organization.
• Inventory reports automate much of the work that is needed for planning changes or migrations in an Exchange environment and simplify much of the ongoing management of Microsoft Exchange.
• Migration reports enable enterprises which are migrating their organizations from Exchange 5.5. to Exchange 2003 or 2007 to assess the progress of mailbox migration from a source Exchange 5.5 organization to a target Exchange 2003 or 2007 organization.
• MessageStats reports provide information on the gathering history of Exchange servers including summary information, status of gatherings, and gathering failures.