Production Environment: E2K7 SP1I am going to do a monthly Exchange Traffic Report.I am thinking if I can use Exchange ServerProfile Analyzer for doing Monthly Exchange Traffic Report.1. Is it a supported scenario?2. Any impact beside performance?3. Perferredrunning platform?? Run EPA on Server?? or Workstation??EPA:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8F575F60-BD80-44AA-858B-A1F721108FAD&displaylang=en

It would be always better to run these kind of tools from one separate Dedicated PC/Server from where exchange servers can be managed. It will not harm even if you run from production server. But run after peek hours. Recommendations for running the EPA Make sure that the Exchange Server Profile Analyzer is run during a maintenance period to avoid a potential effect on server performance that could increase client access latency, and thereby adversely affect your Service Level Agreement (SLA). The tool moves slowly through the data in the user mailboxes, at a rate of approximately 500KB to 1MB of data per second. Therefore, you should select a small, representative group of mailbox databases in your organization, and collect data from those databases only. By default, the tool collects data from only a single mailbox on each server at the same time. To collect data from multiple mailbox databases at the same time, either run multiple instances of the tool by creating multiple configuration files, or change the configuration file by following the information in the "Entering Information in the Configuration File" section. The effect of collecting data from each mailbox will resemble synchronizing a mailbox for a new Microsoft Office Outlook2003 cached mode user. During the data collection process, we recommend that you monitor the mailbox servers and look for any significant increase in RPC Averaged Latency. This would indicate a performance problem on the server. If there are multiple instances of the tool running, this can increase the load on the server. If the server is experiencing performance issues because of this, reduce the number of instances of the tool running to keep the server in a healthy state. Prerequisites You must have the following software installed on any computer that the Exchange Server Profile Analyzer will be run on. Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package (x86) at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=66763 . The following operating systems are required for the tool to work correctly. Microsoft Windows2000 Server SP4 (or later versions), Microsoft Windows XP SP2 (or later versions), Microsoft WindowsServer 2003 (or later versions), or Windows Vista Servers that are to be analyzed by the tool must be running one of the following: Exchange Server 2007, Exchange Server 2003, Exchange Server 2003 SP1, Exchange Server 2003 SP2 (or later versions), Exchange2000 Server SP3 (or later versions) Vinod |CCNA|MCSE 2003 +Messaging|MCTS|ITIL V3|

Basically it recommends to run during maintenance periods. If you are not sure test it on something else to see what it does. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb508856(EXCHG.65).aspx Andrew Sword, MVP

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Victor, If you are looking to see how much mail you are receiving or sending out take a look at this, I've gathered some tools that do this as well as some free ones. http://almostdailytech.com/2009/05/25/exchange-messaging-statistics/Mark Morowczynski|MCT| MCSE 2003:Messaging, Security|MCITP:ES, SA,EA|MCTS:Windows Mobile Admin|Security+|http://almostdailytech.com