Can anyone recommend some load and stress testing tools for Windows Servers. My environments are generally: virtualized TS/RDS Exchange Office/productivity apps e.g. Adobe Acrobat some smaller SQL accounting programs - not huge databases small Access databases - a few thousand records What I would like is a tool that lets me simulate scenario mixes of x number of people running x number of Word, Excel, etc. opening x number of large files/x number of small files, sending e-mails, printing, running spell check, recalculating spreadsheets, database sorts, etc.

For Exchange use this tool http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=DDEC1642-F6E3-4D66-A82F-8D3062C6FA98&displaylang=en and article describing configuration is here http://www.msexchange.org/articles/Microsoft-Exchange-Load-Generator.html For terminal server you can use Powershell http://blogs.technet.com/b/erenturk/archive/2011/01/19/how-to-stress-test-terminal-services-with-windows-powershell.aspx Regards Milos

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Thanks. This looks good.