Is there a way to find the total number of messages sent and received to and from an Exchange server?
Can any one guess the answer to this?
Is there a way to find the total number of messages sent and received to and from an Exchange server?
Please don't say "Message Tracking"????
Then...Is there a tool which does the same? Any third party software? Might be.
Guess what? There is a way. And I bet you might have not noticed this.
It is nothing but by using Performance monitor...
By enabling message tracking on the server, we can track all the messages accessed through the Exchange server. The limitation was this tool gives an output of only 1000 messages at one time and we need to specify time limits including date settings to get accurate data.
And using performance monitor, we can actually count the total number of messages sent and total number of messages received and view the report.
Add SMTP server as the Performance object and add the following counters from “select counters from list:”
1. Messages sent total
2. Messages received total
And you can view the report accordingly.
TechNet Support WebCast: Performance baselines and troubleshooting analysis in Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/891814/en-us
Thanks,
Ashwin Kumar
Email me at: missiontechie@gmail.com
Good one Ashwin,
Well that was from the exchange 2003 perspective. I would like to add the exchange 2007 zing to this answer
[PS]Get-MessageTrackinglog -ResultSize 99999 | measure-object
This will give you the count of the total message processed by the exchange server for that day. But here, I think the limitation with exchange 2007 RTM version is 99,999 messages. I think they might upgrade this in SP1
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Wanted to add one more thing:
One can track message based on sender as well as time, and get the number of messages that ONE GUY sent or received.
Something that was not possible with Exchange 2003.
Get-MessageTrackingLog -Start "03/13/2006 9:00AM" -End "03/15/2006 5:00PM"
-Sender "tbremer@contoso.com" | measure-object
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Subin,
Like how message tracking will not help in this case in Exchange 2003? I am not sure but what ever the result is we will know the count as well at bottom. The count of result.
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With Exchange 2003 message tracking, there is no way that you can count the number of messages that ONE guy has sent from his mailbox. Plus Exchange 2003 count is limited to 1000. And if you want to delete all the messages from ONE GUY in the message queue, you cannot do it in Exchange 2003. Its possible in Exchange 2007, but only with the Power Shell command.
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As I know there is a 3rd party called Promodag. Using this tool we can easily find out the total number of messages going out or coming in. Also we can track messages from ONE GUY. I was using this tool when I was working on Exchange 5.5 server in my previous company
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We can very easily get the total number of mails recieved and Sent through the MOM report (If it is configured in the domain)and other then that we can lot more reports like the user having most number of mail sent or recieved, the number of users using OWA and so on.
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You can get such reports with exchange reporting solution called message stats.
This tool collects information and reports on a wide range of exchange operations like, for example, users and administrators activity, mailbox usage, message sizes and quotas, distribution lists, public folders and more.
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With Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010, Now we can use the PTL log tool to get all the types of results one Exchange Admin needs to know.
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