How to configure the OWA and Windows Mobile gatherings for Messagestats. (4210230)

How to configure the OWA and Windows Mobile gatherings for Messagestats.

On your Front End\CAS servers the following settings need to be applied to the IIS logs.

To configure IIS logging on a Windows 2003 server:

If you do not have the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager snap-in already installed, start at step 1. Otherwise, start at step 7.

1. From the Start menu, select Run
2. Type mmc and click OK
3. Select File | Add/Remove Snap-in
4. Click Add
5. Select Internet Information Services and click Add
6. Click Close and click OK
7. In the treeview, browse to the Web sites node
8. Right-click the web site that you want and select Properties
9. On the Web Site property sheet, click Properties for the WC3 Entended Log File Format in the Enable Logging section
10. Select the Advanced tab (or the Extended Properties tab)
11. Select the following properties:
    - Date
    - Time
    - Client IP Address ( c-ip )
    - User Name ( cs-username )
    - Method ( cs-method )
    - URI Stem ( cs-uri-stem )
    - URI Query (cs-uri-query)
    - Protocol Status ( sc-status )
    - User Agent ( cs(User-Agent) )
    - Bytes Sent (sc-bytes)
    - Bytes Received (cs-bytes)
    - Time Taken (time-taken)
    - Cookie ( cs(Cookie) )
    - Referer ( cs(Referer) )

To Configure IIS Logging on a Windows 2008 Server:

1. Click Start and select Administrative Tools | Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager OR in the Server Manager, select the Web Server (IIS) and open the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager
2. Double-click Logging
3. On the Logging page, in the Log file section set the Format to W3C and click Select Fields
4. In the W3C Logging Fields dialog box, select the following options:
   - Date
   - Time
   - Client IP Address ( c-ip )
   - User Name ( cs-username )
   - Method ( cs-method )
   - URI Stem ( cs-uri-stem )
   - URI Query (cs-uri-query)
   - Protocol Status ( sc-status )
   - User Agent ( cs(User-Agent) )
   - Bytes Sent (sc-bytes)
   - Bytes Received (cs-bytes)
   - Time Taken (time-taken)
   - Cookie ( cs(Cookie) )
   - Referer ( cs(Referer) )

• Click OK
• In the right hand pane click Apply


Add the Activesync and OWA roles to the servers in the MessageStats Console:

1. Launch the Messagestats console
2. Right-Click on your Exchange Activesync and\or Front End\CAS servers and choose properties
3. Select the Server Roles tab and click Add
4. Select the OWA and Activesync roles from the list and click OK

Create the task for the OWA and Windows Mobile Gathering:

For MessageStats 6.8.1 and Later:

1. Create a Windows Mobile Default Gathering at the Organization level.


For MessageStats 6.8 and prior (Gathering tasks for these older versions do not support multiple servers):

1. Create one OWA gathering task for each Front End\CAS server
2. Create one Windows Mobile Device Gathering task for each Mailbox server

The IIS settings above are all the fields that need to be enalbed for OWA and Windows Mobile gatherings