Does MessageStats require Message Tracking to be enabled on the Exchange Servers?
Message Tracking needs to be enabled for MessageStats to report on email activity and message-related events occurring on or between Exchange servers.
For Exchange 2007 and later, Message Tracking is enabled by default on all servers that have the Hub Transport or Edge Transport role. However, the MessageTracking folder where the tracking logs are written is not shared by default. In order for MessageStats to gather the tracking logs on Exchange 2007 and later servers, the MessageTracking folder, on each server that has the Hub Transport and Edge Transport roles, needs to be manually shared and the MessageStats service account needs to be given read rights to the share.
For more information on how to enable/disable Message Tracking on Exchange 2007, please see the following TechNet article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997984(EXCHG.80).aspx
For more information on how to enable/disable Message Tracking on Exchange 2010, please see the following TechNet article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997984.aspx
Exchange 2000/2003 does not have MessageTracking enabled by default. For more information on how to enable message tracking for Exchange 2000/2003, please see the following Microsoft article:
XADM: How to Enable Message Tracking in Exchange 2000 Server and in Exchange Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q246856
