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MessageStats 7.8.1 - Quick Start Guide

About This Guide Requirements for Installing the MessageStats Components Prerequisites for Gathering from Microsoft Exchange Planning a MessageStats Installation Appendix A: IIS Configuration Issues

MessageStats Reports

MessageStats Reports allow you to view usage statistics through a collection of dynamic, preconfigured reports. You can view the data within one Exchange organization or across multiple Exchange organizations. You can also change relevant report parameters interactively using on-page quick filters. Using the custom reports feature, you can create and save custom queries for later use.

In addition, you can create report subscriptions so that MessageStats can automatically create reports and notify a recipient list on a regular basis that specific reports are available.

For the current list of MessageStats Reports, see the MessageStats Reports User Guide. Several reports have additional variations, such as default grouping order. Within each variation you can change the filter, group, and sort criteria for each of these reports.

MessageStats Reports

1

Corporate Exchange At A  Glance

Yes

Yes

Executive Summaries

 

 

 

 

 

2

Server Traffic Usage

No

Yes

3

Recipient Traffic Usage

Yes

Yes

4

Financials

No

Yes

5

Capacity

No

Yes

6

Service Delivery

No

Yes

Organizations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7

Departmental Mailbox Sizes

Yes

Yes

8

Departmental Mailbox  Activity

Yes

Yes

9

Organization Traffic

Yes

Yes

10

Subject Sent Audits

No

Yes

11

Subject Received Audits

No

Yes

12

Region Activity Summary

No

Yes

13

Region Internal vs. External Activity

No

Yes

14

Organizational Storage

No

Yes

Mailboxes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15

Mailbox Sizes

Yes

Yes

16

Mailbox Quotas

Yes

Yes

17

Archive Mailbox Sizes

No

Yes

18

Top Senders and Receivers  By Messages

Yes

Yes

19

Top Senders and Receivers  By Volume

Yes

Yes

20

Top Internet Senders and  Receivers By Messages

Yes

Yes

21

Top Internet Senders and  Receivers By Volume

Yes

Yes

22

Mailbox Activity Summary

Yes

Yes

23

Mailbox Activity Internal  vs. External

Yes

Yes

24

Mailbox Profile

No

Yes

25

Mailbox Sent Audits

No

Yes

26

Mailbox Received Audits

No

Yes

27

Mailbox Message Sizes Sent  Distribution

Yes

Yes

28

Mailbox Message Sizes  Received Distribution

Yes

Yes

29

Mailbox Delegates

Yes

Yes

30

Mailbox Security

Yes

Yes

Mail Contacts

 

 

 

 

 

31

Top Mail Contacts by  Messages

Yes

Yes

32

Top Mail Contacts by Volume

Yes

Yes

33

Top Mail Contact Users by  Messages

Yes

Yes

34

Top Mail Contact Users by  Volume

Yes

Yes

35

Contacts

Yes

No

Distribution Groups

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

36

Inactive Distribution  Groups By Distribution Group

Yes

Yes

37

Group Access By  Distribution Group

Yes

Yes

38

Top Distribution Groups By  Messages

Yes

Yes

39

Top Distribution Groups By  Volume

Yes

Yes

40

Top Distribution Group  Users By Messages

Yes

Yes

41

Top Distribution Group  Users By Volume

Yes

Yes

42

Groups

Yes

No

43

Groups Members

Yes

No

Internet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

44

Top Internet Domains By  Message

Yes

Yes

45

Top Internet Domains By  Volume

Yes

Yes

46

Top Internet Domain Users  By Message

Yes

Yes

47

Top Internet Domain Users  By Volume

Yes

Yes

48

Domain Inbound Audits

No

Yes

49

Domain Outbound Audits

No

Yes

50

Internal Namespace Distribution

No

Yes

Inventory

51

Deleted Mailboxes

Yes

Yes

52

Mailbox Growth

Yes

Yes

53

Mailbox Duplicate Names

Yes

Yes

54

Disabled Accounts

Yes

Yes

55

Inactive Accounts

Yes

Yes

56

Mailbox Owners

Yes

Yes

57

Mail Contacts

Yes

Yes

58

Distribution Groups

Yes

Yes

59

Distribution Group  Membership

Yes

Yes

60

Chargeback By Mailbox Sizes

No

Yes

61

Chargeback By Senders

No

Yes

62

Chargeback By Internet Senders

No

Yes

63

Primary Mailboxes

No

Yes

64

Archive Mailboxes

No

Yes

65

Public Folder Mailboxes

No

Yes

66

Primary Mailboxes Exceeding Quotas

No

Yes

67

Archive Mailboxes Exceeding Quotas

No

Yes

68

Summary

No

Yes

69

DAGs

No

Yes

70

Servers

No

Yes

71

SMTP Virtual Servers

No

Yes

72

Connectors

No

Yes

73

Databases

No

Yes

74

Orphaned Mailboxes

No

Yes

75

Public Folders

No

Yes

76

Empty Public Folders

No

Yes

77

Public Folder Owners

No

Yes

Server

78

Server Activity Summary

No

Yes

79

Server Internal vs. External Activity

No

Yes

80

Server System Messages

No

Yes

81

Server Advanced Details

No

Yes

82

Mail Traffic Server To Server

No

Yes

83

Mail Traffic Region To Region

No

Yes

84

Delivery Times By Server

No

Yes

85

Message Delivery Audit

No

Yes

86

Sent Distribution of Message Sizes

No

Yes

87

Received Distribution of Message Sizes

No

Yes

88

Server Uptime

No

Yes

Content Analysis

89

Mailbox Content - Item Count by Folder

No

Yes

90

Mailbox Content - Item Count by Class

No

Yes

91

Mailbox Content - Audit Items by Subject Keyword

No

Yes

92

Mailbox Content - Audit Items by Body Keyword

No

Yes

93

Mailbox Content - Audit Items by Size

No

Yes

94

Mailbox Content - Audit Items by Number of Recipients

No

Yes

95

Mailbox Content - Audit Items by Date

No

Yes

96

Public Folder Content - Item Count by Class

No

Yes

97

Public Folder Content - Audit Items by Subject Keyword

No

Yes

98

Public Folder Content - Audit Items by Body Keyword

No

Yes

99

Public Folder Content - Audit Items by Size

No

Yes

100

Public Folder Content - Audit Items by Date

No

Yes

101

Mailbox Attachments - Attachment Count by File Extension

No

Yes

102

Mailbox Attachments - Attachment Count by File Name Keyword

No

Yes

103

Mailbox Attachments - Attachment Count by Size

No

Yes

104

Mailbox Attachments - Audit Attachments by File Extension

No

Yes

105

Mailbox Attachments - Audit Attachments by File Name Keyword

No

Yes

106

Public Folder Attachments - Attachment Count by File Extension

No

Yes

107

Public Folder Attachments - Attachment Count by File Name Keyword

No

Yes

108

Public Folder Attachments - Attachment Count by Size

No

Yes

109

Public Folder Attachments - Audit Attachments by File Extension

No

Yes

110

Public Folder Attachments - Audit Attachments by File Name Keyword

No

Yes

Public Folder

111

Public Folder Root Summary

No

Yes

112

Public Folder Details

No

Yes

113

Public Folder Permissions

No

Yes

114

Public Folder Replicas

No

Yes

Storage

115

Storage - Servers Summary

No

Yes

116

Storage - Databases Summary

No

Yes

117

Storage - Servers Details

No

Yes

118

Storage - Database Copy Distribution

No

Yes

Users

119

Users

Yes

No

120

Deleted Users

Yes

No

 

 

 

Requirements for Installing the MessageStats Components

Before you install MessageStats, you should assess your gathering and processing requirements. You can install all MessageStats components on a single server, but you may decide to install MessageStats components on separate servers to improve database and reporting performance.

Prerequisites differ among MessageStats components. The following tables list the requirements that must be met on the server on which you want to install a MessageStats component. If you intend to install more than one component on a server, the server must meet the requirements for all of the installed components.

The following sections describe the specific requirements for each MessageStats component:

For information about the rights and permissions that are needed to install and operate MessageStats, see Rights and Permissions Required by MessageStats .

With the exception of the MessageStats Database, you cannot directly install MessageStats components on remote servers. The installation files must be copied to the server on which you are installing the components, and the installer must run on that server.

For the Microsoft Exchange-specific requirements, see Prerequisites for Gathering from Microsoft Exchange .

MessageStats Database Minimum Requirements

The server on which you install the MessageStats Database must meet the following hardware requirements:

Processor

Pentium 4 running at a minimum speed of 2.4 GHz

RAM

8 GB

Disk

The space requirement varies depending on the size of the database. If you are upgrading an existing database, the free disk must be larger than for a new database installation. Space requirements also depend on the amount of information you intend to write to the database and the length of time you intend to retain the records.

For help in assessing the amount of space that will be sufficient for your implementation, contact Support to acquire a database size estimation tool.

To tune your MessageStats database and maximize performance, contact Professional Services through your sales representative.

Other

Pointing device must be installed on your server to access all MessageStats Reports features.

The server on which you install the MessageStats Database must meet the following software requirements:

Operating Systems

Windows Server 2012 and later

Full installation on Windows 10 is supported for evaluation purposes only.

In a production environment, you can install only the MessageStats MMC client console on Windows 10.

Database Server

SQL Server 2012 or later.

MessageStats supports SQL Server Express for test and evaluation scenarios only.

SQL Server Agent must be installed and running to use the Database Management tasks: database reindexing, defragmenting, or database aging. SQL Express does not include the SQL Server Agent. Database Maintenance tasks are not available when running on SQL Express.

The MessageStats database requires that Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server"(MSOLEDBSQL) be installed when you are installing the database through the MessageStats installer. You can find the download here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=56730.

For SQL database connectivity, you must install the new version of Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server (MSOLEDBSQL). You can find the download here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=56730.

MessageStats Reports Minimum Requirements

The server on which you install the MessageStats Reports must meet the following hardware and software requirements:

Processor

Pentium 4, running at a minimum speed of 2.4 GHz

RAM

8 GB

Disk

60 MB of free disk space for MessageStats Reports. The space should exist on a local disk drive rather than a network drive.

Other

Monitor capable of supporting a resolution 1024 by 768

Pointing device must be installed on your server to access all MessageStats features.

Operating Systems

Windows Server 2012 or later

Full installation on Windows 7 is supported for evaluation purposes only.

IIS server

IIS 8.0 or later

Also certain IIS roles services must be enabled. See Setting IIS Role Services for IIS for more information.

SQL connectivity

For SQL database connectivity, you must install the new version of Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server (MSOLEDBSQL). You can find the download here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=56730.

Browsers

Internet Explorer 10.0 or later

Chrome

Firefox

Microsoft Edge

.NET

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2. For information about resolving common ASP.NET configuration problems, see Appendix A: IIS Configuration Issues .

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