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Unified Communications Diagnostics 8.5 - Deployment Guide

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Technical Information for UC Diagnostics for Exchange

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About the Management Console for Exchange
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Discovering the Exchange organization
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About the Exchange Health Tests
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Historical Reporting Database Usage Estimates
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Exchange Diagnostic Console Technical Information
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Web Reports Technical Information

About the Management Console for Exchange

You can use UC Diagnostics to monitor the health and performance of individual servers or your entire Exchange organization. Health tests detect problems by collecting and analyzing data or simulating user interaction with the Exchange servers at regular intervals.

Review this section to determine the prerequisites that must be met for each of the Exchange health tests. For information about creating test mailboxes and configuring the different health tests, see the Unified Communications Diagnostics User Guide.

Discovering the Exchange organization

When you connect to an Exchange organization, the Management Console discovers and displays your entire Exchange organization. Discovery is initially configured to run automatically once a day to detect changes to your environment. See the following table for the permissions needed by the diagnostics services account.

 
Table 1. Permissions required for the diagnostic services account.
Exchange Version
Permissions required for diagnostic services account

All
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Member of Local Administrators group on each Exchange server to retrieve the site and domain information for servers.

For additional required permissions, see the individual test prerequisites.

Exchange 2007
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Member of View-Only Exchange Administrators group to enumerate Exchange objects in Active Directory and to enumerate computer, site, and domain objects in the domain partitions.

Exchange 2010, 2013, and 2016
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Member of View-Only Organization Management group to enumerate Exchange objects in Active Directory and to enumerate computer, site, and domain objects in the domain partitions.

About the Exchange Health Tests

UC Diagnostics contains the following health tests that each monitor one aspect of your Exchange servers:

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Exchange Server Health Test
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Exchange Internal Server Delivery Health Test
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Exchange Internal Mailbox Delivery Health Test
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Exchange External Message Delivery Health Test
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Exchange Modern Message Delivery Health Test
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Exchange Storage Health Test
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Exchange Queue Health Test
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Internal Outlook Web Access (OWA) Availability Health Test
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External Outlook Web Access (OWA) Availability Health Test
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Exchange Replication Health Test
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Exchange System Health Test
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Active Directory Account Lockout Health Test
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Web Reports security recommendations

This section describes the different Exchange health tests and provides information about the test targets, software and permissions prerequisites, and required configuration for each test.

By default, you should run these tests every 30 minutes, except for the Server health test. You can configure two server health tests - one test without monitoring event logs with an interval of 30 minutes and the second test for monitoring event logs that run only once a day. For more information on test settings, see the Unified Communications Diagnostics User Guide.

Edge server support for Exchange 2007 and later

By default, any Edge servers that are not in the same forest as your Exchange organization cannot be fully discovered or monitored by health tests. The credentials under which discovery and the health tests run do not have permissions to access the Edge server.

Microsoft does provide a workaround to allow access to servers outside of the forest. If you create a local user on the Edge server, with the same name and password as the credentials under which discovery or the health tests run, UC Diagnostics can access the server.

If you use the Microsoft workaround, you can run only the Server Health test.

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