MessageStats 7.8.1 - Quick Start Guide

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.

Table 4. Different types of reports available for Exchange Online and Exchange Server
Category	S. No	Report Name	Exchange Online	Exchange Server
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
Users	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:

MessageStats Database Minimum Requirements

MessageStats Reports Minimum Requirements

MessageStats Server Minimum Requirements

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:

Table 1. Database minimum hardware requirements.
Type	Minimum
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:

Table 2. Database minimum software requirements
Type	Minimum
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. NOTE: When selecting a SQL collation, ensure the collation option that you select is Case Insensitive (CI). 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:

Table 3. Reports server minimum requirements.
Type	Minimum
Hardware 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.
Software Requirements
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 .

Please select your product:

To serve you better, please complete the Purpose of your Chat:

Recommended Solutions for Your Problem

MessageStats 7.8.1 - Quick Start Guide

MessageStats Reports

Requirements for Installing the MessageStats Components

MessageStats Database Minimum Requirements

MessageStats Reports Minimum Requirements