Hi boys and girls,
I suppose that you are missing the big daddy over here but for a couple of reasons I have been out of blogging stuff and whatever damn thing related with computing. Long, long, long…. story of my life during the last 9 months, but it is not my purpose to tell or mention anything here… and no, don’t ask about it because I will not answer.
This post symbolizes my return and I think that there’s nothing best than show you something quite useful.
Sometimes administering corporate environments might be as crucial as challenging and to keep your systems up and running with the optimal performance and healthy at the same time I bet that you would love to have an out-of-the-box solution. The Holy Grail is just around the corner with more than a dozen of Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer (aka BPA) tools, they can help you to do some important tasks like system health analysis, performance analysis or performance baseline.
Each BPA tool is designed for a specific product and they can either include tests for components or services that have a direct influence with the tool designed technology, as an example the BPA tool for Exchange will do validation tests on domain controllers, DNS, IIS metabase, 3rd party antivirus, hardware drivers and so on. At the end you will get a report that will pinpoint any issue on your system and present you with the recommendations or considerations to mitigate all those issues and leverage your system for an optimal performance and condition.
I have collected the list of the currently available Microsoft Best Practice Analyzer tools with the corresponding link and brief explanation. Just check it out below, download and install, quit your solitaire or minesweeper and start doing something proactive and useful, I bet that your managers will love that work and results. And dude if you get promoted because of this don’t forget to pay me a beer. :)
Microsoft Best Practices Analyzers
Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool
The ISA Server Best Practices Analyzer is a diagnostic tool that automatically performs specific tests on configuration data collected on the local ISA Server computer from the ISA Server hierarchy of administration COM objects, Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) classes, the system registry, files on disk, and the Domain Name System (DNS) settings. The resulting report details critical configuration issues, potential problems, and information about the local computer. By following the recommendations of the tool, administrators can achieve greater performance, scalability, reliability, and uptime.
Microsoft Exchange Best Practices Analyzer v2.8
The Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer programmatically collects settings and values from data repositories such as Active Directory, registry, metabase and performance monitor. Once collected, a set of comprehensive ‘best practice’ rules are applied to the topology. Administrators running this tool will get a detailed report listing the recommendations that can be made to the environment to achieve greater performance, scalability and uptime.
See the Exchange Team blog for more info on the Exchange 2007 Readiness Check: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/07/28/428506.aspx. Additional Exchange Analyzer tools are available here.
SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer
The SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) gathers data from Microsoft Windows and SQL Server configuration settings. BPA uses a predefined list of SQL Server 2005 recommendations and best practices to determine if there are potential issues in the database environment.
Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System
The Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System Best Practices Analyzer programmatically collects settings and values from data repositories such as MS SQL, registry, metabase and performance monitor. Once collected, a set of comprehensive ‘best practice’ rules are applied to the topology. Administrators running this tool will get a detailed report listing the recommendations that can be made to the environment to achieve greater performance, scalability and uptime.
Microsoft Forefront Client Security Best Practices Analyzer
The FCS Best Practices Analyzer Tool is designed for administrators who want to determine the overall health of their Forefront computers and to diagnose current problems. The tool scans the configuration settings of the computer and reports issues that do not conform to the recommended best practices.
Office Communications Server 2007 Best Practices Analyzer
The Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Best Practices Analyzer Tool is a diagnostic tool that gathers configuration information from a Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 environment and determines whether the configuration is set according to Microsoft best practices. You can install the tool on a client computer that runs Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, or on a server that runs Office Communications Server 2007.
Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices Analyzer
This tool examines a server that is running Windows Small Business Server 2003. The tool collects configuration information from many sources including the following sources:
· Active Directory Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
· Registry
· Metabase
Then, the tool analyzes the collected information, and the tool verifies this information for correctness. After the tool has collected and analyzed the information, the tool presents a list of issues that are sorted by severity. For each issue, the tool provides descriptions of what the problem is and of how you can fix this issue.
ASP .NET Best Practice Analyzer
The Best Practice Analyzer ASP.NET (alpha release) is a tool that scans the configuration of an ASP.NET 2.0 application. The tool can scan against three mainline scenarios (hosted environment, production environment, or development environment) and identify problematic configuration settings in the machine config or web config files associated with your ASP.NET application. This is an alpha release intended to gain feedback on the tool and the configuration rules included with it.
BizTalk Server 2006 Best Practices Analyzer
The BizTalk Server 2006 Best Practices Analyzer performs configuration-level verification by reading and reporting only. The Best Practices Analyzer gathers data from different information sources, such as Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) classes, SQL Server databases, and registry entries. The Best Practices Analyzer uses the data to evaluate the deployment configuration. The Best Practices Analyzer does not modify any system settings, and is not a self-tuning tool.
Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 Resource Kit - Best Practices Analyzer
MDM Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) Tool helps you to analyze the prerequisites for MDM setup and deployment. Because each MDM server component has different prerequisites, the tool helps you to plan and build a successful deployment environment by assessing each server's readiness for MDM before you run MDM Setup.In addition to analyzing each server's individual readiness, BPA Tool helps you to verify the firewall configuration that MDM requires between servers running MDM Device Management Server and servers running MDM Gateway Server.Finally, after you deploy MDM, you can run a post-deployment scan to help make sure your installation works properly and follows MDM best practices.
Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 Best Practices Analyzer
The Microsoft Commerce Server Best Practices Analyzer performs configuration level verification, by reading and reporting only. For example, the Best Practices Analyzer gathers data from Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) classes, Microsoft SQL Server databases, registry entries, IIS Metabase Settings, and other parts of your deployment, and uses the gathered data to determine whether best practices are being followed. The Best Practices Analyzer does not modify any system settings, and is therefore not a self-tuning tool.
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools with TFS BPA
The Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools is a set of enhancements, tools and command line utilities that improve the Team Foundation Server user experience. This download includes Best practice analyzer for TFS along with other important tools
Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer for Windows Server 2003 (32 bit and 64 bit Editions)
The Microsoft Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer (GPDBPA) for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 is designed to help you identify Group Policy configuration errors or other dependency failures that may prevent settings or features from functioning as expected.
I suppose that you are missing the big daddy over here but for a couple of reasons I have been out of blogging stuff and whatever damn thing related with computing. Long, long, long…. story of my life during the last 9 months, but it is not my purpose to tell or mention anything here… and no, don’t ask about it because I will not answer.
This post symbolizes my return and I think that there’s nothing best than show you something quite useful.
Sometimes administering corporate environments might be as crucial as challenging and to keep your systems up and running with the optimal performance and healthy at the same time I bet that you would love to have an out-of-the-box solution. The Holy Grail is just around the corner with more than a dozen of Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer (aka BPA) tools, they can help you to do some important tasks like system health analysis, performance analysis or performance baseline.
Each BPA tool is designed for a specific product and they can either include tests for components or services that have a direct influence with the tool designed technology, as an example the BPA tool for Exchange will do validation tests on domain controllers, DNS, IIS metabase, 3rd party antivirus, hardware drivers and so on. At the end you will get a report that will pinpoint any issue on your system and present you with the recommendations or considerations to mitigate all those issues and leverage your system for an optimal performance and condition.
I have collected the list of the currently available Microsoft Best Practice Analyzer tools with the corresponding link and brief explanation. Just check it out below, download and install, quit your solitaire or minesweeper and start doing something proactive and useful, I bet that your managers will love that work and results. And dude if you get promoted because of this don’t forget to pay me a beer. :)
Microsoft Best Practices Analyzers
Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool
The ISA Server Best Practices Analyzer is a diagnostic tool that automatically performs specific tests on configuration data collected on the local ISA Server computer from the ISA Server hierarchy of administration COM objects, Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) classes, the system registry, files on disk, and the Domain Name System (DNS) settings. The resulting report details critical configuration issues, potential problems, and information about the local computer. By following the recommendations of the tool, administrators can achieve greater performance, scalability, reliability, and uptime.
Microsoft Exchange Best Practices Analyzer v2.8
The Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer programmatically collects settings and values from data repositories such as Active Directory, registry, metabase and performance monitor. Once collected, a set of comprehensive ‘best practice’ rules are applied to the topology. Administrators running this tool will get a detailed report listing the recommendations that can be made to the environment to achieve greater performance, scalability and uptime.
See the Exchange Team blog for more info on the Exchange 2007 Readiness Check: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/07/28/428506.aspx. Additional Exchange Analyzer tools are available here.
SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer
The SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) gathers data from Microsoft Windows and SQL Server configuration settings. BPA uses a predefined list of SQL Server 2005 recommendations and best practices to determine if there are potential issues in the database environment.
Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System
The Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System Best Practices Analyzer programmatically collects settings and values from data repositories such as MS SQL, registry, metabase and performance monitor. Once collected, a set of comprehensive ‘best practice’ rules are applied to the topology. Administrators running this tool will get a detailed report listing the recommendations that can be made to the environment to achieve greater performance, scalability and uptime.
Microsoft Forefront Client Security Best Practices Analyzer
The FCS Best Practices Analyzer Tool is designed for administrators who want to determine the overall health of their Forefront computers and to diagnose current problems. The tool scans the configuration settings of the computer and reports issues that do not conform to the recommended best practices.
Office Communications Server 2007 Best Practices Analyzer
The Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Best Practices Analyzer Tool is a diagnostic tool that gathers configuration information from a Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 environment and determines whether the configuration is set according to Microsoft best practices. You can install the tool on a client computer that runs Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, or on a server that runs Office Communications Server 2007.
Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices Analyzer
This tool examines a server that is running Windows Small Business Server 2003. The tool collects configuration information from many sources including the following sources:
· Active Directory Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
· Registry
· Metabase
Then, the tool analyzes the collected information, and the tool verifies this information for correctness. After the tool has collected and analyzed the information, the tool presents a list of issues that are sorted by severity. For each issue, the tool provides descriptions of what the problem is and of how you can fix this issue.
ASP .NET Best Practice Analyzer
The Best Practice Analyzer ASP.NET (alpha release) is a tool that scans the configuration of an ASP.NET 2.0 application. The tool can scan against three mainline scenarios (hosted environment, production environment, or development environment) and identify problematic configuration settings in the machine config or web config files associated with your ASP.NET application. This is an alpha release intended to gain feedback on the tool and the configuration rules included with it.
BizTalk Server 2006 Best Practices Analyzer
The BizTalk Server 2006 Best Practices Analyzer performs configuration-level verification by reading and reporting only. The Best Practices Analyzer gathers data from different information sources, such as Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) classes, SQL Server databases, and registry entries. The Best Practices Analyzer uses the data to evaluate the deployment configuration. The Best Practices Analyzer does not modify any system settings, and is not a self-tuning tool.
Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 Resource Kit - Best Practices Analyzer
MDM Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) Tool helps you to analyze the prerequisites for MDM setup and deployment. Because each MDM server component has different prerequisites, the tool helps you to plan and build a successful deployment environment by assessing each server's readiness for MDM before you run MDM Setup.In addition to analyzing each server's individual readiness, BPA Tool helps you to verify the firewall configuration that MDM requires between servers running MDM Device Management Server and servers running MDM Gateway Server.Finally, after you deploy MDM, you can run a post-deployment scan to help make sure your installation works properly and follows MDM best practices.
Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 Best Practices Analyzer
The Microsoft Commerce Server Best Practices Analyzer performs configuration level verification, by reading and reporting only. For example, the Best Practices Analyzer gathers data from Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) classes, Microsoft SQL Server databases, registry entries, IIS Metabase Settings, and other parts of your deployment, and uses the gathered data to determine whether best practices are being followed. The Best Practices Analyzer does not modify any system settings, and is therefore not a self-tuning tool.
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools with TFS BPA
The Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools is a set of enhancements, tools and command line utilities that improve the Team Foundation Server user experience. This download includes Best practice analyzer for TFS along with other important tools
Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer for Windows Server 2003 (32 bit and 64 bit Editions)
The Microsoft Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer (GPDBPA) for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 is designed to help you identify Group Policy configuration errors or other dependency failures that may prevent settings or features from functioning as expected.
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2 comentários:
Já te deixavas era destas merdas e carregavas o site de bom putêdo!!
Tás em grande! Tb já não era sem tempo! Fico muito contente por ver o brother Raton de bem com a vida e consigo!
Grande Abraço do sempre amigo,
CastroL
P.S.- És tão kamper...
Já meti o blog nos meus bookmarks a ver se aprendo alguma coisita...
Andas cá com umas modas!
Abraço,
Ricardo Fernandes - Gornidah
PS: CastroL, I love when you speak dirty!
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