Daily Exchange Health Checklist

Here a few daily tasks that I perform each morning after a cup of coffee to ensure that my Exchange environment is running smoothly. This has proven very helpful in preventing many issues with my Exchange servers. I came up with the list while managing Exchange 2000/2003 environments but it still helps me with Exchange 2007 as well. Hope it will help others out there.

• Check event viewer for warnings/errors on all Exchange Servers
• Check for database fragmentation
• Check postmaster mailbox for NDRs
• Check exchange statistics
• Check bad mail folder for trends
• Check OS status on Exchange boxes
• Check if plenty of disk space is available on all BE & FE servers
• Check for cluster failover in cluster admin
• Check message load in the queue viewer
• Check OS/Exchange Services
• Check results of real-time performance monitoring for all servers
• Review event, performance vs. anti-virus logs
• Track message for security project
• Verify integrity of Exchange Store