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Best Practices for Virtualizing and Managing Exchange 2013
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The Microsoft Exchange 2013 Management Pack provides comprehensive service health information for
an Exchange infrastructure and has been engineered for organizations that include servers running
Exchange 2013. The key feature of this management pack is user-focused monitoring. The simplified
dashboard focuses on the user experience and makes it easier for an administrator to quickly determine
exactly what users are experiencing.
The management pack provides a number of useful views to help an Exchange 2013 administrator
understand the health of the Exchange 2013 infrastructure. The Active Alerts view shows you all the alerts
that are raised and currently active in your Exchange organization. You can click on any alert and see more
information about it in the details pane. This view essentially provides you with a yes/no answer to the
basic question, “Is there anything wrong in my Exchange deployment?” Each alert corresponds to one or
more issues for a particular health set. Also, depending on the particular issue, there may be more than
one alert raised.
If you see an alert in the Active Alerts view, your first step is to check the Organization Health view
(Figure 57). This is the primary source of information for the overall health of your organization. It shows
you specifically what is impacted in your organization, like Active Directory Sites and Database Availability
Groups.
Figure 57: Exchange 2013 Organization Health view in Operations Manager