Introduction

In Chapter 11, we explored some aspects of Exchange High Availability using Database Availability Groups, lagged database copies, and automatic reseed, for example. In this chapter, we will provide several recipes to help you monitor the health of your Exchange environment through the built-in Managed Availability feature, test cmdlets, and other methods, hopefully helping you proactively tackle any possible issues before they affect your users.

Performing some basic steps

To make use of all the examples in this chapter, we'll need to use the Exchange Management Shell. You can launch it using the following steps:

1. Log on to a workstation or server with the Exchange Management Tools installed.
2. You can connect...