This document discusses GSX Solutions, a company that provides monitoring and reporting solutions for messaging and collaboration environments like Exchange Server. It outlines GSX's history and partnerships, as well as how their software monitors Exchange Server performance and availability without needing agents. The document also covers common challenges during Exchange migrations and how GSX can help by validating architecture, stress testing, and tracking metrics during the migration process.

1. Cyril Leroy – Microsoft Specialist - GSX Solutions
EXCHANGE SERVER
PERFORMANCE & REPORTS
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2. Agenda
GSX Solutions at a glance
Why migration is never an Easy Story?
Monitoring Main Challenges during migration
Live demo

3. GSX Solutions
• Founded in 1996
• Microsoft Business Partner
• Headquartered in Switzerland, with Offices in the
USA, China and France
• Specialized in Monitoring and Reporting solution
for Messaging and Collaboration Environment
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4. GSX partners and awards
GSX Solutions© 2013
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6. Manage availability and performance
Proactive monitoring
All in on software, no agent, no module nor add-on
PowerShell embedded test sets
Synthetic user transactions
Based on Windows performances counters
Auto discovery of Exchange and SharePoint
Automatic inventories
No script to maintain / No more WMI corruption
Multi tenant
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7. GSX Under the hood
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8. Challenges
Reduce
Users Impact
Save
Costs
Optimize
IT Resources
Critical focus areas
Audit
Consolidation and Merging
Validation of Architecture Sizing
Stress Test Validation
Co-existence of Messaging Infrastructure
SLA Management
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9. Migration follow up
Validate the load move between source and target environments
Track mail routing latency and pending queues
Easily update user counts on both platforms
Identify undesired changes
Track user connections
Performance Monitoring check list
Are my Exchange servers Online, do they serve all protocols?
Are key Windows services up and running?
Are my servers performing fine? check for usage and free resources
(CPU, memory, disk usage)
Are all my mailbox databases mounted and redundant?
Is my environment highly available, is automatic failover ready to
perform?
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11. Based on the consolidated metrics collected during
scans
Global service availability
Detailed performance and usage history
Capacity planning and forecasting
Protocol and routing latency tracking
Per server, role, protocol and services
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13. Works on any type of Deployment:
Exchange 2010 - 2013 - Hybrid/Online
Reports on Availability, Performance and
Usage of collaboration environments
Focused on End User Performance
Comprehensive and intuitive dashboard
Complementary to SCOM
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14. GSX’s Beta Program
v10.7 Beta available
Support for Exchange 2013,
Exchange Online and Hybrid deployments
Free Trial Version
30 days
Full features
Up to 10 servers per platform
Unlimited users
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15. @GSX_Solutions
Friend of GSX
GSX Solutions HQ
EMEA
GSX-Solutions Like page
Blog
www.gsx.com/blog
Geneva, Switzerland
+41 22 735 82 40
sales@gsx.com
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