Tracking Messages in Exchange 2007

Executive Summary:

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007’s Exchange Management Console (EMC) toolbox lets you generate message tracking logs, then analyze the logs’ contents to discover a message’s path within an Exchange organization. However, you can also use PowerShell commands to interrogate message tracking log data directly.

Every version of Exchange includes options to generate message tracking logs and to then analyze the contents of the logs to discover the path that a message takes within an Exchange organization. Many companies use message tracking log data as the basis for analyzing email patterns and volume. In Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange 2000 Server, you use the Message Tracking Center to track messages. A similar feature exists in Exchange Server 2007, as part of the Exchange Management Console (EMC) toolbox. Most of the time, administrators use the toolbox’s tracking facility to search for messages because it’s the easiest way to access the message tracking log data. However, like all of the EMC’s options, the options to track messages are based on PowerShell commands that you can use to interrogate message tracking log data directly. . . .