Sunday, 15 January 2012

Microsoft Best Practice Analysers (BPA's)

Microsoft Best Practice Analysers


Best Practice Analyzers are free tools available for most Microsoft Enterprise products and they are used to determine the overall health of your platform.

The tools perform read only scans against your environment’s servers and identify items that do not conform to Microsoft best practices.

They should be run on a regular basis as part of your standard operations maintenance plan.



I’ve put together a list (see below) of available Best Practice Analyzers to help you get started.


-       SQL




-       Developer




Once you run the tools against your platform, if you identify items of concern that you’d like assistance resolving, please contact me and I can help you decide on the best Premier Support service available to help you eg. Logging a case, a full risk assessment analysis and report, Premier Field engineer remediation program etc.





Windows Server (includes PAL, DHCP, Hyper-V, WSUS, Active Directory, Remote Desktop, File Services, DNS)

-       Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool (reads performance monitor counter logs and analyses it using known thresholds)

















Exchange & Unified Communications



Sharepoint, Project Server and Office System




Forefront, ISA and Security













Miscellaneous (Small Business Server, Mobile Device Manager, Commerce Server, Biztalk)





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