It doesn’t matter how much tweaking you do in Exchange 2007, you’ll almost certainly get more performance wrung out of your box by optimising Windows as well.
There are a couple of obvious things first:
1. Uninstall it unless you need it.
2. Move the pagefile to a different spindle and set it to RAM + 10MB.
3. Disable any services you don’t actively need on that box.
4. Delete contents of %TEMP% and I also remove the hidden windows update files in the Windows folder. No idea if it speeds things up, but fewer files on the disk can’t be all bad J
Then follow this 5 year old blog article http://www.techzonez.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-4720.html for anything you feel comfortable doing.
Remember that a fast Exchange server means fewer complaints to the HelpDesk. This in turn boosts your morale which is a good thing.
Obviously it also minimises problems too as part of your proactive toolkit, so Management get used to your Exchange server running nicely with excellent uptime. Catch 22 – if it goes down too often, they get fed up, if it stays up a long time, they get used to it.
3 comments:
for item 2 do you mean + 10MB or + 10GB?
Pagefile is 10MB more than your RAM. Not 10GB. This is optimal for Exchange - other back office products are available :)
that was what what confusing me - if you have 2GB RAM pagefile should be 2GB plus 10MB. Most RAM you get these days comes by the GB so physically you canny get 10MB of physical RAM, but we're talkin bout the pagefile size.
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