Isolating the Causes of the Degraded Performance

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After you identify the symptoms of poor performance in your Microsoft Exchange environment, you need to determine the cause or causes of the observed symptoms. The typical issues that negatively affect Exchange performance include:

• Third-party or support applications
• High utilization of disk space
• Insufficient disk spindles
• High utilization of memory
• High item counts in single folders
• Contention for processor time
• Network configuration or deployment
• Poor access to global catalogs in Active Directory directory service

This section describes many of the causes and solutions to these issues, defines which performance counters to observe in relation to each issue, and offers suggestions on how to mitigate each issue to achieve better performance. For details, see the following topics:

• Supervisión del tráfico entre dos equipos
• Solución de problemas de enlace con el procesador
• Solución de problemas de enlace con la red

For More Information

For more information about poor performance in an Exchange environment, see Identifying the Symptoms of Poor Performance.