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Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant (ExTrA)
In September 2004, we released the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer (ExBPA). We followed up on this success in November 2005 with the Performance Troubleshooter (ExPTA) and the Disaster Recovery Analyzer (ExDRA). Over recent months we have been working on a new analyzer called the Mailflow Troubleshooter (ExMFA). Looking at our overall tool set, we decided that rather than continue to ship these tools as entirely independent entities, we would unify most of them together under a single umbrella application. This is how the Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant (ExTrA) was born. ExTrA is essentially a union of ExDRA, ExPTA, and the new ExMFA, with a few additional things thrown in. ExBPA is not currently part of ExTrA. While we may consider this in the future, the current thinking is that ExBPA is a more proactive tool to be run at any time, and the others are more reactive to be run in response to a particular problem occurring. All of our analyzer/troubleshooter tools are built off of the same configuration-driven engine, so combining them together was actually a very simple process that did not require us to do any rewriting of the existing logic. (more)