Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003 Unleashed

Analyzing Capacity

Capacity analysis for an Exchange Server 2003 environment requires a well-established understanding of the business and messaging needs of the organization and a well-documented outline of the organization's expectations of its messaging environment. Business constantly undergoes change, and so do capacity requirements and measurements of an organization.

The first step in capacity analysis is to grasp an understanding of these changes and define performance expectations. This can be done by establishing policies and service-level agreements. It is in these policies and service-level agreements that an administrator can outline acceptable performance thresholds and more accurately gauge the capacity needs of Exchange Server ...