Health mailboxes

Exchange 2013 includes a new Managed Availability feature that is incorporated in the system architecture so Exchange can detect and resolve common problems caused by malfunctioning components. Managed Availability runs on every Exchange 2013 server, where you see it represented as the Health Manager Service process (MSExchangeHMHost.exe) and the Health Manager Worker process (MSExchangeHMWorker.exe).

The basic idea behind Managed Availability is to deploy an extensive set of intelligent probes into the array of services that comprise Exchange. The probes can measure current activity against a norm, defined as the expected state of a service in a healthy state. The data fed back by the probes are assessed by a monitoring engine ...

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