Setting diagnostics for Exchange servers

The ability to set diagnostics at different levels for the various components that function on an Exchange server has always existed. In Exchange 2003, you set diagnostic levels through the Management console by selecting the component (for example, ActiveSync) and the level that you wanted to apply. After a new logging level is set, Exchange complies by outputting more or less detail about its operations as events written into the Application Event Log. Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 support similar functionality, in this case by setting diagnostic levels as a property of a server.

The transition to EAC in Exchange 2013 resulted in the disappearance of the UI to manipulate server diagnostic levels. In ...

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