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Best Practices Analyzers

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I know many of you are aware of the Exchange Best Practice Analyzer. It's a fantastic tool, that really makes life easy for the Exchange administrator. Recently I was having problems with a SQL installation and stumbled across it's SQL equivalent. Just in case you've never used it, it can be downloaded from:
 https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=da0531e4-e94c-4991-82fa-f0e3fbd05e63&displaylang=en

Here's the technet link for the SQL best practice documents also that might be of use:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb331794.aspx

 For a complete list of best practice analyzers available, click this link:

 https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?pocId=&freetext=best%20practice%20analyzer&DisplayLang=en

If you have never used the analyzers I'd recommend downloading them and giving them a try in your test labs. They might throw up a few surprises.