Management Capabilities

Topic Last Modified: 2008-08-06

This topic provides information about how the different technologies compare with regard to Management Capabilities.

Technology	What facilities for application management does the technology provide?
Active Directory Services Interfaces (ADSI)	ADSI and Active Directory are instrumented and managed through standard Windows technologies.
Collaboration Data Objects for Windows 2000 (CDOSYS)	CDOSYS does not generate Windows 2000 Event Log entries, and no performance counters are available to measure it.
CDOSYS SMTP/NNTP Event Sinks	CDOSYS does not generate Windows 2000 Event Log entries, and no performance counters are available to measure it. Windows Event log entries and performance counters can be built into SMTP event sinks to provide additional management and monitoring capabilities.
Collaboration Data Objects for Exchange 2000 Server (CDOEX)	CDOEX does not generate Windows 2000 Event Log entries, and no performance counters are available to measure it.
Collaboration Data Objects for Exchange Management (CDOEXM)	CDOEXM does not generate Windows Event Log entries, and no performance counters are available to measure it.
Collaboration Data Objects for Exchange Workflow (CDOWF)	CDOWF does not generate standard Windows Event Log entries. CDOWF does provide the ability to log workflow process events in special audit logs maintained by the process instances of the CDOWF system.
Exchange OLE DB Provider (ExOLEDB)	ExOLEDB provides performance counters that can be used to analyze application performance and health, as well as to measure the response time of the Exchange server.
Exchange Store Event Sinks	Exchange store events do not by themselves generate Windows Event Log entries. The underlying ExOLEDB provider generates performance counters for each event sink. The code that executes in response to an Exchange store event code can also generate Windows Event Log events and information for Windows Performance Counters.
Exchange Web Forms	Exchange Web forms do not by themselves generate Windows Event Log entries, and there are no predefined performance counters.
Management Capabilities	Exchange Web Services generate Windows Server 2003 event log entries. There are performance counters available to measure Exchange Web Services performance.
HTTP/Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)	WebDAV virtual servers can be managed manually and programmatically by means of the Exchange administration console, CDOEXM, and WMI.
WebDAV Notifications	WebDAV virtual servers can be managed manually and programmatically by means of the Exchange administration console, CDOEXM, and WMI. WebDAV Notifications are a feature of WebDAV.
Incremental Change Synchronization (ICS)	The ICS interfaces do not contain any special application-management features.
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)	Information about this is not yet available here.
Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI)	Information about this is not yet available here.
Outlook Object Model (OOM)	OOM does not have any built-in management capabilities.
Outlook Web Access	Outlook Web Access as a development technology provides no management features to the application. Exchange administrators and individual users can access Outlook Web Access and other Outlook Web Access configurations.
Exchange Rules	The rules features have no special built-in management capabilities. The rules components can be used to manage server-side rules of users who have defined them, if the managing user has permissions to access the mailboxes and public folders.
SMTP Event Sinks	SMTP event sinks have no built-in management capabilities. Windows Event Log entries and performance counters can be built into SMTP event sinks to provide additional management and monitoring capabilities. The contents of the Presubmission queue can be viewed in the Exchange System Manager on computers on which Exchange is installed.
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) providers for Exchange	WMI is itself a management facility.
Exchange Backup and Restore API	Applications that use the Exchange Backup and Restore API can take advantage of the Windows Events and performance counters provided by Exchange.
Exchange writer for the Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service	Applications that use VSS can take advantage of the Windows Events and performance counters provided by VSS and the Exchange writer, and any that are provided by the VSS-compatible storage hardware vendor.