The major difference between MessageStats Architecture and StealthAUDIT is the following.
MessageStats ships over the wire the complete Exchange Tracking log, where it is then saved in a SQL server for the purpose of reporting. IF your exchange tracking logs are 500MB+ and you have 25 Exchange Servers just do the math and see how much bandwidth is required to move all that data. StealthAUDIT uses an agent-less applet that is pushed down to the target exchange servers, once there is looks through the tracking logs and summarizes that data. Once done its ships over the wire the summarized results of the tracking logs. If your tracking log is 500MB the summarized results are around 100-500KB in size. This really helps when you have exchange servers in remote offices all over the world and your wan links are limited. I agree if you have a local lan environment and a good dedicated SQL Server MessageStats will work just fine, but again all your getting is Message Stats. MessageStats usually retails for around 20$ + per mailbox, and you'll still have to install and manage 5 other Quest or competitors tools to get all the functionality of StealthAUDIT for half the price. -----Original Message----- From: bounce-51056997-3785...@intm-dl.sparklist.com [mailto:bounce-51056997-3785...@intm-dl.sparklist.com] On Behalf Of jamwel Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:18 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Exchange reporting tools Since you were kind enough to point out that you're a competitor to Quest...I'll correct you on MessageStats being able to scale. I've used it in 100K plus mailbox environments. It needs plenty of SQL horsepower, but so should anything else. I'll remain silent on the rest since I haven't seen a demo of yours. Quest is also agentless. --James On 2/10/09, Brett Fernicola <brett.fernic...@stealthbits.com> wrote: > > The Best tool I've seen so far is StealthAUDIT. > > Homepage: > http://www.stealthbits.com > > Sample Reports: > http://www.stealthbits.com/Reports/Solutions/Exchange/index.htm > > > I do work for them, but the truth is we have the only completely > customizable exchange solution, including reporting, and management. > > > Key Notes: > > StealthAUDIT is agent-less and requires nothing to be installed or > altered on your exchange servers. Tools like MessageStats and Promodag > can't scale to large environments. Also tools like MessageStats are > simply Point solutions that can only look at traffic logs. Our tool can > tap into every part of exchange Including (Mailboxes, PF's, Traffic > Logs, IIS, AD, OS, etc.) > > All said in done you would need to purchase 4-5 tools to accomplish what > StealthAUDIT can do form one console. Our street price is around 12$ per > mailbox. > > Don't hesitate to contact me for further information, I can setup a time > to give a demo, or give you better pricing information based on your > environment and needs. > > > > > > Brett Fernicola > Systems Engineer > STEALTHbits Technologies, Inc. > (201) 447-9356 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: bounce-51056680-3785...@intm-dl.sparklist.com > [mailto:bounce-51056680-3785...@intm-dl.sparklist.com] On Behalf Of > Larry Wahlers > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 9:45 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Exchange reporting tools > > Knowledgeable colleagues, > > We're using Exchange 2003 SP2 on Windows Server Standard 2003 SP2. My > boss wants to know if there are some simple reporting tools out there > that might give us some degree of reporting? He's thinking something > that can be used to document all users' consumption of Exchange > resources. 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