ActiveSync is the protocol used by phones (iPhone, Android, Touchdown, Windows 
Phone, etc.) to communicate with Exchange mailboxes. Windows Mail, on Windows 8 
and Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 also use this protocol.

Your high value indicates either that people have a LOT of ActiveSync clients 
or your server is under-provisioned.

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Eric Brouwer
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 8:56 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Exchange] High number of MSExchange ActiveSync\Current Requests

Greetings,

I am not an Exchange Admin, but I play one at work from time to time when they 
need help. I am trying to help tune our monitoring system (SolarWinds), and 
Exchange 2013 is alerting on high numbers of MSExchange ActiveSync\Current 
Requests.  According to TechNet, this shows the number of HTTP requests waiting 
to be assigned to a thread, and the threshold should average 50-100.  We 
routinely go over 200.  Based on this, I have two questions:

1) What is this counter actually telling me?  What are these HTTP requests?
2) Why would they be so high?  We have a small environment; less than 150 users.

Thanks,

Eric

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