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Robert Zahm · Guest

Jenny,

So I must install Exchange in order to send the performance emails out?

Also, any idea as to why the Usage Report will not generate any meaningful
data?

Thanks,

Rob

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Jenny wu [MSFT] · Guest

Hi Robert,

Thanks for your update! Yes, you are right. There is only this scenario can
be supported in the newsgroup.

What is your meaning of "why the Usage Report will not generate any
meaningful data?"? Could you describe your situation more detail?

The SBS 2003 usage report includes a predefined collection of statistics
that can help you understand how clients access and use the Internet,
e-mail, fax, remote connectivity, and Outlook Web Access features. By
proactively monitoring these areas and establishing a baseline of server
usage, you can evaluate resource needs and plan for future requirements
that can help make employees more productive and your network more
supportable.

After you run the Monitoring Configuration Wizard, server usage data is
collected continuously and stored in a database. By default, the server
usage report is sent to specified recipients in e-mail every other Monday
at 07:00 A.M. You can view the latest information in the Monitoring and
Reporting snap-in in Server Management by clicking Refresh.

The usage and performance report is based on the performance/health monitor
results. After we run the reporting wizard, the SBS server will begin to
save value collected by the monitoring components to the SBS monitoring
database. The SBS reporting utility needs to collect usage data for more
than 24 hours so that the report can be generated.

You can do follow steps to reset performance and usage settings:

NOTE: After doing the following steps, the original performance and usage
data will be removed. The server will start to collect new counter value
from the beginning.

1. Open Server Management console, navigate to 'Monitoring and Reporting'
snap-in. In the right panel, click 'Set Up Monitoring Reports and Alerts'.

2. In the wizard, click 'Next'->Select 'Reinstall monitoring
features'->Select the options if you want to receive the report e-mails.
Check 'View the usage report in Server Management' option. If you want to
receive the usage report e-mail, also check the option below->Add the users
which you allow them to view the usage report to the authorized
list->Select the option if you want to receive the performance
alerts->Click 'Finish' button to complete the configurations.

3. After doing the above steps, the performance and usage data will be
reset. Please wait for 24 hours and then you will see the reports through
the Monitoring and Reporting console.

If you have any questions or concerns related to this issue, please let me
know.

For your convenience, I list customize Usage status report settings' steps

1. Open Server Management, In the console tree, click Monitoring and
Reporting.
2. In the details pane, click Change Server Status Report Settings.
3. In the reports list, click the report to which you want to attach a log
file, and then click Edit.
4. On the Content tab, under Log files to send with the report, click the
log files you want to attach to the report.
5. To attach a log file that does not appear under Log files to send with
the report, click Add to browse for the log file.

Hope above information helps! I am happy to be assistance of you and look
forward to your reply!

Have a nice day!

Sincerely,

Jenny Wu
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Robert Zahm · Guest

Jenny,

Sorry, I thought that this was part of my initial post, but I see now that
it was actually a separate post. I have a few remaining questions:

Performance Report
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Is there any way I can save a daily copy of this report to the hard disk, or
can it only be exported via email? If I could save it to the hard disk, I
would be able to write a script to attach it to an email to myself and send
it through the SMTP server.

Usage Report
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I try to create a usage report through the following steps:

* In "Server Management," click on "Monitoring and Reporting"
* Click "View Usage Report"
* Click "Create New Report"
* This takes me to a page where I can enter specific dates for the report,
and no matter what dates I include on the report, when I click "Create
Report," I am told that no usage data is available for that time period.
Any ideas?

I have tried the setting the monitoring through the wizard up a few times,
but this report never works.

I also saw that the following event was logged after I rebooted the server
last night, could this be causing any problems?

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Wingate
Event Category: None
Event ID: 5603
Date: 11/10/2005
Time: 8:01:06 PM
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: BRADFORDDC01
Description:
A provider, PerfProv, has been registered in the WMI namespace,
ROOT\CIMV2\MicrosoftHealthMonitor\PerfMon, but did not specify the
HostingModel property. This provider will be run using the LocalSystem
account. This account is privileged and the provider may cause a security
violation if it does not correctly impersonate user requests. Ensure that
provider has been reviewed for security behavior and update the HostingModel
property of the provider registration to an account with the least
privileges possible for the required functionality.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

This doesn't sound like it would be causing any problems to me, but I
figured I would mention it since it sounds like it is related to the
performance monitoring process.

Thanks,

Rob

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