Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Distilled

Deprecated Exchange 2000 Tuning Parameters

Although Exchange 2000 did not include the Performance Optimizer, there were still a variety of registry settings and other changes you could make to tune Exchange or change its behavior.^[1] Any changes you made to tune or alter the behavior of Exchange 2000 need to be reviewed before implementing Exchange 2003. Indeed, most of them are no longer needed in Exchange 2003, but more importantly some of them can cause problems when used on an Exchange 2003 system. Therefore, before upgrading any Exchange 2000 servers to Exchange 2003, you should review the following information.

^[1] Many of the Exchange 2000 tuning parameters were documented in a Microsoft white paper titled “Microsoft Exchange 2000 Internals: ...