Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out

Setting diagnostics for Exchange servers

The ability to set diagnostics at different levels for the various components that function on an Exchange server has always existed. From Exchange 4.0 to Exchange 2003 you set diagnostic levels through the management console by selecting the component (for example, MSExchange ActiveSync) and the level that you wanted to apply. Once a new level is set, Exchange complies by outputting more or less detail about its operations as events written into the Application Event Log. This mechanism worked well until Exchange 2007 appeared and administrators discovered that the new Exchange 2007 management console had no GUI to deal with diagnostics, meaning that they had to set diagnostic levels through PowerShell. ...