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will receive some results to partners and employees who will participate in
the benchmark.
6.2 Exchange Workload Simulation
There are two families of tools to be used with Exchange 2003. One,
directly inherited from Exchange 5.5, is Microsoft Loadsim. Loadsim aims
at testing and generating load for MAPI clients only (primarily Outlook, if
you consider that applications that use the MAPI API can be considered cli-
ents). Because Exchange 2000 came with a significant emphasis on Internet
protocols, Microsoft engineered ESP (code named Medusa), a beefed-up
version of InetLoad. It is used to generate load and measure ...