Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Leveraging the Best Practice Analyzer

Included in Windows Server 2012 is a built-in Best Practice Analyzer (BPA), shown in Figure 1.15. Found in the Server Manager console tool, the BPA runs a series of tests against Active Directory roles, such as the Hyper-V role, the DNS role, and the RDS role, to assess whether the role has been installed and configured properly and to compare the installation with tested best practices.

Figure 1.15. BPA in the Server Manager console.

BPA results might tell administrators they need to add more memory to a server, move a role to a separate server to improve role optimization, or shift a database to a different ...