Free EditionApart from its ability to report comprehensively on Distribution Lists in an Exchange organization, Exchange Reporter Plus also offers Distribution List Traffic reports. The reports are as follows:
These five distribution list traffic reports offer you data that will help you perform the following:
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Distribution list by message, distribution list by size, and distribution list by subject are three reports that help you identify the most used email distribution lists in your Exchange environment. With these reports, you can view:
Identifying busy distribution lists and tracking other traffic statistics help administrators perform expansion server load balancing easily, as they would be in a much better position to judge which free server a busy distribution list should be moved to.
You can filter out traffic summary for any specified time and even drill it down to the hourly traffic rate. You can also check the distribution list traffic summary for specified intervals, which is an important aspect that makes post-mortem of any unusual spikes in traffic easy.
Some viruses, especially spam malware or Trojans, get hold of a user´s GAL (Global Address List) and shoot out a barrage of emails to every email address contained in it. Therefore, it is a good practice to monitor the number of mails a user sends to a distribution list, to look for unusual piques, and to prevent email onslaughts well ahead of time.
With the help of the distribution lists traffic summary reports of Exchange Reporter Plus, you can identify the busiest distribution lists in your organization. You can also easily get the traffic statistics required for expansion server load balancing. These reports are configurable for server versions 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016. They can also be exported to a destination folder in CSV, PDF (Adobe Acrobat), XLS (Excel), and HTML formats.
