Microsoft IT Environment Health Scanner

Microsoft has renamed and retooled the Essential Business Server Preparation and Planning Wizard to indicate exactly what it really is – a AWESOME network health scanner. Not only does it scan but it helps you solve the problems it detects by providing links to support and technet articles on the resolution. It will check for about 150 health indicators and functionality of domain communications on your network. It’s great when you are preparing to install an additional domain controller, perform a migration or just walked into a new network and need to get a handle on what’s going on. Definitely add this one to your toolkit.

1) The link to the download site: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=dd7a00df-1a5b-4fb6-a8a6-657a7968bd11&displaylang=en (aka http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=155170 )

2) The link to the blog that describes the new tool: http://blogs.technet.com/essentialbusinessserver/archive/2009/06/29/microsoft-it-health-scanner-released.aspx