Saturday, January 24, 2009

Troubleshooting some common SBS 2003 issues

Subject: Process (store.exe) Alert on ServerName
Alert on ServerName at date time
The store.exe process is allocating more memory than usual.
Check to see if you are having problems with e-mail. If so, stop and then restart the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service. You can disable this alert or change its threshold by using the Change Alert Notifications task in the Server Management Monitoring and Reporting taskpad.

It seems to me that first thing is first, lets determine how much memory store.exe is actually consuming. Also, I would like to know if it really is actually causing a problem in performance. If it is, it may explain why the server appears sluggish to some users.

Determining how much memory store.exe is using now, is not hard of course. Personally, I usually grab Sysinternals process explorer for this, cause it gives me more and better info than the default task manager app, I might grab it later, for now I only want a memory usage overview.