Exchange Server 2013 Monitoring Software

Question

Greetings,
Any suggestion for Exchange Server 2013 monitoring software that is capable of :
1- Monitoring Server Status / Health / Resource Utilization / etc..
2- Incoming / Outgoing email messages to / from  the organization
3- monitoring specific mailbox for incoming/outgoing messages
4- spam detection
5- message content when monitoring mailboxes
Thanking you 

Answer 1

Hi Jamil,
If you are using hardware appliance then you can check with the hardware appliance vendor for the functionality or you can enable anti spam agent on mailbox server role as well. Mailbox server role will provide you following anti x facilities once enabled.
Sender Filter agent: compares the sender on the MAIL FROM:
SMTP command to an administrator-defined list of senders or sender domains who are prohibited from sending messages to the organization to determine what action, if any, to take on an inbound message;
Recipient Filter agent: compares the message recipients on the
RCPT TO: SMTP command to an administrator-defined Recipient Block list. If a match is found, the message is not permitted to enter the organization. The recipient filter also compares recipients on inbound messages to the local recipient directory
to determine whether the message is addressed to valid recipients. When a message is not addressed to valid recipients, it is rejected;
Sender ID agent: relies on the IP address of the sending server and the Purported Responsible Address (PRA) of the sender to determine whether the sender is spoofed or not;
Content Filter agent: assesses the contents of a message and also acts on the safelist aggregation feature, which collects data from the anti-spam safe lists that Outlook and Outlook Web App users configure and makes this data available
to the Content Filter agent;
Protocol Analysis agent: is the underlying agent that implements the sender reputation functionality. Sender reputation relies on persisted data about the IP address of the sending server to determine what action, if any, to take on an
inbound message. A Sender Reputation Level (SRL) is calculated from several sender characteristics that are derived from message analysis and external tests.
If you are not interested to use EOP then you have the option to use GFI or any third party tool. I would suggest if you are using hardware appliance then this would be done by the hardware appliance if capable of doing this. Thanks.
Regards, Riaz Javed Butt Consultant Microsoft Professional Services MCITP, MCITP (Exchange), MCSE: Messaging, MCITP Office 365