#TEST CONNECTIVITY ANALYZER INSTALL#

#TEST CONNECTIVITY ANALYZER INSTALL#

If you are using Chrome or Firefox, you may need to install additional extensions. Net Framework 4.5 and rebooting your computer you can click the link on the Connectivity site again. Net applications (MetroTwit) I would advise to install this on a testing computer and not on an Exchange server! That also makes it more easy to change host files and other things.ДЄfter installing. Net Framework 4.5.ДЄs I think this installation broke some. You can click install if you want to install the tool. It will verify Application requirements, if the tool isnвЂ™t installed yet a Security Warning appears: So, how do you use the tool? Go to the connectivity site and select the Client (beta) tab, depicted in the first image of this post. Below is an example of this test, with a successful result. I already detected an issue with the Outlook AutoDiscover process, and however the Auto configuration tool in Outlook is helpful (On Outlook Tray Icon, CTRL+Right click mouse and select вЂњTest E-mail Auto ConfigurationвЂќ), it does not give detailed information on errors in the way the Remote Connectivity Tool gives. By changing my local host file I could test the new datacenter with the correct domain name as if it were in production. In my case we did not yet change external DNS A-records to point to the new Exchange 2010 datacenter, everything else was already set up for publishing. But another effect of this that you can use it in lab and testing environments before making changes final.

As said this is helpful for local troubleshooting as sometimes the connectivity is different from (for instance public Wi-Fi networks) than the external connection. This is a very helpful tool for internal testing and despite being in beta, it already successfully helped me correctly identifying a certificate issue before I used it in production.ДЄs it is a local tool, it uses your local DNS and network routing. Recently Microsoft released an updated version of the Microsoft Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer rebranding it as the Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer as it now also can test Lync connections, next to Exchange and Office365.ДЄnother addition is the Microsoft Connectivity Analyzer Tool, a local variant of the online tool for Exchange connections.

Test connectivity analyzer