{"id":3547,"date":"2022-12-02T12:53:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T12:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=3547"},"modified":"2022-12-02T14:35:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T14:35:48","slug":"quick-check-of-microsoft-exchange-access-protocol-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=3547","title":{"rendered":"Quick Check of Microsoft Exchange Access Protocol Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you need to quickly check the health of a protocol, Microsoft Exchange 2013 onwards provides a URL that you can query to ascertain the health of the service. Obviously if you query this and get nothing (i.e. a timeout) you can assume something is wrong, or if you get anything other than a &#8220;200 OK&#8221; response you know there is an issue. This mechanism can be really handy for verifying the availability of a particular Exchange Server if you are using Load Balancers in-front of your Exchange Servers that can automatically direct traffic to a functional server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example if you wanted to check the ActiveSync protocol health you can open in your web browser the following link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>https:&#47;&#47;email.domain.com\/Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync\/healthcheck.htm<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>You should be prompted for a username and password in a simple password dialog box, enter your credentials and then you&#8217;ll see (if all is well):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>200 OK&lt;br\/>EXCH-SVR-2.DOMAIN.COM<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Where in this example, we have two Exchange Servers called EXCH-SVR-1 and EXCH-SVR-2 behind a Kemp Load Master (Load Balancer), so I&#8217;m being directed to a operating server. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can use this same technique for other services as follows and depending on your configuration you may or may not need to login.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>https:\/\/&lt;External FQDN>\/&lt;protocol>\/healthcheck.htm<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>The possible protocol values are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>OWA for Outlook Web App<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ECP for Exchange Control Panel (i.e. User Options in OWA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>OAB for Offline Address Book<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>AutoDiscover for the Autodiscover process (also something that is used by Lync clients)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EWS for Exchange Web Services (i.e. Mailtips, Free\/Busy etc. Also used by Outlook for Mac)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync for Exchange ActiveSync<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>RPC for Outlook Anywhere<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MAPI for the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dn635177(v=exchg.150).aspx\" target=\"_blank\">new MAPI\/HTTPS (successor to the RPC over HTTPs protocol used in Outlook Anywhere)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you need to quickly check the health of a protocol, Microsoft Exchange 2013 onwards provides a URL that you can query to ascertain the health of the service. Obviously if you query this and get nothing (i.e. a timeout) you can assume something is wrong, or if you get anything other than a &#8220;200 &#8230; <a title=\"Quick Check of Microsoft Exchange Access Protocol Health\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/?p=3547\" aria-label=\"Read more about Quick Check of Microsoft Exchange Access Protocol Health\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft-exchange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3549,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions\/3549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmungus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}