How to Discover Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 by WMI

This task explains how to discover MS Exchange Server 2003 using the WMI protocol.

Search for	Example	Results
A single word	`cat`	Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats".
A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase.	`"cat food"` (quotation marks)	Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase.

Search for	Operator	Example
Two or more words in the same topic	`AND` `and` `+` (plus symbol) `&` (ampersand)	`cat AND dog` `"cat food"+milk` `"cat food"&"dog food"`
Either word in a topic	`OR` `or` `\|` (pipe)	`cat OR dog` `cat \| dog`
Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase	`NOT` `not` `!` (exclamation point)	`NOT cat` `! dog`
Topics that contain one string and do not contain another	`^` (caret)	`cat ^ mouse`
A combination of search types	`( )` parentheses	`cat + (dog \| mouse)` `cat \| dog + (! mouse)`

Run the discovery

Activate the following jobs:

Network Infrastructure Discovery:

Run Host Connection > Host Connection by WMI to discover WMI CITs.
Run any of the Host Resources jobs and Host Applications jobs that gather information about processes running on a host. If a process named emsmta.exe or exmgmt.exe is discovered on a host, the Microsoft Exchange Connection by WMI job is triggered.

Enterprise Applications > Microsoft Exchange

Run Microsoft Exchange Connection by WMI. This job reports the server that is actually running on this host. To discover other Exchange servers, you must run this job on each host where Exchange is running. The job creates Exchange CITs.

This job connects to the remote host by WMI to the root\MicrosoftExchangeV2 namespace.

The following WMI queries are executed:
```
SELECT AdministrativeNote, CreationTime, ExchangeVersion, FQDN, GUID, MTADataPath, MessageTrackingEnabled, MessageTrackingLogFileLifetime, MessageTrackingLogFilePath, MonitoringEnabled, Type FROM Exchange_Server
```
This query returns all Exchange servers present in the Exchange organization.
The Exchange CI created by Microsoft Exchange Connection by WMI job acts as a trigger for the Microsoft Exchange Topology by WMI job. The Trigger CI connects to the host where Exchange is running and retrieves the complete topology. (For details on troubleshooting error messages, see Troubleshooting and Limitations – Microsoft Exchange Server by WMI Discovery.)

This job connects to the remote host by WMI to the root\MicrosoftExchangeV2 namespace. The following WMI queries are executed (order is preserved):
```
SELECT AdministrativeGroup, DN, FQDN, Name, RoutingGroup FROM Exchange_Server
SELECT AdministrativeGroup, AdministrativeNote, CreationTime, Description, GUID, Name, RootFolderURL FROM Exchange_FolderTree
SELECT AddressBookName, AdministrativeNote, Comment, ContactCount, FolderTree, FriendlyUrl, IsMailEnabled, Path, Url FROM Exchange_PublicFolder
```