Many Small Business Server administrators forget to use one very handy and free tool which will help them to implement the best practices on their server. The tool is called Small Business Server Best Practices Analyzer which was released by Microsoft to help administrators in implementing the best practices.

Small Business Server Best Practices Analyzer collects information about your server from various sources like Active Directory Windows Management Instrumentation, Metabase and Registry. After collecting information SBS BPA presents a report to administrator.
Firs you have to download SBS 2008 Best Practices Analyzer from Microsoft website download. SBS BPA can help to troubleshoot most common errors in your SBS setup.

On this screen you can provide installation path.

SBS BPA 2008 offers integration with Windows SBS Console, which will allow ro review all BPA alerts in it.

Now you are ready to run your first Best Practices Analyzer Scan, good luck.