Year: 2013

Even though some of the very old KBs, which  now refer to unsupported products, state that taking databases offline to run periodic offline defragmentation with ESEUTIL is not recommended some folks in the field still want to do this.

Previously when there was only a single copy of a database, running offline defragmentation would cause minimal impact, apart from the time required to do the defragm… Read the rest “Offline Defrag And DAG Databases, Oh My!”

From time to time we need to see how our Exchange databases are doing so that they are being managed proactively.  One aspect is tracking size and the utilization of each database.  At the simplest level we want to ensure that the database and transaction log LUNs do not run out of disk space.  That would be bad.

Sometimes we want to take a peek at the database, and check that the size of the datab… Read the rest “How To Check Database White Space In Exchange”

Update 14-8-2013: The security update for Exchange 2013 has been temporarily removed due to an issue with the search infrastructure.

If you have installed it please refer to article “Update 2874216 breaks the content index in Exchange Server 2013”

Update 14-8-2013: Please see an update on the Exchange team blog.

Update 27-8-2013: Updated release of the security update for Exchange 2013 CU1 and CU… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Security Update Available For MS13-061”

Exchange 2013 RTM CU2 was noted to have an issue with the permissions of migrated public folders.  The Exchange team has released an updated version of CU2 to address this.  This replaces the original download for CU2.

The updated build is available from the Microsoft download centre.  Knowledgebase article 2859928 contains a description of CU2.  As with CU1, it allows on premise installations to co-ex… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 RTM CU2 Updated Build Available”