The Exchange Team released the first Update Rollup for Exchange 2010 SP3. Exchange 2010 SP3 RU1 is available for download from the download centre as update 2803727.
This is build 14.03.0146.000 of Exchange 2010. Article 2803727 has the full details for this release.
Probably the two biggest changes that we have been waiting on are:
2814847 Rapid growth in transaction logs, CPU use, and memory co… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU1 Released”
When the office updates were released last patch Tuesday, there were a couple of issues of mine that were resolved. Great, I thought, let’s download and install them! After checking that my installed build of Outlook etc. was older than the released updates I downloaded the updates from the Microsoft Download Centre and then went to install them only for it to b… Read the rest “Office 2013 Click-To-Run Not Updating”
The Exchange 2013 System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Management Pack is available from the download centre.
The Exchange 2013 Management Pack is designed to work with the new features in Exchange 2013, namely Managed Availability. Previous versions of the management pack supported SCOM 2007 R2. However the newer versions of the management pack updated the system requirements to state that ne… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 SCOM Management Pack Download”
Have you read a blog or web site that asked you to run the Set-DAG command? Were you told by someone to run the Get-DAG command? You then went to your lab Exchange server to test and validate the command only to find that it does not work. At this point it’s a case of: Dude, where’s my command! **
The Exchange Management Shell will look like the below:
The reason is as mentioned in t… Read the rest “Dude, Where’s My Set-DAG Command”
Update 28-7-2013: This issue is now resolved in Exchange 2010 SP3 RU1. See end for details.
When browsing a customer’s Disaster Recovery document I noticed that the Exchange admins had added a step at the end of the document when recovering the DAG back to the primary datacentre. This was to enable AllowCrossSiteRPCClientAccess in the DAG. This was curious as it had already been enabled when the … Read the rest “Exchange 2010 DAG AllowCrossSiteRPCClientAccess Reverts to False”
Well it’s a year from today until a raft of products reach the end of their extended support window. As they say in the boy scouts, better be prepared!
Please make sure that the 8th of April 2014 is in your calendar.
Outlook 2003 will transition out of extended support on 8th of April 2014
Exchange Server 2003 will transition out of extended support on 8th of April 2014
Windows XP will transition out of… Read the rest “Exchange Support – Save The Date 8th April 2014”
After a small delay the Exchange team have announced the eagerly awaited release of Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 1! Knowledge base article 2816900 contains a description of CU1. This update will allow on premise installations to co-exist with Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010.
CU1 marks a change in how updates are going to be released and supported by the Exchange team, and this is detailed in a… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU1 Released”
This is one of those long overdue posts (and yes there are certainly many more where it came from in my drafts folder) regarding some of the incorrect instructions about setting up Autodiscover which can be found on the Internet.
What am I wibbling about? Well repeatedly over the last 5 years or so since Exchange 2007 shipped, multiple sources have claimed that one *MUST* configure the InternalURL a… Read the rest “Busting The Set-AutodiscoverVirtualDirectory Myth”
Edit 23-5-2013: Added Headers as getting too long
Edit 23-5-2013: Added reference for 940012
Edit 24-7-2013: Added reference for 2557323
While Outlook 2007, 2010 and now 2013 offer many, many, many * improvements over the older Outlook 2003 client there are still many, many, many * large enterprises that use Outlook 2003. At this point in the lifecycle of Outlook 2003, customers should be looking to mi… Read the rest “Kicking It Old School – Outlook 2003 Partying with Exchange 2010”
Reading and writing data to disk is one of the core performance aspects of the Exchange mailbox role. Exchange uses the Jet Blue Extensible Storage Engine (ESE), do not confuse this with an Access database else you will invoke the mighty wrath of the squeaky lobster!
ESE is responsible for the physical structure of the database on disk. ESE does not actually know or care that it is storing email, … Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Jetstress Now Available”