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”
Edit 30-5-2013: Exchange 2010 SP3 RU1 has been released to address this issue. Details and download are here.
Quick heads up on an issue from Exchange 2010 SP2 RU6 and that is also in Exchange 2010 SP3. After installing either of these updates, users may report that they are unable to delete certain items when in online mode.
This issue does not surface when running Outlook in cached mode.
One of the best things about Microsoft products is the thriving community that drives a lot of articles outside of TechNet. For example there is a Wiki article that describes the Hyper-V updates for Windows 2008 and also for Windows 2008 R2.
The community has also started to publish the Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V update list.
Currently there are only a couple of u… Read the rest “List Of Updates For Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V”
Update 1-3-2013: You may also want to reference the Hyper-V 2012 and Cluster update wiki pages as linked & discussed here.
After building up a nice new Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V cluster with SCVMM 2012 SP1, it was a bit strange to get the world’s longest error when opening up the Failover Cluster MMC. The error started with:
A weak event was created and it lives on the wrong object, there is… Read the rest “Hyper-V Cluster Console Crash Windows Server 2012”
OK – so its not just a busy day in the land of Exchange updates, it's a crazy busy day! Not only do we have Exchange 2007 SP3 RU10, Exchange 2010 SP2 RU6 now Exchange 2010 SP3 is released to the download centre.
Just like Exchange 2010 SP2 which had four main features
Exchange 2010 SP3 builds on them and adds su… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 What You Need To Know”
It’s a busy day in the land of Exchange today, with updates for both Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010. Exchange 2010 SP2 RU6 is now available as update 2746164.
Exchange 2010 SP2 RU6 is also released as part of Patch Tuesday to resolve the security issues that are addressed in Exchange 2007 SP3 RU10. For reference they are CVE-2013-0393 and CVE-2013-0418 as discussed in the Oracle Critical Pa… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP2 RU6 Released”
Exchange sustained engineering has released Exchange 2007 SP3 RU10 to the Microsoft download centre as update 2788321.
For the astute of you out there, you will notice that this is on the second Tuesday of February which makes it Patch Tuesday. It also happens to be Shrove Tuesday as well by happy coincidence so I’m having pancakes for dinner, but I think I’m digressing…..
Since it is Patch Tuesday,… Read the rest “Exchange 2007 SP3 RU10 Released”