Items related to messaging services with a focus on Exchange Online (EXO) and Exchange server (on-premises)
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.
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”
Here I was truffling through the TechNet forums, and saw this thread. I thought I’d share a little bit more detail around it, as the error text that is added to the event log entry is a little confusing.
While Exchange 2007 did have some throttling mechanisms, it was Exchange 2010 that really introduced a fully featured throttling framework. This is implemented by configuring client… Read the rest “Client Throttling Event ID 2915 – What It Really Means”
Just in case anyone is still procrastinating about moving over from Mesh to SkyDrive, please note that Mesh will be retired next week on Wednesday February the 13th 2013.
Believe it or not, but it was back in 2008 when Mesh was released. Time certainly flies, and the capabilities and expectations people now have for cloud services have changed.
SkyDrive is now the central component for integra… Read the rest “Time To Move To SkyDrive From Mesh”
Since I have been asked a few times about how I pimped tweaked my TechNet Forum signature I thought it would be prudent to write it up here. This was one of the main drivers for creating this blog in the first place – so I could avoid having to write the same email several times and instead it would be a “here’s the link which contains the answer!”.
My current TechNet signature is shown below, and t… Read the rest “How To Tweak Your TechNet Forum Signature”
You may have seen the previous articles, part one and two, where I’d blogged about controlling DNS registration for network interfaces with multiple IP addresses. For Exchange administrators this is a a concern because sometimes we have to create multiple web sites on a Client Access Server (CAS). This is typically done so that OWA can have different authentication flags (Forms, NTLM, Basic) or a… Read the rest “Fine Grained Control When Registering Multiple IP Addresses–Part Trois”
On the MSPFE TechNet blog there are a series of articles there that I wrote previously for OpsVault and will also feature some future guest blogging posts too.
You may have see the MSPFE tag on Twitter, MSPFE Handle or the MSPFE blogs on TechNet and MSDN.
One of these guest posts went live last week and is available here.
It focuses on how to maintain the availability of Exchange, and di… Read the rest “10 Ways To Keep Exchange Up”