Items related to messaging services with a focus on Exchange Online (EXO) and Exchange server (on-premises)
Update: I created a Deep Zoom of the Exchange 2013 Architecture Poster so you can easily zoom in/out and scroll around.
Were you a fan of the Exchange 2007 Architecture Poster or the Exchange 2010 Architecture Poster and it’s associated Hub Transport Architecture Poster? I know, who wasn’t 
The Exchange team were busy handing out printed copies of the Exc… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 Architecture Poster”
In addition to the Exchange sessions at TechEd NA 2013, here are the Lync sessions for your viewing pleasure!
Office 365 Sessions can be found here.
In addition to the Exchange sessions at TechEd NA 2013, here are the O365 sessions for your viewing pleasure!
Update: Lync Sessions can be found here
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Didn’t manage to make it to TechEd this year? No worries, possum! Channel 9 has recordings of the sessions for your viewing pleasure!
Update: O365 sessions can be found here
Update: Lync Sessions can be found here
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”